+ _ _ ____ _
+ ___| | | | _ \| |
+ / __| | | | |_) | |
+ | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
+ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+
+ Old Changelog
+
+Changes done to curl and libcurl from 1997 to 2006. The most recent changes are
+always kept in the CHANGES file.
+
+Daniel (29 December 2006)
+- Make curl_easy_duphandle() set the magic number in the new handle.
+
+Daniel (22 December 2006)
+- Robert Foreman provided a prime example snippet showing how libcurl would
+ get confused and not acknowledge the 'no_proxy' variable properly once it
+ had used the proxy and you re-used the same easy handle. I made sure the
+ proxy name is properly stored in the connect struct rather than the
+ sessionhandle/easy struct.
+
+- David McCreedy fixed a bad call to getsockname() that wrongly used a size_t
+ variable to point to when it should be a socklen_t.
+
+- When setting a proxy with environment variables and (for example) running
+ 'curl [URL]' with a URL without a protocol prefix, curl would not send a
+ correct request as it failed to add the protocol prefix.
+
+Daniel (21 December 2006)
+- Robson Braga Araujo reported bug #1618359
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1618359) and subsequently provided a
+ patch for it: when downloading 2 zero byte files in a row, curl 7.16.0
+ enters an infinite loop, while curl 7.16.1-20061218 does one additional
+ unnecessary request.
+
+ Fix: During the "Major overhaul introducing http pipelining support and
+ shared connection cache within the multi handle." change, headerbytecount
+ was moved to live in the Curl_transfer_keeper structure. But that structure
+ is reset in the Transfer method, losing the information that we had about
+ the header size. This patch moves it back to the connectdata struct.
+
+Daniel (16 December 2006)
+- Brendan Jurd provided a fix that now prevents libcurl from getting a SIGPIPE
+ during certain conditions when GnuTLS is used.
+
+Daniel (11 December 2006)
+- Alexey Simak found out that when doing FTP with the multi interface and
+ something went wrong like it got a bad response code back from the server,
+ libcurl would leak memory. Added test case 538 to verify the fix.
+
+ I also noted that the connection would get cached in that case, which
+ doesn't make sense since it cannot be re-use when the authentication has
+ failed. I fixed that issue too at the same time, and also that the path
+ would be "remembered" in vain for cases where the connection was about to
+ get closed.
+
+Daniel (6 December 2006)
+- Sebastien Willemijns reported bug #1603712
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1603712) which is about connections
+ getting cut off prematurely when --limit-rate is used. While I found no such
+ problems in my tests nor in my reading of the code, I found that the
+ --limit-rate code was severly flawed (since it was moved into the lib, since
+ 7.15.5) when used with the easy interface and it didn't work as documented
+ so I reworked it somewhat and now it works for my tests.
+
+Daniel (5 December 2006)
+- Stefan Krause pointed out a compiler warning with a picky MSCV compiler when
+ passing a curl_off_t argument to the Curl_read_rewind() function which takes
+ an size_t argument. Curl_read_rewind() also had debug code left in it and it
+ was put in a different source file with no good reason when only used from
+ one single spot.
+
+- Sh Diao reported that CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY doesn't work, and indeed, there is
+ no code present in the library that receives the option. Since it was not
+ possible to use, we know that no current users exist and thus we simply
+ removed it from the docs and made the code always use the default path of
+ the code.
+
+- Jared Lundell filed bug report #1604956
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1604956) which identified setting
+ CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to zero caused libcurl to SIGSEGV. Starting now, libcurl
+ will always internally use no less than 1 entry in the connection cache.
+
+- Sh Diao reported that CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE no works, and indeed it broke in
+ the 7.16.0 release.
+
+- Martin Skinner brought back bug report #1230118 to haunt us once again.
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1230118) curl_getdate() did not work
+ properly for all input dates on Windows. It was mostly seen on some TZ time
+ zones using DST. Luckily, Martin also provided a fix.
+
+- Alexey Simak filed bug report #1600447
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1600447) in which he noted that active
+ FTP connections don't work with the multi interface. The problem is here
+ that the multi interface state machine has a state during which it can wait
+ for the data connection to connect, but the active connection is not done in
+ the same step in the sequence as the passive one is so it doesn't quite work
+ for active. The active FTP code still use a blocking function to allow the
+ remote server to connect.
+
+ The fix (work-around is a better word) for this problem is to set the
+ boolean prematurely that the data connection is completed, so that the "wait
+ for connect" phase ends at once.
+
+ The proper fix, left for the future, is of course to make the active FTP
+ case to act in a non-blocking way too.
+
+- Matt Witherspoon fixed a problem case when the CPU load went to 100% when a
+ HTTP upload was disconnected:
+
+ "What appears to be happening is that my system (Linux 2.6.17 and 2.6.13) is
+ setting *only* POLLHUP on poll() when the conditions in my previous mail
+ occur. As you can see, select.c:Curl_select() does not check for POLLHUP. So
+ basically what was happening, is poll() was returning immediately (with
+ POLLHUP set), but when Curl_select() looked at the bits, neither POLLERR or
+ POLLOUT was set. This still caused Curl_readwrite() to be called, which
+ quickly returned. Then the transfer() loop kept continuing at full speed
+ forever."
+
+Daniel (1 December 2006)
+- Toon Verwaest reported that there are servers that send the Content-Range:
+ header in a third, not suppported by libcurl, format and we agreed that we
+ could make the parser more forgiving to accept all the three found
+ variations.
+
+Daniel (25 November 2006)
+- Venkat Akella found out that libcurl did not like HTTP responses that simply
+ responded with a single status line and no headers nor body. Starting now, a
+ HTTP response on a persistent connection (i.e not set to be closed after the
+ response has been taken care of) must have Content-Length or chunked
+ encoding set, or libcurl will simply assume that there is no body.
+
+ To my horror I learned that we had no less than 57(!) test cases that did bad
+ HTTP responses like this, and even the test http server (sws) responded badly
+ when queried by the test system if it is the test system. So although the
+ actual fix for the problem was tiny, going through all the newly failing test
+ cases got really painful and boring.
+
+Daniel (24 November 2006)
+- James Housley did lots of work and introduced SFTP downloads.
+
+Daniel (13 November 2006)
+- Ron in bug #1595348 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1595348) pointed
+ out a stack overwrite (and the corresponding fix) on 64bit Windows when
+ dealing with HTTP chunked encoding.
+
+Daniel (9 November 2006)
+- Nir Soffer updated libcurl.framework.make:
+ o fix symlinks, should link to Versions, not to ./Versions
+ o indentation improvments
+
+- Dmitriy Sergeyev found a SIGSEGV with his test04.c example posted on 7 Nov
+ 2006. It turned out we wrongly assumed that the connection cache was present
+ when tearing down a connection.
+
+- Ciprian Badescu found a SIGSEGV when doing multiple TFTP transfers using the
+ multi interface, but I could also repeat it doing multiple sequential ones
+ with the easy interface. Using Ciprian's test case, I could fix it.
+
+Daniel (8 November 2006)
+- Bradford Bruce reported that when setting CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION without
+ CURLOPT_VERBOSE set to non-zero, you still got a few debug messages from the
+ SSL handshake. This is now stopped.
+
+Daniel (7 November 2006)
+- Olaf fixed a leftover problem with the CONNECT fix of his that would leave a
+ wrong error message in the error message buffer.
+
+Daniel (3 November 2006)
+- Olaf Stueben provided a patch that I edited slightly. It fixes the notorious
+ KNOWN_BUGS #25, which happens when a proxy closes the connection when
+ libcurl has sent CONNECT, as part of an authentication negotiation. Starting
+ now, libcurl will re-connect accordingly and continue the authentication as
+ it should.
+
+Daniel (2 November 2006)
+- James Housley brought support for SCP transfers, based on the libssh2 library
+ for the actual network protocol stuff.
+
+ Added these new curl_easy_setopt() options:
+
+ CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES
+ CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE
+ CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE
+
+Version 7.16.0 (30 October 2006)
+
+Daniel (25 October 2006)
+- Fixed CURLOPT_FAILONERROR to return CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR even for the
+ case when 401 or 407 are returned, *IF* no auth credentials have been given.
+ The CURLOPT_FAILONERROR option is not possible to make fool-proof for 401
+ and 407 cases when auth credentials is given, but we've now covered this
+ somewhat more.
+
+ You might get some amounts of headers transferred before this situation is
+ detected, like for when a "100-continue" is received as a response to a
+ POST/PUT and a 401 or 407 is received immediately afterwards.
+
+ Added test 281 to verify this change.
+
+Daniel (23 October 2006)
+- Ravi Pratap provided a major update with pipelining fixes. We also no longer
+ re-use connections (for pipelining) before the name resolving is done.
+
+Daniel (21 October 2006)
+- Nir Soffer made the tests/libtest/Makefile.am use a proper variable for all
+ the single test applications' link and dependences, so that you easier can
+ override those from the command line when using make.
+
+- Armel Asselin separated CA cert verification problems from problems with
+ reading the (local) CA cert file to let users easier pinpoint the actual
+ problem. CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE (77) is the new libcurl error code.
+
+Daniel (18 October 2006)
+- Removed the "protocol-guessing" for URLs with host names starting with FTPS
+ or TELNET since they are practically non-existant. This leaves us with only
+ three different prefixes that would assume the protocol is anything but
+ HTTP, and they are host names starting with "ftp.", "dict." or "ldap.".
+
+Daniel (17 October 2006)
+- Bug report #1579171 pointed out code flaws detected with "prefast", and they
+ were 1 - a too small memory clear with memset() in the threaded resolver and
+ 2 - a range of potentially bad uses of the ctype family of is*() functions
+ such as isdigit(), isalnum(), isprint() and more. The latter made me switch
+ to using our own set of these functions/macros using uppercase letters, and
+ with some extra set of crazy typecasts to avoid mistakingly passing in
+ negative numbers to the underlying is*() functions.
+
+- With Jeff Pohlmeyer's help, I fixed the expire timer when using
+ curl_multi_socket() during name resolves with c-ares and the LOW_SPEED
+ options now work fine with curl_multi_socket() as well.
+
+Daniel (16 October 2006)
+- Added a check in configure that simply tries to run a program (not when
+ cross-compiling) in order to detect problems with run-time libraries that
+ otherwise would occur when the sizeof tests for curl_off_t would run and
+ thus be much more confusing to users. The check of course should run after
+ all lib-checks are done and before any other test is used that would run an
+ executable built for testing-purposes.
+
+Dan F (13 October 2006)
+- The tagging of application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST body data sent
+ to the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION callback has been fixed (it was erroneously
+ included as part of the header). A message was also added to the
+ command line tool to show when data is being sent, enabled when
+ --verbose is used.
+
+Daniel (12 October 2006)
+- Starting now, adding an easy handle to a multi stack that was already added
+ to a multi stack will cause CURLM_BAD_EASY_HANDLE to get returned.
+
+- Jeff Pohlmeyer has been working with the hiperfifo.c example source code,
+ and while doing so it became apparent that the current timeout system for
+ the socket API really was a bit awkward since it become quite some work to
+ be sure we have the correct timeout set.
+
+ Jeff then provided the new CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION that is yet another
+ callback the app can set to get to know when the general timeout time
+ changes and thus for an application like hiperfifo.c it makes everything a
+ lot easier and nicer. There's a CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA option too of course in
+ good old libcurl tradition.
+
+ Jeff has also updated the hiperfifo.c example code to use this news.
+
+Daniel (9 October 2006)
+- Bogdan Nicula's second test case (posted Sun, 08 Oct 2006) converted to test
+ case 535 and it now runs fine. Again a problem with the pipelining code not
+ taking all possible (error) conditions into account.
+
+Daniel (6 October 2006)
+- Bogdan Nicula's hanging test case (posted Wed, 04 Oct 2006) was converted to
+ test case 533 and the test now runs fine.
+
+Daniel (4 October 2006)
+- Dmitriy Sergeyev provided an example source code that crashed CVS libcurl
+ but that worked nicely in 7.15.5. I converted it into test case 532 and
+ fixed the problem.
+
+Daniel (29 September 2006)
+- Removed a few other no-longer present options from the header file.
+
+- Support for FTP third party transfers was removed. Here's why:
+
+ o The recent multi interface changes broke it and the design of the 3rd party
+ transfers made it very hard to fix the problems
+ o It was still blocking and thus nasty for the multi interface
+ o It was a lot of extra code for a very rarely used feature
+ o It didn't use the same code as for "plain" FTP transfers, so it didn't work
+ fine for IPv6 and it didn't properly re-use connections and more
+ o There's nobody around who's willing to work on and improve the existing
+ code
+
+ This does not mean that third party transfers are banned forever, only that
+ they need to be done better if they are to be re-added in the future.
+
+ The CURLOPT_SOURCE_* options are removed from the lib and so are the --3p*
+ options from the command line tool. For this reason, I also bumped the
+ version info for the lib.
+
+Daniel (28 September 2006)
+- Reported in #1561470 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1561470), libcurl
+ would crash if a bad function sequence was used when shutting down after
+ using the multi interface (i.e using easy_cleanup after multi_cleanup) so
+ precautions have been added to make sure it doesn't any more - test case 529
+ was added to verify.
+
+Daniel (27 September 2006)
+- The URL in the cookie jar file is now changed since it was giving a 404.
+ Reported by Timothy Stone. The new URL will take the visitor to a curl web
+ site mirror with the document.
+
+Daniel (24 September 2006)
+- Bernard Leak fixed configure --with-gssapi-libs.
+
+- Cory Nelson made libcurl use the WSAPoll() function if built for Windows
+ Vista (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600)
+
+Daniel (23 September 2006)
+- Mike Protts added --ftp-ssl-control to make curl use FTP-SSL, but only
+ encrypt the control connection and use the data connection "plain".
+
+- Dmitriy Sergeyev provided a patch that made the SOCKS[45] code work better
+ as it now will read the full data sent from servers. The SOCKS-related code
+ was also moved to the new lib/socks.c source file.
+
+Daniel (21 September 2006)
+- Added test case 531 in an attempt to repeat bug report #1561470
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1561470) that is said to crash when an
+ FTP upload fails with the multi interface. It did not, but I made a failed
+ upload still assume the control connection to be fine.
+
+Daniel (20 September 2006)
+- Armel Asselin fixed problems when you gave a proxy URL with user name and
+ empty password or no password at all. Test case 278 and 279 were added to
+ verify.
+
+Daniel (12 September 2006)
+- Added docs/examples/10-at-a-time.c by Michael Wallner
+
+- Added docs/examples/hiperfifo.c by Jeff Pohlmeyer
+
+Daniel (11 September 2006)
+- Fixed my breakage from earlier today so that doing curl_easy_cleanup() on a
+ handle that is part of a multi handle first removes the handle from the
+ stack.
+
+- Added CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE and --no-sessionid to disable SSL
+ session-ID re-use on demand since there obviously are broken servers out
+ there that misbehave with session-IDs used.
+
+- Jeff Pohlmeyer presented a *multi_socket()-using program that exposed a
+ problem with it (SIGSEGV-style). It clearly showed that the existing
+ socket-state and state-difference function wasn't good enough so I rewrote
+ it and could then re-run Jeff's program without any crash. The previous
+ version clearly could miss to tell the application when a handle changed
+ from using one socket to using another.
+
+ While I was at it (as I could use this as a means to track this problem
+ down), I've now added a 'magic' number to the easy handle struct that is
+ inited at curl_easy_init() time and cleared at curl_easy_cleanup() time that
+ we can use internally to detect that an easy handle seems to be fine, or at
+ least not closed or freed (freeing in debug builds fill the area with 0x13
+ bytes but in normal builds we can of course not assume any particular data
+ in the freed areas).
+
+Daniel (9 September 2006)
+- Michele Bini fixed how the hostname is put in NTLM packages. As servers
+ don't expect fully qualified names we need to cut them off at the first dot.
+
+- Peter Sylvester cleaned up and fixed the getsockname() uses in ftp.c. Some
+ of them can be completetly removed though...
+
+Daniel (6 September 2006)
+- Ravi Pratap and I have implemented HTTP Pipelining support. Enable it for a
+ multi handle using CURLMOPT_PIPELINING and all HTTP connections done on that
+ handle will be attempted to get pipelined instead of done in parallell as
+ they are performed otherwise.
+
+ As a side-effect from this work, connections are now shared between all easy
+ handles within a multi handle, so if you use N easy handles for transfers,
+ each of them can pick up and re-use a connection that was previously used by
+ any of the handles, be it the same or one of the others.
+
+ This separation of the tight relationship between connections and easy
+ handles is most noticable when you close easy handles that have been used in
+ a multi handle and check amount of used memory or watch the debug output, as
+ there are times when libcurl will keep the easy handle around for a while
+ longer to be able to close it properly. Like for sending QUIT to close down
+ an FTP connection.
+
+ This is a major change.
