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As Kevin + P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found + different newline conventions within the same file. + +- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for + the SSL stuff. + +Daniel (6 December 2000) +- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when + doing SSL connections. + +- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with + -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it + is fixed now. + +Daniel (5 December 2000) +- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland + compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with + that compiler. + +- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL + variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need + perl in the path for the test suite to run ok. + +- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems: + * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h + since the curl one differed from the SCO one + * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction + stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need). + * A few more problems remain to be researched. + +- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet. + +Daniel (4 December 2000) +- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O. + +Version 7.5 + +Daniel (1 December 2000) +- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should + build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too. + +- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when + releasing new shared library interfaces. + +Daniel (30 November 2000) +- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document + actually contains. + +Daniel (29 November 2000) +- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things + harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS. + +Version 7.5-pre5 + +Daniel (28 November 2000) +- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been + lagging. + +- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS + libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the + set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops. + +Daniel (27 November 2000) +- Added two test cases for file://. + +Daniel (22 November 2000) +- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the + modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it + involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command + which is not in the RFC959) + + curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time + after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if + the time wasn't possible to get. + + --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header + if curl could get the time of the specified file. + +- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM + file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS + connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but + others have asked for it before as well. + +Daniel (21 November 2000) +- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight: + + * curl_unescape() could return a too long string + * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks + * ftp CWD could use bad directory names + * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability + * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers + +- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP. + +- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic. + +- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp + operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now + all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl + script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run. + +Daniel (20 November 2000) +- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of + 4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make + life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying + but that can be circumvented by using a config file. + + NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location: + headers. + +- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages. + +- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It + turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names + where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the + lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase + versions. + +Daniel (17 November 2000) +- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the + test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on + memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the + cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar + things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these + problems have been removed. + +- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and + weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now, + although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main + difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must + both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also + specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and + parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like: + + user-agent = "foobar and something" + + Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're + expected to be a single non-space word. + + Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work. + +- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes + way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config + file doesn't work anymore. + +Daniel (15 November 2000) +- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication + failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters, + and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused + passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail. + +Version 7.4.2 + +Daniel (15 November 2000) +- 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used. + +Daniel (14 November 2000) +- I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled + "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE + could be assumed to work. + +- Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a + file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and + curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start + uploading from the beginning as a normal upload? + +Daniel (13 November 2000) +- Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter. + +- While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation + that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this + immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl. + +- Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c + +- I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite. + +Version 7.4.2 pre4 + +Daniel (10 November 2000) +- I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new + tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and + most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script. + + I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work. + +- Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks + for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes + depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used! + +- Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was + already uploaded, curl would hang. + +- Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the + getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have. + +- Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected + it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com), + the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between + the set domain length and the current host name. + +Daniel (9 November 2000) +- Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need + it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found + but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no + system that requires those libs to build. + +Version 7.4.2 pre3 + +Daniel (7 November 2000) +- Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a + slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed. + +Daniel (6 November 2000) +- Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in. + They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are + CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA. + +- Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong + times when location: headers were followed. + +- Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in + the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem + with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now. + +Daniel (2 November 2000) +- When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was + inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got + increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous + numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end. + +Daniel (1 November 2000) +- Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction() + isn't present, we can use signal() instead. + +- I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again + GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards + making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all... + +Daniel (31 October 2000) +- Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and + templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms. + I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root. + +Daniel (30 October 2000) +- T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to + curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer + certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option + and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote + peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the + *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about + whether the verification succeeded or not. + +Daniel (27 October 2000) +- Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing + annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes + (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and + of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually + have the sigaction() function). + +Daniel (26 October 2000) +- Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth + that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The + getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any + static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass() + function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe. + +- Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the + url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote + it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now. + +- Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was + just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't + support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d + chunk. This enables constructs like the following: + + curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com + +Daniel (24 October 2000) +- I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other + systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the + memory debugging system. + +Daniel (23 October 2000) +- I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script + will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and + then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build + release-archives. + +- Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly + enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the + -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also + suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL + so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there... + +Daniel (20 October 2000) +- Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port + number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it + isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to + run one of those nasty servers. + +- The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been + corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this) + +Daniel (17 October 2000) +- Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They + didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test + suite... + +- I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https:// + URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this + error: + "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!" + + I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual + problem lies. + +Version 7.4.1 + +Daniel (16 October 2000) +- I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in + the release archive (of course). + +Version 7.4 + +Daniel (16 October 2000) +- The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th. + +Daniel (12 October 2000) +- Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used + by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a + few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well. + +Daniel (11 October 2000) +- Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out + really useful! + +Version 7.4 pre6 + +Daniel (9 October 2000) +- Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include + file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the + public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file. + +- Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It + didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway. + +- Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our + libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all + platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a + local buffer. + +- I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header + generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more + PHP-friendly multi-part posts. + +Version 7.4 pre5 + +Daniel (9 October 2000) +- Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when + using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably + introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7. + +- Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl. + I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log + all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze + the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak + Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup() + didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in + the CVS respository, not in the release archive. + +Daniel (8 October 2000) +- Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the + pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best + a memory leak! + +Version 7.4 pre4 + +Daniel (6 October 2000) +- Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the + mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP + receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this. + +- Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working + anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for + 7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now... + +- Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL + stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with + -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid! + +- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used + a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes. + +Version 7.4 pre3 + +Daniel (4 October 2000) +- More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate, + as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to + get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP + request. T. Bharath requested them. + +Daniel (3 October 2000) +- Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-) + +Version 7.4 pre2 + +Daniel (3 October 2000) +- Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP + requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do + this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it + this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with + curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to + fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer + to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults + are probably mine. + +Daniel (2 October 2000) +- Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the + progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer + size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter + and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to + use on a fast one. + + I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to + start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes + per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It + should make the progress meter work better. + +Version 7.4 pre1 + +Daniel (29 September 2000) +- Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets + all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo() + function. + +- brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and + removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get. + +Daniel (28 September 2000) +- Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct + the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just + released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error + is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix + release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be + available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway. + +Version 7.3 + +Daniel (28 September 2000) +- Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former + base64.[ch] files. + +Daniel (26 September 2000) +- Updated some docs. + +- I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted + patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones. + +Version 7.3-pre8 + +Daniel (25 September 2000) +- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and + showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly + again. + +- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative + approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie + header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed. + +- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell + you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for + nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl + tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected. + +Daniel (23 September 2000) +- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload + work! + +Daniel (21 September 2000) +- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals + that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first! + +Daniel (20 September 2000) +- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this + opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer + sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use + malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a + large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like + that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness. + +- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went + as smooth as it could. + +- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how + to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples + further on. + +- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the + config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word + "reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease. + +- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4. + +- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that + I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding + functions! ;-) + +Version 7.3pre5 + +Daniel (19 September 2000) +- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original + krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global + variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to + clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use + connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't + destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects + krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty. + +Version 7.3pre3 + +Daniel (18 September 2000) +- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to + curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did + not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere + thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours! + +- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to + the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an + outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all + platforms. This needs testing. + +- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the + name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not + returning an error even though it failed on some platforms! + +Daniel (15 September 2000) +- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support. + +Version 7.3pre2 + +Daniel (15 September 2000) +- Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp. + Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the + pasv message when doing the second connect. + +Version 7.3pre1 + +Daniel (15 September 2000) +- libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The + second connection on ftp needed that. + +- TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really + bad at times! + +Daniel (14 September 2000) +- -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new + CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel + through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp. + +Daniel (13 September 2000) +- Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this + and mailed the patch to the mailing list. + +Daniel (7 September 2000) +- I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really + a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that + define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the + PHP bug tracker. + +- I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage + in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to + this. + +Version 7.2.1 + +Daniel (31 August 2000) +- Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to + detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?) + +- Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the + letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and + the reason was my lame URL decoder. + +- I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected + that. + +Version 7.2 + +Daniel (30 August 2000) +- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they + solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the + AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this + article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a + libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking + completely. + + So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that + fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want + to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the + following three include files before that one: + + #include <net/if_dl.h> + #include <sys/mbuf.h> + #include <netinet/if_ether.h> + + Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all + the source files that include it? + + Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX + login to try everything on. + +Daniel (24 August 2000) +- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one + was not up to date but lacked several object files. + +- More work on the naming. + +- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as + some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position + for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir... + +- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary + option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to + work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday. + +Daniel (23 August 2000) +- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added + when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with + it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think + I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the + file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new + *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since + libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases. + +- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name + resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms + that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of + this. + +- The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to + Bjorn Reese. + +Daniel (21 August 2000) +- Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to + keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting... + This needs to be addressed. + +Version 7.1.1 + +Daniel (21 August 2000) +- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent + me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests + which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of + the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a + function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function + will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad + manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I + should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on + a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at + http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the + future as well. + +Daniel (18 August 2000) +- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't + think this is the reason for the continued trouble though. + +Daniel (17 August 2000) +- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It + should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems. + +Daniel (15 August 2000) +- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well + as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before? + +- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when + used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got + screwed up! + +Daniel (11 August 2000) +- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version + of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that + information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of + not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my + Linux Redhat installation... + +Daniel (10 August 2000) +- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace + the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added + the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts + using custom Content-Types. + +Daniel (8 August 2000) +- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no + user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this. + +Version 7.1 + +Daniel (7 August 2000) +- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker. + +- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort + of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl. + +Daniel (4 August 2000) +- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms. + My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to + move an include file before another, as is now described in the source. + + AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() + functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile + broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the + configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My + implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may + get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to + any system using that. + + For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread + to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few + functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work + although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use + libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a + thread-safe lib. + +- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl. + +Daniel (1 August 2000) +- Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal() + that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true + function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string + comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the + now obsolete #define. + +- Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's + JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range + headers. + +- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use + libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young + found out. + +Version 7.0.11beta + +Daniel (1 August 2000) +- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create + the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as + it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories + without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in + both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level + makefile that succeeds in install everything properly! + +- Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major + flaws added now. + +Daniel (31 July 2000) +- Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one + of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank + ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a + little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new + one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any + blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header. + +Daniel (29 July 2000) +- It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now + I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it. + +- I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left + names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug + reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email + addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me + working on this. + +Daniel (27 July 2000) +- Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an + environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I + corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra + beta release just for this. + +Version 7.0.10beta + +Daniel (27 July 2000) +- So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add + the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as + symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed + on 7.0.9... + +Version 7.0.9beta + +Daniel (25 July 2000) +- Kristian Köhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl + libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the + recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some + other nice cleanups. + +- In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a + page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another + server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that + server as well. + + Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect + and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several + fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at + least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which + means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl + to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards + curl back to server A again, the password will be used again. + + This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use + the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think + that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole". + + As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and + will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that. + +- As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading + function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!) + if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a + default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I + don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to + get received... + +- Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for + the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to + suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from + 'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded + contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or + textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used + %s or similar in a -F file name. + +- As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring + files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be + the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very + well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size + may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing + ASCII transfers in FTP. + +Daniel (24 July 2000) +- Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy + port number to be set separately from the proxy host name. + +- Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug. + +- The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously + accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at + evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out. + +- The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in + when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was + discovered by Rich Gray. + +- Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in + curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory. + +- Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not + properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should + now have been fixed. + +- HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing + problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash. + Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering + and suggesting a fix... + +Daniel (21 June 2000) +- After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a + HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some + checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request + command, no matter what the user wants! ;-) + +Version 7.0.8beta + +Daniel (20 June 2000) +- I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se + instead of the previous one. + +- As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer + makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has + been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only + interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time. + + While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto + referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or + only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the + previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding + document. + +- My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only + when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It + turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that + didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as + it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O + +Version 7.0.7beta + +Daniel (16 June 2000) +- I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar + stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the + recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like + before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at + the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This + code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour! + ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed + this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE + from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it + will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also + will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of + getting the writeout data and move that too to the client). + +- I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I + found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well. + +Daniel (15 June 2000) +- I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of + course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover + corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used + this feature with v7? + +- Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in + v7. Hm. + +Daniel (14 June 2000) +- Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it + should. I corrected this. + +Version 7.0.6beta + +Daniel (14 June 2000) +- Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling): + lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32) + src/main.c had several minor problems + lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice + src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define + both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the + define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32 + to set it. + +Version 7.0.5beta + +Daniel (14 June 2000) +- Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems. + +- Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to + binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option + is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was + already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The + libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now + obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32 + compiler around. + +Daniel (13 June 2000) +- Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup() + since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected. + +Daniel (9 June 2000) +- Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file. + +Daniel (8 June 2000) +- So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it + should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it + right now. +- Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just + in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers. +- Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly. + +Version 7.0.4beta + +Daniel (2 June 2000) +- I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all + but the first request. +- Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic + curl_slist. +- Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c + +Version 7.0.3beta + +Daniel (31 May 2000) +- So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to + compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to + feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add + a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly. + +Version 7.0.2beta + +Daniel (29 May 2000) +- Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only + toggles one of those bits. + +- Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add + usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around, + since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as + solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script. + + I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my + Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now. + +Daniel (22 May 2000) +- Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as + well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems + to be reserved in some gcc versions! + +- Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX + needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined. + More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work. + +Version 7.0.1beta + +Daniel (21 May 2000) +- Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No + more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl- + prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former + curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate + setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is + now using that. + +- Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan + to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name + lookups. + +Version 7.0beta + +Daniel (18 May 2000) +- Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow + source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to + a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and + patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also + makes a larger number a newer version. + +Daniel (17 May 2000) +- Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range + option. I corrected them. +- Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file + in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for + multithreaded purposes. + +Daniel (16 May 2000) +- Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7. + There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken. + <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use. + +Daniel (14 May 2000) +- FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738. +- FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change + directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with + Rich Gray made me notice these problems. +- Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the + src/usrglob.c file. +- I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string + compares on all platforms. + +Daniel (8 May 2000): +- Been working lots on the new lib. +- Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work + better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix. + +Daniel (2 May 2000): +- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in + configure.in that didn't do any good. + +Daniel (24 April 2000): +- Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't + find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison + +Daniel (12 April 2000): +- Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a + better one... + +Daniel (8 April 2000): +- Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes + and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM. +- I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user + agent string. It does now. +- Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs + on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves + the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to + build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm + package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build + a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM? +- Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l + on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native + cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been + reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It + is a pity there's no newer release around... + +Daniel (4 April 2000): +- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that + appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs. + +Daniel (2 April 2000): +- Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then + followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved. + +Daniel (27 March 2000): +- H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly + messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy, + which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings. + +Daniel (23 March 2000): +- Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he + actually already told me about! + +- H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl + ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to + happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded... + +Daniel (22 March 2000): +- Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME + was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been. + The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6 + makefile for MS VC++. + +Daniel (21 March 2000): +- I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that + one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne + Johansson made me aware of this. + +Version 6.5.2 + +Daniel (21 March 2000): +- Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1 + crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was + the -D adjustments in src/main.c. + +Version 6.5.1 + +Daniel (20 March 2000): +- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer + overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main + problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this + single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne + Johansson). + +Daniel (19 March 2000): +- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches + that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in + the INSTALL file. Very nice job! + +Daniel (17 March 2000): +- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6 + file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that + VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's + existence. + +Daniel (15 March 2000): +- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything + to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D + on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies + in that one single file. + +- Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff. + Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32 + stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now). + +- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the + Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h. + +Daniel (14 March 2000): +- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output + was never written. I fixed it now. + +- Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does + when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included + instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in + the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h. + +Version 6.5 + +Daniel (13 March 2000): +- <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a + single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what + the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to + perhaps make them work better. + +- Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl + script needs it! + +- Made some beautifications in the curl man page. + +Daniel (3 March 2000): +- Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and + HAVE_STRDUP. + +Daniel (3 March 2000): +- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package. + +Daniel (2 March 2000): +- Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people + happy and I'll still keep them available on the web. + +- Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter + display in README.curl. + +- Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf + Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for + fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl + 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number + thing). + +- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream. + Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get + every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net> + suggested this. + +- Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix. + +Daniel (24 February 2000): +- Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32. + + I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using + the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %- + letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should + use another letter instead! + +- Added more variables to -w: + + 'http_code' + 'time_namelookup' + 'time_connect' + 'time_pretransfer' + 'url_effective' + +- Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from + stdin in the good old "standard" curl way. + +Daniel (22 February 2000): +- Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback. + +Daniel (21 February 2000): + +- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a + single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has + completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and + they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that + exist as of this moment are: + + total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals) + size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes + size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes + speed_download - the average speed of the entire download + speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload + + I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others. + +- It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new + progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re- + introduced! :-/ + +Daniel (16 February 2000): +- Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued + working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download + and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good. + +- Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface. + +- Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next. + +Daniel (15 February 2000): +- The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it + is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly! + +Daniel (11 February 2000): +- Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to + deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K. + +- Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b + is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also + similarly reads the cookies from stdin. + +- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way + -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file... + +- Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X. + +- Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the + cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to + the server. + +Daniel (8 February 2000): + - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that + prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do + with the difference in sprintf() return code types. + + - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's + do some progress meter fixes later this week. + +Daniel (31 January 2000): + - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie + parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think + that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see + what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all. + + RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are + compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though... + + - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form + to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while + since the socket "pipe" becomes full. + + It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new + single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required + of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue + and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well. + + - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area, + although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait + with fixing anything. + + - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume + support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion + I'll work on it. + +Daniel (25 January 2000): + - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was + corrected. + + - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile + curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed + by Jörn's recent #include modifications! + +Daniel (19 January 2000): + - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem + in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a + different protocol to fail. + + At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I + could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it + again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following + on server not running on default ports.) + + - Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again + made it possible to select progress bar. + + - Jörn also fixed a few include problems. + +Version 6.4 + +Daniel (17 January 2000): + - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the + progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows + the time spent on the download so far. + - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web + browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu. + +Daniel (10 January 2000): + - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice! + - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer + quote commands. + - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means + that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of + course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or + downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-) + - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and + install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores + on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a + better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff. + - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page. + - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf + 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L + flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks + and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs! + |