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+Daniel (27 Dec 2002)
+- Philippe Raoult reported a bug with HTTPS connections which I evidently
+  added in my 19 dec fix. I corrected it.
+
+Daniel (20 Dec)
+- Idea from the Debian latest patch: use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in the configure
+  script to make the default makefile less confusing "to the casual
+  installer".
+
+Version 7.10.3-pre3 (20 Dec)
+
+Daniel (19 Dec)
+- Matthew Blain patched the Curl_base64_decode() function.
+
+- Evan Jordan reported in bug report #653022 that the SSL_read() usage was
+  wrong, and it certainly was. It could lead to curl using too much CPU due to
+  a stupid loop.
+
+Daniel (18 Dec)
+- As suggested by Margus Freudenthal, CURLE_HTTP_NOT_FOUND was renamed to
+  CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR since it is returned on any >= 400 code when
+  CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is set.
+
+Daniel (17 Dec)
+- Bug reported #651464, reported by Christopher Palmer, provided an example
+  source code using the multi interface that hang when trying to connect to a
+  proxy on a localhost port where no proxy was listening. This bug was not
+  repeatable on libcurls that were IPv6-enabled.
+
+Daniel (16 Dec)
+- Christopher Palmer also noticed what Vojtech Janota already was
+  experiencing: The attempted name resolve fix for glibc 2.2.93 caused libcurl
+  to crash when used on some older glibc versions. The problem is of course
+  the silliness of the 2.2.93. I committed a fix that hopefully should make
+  the binary run fine on either one of the versions, even though the solution
+  is not as nice as I'd like it to be.
+
+Daniel (13 Dec)
+- Bug report #651460 by Christopher R. Palmer showed that when using libcurl
+  to for example go over a proxy on localhost, it would attempt to connect
+  through the proxy TWICE.
+
+  I added test case 503 with which I managed to repeat this problem and I
+  fixed the code to not re-attempt any connects (which also made it a nicer
+  fix for the #650941 bug mentioned below).
+
+  The sws server was extended to deal with CONNECT in order to make test
+  case 503 do good.
+
+- Evan Jordan posted bug report #650989 about a memory leak in the public key
+  retrieving code. He provided a suggested fix and I merely applied it!
+
+- Bug report #650941, posted by Christopher R. Palmer identified a problem
+  with the multi interface and getting file:// URLs. This was now fixed and
+  test case 502 was added to verify this.
+
+Daniel (12 Dec)
+- Test case 500 and 501 are the first ever libcurl test cases that run.
+
+- Made "configure --enable-debug" cut off all -O* options to the compiler
+
+- Finally fixed the test suite's ftp server so that test case 402 doesn't
+  cause the following test case to fail anymore!
+
+Daniel (11 Dec)
+- CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is now decreased to 16KB since it makes the Windows
+  version perform uploads much faster!!! RBramante did lots of research on
+  this topic.
+
+- Fixed the #include in curl/curl.h to include the other files outside the
+  extern "C" scope.
+
+Daniel (10 Dec)
+- Moved around and added more logic:
+
+  First, POST data is never sent as part of the request headers in the http.c
+  code. It is always sent the "normal" read callback then send() way. This now
+  enables a plain HTTP POST to be sent chunked if we want to. This also
+  reduces the risk of having very big POSTs causing problems.
+
+  Further, sending off the initial HTTP request is not done using a loop
+  anymore. If it wasn't all sent off in the first send(), the rest of the
+  request is sent off in the normal transfer select() loop. This makes several
+  things possible, but mainly it makes libcurl block less when used from the
+  multi interface and it also reduces the risk of problems with issuing very
+  large requests.
+
+Daniel (9 Dec)
+- Moved the read callback pointer and data within the structs to a more
+  suitable place. This in preparation for a better HTTP-request sending code
+  without (a silly) loop.
+
+- The Dodds fix seems not to work.
+
+- Vojtech Janota tests proved that the resolve fix from oct 21st is not good
+  enough since obviously older glibcs might return EAGAIN without this meaning
+  that the buffer was too small.
+
+- [the other day] Made libcurl loop on recv() and send() now until done, and
+  then get back to select(). Previously it went back to select() more often
+  which really was a slight overhead. This was due to the reported performance
+  problems on HTTP PUT on Windows. I couldn't see any notable difference on
+  Linux...
+
+Version 7.10.3-pre2 (4 Dec 2002)
+
+Daniel (4 Dec 2002)
+- Lots of work with Malcolm Dodds made me add a temporary code fix that now
+  shortens the timeout waiting for the 226 or 250 line after a completed
+  FTP transfer.
+
+  If no data is received within 60 seconds, this is taken as a sign of a dead
+  control connection and we bail out.
+
+Daniel (3 Dec 2002)
+- Ralph's bug report #644841 identified a problem in which curl returned a
+  timeout error code when in fact the problem was not a timeout. The proper
+  error should now be propagated better when they're detected in the FTP
+  response reading function.
+
+- Updated the Borland Makefiles.
+
+Daniel (2 Dec 2002)
+- Nicolas Berloquin provided a patch that introduced --create-dirs to the
+  command line tool. When used in combination with -o, it lets curl create
+  [non-existing] directories used in -o, suitably used with #-combinations
+  such as:
+
+     curl "www.images.com/{flowers,cities,parks,mountains}/pic_[1-100].jpg \
+       -o "dir_#1/pic#2.jpg" --create-dirs
+
+Version 7.10.3-pre1
+
+Daniel (28 Nov 2002)
+- I visited Lars Nordgren and had a go with his problem, which lead me to
+  implement this fix. If libcurl detects the added custom header
+  "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", it will now enable a chunked transfer.
+
+  Also, chunked transfer didn't quite work before but seems to do so now.
+
+- Kjetil Jacobsen pointed out that ./configure --disable-ipv6 --without-zlib
+  didn't work on any platform...
+
+Daniel (26 Nov 2002)
+- Fixed a bad addrinfo free in the hostip.c code, hardly exposed anywhere
+
+- Dan Becker found and fixed a minor memory leak on persistent connnections
+  using CURLOPT_USERPWD.
+
+Daniel (22 Nov 2002)
+- Based on Ralph Mitchell's excellent analysis I found a bug in the test suite
+  web server (sws) which now lets test case 306 run fine even in combination
+  with the other test cases.
+
+- Juan Ignacio Hervás found a crash in the verbose connect message that is
+  used on persistent connections. This bug was added in 7.10.2 due to the
+  rearranged name resolve code.
+
+Daniel (20 Nov 2002)
+- Kjetil Jacobsen provided a patch that introduces:
+
+   CURLOPT_PRIVATE stores a private pointer in the curl handle.
+
+   CURLINFO_PRIVATE retrieves the private pointer from the curl handle.
+
+- Karol Pietrzak pointed out how curl-config --cflags didn't output a good
+  include dir so I've removed that for now.
+
+Version 7.10.2 (18 Nov 2002)
+
+Daniel (11 Nov 2002)
+- Dave Halbakken added curl_version_info to lib/libcurl.def to make libcurl
+  properly build with MSVC on Windows.
+
+Daniel (8 Nov 2002)
+- Doing HTTP PUT without a specified file size now makes libcurl use
+  Transfer-Encoding: chunked.
+
+Daniel (7 Nov 2002)
+- Bug report #634625 identified how curl returned timeout immediately when
+  CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT was used and provided a fix.
+
+Version 7.10.2-pre4 (6 Nov 2002)
+
+Daniel (5 Nov 2002)
+- Lehel Bernadt found out and fixed. libcurl sent error message to the debug
+  output when it stored the error message.
