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Re: Feature request: provide ability to set a global callback function telling libcurl if IPv6 works on the system

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:04:30 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Daniel F via curl-library wrote:

> This is not true. Application can be built using curl with IPv6 enabled
> (e.g. using RedHat 8 base docker image), then executed on another
> system/machine with IPv6 disabled. If I remember correctly, attempt to
> create IPv6 socket failed with error.

Ah, ok then I was wrong.

Another approach could then perhaps be to make curl deal with such failures in
a better/fallback way to avoid needing the dynamic "ipv6-works" flag ?

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Received on 2022-09-20