On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 May 2011, Brett Simmers wrote:
>
> Using libcurl 7.21.6 (on Windows 7 x64), I can use the OPENSOCKETFUNCTION
>> and SOCKOPTFUNCTION callbacks to manually open a file handle on the named
>> pipe and prevent libcurl from attempting to connect it (by returning
>> CURL_SOCKOPT_ALREADY_CONNECTED from the sockopt callback).
>>
>
> I like it that you found use of this feature, as it was just added! =)
>
> I'm told that file and socket handles are interchangeable on Windows as
>> long as the standard read/write APIs are used.
>>
>
> Yes that might be true, but as I remember it they're not the same when used
> with select() or similar socket-using functions.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like there are still a number of other things
>> inside libcurl that need the socket handle to actually be a socket instead
>> of a file handle.
>>
>
> Yes. I think this idea has been pushed forward in the past but never
> actually been made into reality. I think there's some fixing left to make
> this possible.
>
> Has anyone ever done this before, or do you have any tips on how I could
>> make this work? Are there more callbacks or options I can set to get more
>> control over the sockets used by libcurl? I've been scanning the docs
>> without much luck.
>>
>
> I wonder if we should introduce another return code for this purpose:
> CURL_SOCKOPT_SOCKET_IS_FILE or so. Then we internally would not do
> socket-specific action on that file descriptor.
>
> It'd take some code edits and some testing to get working. The biggest
> problem might be that select() or poll() won't work with file descriptors on
> Windows (but will on *nix). <http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html>

On Windows, file descriptors do not work with select(). Only sockets.

Vincent Torri

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