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Re: IPv6 on windows, pocc?

From: Pierre Joye <pierre.php_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:47 +0200

hi,

And a patch to make this thing better:

http://github.com/pierrejoye/curl/commit/fec4dac20573cbedb6a21c2c64369352f665fd8f.patch

(remove the .patch to see the commit in a shinier way)

Cheers,

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Jamie Lokier <jamie_at_shareable.org> wrote:
> Artem Zhirkow wrote:
>>    Who needs IPv6 on windows? There are about 10-15 before IPv6 will be
>>    implemented everywhere, so why someone needs it on windows now?
>
> It's a small proportion of all users, but a significant number.
> Google's report in 2008, "Global IPv6 statistics - measuring the
> current state of IPv6 for ordinary users", used experimental
> measurements done on users of their services to estimated about 1
> million IPv6 publically connected clients in 2008.
>
> That does not count local connectivity (such as within a campus) or
> IPv6-over-IPv4 VPNs.
>
> For libcurl purposes it is not relevant how long it takes to be
> "everywhere".
>
> -- Jamie
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