On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Johan van Selst wrote:

> That would work. We already get the IP of a successful connection with
> CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP: That might be used to set up a blacklist for a later
> request.
>
> How about an option such as CURLOPT_IGNORE_SERVER_IPS to pass a comma-
> separated list of addresses that should not be used for a connection?
> (Another option that already uses a comma-seperated list of server names is
> CURLOPT_NOPROXY.)

I like that!

> It might be useful to have a CURLOPT_USE_SERVER_IPS as well, to force the
> libcurl to use specific IP address(es), rather than having it use DNS
> resolving and pick an arbitrary IP from the list of addresses returned by
> DNS.

Isn't that pretty much what CURLOPT_RESOLVE already provides?

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