Re: [Bug-wget] persistence with multiple hostnames

[Ryan Rawdon]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Micah Cowan wrote:

> On 04/17/2012 09:16 AM, Ryan Rawdon wrote:
>> Micah took a quick look over the source (or was previously familiar with 
>> it), and it sounds like there may be checks in place which should have 
>> prevented this, however I did look to confirm.
> 
> I misread; it first checks if the hostname matches, and if so, decides
> it can reuse the current connection; if the hostname doesn't match,
> though, it then does further investigation to see whether the underlying
> address is the same. The check wasn't to preven this situation, it was
> just meant as a sort of shortcut to avoid looking up IP addresses when
> the hostname's the same.

Thanks for the clarification, so that part of my original message can be 
disregarded (the original questions/comments still stand)