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Re: curl_easy_init() when network is disabled

From: Mohun Biswas <m_biswas_at_mailinator.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:52:50 -0400

Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Is it possible to use curl_easy_init() when my network connection is disabled? The reason is that my app may be used to access file:/// URLs in the case of a disabled network connection and no access to our usual HTTP site.
>
> When I do this, I get NULL immediately back from curl_easy_init(), and no debug messages, though I'm not sure if I have a properly instrumented build of cURL.
>
> By the way, this is on Win32. I have not tried to see if this behavior is the same on Linux yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh

What happens when you use the curl.exe to get a file URL with the
network disabled? It surely does a curl_easy_init().

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Received on 2009-07-27