+
+- Avery Fay found some problems with the DNS cache (when the cache time was
+  set to 0 we got a memory leak, but when the leak was fixed he got a crash
+  when he used the CURLOPT_INTERFACE with that) that had me do some real
+  restructuring so that we now have a reference counter in the dns cache
+  entries to prevent an entry to get flushed while still actually in use.
+
+  I also detected that we previously didn't update the time stamp when we
+  extracted an entry from the cache so that must've been a reason for some
+  very weird dns cache bugs.
+
+Version 7.10.2-pre3
+
+Daniel (31 Oct 2002)
+- Downgraded automake to 1.6.3 in an attempt to fix cygwin problems. (It
+  turned out this didn't help though.)
+
+- Disable the DNS cache (by setting the timeout to 0) made libcurl leak
+  memory. Avery Fay brought the example code that proved this.
+
+Version 7.10.2-pre2
+
+Daniel (28 Oct 2002)
+- Upgraded to autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7 on the release-build host.
+
+- Kevin Roth made the command line tool check for a CURL_CA_BUNDLE environment
+  variable (if --cacert isn't used) and if not set, the Windows version will
+  check for a file named "curl-ca-bundle.crt" in the current directory or the
+  directory where curl is located. That file is then used as CA root cert
+  bundle.
+
+- Avery Fay pointed out that curl's configure scrip didn't get right if you
+  used autoconf newer than 2.52. This was due to some badly quoted code.
+
+Version 7.10.2-pre1
+
+Daniel (23 Oct 2002)
+- Emiliano Ida confirmed that we now build properly with the Borland C++
+  compiler too. We needed yet another fix for the ISO cpp check in the curl.h
+  header file.
+
+- Yet another fix was needed to get the HTTP download without headers to work.
+  This time it was needed if the first "believed header" was read all in the
+  first read. Test 306 has not run properly since the 11th october fix.
+
+Daniel (21 Oct 2002)
+- Zvi Har'El pointed out a problem with curl's name resolving on Redhat 8
+  machines (running IPv6 disabled). Mats Lidell let me use an account on his
+  machine and I could verify that gethostbyname_r() has been changed to return
+  EAGAIN instead of ERANGE when the given buffer size is too small. This is
+  glibc 2.2.93.
+
+- Albert Chin helped me get the -no-undefined option corrected in
+  lib/Makefile.am since Cygwin builds want it there while Solaris builds don't
+  want it present. Kevin Roth helped me try it out on cygwin.
+  
+- Nikita Schmidt provided a bug fix for a FOLLOWLOCATION bug introduced when
+  the ../ support got in (7.10.1).
+
+Daniel (18 Oct 2002)
+- Fabrizio Ammollo pointed out a remaining problem with FOLLOWLOCATION in
+  the multi interface.
+
+Daniel (17 Oct 2002)
+- Richard Cooper's experimenting proved that -j (CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION) didn't
+  work quite as supposed. You needed to set it *before* you use
+  CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, and we dont' want that kind of dependencies.
+
+Daniel (15 Oct 2002)
+- Andrés García provided corrections for erratas in four libcurl man pages.
+
+Daniel (13 Oct 2002)
+- Starting now, we generate and include PDF versions of all the docs in the
+  release archives.
+
+Daniel (12 Oct 2002)
+- Trying to connect to a host on a bad port number caused the multi interface
+  to never return failure and it appeared to keep on trying forever (it just
+  didn't do anything).
+
+Daniel (11 Oct 2002)
+- Downloading HTTP without headers didn't work 100%, some of the initial data
+  got written twice. Kevin Roth reported.
+
+- Kevin Roth found out the "config file" parser in the client code could
+  segfault, like if DOS newlines were used.
+
+Version 7.10.1 (11 Oct 2002)
+
+Daniel (10 Oct 2002)
+- Jeff Lawson fixed a few problems with connection re-use that remained when
+  you set CURLOPT_PROXY to "".
+
+Daniel (9 Oct 2002)
+- Craig Davison found a terrible flaw and Cris Bailiff helped out in the
+  search. Getting HTTP data from servers when the headers are split up in
+  multiple reads, could cause junk data to get inserted among the saved
+  headers. This only concerns HTTP(S) headers.
+
+Daniel (8 Oct 2002)
+- Vincent Penquerc'h gave us the good suggestion that when the ERRRORBUFFER
+  is set internally, the error text is sent to the debug function as well.
+
+- I fixed the telnet code to timeout properly as the option tells it to. On
+  non-windows platforms.
+
+Daniel (7 Oct 2002)
+- John Crow pointed out that libcurl-the-guide wasn't included in the release
+  tarball!
+
+- Kevin Roth pointed out that make install didn't do right if build outside
+  the source tree (ca-bundle wise).
+
+- FOLLOWLOCATION bugfix for the multi interface
+
+Daniel (4 Oct 2002)
+- Kevin Roth got problems with his cygwin build with -no-undefined was not
+  present in lib/Makefile.am so I put it back in there again. The poor one who
+  needs to remove it again must write a configure script to detect that need.
+
+- Ralph Mitchell pointed out that curl was a bit naive and didn't deal with ./
+  or ../ stuff in the string passed back in a Location: header when following
+  locations.
+
+- Albert Chin helped me to work out a better configure.in check for zlib, and
+  both --without-zlib and -with-zlib seem to work rather well right now.
+
+- Zvi Har'El improvied the OpenSSL ENGINE check in the configure script to
+  become more accurate.
+
+Daniel (1 Oct 2002)
+- Detlef Schmier pointed out the lack of a --without-libz option to configure,
+  so I added one.
+
+Version 7.10 (1 Oct 2002)
+
+Daniel (30 Sep 2002)
+- Modified the curl_version_info() proto and returned struct once again, and
+  updated the man page accordingly.
+
+- Cris Bailiff found out that the pre-releases crashed on name lookups on
+  names such as "a:" or "baz:" (on Linux versions not being ipv6-enabled) due
+  to some weird return codes from gethostbyname_r(). I'll blame the complete
+  lack of docs in that department. Cris provided a fix, which I modified only
+  slightly.
+
+Daniel (27 Sep 2002)
+- After a suggestion from Christian Kurz to Debian curl package maintainer
+  Domenico Andreoli, I made it possible to override the proxy environment
+  variables better. Now, by setting -x "" you can explicitly tell libcurl to
+  not use a proxy, no matter whan the environment variables say.
+
+Version 7.10-pre4
+
+Daniel (26 Sep 2002)
+- Extended curl_version_info() more and wrote a man page for it.
+
+Daniel (25 Sep 2002)
+- libcurl could leak memory when downloading multiple files using http ranges,
+  reported and fixed by Jean-Luc Guevel.
+
+- Walter J. Mack provided code and docs for the new curl_free() function that
+  shall be used to free memory that is allocated by libcurl and returned back
+  to the application, as curl_escape() and curl_unescape() do.
+
+- Yarram Sunil pointed out a flaw in the multi interface where a failed
+  connection didn't close down properly and thus a second transfer using the
+  same handle failed.
+
+- Andrés García fixed a flaw that made (among other things) dict-fetches
+  return a random value.
+
+Daniel (24 Sep 2002)
+- Wez Furlong brought his initial patch that introduced curl_version_info().
+  We might need to tweak it somewhat before release.
+
+Daniel (20 Sep 2002)
+- Craig Markwardt fixed another Tru64 IP resolve problem.
+
+Daniel (19 Sep 2002)
+- Dolbneff A.V and Spiridonoff A.V made the file:// code work with resumes
+  in the same style other code does.
+
+- Ilguiz Latypov fixed a flaw in the client code when fetching multiple URLs
+  and -C - was used. The first file's resume position was then accidentally
+  reused on all the other files too.
