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authorSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-12-27 11:09:01 +0000
committerSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-12-27 11:31:55 +0000
commit151ae594362460bb4391585a5d408b3b8e3a164d (patch)
tree79971cd65a18403844bfec5f7fc2d56b4330f3e3 /docs/FAQ
parentbde08d216ca08fc185af2f31e57ebdb5c36f4497 (diff)
code/docs: Use correct case for IPv4 and IPv6
For consistency, as we seem to have a bit of a mixed bag, changed all instances of ipv4 and ipv6 in comments and documentations to use the correct case.
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@@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ FAQ
you want to change name resolver function you must rebuild libcurl and tell
it to use a different function.
- - The non-ipv6 resolver that can use one out of four host name resolve calls
+ - The non-IPv6 resolver that can use one out of four host name resolve calls
(depending on what your system supports):
A - gethostbyname()
@@ -1282,15 +1282,15 @@ FAQ
C - gethostbyname_r() with 5 arguments
D - gethostbyname_r() with 6 arguments
- - The ipv6-resolver that uses getaddrinfo()
+ - The IPv6-resolver that uses getaddrinfo()
- The c-ares based name resolver that uses the c-ares library for resolves.
Using this offers asynchronous name resolves.
- The threaded resolver (default option on Windows). It uses:
- A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 hosts
- B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled hosts
+ A - gethostbyname() on plain IPv4 hosts
+ B - getaddrinfo() on IPv6 enabled hosts
Also note that libcurl never resolves or reverse-lookups addresses given as
pure numbers, such as 127.0.0.1 or ::1.