+
+Daniel (4 September 2006)
+- Dmitry Rechkin (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1551412) provided a
+ patch that while not fixing things very nicely, it does make the SOCKS5
+ proxy connection slightly better as it now acknowledges the timeout for
+ connection and it no longer segfaults in the case when SOCKS requires
+ authentication and you did not specify username:password.
+
+Daniel (31 August 2006)
+- Dmitriy Sergeyev found and fixed a multi interface flaw when using asynch
+ name resolves. It could get stuck in the wrong state.
+
+Gisle (29 August 2006)
+- Added support for other MS-DOS compilers (desides djgpp). All MS-DOS
+ compiler now uses the same config.dos file (renamed to config.h by
+ make). libcurl now builds fine using Watcom and Metaware's High-C
+ using the Watt-32 tcp/ip-stack.
+
+Daniel (29 August 2006)
+- David McCreedy added CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA to
+ allow applications to set their own socket options.
+
+Daniel (25 August 2006)
+- Armel Asselin reported that the 'running_handles' counter wasn't updated
+ properly if you removed a "live" handle from a multi handle with
+ curl_multi_remove_handle().
+
+Daniel (22 August 2006)
+- David McCreedy fixed a remaining mistake from the August 19 TYPE change.
+
+- Peter Sylvester pointed out a flaw in the AllowServerConnect() in the FTP
+ code when doing pure ipv6 EPRT connections.
+
+Daniel (19 August 2006)
+- Based on a patch by Armel Asselin, the FTP code no longer re-issues the TYPE
+ command on subsequent requests on a re-used connection unless it has to.
+
+- Armel Asselin fixed a crash in the FTP code when using SINGLECWD mode and
+ files in the root directory.
+
+- Andrew Biggs pointed out a "Expect: 100-continue" flaw where libcurl didn't
+ send the whole request at once, even though the Expect: header was disabled
+ by the application. An effect of this change is also that small (< 1024
+ bytes) POSTs are now always sent without Expect: header since we deem it
+ more costly to bother about that than the risk that we send the data in
+ vain.
+
+Daniel (9 August 2006)
+- Armel Asselin made the CURLOPT_PREQUOTE option work fine even when
+ CURLOPT_NOBODY is set true. PREQUOTE is then run roughly at the same place
+ in the command sequence as it would have run if there would've been a
+ transfer.
+
+Daniel (8 August 2006)
+- Fixed a flaw in the "Expect: 100-continue" treatment. If you did two POSTs
+ on a persistent connection and allowed the first to use that header, you
+ could not disable it for the second request.
+
+Daniel (7 August 2006)
+- Domenico Andreolfound a quick build error which happened because
+ src/config.h.in was not a proper duplcate of lib/config.h.in which it
+ should've been and this was due to the maketgz script not doing the cp
+ properly.
+
+Version 7.15.5 (7 August 2006)
+
+Daniel (2 August 2006)
+- Mark Lentczner fixed how libcurl was not properly doing chunked encoding
+ if the header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" was set by the application.
+ http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1531838
+
+Daniel (1 August 2006)
+- Maciej Karpiuk fixed a crash that would occur if we passed Curl_strerror()
+ an unknown error number on glibc systems.
+ http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1532289
+
+Daniel (31 July 2006)
+- *ALERT* curl_multi_socket() and curl_multi_socket_all() got modified
+ prototypes: they both now provide the number of running handles back to the
+ calling function. It makes the functions resemble the good old
+ curl_multi_perform() more and provides a nice way to know when the multi
+ handle goes empty.
+
+ ALERT2: don't use the curl_multi_socket*() functionality in anything
+ production-like until I say it's somewhat settled, as I suspect there might
+ be some further API changes before I'm done...
+
+Daniel (28 July 2006)
+- Yves Lejeune fixed so that replacing Content-Type: when doing multipart
+ formposts work exactly the way you want it (and the way you'd assume it
+ works).
+
+Daniel (27 July 2006)
+- David McCreedy added --ftp-ssl-reqd which makes curl *require* SSL for both
+ control and data connection, as the existing --ftp-ssl option only requests
+ it.
+
+- [Hiper-related work] Added a function called curl_multi_assign() that will
+ set a private pointer added to the internal libcurl hash table for the
+ particular socket passed in to this function:
+
+ CURLMcode curl_multi_assign(CURLM *multi_handle,
+ curl_socket_t sockfd,
+ void *sockp);
+
+ 'sockp' being a custom pointer set by the application to be associated with
+ this socket. The socket has to be already existing and in-use by libcurl,
+ like having already called the callback telling about its existance.
+
+ The set hashp pointer will then be passed on to the callback in upcoming
+ calls when this same socket is used (in the brand new 'socketp' argument).
+
+Daniel (26 July 2006)
+- Dan Nelson added the CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER libcurl option and curl
+ tool option named --ftp-alternative-to-user. It provides a mean to send a
+ particular command if the normal USER/PASS approach fails.
+
+- Michael Jerris added magic that builds lib/curllib.vcproj automatically for
+ newer MSVC.
+
+Daniel (25 July 2006)
+- Georg Horn made the transfer timeout error message include more details.
+
+Daniel (20 July 2006)
+- David McCreedy fixed a build error when building libcurl with HTTP disabled,
+ problem added with the curl_formget() patch.
+
+Daniel (17 July 2006)
+- Jari Sundell did some excellent research and bug tracking, figured out that
+ we did wrong and patched it: When nodes were removed from the splay tree,
+ and we didn't properly remove it from the splay tree when an easy handle was
+ removed from a multi stack and thus we could wrongly leave a node in the
+ splay tree pointing to (bad) memory.
+
+Daniel (14 July 2006)
+- David McCreedy fixed a flaw where the CRLF counter wasn't properly cleared
+ for FTP ASCII transfers.
+
+Daniel (8 July 2006)
+- Ates Goral pointed out that libcurl's cookie parser did case insensitive
+ string comparisons on the path which is incorrect and provided a patch that
+ fixes this. I edited test case 8 to include details that test for this.
+
+- Ingmar Runge provided a source snippet that caused a crash. The reason for
+ the crash was that libcurl internally was a bit confused about who owned the
+ DNS cache at all times so if you created an easy handle that uses a shared
+ DNS cache and added that to a multi handle it would crash. Now we keep more
+ careful internal track of exactly what kind of DNS cache each easy handle
+ uses: None, Private (allocated for and used only by this single handle),
+ Shared (points to a cache held by a shared object), Global (points to the
+ global cache) or Multi (points to the cache within the multi handle that is
+ automatically shared between all easy handles that are added with private
+ caches).
+
+Daniel (4 July 2006)
+- Toshiyuki Maezawa fixed a problem where you couldn't override the
+ Proxy-Connection: header when using a proxy and not doing CONNECT.
+
+Daniel (24 June 2006)
+- Michael Wallner added curl_formget(), which allows an application to extract
+ (serialise) a previously built formpost (as with curl_formadd()).
+
+Daniel (23 June 2006)
+- Arve Knudsen found a flaw in curl_multi_fdset() for systems where
+ curl_socket_t is unsigned (like Windows) that could cause it to wrongly
+ return a max fd of -1.
+
+Daniel (20 June 2006)
+- Peter Silva introduced CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE and
+ CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE that limit tha maximum rate libcurl is allowed
+ to send or receive data. This kind of adds the the command line tool's
+ option --limit-rate to the library.
+
+ The rate limiting logic in the curl app is now removed and is instead
+ provided by libcurl itself. Transfer rate limiting will now also work for -d
+ and -F, which it didn't before.
+
+Daniel (19 June 2006)
+- Made -K on a file that couldn't be read cause a warning to be displayed.
+
+Daniel (13 June 2006)
+- Dan Fandrich implemented --enable-hidden-symbols configure option to enable
+ -fvisibility=hidden on gcc >= 4.0. This reduces the size of the libcurl
+ binary and speeds up dynamic linking by hiding all the internal symbols from
+ the symbol table.
+
+Version 7.15.4 (12 June 2006)
+
+Daniel (8 June 2006)
+- Brian Dessent fixed the code for cygwin in three distinct ways:
+
+ The first modifies {lib,src}/setup.h to not include the winsock headers
+ under Cygwin. This fixes the reported build problem. Cygwin attempts as
+ much as possible to emulate a posix environment under Windows. This means
+ that WIN32 is *not* #defined and (to the extent possible) everything is done
+ as it would be on a *ix type system. Thus <sys/socket.h> is the proper
+ include, and even though winsock2.h is present, including it just introduces
+ a whole bunch of incompatible socket API stuff.
+
+ The second is a patch I've included in the Cygwin binary packages for a
+ while. It skips two unnecessary library checks (-lwinmm and -lgdi32). The
+ checks are innocuous and they do succeed, but they pollute LIBS with
+ unnecessary stuff which gets recorded as such in the libcurl.la file, which
+ brings them into the build of any libcurl-downstream. As far as I know
+ these libs are really only necessary for mingw, so alternatively they could
+ be designed to only run if $host matches *-*-mingw* but I took the safer
+ route of skipping them for *-*-cygwin*.
+
+ The third patch replaces all uses of the ancient and obsolete __CYGWIN32__
+ with __CYGWIN__. Ref: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01520.html>.
+
+Daniel (7 June 2006)
+- Mikael Sennerholm provided a patch that added NTLM2 session response support
+ to libcurl. The 21 NTLM test cases were again modified to comply...
+
+Daniel (27 May 2006)
+- Óscar Morales Vivó updated the libcurl.framework.make file.
+
+Daniel (26 May 2006)
+- Olaf Stüben fixed a bug that caused Digest authentication with md5-sess to
+ fail. When using the md5-sess, the result was not Md5 encoded and Base64
+ transformed.
+
+Daniel (25 May 2006)
+- Michael Wallner provided a patch that allows "SESS" to be set with
+ CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, which then makes all session cookies get cleared.
+
+Daniel (24 May 2006)
+- Tor Arntsen made test 271 run fine again since the TFTP path fix.
+
+Daniel (23 May 2006)
+- Martin Michlmayr filed debian bug report #367954, but the same error also
+ showed up in the autobuilds. It seems a rather long-since introduced shell
+ script flaw in the configure script suddenly was detected by the bash
+ version in Debian Unstable. It had previously passed undetected by all
+ shells used so far...
+
+- David McCreedy updated lib/config-tpf.h
+
+Daniel (11 May 2006)
+- Fixed the configure's check for old-style SSLeay headers since I fell over a
+ case with a duplicate file name (a krb4 implementation with an err.h
+ file). I converted the check to manually make sure three of the headers are
+ present before considering them fine.
+
+- David McCreedy provided a fix for CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET that does extended
+ checks on the to-be-returned socket to make sure it truly seems to be alive
+ and well. For SSL connection it (only) uses OpenSSL functions.
+
+Daniel (10 May 2006)
+- Fixed DICT in two aspects:
+
+ 1 - allow properly URL-escaped words, like using %20 for spaces
+
+ 2 - properly escape certain letters within a word to comply to the RFC2229
+
+Daniel (9 May 2006)
+- Andreas Ntaflos reported a bug in libcurl.m4: When configuring my GNU
+ autotools project, which optionally (default=yes) uses libcurl on a system
+ without a (usable) libcurl installation, but not specifying
+ `--without-libcurl', configure determines correctly that no libcurl is
+ available, however, the LIBCURL variable gets expanded to `LIBCURL = -lcurl'
+ in the resulting Makefiles.
+
+ David Shaw fixed the flaw.
+
+- Robson Braga Araujo fixed two problems in the recently added non-blocking SSL
+ connects. The state machine was not reset properly so that subsequent
+ connects using the same handle would fail, and there were two memory leaks.
+
+- Robson Braga Araujo fixed a memory leak when you added an easy handle to a
+ multi stack and that easy handle had already been used to do one or more
+ easy interface transfers, as then the code threw away the previously used
+ DNS cache without properly freeing it.
+
+Daniel (8 May 2006)
+- Dan Fandrich went over the TFTP code and he pointed out and fixed numerous
+ problems:
+
+ * The received file is corrupted when a packet is lost and retransmitted
+ (this is a serious problem!)
+
+ * Transmitting a file aborts if a block is lost and retransmitted
+
+ * Data is stored in the wrong location in the buffer for uploads, so uploads
+ always fail (I don't see how it could have ever worked, but it did on x86
+ at least)
+
+ * A number of calls are made to strerror instead of Curl_strerror, making
+ the code not thread safe
+
+ * There are references to errno instead of Curl_sockerrno(), causing
+ incorrect error messages on Windows
+
+ * The file name includes a leading / which violates RFC3617. Doing something
+ similar to ftp, where two slashes after the host name means an absolute
+ reference seems a reasonable extension to fix this.
+
+ * Failures in EBCDIC conversion are not propagated up to the caller but are
+ silently ignored
+
+- Fixed known bug #28. The TFTP code no longer assumes a packed struct and
+ thus works reliably on more platforms.
+
+Daniel (5 May 2006)
+- Roland Blom filed bug report #1481217
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1481217), with follow-ups by Michele
+ Bini and David Byron. libcurl previously wrongly used GetLastError() on
+ windows to get error details after socket-related function calls, when it
+ really should use WSAGetLastError() instead.
+
+ When changing to this, the former function Curl_ourerrno() is now instead
+ called Curl_sockerrno() as it is necessary to only use it to get errno from
+ socket-related functions as otherwise it won't work as intended on Windows.
+
+Daniel (4 May 2006)
+- Mark Eichin submitted bug report #1480821
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1480821) He found and identified a
+ problem with how libcurl dealt with GnuTLS and a case where gnutls returned
+ GNUTLS_E_AGAIN indicating it would block. It would then return an unexpected
+ return code, making Curl_ssl_send() confuse the upper layer - causing random
+ 28 bytes trash data to get inserted in the transfered stream.
+
+ The proper fix was to make the Curl_gtls_send() function return the proper
+ return codes that the callers would expect. The Curl_ossl_send() function
+ already did this.
+
+Daniel (2 May 2006)
+- Added a --checkfor option to curl-config to allow users to easier
+ write for example shell scripts that test for the presence of a
+ new-enough libcurl version. If --checkfor is given a version string
+ newer than what is currently installed, curl-config will return a
+ non-zero exit code and output a string about the unfulfilled
+ requirement.
+
+Daniel (26 April 2006)
+- David McCreedy brought initial line end conversions when doing FTP ASCII
+ transfers. They are done on non-windows systems and translate CRLF to LF.
+
+ I modified the 15 LIST-using test cases accordingly. The downside is that now
+ we'll have even more trouble to get the tests to run on Windows since they
+ should get CRLF newlines left intact which the *nix versions don't. I figure
+ the only sane thing to do is to add some kind of [newline] macro for the test
+ case files and have them expanded to the proper native line ending when the
+ test cases are run. This is however left to implement.
+
+Daniel (25 April 2006)
+- Paul Querna fixed libcurl to better deal with deflate content encoding
+ when the stream (wrongly) lacks a proper zlib header. This seems to be the
+ case on too many actual server implementations.
+
+Daniel (21 April 2006)
+- Ale Vesely fixed CURLOPT_INTERFACE when using a hostname.
+
+Daniel (19 April 2006)
+- Based on previous info from Tor Arntsen, I made configure detect the Intel
+ ICC compiler to add a compiler option for it, in order for configure to
+ properly be able to detect function prototypes.
+
+- Robson Braga Araujo provided a patch that makes libcurl less eager to close
+ the control connection when using FTP, for example when you remove an easy
+ handle from a multi stack.
+
+- Applied a patch by Ates Goral and Katie Wang that corrected my bad fix
+ attempt from April 10.
+
+Daniel (11 April 2006)
+- #1468330 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1468330) pointed out a bad
+ typecast in the curl tool leading to a crash with (64bit?) VS2005 (at least)
+ since the struct timeval field tv_sec is an int while time_t is 64bit.
+
+Daniel (10 April 2006)
+- Ates Goral found out that if you specified both CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT and
+ CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, the _longer_ time would wrongly be used for the SSL
+ connection time-out!
+
+- I merged my hiper patch (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/hiper/) into the main
+ sources. See the lib/README.multi_socket for implementation story with
+ details. Don't expect it to work fully yet. I don't intend to blow any
+ whistles or ring any bells about it until I'm more convinced it works at
+ least somewhat reliably.
+
+Daniel (7 April 2006)
+- David McCreedy's EBCDIC and TPF changes. Three new curl_easy_setopt()
+ options (callbacks) were added:
+
+ CONV_FROM_NETWORK_FUNCTION
+ CONV_TO_NETWORK_FUNCTION
+ CONV_FROM_UTF8_FUNCTION
+
+Daniel (5 April 2006)
+- Michele Bini modified the NTLM code to work for his "weird IIS case"
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2006-02/0154.html) by adding the NTLM hash
+ function in addition to the LM one and making some other adjustments in the
+ order the different parts of the data block are sent in the Type-2 reply.
+ Inspiration for this work was taken from the Firefox NTLM implementation.
+
+ I edited the existing 21(!) NTLM test cases to run fine with these news. Due
+ to the fact that we now properly include the host name in the Type-2 message
+ the test cases now only compare parts of that chunk.
