Warning: this will make existing curl command lines that use metalink to
stop working.
Reasons for removal:
1. We've found several security problems and issues involving the
metalink support in curl. The issues are not detailed here. When
working on those, it become apparent to the team that several of the
problems are due to the system design, metalink library API and what
the metalink RFC says. They are very hard to fix on the curl side
only.
2. The metalink usage with curl was only very briefly documented and was
not following the "normal" curl usage pattern in several ways, making
it surprising and non-intuitive which could lead to further security
issues.
3. The metalink library was last updated 6 years ago and wasn't so
active the years before that either. An unmaintained library means
there's a security problem waiting to happen. This is probably reason
enough.
4. Metalink requires an XML parsing library, which is complex code (even
the smaller alternatives) and to this day often gets security
updates.
5. Metalink is not a widely used curl feature. In the 2020 curl user
survey, only 1.4% of the responders said that they'd are using it. In
2021 that number was 1.2%. Searching the web also show very few
traces of it being used, even with other tools.
6. The torrent format and associated technology clearly won for
downloading large files from multiple sources in parallel.
Cloes #7176
Also added 'CURL_SMALLSENDS' to make Curl_write() send short packets,
which helped verifying this even more.
Add test 363 to verify.
Reported-by: ustcqidi on github
Fixes#6950Closes#7024
A struct bufref holds a buffer pointer, a data size and a destructor.
When freed or its contents are changed, the previous buffer is implicitly
released by the associated destructor. The data size, although not used
internally, allows binary data support.
A unit test checks its handling methods: test 1661
Closes#6654
Add test 676 to verify that setting CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE to NULL again clears
the cookiejar from memory.
Reported-by: Stefan Karpinski
Fixes#6889Closes#6891
After 957bc1881e, we no longer compute an
expected_size for directories. This has the upshot that when we compare
even an empty Range with the available size, we fail.
This brings back the previous behaviour, which was to succeed, but with
empty content. This also removes the "Accept-ranges: bytes" header,
which is nonsensical on directories.
Adds test 3016
Fixes#6845Closes#6846
When asked to resume a download, libcurl will convert that to HTTP logic
and if then the entire file is already transferred it will result in a
416 response from the HTTP server. With CURLOPT_FAILONERRROR set in that
scenario, it should *not* lead to an error return.
Updated test 1156, added test 1273
Reported-by: Jonathan Watt
Fixes#6740Closes#6753
HTTP auth "accidentally" worked before this cleanup since the code would
always overwrite the connection credentials with the credentials from
the most recent transfer and since HTTP auth is typically done first
thing, this has not been an issue. It was still wrong and subject to
possible race conditions or future breakage if the sequence of functions
would change.
The data.set.str[] strings MUST remain unmodified exactly as set by the
user, and the credentials to use internally are instead set/updated in
state.aptr.*
Added test 675 to verify different credentials used in two requests done
over a reused HTTP connection, which previously behaved wrongly.
Fixes#6542Closes#6545
Rename it to 'httpwant' and make a cloned field in the state struct as
well for run-time updates.
Also: refuse non-supported HTTP versions. Verified with test 129.
Closes#6585
and rename it from 'ftp_list_only' since it is also used for SSH and
POP3. The state is updated internally for 'type=D' FTP URLs.
Added test case 1570 to verify.
Closes#6578
... and make sure the code never updates 'set.prefer_ascii' as it breaks
handle reuse which should use the setting as the user specified it.
Added test 1569 to verify: it first makes an FTP transfer with ';type=A'
and then another without type on the same handle and the second should
then use binary. Previously, curl failed this.
Closes#6578
It can contain additional restraints for test numbers,
keywords and tools.
The idea is to let third parties like the Privoxy project
distribute an exclude file with their tarballs that specifies
which curl tests are not expected to work when using Privoxy
as a proxy, without having to fork the whole curl test suite.
The syntax could be changed to be extendable and maybe
more closely reflect the "curl test" syntax. Currently
it's a bunch of lines like these:
test:$TESTNUMBER:Reason why this test with number $TESTNUMBER should be skipped
keyword:$KEYWORD:Reason why tests whose keywords contain the $KEYWORD should be skipped
tool:$TOOL:Reason why tests with tools that contain $TOOL should be skipped
To specify multiple $TESTNUMBERs, $KEYWORDs and $TOOLs
on a single line, split them with commas.
This is useful to change the behaviour of the script without
having to modify the file itself, for example to use a custom
compareparts() function that ignores header differences that
are expected to occur when an external proxy is being used.
Such differences are proxy-specific and thus the modifications
should be maintained together with the proxy.
... as we ignore it anyway because servers don't report the correct size
and proftpd even blatantly returns a 550.
Updates a set of tests accordingly.
Reported-by: awesomenode on github
Fixes#6564Closes#6565
- Add support services without region and service prefixes in
the URL endpoint (ex. Min.IO, GCP, Yandex Cloud, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions, etc)
by providing region and service parameters via aws-sigv4 option.
- Add [:region[:service]] suffix to aws-sigv4 option;
- Fix memory allocation errors.
- Refactor memory management.
- Use Curl_http_method instead() STRING_CUSTOMREQUEST.
- Refactor canonical headers generating.
- Remove repeated sha256_to_hex() usage.
- Add some docs fixes.
- Add some codestyle fixes.
- Add overloaded strndup() for debug - curl_dbg_strndup().
- Update tests.
Closes#6524
... and as a practical side-effect, make sure that the
Curl_easyopts_check() function is asserted in debug builds, which we
want to detect mismatches between the options list in easyoptions.c and
the options in curl.h
Found-by: Gisle Vanem
Bug: 08e8455ddd (commitcomment-45991815)Closes#6461
... so that a function can first use MIMEPOST and then set it to NULL to
reset it back to a blank POST.
Added test 584 to verify the fix.
Reported-by: Christoph M. Becker
Fixes#6455Closes#6456
... so that Retry-After and other meta-content can still be used.
Added 1634 to verify. Adjusted test 194 and 281 since --fail now also
includes the header-terminating CRLF in the output before it exits.
Fixes#6408Closes#6409
When doing HTTP authentication and a port number set with CURLOPT_PORT,
the code would previously have the URL's port number override as if it
had been a redirect to an absolute URL.
Added test 1568 to verify.
Reported-by: UrsusArctos on github
Fixes#6397Closes#6400
- enable in the build (configure)
- header parsing
- host name lookup
- unit tests for the above
- CI build
- CURL_VERSION_HSTS bit
- curl_version_info support
- curl -V output
- curl-config --features
- CURLOPT_HSTS_CTRL
- man page for CURLOPT_HSTS_CTRL
- curl --hsts (sets CURLOPT_HSTS_CTRL and works with --libcurl)
- man page for --hsts
- save cache to disk
- load cache from disk
- CURLOPT_HSTS
- man page for CURLOPT_HSTS
- added docs/HSTS.md
- fixed --version docs
- adjusted curl_easy_duphandle
Closes#5896
... and remove the objnames scripts they tested. They're not used for
anything anymore so testing them serves no purpose!
Reported-by: Marc Hörsken
Fixes#6080Closes#6081
