actually already told me about!
- H. Daphne Luong <daphne@tellme.com> brought me a fix that now makes curl
- ingore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
+ 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):
Daniel (21 March 2000):
- Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> 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, see also a separate 6.5.1-patch on the
- web site.
+ the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
Version 6.5.1
Daniel (20 March 2000):
-- An anynomous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
- overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL convertions. The main
+- 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).
- Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com> 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
- existance.
+ existence.
Daniel (15 March 2000):
- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
- Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de>, Chris <cbayliss@csc.come> and Ulf
Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
- fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became appearant when they released openssl
- 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behaviour (not seeding a random number
+ 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 prefered time. Andrew <tmr@gci.net>
+ every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr@gci.net>
suggested this.
- Damien Adant <dams@usa.net> mailed me his fixes for making curl compile
- 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 specifed as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
+ 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)
- Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>'s suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
- similarily reads the cookies from stdin.
+ 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 <ellis@citria.com> made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
- Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> helped me out finding the crash in the
- cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habbit of sending empty cookies to
+ cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
the server.
Daniel (8 February 2000):
and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
- Zhibiao Wu <wuzb@erols.com> pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
- although I did not get a reproducable way to do this why I have to wait
+ although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
with fixing anything.
- Bob Schader <rschader@product-des.com> suggested I should implement resume
- Jim Gallagher <jmgallag@usa.net> 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 thefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
+ and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
Daniel (28 December 1999):
- Tim Verhoeven <dj@walhalla.sin.khk.be> correctly identified that curl
Daniel (27 December 1999):
- When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
- in the saved data. Correctfully identified and reported by Paul Harrington
+ in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington
<paul@pizza.org>.
Daniel (13 December 1999):
Daniel (8 November 1999):
- I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
- transparantly figure out what kind of file it got as input.
+ transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
Daniel (29 October 1999):
- Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
file size the same way.
- I changed the order of the QUOTE command execusions. They're now executed
+ I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
- to come up with a #if contruction that deals with this...
+ to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
- Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
T. Yamada <tai@imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
- It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
- username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is auto-matically redirected to
+ username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
another location (option '-L').
There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
How To Compile
Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. The
-way to proceed is mainly devided in two different ways: the unix way or the
+way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the
windows way.
If you're using Windows (95, 98, NT) or OS/2, you should continue reading from
the Win32 header below. All other systems should be capable of being installed
-as described un the the UNIX header.
+as described in the the UNIX header.
PORTS
=====
Just to show off, this is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and
operating systems that curl has been compiled for:
- Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7
- Sparc SunOS 4.1.*
- i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2
- MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
- HP-PA HP-UX
+ - Ultrix
+ - SINIX-Z v5
Alpha DEC OSF 4
- i386 Solaris 2.7
+ HP-PA HP-UX
+ MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
+ Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1
PowerPC Mac OS X
- Power AIX 4.3.1
- - Ultrix
+ Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7
+ Sparc SunOS 4.1.*
i386 FreeBSD
+ i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2
i386 NetBSD
+ i386 OS/2
i386 OpenBSD
- m68k OpenBSD
+ i386 Solaris 2.7
i386 Windows 95, 98, NT
- i386 OS/2
m68k AmigaOS 3
+ m68k OpenBSD
UNIX
====
The configure script *always* tries to find a working SSL library unless
- explicitely told not to. If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed in the
- default search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything
+ explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default
+ search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything
special.
- If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can
- run configure like so:
+ If you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure
+ like:
./configure --with-ssl
- If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example,
- /opt/OpenSSL,) you can run configure like this:
+ If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL,)
+ you can run configure like this:
./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL
./configure --without-ssl
- If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in
- one place and the header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the
- LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables prior to running configure.
- Something like this should work:
+ If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the
+ header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
+ environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this
+ should work:
(with the Bourne shell and its clones):
Microsoft / Borland style
-------------------------
- If you have OpenSSL/SSLeay, and want curl to take advantage of it,
- edit your project properties to use the SSL include path, link with
- the SSL libs and define the USE_SSLEAY symbol.
+ If you have OpenSSL, and want curl to take advantage of it, edit your
+ project properties to use the SSL include path, link with the SSL libs
+ and define the USE_SSLEAY symbol.
IBM OS/2
- GNU sed
- autoconf 2.13
- If you want to build with OpenSSL, SSLeay, or OpenLDAP support, you'll
- need to download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to
- port SSL libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx.
- You'll find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk.Ohme
+ If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to
+ download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL
+ libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx. You'll
+ find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk.Ohme
If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined
symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in
CFLAGS.
-OpenSSL/SSLeay
-==============
+OpenSSL
+=======
You'll find OpenSSL information at:
projects / thirdparty / curl.git / commitdiff