+
+Daniel (18 Sep 2002)
+- The curl_easy_setopt.3 man page was greatly modified and the options have
+  now been grouped in logical groups so that it should be somewhat easier to
+  read it and find things you search for.
+
+Daniel (13 Sep 2002)
+- Kevin Roth pinpointed a scary flaw in libcurl, when the HTTP server doesn't
+  send any headers back, only raw content. Right, that is a violation of the
+  standard but still happens at times and we need to deal with it. Test case
+  306 was added to verify that we do right now.
+
+Version 7.10-pre3
+
+Daniel (11 Sep 2002)
+- Lukasz Czekierda found out that curl didn't send a correct HTTP Host: header
+  when you specified the URL with an IPv6 IP-address.
+
+Daniel (4 Sep 2002)
+- Sven Neuhaus made --silent being acknowledged even when multiple URLs
+  were used. It used to output "[1/2]: http://host/a.html.de --> a.html.d" etc
+  even when told to shut up.
+
+Daniel (3 Sep 2002)
+- Updated all source code headers to use MIT-license references only, and
+  point to the COPYING file and the http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html
+  URL. I've cut out all references to MPL that I could find.
+
+- Corected the makefiles to not always use -lz when linking
+
+Version 7.10-pre2
+
+Daniel (2 Sep 2002)
+- James Gallagher added Content-Encoding support to libcurl so now curl and
+  libcurl-using apps can request compressed contents using the 'deflate'
+  method. See the special file lib/README.encoding for details.
+
+  curl --compressed is now used to request compressed contents.
+
+  curl-config --feature will include 'libz' if this feature was around when
+  the library was built.
+
+Daniel (30 Aug 2002)
+- Applied an anonymous SOCKS5-proxy patch. Not properly working in all
+  situations though, as all getaddrinfo()-using libcurls will fail on this.
+  This is because of the somewhat naive way the current code tries to extract
+  the IP address of the proxy.
+
+- Fixed up the SSL cert fixes from the other day even more after more inputs
+  from Cris. Added three new SSL error codes to make the
+  CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR slightly less overloaded.
+
+Daniel (27 Aug 2002)
+- After lots of talk with Tom Zerucha, Nick Gimbrone and Cris Bailiff I
+  decided to talk the bold path and I now made libcurl do CA certificate
+  verification by default. Thus library users need to explicitly turn this off
+  if you want to connect to sites without proper checking. We also install a
+  CA cert bundle on 'make install' now.
+
+  The curl tool now requires the -k/--insecure option in order to allow
+  connections and operations on SSL sites that aren't properly verified with
+  -cafile or --capath.
+
+  curl-config --ca displays the built-in path to the CA cert bundle.
+
+Daniel (26 Aug 2002)
+- Andrew Francis cleaned up some code that now compiles fine without the need
+  for ugly MSVC pragmas.
+
+- Keith MacDonald found a minor bug in src/main.c that made it close stdin
+  instead of the actual file handle. It shouldn't have resulted in much
+  trouble as most operating systems close all file handles on process exit
+  anyway.
+
+Daniel (22 Aug 2002)
+- Markus Oberhumer provided some documentation for his previously provided
+  CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL fix.
+
+- Patched the lib/Makefile.am to hopefully no longer complain on undefined
+  symbols that seemed to occur on builds with shared OpenSSL libraries on
+  Solaris lately...
+
+Daniel (20 Aug 2002)
+- Fixed compiler warnings on MSCV++ compiles. We're looking for help here:
+  remove the pragmas from lib/config-win32.h and adjust the sources where
+  the warnings occur. Hiding them with pragmas like this is not the correct
+  way of dealing with compiler warnings.
+
+Daniel (13 Aug 2002)
+- Ulrich Zadow made the global include files in curl/* include themselves
+  using "curl.h" instead of <curl/curl.h> which thus allows people to more
+  freely decide how to include curl and how to setup their include paths.
+
+- Sterling Hughes added the curl_share* interface, somewhat as discussed
+  previously.
+
+- Jörn Hartroth pointed out that poll() was used in the pre1 source code and
+  it isn't very portable, so now I check for it in the configure script and
+  work around it.
+
+Version 7.9.9-pre1
+
+Daniel (12 Aug 2002)
+- Applied my initial take on making the multi stuff more asynchronous. Connects
+  should now return back without "hanging" until it has connected for real.
+  This should also be the case for FTP-PASV connects.
+
+Daniel (9 Aug 2002)
+- Applied Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer's patch that introduces CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL,
+  which effectively prevents libcurl from doing anything that may cause
+  signals to get sent. This is basicly for multi-threaded applications that
+  now can use timeouts properly, without risking any signals to burst in and
+  ruin the party.
+  
+Daniel (5 Aug 2002)
+- Lukasz Czekierda reported that RFC2732-style literal IPv6 addresses didn't
+  work. When did that code vanish? Anyway, it's back again now and seems to
+  work!
+
+- Jonatan Lander found out that POSTing an empty string didn't work with the
+  command line tool.
+
+Daniel (3 Aug 2002)
+- Jörn Hartroth fixed the libcurl.def file to build the windows DLL with
+  the multi interface enabled.
+
+Daniel (1 Aug 2002)
+- The ftp PORT command now uses a better default IP address, as it will
+  extract and use the local IP address used by the control connection.
+
+- Modified the #include lines in curl/multi.h to work better on more
+  platforms.
+
+Daniel (31 Jul 2002)
+- Attempted a fix for Ray DeGennaro's reported HP-UX host name resolve
+  problems.
+
+Daniel (30 Jul 2002)
+- Priya Ramakrishnan and Ryan Jones compiles curl/curl.h with a C++ compiler
+  and don't get __STDC__ defined, which required us to extend the preprocessor
+  check for the ## operator usage.
+
+- Correct the description for CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION, if set to NULL the
+  internal default function will be put back.
+
+- danfuzz at milk.com found out that libcurl badly assumed a space after
+  'Set-Cookie:' so if it wasn't present, it caused the first letter of the
+  cookie name to fall off!
+
+Daniel (29 Jul 2002)
+- The password prompt asking for user password used stdout and now uses
+  stderr instead to better allow redirecting. It also leaked a fopen() file
+  handle that is now fixed.
+
+Daniel (28 Jul 2002)
+- HAVE_SETVBUF was left out from src/main.c which made -N not work. Found out
+  by M T.
+
+Daniel (26 Jun 2002)
+- Glen Nakamura solved a crash in the name resolving function for IP-only
+  addresses on Alpha Linux (at least).
+
+- T. Bharath corrected the high resolution timer introduced in 7.9.8.
+
+Daniel (22 Jun 2002)
+- Andrés García pointed out man page errors in curl_formadd.3. I fixed.
+
+Daniel (19 Jun 2002)
+- Chris Combes pointed out a flaw in curl_escape(). I fixed. We no longer
+  tries to generate nor parse '+' in URLs. Spaces become %20, and only %-codes
+  are translated by curl_unescape().
+
+Daniel (15 Jun 2002)
+- Added --limit-rate to the curl tool. Allows the user to set a maxmimum
+  upper limit to how much bandwidth to use for transfers.
+
+- CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE was added to libcurl. This sets a prefered size for the
+  receive buffer in libcurl. The main point of this would be that the write
+  callback gets called more often and with smaller chunks.
+
+Daniel (14 Jun 2002)
+- Yarram Sunil found out that the SocketIsDead() function performed a lot
+  faster on Windows when removing the 1 microsecond timeout.
+
+- Hanno L. Kranzhoff fixed the VC++ project files.
+
+- Tom Mattison found out that ftp transfers closed the connection a little
+  too often.
