On Feb 22, 2011 11:38am, Dan Fandrich <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:22:34PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> There are two issues with CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION:
>
> (1) If it happens that an existing connection is reused, then
> CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION would not be called, would it?
Only if you set CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE.
Correct. But we want to reuse existing connections if possible.
> (2) We try to be low-level socket agnostic, so we are reluctant to call
> low-level socket functions directly.
If you're concerned about which hosts are being connected to and which sockets
are used to do it, what you're doing is already a pretty low-level task.
We only care about the IP addresses of the servers being connected. We don't care about the sockets. So it is not as low-level as you think
>>> Dan
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