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Fwd: ip address for ftp-port command

From: Guido Neitzer <guido.neitzer_at_pharmaline.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:27:09 +0200

Sorry, I didn't want to take this off the list:

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> Von: Guido Neitzer <guido.neitzer_at_pharmaline.de>
> Datum: Do, 25. Jul 2002 15:39:26 Europe/Berlin
> An: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> Cc: Guido Neitzer <guido_at_objectpark.de>
> Betreff: Re: ip address for ftp-port command
>
> Hi Daniel.
>
> Fine - you are back! I missed you! ;-) Did you have a nice holiday?
>
> I had a discussion about this topic at the Cocoa-Dev-list and we
> ended up with this conclusion:
>
>> Peter Sichel wrote:
>>
>>> This is the correct solution. In a multihomed environment,
>>> only the connected socket knows the correct local protocol address
>>> for the corresponding connection. Anything that doesn't ultimately
>>> get the local address from the connected socket is broken.
>>
>> That means, libcurl has to do that? Not me?! I have nothing to do
>> with sockets or networking, it's all handled by libcurl.
>
> and the answer:
>
>> Von: Peter Sichel <psichel_at_sustworks.com>
>> Datum: Fr, 28. Jun 2002 14:48:53 Europe/Berlin
>> An: guido.neitzer_at_pharmaline.de
>> Betreff: Re: NSHost and the IP addresses ...
>>
>>> Peter Sichel wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is the correct solution. In a multihomed environment,
>>>> only the connected socket knows the correct local protocol address
>>>> for the corresponding connection. Anything that doesn't ultimately
>>>> get the local address from the connected socket is broken.
>>>
>>> That means, libcurl has to do that?
>>
>> Yes, this is what it needs to do to work properly.
>>
>>
>>> Not me?! I have nothing to do with sockets or networking, it's all
>>> handled by libcurl.
>>>
>>> cug
>>
>> - Peter
>
> For my logic, he's right - I don't know anything about what libcurl
> does on the network interfaces - but it can open a socket to the
> network interface and I can't get any information about what's going
> on there ...
>
> Perhaps you may give me hint to that.
>
> Thanks,
> cug
>

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Received on 2002-07-26