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History of Changes
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Daniel (12 May 2001)
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- Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's
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certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a
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proper error code. I added a brand new error code named
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CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose.
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Daniel (11 May 2001)
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- As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not
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return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume
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when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed
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from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of
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the fact that it can't be returned anymore!
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- Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more.
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- Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post
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another one.
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- Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more!
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Daniel (10 May 2001)
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- Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with
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Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources.
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- Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location:
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headers with an extra space after the colon.
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- Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative
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directories correctly.
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Daniel (9 May 2001)
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- Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line),
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makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl
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returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead.
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Anonymous bug report.
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Daniel (7 May 2001)
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- Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion
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that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates
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filed a bug report on this.
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Version 7.7.3
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Daniel (4 May 2001)
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- All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made
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this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to
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them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling
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Hughes.
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Daniel (3 May 2001)
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- Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent
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connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed
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chunked and non-chunked transfers.
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- Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be
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treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the
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server timed-out and closed the connection.
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- Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am
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Daniel (27 April 2001)
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- Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it
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more easy to follow now as well.
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- Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received
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a "Content-Length: 0" header.
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- Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl
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compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though!
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- Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't
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explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew.
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Daniel (26 April 2001)
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- I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps
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work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal
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unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the
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function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it
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makes a notable speed difference.
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Daniel (25 April 2001)
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- Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for
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non-default port numbers.
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Daniel (24 April 2001)
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- I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the
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data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this.
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- Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on
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the alredy written perl servers easily.
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Daniel (23 April 2001)
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- The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one
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of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply
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weird version string output!
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Version 7.7.2
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Daniel (22 April 2001)
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- Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows.
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- Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would
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lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request.
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Daniel (20 April 2001)
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- Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote
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a 'libcurl overview' man page.
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- Spell-fixed some documents.
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- S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page.
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- Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present
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separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package.
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Daniel (19 April 2001)
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- Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the
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--write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-)
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Version 7.7.2-pre1
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Daniel (19 April 2001)
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- Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
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Daniel (18 April 2001)
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- Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It
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displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current
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libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4
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and IPv6.
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- I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks
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working and options that receives those slist pointers.
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- Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent
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connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is
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important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not
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in the main struct as this previously did.
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Daniel (17 April 2001)
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- Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new
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error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download
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actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present.
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Should this return OK instead?
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- I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a
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curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to
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figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn
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should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl.
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This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used
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successfully in other (library based) projects.
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- Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone
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for the If-Modified-Since style headers.
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- Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c
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for curl to build on Ultrix.
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Daniel (11 April 2001)
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- Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use
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of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security
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hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server
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sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP
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request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable!
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Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash.
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- S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on
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windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set
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that timeout!
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- Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl!
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- Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface.
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- I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to
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Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It
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works, but it is still very basic.
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Daniel (10 April 2001)
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- The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as
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it wasn't properly reset between transfers!
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- Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made
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me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback
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function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE
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* when headers are written from within libcurl.
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Daniel (7 April 2001)
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- Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in
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the curl_easy_setopt man page.
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Daniel (6 April 2001)
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- Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure
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change their version define format often...
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- curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing!
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Version 7.7.1
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Daniel (3 April 2001)
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- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
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read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
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Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.
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- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
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it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non-
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persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now.
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Daniel (29 March 2001)
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- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.
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- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the
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control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted
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connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used
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that to verify the functionality.
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Daniel (27 March 2001)
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- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried
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to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent
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after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly!
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- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny
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example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the
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examples.
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Version 7.7.1-beta1
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Daniel (26 March 2001)
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- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0
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connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
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problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the
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curl-and-php mailing list.
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Daniel (24 March 2001)
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- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it,
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which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a
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way that gnroff doesn't like.
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Daniel (23 March 2001)
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- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of
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$(MAKE) for the test target.
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- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not
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curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7!
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- S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ).
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- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string
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in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an
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application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report
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from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then
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caused a libcurl crash!
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- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously,
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curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one.
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- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl
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http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which
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made the second request return very odd results.
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Daniel (22 March 2001)
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- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests
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when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses
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GET in the following request(s).
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- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of
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curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same
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connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly.
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- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks
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like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion.
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Version 7.7
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Daniel (22 March 2001)
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- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is
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detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of
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arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware
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of this need.
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- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape
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functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The
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escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one
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had.
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- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up.
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Version 7.7-beta5
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Daniel (19 March 2001)
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- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense
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that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this
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problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was
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added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right.
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- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do
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form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header
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engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT
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and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616
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has all the details. Seems to work now!
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Daniel (16 March 2001)
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- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back.
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- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release
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archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs,
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examples and updates you think fit.
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- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples
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into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please
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help me here as well!
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- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a
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"chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts
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even if the Content-Length: size is unknown.
