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- CURL_GLOBAL_SSL This option was changed in libcurl 7.57.0 and clearly it has not caused too many issues and a lot of time has passed. - Store TLS context per transfer instead of per connection This is a possible future optimization. One that is much less important and interesting since the added support for CA caching. - Microsoft telnet server This bug was filed in May 2007 against curl 7.16.1 and we have not received further reports. - active FTP over a SOCKS Actually, proxies in general is not working with active FTP mode. This is now added in proxy documentation. - DICT responses show the underlying protocol curl still does this, but since this is now an established behavior since forever we cannot change it easily and adding an option for it seems crazy as this protocol is not so little its not worth it. Let's just live with it. - Secure Transport disabling hostname validation also disables SNI This is an already documented restriction in Secure Transport. - CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION not called with CURLFORM_STREAM The curl_formadd() function is marked and documented as deprecated. No point in collecting bugs for it. It should not be used further. - STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs After close source code inspection I cannot see how this is true or that there is any special treatment for different HTTP methods. We also have not received many further reports on this, making me strongly suspect that this is no (longer an) issue. - multipart formposts file name encoding The once proposed RFC 5987-encoding is since RFC 7578 documented as MUST NOT be used. The since then implemented MIME API allows the user to set the name on their own and can thus provide it encoded as it wants. - DoH is not used for all name resolves when enabled It is questionable if users actually want to use DoH for interface and FTP port name resolving. This restriction is now documented and we advice users against using name resolving at all for these functions. Closes #10043
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Known Bugs
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These are problems and bugs known to exist at the time of this release. Feel
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free to join in and help us correct one or more of these. Also be sure to
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check the changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these
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problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
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1. HTTP
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1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
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2. TLS
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2.3 Unable to use PKCS12 certificate with Secure Transport
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2.4 Secure Transport will not import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
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2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
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2.7 Client cert (MTLS) issues with Schannel
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2.8 Schannel disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and verify hostname
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2.9 TLS session cache does not work with TFO
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2.11 Schannel TLS 1.2 handshake bug in old Windows versions
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2.12 FTPS with Schannel times out file list operation
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2.13 CURLOPT_CERTINFO results in CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY with Schannel
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2.15 Renegotiate from server may cause hang for OpenSSL backend
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3. Email protocols
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3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
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3.2 No disconnect command
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3.3 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
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3.4 AUTH PLAIN for SMTP is not working on all servers
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4. Command line
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4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
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4.2 -J with -C - fails
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4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
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5. Build and portability issues
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5.1 OS400 port requires deprecated IBM library
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5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
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5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
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5.5 cannot handle Unicode arguments in non-Unicode builds on Windows
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5.6 make distclean loops forever
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5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
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5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
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5.10 curl hangs on SMB upload over stdin
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5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
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5.12 flaky Windows CI builds
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5.13 long paths are not fully supported on Windows
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5.14 Windows Unicode builds use homedir in current locale
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6. Authentication
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6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
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6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
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6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
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6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
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6.5 NTLM does not support password with § character
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6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
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6.7 Do not clear digest for single realm
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6.9 SHA-256 digest not supported in Windows SSPI builds
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6.10 curl never completes Negotiate over HTTP
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6.11 Negotiate on Windows fails
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6.12 cannot use Secure Transport with Crypto Token Kit
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6.13 Negotiate against Hadoop HDFS
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7. FTP
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7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
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7.4 FTP with ACCT
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7.5 ASCII FTP
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7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
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7.10 FTPS needs session reuse
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7.11 FTPS upload data loss with TLS 1.3
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7.12 FTPS directory listing hangs on Windows with Schannel
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9. SFTP and SCP
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9.1 SFTP does not do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
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9.2 wolfssh: publickey auth does not work
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9.3 Remote recursive folder creation with SFTP
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9.4 libssh blocking and infinite loop problem
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10. SOCKS
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10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
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11. Internals
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11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
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11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
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11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
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11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
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11.7 signal-based resolver timeouts
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11.8 DoH leaks memory after followlocation
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11.9 DoH does not inherit all transfer options
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11.10 Blocking socket operations in non-blocking API
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11.11 A shared connection cache is not thread-safe
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11.15 CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETPAIRFUNCTION is missing
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11.16 libcurl uses renames instead of locking for atomic operations
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12. LDAP
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12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
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12.2 LDAP on Windows does authentication wrong?
