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Re: no custom read() write() callbacks

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:45:52 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Leon Winter wrote:

> Libcurl does support socks5, its fine. What i meant is: It is overhead for
> me to write a socks5 proxy interface for the libssh2 thing so I can use curl
> with it. It would be like:
>
> curl -> curl socks support -> [socks proxy interface to be written but
> considered overhead] -> libssh2

Right, but it wasn't clear to my why you need to use libssh2 if all you want
is socks5. You were speaking of "remote ssh-proxies" but SSH isn't proxied
really.

So even though I wouldn't mind adding such callbacks given a patch, I don't
understand your use-case.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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