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Daniel (15 March 2001)
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- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
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option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the
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connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire
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file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others.
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I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the
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item from the TODO.
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Version 7.7-beta4
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Daniel (14 March 2001)
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- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely
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again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set.
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I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with
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curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then!
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- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was
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a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't
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work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use
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getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try
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that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't
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have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info.
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- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with
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user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute,
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without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and
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crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that
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tests this.
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- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request
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data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range
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of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously.
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- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details.
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Version 7.7-beta3
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Daniel (14 March 2001)
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- Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches
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for non-SSL compiles.
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- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level
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functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the
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Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to
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curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still
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undocumented).
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This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with
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just a drop-in replacement.
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- Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles:
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o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t
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o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement
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o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again
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o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files
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o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state
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Daniel (13 March 2001)
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- It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the
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chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot
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the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top
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of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly
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wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data
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in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted).
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Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well.
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Version 7.7-beta2
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Daniel (13 March 2001)
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- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported
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policies.
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- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies
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CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now
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supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy
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is chosen.
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Daniel (12 March 2001)
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- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the
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SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl
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client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I
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need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember
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that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered
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weak (HTTPS connections).
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- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length
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and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is
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the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60
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test cases.
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- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the
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persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly
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thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now
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implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new
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implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,
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CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are:
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CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION.
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- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent
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connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file
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transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK.
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I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well.
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- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so
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that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple
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connections... Now I get 100% test case OK.
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- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are
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all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are
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located. Horrible.
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- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing
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that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though
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(Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what
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the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot
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of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe.
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Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP)
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not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have
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to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK.
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Daniel (8 March 2001)
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- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if
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MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if
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there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected.
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Version 7.7-beta1
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Daniel (8 March 2001)
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- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've
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added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine.
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- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers.
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Daniel (5 March 2001)
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- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works
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using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't
|
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handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this.
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|
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- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It
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should make it a lot nicer library-wise.
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- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first-
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then-do approach.
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Daniel (4 March 2001)
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- More bugs erased.
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Version 7.7-alpha2
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Daniel (4 March 2001)
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- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive
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before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will
|
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then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection!
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Daniel (2 March 2001)
|
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- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness!
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|
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- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has
|
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proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do
|
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not work intermixed yet though.
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Daniel (1 March 2001)
|
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- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that
|
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curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does
|
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now.
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Daniel (22 February 2001)
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- The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent
|
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request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection
|
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if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one.
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|
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- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page
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that I applied.
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Daniel (20 February 2001)
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- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends.
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|
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- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and
|
|
improvements:
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* Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does.
|
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* Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only
|
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XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV).
|
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* Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used.
|
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* Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!)
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|
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- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of
|
|
struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific
|
|
data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the
|
|
mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs
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and more will follow.
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|
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Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should
|
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work. Seems cool enough.
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Daniel (19 February 2001)
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- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project
|
|
easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file.
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|
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- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the
|
|
library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The
|
|
low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality.
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Daniel (15 February 2001)
|
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- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with
|
|
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in
|
|
libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to
|
|
switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL
|
|
string switches off the POST again.
|
|
|
|
- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn
|
|
Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into
|
|
libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made
|
|
to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when
|
|
applicable!
|
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Daniel (13 February 2001)
|
|
- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages.
|
|
Suggested by Larry Fahnoe.
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|
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Version 7.6.1
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Daniel (9 February 2001)
|
|
- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
|
|
PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 February 2001)
|
|
- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
|
|
curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty
|
|
password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to
|
|
support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user
|
|
and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you
|
|
specify you want the prompt otherwise?
|
|
|
|
- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and
|
|
HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes).
|
|
|
|
- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue.
|
|
|
|
- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on
|
|
request.
|
|
|
|
- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1-pre3
|
|
|
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Daniel (7 February 2001)
|
|
- S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that
|
|
could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if
|
|
libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket.
|
|
|
|
- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
|
|
results from the proxy connection.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 February 2001)
|
|
- S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set
|
|
for the debug build to work.
|
|
|
|
- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
|
|
brought up yesterday.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 February 2001)
|
|
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
|
|
a bunch of different areas within libcurl.
|
|
|
|
- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
|
|
the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
|
|
patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
|
|
How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone?
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 February 2001)
|
|
- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
|
|
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
|
|
return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
|
|
direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
|
|
size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
|
|
was done after discussions with Bob Schader.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 February 2001)
|
|
- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
|
|
recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to
|
|
not include WIN32 anymore.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1-pre2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 January 2001)
|
|
- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
|
|
be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
|
|
possibility to weird behaviour all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
|
|
find this.
|
|
|
|
- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
|
|
I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
|
|
of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 January 2001)
|
|
- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and
|
|
now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows
|
|
a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server
|
|
doesn't seem to support range requests.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 January 2001)
|
|
- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33).