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12.3 LDAP on Windows does not work
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12.4 LDAPS with NSS is slow
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13. TCP/IP
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13.2 Trying local ports fails on Windows
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15. CMake
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15.1 use correct SONAME
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15.2 support build with GnuTLS
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15.3 unusable tool_hugehelp.c with MinGW
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15.4 build docs/curl.1
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15.5 build on Linux links libcurl to libdl
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15.6 uses -lpthread instead of Threads::Threads
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15.7 generated .pc file contains strange entries
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15.8 libcurl.pc uses absolute library paths
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15.9 cert paths autodetected when cross-compiling
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15.10 libpsl is not supported
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15.11 ExternalProject_Add does not set CURL_CA_PATH
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15.12 cannot enable LDAPS on Windows
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15.13 CMake build with MIT Kerberos does not work
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16. Applications
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17. HTTP/2
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17.1 Excessive HTTP/2 packets with TCP_NODELAY
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17.2 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
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17.3 ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM causes infinite retries
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17.4 Connection failures with parallel HTTP/2
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17.5 HTTP/2 connections through HTTPS proxy frequently stall
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18. HTTP/3
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18.1 If the HTTP/3 server closes connection during upload curl hangs
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18.2 Transfer closed with n bytes remaining to read
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18.4 timeout when reusing an http3 connection
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18.9 connection migration does not work
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==============================================================================
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1. HTTP
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1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
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If an upload using Expect: 100-continue receives an HTTP 417 response, it
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ought to be automatically resent without the Expect:. A workaround is for
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the client application to redo the transfer after disabling Expect:.
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https://curl.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0043.html
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2. TLS
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2.3 Unable to use PKCS12 certificate with Secure Transport
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5403
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2.4 Secure Transport will not import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
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libcurl calls SecPKCS12Import with the PKCS#12 client certificate, but that
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function rejects certificates that do not have a password.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1308
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2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
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When the specified client certificate does not match any of the
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server-specified DNs, the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends behave differently.
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The github discussion may contain a solution.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1411
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2.7 Client cert (MTLS) issues with Schannel
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3145
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2.8 Schannel disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and verify hostname
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This seems to be a limitation in the underlying Schannel API.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3284
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2.9 TLS session cache does not work with TFO
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4301
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2.11 Schannel TLS 1.2 handshake bug in old Windows versions
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In old versions of Windows such as 7 and 8.1 the Schannel TLS 1.2 handshake
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implementation likely has a bug that can rarely cause the key exchange to
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fail, resulting in error SEC_E_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL or SEC_E_MESSAGE_ALTERED.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5488
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2.12 FTPS with Schannel times out file list operation
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"Instead of the command completing, it just sits there until the timeout
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expires." - the same command line seems to work with other TLS backends and
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other operating systems. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5284.
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2.13 CURLOPT_CERTINFO results in CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY with Schannel
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8741
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2.15 Renegotiate from server may cause hang for OpenSSL backend
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A race condition has been observed when, immediately after the initial
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handshake, curl has sent an HTTP request to the server and at the same time
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the server has sent a TLS hello request (renegotiate) to curl. Both are
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waiting for the other to respond. OpenSSL is supposed to send a handshake
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response but does not.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6785
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https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/14722
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3. Email protocols
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3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
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IMAP "SEARCH ALL" truncates output on large boxes. "A quick search of the
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code reveals that pingpong.c contains some truncation code, at line 408, when
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it deems the server response to be too large truncating it to 40 characters"
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https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1366
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3.2 No disconnect command
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The disconnect commands (LOGOUT and QUIT) may not be sent by IMAP, POP3 and
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SMTP if a failure occurs during the authentication phase of a connection.
