Re: HTTPS RR side of things

Niall O'Reilly via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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On 21 Feb 2025, at 8:24, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Additionally: since getaddrinfo() is such a beast to replace reliably, curl will continue using that in addition to resolve additional records "on the side" using other means (c-ares in our case) [1].

I wonder whether you've considered res_nquery(), the non-blocking successor
to res_query()?  I see it in glibc; I haven't looked in Apple or BSD land.
Building without having to install an extra package (such as c-ares) might
be attractive. Perhaps there are disadvantages?

> This will of course ocasionally introduce some undesired side-effects down the line when they don't agree.

Surely.

> That's effectively also the approach Firefox uses [2], so it's not only because we're a bunch of lazy incompetent developers here. :-)

Imagine! 8-)

Thanks.

/Niall
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