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1-pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 January 2001)
|
|
- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end
|
|
and it works for him.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 January 2001)
|
|
- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a
|
|
Content-Range header when resuming a PUT.
|
|
|
|
- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP
|
|
download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field
|
|
in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for
|
|
this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing.
|
|
|
|
- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP.
|
|
|
|
- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It
|
|
makes the output slightly better for resumes.
|
|
|
|
- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt
|
|
to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a
|
|
URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on
|
|
what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a
|
|
second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported.
|
|
|
|
I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 January 2001)
|
|
- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small
|
|
piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can
|
|
now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT
|
|
the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6-pre4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 January 2001)
|
|
- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for
|
|
reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and
|
|
swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested
|
|
in the next beta-round coming right up.
|
|
|
|
- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied
|
|
his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the
|
|
function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write().
|
|
|
|
I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and
|
|
reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing
|
|
would only have to be implemented at one point.
|
|
|
|
- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the
|
|
total time very accurate on subsecond levels.
|
|
|
|
- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout
|
|
value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently
|
|
no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 January 2001)
|
|
- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile
|
|
properly with cygwin.
|
|
|
|
- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code
|
|
that corrected a potential memory leak.
|
|
|
|
- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more
|
|
easy to read and understand!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 January 2001)
|
|
- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version
|
|
string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be
|
|
set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled.
|
|
|
|
- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when
|
|
IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'...
|
|
|
|
- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an
|
|
error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't
|
|
follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string
|
|
is used instead.
|
|
|
|
I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want*
|
|
globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure
|
|
seriously confuse the globber.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 January 2001)
|
|
- Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even
|
|
during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions...
|
|
|
|
- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on
|
|
the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 January 2001)
|
|
- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last
|
|
code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports.
|
|
|
|
- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem
|
|
in src/main.c that I took care of.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6-pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 January 2001)
|
|
- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new
|
|
lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer()
|
|
to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function
|
|
in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 January 2001)
|
|
- Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[]
|
|
letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly
|
|
mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by
|
|
Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry.
|
|
|
|
- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without
|
|
having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as
|
|
-o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter
|
|
options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with
|
|
space from their parameters.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 January 2001)
|
|
- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling
|
|
curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef
|
|
HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems.
|
|
|
|
- Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made
|
|
the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout.
|
|
|
|
- Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work
|
|
correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make
|
|
dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms'
|
|
automatically build RPMs!
|
|
|
|
Loic Dachary (6 January 2001)
|
|
- Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root.
|
|
|
|
- make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST
|
|
in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES).
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 January 2001)
|
|
- Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs
|
|
can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There
|
|
must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to
|
|
stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package.
|
|
|
|
- The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now.
|
|
|
|
- Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal
|
|
symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other
|
|
libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should
|
|
be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS
|
|
document to say this as well.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.5.2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 January 2001)
|
|
- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command
|
|
line option and what happens when you specify that option more than
|
|
once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before.
|
|
|
|
- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For
|
|
odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with
|
|
curl's dependencies on libcurl...
|
|
|
|
- Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file.
|
|
The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in
|
|
case anyone would need it.
|
|
|
|
- I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about
|
|
files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build
|
|
curl when you get the sources off CVS.
|
|
|
|
- Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 January 2001)
|
|
- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL
|
|
|
|
- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of
|
|
curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
|
|
accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
|
|
release archive.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 December 2000)
|
|
- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
|
|
as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
|
|
one major).
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 December 2000)
|
|
- Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system
|
|
and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts
|
|
that happened when you did PORTed downloads.
|
|
|
|
- Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 December 2000)
|
|
- Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or
|
|
hope, or at least I've tried... :-O
|
|
|
|
- Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem
|
|
|
|
Version 7.5.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 December 2000)
|
|
- Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin
|
|
P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found
|
|
different newline conventions within the same file.
|
|
|
|
- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for
|
|
the SSL stuff.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 December 2000)
|
|
- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when
|
|
doing SSL connections.
|
|
|
|
- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with
|
|
-o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it
|
|
is fixed now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 December 2000)
|
|
- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland
|
|
compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with
|
|
that compiler.
|
|
|
|
- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL
|
|
variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need
|
|
perl in the path for the test suite to run ok.
|
|
|
|
- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems:
|
|
* The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h
|
|
since the curl one differed from the SCO one
|
|
* The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction
|
|
stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need).
|
|
* A few more problems remain to be researched.
|
|
|
|
- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 December 2000)
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (1 December 2000)
|
|
- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should
|
|
build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when
|
|
releasing new shared library interfaces.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 November 2000)
|
|
- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document
|
|
actually contains.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 November 2000)
|
|
- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things
|
|
harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.5-pre5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 November 2000)
|
|
- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been
|
|
lagging.