+
+Daniel (28 March 2006)
+- #1451929 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1451929) detailed a bug that
+ occurred when asking libcurl to follow HTTP redirects and the original URL
+ had more than one question mark (?). Added test case 276 to verify.
+
+Daniel (27 March 2006)
+- David Byron found a problem multiple -d options when libcurl was built with
+ --enable-debug, as then curl used free() on memory allocated both with
+ normal malloc() and with libcurl-provided functions, when the latter MUST be
+ freed with curl_free() in debug builds.
+
+Daniel (26 March 2006)
+- Tor Arntsen figured out that TFTP was broken on a lot of systems since we
+ called bind() with a too big argument in the 3rd parameter and at least
+ Tru64, AIX and IRIX seem to be very picky about it.
+
+Daniel (21 March 2006)
+- David McCreedy added CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH.
+
+- Xavier Bouchoux made the SSL connection non-blocking for the multi interface
+ (when using OpenSSL).
+
+- Tor Arntsen fixed the AIX Toolbox RPM spec
+
+Daniel (20 March 2006)
+- David McCreedy fixed libcurl to no longer ignore AUTH failures and now it
+ reacts properly according to the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL setting.
+
+- Dan Fandrich fixed two TFTP problems: Fixed a bug whereby a received file
+ whose length was a multiple of 512 bytes could have random garbage
+ appended. Also, stop processing TFTP packets which are too short to be
+ legal.
+
+- Ilja van Sprundel reported a possible crash in the curl tool when using
+ "curl hostwithoutslash -d data -G"
+
+Version 7.15.3 (20 March 2006)
+
+Daniel (20 March 2006)
+- VULNERABILITY reported to us by Ulf Harnhammar.
+
+ libcurl uses the given file part of a TFTP URL in a manner that allows a
+ malicious user to overflow a heap-based memory buffer due to the lack of
+ boundary check.
+
+ This overflow happens if you pass in a URL with a TFTP protocol prefix
+ ("tftp://"), using a valid host and a path part that is longer than 512
+ bytes.
+
+ The affected flaw can be triggered by a redirect, if curl/libcurl is told to
+ follow redirects and an HTTP server points the client to a tftp URL with the
+ characteristics described above.
+
+ The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name
+ CVE-2006-1061 to this issue.
+
+Daniel (16 March 2006)
+- Tor Arntsen provided a RPM spec file for AIX Toolbox, that now is included
+ in the release archive.
+
+Daniel (14 March 2006)
+- David McCreedy fixed:
+
+ a bad SSL error message when OpenSSL certificates are verified fine.
+
+ a missing return code assignment in the FTP code
+
+Daniel (7 March 2006)
+- Markus Koetter filed debian bug report #355715 which identified a problem
+ with the multi interface and multi-part formposts. The fix from February
+ 22nd could make the Curl_done() function get called twice on the same
+ connection and it was not designed for that and thus tried to call free() on
+ an already freed memory area!
+
+- Peter Heuchert made sure the CURLFTPSSL_CONTROL setting for CURLOPT_FTP_SSL
+ is used properly.
+
+Daniel (6 March 2006)
+- Lots of users on Windows have reported getting the "SSL: couldn't set
+ callback" error message so I've now made the setting of that callback not be
+ as critical as before. The function is only used for additional loggging/
+ trace anyway so a failure just means slightly less data. It should still be
+ able to proceed and connect fine to the server.
+
+Daniel (4 March 2006)
+- Thomas Klausner provided a patch written by Todd Vierling in bug report
+ #1442471 that fixes a build problem on Interix.
+
+Daniel (2 March 2006)
+- FTP upload without a file name part in the URL now causes
+ curl_easy_perform() to return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT. Previously it allowed the
+ upload but named the file "(nil)" (without the quotes). Test case 524
+ verifies.
+
+- Added a check for getprotobyname in configure so that it'll be used, thanks
+ to Gisle Vanem's change the other day.
+
+Daniel (28 February 2006)
+- Dan Fandrich prevented curl from getting stuck in an endless loop in case we
+ are out of file handles very early in curl's code where it makes sure that
+ 0, 1 and 2 aren't gonna be used by the lib for transfers.
+
+Daniel (27 February 2006)
+- Marty Kuhrt pointed out that there were two VMS-specific files missing in
+ the release archive.
+
+Version 7.15.2 (27 February 2006)
+
+Daniel (22 February 2006)
+- Lots of work and analysis by "xbx___" in bug #1431750
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1431750) helped me identify and fix two
+ different but related bugs:
+
+ 1) Removing an easy handle from a multi handle before the transfer is done
+ could leave a connection in the connection cache for that handle that is
+ in a state that isn't suitable for re-use. A subsequent re-use could then
+ read from a NULL pointer and segfault.
+
+ 2) When an easy handle was removed from the multi handle, there could be an
+ outstanding c-ares DNS name resolve request. When the response arrived,
+ it caused havoc since the connection struct it "belonged" to could've
+ been freed already.
+
+ Now Curl_done() is called when an easy handle is removed from a multi handle
+ pre-maturely (that is, before the transfer was complteted). Curl_done() also
+ makes sure to cancel all (if any) outstanding c-ares requests.
+
+Daniel (21 February 2006)
+- Peter Su added support for SOCKS4 proxies. Enable this by setting the proxy
+ type to the already provided type CURLPROXY_SOCKS4.
+
+ I added a --socks4 option that works like the current --socks5 option but
+ instead use the socks4 protocol.
+
+Daniel (20 February 2006)
+- Shmulik Regev fixed an issue with multi-pass authentication and compressed
+ content when libcurl didn't honor the internal ignorebody flag.
+
+Daniel (18 February 2006)
+- Ulf Härnhammar fixed a format string (printf style) problem in the Negotiate
+ code. It should however not be the cause of any troubles. He also fixed a
+ few similar problems in the HTTP test server code.
+
+Daniel (17 February 2006)
+- Shmulik Regev provided a fix for the DNS cache when using short life times,
+ as previously it could be holding on to old cached entries longer than
+ requested.
+
+Daniel (11 February 2006)
+- Karl Moerder added the CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY and CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET options
+ that an app can use to let libcurl only connect to a remote host and then
+ extract the socket from libcurl. libcurl will then not attempt to do any
+ transfer at all after the connect is done.
+
+- Kent Boortz improved the configure check for GnuTLS to properly set LIBS
+ instead of LDFLAGS.
+
+Daniel (8 February 2006)
+- Philippe Vaucher provided a brilliant piece of test code that show a problem
+ with re-used FTP connections. If the second request on the same connection
+ was set not to fetch a "body", libcurl could get confused and consider it an
+ attempt to use a dead connection and would go acting mighty strange.
+
+Daniel (2 February 2006)
+- Make --limit-rate [num] mean bytes. It used to be that but it broke in my
+ change done in November 2005.
+
+Daniel (30 January 2006)
+- Added CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE to libcurl. Set with the
+ curl tool with --local-port. Plain and simply set the range of ports to bind
+ the local end of connections to. Implemented on to popular demand.
+
+- Based on an error report by Philippe Vaucher, we no longer count a retried
+ connection setup as a follow-redirect. It turns out 1) this fails when a FTP
+ connection is re-setup and 2) it does make the max-redirs counter behave
+ wrong.
+
+Daniel (24 January 2006)
+- Michal Marek provided a patch for FTP that makes libcurl continue to try
+ PASV even after EPSV returned a positive response code, if libcurl failed to
+ connect to the port number the EPSV response said. Obviously some people are
+ going through protocol-sensitive firewalls (or similar) that don't
+ understand EPSV and then they don't allow the second connection unless PASV
+ was used. This also called for a minor fix of test case 238.
+
+Daniel (20 January 2006)
+- Duane Cathey was one of our friends who reported that curl -P [IP]
+ (CURLOPT_FTPPORT) didn't work for ipv6-enabed curls if the IP wasn't a
+ "native" IP while it works fine for ipv6-disabled builds!
+
+ In the process of fixing this, I removed the support for LPRT since I can't
+ think of many reasons to keep doing it and asking on the mailing list didn't
+ reveal anyone else that could either. The code that sends EPRT and PORT is
+ now also a lot simpler than before (IMHO).
+
+Daniel (19 January 2006)
+- Jon Turner pointed out that doing -P [hostname] (CURLOPT_FTPPORT) with curl
+ (built ipv4-only) didn't work.
+
+Daniel (18 January 2006)
+- As reported in bug #1408742 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1408742),
+ the configure script complained about a missing "missing" script if you ran
+ configure within a path whose name included one or more spaces. This is due
+ to a flaw in automake (1.9.6 and earlier). I've now worked around it by
+ including an "overloaded" version of the AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN script that'll
+ be used instead of the one automake ships with. This kludge needs to be
+ removed once we get an automake version with this problem corrected.
+ Possibly we'll then need to convert this into a kludge depending on what
+ automake version that is used and that is gonna be painful and I don't even
+ want to think about that now...!
+
+Daniel (17 January 2006)
+- David Shaw: Here is the latest libcurl.m4 autoconf tests. It is updated with
+ the latest features and protocols that libcurl supports and has a minor fix
+ to better deal with the obscure case where someone has more than one libcurl
+ installed at the same time.
+
+Daniel (16 January 2006)
+- David Shaw finally removed all traces of Gopher and we are now officially
+ not supporting it. It hasn't been functioning for years anyway, so this is
+ just finally stating what already was true. And a cleanup at the same time.
+
+- Bryan Henderson turned the 'initialized' variable for curl_global_init()
+ into a counter, and thus you can now do multiple curl_global_init() and you
+ are then supposed to do the same amount of calls to curl_global_cleanup().
+ Bryan has also updated the docs accordingly.
+
+Daniel (13 January 2006)
+- Andrew Benham fixed a race condition in the test suite that could cause the
+ test script to kill all processes in the current process group!
+
+Daniel (12 January 2006)
+- Michael Jahn:
+
+ Fixed FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV to "do right" when used on FTP thru
+ HTTP proxy.
+
+ Fixed PROXYTUNNEL to work fine when you do ftp through a proxy. It would
+ previously overwrite internal memory and cause unpredicted behaviour!
+
+Daniel (11 January 2006)
+- I decided to document the "secret option" here now, as I've received *NO*
+ feedback at all on my mailing list requests from November 2005:
+
+ I'm looking for feedback and comments. I added some experimental code the
+ other day, that allows a libcurl user to select what method libcurl should
+ use to reach a file on a FTP(S) server.
+
+ This functionality is available in CVS code and in recent daily snapshots.
+
+ Let me explain...
+
+ The current name for the option is CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD (--ftp-method for
+ the command line tool) and you set it to a long (there are currenly no
+ defines for the argument values, just plain numericals). You can set three
+ different "methods" that do this:
+
+ 1 multicwd - like today, curl will do a single CWD operation for each path
+ part in the given URL. For deep hierarchies this means very many
+ commands. This is how RFC1738 says it should be done. This is the
+ default.
+
+ 2 nocwd - no CWD at all is done, curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give
+ a full path to the server.
+
+ 3 singlecwd - make one CWD with the full target directory and then operate
+ on the file "normally".
+
+ (With the command line tool you do --ftp-method [METHOD], where [METHOD] is
+ one of "multicwd", "nocwd" or "singlecwd".)
+
+ What feedback I'm interested in:
+
+ 1 - Do they work at all? Do you find servers where one of these don't work?
+
+ 2 - What would proper names for the option and its arguments be, if we
+ consider this feature good enough to get included and documented in
+ upcoming releases?
+
+ 3 - Should we make libcurl able to "walk through" these options in case of
+ (path related) failures, or should it fail and let the user redo any
+ possible retries?
+
+ (This option is not documented in any man page just yet since I'm not sure
+ these names will be used or if the functionality will end up exactly like
+ this. And for the same reasons we have no test cases for these yet.)
+
+Daniel (10 January 2006)
+- When using a bad path over FTP, as in when libcurl couldn't CWD into all
+ given subdirs, libcurl would still "remember" the full path as if it is the
+ current directory libcurl is in so that the next curl_easy_perform() would
+ get really confused if it tried the same path again - as it would not issue
+ any CWD commands at all, assuming it is already in the "proper" dir.
+
+ Starting now, a failed CWD command sets a flag that prevents the path to be
+ "remembered" after returning.
+
+Daniel (7 January 2006)
+- Michael Jahn fixed so that the second CONNECT when doing FTP over a HTTP
+ proxy actually used a new connection and not sent the second request on the
+ first socket!
+
+Daniel (6 January 2006)
+- Alexander Lazic made the buildconf run the buildconf in the ares dir if that
+ is present instead of trying to mimic that script in curl's buildconf
+ script.
+
+Daniel (3 January 2006)
+- Andres Garcia made the TFTP test server build with mingw.
+Daniel (16 December 2005)
+- Jean Jacques Drouin pointed out that you could only have a user name or
+ password of 127 bytes or less embedded in a URL, where actually the code
+ uses a 255 byte buffer for it! Modified now to use the full buffer size.
+
+Daniel (12 December 2005)
+- Dov Murik corrected the HTTP_ONLY define to disable the TFTP support properly
+
+Version 7.15.1 (7 December 2005)
+
+Daniel (6 December 2005)
+- Full text here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20051207.html Pointed out by
+ Stefan Esser.
+
+ VULNERABILITY
+
+ libcurl's URL parser function can overflow a malloced buffer in two ways, if
+ given a too long URL.
+
+ These overflows happen if you
+
+ 1 - pass in a URL with no protocol (like "http://") prefix, using no slash
+ and the string is 256 bytes or longer. This leads to a single zero byte
+ overflow of the malloced buffer.
+
+ 2 - pass in a URL with only a question mark as separator (no slash) between
+ the host and the query part of the URL. This leads to a single zero byte
+ overflow of the malloced buffer.
+
+ Both overflows can be made with the same input string, leading to two single
+ zero byte overwrites.
+
+ The affected flaw cannot be triggered by a redirect, but the long URL must
+ be passed in "directly" to libcurl. It makes this a "local" problem. Of
+ course, lots of programs may still pass in user-provided URLs to libcurl
+ without doing much syntax checking of their own, allowing a user to exploit
+ this vulnerability.
+
+ There is no known exploit at the time of this writing.
+
+
+Daniel (2 December 2005)
+- Jamie Newton pointed out that libcurl's file:// code would close() a zero
+ file descriptor if given a non-existing file.
+
+Daniel (24 November 2005)
+- Doug Kaufman provided a set of patches to make curl build fine on DJGPP
+ again using configure.
+
+- Yang Tse provided a whole series of patches to clear up compiler warnings on
+ MSVC 6.
+
+Daniel (17 November 2005)
+- I extended a patch from David Shaw to make libcurl _always_ provide an error
+ string in the given error buffer to address the flaw mention on 21 sep 2005.
+
+Daniel (16 November 2005)
+- Applied Albert Chin's patch that makes the libcurl.pc pkgconfig file get
+ installed on 'make install' time.
+
+Daniel (14 November 2005)
+- Quagmire reported that he needed to raise a NTLM buffer for SSPI to work
+ properly for a case, and so we did. We raised it even for non-SSPI builds
+ but it should not do any harm. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1356715
+
+- Jan Kunder's debian bug report
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338680 identified a weird
+ error message for when you try to upload a file and the requested directory
+ doesn't exist on the target server.
+
+- Yang Tse fixed compiler warnings in lib/ssluse.c with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and in
+ lib/memdebug.h that showed up in his msvc builds.
+
+Daniel (13 November 2005)
+- Debian bug report 338681 by Jan Kunder: make curl better detect and report
+ bad limit-rate units:
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338681 Now curl will return
+ error if a bad unit is used.
+
+- Thanks to this nice summary of poll() implementations:
+ http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/06/poll.html and further tests by Eugene
+ Kotlyarov, we now know that cygwin's poll returns only POLLHUP on remote
+ connectin closure so we check for that case (too) and re-enable poll for
+ cygwin builds.
+
+Daniel (12 November 2005)
+- Eugene Kotlyarov found out that cygwin's poll() function isn't doing things
+ right: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2005-11/0045.html so we now disable
+ poll() and use select() on cygwin too (we already do the same choice on Mac
+ OS X)
+
+- Dima Barsky patched problem #1348930: the GnuTLS code completely ignored
+ client certificates! (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1348930).
+
+Daniel (10 November 2005)
+- David Lang fixed IPv6 support for TFTP!
+
+- Introducing range stepping to the curl globbing support. Now you can specify
+ step counter by adding :[num] within the brackets when specifying a range:
+
+ [1-100:10]
+ [a-z:2]
+
+ If no step counter is set, it defaults to 1 as before:
+
+ [1-100]
+ [d-h]
+
+Daniel (8 November 2005)
+- Removed the use of AI_CANONNAME in the IPv6-enabled resolver functions since
+ we really have no use for reverse lookups of the address.
+
+ I truly hope these are the last reverse lookups we had lingering in the
+ code!