+
+- Miklos Nemeth posted a VC++ makefile fix and some INSTALL comments on how
+  to disable specific protocols when building for Windows.
+
+Version 7.9.8
+
+Daniel (13 Jun 2002)
+- Time to let this baby go.
+
+Daniel (12 Jun 2002)
+- Chris Combes added three new options for curl_formadd(): CURLFORM_BUFFER,
+  CURLFORM_BUFFERPTR, CURLFORM_BUFFERLENGTH.  They are used to create a
+  multipart that appears as a regular file upload, but the data is provided
+  with a pointer and length.
+  
+- Nico Baggus made the VMS version use sigsetjmp() too.
+
+- Jörn Hartroth fixed the mingw32 build using the mm lib.
+
+- Applied patches by Kris Kennaway that correct format string problems in
+  lib/ftp.c and lib/ldap.c.
+
+Version 7.9.8-pre3
+
+Daniel (11 Jun 2002)
+- James Cone brought the idea of using sigsetjmp() in the signal handler to
+  make the time-out of name lookups to work, even when the underlying name
+  resolver library traps EINTR. The use of sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() for
+  this may be a bit drastic, and also not likely to exist on all platforms.  I
+  added careful checking for this in the configure script, even checks for it
+  being a macro (which seems to be the case in for example Linux).
+
+  sigsetjmp() seems to be mentioned in the Single Unix specification.
+
+- Miklos Nemeth brought a patch that allows libcurl to get built with specific
+  protocols disabled. This is done by running ./configure
+  --disable-[protocol].
+
+- FTP range downloads could make CURLE_FTP_WRITE_ERROR get returned. We now
+  make precautions to not return this for range downloads.
+
+  Added test case 135 that makes an ftp range download. Had to tweak the
+  runtests.pl script a bit too.
+
+- Bug report #566835 identified a strlen() on a NULL pointer. Added additional
+  check to prevent this.
+
+Daniel (10 Jun 2002)
+- Found and corrected a connect failure problem that didn't create a human
+  error text.
+
+- Added code to compile with OpenSSL 0.9.7. Based on patch from Jacob Meuser
+  and comments from Götz Babin-Ebell.
+
+- Gautam Mani found a socket descriptor leak that happened when FTP transfers
+  failed and you reinvoked curl_easy_perform().
+
+Daniel (5 Jun 2002)
+- Gustaf Hui corrected curl_multi_remove_handle() so that it won't crash no
+  matter when you decide to remove the CURL handle.
+
+- HAVE_RAND_STATUS was added to lib/config-win32.h by Andreas Olsson, as it
+  makes windows builds stop complaining about "weak seeding" when it in fact
+  isn't.
+
+- Another 64bit architecture crash that was introduced in 7.9.7 was now
+  removed, as bug report #564585 clarified. This happened due to our attempts
+  to only allocate only as much memory as is actually needed for name
+  resolving (using realloc) which called for a function that could 'move' a
+  hostent struct in memory.
+
+Version 7.9.8-pre2
+
+Daniel (3 Jun 2002)
+- T. Bharath fixed the CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME to return a correct time and
+  made the CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE return the correct total request size. He
+  also made the win32 timers use higher resolution than before.
+
+Daniel (29 May 2002)
+- Renaud Chaillat made me aware of the fact that libcurl returned an error if
+  you tried to get an empty FTP file. This seemed like a wrong thing to do, so
+  now it no longer does that! I just hope that no one built anything fancy
+  upon this unexpected behavior...
+
+Daniel (28 May 2002)
+- Cris Bailiff brought CURLOPT_CAPATH that works like CURLOPT_CAINFO but
+  specifies a path to a directory with certificates rather than a single file
+  with them all concatenated. --capath was added to the command line tool
+  for the same function.
+
+  Windows users need to pay attention that the directory should be setup with
+  the c_rehash tool of the OpenSSL package, and that creates symlinks by
+  default that need to be replaced with actual copies to work on Windows.
+
+- Gustaf Hui provided new code that changes how curl_multi_info_read()
+  messages are stored, so that they don't have to be kept around for the multi
+  handle's entire life time. He also made it return failure codes properly
+  which it didn't do before.
+
+Daniel (27 May 2002)
+- Gustaf Hui pointed out that running curl_multi_perform() without doing
+  curl_multi_fdset() first was not really a working combo. I added an internal
+  check for this and have some extra select() code without timeout to make the
+  library internals work identically nevertheless. We might need to somehow
+  either document that once you've used the *_fdset() you should remain using
+  them in select() or you should blank them somehow so that libcurl won't go
+  crazy.
+
+Version 7.9.8-pre1
+
+Daniel (22 May 2002)
+- James Cone brought an excellent patch, including several tests and docs!
+  CURLOPT_NETRC now takes an enum as argument instead of the previous boolean.
+  --netrc-optional was introduced as an addition to --netrc to allow the
+  command line client to take use of all that new netrc stuff.
+
+- Bug report #558888 showed a case where libcurl re-used the previous host
+  name when a connection over a proxy was re-used but to a different target
+  host.
+
+Daniel (21 May 2002)
+- Edin Kadribasic helped me sort out a problem to made libcurl crash when
+  trying to HTTP POST an empty string.
+
+- Clarified that Juergen Wilke donated the original tests/server/sws.c code.
+
+- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre made curl_formadd() return a typedef named
+  CURLFORMcode instead of the previous 'int', and the various return codes are
+  now globally exported. It allows applications to better figure out what goes
+  wrong when curl_formadd() returns errors.
+
+Daniel (20 May 2002)
+- Roland Zimmermann pointed out that SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file()
+  is prefered to SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file().
+
+Daniel (17 May 2002)
+- Bug report #556869 pointed out that src/writeout.c didn't compile on freebsd
+  after my AIX fixes the other week.
+
+- Bug report #556930 pointed out a FreeBSD core dump introduced in 7.9.7 in
+  the DNS struct realloc stuff. Actually, this crash could happen on all
+  systems that made the pack_hostent() function get invoked.
+
+- I removed several compiler warnings in the test suite's HTTP server.
+
+Version 7.9.7
+
+Daniel (10 May 2002)
+- Kevin Roth adjusted the --trace-ascii output slightly.
+
+- Paul Harrington found out that src/writeout.c needed an additional header
+  file included for AIX builds
+
+Version 7.9.7-pre2
+
+Daniel (7 May 2002)
+- Updated the man page with --trace-ascii and -j/--junk-session-cookies.
+
+- Made --trace-ascii do pretty much the same as --trace but without the hex
+  part in the output.
+
+- Added CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION that when enabled makes libcurl ignore session
+  cookies read from a file. This option is enforced by the curl command line
+  tool using the new -j/--junk-session-cookies option. After discussions with
+  Kevin Roth. This makes it easier to use curl to fully emulate a browser's
+  behavior, even when it comes to "session cookies". Session cookies are
+  cookies that a normal browser discards when the browser is shut
+  down. They're identified by not having any expire date/time.
+
+- When CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA was set, it ruined the CURLOPT_STDERR setting and
+  this was discovered when --trace was made to crash.
+
+- Using -v and --trace at the same time confused matters. -v is now pretty
+  much ignored when --trace or --trace-ascii is used.
+
+- Made --trace (and --trace-ascii) support - as file name to pass output to
+  stdout instead. It makes it consistent with how other options work.
+
+Version 7.9.7-pre1
+
+Daniel (6 May 2002)
+- Added multi-post.c to the examples directory. I got the basic source for
+  this from Gustaf Hui.
+
+Daniel (3 May 2002)
+- CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is now an exported #define in the curl/curl.h header and
+  can be used to figure out the maximum buffer size your write callback can
+  get.
