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<<On Thu, 10 May 2001 09:03:22 -0700, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> said:

> What I mean is how would one map:  localhost:http:tcp into that?

> There seems to be no way to determine what I must do to ai_socktype
> based on the above string.

Change the input format.  The API was designed around the idea that
programs care about which socket model they get, not the specific
protocol.

> Do I have to roll my own lookup code?

Looks like it.

-GAWollman


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