+
+- Dmitry Bartsevich discovered some issues in compatibilty of SSPI-enabled
+ version of libcurl with different Windows versions. Current version of
+ libcurl imports SSPI functions from secur32.dll. However, under Windows NT
+ 4.0 these functions are located in security.dll, under Windows 9x - in
+ secur32.dll and Windows 2000 and XP contains both these DLLs (security.dll
+ just forwards calls to secur32.dll).
+
+ Dmitry's patch loads proper library dynamically depending on Windows
+ version. Function InitSecurityInterface() is used to obtain pointers to all
+ of SSPI function in one structure.
+
+Daniel (31 October 2005)
+- Vilmos Nebehaj improved libcurl's LDAP abilities:
+
+ The LDAP code in libcurl can't handle LDAP servers of LDAPv3 nor binary
+ attributes in LDAP objects. So, I made a quick patch to address these
+ problems.
+
+ The solution is simple: if we connect to an LDAP server, first try LDAPv3
+ (which is the preferred protocol as of now) and then fall back to LDAPv2.
+ In case of binary attributes, we first convert them to base64, just like the
+ openldap client does. It uses ldap_get_values_len() instead of
+ ldap_get_values() to be able to retrieve binary attributes correctly. I
+ defined the necessary LDAP macros in lib/ldap.c to be able to compile
+ libcurl without the presence of libldap
+
+Daniel (27 October 2005)
+- Nis Jorgensen filed bug report #1338648
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1338648) which really is more of a
+ feature request, but anyway. It pointed out that --max-redirs did not allow
+ it to be set to 0, which then would return an error code on the first
+ Location: found. Based on Nis' patch, now libcurl supports CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
+ set to 0, or -1 for infinity. Added test case 274 to verify.
+
+- tommink[at]post.pl reported in bug report #1337723
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1337723) that curl could not upload
+ binary data from stdin on Windows if the data contained control-Z (hex 1a)
+ since that is treated as end-of-file when read in text mode. Gisle Vanem
+ pointed out the fix, and I made both -T and --data-binary take advantage of
+ it.
+
+- Jaz Fresh pointed out that if you used "-r [number]" as was wrongly described
+ in the man page, curl would send an invalid HTTP Range: header. The correct
+ way would be to use "-r [number]-" or even "-r -[number]". Starting now,
+ curl will warn if this is discovered, and automatically append a dash to the
+ range before passing it to libcurl.
+
+Daniel (25 October 2005)
+- Amol Pattekar reported a bug with great detail and a fine example in bug
+ #1326306 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326306). When using the multi
+ interface and connecting to a host with multiple IP addresses, and one of
+ the addresses fails to connect (the server must exist and respond, just not
+ accept connections) libcurl leaks a socket descriptor. Thanks to the fine
+ report, I could find and fix this.
+
+Daniel (22 October 2005)
+- Dima Barsky reported a problem with GnuTLS-enabled libcurl in bug report
+ #1334338 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1334338). When reading an SSL
+ stream from a server and the server requests a "rehandshake", the current
+ code simply returns this as an error. I have no good way to test this, but
+ I've added a crude attempt of dealing with this situation slightly better -
+ it makes a blocking handshake if this happens. Done like this because fixing
+ this the "proper" way (that would handshake asynchronously) will require
+ quite some work and I really need a good way to test this to do such a
+ change.
+
+Daniel (21 October 2005)
+- "Ofer" reported a problem when libcurl re-used a connection and failed to do
+ it, it could then accidentally actually crash. Presumably, this concerns FTP
+ connections. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1330310
+
+- Temprimus improved the MSVC makefile so that the static debug SSL libs are
+ linked to the executable and not to the libcurld.lib
+ http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326676
+
+- Bradford Bruce made the windows resolver code properly return
+ CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY and CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST on resolving
+ errors (as documented).
+
+Daniel (20 October 2005)
+- Dave Dribin made libcurl understand and handle cases when the server
+ (wrongly) sends *two* WWW-Authenticate headers for Digest. While this should
+ never happen in a sane world, libcurl previously got into an infinite loop
+ when this occurred. Dave added test 273 to verify this.
+
+- Temprimus improved the MSVC makefile: "makes a build option available so if
+ you set rtlibcfg=static for the make, then it would build with /MT. The
+ default behaviour is /MD (the original)."
+ http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326665
+
+Daniel (14 October 2005)
+- Reverted the LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM change from October 6. As Dave Dribin
+ reported, the define is used by the configure script and is assumed to use
+ the 0xYYXXZZ format. This made "curl-config --vernum" fail in the 7.15.0
+ release version.
+
+Version 7.15.0 (13 October 2005)
+
+Daniel (12 October 2005)
+- Michael Sutton of iDEFENSE reported and I fixed a securitfy flaw in the NTLM
+ code that would overflow a buffer if given a too long user name or domain
+ name. This would happen if you enable NTLM authentication and either
+
+ A - pass in a user name and domain name to libcurl that together are longer
+ than 192 bytes
+
+ B - allow (lib)curl to follow HTTP "redirects" (Location: and the
+ appropriate HTTP 30x response code) and the new URL contains a URL with
+ a user name and domain name that together are longer than 192 bytes
+
+ See http://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html for further details and updates
+
+Daniel (5 October 2005)
+- Darryl House reported a problem with using -z to download files from FTP.
+ It turned out that if the given time stamp was exact the same as the remote
+ time stamp, the file would still wrongly be downloaded. Added test case 272
+ to verify.
+
+Daniel (4 October 2005)
+- Domenico Andreoli fixed a man page malformat and removed odd (0xa0) bytes
+ from the configure script.
+
+- Michael Wallner reported that the date parser had wrong offset stored for
+ the MEST and CEST time zones.
+
+Daniel (27 September 2005)
+- David Yan filed bug #1299181 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1299181)
+ that identified a silly problem with Content-Range: headers with the 'bytes'
+ keyword written in a different case than all lowercase! It would cause a
+ segfault!
+
+- TJ Saunders of the proftpd project identified and pointed out problems with
+ the modified FTPS negotiation change of August 19 2005. Thus, we revert the
+ change back to pre-7.14.1 status.
+
+Daniel (21 September 2005)
+- Fixed "cut off" sentence in the libcurl-tutorial man page:
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329305
+
+- Clarified in the curl_easy_setopt man page what the default
+ CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION and CURLOPT_WRITEDATA mean:
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329311
+
+- Clarified in the curl_easy_setopt man page that CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
+ sometimes doesn't fill in the buffer even though it is supposed to:
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329313
+
+- When CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT is returned due to a missing URL, it now has an
+ error string set.
+
+Daniel (19 September 2005)
+- Dmitry Bartsevich made the SSPI support work on Windows 9x as well.
+
+Daniel (15 September 2005)
+- Added a TFTP server to the test suite and made the test suite capable of
+ using it.
+
+Daniel (7 September 2005)
+- Ben Madsen's detailed reports that funnily enough only occurred with certain
+ glibc versions turned out to be curl using an already closed file handle
+ during certain conditions (like when saving FTP server "headers").
+
+- Scott Davis helped me track down a problem in the test HTTP server that made
+ test case 56 wrongly fail at times. It turned out it was due to the server
+ finding the end of a chunked-encoded POST too early.
+
+Daniel (6 September 2005)
+- Now curl warns if an unknown variable is used in the -w/--writeout argument.
+
+Daniel (4 September 2005)
+- I applied Nicolas François' man page patch he posted to the Debian bug
+ tracker. It corrected two lines that started with apostrophes, which isn't
+ legal nroff format. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326511
+
+- Added --ftp-skip-pasv-ip to the command line tool, that sets the new
+ CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP option. It makes libcurl re-use the control
+ connection's IP address when setting up the data connection instead of
+ extractting the IP address from the PASV response. It has turned out this
+ feature is frequently needed by people to circumvent silly servers and silly
+ firewalls, especially when FTPS is used and the PASV command-response is
+ sent encrtyped.
+
+ Sponsored by CU*Answers
+
+Daniel (1 September 2005)
+- John Kelly added TFTP support to libcurl. A bunch of new error codes was
+ added. TODO: add them to docs. add TFTP server to test suite. add TFTP to
+ list of protocols whereever those are mentioned.
+
+Version 7.14.1 (1 September 2005)
+
+Daniel (29 August 2005)
+- Kevin Lussier pointed out a problem with curllib.dsp and how to fix it.
+
+- Igor Polyakov fixed a rather nasty problem with the threaded name resolver
+ for Windows, that could lead to an Access Violation when the multi interface
+ was used due to an issue with how the resolver thread was and was not
+ terminated.
+
+- Simon Josefsson brought a patch that allows curl to get built to use GNU GSS
+ instead of MIT/Heimdal for GSS capabilities.
+
+Daniel (24 August 2005)
+- Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible
+ from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it
+ easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are
+ still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option
+ is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the
+ connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a
+ simple test to verify that this works.
+
+- (Trying hard to exclude emotions now.) valgrind version 3 suddenly renamed
+ the --logfile command line option to --log-file, and thus the test script
+ valgrind autodetection now has yet another version check to do and then it
+ alters the valgrind command line accordingly.
+
+- Fixed CA cert verification using GnuTLS with the default bundle, which
+ previously failed due to GnuTLS not allowing x509 v1 CA certs by default.
+ Ralph Mitchell reported.
+
+Daniel (19 August 2005)
+- Norbert Novotny had problems with FTPS and he helped me work out a patch
+ that made curl run fine in his end. The key was to make sure we do the
+ SSL/TLS negotiation immediately after the TCP connect is done and not after
+ a few other commands have been sent like we did previously. I don't consider
+ this change necessary to obey the standards, I think this server is pickier
+ than what the specs allow it to be, but I can't see how this modified
+ libcurl code can add any problems to those who are interpreting the
+ standards more liberally.
+
+Daniel (17 August 2005)
+- Jeff Pohlmeyer found out that if you ask libcurl to load a cookiefile (with
+ CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE), add a cookie (with CURLOPT_COOKIELIST), tell it to
+ write the result to a given cookie jar and then never actually call
+ curl_easy_perform() - the given file(s) to read was never read but the
+ output file was written and thus it caused a "funny" result.
+
+- While doing some tests for the bug above, I noticed that Firefox generates
+ large numbers (for the expire time) in the cookies.txt file and libcurl
+ didn't treat them properly. Now it does.
+
+Daniel (15 August 2005)
+- Added more verbose "warning" messages to the curl client for cases where it
+ fails to open/read files etc to help users diagnose why it doesn't do what
+ you'd expect it to. Converted lots of old messages to use the new generic
+ function I wrote for this purpose.
+
+Daniel (13 August 2005)
+- James Bursa identified a libcurl HTTP bug and a good way to repeat it. If a
+ site responds with bad HTTP response that doesn't contain any header at all,
+ only a response body, and the write callback returns 0 to abort the
+ transfer, it didn't have any real effect but the write callback would be
+ called once more anyway.
+
+Daniel (12 August 2005)
+- Based on Richard Clayton's reports, I found out that using curl -d @filename
+ when 'filename' was not possible to access made curl use a GET request
+ instead.
+
+- The time condition illegal syntax warning is now inhibited if -s is used.
+
+Daniel (10 August 2005)
+- Mario Schroeder found out that one of the debug callbacks calls that regards
+ SSL data with the CURLINFO_TEXT type claimed that the data was one byte
+ larger than it actually is, thus falsely telling the application that the
+ terminating zero was part of the data.
+
+Daniel (9 August 2005)
+- Christopher R. Palmer fixed the offsets used for date parsings when the time
+ zone name of a daylight savings time was used. For example, PDT vs PDS. This
+ flaw was introduced with the new date parser (11 sep 2004 - 7.12.2).
+ Fortunately, no web server or cookie string etc should be using such time
+ zone names thus limiting the effect of this bug.
+
+Daniel (8 August 2005)
+- Jon Grubbs filed bug report #1249962
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1249962) which identified a problem
+ with NTLM on a HTTP proxy if an FTP URL was given. libcurl now properly
+ switches to pure HTTP internally when an HTTP proxy is used, even for FTP
+ URLs. The problem would also occur with other multi-pass auth methods.
+
+Daniel (7 August 2005)
+- When curl is built with GnuTLS, curl-config didn't include "SSL" when
+ --features was used.
+
+Daniel (28 July 2005)
+- If any of the options CURLOPT_HTTPGET, CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_HTTPPOST is
+ set to 1, CURLOPT_NOBODY will now automatically be set to 0.
+
+Daniel (27 July 2005)
+- Dan Fandrich changes over the last week: fixed numerous minor configure
+ option parsing flaws: --without-gnutls, --without-spnego --without-gssapi
+ and --without-krb4. Spellfixed several error messages.
+
+- Peteris Krumins added CURLOPT_COOKIELIST and CURLINFO_COOKIELIST, which is a
+ simple interface to extracting and setting cookies in libcurl's internal
+ "cookie jar". See the new cookie_interface.c example code.
+
+Daniel (13 July 2005)
+- Diego Casorran provided patches to make curl build fine on Amiga again.
+
+Daniel (12 July 2005)
+- Adrian Schuur added trailer support in the chunked encoding stream. The
+ trailer is then sent to the normal header callback/stream. I wrote up test
+ case 266 to verify the basic functionality. Do note that test case 34
+ contains a flawed chunked encoding stream that still works the same.
+
+Daniel (5 July 2005)
+- Gisle Vanem came up with a nice little work-around for bug #1230118
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1230118). It seems the Windows (MSVC)
+ libc time functions may return data one hour off if TZ is not set and
+ automatic DST adjustment is enabled. This made curl_getdate() return wrong
+ value, and it also concerned internal cookie expirations etc.
+
+Daniel (4 July 2005)
+- Andrew Bushnell provided enough info for me to tell that we badly needed to
+ fix the CONNECT authentication code with multi-pass auth methods (such as
+ NTLM) as it didn't previously properly ignore response-bodies - in fact it
+ stopped reading after all response headers had been received. This could
+ lead to libcurl sending the next request and reading the body from the first
+ request as response to the second request. (I also renamed the function,
+ which wasn't strictly necessary but...)
+
+ The best fix would to once and for all make the CONNECT code use the
+ ordinary request sending/receiving code, treating it as any ordinary request
+ instead of the special-purpose function we have now. It should make it
+ better for multi-interface too. And possibly lead to less code...
+
+ Added test case 265 for this. It doesn't work as a _really_ good test case
+ since the test proxy is too stupid, but the test case helps when running the
+ debugger to verify.
+
+Daniel (30 June 2005)
+- Dan Fandrich improved the configure script's ability to figure out what kind
+ of strerror_r() API that is used when cross-compiling. If __GLIB__ is
+ defined, it assumes the glibc API. If not, it issues a notice as before that
+ the user needs to manually edit lib/config.h for this.
+
+Daniel (23 June 2005)
+- David Shaw's fix that unifies proxy string treatment so that a proxy given
+ with CURLOPT_PROXY can use a http:// prefix and user + password. The user
+ and password fields are now also URL decoded properly. Test case 264 added
+ to verify.
+
+Daniel (22 June 2005)
+- David Shaw updated libcurl.m4
+
+Daniel (14 June 2005)
+- Gisle Vanem fixed a potential thread handle leak. Bug report #1216500
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1216500). Comment in
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-06/0059.html
+
+Daniel (13 June 2005)
+- Made buildconf run libtoolize in the ares dir too (inspired by Tupone's
+ reverted patch).
+
+Daniel (9 June 2005)
+- Incorporated Tupone's findtool fix in buildconf (slightly edited)
+
+- Incorporated Tupone's head -n fix in buildconf.
+
+Daniel (8 June 2005)
+- Reverted Tupone's patch again, it broke numerous autobuilds. Let's apply it
+ in pieces, one by one and see what we need to adjust to work all over.
+
+Daniel (6 June 2005)
+- Tupone Alfredo fixed three problems in buildconf:
+
+ 1) findtool does look per tool in PATH and think ./perl is the perl
+ executable, while is just a local directory (I have . in the PATH)
+
+ 2) I got several warning for head -1 deprecated in favour of head -n 1
+
+ 3) ares directory is missing some file (missing is missing :-) ) because
+ automake and friends is not run.
+
+Daniel (3 June 2005)
+- Added docs/libcurl/getinfo-times, based on feedback from 'Edi':
+ http://curl.haxx.se/feedback/display.cgi?id=11178325798299&support=yes
+
+- Andres Garcia provided yet another text mode patch for several test cases so
+ that they do text comparisions better on Windows (newline-wise).
+
+Daniel (1 June 2005)
+- The configure check for c-ares now adds the cares lib before the other libs,
+ to make it build fine with mingw. Inspired by Tupone Alfredo's bug report
+ and patch: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1212940
+
+Daniel (31 May 2005)
+- Todd Kulesza reported a flaw in the proxy option, since a numerical IPv6
+ address was not possible to use. It is now, but requires it written
+ RFC2732-style, within brackets - which incidently is how you enter numerical
+ IPv6 addresses in URLs. Test case 263 added to verify.