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3.3 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
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You have to tell libcurl not to expect a body, when dealing with one line
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response commands. Please see the POP3 examples and test cases which show
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this for the NOOP and DELE commands. https://curl.se/bug/?i=740
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3.4 AUTH PLAIN for SMTP is not working on all servers
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Specifying "--login-options AUTH=PLAIN" on the command line does not seem to
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work correctly.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4080
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4. Command line
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4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
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-J/--remote-header-name does not decode %-encoded file names. RFC6266 details
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how it should be done. The can of worm is basically that we have no charset
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handling in curl and ascii >=128 is a challenge for us. Not to mention that
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decoding also means that we need to check for nastiness that is attempted,
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like "../" sequences and the like. Probably everything to the left of any
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embedded slashes should be cut off.
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https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1294
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-O also does not decode %-encoded names, and while it has even less
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information about the charset involved the process is similar to the -J case.
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Note that we will not add decoding to -O without the user asking for it with
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some other means as well, since -O has always been documented to use the name
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exactly as specified in the URL.
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4.2 -J with -C - fails
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When using -J (with -O), automatically resumed downloading together with "-C
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-" fails. Without -J the same command line works. This happens because the
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resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its
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pre-transfer size) has been figured out.
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https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1169
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4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
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If using --retry and the transfer timeouts (possibly due to using -m or
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-y/-Y) the next attempt does not resume the transfer properly from what was
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downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the
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original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See
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https://curl.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report
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https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565
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5. Build and portability issues
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5.1 OS400 port requires deprecated IBM library
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curl for OS400 requires QADRT to build, which provides ASCII wrappers for
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libc/POSIX functions in the ILE, but IBM no longer supports or even offers
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this library to download.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5176
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5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
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"curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is
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run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config
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--cflags suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
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5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2905
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5.5 cannot handle Unicode arguments in non-Unicode builds on Windows
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If a URL or filename cannot be encoded using the user's current codepage then
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it can only be encoded properly in the Unicode character set. Windows uses
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UTF-16 encoding for Unicode and stores it in wide characters, however curl
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and libcurl are not equipped for that at the moment except when built with
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_UNICODE and UNICODE defined. And, except for Cygwin, Windows cannot use UTF-8
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as a locale.
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https://curl.se/bug/?i=345
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https://curl.se/bug/?i=731
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https://curl.se/bug/?i=3747
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5.6 make distclean loops forever
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Due to an issue (probably) in automake, "make distclean" can end up in a
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never-ending loop.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7716
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5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
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When the configure script checks for third-party libraries, it adds those
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directories to the LDFLAGS variable and then tries linking to see if it
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works. When successful, the found directory is kept in the LDFLAGS variable
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when the script continues to execute and do more tests and possibly check for
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more libraries.
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This can make subsequent checks for libraries wrongly detect another
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installation in a directory that was previously added to LDFLAGS by another
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library check.
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A possibly better way to do these checks would be to keep the pristine LDFLAGS
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even after successful checks and instead add those verified paths to a
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separate variable that only after all library checks have been performed gets
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appended to LDFLAGS.
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5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/864
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5.10 curl hangs on SMB upload over stdin
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7896
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5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
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... unless you also pass --with-gssapi-libs
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3841
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5.12 flaky Windows CI builds
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We run many CI builds for each commit and PR on github, and especially a
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number of the Windows builds are flaky. This means that we rarely get all CI
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builds go green and complete without errors. This is unfortunate as it makes
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us sometimes miss actual build problems and it is surprising to newcomers to
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the project who (rightfully) do not expect this.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6972
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5.13 long paths are not fully supported on Windows
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curl on Windows cannot access long paths (paths longer than 260 characters).
