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Re: curl/libcurl SNMP protocol support

From: Sergei Nikulov <sergey.nikulov_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:21:55 +0300

2016-08-10 16:15 GMT+03:00 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Sergei Nikulov wrote:
>
>>> What form would you have the response data returned in?? What ultimately
>>> are you trying to accomplish?
>>
>>
>> I believe you've ever read here https://curl.haxx.se/ about curl for what
>> it used. My idea just adding additional protocol in the list of supported.
>
>
> SNMP is not that similar to most of the other protocols curl supports though
> so I think Rich's questions are perfectly valid.
>
> Like what exactly would "curl snmp://example.com/foo" show?
>
> Out of all the possible new protocols we _could_ add to curl, I've actually
> never seen anyone ask for SNMP before. And doing it "just" to add another
> protocol seems like a lot of work for very little gain.
>

curl will dump object pointed by url snmp://example.com/common/1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0
It's not just another protocol :)

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