On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Bin Wang wrote:

> We use libcurl with CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION option turned on. We have a need
> to obtain the IP addresses of all the servers libcurl tries to connect along
> the whole redirection process.
>
> Since libcurl currently does not provide this, I am thinking about extending
> libcurl. I can think of two approaches of doing this:

Allow me to offer yet another way to solve your problem:

1. Don't enable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION

2. Use curl_easy_getinfo's CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP to get the IP

3. Use curl_easy_getinfo's CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL to extract redirect URLs and
redirect there "manually".

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