On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Jason Glasgow wrote:
>
> I think it would be clearer to just have two different options.
>>
>
> Clearer? Yes. Breaking old programs? Yes. Acceptable? No.

Okay. How about the patch below?

>
> - CURLOPT_INTERFACE which would only refer to an interface name
>>
>
> Right, but it has been documented to accept a host name as well for about
> 200 years. Changing this now will break programs. We can't do this.
>
> We would have to add two new options.
>
>
> I do admit that this would require rework of some clients -- but I think
>> this is reasonable because the two are distinct arguments, and clients may
>> have to be rewritten anyway if they want to add the if! or host! prefix.
>>
>
> Adding prefixes will fix programs using the future libcurl version but all
> existing program will remain working the same, and I find that a much
> stronger argument...

I have added if! and host! prefix processing and below is a refined patch.

Comments welcome.
Received on 2011-11-06