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However, as a workaround, the Windows path prefix \\?\ which disables all path
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interpretation may work to allow curl to access the path. For example:
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\\?\c:\longpath.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8361
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5.14 Windows Unicode builds use homedir in current locale
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The Windows Unicode builds of curl use the current locale, but expect Unicode
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UTF-8 encoded paths for internal use such as open, access and stat. The user's
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home directory is retrieved via curl_getenv in the current locale and not as
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UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7252 and
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https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7281
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6. Authentication
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6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
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NTLM authentication involving unicode user name or password only works
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properly if built with UNICODE defined together with the Schannel
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backend. The original problem was mentioned in:
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https://curl.se/mail/lib-2009-10/0024.html
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https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=896
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The Schannel version verified to work as mentioned in
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https://curl.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0073.html
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6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
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libcurl fails to build with MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) due to KfW's
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library header files exporting symbols/macros that should be kept private to
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the KfW library. See ticket #5601 at https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/
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6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
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NTLM authentication using SSPI (on Windows) when (lib)curl is running in
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"system context" will make it use wrong(?) user name - at least when compared
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to what winhttp does. See https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=535
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6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
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In order to get Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication to work in HTTP or Kerberos
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V5 in the email protocols, you need to provide a (fake) user name (this
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concerns both curl and the lib) because the code wrongly only considers
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authentication if there's a user name provided by setting
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conn->bits.user_passwd in url.c https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=440 How?
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https://curl.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html A possible solution is to
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either modify this variable to be set or introduce a variable such as
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new conn->bits.want_authentication which is set when any of the authentication
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options are set.
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6.5 NTLM does not support password with § character
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2120
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6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
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When connecting via a proxy using --proxy-any, a failure to establish an
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authentication will cause libcurl to abort trying other options if the
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failed method has a higher preference than the alternatives. As an example,
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--proxy-any against a proxy which advertise Negotiate and NTLM, but which
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fails to set up Kerberos authentication will not proceed to try authentication
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using NTLM.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/876
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6.7 Do not clear digest for single realm
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3267
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6.9 SHA-256 digest not supported in Windows SSPI builds
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Windows builds of curl that have SSPI enabled use the native Windows API calls
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to create authentication strings. The call to InitializeSecurityContext fails
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with SEC_E_QOP_NOT_SUPPORTED which causes curl to fail with CURLE_AUTH_ERROR.
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Microsoft does not document supported digest algorithms and that SEC_E error
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code is not a documented error for InitializeSecurityContext (digest).
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6302
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6.10 curl never completes Negotiate over HTTP
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Apparently it is not working correctly...?
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5235
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6.11 Negotiate on Windows fails
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When using --negotiate (or NTLM) with curl on Windows, SSL/TLS handshake
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fails despite having a valid kerberos ticket cached. Works without any issue
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in Unix/Linux.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5881
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6.12 cannot use Secure Transport with Crypto Token Kit
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7048
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6.13 Negotiate authentication against Hadoop HDFS
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8264
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7. FTP
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7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
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It seems sensible to be able to use CURLOPT_NOBODY and CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
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with FTP to detect if a file exists or not, but it is not working:
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https://curl.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0295.html
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7.4 FTP with ACCT
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When doing an operation over FTP that requires the ACCT command (but not when
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logging in), the operation will fail since libcurl does not detect this and
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thus fails to issue the correct command:
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https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=635
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7.5 ASCII FTP
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FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They do not convert the data
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accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1
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clearly describes how this should be done:
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The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to
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the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet
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specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard
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form to his own internal form.
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Since 7.15.4 at least line endings are converted.
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7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
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When doing FTP operations through a proxy at localhost, the reported spotted
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that curl only tried to connect once to the proxy, while it had multiple
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addresses and a failed connect on one address should make it try the next.
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After switching to passive mode (EPSV), curl should try all IP addresses for
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"localhost". Currently it tries ::1, but it should also try 127.0.0.1.
