On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Bin Wang wrote:

> When establishing a TCP connection, libcurl tries all the IP addresses,
> including both IPv4 and IP6 ones, until a TCP connection is successfully
> established or all the IP addresses are failed. libcurl already provides the
> option for specifying the type of IP address to resolve the destination host
> name. I was wondering if it makes sense to provide another option to specify
> the type of IP address used for TCP connect.

Isn't the specified type (as in which IP version) already used for both
resolve and connect ?

> Then when a destination host name is resolved to "whatever" IP address, I
> have the flexibility to connect using one type of the address or both types,
> and I am able to do thing like giving different connect timeout to different
> type of IP address.

You can do this already. You can easily figure out the IP address (and "type")
and then time-out whenever you please. Or what am I missing?

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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