[dns-operations] HTTPS record support

Viktor Dukhovni ietf-dane at dukhovni.org
Sun Oct 19 01:33:24 UTC 2025


On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 06:06:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Does the IETF do API design?  I thought that getaddrinfo was very much
> an outlier.

Mostly not, but GSSAPI is the most prominent precedent.
Though getaddrinfo(3) is much closer in scope to a potential
API for HTTPS/SVCB lookups.

Please DO NOT bolt these onto getaddrinfo(3) as a very lossy view of the
full record content.  An API for HTTPS/SVCB lookup needs to return all
the key/value pairs, and should not masquerade as just a name-to-ip API.

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    Viktor.  🇺🇦 Слава Україні!



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