+
+- CURLOPT_READDATA is now an alias for CURLOPT_INFILE and CURLOPT_WRITEDATE is
+  an alias for CURLOPT_FILE. These two were added for conformity. Most other
+  callback function's userdata are provided with options using a similar name-
+  scheme.
+
+- Added "--trace [file]" to the command line tool. It makes a very detailed
+  trace dump get stored, with a full protocol dump that includes all received
+  and transmitted data. This could be a very effective tool for debugging what
+  goes wrong. This dump includes every byte the way it is sent to/received
+  from the server. The dump is the plain-text version, so SSL transfers will
+  still be readable.
+
+- I found out that the DEBUGFUNCTION was not called properly everywhere as we
+  wanted it to. I fixed it.
+
+- -D now stores all headers to the same file if multiple URLs are given on the
+  command line! Kevin Roth made me aware of that it didn't already do this!
+
+- Gustaf Hui wrote an excellent formpost example that used the multi
+  interface.  Unfortunately, it didn't work due to several bugs in how
+  transfers were made when the multi interface was used.
+
+Daniel (2 May 2002)
+- Hanno Kranzhoff found out that when doing multiple transfers on the same
+  easy handle, the progress meter would show a bad "currently downloaded
+  value" when the transfer starts.
+
+Daniel (1 May 2002)
+- Applied another patch by Jacky Lam to make the name resolve info realloc()
+  stuff work properly.
+
+Daniel (28 April 2002)
+- curl_multi_info_read() is now implemented!
+
+Daniel (27 April 2002)
+- Updated BUGS, TODO, FAQ, INSTALL and added BINDINGS.
+
+- I think I fixed the DNS cache prune crach Jacky Lam found and reported.
+
+- I cleaned up the name prefix stuff in the hash and llist modules.
+
+- FTP responses should now be better on timing out properly. The timeout value
+  is maximum timeout for the entire request operation, but before this, the
+  timeout was used as a maximum allowed time between two reads...
+
+Daniel (26 April 2002)
+- Fixed the test suite http server to not use snprintf() anymore due to better
+  portability.
+
+Daniel (25 April 2002)
+- With Sterling Hughes' new DNS pruning, Jacky Lam asked if this wouldn't
+  cause problems since the pruning is only checking the entry time, and it
+  sure could cause problems. Therefor, I've now added and changed code so that
+  this should not be a problem. Nowhere in the code will be store name
+  resolved information around so that a sunsequent DNS cache prune should
+  cause a problem. This of course called for some mild internal changes.
+
+Daniel (23 April 2002)
+- Improved the 'no_proxy' check, as using port numbers in the URL confused it
+  previously. Reported by Erwan Legrand in bug report #547484.
+
+- The --interface option now works even on IPv6 enabled builds. Reported by
+  'thor'.
+
+Daniel (22 April 2002)
+- The #defines names starting with TIMECOND now has CURL_ prefixes. (The old
+  names are still #defined too.) Pointed out by Robert Olson.
+
+- Jacky Lam brought code that lets the name resolve function only use as much
+  memory as it actually needs. This only works on certain operating systems,
+  but is totally transparant to all users.
+
+Daniel (19 April 2002)
+- Bjorn Reese fixed pack_hostent to work properly with 64 bit pointers.
+
+Daniel (18 April 2002)
+- Sterling Hughes added code to prune old DNS cache entries, since Jacky Lam
+  experienced very big caches.
+
+Daniel (17 April 2002)
+- Dirk Manske patched the 301 response to work against the RFC but more like
+  common browsers do. If a POST get a 301 back, it'll switch to GET in the
+  next request (if location-following is enabled).
+
+Daniel (16 April 2002)
+- Dirk Manske posted a patch originally written by Ingo Wilken that introduced
+  two new CURLINFO_* values: CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME and
+  CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT.
+
+Daniel (15 April 2002)
+- Jonatan Lander patched the verbose text 'Disables POST, goes with GET' to
+  reflect reality better, like when the first request isn't POST and when
+  the second isn't GET... :-)
+
+- Craig Davison pointed out that when curl_formadd()ing a file that doesn't
+  exist, libcurl doesn't return error. Now, curl_easy_perform() will return
+  CURLE_READ_ERROR if that is the case. Test 41 was added to verify this.
+
+Version 7.9.6
+
+Daniel (14 April 2002)
+- Dirk Manske brought a fix that makes libcurl strip off white spaces from the
+  beginning of cookie contents.
+
+- Had to patch include/curl/curl.h since MSVC doesn't set the __STDC__ define.
+  Moonesamy pointed out the problem, Bjorn Reese the solution.
+
+Version 7.9.6-pre5
+
+Daniel (12 April 2002)
+- Fixed the TIMER_CONNECT to be more accurate for FTP transfers. Previously
+  FTP transfers got the "connect done" time set after the initial FTP commands
+  and not directly after the TCP/IP connect as it should.
+
+  I also made the time stamp get set even if the connect itself fails, which
+  it didn't do previously.
+
+- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre provided his patch that introduces
+  CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA. They allow a program to a set a
+  callback to receive debug/information data. That includes headers and data
+  that is received and sent. CURLOPT_VERBOSE still controls it.
+
+  By default, there is an internal debugfunction that will make things look
+  and work as before if not changed.
+
+Daniel (10 April 2002)
+- Sebastien Willemijns found out that -x didn't use the default port number as
+  is documented. It does now.
+
+- libcurl-errors.3 is a new man page attempting to document all libcurl error
+  codes
+
+- Added two new error codes and changed the behaviour of two old ones
+  slightly:
+
+  CURLE_WRITE_ERROR
+   This error was returned *both* for errors that occured when writing
+   received data to a local file, as well as when we get problems writing data
+   to a remote server. CURLE_SEND_ERROR has now been added for the latter
+   error.
+
+  CURLE_READ_ERROR
+   This error was similarly returned *both* for errors when reading a local
+   file, as well as when getting problems when reading network data.
+   CURLE_RECV_ERROR has now been added for the latter error.
+
+ (Two test cases were adjusted accordingly.)
+
+Daniel (9 April 2002)
+- runtests.pl now sets the HOME variable before running curl, to prevent any
+  actual ~/.curlrc file to fool the tests!
+
+Version 7.9.6-pre4
+
+Daniel (8 April 2002)
+- Michael Curtis provided new functionality for curl on some platforms. Using
+  the --environment option, curl will *set* a bunch of environment variables
+  to values. The names are the same ones as for the -w/--writeout option.
+
+  For now, this only works on the RISC OS version, as this feature relies on
+  both OS support and that it matches OS paradigms.
+
+- Jacky Lam provided a fix for getting headers-only when the reply is HTTP/1.0
+  and 304, I edited it slightly.
+
+Daniel (5 April 2002)
+- As requested by Jay Graves, the '.curlrc' file (or _curlrc as it is called
+  when used in windows), is now loaded from the current directory if the HOME
+  environment variable isn't set (or if it is too long). I also enlarged the
+  array used to store the full file path in, to 512 bytes.
+
+- Kevin Roth pointed out to me why the "19 March" change regarding -G and -I
+  was stupid and the change was reverted. Added test case 48 to verify the
+  functionality.
+
+Version 7.9.6-pre3
+
+Daniel (4 April 2002)
+- Jonatan Lander brought a patch that makes curl/curl.h compile nicely on
+  pre-ISO compilers, like when using gcc -traditional.
+
+Daniel (3 April 2002)
+- Jacky Lam identified a glitch when getting headers-only, where libcurl would
+  "hang" 1 second in vain in the select() loop before returning back.
