From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 02:18:10 EDT
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 19:52, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Kenneth J.Davis wrote:
>
> > Within the Head branch there is optionally support to download dictionary
> > hash files. This support is either compiled in or not, but if it is, the
> > library used to perform the download makes use of the WS2 lib. I am
> > uncertain whether libcurl can be linked with winsock 1 (and still work)
> > as the official source links with the winsock 2 library.
>
> I really, really, dubt that libcurl uses anything WS2 specific. Actually,
> I'd be really surprised if they did (so far I've seen exactly _zero_
> applications/libraries that use anything WS2 specific - just plain socket
> handling that the "old" winsock handles "just fine"). From your explaination
> it seems to be an oversight on their behalf.
One of the main keypoint of using WS2 is to be able to use socket handle
like file handle..... WinSock 1 is unable to do so. That really helps
porting UNIX porgram to Windows.
Hub
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