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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