hostip: make CURLOPT_RESOLVE support replacing IPv6 addresses

This also applies to --resolve of course.

Applied strparse functions on the function.

Fixes #16357
Reported-by: rmg-x on github
Closes #16358
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
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Daniel Stenberg 2025-02-17 08:33:52 +01:00
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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ See-also:
- alt-svc
Example:
- --resolve example.com:443:127.0.0.1 $URL
- --resolve example.com:443:[2001:db8::252f:efd6] $URL
---
# `--resolve`
@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ Provide a custom address for a specific host and port pair. Using this, you
can make the curl requests(s) use a specified address and prevent the
otherwise normally resolved address to be used. Consider it a sort of
/etc/hosts alternative provided on the command line. The port number should be
the number used for the specific protocol the host is used for. It means
you need several entries if you want to provide address for the same host but
the number used for the specific protocol the host is used for. It means you
need several entries if you want to provide addresses for the same host but
different ports.
By specifying `*` as host you can tell curl to resolve any host and specific
@ -37,9 +38,13 @@ parallel transfers with a lot of files. In such cases, if this option is used
curl tries to resolve the host as it normally would once the timeout has
expired.
Provide IPv6 addresses within [brackets].
To redirect connects from a specific hostname or any hostname, independently
of port number, consider the --connect-to option.
Support for resolving with wildcard was added in 7.64.0.
Support for the '+' prefix was added in 7.75.0.
Support for specifying the host component as an IPv6 address was added in 8.13.0.