|
|
|
|
- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
|
|
libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the
|
|
set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 November 2000)
|
|
- Added two test cases for file://.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 November 2000)
|
|
- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the
|
|
modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it
|
|
involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command
|
|
which is not in the RFC959)
|
|
|
|
curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time
|
|
after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if
|
|
the time wasn't possible to get.
|
|
|
|
--head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header
|
|
if curl could get the time of the specified file.
|
|
|
|
- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM
|
|
file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS
|
|
connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but
|
|
others have asked for it before as well.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 November 2000)
|
|
- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight:
|
|
|
|
* curl_unescape() could return a too long string
|
|
* on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks
|
|
* ftp CWD could use bad directory names
|
|
* memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability
|
|
* free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers
|
|
|
|
- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP.
|
|
|
|
- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic.
|
|
|
|
- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp
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operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now
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all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl
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script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run.
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Daniel (20 November 2000)
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- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of
|
|
4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make
|
|
life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying
|
|
but that can be circumvented by using a config file.
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|
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NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location:
|
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headers.
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|
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- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages.
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|
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- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It
|
|
turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names
|
|
where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the
|
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lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase
|
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versions.
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Daniel (17 November 2000)
|
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- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the
|
|
test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on
|
|
memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the
|
|
cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar
|
|
things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these
|
|
problems have been removed.
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|
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- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and
|
|
weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now,
|
|
although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main
|
|
difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must
|
|
both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also
|
|
specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and
|
|
parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like:
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user-agent = "foobar and something"
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Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're
|
|
expected to be a single non-space word.
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Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work.
|
|
|
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- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes
|
|
way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config
|
|
file doesn't work anymore.
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Daniel (15 November 2000)
|
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- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication
|
|
failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters,
|
|
and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused
|
|
passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail.
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|
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Version 7.4.2
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Daniel (15 November 2000)
|
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- 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used.
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Daniel (14 November 2000)
|
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- I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled
|
|
"Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE
|
|
could be assumed to work.
|
|
|
|
- Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a
|
|
file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and
|
|
curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start
|
|
uploading from the beginning as a normal upload?
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 November 2000)
|
|
- Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter.
|
|
|
|
- While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation
|
|
that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this
|
|
immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl.
|
|
|
|
- Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c
|
|
|
|
- I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite.
|
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|
|
Version 7.4.2 pre4
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Daniel (10 November 2000)
|
|
- I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new
|
|
tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and
|
|
most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script.
|
|
|
|
I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work.
|
|
|
|
- Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks
|
|
for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes
|
|
depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used!
|
|
|
|
- Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was
|
|
already uploaded, curl would hang.
|
|
|
|
- Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the
|
|
getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have.
|
|
|
|
- Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected
|
|
it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com),
|
|
the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between
|
|
the set domain length and the current host name.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 November 2000)
|
|
- Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need
|
|
it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found
|
|
but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no
|
|
system that requires those libs to build.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4.2 pre3
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|
|
|
Daniel (7 November 2000)
|
|
- Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a
|
|
slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 November 2000)
|
|
- Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in.
|
|
They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are
|
|
CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA.
|
|
|
|
- Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong
|
|
times when location: headers were followed.
|
|
|
|
- Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in
|
|
the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem
|
|
with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 November 2000)
|
|
- When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was
|
|
inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got
|
|
increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous
|
|
numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (1 November 2000)
|
|
- Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction()
|
|
isn't present, we can use signal() instead.
|
|
|
|
- I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again
|
|
GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards
|
|
making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 October 2000)
|
|
- Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and
|
|
templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms.
|
|
I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 October 2000)
|
|
- T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to
|
|
curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer
|
|
certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option
|
|
and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote
|
|
peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the
|
|
*_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about
|
|
whether the verification succeeded or not.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 October 2000)
|
|
- Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing
|
|
annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes
|
|
(which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and
|
|
of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually
|
|
have the sigaction() function).
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 October 2000)
|
|
- Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth
|
|
that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The
|
|
getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any
|
|
static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass()
|
|
function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe.
|
|
|
|
- Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the
|
|
url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote
|
|
it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now.
|
|
|
|
- Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was
|
|
just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't
|
|
support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d
|
|
chunk. This enables constructs like the following:
|
|
|
|
curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 October 2000)
|
|
- I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other
|
|
systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the
|
|
memory debugging system.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 October 2000)
|
|
- I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script
|
|
will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and
|
|
then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build
|
|
release-archives.
|
|
|
|
- Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly
|
|
enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the
|
|
-u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also
|
|
suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL
|
|
so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 October 2000)
|
|
- Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port
|
|
number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it
|
|
isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to
|
|
run one of those nasty servers.
|
|
|
|
- The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been
|
|
corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this)
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 October 2000)
|
|
- Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They
|
|
didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test
|
|
suite...
|
|
|
|
- I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https://
|
|
URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this
|
|
error:
|
|
"libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!"
|
|
|
|
I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual
|
|
problem lies.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 October 2000)
|
|
- I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in
|
|
the release archive (of course).
