On: XCurl

[myfonj]

Speaking of strange Microsoft CURL variants, have you ever faced problem with HTTP2 in practically any network client (for example Eclipse strangely failing all attempts to fetch from new HTTP2-enabled Maven) that could be traced to

    C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe

failing handshakes with such HTTP2 servers, whilst any other CURL (from e.g. git-for-windows, even with lover version) could connect to the same server correctly?

[colejohnson66 → myfonj]

The Windows provided curl is not for user consumption IIRC. If any application is using it, that’s a bug.

[ugexe → colejohnson66]

Do you have any evidence of this? IIRC it is completely expected for users to consume it — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/t...

[myfonj → ugexe]

From what I recall from aforementioned incident, I was not able to reliably prove that client app (Eclipse) really used Windows' curl (I would have guessed that such software would have it's own internal stack for network connections, but my knowledge in this area is non-existent), only that it exhibited suspiciously similar problems. So I came to conclusion that it either uses that CURL or CURL that is similarly broken as the Windows' one. I was unable (or more precisely haven't even tried) to swap Windows curl with the "better" one to see if it fixes Eclipse Maven. Result back then was only that HTTP2 was disabled on the Maven server and all (windows) clients (both of them) were happy. (Other might become less happy since it presumably slowed something down.)