use c-ares' IPv6 abilities

fix CONNECT to a proxy that disconnects during the auth phase

diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO
index 31ff00863bc43c0a78a51ed28a0e9cb04e1c70ef..56bd0879d8aa097c242759737aa48cae455f2735 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/TODO
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@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ TODO
  * Add option that changes the interval in which the progress callback is
    called at most.
 
+ * Make libcurl built with c-ares use c-ares' IPv6 abilities. They weren't
+   present when we first added c-ares support but they have been added since!
+   When this is done and works, we can actually start considering making c-ares
+   powered libcurl the default build (which of course would require that we'd
+   bundle the c-ares source code in the libcurl source code releases).
+
+ * Support CONNECT 407 responses that kill the connection and expect the
+   client to reconnect to complete the authentication. Currently libcurl
+   assumes that a proxy connection will be kept alive.
+
  LIBCURL - multi interface
 
  * Add a curl_multi_fdset() alternative. this allows apps to avoid the