+
+Daniel (30 May 2005)
+- Eric Cooper reported about a problem with HTTP servers that responds with
+ binary zeroes within the headers. They confused libcurl to do wrong so the
+ downloaded headers become incomplete. The fix is now verified with test case
+ 262. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=310948
+
+Daniel (25 May 2005)
+- Fixed problems with the test suite, and in particular the FTP test cases
+ since it previously was failing every now and then in a nonsense manner.
+
+- --trace-time now outputs the full microsecond, all 6 digits.
+
+Daniel (24 May 2005)
+- Andres Garcia provided a text mode patch for several test cases so that they
+ do text comparisions better on Windows (newline-wise).
+
+- Any 2xx response (and not just 200) is now considered a fine response to
+ TYPE, as some servers obviously sends a 226 there. Added test case 261 to
+ verify. Based on a question/report by Georg Wicherski.
+
+Daniel (20 May 2005)
+- Improved runtests.pl to allow stdout tests to be mode=text as well, just
+ as file comparisons already supports. Added this info to the FILEFORMAT
+ docs.
+
+Daniel (18 May 2005)
+- John McGowan identified a problem in bug report #1204435
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1204435) with malformed URLs like
+ "http://somehost?data" as it added a slash too much in the request ("GET
+ /?data/"...). Added test case 260 to verify.
+
+- The configure check for strerror_r() failed to detect the proper API at
+ times, like on HP-UX 10.20. Then lib/strerror.c badly assumed the glibc
+ version if the posix define wasn't set (since it _had_ found a strerror_r).
+
+Daniel (16 May 2005)
+- The gmtime_r() function in HP-UX 10.20 is broken. About 13 test cases fail
+ due to this. There's now a configure check that attempts to detect the bad
+ function and not use it on such systems.
+
+Version 7.14.0 (16 May 2005)
+
+Daniel (13 May 2005)
+- Grigory Entin reported that curl's configure detects a fine poll() for Mac
+ OS X 10.4 (while 10.3 or later detected a "bad" one), but the executable
+ doesn't work as good as if built without poll(). I've adjusted the configure
+ to always skip the fine-poll() test on Mac OS X (darwin).
+
+Daniel (12 May 2005)
+- When doing a second request (after a disconnect) using the same easy handle,
+ over a proxy that uses NTLM authentication, libcurl failed to use NTLM again
+ properly (the auth method was accidentally reset to the same as had been set
+ for host auth, which defaults to Basic). Bug report #1200661
+ (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1200661) identified the the problem and
+ the fix.
+
+- If -z/--time-cond is used with an invalid date syntax, this is no longer
+ silently discarded. Instead a proper warning message is diplayed that
+ informs about it. But it still continues without the condition.
+
+Version 7.14.0-pre2 (11 May 2005)
+
+Daniel (11 May 2005)
+- Starting now, libcurl sends a little different set of headers in its default
+ HTTP requests:
+
+ A) Normal non-proxy HTTP:
+ - no more "Pragma: no-cache" (this only makes sense to proxies)
+
+ B) Non-CONNECT HTTP request over proxy:
+ - "Pragma: no-cache" is used (like before)
+ - "Proxy-Connection: Keep-alive" (for older style 1.0-proxies)
+
+ C) CONNECT HTTP request over proxy:
+ - "Host: [name]:[port]"
+ - "Proxy-Connection: Keep-alive"
+
+ The A) case is mostly to reduce the default header size and remove a
+ pointless header.
+
+ The B) is to address (rare) problems with HTTP 1.0 proxies
+
+ The C) headers are both to address (rare) problems with some proxies. The
+ code in libcurl that deals with CONNECT requests need a rewrite, but it
+ feels like a too big a job for me to do now. Details are added in the code
+ comments for now.
+
+ Updated a large amount of test cases to reflect the news.
+
+Daniel (10 May 2005)
+- Half-baked attempt to bail out if select() returns _only_ errorfds when the
+ transfer is in progress. An attempt to fix Allan's problem. See
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-05/0073.html and the rest of that thread
+ for details.
+
+ I'm still not sure this is the right fix, but...
+
+Version 7.14.0-pre1 (9 May 2005)
+
+Daniel (2 May 2005)
+- Sort of "fixed" KNOWN_BUGS #4: curl now builds IPv6 enabled on AIX 4.3. At
+ least it should no longer cause a compiler error. However, it does not have
+ AI_NUMERICHOST so we cannot getaddrinfo() any numerical addresses with it
+ (we use that for FTP PORT/EPRT)! So, I modified the configure check that
+ checks if the getaddrinfo() is working, to use AI_NUMERICHOST since then
+ it'll fail on AIX 4.3 and it will automatically build with IPv6 support
+ disabled.
+
+- Added --trace-time that when used adds a time stamp to each trace line that
+ --trace, --trace-ascii and --verbose output. I also made the '>' display
+ separate each line on the linefeed so that HTTP requests etc look nicer in
+ the -v output.
+
+- Made curl recognize the environment variables Lynx (and others?) support for
+ pointing out the CA cert path/file: SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE. If
+ CURL_CA_BUNDLE is not set, they are checked afterwards.
+
+ Like before: on windows if none of these are set, it checks for the ca cert
+ file like this:
+
+ 1. application's directory
+ 2. current working directory
+ 3. Windows System directory (e.g. C:\windows\system32)
+ 4. Windows Directory (e.g. C:\windows)
+ 5. all directories along %PATH%
+
+Daniel (1 May 2005)
+- The runtests.pl script now starts test servers by doing fork() and exec()
+ instead of the previous approach. This is less complicated and should
+ hopefully lead to less "leaked" servers (servers that aren't stopped
+ properly when the tests are stopped).
+
+- Alexander Zhuravlev found a case when you did "curl -I [URL]" and it
+ complained on the chunked encoding, even though a HEAD should never return a
+ body and thus it cannot be a chunked-encoding problem!
+
+Daniel (30 April 2005)
+- Alexander Zhuravlev found out that (lib)curl SIGSEGVed when using
+ --interface on an address that can't be bound.
+
+Daniel (28 April 2005)
+- Working on fixing up test cases to mark sections as 'mode=text' for things
+ that curl writes as text files, since then they can get different line
+ endings depending on OS. Andrés García helps me work this out.
+
+ Did lots of other minor tweaks on the test scripts to work better and more
+ reliably find test servers and also kill test servers.
+
+- Dan Fandrich pointed out how the runtests.pl script killed the HTTP server
+ instead of the HTTPS server when closing it down.
+
+Daniel (27 April 2005)
+- Paul Moore made curl check for the .curlrc file (_curlrc on windows) on two
+ more places. First, CURL_HOME is a new environment variable that is used
+ instead of HOME if it is set, to point out where the default config file
+ lives. If there's no config file in the dir pointed out by one of the
+ environment variables, the Windows version will instead check the same
+ directory the executable curl is located in.
+
+Daniel (26 April 2005)
+- Cory Nelson's work on nuking compiler warnings when building on x64 with
+ VS2005.
+
+Daniel (25 April 2005)
+- Fred New reported a bug where we used Basic auth and user name and password
+ in .netrc, and when following a Location: the subsequent requests didn't
+ properly use the auth as found in the netrc file. Added test case 257 to
+ verify my fix.
+
+- Based on feedback from Cory Nelson, I added some preprocessor magic in
+ */setup.h and */config-win32.h to build fine with VS2005 on x64.
+
+Daniel (23 April 2005)
+- Alex Suykov made the curl tool now assume that uploads using HTTP:// or
+ HTTPS:// are the only ones that show output and thus motivates a switched
+ off progress meter if the output is sent to the terminal. This makes FTP
+ uploads without '>', -o or -O show the progress meter.
+
+Daniel (22 April 2005)
+- Dave Dribin's MSVC makefile fix: set CURL_STATICLIB when it builds static
+ library variants.
+
+- Andres Garcia fixed configure to set the proper define when building static
+ libcurl on windows.
+
+- --retry-delay didn't work.
+
+Daniel (18 April 2005)
+- Olivier reported that even though he used CURLOPT_PORT, libcurl clearly
+ still used the default port. He was right. I fixed the problem and added the
+ test cases 521, 522 and 523 to verify the fix.
+
+- Toshiyuki Maezawa reported that when doing a POST with a read callback,
+ libcurl didn't properly send an Expect: 100-continue header. It does now.
+
+- I committed by mig change in the test suite's FTP server that moves out all
+ socket/TCP code to a separate C program named sockfilt. And added 4 new
+ test cases for FTP over IPv6.
+
+Daniel (8 April 2005)
+- Cory Nelson reported a problem with a HTTP server that responded with a 304
+ response containing an "illegal" Content-Length: header, which was not
+ properly ignored by libcurl. Now it is. Test case 249 verifies.
+
+Daniel (7 April 2005)
+- Added ability to build and run with GnuTLS as an alternative to OpenSSL for
+ the secure layer. configure --with-gnutls enables with. Note that the
+ previous OpenSSL check still has preference and if it first detects OpenSSL,
+ it will not check for GnuTLS. You may need to explictly diable OpenSSL with
+ --without-ssl.
+
+ This work has been sponsored by The Written Word.
+
+Daniel (5 April 2005)
+- Christophe Legry fixed the post-upload check for FTP to not complain if the
+ upload was skipped due to a time-condition as set with
+ CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION. I added test case 247 and 248 to verify.
+
+Version 7.13.2 (5 April 2005)
+
+Daniel (4 April 2005)
+- Marcelo Juchem fixed the MSVC makefile for libcurl
+
+- Gisle Vanem fixed a crash in libcurl, that could happen if the easy handle
+ was killed before the threading resolver (windows only) still hadn't
+ completed.
+
+- Hardeep Singh reported a problem doing HTTP POST with Digest. (It was
+ actually also affecting NTLM and Negotiate.) It turned out that if the
+ server responded with 100 Continue before the initial 401 response, libcurl
+ didn't take care of the response properly. Test case 245 and 246 added to
+ verify this.
+
+Daniel (30 March 2005)
+- Andres Garcia modified the configure script to check for libgdi32 before
+ libcrypto, to make the SSL check work fine on msys/mingw.
+
+Daniel (29 March 2005)
+- Tom Moers identified a flaw when you sent a POST with Digest authentication,
+ as in the first request when curl sends a POST with Content-Length: 0, it
+ still forcibly closed the connection before doing the next step in the auth
+ negotiation.
+
+- Jesper Jensen found out that FTP-SSL didn't work since my FTP
+ rewrite. Fixing that was easy, but it also revealed a much worse problem:
+ the FTP server response reader function didn't properly deal with reading
+ responses in multiple tiny chunks properly! I modified the FTP server to
+ allow it to produce such split-up responses to make sure curl deals with
+ them as it should.
+
+- Based on Augustus Saunders' comments and findings, the HTTP output auth
+ function was fixed to use the proper proxy authentication when multiple ones
+ are accepted. test 239 and test 243 were added to repeat the problems and
+ verify the fixes.
+
+ --proxy-anyauth was added to the curl tool
+
+Daniel (16 March 2005)
+- Tru64 and some IRIX boxes seem to not like test 237 as it is. Their
+ inet_addr() functions seems to use &255 on all numericals in a ipv4 dotted
+ address which makes a different failure... Now I've modified the ipv4
+ resolve code to use inet_pton() instead in an attempt to make these systems
+ better detect this as a bad IP address rather than creating a toally bogus
+ address that is then passed on and used.
+
+Daniel (15 March 2005)
+- Dan Fandrich made the code properly use the uClibc's version of
+ inet_ntoa_r() when built with it.
+
+- Added test 237 and 238: test EPSV and PASV response handling when they get
+ well- formated data back but using illegal values. In 237 PASV gets an IP
+ address that is way bad. In 238 EPSV gets a port that is way out of range.
+
+Daniel (14 March 2005)
+- Added a few missing features to the curl-config --features list
+
+- Modified testcurl.pl to now offer
+ 1 - command line options for all info it previously only read from
+ file: --name, --email, --desc and --configure
+ 2 - --nocvsup makes it not attempt to do cvs update
+ 3 - --crosscompile informs it and makes it not attempt things it can't do
+
+- Fixed numerous win32 compiler warnings.
+
+- Removed the lib/security.h file since it shadowed the mingw/win32 header
+ with the same name which is needed for SSPI builds. The contents of the
+ former security.h is now i krb4.h
+
+- configure --enable-sspi now enables SSPI in the build. It only works for
+ windows builds (including cross-compiles for windows).
+
+Daniel (12 March 2005)
+- David Houlder added --form-string that adds that string to a multipart
+ formpost part, without special characters having special meanings etc like
+ --form features.
+
+Daniel (11 March 2005)
+- curl_version_info() returns the feature bit CURL_VERSION_SSPI if it was
+ built with SSPI support.
+
+- Christopher R. Palmer made it possible to build libcurl with the
+ USE_WINDOWS_SSPI on Windows, and then libcurl will be built to use the
+ native way to do NTLM. SSPI also allows libcurl to pass on the current user
+ and its password in the request.
+
+Daniel (9 March 2005)
+- Dan F improved the SSL lib setup in configure.
+
+- Nodak Sodak reported a crash when using a SOCKS4 proxy.
+
+- Jean-Marc Ranger pointed out an embarassing debug printf() leftover in the
+ multi interface code.
+
+- Adjusted the man page for the curl_getdate() return value for dates after
+ year 2038. For 32 bit time_t it returns 0x7fffffff but for 64bit time_t it
+ returns either the correct value or even -1 on some systems that still seem
+ to not deal with this properly. Tor Arntsen found a 64bit AIX system for us
+ that did the latter. Gwenole Beauchesne's Mandrake patch put the lights on
+ this problem in the first place.
+
+Daniel (8 March 2005)
+- Dominick Meglio reported that using CURLOPT_FILETIME when transferring a FTP
+ file got a Last-Modified: header written to the data stream, corrupting the
+ actual data. This was because some conditions from the previous FTP code was
+ not properly brought into the new FTP code. I fixed and I added test case
+ 520 to verify. (This bug was introduced in 7.13.1)
+
+- Dan Fandrich fixed the configure --with-zlib option to always consider the
+ given path before any standard paths.
+
+Daniel (6 March 2005)
+- Randy McMurchy was the first to report that valgrind.pm was missing from the
+ release archive and thus 'make test' fails.
+
+Daniel (5 March 2005)
+- Dan Fandrich added HAVE_FTRUNCATE to several config-*.h files.
+
+- Added test case 235 that makes a resumed upload of a file that isn't present
+ on the remote side. This then converts the operation to an ordinary STOR
+ upload. This was requested/pointed out by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams.
+
+ It also proved (and I fixed) a bug in the newly rewritten ftp code (and
+ present in the 7.13.1 release) when trying to resume an upload and the
+ servers returns an error to the SIZE command. libcurl then loops and sends
+ SIZE commands infinitely.
+
+- Dan Fandrich fixed a SSL problem introduced on February 9th that made
+ libcurl attempt to load the whole random file to seed the PRNG. This is
+ really bad since this turns out to be using /dev/urandom at times...
+
+Version 7.13.1 (4 March 2005)
+
+Daniel (4 March 2005)
+- Dave Dribin made it possible to set CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE to "" to activate
+ the cookie "engine" without having to provide an empty or non-existing file.
+
+- Rene Rebe fixed a -# crash when more data than expected was retrieved.
+
+Daniel (22 February 2005)
+- NTLM and ftp-krb4 buffer overflow fixed, as reported here:
+ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/391042 and the CAN report here:
+ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0490
+
+ If these security guys were serious, we'd been notified in advance and we
+ could've saved a few of you a little surprise, but now we weren't.
+
+Daniel (19 February 2005)
+- Ralph Mitchell reported a flaw when you used a proxy with auth, and you
+ requested data from a host and then followed a redirect to another
+ host. libcurl then didn't use the proxy-auth properly in the second request,
+ due to the host-only check for original host name wrongly being extended to
+ the proxy auth as well. Added test case 233 to verify the flaw and that the
+ fix removed the problem.
+
+Daniel (18 February 2005)
+- Mike Dobbs reported a mingw build failure due to the lack of
+ BUILDING_LIBCURL being defined when libcurl is built. Now this is defined by
+ configure when mingw is used.
+
+Daniel (17 February 2005)
+- David in bug report #1124588 found and fixed a socket leak when libcurl
+ didn't close the socket properly when returning error due to failing
+ localbind
+
+Daniel (16 February 2005)
+- Christopher R. Palmer reported a problem with HTTP-POSTing using "anyauth"
+ that picks NTLM. Thanks to David Byron letting me test NTLM against his
+ servers, I could quickly repeat and fix the problem. It turned out to be:
+
+ When libcurl POSTs without knowing/using an authentication and it gets back
+ a list of types from which it picks NTLM, it needs to either continue
+ sending its data if it keeps the connection alive, or not send the data but
+ close the connection. Then do the first step in the NTLM auth. libcurl
+ didn't send the data nor close the connection but simply read the
+ response-body and then sent the first negotiation step. Which then failed
+ miserably of course. The fixed version forces a connection if there is more
+ than 2000 bytes left to send.