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 October 2000)
|
|
- The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 October 2000)
|
|
- Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used
|
|
by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a
|
|
few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 October 2000)
|
|
- Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out
|
|
really useful!
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4 pre6
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 October 2000)
|
|
- Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include
|
|
file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the
|
|
public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file.
|
|
|
|
- Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It
|
|
didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway.
|
|
|
|
- Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our
|
|
libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all
|
|
platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a
|
|
local buffer.
|
|
|
|
- I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header
|
|
generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more
|
|
PHP-friendly multi-part posts.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4 pre5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 October 2000)
|
|
- Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when
|
|
using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably
|
|
introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7.
|
|
|
|
- Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl.
|
|
I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log
|
|
all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze
|
|
the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak
|
|
Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup()
|
|
didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in
|
|
the CVS respository, not in the release archive.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 October 2000)
|
|
- Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the
|
|
pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best
|
|
a memory leak!
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4 pre4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 October 2000)
|
|
- Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the
|
|
mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP
|
|
receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this.
|
|
|
|
- Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working
|
|
anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for
|
|
7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now...
|
|
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL
|
|
stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with
|
|
-I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid!
|
|
|
|
- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used
|
|
a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4 pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 October 2000)
|
|
- More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate,
|
|
as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to
|
|
get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP
|
|
request. T. Bharath requested them.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 October 2000)
|
|
- Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-)
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4 pre2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 October 2000)
|
|
- Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP
|
|
requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do
|
|
this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it
|
|
this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with
|
|
curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to
|
|
fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer
|
|
to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults
|
|
are probably mine.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 October 2000)
|
|
- Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the
|
|
progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer
|
|
size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter
|
|
and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to
|
|
use on a fast one.
|
|
|
|
I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to
|
|
start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes
|
|
per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It
|
|
should make the progress meter work better.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.4 pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 September 2000)
|
|
- Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets
|
|
all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo()
|
|
function.
|
|
|
|
- brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and
|
|
removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 September 2000)
|
|
- Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct
|
|
the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just
|
|
released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error
|
|
is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix
|
|
release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be
|
|
available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 September 2000)
|
|
- Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former
|
|
base64.[ch] files.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 September 2000)
|
|
- Updated some docs.
|
|
|
|
- I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted
|
|
patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.3-pre8
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 September 2000)
|
|
- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and
|
|
showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly
|
|
again.
|
|
|
|
- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative
|
|
approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie
|
|
header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed.
|
|
|
|
- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell
|
|
you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for
|
|
nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl
|
|
tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 September 2000)
|
|
- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload
|
|
work!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 September 2000)
|
|
- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals
|
|
that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 September 2000)
|
|
- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this
|
|
opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer
|
|
sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use
|
|
malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a
|
|
large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like
|
|
that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness.
|
|
|
|
- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went
|
|
as smooth as it could.
|
|
|
|
- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how
|
|
to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples
|
|
further on.
|
|
|
|
- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the
|
|
config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word
|
|
"reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease.
|
|
|
|
- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4.
|
|
|
|
- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that
|
|
I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding
|
|
functions! ;-)
|
|
|
|
Version 7.3pre5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 September 2000)
|
|
- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original
|
|
krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global
|
|
variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to
|
|
clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use
|
|
connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't
|
|
destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects
|
|
krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.3pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (18 September 2000)
|
|
- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to
|
|
curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did
|
|
not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere
|
|
thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours!
|
|
|
|
- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to
|
|
the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an
|
|
outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all
|
|
platforms. This needs testing.
|
|
|
|
- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the
|
|
name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not
|
|
returning an error even though it failed on some platforms!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 September 2000)
|
|
- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.3pre2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 September 2000)
|
|
- Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp.
|
|
Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the
|
|
pasv message when doing the second connect.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.3pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 September 2000)
|
|
- libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The
|
|
second connection on ftp needed that.
|
|
|
|
- TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really
|
|
bad at times!
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Daniel (14 September 2000)
|
|
- -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new
|
|
CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel
|
|
through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp.
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|
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Daniel (13 September 2000)
|
|
- Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this
|
|
and mailed the patch to the mailing list.
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|
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Daniel (7 September 2000)
|
|
- I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really
|
|
a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that
|
|
define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the
|
|
PHP bug tracker.
|
|
|
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- I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage
|
|
in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to
|
|
this.
