Enable Winsock IPv6 option to use any networking interfaces

Winsock 2 has a weird setsockopt which prevents sockets from establishing connections through very risky (i.e. tunnels) IPv6 interfaces.

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changed title from Enable Winsock option to use insecure networking interfaces to Enable Winsock IPv6 option to use any networking interfaces

Done. But it looks like

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...it looks like the winsock headers in Mingw32 don't provide the appropriate #defines (IPV6_PROTECTION_LEVEL and the likes).

Will be commited later.

assigned to @gbazin and unassigned @Courmisch

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assigned to @Courmisch and unassigned @gbazin

(In [12308]) Define IPV6_PROTECTION_LEVEL manually - closes #96 (closed)

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closed

mentioned in issue #19328 (closed)