+
+- Tor Arntsen brought a patch for multipart formposts. It turned out that the
+  "CGI_Lite Perl package" makes some bad assumptions on what letters that may
+  be used in boundary strings and thus curl could confuse it by including '+'
+  and '/'. While this is standards-compliant, we change the behavior to work
+  smoothly with existing software based on that package.
+
+Daniel (2 April 2002)
+- Gerhard Herre filed bug report #536238 where he pointed out a crash in
+  verbose FTP passive transfers for AIX.
+
+- Clarence Gardner pointed out a minor flaw in how libcurl didn't properly
+  take care of all errors that SSL_read() could return.
+
+- Jacky Lam fixed a MALLOCDEBUG problem in lib/getinfo.c
+
+Daniel (27 March 2002)
+- T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the connection re-use function that didn't
+  check proxy connections properly for "deadness" before they were re-used.
+
+- Pedro Neves found out that HTTP POSTing with --data-binary did not properly
+  work under Windows as the file specified wasn't read fully binary!
+
+Daniel (25 March 2002)
+- Jacky Lam brought a fix that improves treatment of cookies using identical
+  domains but with leading dots properly.
+
+Daniel (22 March 2002)
+- Miklos Nemeth updated the windows section of the docs/INSTALL file and the
+  windows makefiles.
+
+- Jon Dillon provided us with several good-looking curl images for
+  promotion. View them here http://curl.haxx.se/icons.html
+
+Daniel (20 March 2002)
+- Peter Verhas found out that CRLF replacement in uploads was not working. I
+  fixed it, and added test case 128 that verifies the functionality.
+
+- The list formerly known as curl-main is now named curl-users and is hosted
+  by sourceforge. Susbcribe to the new list, get off the old one.
+
+Version 7.9.6-pre2
+
+Daniel (19 March 2002)
+- Made -G and -I on the same command line cause an error.
+
+- Moved the multi.h file to the "public" include directory and made it get
+  included by curl.h so that no extra include files will be necessary to use
+  it.
+
+  Added docs and man pages for the multi interface to the release archive.
+  Added the three example source codes too.
+
+  Necessary steps in my campaign to sneak in the multi interface... ;-)
+
+- Updated the year in all copyright notices in all C and H files.
+
+Daniel (18 March 2002)
+- Tomas Szepe found out that -d and -G didn't mix as they should. I broke this
+  in 7.9.5... Added test case 32 for this.
+
+Version 7.9.6-pre1
+
+Daniel (16 March 2002)
+- Peter Verhas pointed out that the curl_escape and curl_unscape man pages
+  contained factual errors.
+
+- Albert Choy found and corrected a problem with the verbose output when doing
+  PASV ftp transfers. It could make libcurl crash.
+
+  Details in bug report #530562:
+  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=530562&group_id=976
+
+Daniel (15 March 2002)
+- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino filed bug report #530204 that clearly pointed out
+  the PF_INET fix from February 19 as a not-very-good fix as it broke IPv6
+  capability! That patch is now reverted.
+
+  The problem with slow name lookups with getaddrinfo() on non-IPv6 enabled
+  hosts are instead made by first checking if the stack is IPv6-enabled and if
+  not, the PF_INET is used and otherwise we go with the full PF_UNSPEC.
+
+- T. Bharath pointed out that when we return an "error" from a WRITEFUNCTION
+  as described in the man page, libcurl did not return the documented error
+  code (CURLE_WRITE_ERROR) but would instead return CURLE_READ_ERROR. This is
+  now corrected.
+
+Daniel (14 March 2002)
+- Setting CURLOPT_POST without setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS now read the POST-
+  data from the callback.
+
+- The GOPHER support seems to be broken. I don't think I'll even start fixing
+  it until someone else finds out... :-)
+
+Daniel (13 March 2002)
+- Trying 'curl -I ftp.sunet.se' or similar did a SIZE on a silly "(nil)"
+  string. If such a file would be present, curl returned the size of it! Now
+  we prevent this.
+
+- Curl_sendf() was fixed to deal with situation where Curl_write() would've
+  blocked and thus return -1.
+
+- Setting CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION to NULL now restores the internal function.
+
+- All CURLFORM_* options can now be used in a CURLFORM_ARRAY except the
+  CURLFORM_ARRAY itself. This was necessary since we couldn't expand the
+  CURLFORM_* list proprely and unrestricted until this was the case. It was
+  also a bit peculiar to users why some options could be used in an array
+  while others couldn't.
+
+- Removed some silly CRLF lines that had accidentally slipped into src/main.c
+  Nico Baggus pointed them out to me.
+
+Daniel (11 March 2002)
+- CURLFORM_FILENAME was added. This can be set when creating a file upload
+  part, to set the 'filename' field to a custom value. If this isn't used,
+  the actually used filename will be included instead (as libcurl always has
+  done). curl was adjusted accordingly, and now -F accepts a 'filename=' field
+  too, and allows constructs such as:
+
+    -F 'name=@filename;filename=/dev/null'
+
+  and this can be combined with type= too, in a manner similar to:
+
+   -F "file=@log/test39.txt;filename=fakerfile;type=moo/foobar"
+
+  Test case 39 was added to verify this functionality.
+
+- The struct formerly known as HttpPost is now named curl_httppost to properly
+  use the curl name space. I added a #define for the old name to make existing
+  programs compile even when this new include file is used.
+
+Daniel (8 March 2002)
+- Clifford also discovered that if the client code failed early, as when doing
+  "curl -O" only, it would do fclose(NULL) which caused a segmentation fault
+  on some systems.
+
+- Clifford Wolf provided a patch that made --progress-bar work again.
+
+- I closed bug report #527032 by making sure that we add a newline after a
+  transfer when --progress-bar has been used. Before, without the newline, it
+  made the subsequent text come out wrong.
+
+Version 7.9.5
+
+Daniel (7 March 2002)
+- Added docs/KNOWN_BUGS to the release archive.
+
+Daniel (6 March 2002)
+- Kevin Roth corrected a flaw in the curl client globbing code that made it
+  mess up backslashes. This was most notable on windows (cygwin) machines when
+  using file://.
+
+- Brad provided another fix for building outside the source-tree.
+
+- Ralph Mitchell patched away a few compiler warnings in tests/server/sws.c
+
+Daniel (5 March 2002)
+- I noticed that the typedef in curl.h for the progress callback prototype was
+  wrong and thus applications that used it would not get the proper input
+  data. It used size_t where the implementation actually uses doubles!
+
+  I wish I could blame someone else, but this was my fault. Again.
+
+Version 7.9.5-pre6
+
+Daniel (4 March 2002)
+- Cut off the changes done during 2001 from this changelog file and put them
+  in a separate file (CHANGES.2001), available from CVS of course.
+
+- I removed the multi directory. The example sources were moved to the
+  docs/examples directory where they belong.
+
+- Wrote 7 new man pages for the current functions in the new multi interface.
+  They're all still pretty basic, but we can use them as a start and add more
+  contents to them when we figure out what to write. The large amount of man
+  pages for libcurl now present made me decide to put them in a new separate
+  subdirectory in the docs directory. Named libcurl.
+
+- Giuseppe Corbelli provided a template file for the EPM package manager, it
+  gets generated nicely by the configure script now.
+
+Version 7.9.5-pre5
+
+Daniel (1 March 2002)
+- Moved the memanalyze.pl script into the tests/ dir and added it to the
+  release archives. It was previously only present in the CVS tree.
+
+- Modified the February 17th Host: fix, as bug report #523718 pointed out that
+  it caused crashes!
+
+- Nico Baggus added more error codes to the VMS stuff.