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Version 7.2.1
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Daniel (31 August 2000)
|
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- Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to
|
|
detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?)
|
|
|
|
- Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the
|
|
letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and
|
|
the reason was my lame URL decoder.
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|
|
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- I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected
|
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that.
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Version 7.2
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Daniel (30 August 2000)
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|
- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they
|
|
solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the
|
|
AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this
|
|
article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a
|
|
libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking
|
|
completely.
|
|
|
|
So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that
|
|
fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want
|
|
to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the
|
|
following three include files before that one:
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#include <net/if_dl.h>
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#include <sys/mbuf.h>
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#include <netinet/if_ether.h>
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|
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Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all
|
|
the source files that include it?
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|
|
|
Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX
|
|
login to try everything on.
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|
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Daniel (24 August 2000)
|
|
- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one
|
|
was not up to date but lacked several object files.
|
|
|
|
- More work on the naming.
|
|
|
|
- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as
|
|
some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position
|
|
for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir...
|
|
|
|
- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary
|
|
option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to
|
|
work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 August 2000)
|
|
- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added
|
|
when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with
|
|
it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think
|
|
I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the
|
|
file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new
|
|
*setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since
|
|
libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases.
|
|
|
|
- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name
|
|
resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms
|
|
that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of
|
|
this.
|
|
|
|
- The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to
|
|
Bjorn Reese.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 August 2000)
|
|
- Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to
|
|
keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting...
|
|
This needs to be addressed.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.1.1
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|
|
|
Daniel (21 August 2000)
|
|
- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent
|
|
me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests
|
|
which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of
|
|
the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a
|
|
function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function
|
|
will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad
|
|
manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I
|
|
should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on
|
|
a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at
|
|
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the
|
|
future as well.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (18 August 2000)
|
|
- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't
|
|
think this is the reason for the continued trouble though.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 August 2000)
|
|
- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It
|
|
should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 August 2000)
|
|
- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well
|
|
as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before?
|
|
|
|
- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when
|
|
used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got
|
|
screwed up!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 August 2000)
|
|
- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version
|
|
of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that
|
|
information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of
|
|
not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my
|
|
Linux Redhat installation...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 August 2000)
|
|
- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace
|
|
the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added
|
|
the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts
|
|
using custom Content-Types.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 August 2000)
|
|
- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no
|
|
user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (7 August 2000)
|
|
- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker.
|
|
|
|
- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort
|
|
of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 August 2000)
|
|
- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms.
|
|
My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to
|
|
move an include file before another, as is now described in the source.
|
|
|
|
AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r()
|
|
functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile
|
|
broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the
|
|
configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My
|
|
implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may
|
|
get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to
|
|
any system using that.
|
|
|
|
For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread
|
|
to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few
|
|
functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work
|
|
although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use
|
|
libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a
|
|
thread-safe lib.
|
|
|
|
- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (1 August 2000)
|
|
- Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal()
|
|
that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true
|
|
function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string
|
|
comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the
|
|
now obsolete #define.
|
|
|
|
- Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's
|
|
JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range
|
|
headers.
|
|
|
|
- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use
|
|
libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young
|
|
found out.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.11beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (1 August 2000)
|
|
- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create
|
|
the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as
|
|
it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories
|
|
without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in
|
|
both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level
|
|
makefile that succeeds in install everything properly!
|
|
|
|
- Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major
|
|
flaws added now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 July 2000)
|
|
- Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one
|
|
of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank
|
|
ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a
|
|
little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new
|
|
one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any
|
|
blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 July 2000)
|
|
- It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now
|
|
I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it.
|
|
|
|
- I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left
|
|
names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug
|
|
reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email
|
|
addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me
|
|
working on this.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 July 2000)
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an
|
|
environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I
|
|
corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra
|
|
beta release just for this.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.10beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 July 2000)
|
|
- So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add
|
|
the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as
|
|
symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed
|
|
on 7.0.9...
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.9beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 July 2000)
|
|
- Kristian Köhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl
|
|
libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the
|
|
recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some
|
|
other nice cleanups.
|
|
|
|
- In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a
|
|
page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another
|
|
server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that
|
|
server as well.
|
|
|
|
Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect
|
|
and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several
|
|
fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at
|
|
least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which
|
|
means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl
|
|
to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards
|
|
curl back to server A again, the password will be used again.
|
|
|
|
This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use
|
|
the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think
|
|
that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole".
|
|
|
|
As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and
|
|
will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that.
|
|
|
|
- As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading
|
|
function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!)
|
|
if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a
|
|
default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I
|
|
don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to
|
|
get received...
|
|
|
|
- Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for
|
|
the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to
|
|
suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from
|
|
'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded
|
|
contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or
|
|
textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used
|
|
%s or similar in a -F file name.
