On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Tiberiu Motoc wrote:

> I don't even know what c-ares is. I'm reading on haxx.se that this is
> a C library for resolving domain names. Without c-ares, how else is
> libcurl supposed to resolve domain names?

There's a FAQ entry describing the different ways it features.

> So, is there an option to
> compile libcurl with or without c-ares support?

Yes, and default windows builds use the threaded resolves which isn't c-ares.

And please don't top-post.

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