+
+Daniel (14 February 2005)
+- The configure script didn't check for ENGINE_load_builtin_engines() so it
+ was never used.
+
+Daniel (11 February 2005)
+- Removed all uses of strftime() since it uses the localised version of the
+ week day names and month names and servers don't like that.
+
+Daniel (10 February 2005)
+- Now the test script disables valgrind-testing when the test suite runs if
+ libcurl is built shared. Otherwise valgrind only tests the shell that runs
+ the wrapper-script named 'curl' that is a front-end to curl in this case.
+ This should also fix the huge amount of reports of false positives when
+ valgrind has identified leaks in (ba)sh and not in curl and people report
+ that as curl bugs. Bug report #1116672 is one example.
+
+ Also, the valgrind report parser has been adapted to check that at least one
+ of the sources in a stack strace is one of (lib)curl's source files or
+ otherwise it will not consider the problem to concern (lib)curl.
+
+- Marty Kuhrt streamlined the VMS build.
+
+Daniel (9 February 2005)
+- David Byron fixed his SSL problems, initially mentioned here:
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-01/0240.html. It turned out we didn't use
+ SSL_pending() as we should.
+
+- Converted lots of FTP code to a statemachine, so that the multi interface
+ doesn't block while communicating commands-responses with an FTP server.
+
+ I've added a comment like BLOCKING in the code on all spots I could find
+ where we still have blocking operations. When we change curl_easy_perform()
+ to use the multi interface, we'll also be able to simplify the code since
+ there will only be one "internal interface".
+
+ While doing this, I've now made CURLE_FTP_ACCESS_DENIED separate from the
+ new CURLE_LOGIN_DENIED. The first one is now access denied to a function,
+ like changing directory or retrieving a file, while the second means that we
+ were denied login.
+
+ The CVS tag 'before_ftp_statemachine' was set just before this went in, in
+ case of future need.
+
+- Gisle made the DICT code send CRLF and not just LF as the spec says so.
+
+Daniel (8 February 2005)
+- Gisle fixed problems when libcurl runs out of memory, and worked on making
+ sure the proper error code is returned for those occations.
+
+Daniel (7 February 2005)
+- Maruko pointed out a problem with inflate decompressing exactly 64K
+ contents.
+
+Daniel (5 February 2005)
+- Eric Vergnaud found a use of an uninitialised variable in the ftp when doing
+ PORT on ipv6-enabled hosts.
+
+- David Byron pointed out we could use BUFSIZE to read data (in
+ lib/transfer.c) instead of using BUFSIZE -1.
+
+Version 7.13.0 (1 February 2005)
+
+Daniel (31 January 2005)
+- Added Lars Nilsson's htmltitle.cc example
+
+Daniel (30 January 2005)
+- Fixed a memory leak when using the multi interface and the DO operation
+ failed (as in test case 205).
+
+- Fixed a valgrind warning for file:// operations.
+
+- Fixed a valgrind report in the url globbing code for the curl command line
+ tool.
+
+- Bugfixed the parser that scans the valgrind report outputs (in runtests.pl).
+ I noticed that it previously didn't detect and report the "Conditional jump
+ or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" error. When I fixed this, I
+ caught a few curl bugs with it. And then I had to spend time to make the
+ test suite IGNORE these errors when OpenSSL is used since it produce massive
+ amounts of valgrind warnings (but only of the "Conditional..." kind it
+ seems). So, if a test that requires SSL is run, it ignores the
+ "Conditional..." errors, and you'll get a "valgrind PARTIAL" output instead
+ of "valgrind OK".
+
+Daniel (29 January 2005)
+- Using the multi interface, and doing a requsted a re-used connection that
+ gets closed just after the request has been sent failed and did not re-issue
+ a request on a fresh reconnect like the easy interface did. Now it does!
+
+- Define CURL_MULTIEASY when building libcurl (lib/easy.c to be exact), to use
+ my new curl_easy_perform() that uses the multi interface to run the
+ request. It is a great testbed for the multi interface and I believe we
+ shall do it this way for real in the future when we have a successor to
+ curl_multi_fdset(). I've used this approach to detect and fix several of the
+ recent multi-interfaces issues.
+
+- Adjusted the KNOWN_BUGS #17 fix a bit more since the FTP code also did some
+ bad assumptions.
+
+- multi interface: when a request is denied due to "Maximum redirects
+ followed" libcurl leaked the last Location: URL.
+
+- Connect failures with the multi interface was often returned as "connect()
+ timed out" even though the reason was different.
+
+Daniel (28 January 2005)
+- KNOWN_BUGS #17 fixed. A DNS cache entry may not remain locked between two
+ curl_easy_perform() invokes. It was previously unlocked at disconnect, which
+ could mean that it remained locked between multiple transfers. The DNS cache
+ may not live as long as the connection cache does, as they are separate.
+
+ To deal with the lack of DNS (host address) data availability in re-used
+ connections, libcurl now keeps a copy of the IP adress as a string, to be
+ able to show it even on subsequent requests on the same connection.
+
+ The problem could be made to appear with this stunt:
+
+ 1. create a multi handle
+ 2. add an easy handle
+ 3. fetch a URL that is persistent (leaves the connection alive)
+ 4. remove the easy handle from the multi
+ 5. kill the multi handle
+ 6. create a multi handle
+ 7. add the same easy handle to the new multi handle
+ 8. fetch a URL from the same server as before (re-using the connection)
+
+- Stephen More pointed out that CURLOPT_FTPPORT and the -P option didn't work
+ when built ipv6-enabled. I've now made a fix for it. Writing test cases for
+ custom port hosts turned too tricky so unfortunately there's none.
+
+Daniel (25 January 2005)
+- Ian Ford asked about support for the FTP command ACCT, and I discovered it
+ is present in RFC959... so now (lib)curl supports it as well. --ftp-account
+ and CURLOPT_FTP_ACCOUNT set the account string. (The server may ask for an
+ account string after PASS have been sent away. The client responds
+ with "ACCT [account string]".) Added test case 228 and 229 to verify the
+ functionality. Updated the test FTP server to support ACCT somewhat.
+
+- David Shaw contributed a fairly complete and detailed autoconf test you can
+ use to detect libcurl and setup variables for the protocols the installed
+ libcurl supports: docs/libcurl/libcurl.m4
+
+Daniel (21 January 2005)
+- Major FTP third party transfer overhaul.
+
+ These four options are now obsolete: CURLOPT_SOURCE_HOST,
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_PATH, CURLOPT_SOURCE_PORT (this option didn't work before)
+ and CURLOPT_PASV_HOST.
+
+ These two options are added: CURLOPT_SOURCE_URL and CURLOPT_SOURCE_QUOTE.
+
+ The target-side didn't use the proper path with RETR, and thus this only
+ worked correctly in the login path (i.e without doing any CWD). The source-
+ side still uses a wrong path, but the fix for this will need to wait. Verify
+ the flaw by using a source URL with included %XX-codes.
+
+ Made CURLOPT_FTPPORT control weather the target operation should use PORT
+ (or not). The other side thus uses passive (PASV) mode.
+
+ Updated the ftp3rdparty.c example source to use the updated options.
+
+ Added support for a second FTP server in the test suite. Named... ftp2.
+ Added test cases 230, 231 and 232 as a few first basic tests of very simple
+ 3rd party transfers.
+
+ Changed the debug output to include 'target' and 'source' when a 3rd party
+ is being made, to make it clearer what commands/responses came on what
+ connection.
+
+ Added three new command line options: --3p-url, --3p-user and --3p-quote.
+
+ Documented the command line options and the curl_easy_setopt options related
+ to third party transfers.
+
+ (Temporarily) disabled the ability to re-use an existing connection for the
+ source connection. This is because it needs to force a new in case the
+ source and target is the same host, and the host name check is trickier now
+ when the source is identified with a full URL instead of a plain host name
+ like before.
+
+ TODO (short-term) for 3rd party transfers: quote support. The options are
+ there, we need to add test cases to verify their functionality.
+
+ TODO (long-term) for 3rd party transfers: IPv6 support (EPRT and EPSV etc)
+ and SSL/TSL support.
+
+Daniel (20 January 2005)
+- Philippe Hameau found out that -Q "+[command]" didn't work, although some
+ code was written for it. I fixed and added test case 227 to verify it.
+ The curl.1 man page didn't mention the '+' so I added it.
+
+Daniel (19 January 2005)
+- Stephan Bergmann made libcurl return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT if an FTP URL
+ contains %0a or %0d in the user, password or CWD parts. (A future fix would
+ include doing it for %00 as well - see KNOWN_BUGS for details.) Test case
+ 225 and 226 were added to verify this
+
+- Stephan Bergmann pointed out two flaws in libcurl built with HTTP disabled:
+
+ 1) the proxy environment variables are still read and used to set HTTP proxy
+
+ 2) you couldn't disable http proxy with CURLOPT_PROXY (since the option was
+ disabled). This is important since apps may want to disable HTTP proxy
+ without actually knowing if libcurl was built to disable HTTP or not.
+
+ Based on Stephan's patch, both these issues should now be fixed.
+
+Daniel (18 January 2005)
+- Cody Jones' enhanced version of Samuel Díaz García's MSVC makefile patch was
+ applied.
+
+Daniel (16 January 2005)
+- Alex aka WindEagle pointed out that when doing "curl -v dictionary.com", curl
+ assumed this used the DICT protocol. While guessing protocols will remain
+ fuzzy, I've now made sure that the host names must start with "[protocol]."
+ for them to be a valid guessable name. I also removed "https" as a prefix
+ that indicates HTTPS, since we hardly ever see any host names using that.
+
+Daniel (13 January 2005)
+- Inspired by Martijn Koster's patch and example source at
+ http://www.greenhills.co.uk/mak/gentoo/curl-eintr-bug.c, I now made the
+ select() and poll() calls properly loop if they return -1 and errno is
+ EINTR. glibc docs for this is found here:
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Interrupted-Primitives.html
+
+ This last link says BSD doesn't have this "effect". Will there be a problem
+ if we do this unconditionally?
+
+Daniel (11 January 2005)
+- Dan Torop cleaned up a few no longer used variables from David Phillips'
+ select() overhaul fix.
+
+- Cyrill Osterwalder posted a detailed analysis about a bug that occurs when
+ using a custom Host: header and curl fails to send a request on a re-used
+ persistent connection and thus creates a new connection and resends it. It
+ then sent two Host: headers. Cyrill's analysis was posted here:
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2005-01/0022.html
+
+- Bruce Mitchener identified (bug report #1099640) the never-ending SOCKS5
+ problem with the version byte and the check for bad versions. Bruce has lots
+ of clues on this, and based on his suggestion I've now removed the check of
+ that byte since it seems to be able to contain 1 or 5.
+
+Daniel (10 January 2005)
+- Pavel Orehov reported memory problems with the multi interface in bug report
+ #1098843. In short, a shared DNS cache was setup for a multi handle and when
+ the shared cache was deleted before the individual easy handles, the latter
+ cleanups caused read/writes to already freed memory.
+
+- Hzhijun reported a memory leak in the SSL certificate code, that leaked the
+ remote certificate name when it didn't match the used host name.
+
+Gisle (8 January 2005)
+- Added Makefile.Watcom files (src/lib). Updated Makefile.dist.
+
+Daniel (7 January 2005)
+- Improved the test script's valgrind log parser to actually work! Also added
+ the ability to disable the log scanner for specific test cases. Test case
+ 509 results in numerous problems and leaks in OpenSSL and has to get it
+ disabled.
+
+Daniel (6 January 2005)
+- Fixed a single-byte read out of bounds in test case 39 in the curl tool code
+ (i.e not in the library).
+
+- Bug report #1097019 identified a problem when doing -d "data" with -G and
+ sending it to two URLs with {}. Added test 199 to verify the fix.
+
+Daniel (4 January 2005)
+- Marty Kuhrt adjusted a VMS build script slightly
+
+- Kai Sommerfeld and Gisle Vanem fixed libcurl to build with IPv6 support on
+ Win2000.
+
+Daniel (2 January 2005)
+- Alex Neblett updated the MSVC makefiles slightly.
+Daniel (25 December 2004)
+- Removed src/config.h.in from CVS, it is now copied from the (generated)
+ lib/config.h.in instead, as they can very well be the same. This removes a
+ "manual hassle". You may want to re-run buildconf now.
+
+- Werner Koch filed Debian bug report #286794, mentioning that curl contained
+ non-free (by Debian's view) source code. This was Angus Mackay's
+ src/getpass.c source code. I tried to contact him about it to quickly solve
+ this issue, but his email addresses bounce and I got some time "over" and
+ reimplemented the functionality once brought by Angus. We no longer use any
+ of Angus' original code and the new function is much simpler (IMO). Issue
+ solved.
+
+Daniel (24 December 2004)
+- David Shaw added --protocols to curl-config, so that it now lists all
+ protocols libcurl was built to support. --feature no longer lists disabled
+ protocols.
+
+Daniel (23 December 2004)
+- David Shaw fixed the configure --disable-[protocol] variables so that
+ curl-config --feature now works correctly!
+
+Daniel (22 December 2004)
+- Rune Kleveland fixed a minor memory leak for received cookies with the
+ (rare) version attribute set.
+
+- Marcin Konicki provided two configure fixes and a source fix to make curl
+ build out-of-the-box on BeOS.
+
+Daniel (21 December 2004)
+- Added test case 217 that verified CURLINFO_HTTP_CONNECTCODE, and I made the
+ -w option support 'http_connect' to make it easier to verify!
+
+- Fixed lib/select.c include order to build fine on FreeBSD
+
+- Fixed failf()'s reuse of the va_list variable that crashed on FreeBSD.
+ Pointed out by Peter Pentchev.
+
+Version 7.12.3 (20 December 2004)
+
+Daniel (19 December 2004)
+- I investigated our PKCS12 build problem on Solaris 2.7 with OpenSSL 0.9.7e,
+ and it turned out to be the fault of the zlib 1.1.4 headers doing a typedef
+ named 'free_func' and the OpenSSL headers have a prototype that uses
+ 'free_func' in one of its arguments. This is why the compile errors out.
+
+ In other words, we need to include the openssl/pkcs12.h header before the
+ zlib.h header and it builds fine. The configure script now checks for this
+ file and it then gets included early in lib/urldata.h.
+
+Daniel (18 December 2004)
+- Samuel Listopad added support for PKCS12 formatted certificates.
+
+- Samuel Listopad fixed -E to support "C:/path" (with forward slash) as well.
+
+Daniel (16 December 2004)
+- Gisle found and fixed a problem in the directory re-use for FTP.
+
+ I added test case 215 and 216 to better verify the functionality.
+
+- Dinar in bug report #1086121, found a file handle leak when a multipart
+ formpost (including a file upload part) was aborted before the whole file
+ was sent.
+
+Daniel (15 December 2004)
+- Tom Lee found out that globbing of strings with backslashes didn't work as
+ you'd expect. Backslashes are such a central part of windows file names that
+ forcing backslashes to have to be escaped with backslashes is a bit too
+ awkward to users. Starting now, you only need to escape globbing characters
+ such as the five letters: "[]{},". Added test case 214 to verify this.
+
+Daniel (14 December 2004)
+- Harshal Pradhan patched a HTTP persistent connection flaw: if the user name
+ and/or password were modified between two requests on a persistent
+ connection, the second request were still made with the first setup!
+
+ I added test case 519 to verify the fix.
+
+Daniel (13 December 2004)
+- Gisle added CURLINFO_SSL_ENGINES to curl_easy_getinfo() to allow an app
+ to list all available crypto ENGINES.
+
+- Gisle fixed bug report #1083542, which pointed out a problem with resuming
+ large file (>4GB) file:// transfers on windows.
+
+Daniel (11 December 2004)
+- Made the test suite HTTP server (sws) capable of using IPv6, and then
+ extended the test environment to support that and also added three test
+ cases (240, 241, 242) that run tests using IPv6. Test 242 uses a URL that
+ didn't work before the 10 dec fix by Kai Sommerfeld.
+
+- Made a failed file:// resume output an error message
+
+- Corrected the CURLE_BAD_DOWNLOAD_RESUME error message in lib/strerror.c
+
+- Dan Fandrich:
+
+ simplified and consolidated the SSL checks in configure and the usage of the
+ defines in lib/setup.h
+
+ provided a first libcurl.pc.in file for pkg-config (but the result is not
+ installed anywhere at this point)
+
+ extended the cross compile section in the docs/INSTALL file
+
+Daniel (10 December 2004)
+- When providing user name in the URL and a IPv6-style IP-address (like in
+ "ftp://user@[::1]/tmp"), the URL parser didn't get the host extracted
+ properly. Reported and fixed by Kai Sommerfeld.
+
+Daniel (9 December 2004)
+- Ton Voon provided a configure fix that should fix the notorious (mostly
+ reported on Solaris) problem where the size_t check fails due to the SSL
+ libs being found in a dir not searched through by the run-time linker.