|
|
|
|
- As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring
|
|
files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be
|
|
the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very
|
|
well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size
|
|
may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing
|
|
ASCII transfers in FTP.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 July 2000)
|
|
- Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy
|
|
port number to be set separately from the proxy host name.
|
|
|
|
- Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug.
|
|
|
|
- The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously
|
|
accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at
|
|
evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out.
|
|
|
|
- The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in
|
|
when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was
|
|
discovered by Rich Gray.
|
|
|
|
- Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in
|
|
curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory.
|
|
|
|
- Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not
|
|
properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should
|
|
now have been fixed.
|
|
|
|
- HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing
|
|
problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash.
|
|
Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering
|
|
and suggesting a fix...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 June 2000)
|
|
- After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a
|
|
HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some
|
|
checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request
|
|
command, no matter what the user wants! ;-)
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.8beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 June 2000)
|
|
- I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se
|
|
instead of the previous one.
|
|
|
|
- As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer
|
|
makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has
|
|
been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only
|
|
interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time.
|
|
|
|
While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto
|
|
referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or
|
|
only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the
|
|
previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding
|
|
document.
|
|
|
|
- My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only
|
|
when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It
|
|
turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that
|
|
didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as
|
|
it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.7beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 June 2000)
|
|
- I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar
|
|
stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the
|
|
recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like
|
|
before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at
|
|
the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This
|
|
code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour!
|
|
;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed
|
|
this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE
|
|
from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it
|
|
will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also
|
|
will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of
|
|
getting the writeout data and move that too to the client).
|
|
|
|
- I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I
|
|
found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 June 2000)
|
|
- I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of
|
|
course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover
|
|
corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used
|
|
this feature with v7?
|
|
|
|
- Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in
|
|
v7. Hm.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 June 2000)
|
|
- Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it
|
|
should. I corrected this.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.6beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 June 2000)
|
|
- Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling):
|
|
lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32)
|
|
src/main.c had several minor problems
|
|
lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice
|
|
src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define
|
|
both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the
|
|
define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32
|
|
to set it.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.5beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 June 2000)
|
|
- Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems.
|
|
|
|
- Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to
|
|
binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option
|
|
is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was
|
|
already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The
|
|
libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now
|
|
obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32
|
|
compiler around.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 June 2000)
|
|
- Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup()
|
|
since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 June 2000)
|
|
- Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 June 2000)
|
|
- So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it
|
|
should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it
|
|
right now.
|
|
- Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just
|
|
in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers.
|
|
- Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.4beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 June 2000)
|
|
- I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all
|
|
but the first request.
|
|
- Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic
|
|
curl_slist.
|
|
- Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.3beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 May 2000)
|
|
- So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to
|
|
compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to
|
|
feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add
|
|
a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.0.2beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 May 2000)
|
|
- Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only
|
|
toggles one of those bits.
|
|
|
|
- Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add
|
|
usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around,
|
|
since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as
|
|
solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script.
|
|
|
|
I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my
|
|
Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 May 2000)
|
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- Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as
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well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems
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to be reserved in some gcc versions!
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- Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX
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needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined.
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More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work.
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Version 7.0.1beta
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Daniel (21 May 2000)
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- Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No
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more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl-
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prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former
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curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate
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setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is
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now using that.
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- Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan
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to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name
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lookups.
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Version 7.0beta
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Daniel (18 May 2000)
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- Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow
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source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to
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a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and
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patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also
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makes a larger number a newer version.
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Daniel (17 May 2000)
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- Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range
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option. I corrected them.
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- Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file
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in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for
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multithreaded purposes.
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Daniel (16 May 2000)
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- Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7.
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There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken.
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<curl/easy.h> is the include file to use.
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Daniel (14 May 2000)
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- FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738.
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- FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change
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directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with
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Rich Gray made me notice these problems.
|
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- Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the
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src/usrglob.c file.
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- I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string
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compares on all platforms.
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Daniel (8 May 2000):
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- Been working lots on the new lib.
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- Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work
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better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix.
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Daniel (2 May 2000):
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- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in
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configure.in that didn't do any good.
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Daniel (24 April 2000):
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- Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't
|
|
find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison
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|
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Daniel (12 April 2000):
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- Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a
|
|
better one...
