Hi All...

I found the reference I had lost. It was in Gotoh's connect.c that can do
local, remote or both for url name resolution. This explains why I couldn't
find it when looking in the curl docs. :.)

Daniel...

Would you be open to local name resolution option?

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: "Karl M" Subject: Re: Name resolution when using a proxy
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:03:07 -0800
>
>Hi Daniel...
>
>In one case the proxy can handle it. In the other case, the resolution is
>via the hosts file on my computer, because there is no dns name for the
>target. Is there a way I can get libcurl do the local resolution for me, or
>do I need to do it myself before I pass it in to the curl_easy_setopt?
>
>Thanks,
>
>...Karl
>
>>From: Daniel Stenberg Subject: Re: Name resolution when using a proxy
>>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:50:17 +0100 (CET)
>>
>>On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Karl M wrote:
>>
>>(Please don't start a new thread by replying to an old mail, it makes
>>threaded displays screwed up.)
>>
>>>At one time I thought I saw something on this, but now I can't find it in
>>>the documentation. When I am using a proxy, how do I (or can I) control
>>>whether the target url is resolved locally or by the proxy? I have
>>>conditions where I need both choices.
>>
>>With HTTP the client hands over the full URL to the proxy and the proxy
>>will resolve the host name.
>>
>>If you *really* want to do it client-side, then you need to first resolve
>>the name and then "re-arrange" the URL to use IP numericals only and set
>>the Host: header to contain the host name you resolved.
>>
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>
>
Received on 2006-01-17