On 03/31/2010 07:49 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>> Allow programatic use of telnet via libcurl.
>> The main change is to allow input from user-specified methods,
>> but in order to be backwards compatible, the user also has to set
>> the option CURLOPT_FORCE_USE_READFUNC to true.
>
> Hm, couldn't it also just check if the callback is set to a custom one
> or not? I mean, if left as default we could use the former functionality
> but if the app actually sets its own callback and uses telnet it would
> then use this new improved functionality?

Well, 'curl' sets a custom read method, but it doesn't want to use it
for telnet. Maybe other apps do the same..and if so, unless we specifically
do the CURLOPT_FORCE_USE_READFUNC logic, it will break backwards compat.

Thanks,
Ben

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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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