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Daniel (8 April 2000):
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- Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes
|
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and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM.
|
|
- I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user
|
|
agent string. It does now.
|
|
- Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs
|
|
on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves
|
|
the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to
|
|
build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm
|
|
package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build
|
|
a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM?
|
|
- Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l
|
|
on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native
|
|
cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been
|
|
reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It
|
|
is a pity there's no newer release around...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 April 2000):
|
|
- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that
|
|
appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 April 2000):
|
|
- Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then
|
|
followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 March 2000):
|
|
- H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly
|
|
messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy,
|
|
which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 March 2000):
|
|
- Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he
|
|
actually already told me about!
|
|
|
|
- H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl
|
|
ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
|
|
happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 March 2000):
|
|
- Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME
|
|
was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been.
|
|
The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6
|
|
makefile for MS VC++.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 March 2000):
|
|
- I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that
|
|
one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne
|
|
Johansson made me aware of this.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.5.2
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|
|
|
Daniel (21 March 2000):
|
|
- Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
|
|
crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
|
|
the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.5.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 March 2000):
|
|
- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
|
|
overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
|
|
problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
|
|
single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
|
|
Johansson).
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 March 2000):
|
|
- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches
|
|
that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in
|
|
the INSTALL file. Very nice job!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 March 2000):
|
|
- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
|
|
file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
|
|
VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
|
|
existence.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 March 2000):
|
|
- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
|
|
to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D
|
|
on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies
|
|
in that one single file.
|
|
|
|
- Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff.
|
|
Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32
|
|
stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now).
|
|
|
|
- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
|
|
Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 March 2000):
|
|
- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
|
|
was never written. I fixed it now.
|
|
|
|
- Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does
|
|
when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included
|
|
instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in
|
|
the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 March 2000):
|
|
- <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a
|
|
single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what
|
|
the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to
|
|
perhaps make them work better.
|
|
|
|
- Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl
|
|
script needs it!
|
|
|
|
- Made some beautifications in the curl man page.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 March 2000):
|
|
- Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and
|
|
HAVE_STRDUP.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 March 2000):
|
|
- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 March 2000):
|
|
- Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people
|
|
happy and I'll still keep them available on the web.
|
|
|
|
- Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter
|
|
display in README.curl.
|
|
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf
|
|
Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
|
|
fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
|
|
0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
|
|
thing).
|
|
|
|
- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
|
|
Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
|
|
every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net>
|
|
suggested this.
|
|
|
|
- Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 February 2000):
|
|
- Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32.
|
|
|
|
I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using
|
|
the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %-
|
|
letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should
|
|
use another letter instead!
|
|
|
|
- Added more variables to -w:
|
|
|
|
'http_code'
|
|
'time_namelookup'
|
|
'time_connect'
|
|
'time_pretransfer'
|
|
'url_effective'
|
|
|
|
- Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from
|
|
stdin in the good old "standard" curl way.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 February 2000):
|
|
- Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 February 2000):
|
|
|
|
- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
|
|
single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
|
|
completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
|
|
they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
|
|
exist as of this moment are:
|
|
|
|
total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
|
|
size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes
|
|
size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes
|
|
speed_download - the average speed of the entire download
|
|
speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload
|
|
|
|
I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others.
|
|
|
|
- It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new
|
|
progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re-
|
|
introduced! :-/
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 February 2000):
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued
|
|
working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download
|
|
and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good.
|
|
|
|
- Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface.
|
|
|
|
- Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 February 2000):
|
|
- The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it
|
|
is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 February 2000):
|
|
- Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to
|
|
deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.
|
|
|
|
- Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
|
|
is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
|
|
similarly reads the cookies from stdin.
|
|
|
|
- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
|
|
-o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
|
|
|
|
- Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
|
|
|
|
- Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the
|
|
cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
|
|
the server.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 February 2000):
|
|
- Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that
|
|
prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do
|
|
with the difference in sprintf() return code types.
|
|
|
|
- Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's
|
|
do some progress meter fixes later this week.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 January 2000):
|
|
- Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie
|
|
parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
|
|
that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
|
|
what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.
|
|
|
|
RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
|
|
compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...
|
|
|
|
- Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form
|
|
to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
|
|
since the socket "pipe" becomes full.
|
|
|
|
It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
|
|
single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
|
|
of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
|
|
and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
|
|
|
|
- Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
|
|
although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
|
|
with fixing anything.
|
|
|
|
- Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume
|
|
support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
|
|
I'll work on it.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 January 2000):
|
|
- M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was
|
|
corrected.
|
|
|
|
- Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile
|
|
curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
|
|
by Jörn's recent #include modifications!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 January 2000):
|
|
- Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem
|
|
in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
|
|
different protocol to fail.
|
|
|
|
At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
|
|
could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
|
|
again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
|
|
on server not running on default ports.)
|
|
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again
|
|
made it possible to select progress bar.
|
|
|
|
- Jörn also fixed a few include problems.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 January 2000):
|
|
- Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the
|
|
progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
|
|
the time spent on the download so far.
|
|
- I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
|
|
browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 January 2000):
|
|
- Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
|
|
- Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
|
|
quote commands.
|
|
- Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
|
|
that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
|
|
course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
|
|
downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
|
|
- Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
|
|
install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
|
|
on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
|
|
better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
|
|
- Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
|
|
- Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
|
|
2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
|
|
flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
|
|
and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
|
|
|