+
+- Wesley Laxton brought the code that introduced the new CURLOPT_PREQUOTE
+  option. It is just another FTP quote option that allows the user to specify
+  a list of FTP commands to issue *just before* the transfer command (RETR or
+  STOR etc). It has turned up a few systems that really need this.
+
+  The curl command line tool can also take advantage of this by prefixing the
+  quote commands with a plus (+) in similar style that post transfer quote
+  commands are specified.
+
+  This is not yet documented. There is no test case for this yet.
+
+Daniel (28 February 2002)
+- Ralph Mitchell made some serious efforts and put a lot of sweat in setting
+  up scripts and things for me to be able to repeat his problems, and I
+  finally could.  I found a problem with the header byte counter that wasn't
+  increased properly and thus we could return CURLE_GOT_NOTHING when we in
+  fact had received data.
+
+Daniel (27 February 2002)
+- I had to revert the non-space parsing cookie fix I posted to the mailing
+  list. Expire dates do have spaces and still need to get parsed properly!
+  Instead we just ignore trailing white space and it seems to work...
+
+Daniel (26 February 2002)
+- Made the cookie property 'Max-Age' work, just since we already tried to
+  support it, it is better to do it right. No one uses this anyway.
+
+- The cookie parser could crash if a really weird (illegal) cookie line was
+  received. I also made it better discard really oddly formatted lines better.
+
+  Made the cookie jar store the second field from the left using the syntax
+  that Netscape and Mozilla probably like. Curl itself ignores it.
+
+  Added test case 31 for these cases.
+
+  Clay Loveless' email regarding some cookie issues started my cleanup.
+
+- Kevin Roth pointed out that my automake fiddles broke the ability to build
+  outside the source-tree and I posted a patch to the mailing list that brings
+  this ability back.
+
+Version 7.9.5-pre4
+
+Daniel (25 February 2002)
+- Fiddled with the automake files to make all source files in the lib
+  directory not have ../src in the include path, and the src sources shouldn't
+  have ../lib!
+
+- All 79 test cases ran OK under Linux and Solaris using the new HTTP server
+  in the test suite. The new HTTP server was first donated by Georg Horn and
+  subsequently modified to work with the test suite. It is currently still not
+  portable enough to run on "all over" but this is a start and I can run all
+  curl tests on my machines. This is an important requirement for the upcoming
+  public release.
+
+- Using -d and -I on the same command line now reports an error, as it implies
+  two different HTTP requests that can't be mixed.
+
+- Jeffrey Pohlmeyer provided a patch that made the -w/--write-out option
+  support %{content_type} to get the content type of the recent download.
+
+- Kevin Roth reported that pre2 and pre3 didn't compile properly on cygwin,
+  and this was because I used #ifdef HAVE_WINSOCK_H in lib/multi.h to figure
+  out if we could include winsock.h which turns out not to be a wise choice to
+  do on cygwin since it has the file but can't include it!
+
+Daniel (22 February 2002)
+- Added src/config-vms.h to the release archive.
+
+- Fixed the connection timeout value again, the change from February 18 wasn't
+  complete.
+
+Version 7.9.5-pre3
+
+Daniel (21 February 2002)
+- Kevin Roth and Andrés García both found out that lib/config.h.in was missing
+  in the pre-release archive and thus the configure script failed.
+
+Version 7.9.5-pre2
+
+Daniel (20 February 2002)
+- Andrés García provided a solution to bug report #515228. the total time
+  counter was not set correctly when -I was used during some conditions (all
+  headers were read in one single read).
+
+- Nico Baggus provided a huge patch with minor tweaks all over to make curl
+  compile nicely on VMS.
+
+Daniel (19 February 2002)
+- Rick Richardson found out that by replacing PF_UNSPEC with PF_INET in the
+  getaddrinfo() calls, he could speed up some name resolving calls with an
+  order of magnitudes on his Redhat Linux 7.2.
+
+- Philip Gladstone found a second INADDR_NONE problem where we used long
+  intead of in_addr_t which caused 64bit problemos. We really shouldn't define
+  that on two different places.
+
+Daniel (18 February 2002)
+- Philip Gladstone found a problem in how HTTP requests were sent if the
+  request couldn't be sent all at once.
+
+- Emil found and corrected a bad connection timeout comparison that made curl
+  use the longest of connect-timeout and timout as a timeout value, instead of
+  the shortest as it was supposed to!
+
+- Aron Roberts provided updated information about LDAP URL syntax to go into
+  the manual as a replacement for the old references.
+
+Daniel (17 February 2002)
+- Philip Gladstone pointed out two missing include files that made curl core
+  dump on 64bit architectures. We need to pay more attention on these details.
+  It is *lethal* to for example forget the malloc() prototype, as 'int' is
+  32bit and malloc() must return a 64bit pointer on these platforms.
+
+- Giaslas Georgios fixed a problem with Host: headers on repeated requests on
+  the same handle using a proxy.
+
+Daniel (8 February 2002)
+- Hanno L. Kranzhoff accurately found out that disabling the Expect: header
+  when doing multipart formposts didn't work very well. It disabled other
+  parts of the request header too, resulting in a broken header. When I fixed
+  this, I also noticed that the Content-Type wasn't possible to disable. It is
+  now, even though it probably is really stupid to try to do this (because of
+  the boundary string that is included in the internally generated header,
+  used as form part separator.)
+
+Daniel (7 February 2002)
+- I moved the config*.h files from the root directory to the lib/ directory.
+
+- I've added the new test suite HTTP server to the CVS repository, It seems to
+  work pretty good now, but we must make it get used by the test scripts
+  properly and then we need to make sure that it compiles, builds and runs on
+  most operating systems.
+
+Version 7.9.5-pre1
+
+Daniel (6 February 2002)
+- Miklos Nemeth provided updated windows makefiles and INSTALL docs.
+
+- Mr Larry Fahnoe found a problem with formposts and I managed to track down
+  and patch this bug. This was actually two bugs, as the posted size was also
+  said to be two bytes too large.
+
+- Brent Beardsley found out and brought a correction for the
+  CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE parser that was off one byte. This was my fault, I
+  accidentaly broke Giaslas Georgios' patch.
+
+Daniel (5 February 2002)
+- Kevin Roth found yet another SSL download problem.
+
+Version 7.9.4
+
+- no changes since pre-release
+
+Version 7.9.4-pre2
+
+Daniel (3 February 2002)
+- Eric Melville provided a few spelling corrections in the curl man page.
+
+Daniel (1 February 2002)
+- Andreas Damm corrected the unconditional use of gmtime() in getdate, it now
+  uses gmtime_r() on all hosts that have it.
+
+Daniel (31 January 2002)
+- An anonymous bug report identified a problem in the DNS caching which made it
+  sometimes allocate one byte too little to store the cache entry in. This
+  happened when the port number started with 1!
+
+- Albert Chin provided a patch that improves the gethostbyname_r() configure
+  check on HP-UX 11.00.
+
+Version 7.9.4-pre1
+
+Daniel (30 January 2002)
+- Georg Horn found another way the SSL reading failed due to the non-blocking
+  state of the sockets! I fixed.
+
+Daniel (29 January 2002)
+- Multipart formposts now send the full request properly, including the CRLF.
+  They were previously treated as part of the post data.
+
+- The upload byte counter bugged.
+
+- T. Bharath pointed out that we seed SSL on every connect, which is a time-
+  consuming operation that should only be needed to do once. We patched
+  libcurl to now only seed on the first connect when unseeded. The seeded
+  status is global so it'll now only happen once during a program's life time.
+
+  If the random_file or egdsocket is set, the seed will be re-made though.
+
+- Giaslas Georgios introduced CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE that lets
+  curl_easy_getinfo() read the content-type from the previous request.
