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   5.4 Does libcurl do Winsock initialization on win32 systems?
 
-  No.
-
-  On win32 systems, you need to init the winsock stuff manually, libcurl will
-  not do that for you. WSAStartup() and WSACleanup() should be used
-  accordingly. The reason for this is of course that a single application may
-  use several different libraries and parts, and there's no reason for every
-  single library to do this.
+  Yes (since 7.8.1) if told to in the curl_global_init() call.
 
   5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ?