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Re: HTTPS RR side of things

From: Niall O'Reilly via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:20:07 +0000

On 21 Feb 2025, at 22:02, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Is it really non-blocking? The docs I've read does not seem to say so.

I seem to have used some wishful thinking when reading the docs,
which claim no more than thread-safety.

> There are (other) significant drawbacks [...]

Noted. Thanks.

> Mozilla took the "native API" route, and Valentin Gosu's talk from this year's FOSDEM provides reasons enough for me to avoid selecting this approach:
>
> "getaddrinfo sucks, everything else is much worse"

Like what someone said about democracy ...

> The video recording is here:

Thanks.

Niall
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