+ patch-tracker entry #1081707.
+
+- Bryan Henderson pointed out in bug report #1081788 that the curl-config
+ --vernum output wasn't zero prefixed properly (as claimed in documentation).
+ This is fixed in maketgz now.
+
+Daniel (8 December 2004)
+- Matt Veenstra updated the mach-O framework files for Mac OS X.
+
+- Rene Bernhardt found and fixed a buffer overrun in the NTLM code, where
+ libcurl always and unconditionally overwrote a stack-based array with 3 zero
+ bytes. This is not an exploitable buffer overflow. No need to get alarmed.
+
+Daniel (7 December 2004)
+- Fixed so that the final error message is sent to the verbose info "stream"
+ even if no errorbuffer is set.
+
+Daniel (6 December 2004)
+- Dan Fandrich added the --disable-cookies option to configure to build
+ libcurl without cookie support. This is mainly useful if you want to build a
+ minimalistic libcurl with no cookies support at all. Like for embedded
+ systems or similar.
+
+- Richard Atterer fixed libcurl's way of dealing with the EPSV
+ response. Previously, libcurl would re-resolve the host name with the new
+ port number and attempt to connect to that, while it should use the IP from
+ the control channel. This bug made it hard to EPSV from an FTP server with
+ multiple IP addresses!
+
+Daniel (3 December 2004)
+- Bug report #1078066: when a chunked transfer was pre-maturely closed exactly
+ at a chunk boundary it was not considered an error and thus went unnoticed.
+ Fixed by Maurice Barnum.
+
+ Added test case 207 to verify.
+
+Daniel (2 December 2004)
+- Fixed the CONNECT loop to default timeout to 3600 seconds.
+
+ Added test case 206 that makes CONNECT with Digest.
+
+ Fixed a flaw that prepended "(nil)" to the initial CONNECT rqeuest's user-
+ agent field.
+
+Daniel (30 November 2004)
+- Dan Fandrich's fix for libz 1.1 and "extra field" usage in a gzip stream
+
+- Dan also helped me with input data to create three more test cases for the
+ --compressed option.
+
+Daniel (29 November 2004)
+- I improved the test suite to enable binary contents in the tests (by proving
+ it base64 encoded), like for testing decompress etc. Added test 220 and 221
+ for this purpose. Tests can now also depend on libz to run.
+
+- As reported by Reinout van Schouwen in Mandrake's bug tracker bug 12285
+ (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12285), when connecting to an
+ IPv6 host with FTP, --disable-epsv (or --disable-eprt) effectively disables
+ the ability to transfer a file. Now, when connected to an FTP server with
+ IPv6, these FTP commands can't be disabled even if asked to with the
+ available libcurl options.
+
+Daniel (26 November 2004)
+- As reported in Mandrake's bug tracker bug 12289
+ (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12289), curl would print a
+ newline to "finish" the progress meter after each redirect and not only
+ after a completed transfer.
+
+Daniel (25 November 2004)
+- FTP improvements:
+
+ If EPSV, EPRT or LPRT is tried and doesn't work, it will not be retried on
+ the same server again even if a following request is made using a persistent
+ connection.
+
+ If a second request is made to a server, requesting a file from the same
+ directory as the previous request operated on, libcurl will no longer make
+ that long series of CWD commands just to end up on the same spot. Note that
+ this is only for *exactly* the same dir. There is still room for improvements
+ to optimize the CWD-sending when the dirs are only slightly different.
+
+ Added test 210, 211 and 212 to verify these changes. Had to improve the
+ test script too and added a new primitive to the test file format.
+
+Daniel (24 November 2004)
+- Andrés García fixed the configure script to detect select properly when run
+ with Msys/Mingw on Windows.
+
+Daniel (22 November 2004)
+- Made HTTP PUT and POST requests no longer use HEAD when doing multi-pass
+ auth negotiation (NTLM, Digest and Negotiate), but instead use the request
+ keyword "properly". Details in lib/README.httpauth. This also introduces
+ CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, to be used by apps that use the
+ "any" auth alternative as then libcurl may need to send the PUT/POST data
+ more than once and thus may need to ask the app to "rewind" the read data
+ stream to start.
+
+ See also the new example using this: docs/examples/anyauthput.c
+
+- David Phillips enhanced test 518. I made it depend on a "feature" so that
+ systems without getrlimit() won't attempt to test 518. configure now checks
+ for getrlimit() and setrlimit() for this test case.
+
+Daniel (18 November 2004)
+- David Phillips fixed libcurl to not crash anymore when more than FD_SETSIZE
+ file descriptors are in use. Test case 518 added to verify.
+
+Daniel (15 November 2004)
+- To test my fix for the CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME bug, I added time_redirect and
+ num_redirects support to the -w writeout option for the command line tool.
+
+- Wojciech Zwiefka found out that CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME didn't work as
+ documented.
+
+Daniel (12 November 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem modigied the MSVC and Netware makefiles to build without
+ libcurl.def
+
+- Dan Fandrich added the --disable-crypto-auth option to configure to allow
+ libcurl to build without Digest support. (I figure it should also explicitly
+ disable Negotiate and NTLM.)
+
+- *** Modified Behaviour Alert ***
+
+ Setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to NULL will no longer do a GET.
+
+ Setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to "" will send a zero byte POST and setting
+ CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to NULL and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE to zero will also make
+ a zero byte POST. Added test case 515 to verify this.
+
+ Setting CURLOPT_HTTPPOST to NULL makes a zero byte post. Added test case 516
+ to verify this.
+
+ CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE must now be set to -1 to signal "we don't know".
+ Setting it to zero simply says this is a zero byte POST.
+
+ When providing POST data with a read callback, setting the size up front
+ is now made with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE and not with CURLOPT_INFILESIZE.
+
+Daniel (11 November 2004)
+- Dan Fandrich added --disable-verbose to the configure script to allow builds
+ without verbose strings in the code, to save some 12KB space. Makes sense
+ only for systems with very little memory resources.
+
+- Jeff Phillips found out that a date string with a year beyond 2038 could
+ crash the new date parser on systems with 32bit time_t. We now check for
+ this case and deal with it.
+
+Daniel (10 November 2004)
+- I installed Heimdal on my Debian box (using the debian package) and noticed
+ that configure --with-gssapi failed to create a nice build. Fixed now.
+
+Daniel (9 November 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem marked all external function calls with CURL_EXTERN so that now
+ the Windows, Netware and other builds no longer need libcurl.def or similar
+ files.
+
+Daniel (8 November 2004)
+- Made the configure script check for tld.h if libidn was detected, since
+ libidn 0.3.X didn't have such a header and we don't work with anything
+ before libidn 0.4.1 anyway! Suse 9.1 apparently ships with a 0.3.X version
+ of libidn which makes the curl 7.12.2 build fail. Jean-Philippe
+ Barrette-LaPierre helped pointing this out.
+
+- Ian Gulliver reported in debian bug report #278691: if curl is invoked in an
+ environment where stderr is closed the -v output will still be sent to file
+ descriptor 2 which then might be the network socket handle! Now we have a
+ weird hack instead that attempts to make sure that file descriptor 2 is
+ opened (with a call to pipe()) before libcurl is called to do the transfer.
+ configure now checks for pipe() and systems without pipe don't get the weird
+ hack done.
+
+Daniel (5 November 2004)
+- Tim Sneddon made libcurl send no more than 64K in a single first chunk when
+ doing a huge POST on VMS, as this is a system limitation. Default on general
+ systems is 100K.
+
+Daniel (4 November 2004)
+- Andres Garcia made it build on mingw againa, my --retry code broke the build.
+
+Daniel (2 November 2004)
+- Added --retry-max-time that allows a maximum time that may not have been
+ reached for a retry to be made. If not set there is no maximum time, only
+ the amount of retries set with --retry.
+
+- Paul Nolan provided a patch to make libcurl build nicely on Windows CE.
+
+Daniel (1 November 2004)
+- When cross-compiling, the configure script no longer attempts to use
+ pkg-config on the build host in order to detect OpenSSL compiler options.
+
+Daniel (27 October 2004)
+- Dan Fandrich:
+
+ An improvement to the gzip handling of libcurl. There were two problems with
+ the old version: it was possible for a malicious gzip file to cause libcurl
+ to leak memory, as a buffer was malloced to hold the header and never freed
+ if the header ended with no file contents. The second problem is that the
+ 64 KiB decompression buffer was allocated on the stack, which caused
+ unexpectedly high stack usage and overflowed the stack on some systems
+ (someone complained about that in the mailing list about a year ago).
+
+ Both problems are fixed by this patch. The first one is fixed when a recent
+ (1.2) version of zlib is used, as it takes care of gzip header parsing
+ itself. A check for the version number is done at run-time and libcurl uses
+ that feature if it's present. I've created a define OLD_ZLIB_SUPPORT that
+ can be commented out to save some code space if libcurl is guaranteed to be
+ using a 1.2 version of zlib.
+
+ The second problem is solved by dynamically allocating the memory buffer
+ instead of storing it on the stack. The allocation/free is done for every
+ incoming packet, which is suboptimal, but should be dwarfed by the actual
+ decompression computation.
+
+ I've also factored out some common code between deflate and gzip to reduce
+ the code footprint somewhat. I've tested the gzip code on a few test files
+ and I tried deflate using the freshmeat.net server, and it all looks OK. I
+ didn't try running it with valgrind, however.
+
+- Added a --retry option to curl that takes a numerical option for the number
+ of times the operation should be retried. It is retried if a transient error
+ is detected or if a timeout occurred. By default, it will first wait one
+ second between the retries and then double the delay time between each retry
+ until the delay time is ten minutes which then will be the delay time
+ between all forthcoming retries. You can set a static delay time with
+ "--retry-delay [num]" where [num] is the number of seconds to wait between
+ each retry.
+
+Daniel (25 October 2004)
+- Tomas Pospisek filed bug report #1053287 that proved -C - and --fail on a
+ file that was already completely downloaded caused an error, while it
+ doesn't if you don't use --fail! I added test case 194 to verify the fix.
+ Grrr. CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is now added to the list stuff to remove in
+ libcurl v8 due to all the kludges needed to support it.
+
+- Mohun Biswas found out that formposting a zero-byte file didn't work very
+ good. I fixed.
+
+Daniel (19 October 2004)
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky made it possible to make FTP 3rd party transfers
+ with both source and destination being the same host. It can be useful if
+ you want to move a file on a server or similar.
+
+- Guillaume Arluison added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS to allow an app to figure
+ out how many new connects a previous transfer required.
+
+ I added %{num_connects} to the curl tool and added test case 192 and 193
+ to verify the new code.
+
+Daniel (18 October 2004)
+- Peter Wullinger pointed out that curl should call setlocale() properly to
+ initiate the specific language operations, to make the IDN stuff work
+ better.
+
+Version 7.12.2 (18 October 2004)
+
+Daniel (16 October 2004)
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky made the CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS option work
+ fine even for third party transfers.
+
+- runekl at opoint.com found out (and provided a fix) that libcurl leaked
+ memory for cookies with the "max-age" field set.
+
+Gisle (16 October 2004)
+- Issue 50 in TODO-RELEASE; Added Traian Nicolescu's patches for threaded
+ resolver on Windows. Plugged some potential handle and memory leaks.
+
+Daniel (14 October 2004)
+- Eric Vergnaud pointed out that libcurl didn't treat ?-letters in the user
+ name and password fields properly in URLs, like
+ ftp://us?er:pass?word@site.com/. Added test 191 to verify the fix.
+
+Daniel (11 October 2004)
+- libcurl now uses SO_NOSIGPIPE for systems that support it (Mac OS X 10.2 or
+ later is one) to inhibit the SIGPIPE signal when writing to a socket while
+ the peer dies. The same effect is provide by the MSG_NOSIGNAL parameter to
+ send() on other systems. Alan Pinstein verified the fix.
+
+Daniel (10 October 2004)
+- Systems with 64bit longs no longer use strtoll() or our strtoll- replacement
+ to parse 64 bit numbers. strtol() works fine. Added a configure check to
+ detect if [constant]LL works and if so, use that in the strtoll replacement
+ code to work around compiler warnings reported by Andy Cedilnik.
+
+Gisle (6 October 2004)
+- For USE_LIBIDN builds: Added Top-Level-Domain (TLD) check of host-name
+ used in fix_hostname(). Checks if characters in 'host->name' (indirectly
+ via 'ace_hostname') are legal according to the TLD tables in libidn.
+
+Daniel (6 October 2004)
+- Chih-Chung Chang reported that if you use CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM and enabled
+ CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, libcurl reported error if a redirect happened even
+ if the new URL would provide the resumed file. Test case 188 added to verify
+ the fix (together with existing test 99).
+
+- Dan Fandrich fixed a configure flaw for systems that need both nsl and socket
+ libs to use gethostbyname().
+
+- Removed tabs and trailing whitespace from lots of source files.
+
+Daniel (5 October 2004)
+- Made configure --with-libidn=PATH try the given PATH before the default
+ paths to make it possible to override.
+
+- If idna_strerror() is present in libidn, we can use that instead of our
+ internal replacement. This function was added by Simon in libidn 0.5.6 and
+ is detected by configure.
+
+- It seems basename() on IRIX is in the libgen library and since we don't use
+ that, configure finds libgen.h but not basename and then we get a compiler
+ error because our basename() replacement doesn't match the proto in
+ libgen.h. Starting now, we don't include the file if basename wasn't found
+ as well.
+
+Daniel (4 October 2004)
+- Chris found a race condition resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST and
+ potential crash, in the windows threaded name resolver code.
+
+Daniel (3 October 2004)
+- Replaced the use of isspace() in cookie.c with our own version instead since
+ we have most data as 'char *' and that makes us pass in negative values if
+ there is 8bit data in the string. Changing to unsigned causes too much
+ warnings or too many required typecasts to the normal string functions.
+ Harshal Pradhan identified this problem.
+
+Daniel (2 October 2004)
+- Bertrand Demiddelaer found a case where libcurl could read already freed
+ data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very) persistent connection. It
+ happened when the dns cache entry for the connection was pruned while the
+ connection was still alive and then again re-used. We worked together on
+ this fix.
+
+- Gisle Vanem provided code that displays an error message when the (libidn
+ based) IDN conversion fails. This is really due to a missing suitable
+ function in the libidn API that I hope we can remove once libidn gets a
+ function like this.
+
+Daniel (1 October 2004)
+- Aleksandar Milivojevic reported a problem in the Redhat bugzilla (see
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134133) and not to
+ anyone involved in the curl project! This happens when you try to curl a
+ file from a proftpd site using SSL. It seems proftpd sends a somewhat
+ unorthodox response code (232 instead of 230). I relaxed the response code
+ check to deal with this and similar cases.
+
+- Based on Fedor Karpelevitch's formpost path basename patch, file parts in
+ formposts no longer include the path part. If you _really_ want them, you
+ must provide your preferred full file name with CURLFORM_FILENAME.
+
+ Added detection for libgen.h and basename() to configure. My custom
+ basename() replacement function for systems without it, might be a bit too
+ naive...
+
+ Updated 6 test cases to make them work with the stripped paths.
+
+Daniel (30 September 2004)
+- Larry Campbell added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to curl_easy_getinfo() that allows an
+ app to retrieve the errno variable after a (connect) failure. It will make
+ sense to provide this for more failures in a more generic way, but let's
+ start like this.
+
+- Günter Knauf and Casey O'Donnell worked out an extra #if condition for the
+ curl/multi.h header to work better in winsock-using apps.
+
+- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre made buildconf run better on Mac OS X by
+ properly using glibtoolize instead of plain libtoolize. (This is made if
+ glibtool was found and used instead of plain libtool.)
+
+Daniel (29 September 2004)
+- Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed curl_easy_reset() so that it doesn't mistakingly
+ enable the progress meter.
+
+Daniel (28 September 2004)
+- "Mekonikum" found out that if you built curl without SSL support, although
+ your current SSL installation supports Engine, the compile fails.
+
+Daniel (27 September 2004)
+- When --with-ssl=PATH is used to the configure script, it no longer uses
+ pkg-config to figure out extra details. That is now only done if no PATH is
+ included or if SSL is checked for by default without the --with-ssl option.
+
+Daniel (25 September 2004)
+- Peter Sylvester pointed out that CURLOPT_SSLENGINE couldn't even be set to
+ NULL when no engine was supported. It can now.
+
+Daniel (22 September 2004)
+- Dan Fandrich fixed three test cases to no longer use "localhost" but instead
+ use "127.0.0.1" to avoid requiring that localhost resolves nicely.
+
+- Jean-Claude Chauve fixed an LDAP crash when more than one record was
+ retrieved.
+
+Daniel (19 September 2004)
+- Andreas Rieke pointed out that when attempting to connect to a host without
+ a service on the specified port, curl_easy_perform() didn't properly provide
+ an error message in the CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER buffer.
