Re: Winsock gethostbyname() problem in NT4 from Steinar Bang on 1999-09-15 (www-lib@w3.org from July to September 1999)

From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Date: 15 Sep 1999 15:22:04 +0200
To: www-lib@w3.org
Message-ID: <whogf42ttv.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no>

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:

> This means that libwww doesn't initialize winsock?

> Hmm... according to this
>         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1996OctDec/0087.html
> it should be called if I call HTEventInit().

> My test program didn't call HTEventInit().  When it did, HTTP started
> working. 

Except it crashed a bit further on, and the reason was that
HTEventInit() overwrote my event handler registration.

Is there a way to get libwww to initialize the winsock, without having 
it overwrite the applications event handlers?

Received on Wednesday, 15 September 1999 09:22:07 UTC