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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2008-06-06 17:33:35 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2008-06-06 17:33:35 +0000
commit930a45e7a93c964ec224bdddb59f97479b7e4a5d (patch)
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parentafc66554d7225766a7b9ad773de38b9d0801ff84 (diff)
downloadcurl-930a45e7a93c964ec224bdddb59f97479b7e4a5d.tar.gz
- Added CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP as a new information retrievable with
curl_easy_getinfo. It returns a pointer to a string with the most recently used IP address. Modified test case 500 to also verify this feature. The implementing of this feature was sponsored by Lenny Rachitsky at NeuStar.
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@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ counted). Combined with \fICURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT\fP you are able to know
how many times libcurl successfully reused existing connection(s) or not. See
the Connection Options of \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP to see how libcurl tries
to make persistent connections to save time. (Added in 7.12.3)
+.IP CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP
+Pass a pointer to a char pointer to receive the pointer to a zero-terminated
+string holding the IP address of the most recent connection done with this
+\fBcurl\fP handle. This string may be IPv6 if that's enabled. Note that you
+get a pointer to a memory area that will be re-used at next request so you
+need to copy the string if you want to keep the information. (Added in 7.18.3)
.IP CURLINFO_COOKIELIST
Pass a pointer to a 'struct curl_slist *' to receive a linked-list of all
cookies cURL knows (expired ones, too). Don't forget to