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Re: PATCH: Allow telnet to be used programatically.

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:35:22 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Ben Greear wrote:

> 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.

I'm not sure I agree that enabling a feature that was just abused previously
and didn't show is actually breaking backwards compatibility.

So in what way does it not work with that callback?

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