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                                  Changelog

Daniel and Gisle (25 April 2004)

- The file previously known as hostip.c has now undergone a huge cleanup and

  split:

  hostip.c explained

  ==================

  The main COMPILE-TIME DEFINES to keep in mind when reading the host*.c

  source file are these:

  CURLRES_IPV6 - this host has getaddrinfo() and family, and thus we use

  that. The host may not be able to resolve IPv6, but we don't really have to

  take that into account. Hosts that aren't IPv6-enabled have CURLRES_IPV4

  defined.

  CURLRES_ARES - is defined if libcurl is built to use c-ares for asynchronous

  name resolves. It cannot have ENABLE_IPV6 defined at the same time, as

  c-ares has no ipv6 support. This can be Windows or *nix.

  CURLRES_THREADED - is defined if libcurl is built to run under (native)

  Windows, and then the name resolve will be done in a new thread, and the

  supported asynch API will be the same as for ares-builds.

  If any of the two previous are defined, CURLRES_ASYNCH is defined too. If

  libcurl is not built to use an asynchronous resolver, CURLRES_SYNCH is

  defined.

  The host*.c sources files are split up like this:

  hostip.c   - method-independent resolver functions and utility functions

  hostasyn.c - functions for asynchronous name resolves

  hostsyn.c  - functions for synchronous name resolves

  hostares.c - functions for ares-using name resolves

  hostthre.c - functions for threaded name resolves

  hostip4.c  - ipv4-specific functions

  hostip6.c  - ipv6-specific functions

  The hostip.h is the single united header file for all this. It defines the

  CURLRES_* defines based on the config*.h and setup.h defines.

- Added function header comments to many functions in an attempt to better

  explain the purpose of them all.

- configure --with-libidn is now supported. It makes the configure script

  check for libidn libs and include files in the prefix path given. If you

  say --with-libidn=/usr/local, it will check for the lib in /usr/local/lib

  and the includes in /usr/local/include etc.

- curl_version_info() now returns a struct aged CURLVERSION_THIRD including

  libidn version info. The string curl_version() returns also includes libidn

  version info, if available.

Version 7.11.2 (26 April 2004)

Daniel (25 April 2004)