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1508
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7.10 FTPS needs session reuse
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When the control connection is reused for a subsequent transfer, some FTPS
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servers complain about "missing session reuse" for the data channel for the
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second transfer.
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4654
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7.11 FTPS upload data loss with TLS 1.3
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During FTPS upload curl does not attempt to read TLS handshake messages sent
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after the initial handshake. OpenSSL servers running TLS 1.3 may send such a
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message. When curl closes the upload connection if unread data has been
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received (such as a TLS handshake message) then the TCP protocol sends an
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RST to the server, which may cause the server to discard or truncate the
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upload if it has not read all sent data yet, and then return an error to curl
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on the control channel connection.
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Since 7.78.0 this is mostly fixed. curl will do a single read before closing
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TLS connections (which causes the TLS library to read handshake messages),
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however there is still possibility of an RST if more messages need to be read
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or a message arrives after the read but before close (network race condition).
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6149
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7.12 FTPS directory listing hangs on Windows with Schannel
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/9161
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9. SFTP and SCP
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9.1 SFTP does not do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
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When libcurl sends CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE commands when connected to a SFTP server
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|
using the multi interface, the commands are not being sent correctly and
|
|
instead the connection is "cancelled" (the operation is considered done)
|
|
prematurely. There is a half-baked (busy-looping) patch provided in the bug
|
|
report but it cannot be accepted as-is. See
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https://curl.se/bug/view.cgi?id=748
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9.2 wolfssh: publickey auth does not work
|
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|
|
When building curl to use the wolfSSH backend for SFTP, the publickey
|
|
authentication does not work. This is simply functionality not written for curl
|
|
yet, the necessary API for make this work is provided by wolfSSH.
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|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4820
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9.3 Remote recursive folder creation with SFTP
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|
On this servers, the curl fails to create directories on the remote server
|
|
even when the CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS option is set.
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|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5204
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|
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9.4 libssh blocking and infinite loop problem
|
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|
|
In the SSH_SFTP_INIT state for libssh, the ssh session working mode is set to
|
|
blocking mode. If the network is suddenly disconnected during sftp
|
|
transmission, curl will be stuck, even if curl is configured with a timeout.
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8632
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|
10. SOCKS
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|
10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
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|
|
libcurl does not support FTPS over a SOCKS proxy.
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|
11. Internals
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|
11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
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|
|
Curl sends DNS requests for hostnames with a .onion TLD. This leaks
|
|
information about what the user is attempting to access, and violates this
|
|
requirement of RFC7686: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686
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|
|
|
Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/543
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|
|
|
11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
|
|
|
|
If you ask libcurl to resolve a hostname like example.com to IPv6 addresses
|
|
only. But you only have IPv4 connectivity. libcurl will correctly fail with
|
|
CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT. But the error buffer set by CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
|
|
remains empty. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/544
|
|
|
|
11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
|
|
|
|
The 'connection-monitor' feature of the sws HTTP test server does not work
|
|
properly if some tests are run in unexpected order. Like 1509 and then 1525.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/868
|
|
|
|
11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
|
|
|
|
CURLINFO_LOCAL_PORT (and possibly a few other) fails when TCP Fast Open is
|
|
enabled.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1332 and
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4296
|
|
|
|
11.7 signal-based resolver timeouts
|
|
|
|
libcurl built without an asynchronous resolver library uses alarm() to time
|
|
out DNS lookups. When a timeout occurs, this causes libcurl to jump from the
|
|
signal handler back into the library with a sigsetjmp, which effectively
|
|
causes libcurl to continue running within the signal handler. This is
|
|
non-portable and could cause problems on some platforms. A discussion on the
|
|
problem is available at https://curl.se/mail/lib-2008-09/0197.html
|
|
|
|
Also, alarm() provides timeout resolution only to the nearest second. alarm
|
|
ought to be replaced by setitimer on systems that support it.
