On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Andy Berkheimer wrote:

> I went ahead and created a patch to accomplish this. It adds a new option
> for curl_easy_setopt, CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION, which sets a callback
> function to be triggered after libcurl calls socket(), but before calling
> connect(). This location is necessary since some options like SO_SNDBUF and
> SO_RCVBUF must be set before connect. The callback takes a single parameter
> - the curl_socket_t created by socket().

Thanks for the patch. I like it!

Two things I'd like to see addressed before I commit:

1) Can you please make an addition to the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page too,
    explaining how this option is used.

2) I think we should use the return code from the callback to mean something.
    I'd suggest that zero means success and that non-zero means make libcurl
    return an error. I mean for cases where the changing of the socket is
    considered very important and the callback function fails to do that.

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