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Re: LibCurl fails to resolve host on VxWorks platform

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:40:32 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Sapana Hanchate wrote:

>
> Hi All
>
> File "Hostip4.c" of LibCurl uses "getHostByName()" function to get IP addr
> of host given its name.

No. But the file hostip4.c uses gethostbyname(), which probably is what you
meant.

> But this function is not defined for platform VxWorks. So Libcurl fails to
> resolve the host and thus can not process the request further. Is there any
> workaround for this issue?

You should rather ask windriver about their problems, not us. I figure they
have some other way to resolve host names, so you can write a wrapper layer
that provides a working gethostbyname() for libcurl's use...

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Received on 2007-07-30