|
|
|
|
11.8 DoH leaks memory after followlocation
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4592
|
|
|
|
11.9 DoH does not inherit all transfer options
|
|
|
|
Some options are not inherited because they are not relevant for the DoH SSL
|
|
connections, or inheriting the option may result in unexpected behavior. For
|
|
example the user's debug function callback is not inherited because it would
|
|
be unexpected for internal handles (ie DoH handles) to be passed to that
|
|
callback.
|
|
|
|
If an option is not inherited then it is not possible to set it separately for
|
|
DoH without a DoH-specific option. For example: CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYHOST,
|
|
CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6605
|
|
|
|
11.10 Blocking socket operations in non-blocking API
|
|
|
|
The list of blocking socket operations is in TODO section "More non-blocking".
|
|
|
|
11.11 A shared connection cache is not thread-safe
|
|
|
|
The share interface offers CURL_LOCK_DATA_CONNECT to have multiple easy
|
|
handle share a connection cache, but due to how connections are used they are
|
|
still not thread-safe when used shared.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4915 and lib1541.c
|
|
|
|
11.15 CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETPAIRFUNCTION is missing
|
|
|
|
When libcurl creates sockets with socketpair(), those are not "exposed" in
|
|
CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION and therefore might surprise and be unknown to
|
|
applications that expect and want all sockets known beforehand. One way to
|
|
address this issue is to introduce a CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETPAIRFUNCTION callback.
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5747
|
|
|
|
11.16 libcurl uses renames instead of locking for atomic operations
|
|
|
|
For saving cookies, alt-svc and hsts files. This is bad when for example the
|
|
file is stored in a directory where the application has no write permission
|
|
but it has permission for the file.
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6882
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6884
|
|
|
|
12. LDAP
|
|
|
|
12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
|
|
|
|
By configuration defaults, OpenLDAP automatically chase referrals on
|
|
secondary socket descriptors. The OpenLDAP backend is asynchronous and thus
|
|
should monitor all socket descriptors involved. Currently, these secondary
|
|
descriptors are not monitored, causing OpenLDAP library to never receive
|
|
data from them.
|
|
|
|
As a temporary workaround, disable referrals chasing by configuration.
|
|
|
|
The fix is not easy: proper automatic referrals chasing requires a
|
|
synchronous bind callback and monitoring an arbitrary number of socket
|
|
descriptors for a single easy handle (currently limited to 5).
|
|
|
|
Generic LDAP is synchronous: OK.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/622 and
|
|
https://curl.se/mail/lib-2016-01/0101.html
|
|
|
|
12.2 LDAP on Windows does authentication wrong?
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3116
|
|
|
|
12.3 LDAP on Windows does not work
|
|
|
|
A simple curl command line getting "ldap://ldap.forumsys.com" returns an
|
|
error that says "no memory" !
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4261
|
|
|
|
12.4 LDAPS with NSS is slow
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5874
|
|
|
|
13. TCP/IP
|
|
|
|
13.2 Trying local ports fails on Windows
|
|
|
|
This makes '--local-port [range]' to not work since curl can't properly
|
|
detect if a port is already in use, so it'll try the first port, use that and
|
|
then subsequently fail anyway if that was actually in use.
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8112
|
|
|
|
15. CMake
|
|
|
|
15.1 use correct SONAME
|
|
|
|
The autotools build sets the SONAME properly according to VERSIONINFO in
|
|
lib/Makefile.am and so should cmake to make comparable build.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5935
|
|
|
|
15.2 support build with GnuTLS
|
|
|
|
15.3 unusable tool_hugehelp.c with MinGW
|
|
|
|
see https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3125
|
|
|
|
15.4 build docs/curl.1
|
|
|
|
The cmake build does not create the docs/curl.1 file and therefore must rely on
|
|
it being there already. This makes the --manual option not work and test
|
|
cases like 1139 cannot function.
|
|
|
|
15.5 build on Linux links libcurl to libdl
|
|
|
|
... which it should not need to!
