Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] No IDN and IPv6 support in cURL?

Understand that maintainability is a problem. However, the same should not happen with IPv6. cURL, as far as I know, has native IPv6 support.

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From: "Pierre Joye" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 02 February 2009 22:40
To: "Franklin Tse" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] No IDN and IPv6 support in cURL?

> hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Franklin Tse
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> You have idn functions in php 5.3.0 directly (idn_to_ascii, idn_to_utf8).
>>
>> True, but it seems that with IDN support enabled in cURL, an IRI can be passed directly to curl_init($iri). This does not have conflict with the PHP idn functions.
> 
> It is a matter of maintainability, adding yet another dependency
> (libidn) only to support URI with IDN domain is not something I like
> to do, especially when it is easy to use php's IDN functions to do the
> conversion.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Pierre
> 
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