+
+Daniel (28 January 2002)
+- Kjetil Jacobsen found a way to crash curl and after much debugging, it
+  turned out it was a IPv4-linux only problem introduced in 7.9.3 related to
+  name resolving.
+
+- Andreas Damm posted a huge patch that made the curl_getdate() function fully
+  reentrant!
+
+- Steve Marx pointed out that you couldn't mix CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST with
+  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. You can now!
+
+Daniel (25 January 2002)
+- Krishnendu Majumdar pointed out that the header length counter was not reset
+  between multiple requests on the same handle.
+
+- Pedro Neves rightfully questioned why curl always append \r\n to the data
+  that is sent in HTTP POST requests. Unfortunately, this broke the test suite
+  as the test HTTP server is lame enough not to deal with this... :-O
+
+- Following Location: headers when the connection didn't close didn't work as
+  libcurl didn't properly stop reading. This problem was added in 7.9.3 due to
+  the restructured internals. 'Frank' posted a bug report about this.
+
+Daniel (24 January 2002)
+- Kevin Roth very quickly spotted that we wrongly installed the example
+  programs that were built in the multi directory, when 'make install' was
+  used. :-/
+
+Version 7.9.3
+
+Daniel (23 January 2002)
+- Andrés García found a persistancy problem when doing HTTP HEAD, that made
+  curl "hang" until the connection was closed by the server. This problem has
+  been introduced in 7.9.3 due to internal rewrites, this was not present in
+  7.9.2.
+
+Version 7.9.3-pre4
+
+Daniel (19 January 2002)
+- Antonio filed bug report #505514 and provided a fix! When doing multipart
+  formposts, libcurl would include an error text in the actual post if a
+  specified file wasn't found. This is not libcurl's job. Instead we add an
+  empty part.
+
+Daniel (18 January 2002)
+- Played around with stricter compiler warnings for gcc (when ./configure
+  --enable-debug is used) and changed some minor things to stop the warnings.
+
+- Commented out the 'long long' and 'long double' checks in configure.in, as
+  we don't currently use them anyway and the code in lib/mprintf.c that use
+  them causes warnings.
+
+- Saul Good and jonatan pointed out Mac OS X build problems with pre3 and how
+  to correct them. Two compiler warnings were removed as well.
+
+- Andrés García fixed two minor mingw32 building problems.
+
+Version 7.9.3-pre3
+
+Daniel (17 January 2002)
+- docs/libcurl-the-guide is a new tutorial for our libcurl programming
+  friends.
+
+- Richard Archer brought back the ability to compile and build with OpenSSL
+  versions before 0.9.5.
+  [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=504163&group_id=976]
+
+- The DNS cache code didn't take the port number into account, which made it
+  work rather bad on IPv6-enabled hosts (especially when doing passive
+  FTP). Sterling fixed it.
+
+Daniel (16 January 2002)
+- Georg Horn could make a transfer time-out without error text. I found it and
+  corrected it.
+
+- SSL writes didn't work, they return an uninitialized value that caused
+  havoc all over. Georg Horn experienced this.
+
+- Kevin Roth patched the curl_version() function to use the proper OpenSSL
+  function for version information. This way, curl will report the version of
+  the SSL library actually running right now, not the one that had its headers
+  installed when libcurl was built. Mainly intersting when running with shared
+  OpenSSL libraries.  
+
+Version 7.9.3-pre2
+
+Daniel (16 January 2002)
+- Mofied the main transfer loop and related stuff to deal with non-blocking
+  sockets in the upload section. While doing this, I've now separated the
+  connection oriented buffers to have one for downloads and one for uploads
+  (as two can happen simultaneously). I also shrunk the buffers to 20K
+  each. As we have a scratch buffer twice the size of the upload buffer, we
+  arrived at 80K for buffers compared with the previous 150K.
+
+- Added the --cc option to curl-config command as it enables so very cool
+  one-liners. Have a go a this one, building the simple.c example:
+
+        $ `curl-config --cc --cflags --libs` -o example simple.c
+
+Daniel (14 January 2002)
+- I made all socket reads (recv) handle EWOULDBLOCK. I hope nicely. Now we
+  only need to address all writes (send) too and then I'm ready for another
+  pre-release...
+
+- Stoned Elipot patched the in_addr_t configure test to make it work better on
+  more platforms.
+
+Daniel (9 January 2002)
+- Cris Bailiff found out that filling up curl's SSL session cache caused a
+  crash!
+
+- Posted the curl questionnaire on the web site. If you haven't posted your
+  opinions there yet, go there and do it now while it is still there:
+
+        http://curl.haxx.se/q/
+
+- Georg Horn quickly found out that the SSL reading no longer worked as
+  supposed since the switch to non-blocking sockets. I've made a quick patch
+  (for reading only) but we should improve it even further.
+
+Version 7.9.3-pre1
+
+Daniel (7 January 2002)
+- I made the 'bool' typedef use an "unsigned char". It makes it the same on
+  all platforms, no matter what the platform thinks the default format for
+  char is. This was noticed since we made a silly comparison involving such a
+  bool variable, and only one compiler/platform combination (on Debian Linux)
+  complained about it (that happened to have its char unsigned by default).
+
+- Bug report #495290 identified a cookie parsing problem that was corrected.
+  When a Set-Cookie: line is received without a trailing semicolon, libcurl
+  didn't read the last "name=value" pair of the line, leading to confusions...
+
+- Sterling committed his updated DNS cache code.
+
+- I worked with Georg Horn and comments from Götz Babin-Ebell and switched
+  curl's socket operations completely over to non-blocking for the entire
+  operation (previously we used non-blocking only for the connection phase).
+  We had to do this to make the SSL connection phase timeout properly without
+  the use of signals. A little extra code to deal with this was added.
+
+- T. Bharath pointed out a slightly obscure cookie engine flaw.
+
+- Pete Su pointed out that libcurl didn't treat HTTP code 204 as it should.
+  204-replies never provides a response-body. This resulted in bad persistant
+  behavior when 204 was received.
+
+Daniel (5 January 2002)
+- SM updated the VC++ library Makefiles for the new source files.
+
+Daniel (4 January 2002)
+- I discovered that we wrongly used inet_ntoa() (instead of inet_ntoa_r() in
+  two places in the source code). One happened with VERBOSE set on connects,
+  and the other when VERBOSE was on and krb4 over nat was used... I honestly
+  don't think anyone has suffered from these mistakes.
+
+- I replaced a lot of silly occurances of printf() to instead use the more
+  appropriate Curl_infof() or Curl_failf(). The krb4 and telnet code were
+  affected.
+
+- Philip Gladstone found a few more problems with 64-bit archs (the 64-bit
+  sparc on solaris 8).
+
+- After discussions on the libcurl list with Raoul Cridlig, I just made FTP
+  response lines get passed to the header callback if such a one is
+  registered. It'll make it possible for any application to get all the
+  responses an FTP server sends to libcurl.
+
+Daniel (3 January 2002)
+- Sterling Hughes brought a few buckets of code. Now, libcurl will
+  automatically cache DNS lookups and re-use the previous results first if any
+  such is available. It greatly improves speed when doing many repeated
+  operations to the same host.
+
+- As the test case uses --include and then --head, I had to modify src/main.c
+  to deal with this situation slightly better than previously. When done, we
+  have 100% good tests again in the main branch.
+
+Daniel (2 January 2002)
+- Made test case 25 run again in the multi-dev branch. But it seems that the
+  changes done on dec-20 made test case 104 cease to work (in both branches).
+
+- Philip Gladstone pointed out a few portability problems in the source code
+  that didn't compile on 64-bit sparcs using Sun's native compiler.