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by stagbeetle 3008 days ago
I used `curl -H` to send anonymous love-letters to all the sysadmins of the world who just happened to be log-diving. Apache and Nginx have very liberal header sizes, so you could fit entire poems into them.

Also, do you know why c-ares isn't standard on libcurl packages?

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c-ares is not standard because making a drop-in replacement for the regular stock name resolver function is really hard and c-ares is not 100% there. A c-ares powered libcurl fails to resolve some host names in some setups that otherwise work with the stock resolver (and thus in other apps/libraries). That's why the threaded stock resolver is the most popular resolver backend of curl/libcurl these days...