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

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jan Ehrhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> Pierre Joye in php.internals.win (Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:02:41 +0200):
>>On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Then somebody told me php_curl.dll was broken on WinXP because of the
>>> missing normaliz.dll:
>>> http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=5273
>>
>>It is not broken but not present. Windows XP (and 2003) users have to
>>install it manually. It can be done using:
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=734
>
> I know that it can be installed manually, but to ignorant users it seems
> broken. IDN was disabled in the official builds of PHP 5.3 & 5.4 for
> Windows, so there was no need to install IDN support under XP.
> Better keep it that way (for 5.3/5.4) or there will be a lot of
> complaints by XP/2k3 users.

I actually more complains about it not being available than the other
way 'round. It is/was the same about IPv6 support.

>>The compilation works fine as these DLLs and their respective
>>headers/libs are part of the SDK.
>
> See http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0278.html
> I had a discussion with the cUrl developers on this subject in July
> 2012.

Did you submit a PR? I can review and apply it if necessary. Also
about a possible work around like dynamic checks at runtime, it could
be done, but I sadly have no time to modify my code in curl right now
or for the next couple of weeks :/


Cheers,
--
Pierre

@pierrejoye