Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In a preceding commit we dropped support for curl < 7.19.4, so we can
> drop support for this non-obvious dependency on curl < 7.18.0.
>
> It's non-obvious because in curl's hex version notation 0x071800 is
> version 7.24.0, *not* 7.18.0, so at a glance this patch looks
> incorrect.
>
> But it's correct, because the existing version check being removed
> here is wrong. The check guards use of the following curl defines:
>
> CURLPROXY_SOCKS4 7.10
> CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A 7.18.0
> CURLPROXY_SOCKS5 7.10
> CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME 7.18.0
>
> I.e. the oldest version that has these is in fact 7.18.0, not
> 7.24.0. That we were checking 7.24.0 is just an mistake in
> 6d7afe07f29 (remote-http(s): support SOCKS proxies, 2015-10-26),
> i.e. its author confusing base 10 and base 16.
Heh, not just the author but everybody who reviewed it may have been
confused that the version number string was binary coded decimal.
Nicely found.
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> http.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> index e9446850a62..477bf591141 100644
> --- a/http.c
> +++ b/http.c
> @@ -927,7 +927,6 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
> */
> curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, "");
> } else if (curl_http_proxy) {
> -#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071800
> if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks5h"))
> curl_easy_setopt(result,
> CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME);
> @@ -940,7 +939,6 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
> else if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks"))
> curl_easy_setopt(result,
> CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS4);
> -#endif
> #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x073400
> else if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "https")) {
> curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTPS);
