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Re: CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:37:46 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Zhen Wang wrote:

> I'm using Microsoft proxy server 2.0. And in my code, I specified the same
> proxy server, port, user name and password just like it set in the option
> window of Internet Explorer. But it returns CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY
> when perform curl_easy_perform(pURL)? Why? Doesnt curl support MS proxy?

If the proxy is a HTTP proxy, then it doesn't matter who wrote it. It should
works fine.

When it returns CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY, libcurl couldn't even attempt to
use the proxy since the name you gave doesn't resolve and thus libcurl can't
find it.

> curl_easy_setopt(pURL, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://internet:80");

This isn't a valid host name for the proxy.

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-03-05