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6165
|
|
|
|
15.6 uses -lpthread instead of Threads::Threads
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6166
|
|
|
|
15.7 generated .pc file contains strange entries
|
|
|
|
The Libs.private field of the generated .pc file contains -lgcc -lgcc_s -lc
|
|
-lgcc -lgcc_s
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6167
|
|
|
|
15.8 libcurl.pc uses absolute library paths
|
|
|
|
The libcurl.pc file generated by cmake contains things like Libs.private:
|
|
/usr/lib64/libssl.so /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so /usr/lib64/libz.so. The
|
|
autotools equivalent would say Libs.private: -lssl -lcrypto -lz
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6169
|
|
|
|
15.9 cert paths autodetected when cross-compiling
|
|
|
|
The autotools build disables the ca_path/ca_bundle detection when
|
|
cross-compiling. The cmake build keeps doing the detection.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6178
|
|
|
|
15.10 libpsl is not supported
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6214
|
|
|
|
15.11 ExternalProject_Add does not set CURL_CA_PATH
|
|
|
|
CURL_CA_BUNDLE and CURL_CA_PATH are not set properly when cmake's
|
|
ExternalProject_Add is used to build curl as a dependency.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6313
|
|
|
|
15.12 cannot enable LDAPS on Windows
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6284
|
|
|
|
15.13 CMake build with MIT Kerberos does not work
|
|
|
|
Minimum CMake version was bumped in curl 7.71.0 (#5358) Since CMake 3.2
|
|
try_compile started respecting the CMAKE_EXE_FLAGS. The code dealing with
|
|
MIT Kerberos detection sets few variables to potentially weird mix of space,
|
|
and ;-separated flags. It had to blow up at some point. All the CMake checks
|
|
that involve compilation are doomed from that point, the configured tree
|
|
cannot be built.
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6904
|
|
|
|
16. Applications
|
|
|
|
17. HTTP/2
|
|
|
|
17.1 Excessive HTTP/2 packets with TCP_NODELAY
|
|
|
|
Because of how curl sets TCP_NODELAY by default, HTTP/2 requests are issued
|
|
using more separate TCP packets than it would otherwise need to use. This
|
|
means spending more bytes than it has to. Just disabling TCP_NODELAY for
|
|
HTTP/2 is also not the correct fix because that then makes the outgoing
|
|
packets to get delayed.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6363
|
|
|
|
17.2 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
|
|
|
|
If the server sends HTTP/2 frames (like for example an HTTP/2 PING frame) to
|
|
curl while the connection is held in curl's connection pool, the socket will
|
|
be found readable when considered for reuse and that makes curl think it is
|
|
dead and then it will be closed and a new connection gets created instead.
|
|
|
|
This is *best* fixed by adding monitoring to connections while they are kept
|
|
in the pool so that pings can be responded to appropriately.
|
|
|
|
17.3 ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM causes infinite retries
|
|
|
|
Infinite retries with 2 parallel requests on one connection receiving GOAWAY
|
|
with ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM error code.
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5119
|
|
|
|
17.4 Connection failures with parallel HTTP/2
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5611
|
|
|
|
17.5 HTTP/2 connections through HTTPS proxy frequently stall
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6936
|
|
|
|
18. HTTP/3
|
|
|
|
18.1 If the HTTP/3 server closes connection during upload curl hangs
|
|
|
|
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6606
|
|
|
|
18.2 Transfer closed with n bytes remaining to read
|
|
|
|
HTTP/3 transfers with the Jetty HTTP/3 server seem to not work.
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8523
|
|
|
|
18.4 timeout when reusing an http3 connection
|
|
|
|
HTTP/3 with quiche seems to not work and always timeout a subsequent transfer
|
|
that reuses an already established connection
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8764
|
|
|
|
18.9 connection migration does not work
|
|
|
|
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7695
|