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diff --git a/lib/README.pingpong b/lib/README.pingpong new file mode 100644 index 000000000..69ba9aadb --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/README.pingpong @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Date: December 5, 2009 + +Pingpong +======== + + Pingpong is just my (Daniel's) jestful collective name on the protocols that + share a very similar kind of back-and-forth procedure with command and + responses to and from the server. FTP was previously the only protocol in + that family that libcurl supported, but when POP3, IMAP and SMTP joined the + team I moved some of the internals into a separate pingpong module to be + easier to get used by all these protocols to reduce code duplication and ease + code re-use between these protocols. + +FTP + + In 7.20.0 we converted code to use the new pingpong code from previously + having been all "native" FTP code. + +POP3 + + There's no support in the documented URL format to specify the exact mail to + get, but we support that as the path specified in the URL. + +IMAP + +SMTP + + There's no official URL syntax defined for SMTP, but we use only the generic + one and we provide two additional libcurl options to specify receivers and + sender of the actual mail. |