I am writing a browser plugin which needs to get the size of a file using the HTTP HEAD request. In order to send the request I am using the boost socket and the boost::asio::ip::tcp::resolver::query to get the ip address and service port. I am basically using code from the asio sync_client sample provided with Boost 1.48.0.

 

  using boost::asio::ip::tcp;

  boost::asio::io_service io_service;

  tcp::resolver resolver(io_service);

  tcp::resolver::query query(hostname, "http");

  tcp::resolver::iterator endpoint_iterator = resolver.resolve(query);

  tcp::resolver::iterator end;

 

This works fine when I run this on a Windows platform (Windows 7) using 32-bit browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and IE. This also works fine when I run this as a desktop application through a test driver on a Windows (Vista , Windows7)64-bit platform. However, when I run this as a browser plugin on the Windows Vista 64-bit platform using IE (64-bit) it seems to crash on the line:

tcp::resolver resolver(io_service);

 

I’m not sure if this is a Boost issue or an IE issue, so I was wondering if anyone knows of any incompatibility issues and/or limitations with Boost and IE (64-bit) which could cause this to happen.

 

Thanks

Keiko

 

 


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