On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Pierre Joye wrote:

>> But yes, it needs improvements here. I can't think of any better way to
>> solve this than to detect OS level at run-time and only SNDBUF if <=
>> windows 2008, so that Vista and later won't get it changed.
>
> It is possible to detect at runtime the OS version and set the right set of
> options. I do that in PHP as well for some features supporte only in
> "recent" windows version.
>
> Would it be something acceptable in curl? Only the 1st call would be slower
> (fetching the OS info).

Yes I think we need to do something like that!

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