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TODO: remove "hardcode the "localhost" addresses"

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1.22 CURLINFO_PAUSE_STATE
1.23 Offer API to flush the connection pool
1.25 Expose tried IP addresses that failed
1.27 hardcode the "localhost" addresses
1.28 FD_CLOEXEC
1.29 Upgrade to websockets
1.30 config file parsing
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2126
1.27 hardcode the "localhost" addresses
There's this new spec getting adopted that says "localhost" should always and
unconditionally be a local address and not get resolved by a DNS server. A
fine way for curl to fix this would be to simply hard-code the response to
127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 (depending on what IP versions that are requested). This
is what the browsers probably will do with this hostname.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220810
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02
1.28 FD_CLOEXEC
It sets the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor, which causes the file