From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T03:54:59+09:00
Subject: Re: cURL in ruby? Faster than Net::HTTP?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:15:02PM +0900, daniel.haxx@gmail.com wrote:
> libcurl offers an asynchronous API that does the name resolving
> asynchronously if you've built libcurl to do so.

Does it use the native getaddrinfo()?  The problem I've had on FreeBSD
is that getaddrinfo() will block.

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