+
+Daniel (16 September 2004)
+- Daniel at touchtunes uses the FTP+SSL server "BSDFTPD-SSL from
+ http://bsdftpd-ssl.sc.ru/" which accordingly doesn't properly work with curl
+ when "AUTH SSL" is issued (although the server responds fine and everything)
+ but requires that curl issues "AUTH TLS" instead. See
+ http://curl.haxx.se/feedback/display.cgi?id=10951944937603&support=yes
+
+ Introducing CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH that allows the application to select which
+ of the AUTH strings to attempt first.
+
+- Anonymous filed bug report #1029478 which identified a bug when you 1) used
+ a URL without properly seperating the host name and the parameters with a
+ slash. 2) the URL had parameters to the right of a ? that contains a slash
+ 3) curl was told to follow Location:s 4) the request got a response that
+ contained a Location: to redirect to "/dir". curl then appended the new path
+ on the wrong position of the original URL.
+
+ Test case 187 was added to verify that this was fixed properly.
+
+Daniel (11 September 2004)
+- Added parsedate.c that contains a rewrite of the date parser currently
+ provided by getdate.y. The new one is MUCH smaller and will allow us to run
+ away from the yacc/bison jungle. It is also slightly lacking in features
+ compared to the old one, but it supports parsing of all date formats HTTP
+ involves (and a fair bunch of others).
+
+Daniel (10 September 2004)
+- As found out by Jonas Forsman, curl didn't allow -F to set Content-Type on
+ text-parts. Starting now, we can do -F "name=daniel;type=text/extra". Added
+ test case 186 to verify.
+
+- Bug report #1025986. When following a Location: with a custom Host: header
+ replacement, curl only replaced the Host: header on the initial request
+ and didn't replace it on the following ones. This resulted in requests with
+ two Host: headers.
+
+ Now, curl checks if the location is on the same host as the initial request
+ and then continues to replace the Host: header. And when it moves to another
+ host, it doesn't replace the Host: header but it also doesn't make the
+ second Host: header get used in the request.
+
+ This change is verified by the two new test cases 184 and 185.
+
+Daniel (8 September 2004)
+- Modified the test suite to be able to use and run with customized port
+ numbers. This was always intended but never before possible. Now a simple
+ change in the runtests.pl script can make all tests use different ports.
+ The default ports in use from now on are 8990 to 8993.
+
+Daniel (2 September 2004)
+- Minor modification of an SSL-related error message.
+
+Daniel (31 August 2004)
+- David Tarendash found out that curl_multi_add_handle() returned
+ CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM instead of CURLM_OK.
+
+Daniel (30 August 2004)
+- Make "Proxy-Connection: close" close the current proxy connection, as Roman
+ Koifman found out.
+
+Daniel (24 August 2004)
+- Fixed a getdate problem by post-replacing the getdate.c file after the
+ bison/yacc process to add the fix Harshal Pradhan suggested. The problem
+ caused a crash on Windows when parsing some dates.
+
+Daniel (23 August 2004)
+- Roman Koifman pointed out that libcurl send Expect: 100-continue on POSTs
+ even when told to use HTTP 1.0, which is not correct. Test case 180 and
+ 181 verify this.
+
+- Added test case 182 to verify that zero byte transfers call the callback
+ properly.
+
+Daniel (20 August 2004)
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky made the write callback get called even when a zero
+ byte file is downloaded.
+
+Daniel (18 August 2004)
+- Ling Thio pointed out that when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled, it still did
+ reverse DNS lookups when fed with a numerical IP-address (like
+ http://127.0.0.1/), although it doesn't when built ipv6-disabled. libcurl
+ should never do reverse lookups.
+
+Daniel (17 August 2004)
+- Kjetil Jacobsen noticed that when transferring a file:// URL pointing to an
+ empty file, libcurl would return with the file still open.
+
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky pointed out that the configure script needs to define
+ _THREAD_SAFE for AIX systems to make libcurl built really thread-safe.
+
+ Also added a check for the xlc compiler on AIX, and if that is detect we use
+ the -qthreaded compiler option
+
+Daniel (16 August 2004)
+- libcurl now allows a custom "Accept-Encoding:" header override the
+ internally set one that gets set with CURLOPT_ENCODING. Pointed out by Alex.
+
+- Roland Krikava found and fixed a cookie problem when using a proxy (the
+ path matching was wrong). I added test case 179 to verify that we now do
+ right.
+
+Daniel (15 August 2004)
+- Casey O'Donnell fixed some MSVC makefile targets to link properly.
+
+Daniel (11 August 2004)
+- configure now defines _XOPEN_SOURCE to 500 on systems that need it to build
+ warning-free (the only known one so far is non-gcc builds on 64bit SGI
+ IRIX). (Reverted this change later as it caused compiler errors.)
+
+- the FTP code now includes the server response in the error message when the
+ server gives back a 530 after the password is provided, as it isn't
+ necessary because of a bad user name or password.
+
+Version 7.12.1 (10 August 2004)
+
+Daniel (10 August 2004)
+- In OpenSSL 0.9.7d and earlier, ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8 fails if the input is
+ already UTF-8 encoded. This made the certificate verification fail if the
+ remote server used a certificate with the name UTF-8 encoded.
+
+ Work-around brought by Alexis S. L. Carvalho.
+
+Daniel (9 August 2004)
+- I fixed the configure script for krb4 to use -lcom_err as well, as I started
+ to get link problems with it unless I did that on my Solaris 2.7 box. I
+ don't understand why I started to get problems with this now!
+
+Daniel (5 August 2004)
+- Enrico Scholz fixed the HTTP-Negotiate service name to be uppercase as
+ reported in bug report #1004105
+
+Daniel (4 August 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem provided a fix for the multi interface and connecting to a host
+ using multiple IP (bad) addresses.
+
+- Dylan Salisbury made libcurl no longer accept cookies set to a TLD only (it
+ previously allowed that on the seven three-letter domains).
+
+Daniel (31 July 2004)
+- Joel Chen reported that the digest code assumed quotes around the contents a
+ bit too much.
+
+Daniel (28 July 2004)
+- Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed the host name to get setup properly even when a
+ connection is re-used, when a proxy is in use. Previously the wrong Host:
+ header could get sent when re-using a proxy connection to a different target
+ host.
+
+- Fixed Brian Akins' reported problems with duplicate Host: headers on re-used
+ connections. If you attempted to replace the Host: header in the second
+ request, you got two such headers!
+
+- src/Makefile.am now includes the Makefile.inc file to get info about files
+
+Daniel (26 July 2004)
+- Made "curl [URL] -o name#2" work as expected. If there's no globbing for the
+ #-number, it will simply be used as #2 in the file name.
+
+- Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed testing with valgrind 2.1.x and added two missing
+ newlines in the cookie informationals.
+
+Daniel (24 July 2004)
+- I fixed the autobuilds with ares, since they now need to have buildconf run
+ in the ares dir before the configure script is run.
+
+- Added Casey O'Donnell's curl_easy_reset() function. It has a proto in
+ curl/curl.h but we have no man page yet.
+
+Daniel (20 July 2004)
+- Added buildconf and buildconf.bat to the release archives, since they are
+ handy for rebuilding curl when using a daily snapshot (and not a pure CVS
+ checkout).
+
+Daniel (16 July 2004)
+- As suggested by Toby Peterson, libcurl now ignores Content-Length data if the
+ given size is a negative number. Test case 178 verifies this.
+
+Daniel (14 July 2004)
+- Günter Knauf has made the Netware builds do without the config-netware.h
+ files, so they are now removed from the dist packages.
+
+- Günter Knauf made curl and libcurl build with Borland again.
+
+- Andres Garcia fixed the common test 505 failures on windows.
+
+Daniel (6 July 2004)
+- Andrés García found out why the windows tests failed on file:// "uploads".
+
+Daniel (2 July 2004)
+- Andrés García reported a curl_share_cleanup() crash that occurs when no
+ lock/unlock callbacks have been set and the share is cleaned up.
+
+Daniel (1 July 2004)
+- When using curl --trace or --trace-ascii, no trace messages that were sent
+ by curl_easy_cleanup() were included in the trace file. This made the
+ message "Closing connection #0" never appear in trace dumps.
+
+Daniel (30 June 2004)
+- Niels van Tongeren found that setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to TRUE doesn't disable
+ a previously set POST request, making a very odd request get sent (unless
+ you disabled the POST) a HEAD request with a POST request-body. I've now
+ made CURLOPT_NOBODY enforce a proper HEAD. Added test case 514 for this.
+
+Daniel (29 June 2004)
+- Günter Knauf made the testcurl.pl script capable of using a custom setup
+ file to easier run multiple autobuilds on the same source tree.
+
+- Gisle fixed the djgpp build and fixed a memory problem in some of the
+ reorged name resolved code.
+
+- Fixed code to allow connects done using the multi interface to attempt the
+ next IP when connecting to a host that resolves to multiple IPs and a
+ connect attempt fails.
+
+Daniel (27 June 2004)
+- Based on Rob Stanzel's bug report #979480, I wrote a configure check that
+ checks if poll() can be used to wait on NULL as otherwise select() should be
+ used to do it. The select() usage was also fixed according to his report.
+
+ Mac OS X 10.3 says "poll() functionality for Mac OS X is implemented via an
+ emulation layer on top of select(), not in the kernel directly. It is
+ recommended that programs running under OS X 10.3 prefer select() over
+ poll(). Configure scripts should look for the _POLL_EMUL_H_ define (instead
+ of _POLL_H_ or _SYS_POLL_H_) and avoid implementations where poll is not
+ implemented in the kernel."
+
+ Yes, we can probably use select() on most platforms but today I prefered to
+ leave the code unaltered.
+
+Daniel (24 June 2004)
+- The standard curl_version() string now only includes version info about
+ involved libraries and not about particular features. Thus it will no longer
+ include info about ipv6 nor GSS. That info is of course still available in
+ the feature bitmask curl_version_info() offers.
+
+- Replaced all occurances of sprintf() with snprintf(). This is mostly because
+ it is "A Good Thing" rather than actually fixing any known problem. This
+ will help preventing future possible mistakes to cause buffer overflows.
+
+- Major reorganization in the host resolve code (again). This time, I've
+ modified the code to now always use a linked list of Curl_addrinfo structs
+ to return resolved info in, no matter what resolver method or support that
+ is available on the platform. It makes it a lot easier to write code that
+ uses or depends on resolved data.
+
+ Internally, this means amongst other things that we can stop doing the weird
+ "increase buffer size until it works" trick when resolving hosts on
+ ipv4-only with gethostbyname_r(), we support socks even on libcurls built
+ with ipv6 enabled (but only to socks servers that resolve to an ipv4
+ address) and we no longer deep-copy or relocate hostent structs (we create
+ Curl_addrinfo chains instead).
+
+ The new "hostent to Curl_addrinfo" converter function is named Curl_he2ai()
+ and is slightly naive and simple, yet I believe it is functional enough to
+ work for libcurl.
+
+Daniel (22 June 2004)
+- David Cohen pointed out that RFC2109 says clients should allow cookies to
+ contain least 4096 bytes while libcurl only allowed 2047. I raised the limit
+ to 4999 now and made the used buffer get malloc()ed instead of simply
+ allocated on stack as before. Extended test case 46 to include a cookie with
+ very huge content to verify the fix.
+
+- Günter Knauf fixed getdate.y to remove a few warnings. I removed the
+ ifdef'ed test we never ever use anyway.
+
+- Gisle Vanem fixed the certificate wildcard checks to support a '*'-letter
+ anywhere in the wildcard string, support multiple '*'-letters in the
+ wildcard and to allow the '*'-letter to match a string that includes a dot.
+
+Daniel (21 June 2004)
+- testcurl.sh is now removed completely, tests/testcurl.pl is the script to
+ use when autobuilding curl!
+
+- Kjetil Jacobsen brought my attention to the fact that you cannot properly
+ abort an upload with the readfunction callback, since returning 0 or -1 only
+ stops the upload and libcurl will continue waiting for downloaded data and
+ the server often waits for the rest of the upload data to arrive.
+
+ Thus, I've now added the ability for read callbacks to return
+ CURL_READFUNC_ABORT to abort an upload from a read callback. This will stop
+ the transfer immediately with a CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK return code.
+
+ Test case 513 was added to verify that it works. I had to improve the test
+ HTTP server too to dump the request to a file even when the client
+ disconnects prematurely.
+
+Daniel (19 June 2004)
+- Luca Alteas provided a test case with a failing curl operation: when we POST
+ to a site with --digest (or similar) set, and the server responded with a 302
+ Location: to the "authprobe" request, it was not treated correctly. We still
+ will behave badly if FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled for this case, but I'm not
+ in the mood to dive into this right now and will leave it as-is for now.
+ Verified my fix with test case 177.
+
+Daniel (18 June 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem's patch that provides more details from the SSL layers (if you
+ use an OpenSSL version that supports it). It also introduces two new types
+ of data that can be sent to the debug callback: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and
+ CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT.
+
+- With David Byron's test server I could repeat his problem and make sure that
+ POSTing over HTTPS:// with NTLM works fine now. There was a general problem
+ with multi-pass authentication with non-GET operations with CONNECT.
+
+Daniel (16 June 2004)
+- Modified to keep the upload byte counter in an curl_off_t, not an int as
+ before. 32bits is not enough. This is most likely the bug Jean-Louis Lemaire
+ reported that makes 2GB FTP uploads to report error ("unaligned file sizes")
+ when completed.
+
+Daniel (15 June 2004)
+- Luca Alteas reported a problem that I fixed: if you did a POST with
+ CURLAUTH_DIGEST set but the server didn't require any authentication,
+ libcurl would repeatedly send HEAD lots of times until it gives up. This was
+ actually the case for all multi-pass authentications. Added test case 174,
+ 175 and 176 to verify this.
+
+Daniel (14 June 2004)
+- Multipart formposts uploading files no longer inserts the files themselves
+ into the huge prebuilt chunk. This enables libcurl to formpost files that is
+ larger than the amount of system memory. When the file given is passed on
+ stdin, libcurl still uses the old method of reading the full fill before the
+ upload takes place. This approach was selected in order to not alter the
+ behavior for existing applications, as when using stdin libcurl can't know
+ the size of the upload and chunked transfer-encoding can only be used on
+ HTTP 1.1 servers.
+
+Daniel (13 June 2004)
+- Gisle found out that we did wildcard cert name checks wrong, so that parts
+ of the check wrongly was case sensitive.
+
+Daniel (11 June 2004)
+- Tim Sneddon brought a minor VMS fix to make curl build properly on his VMS
+ machine. He also had some interesting libcurl patches... they might be able
+ to do in a slightly nicer way. Discussions are in progress.
+
+Daniel (10 June 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem brought code cleanupsm better verbose output and better connect
+ timeout handling when attempting to connect to a host that resolves to
+ multiple IP addresses.
+
+- Steven Bazyl and Seshubabu Pasam pointed out a bug on win32 when freeing the
+ path after a file:// transfer.
+
+Daniel (9 June 2004)
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky made 'configure --disable-http' work to build libcurl
+ without HTTP support. I added a new return code for curl_formadd() in case
+ libcurl is built with HTTP disable: CURL_FORMADD_DISABLED.
+
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky pointed out a missing file in the generated
+ curllib.dsp file, and now people building with this should get a libcurl.lib
+ file generated as it used to do before we generated this file.
+
+Daniel (8 June 2004)
+- Marty Kuhrt fixed a minor build problem for VMS.
+
+Daniel (7 June 2004)
+- Reverted the configure check from the 4th since it obviously didn't work.
+ Remade it in a different manner that hopefully works better.
+
+Daniel (4 June 2004)
+- Günter Knauf brought patches to make curl build fine on NetWare again.
+
+- Made the configure checks for strerror_r() not exit the configure script
+ when built for cross-compiling.
+
+Daniel (3 June 2004)
+- Chris Gaukroger pointed out that 'make test' attempts to run the tests even
+ if curl is built cross-compiled. I've now made it output a short message
+ instead, saying it isn't possible to do.
+
+- Alexander Krasnostavsky brought FTP 3rd party transfer support to libcurl.
+ You can now use libcurl to transfer files between two remote hosts using
+ FTP. There are a bunch of new options to control this with:
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_HOST
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_USERPWD
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_PATH
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_PORT
+ CURLOPT_PASV_HOST
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_PREQUOTE
+ CURLOPT_SOURCE_POSTQUOTE
+
+ (They still remain to be documented properly in the curl_easy_setopt man
+ page.)
+
+ When using this, the ordinary CURLOPT_URL specifies the target URL, and you
+ specify the source data with these additional options. ftp3rdparty.c is a
+ new example source code showing how to use this.
+
+- Vincent Bronner fixed the HTTP Digest code to use the proxy user name and
+ password when doing proxy authentication, it previously always used the host
+ user name and password!
+
+Daniel (2 June 2004)
+- CURLOPT_UPLOAD and CURLOPT_PUT now do the exact same thing internally, which
+ fixes some old confusions on when which of these should be used and what the
+ differences are.
+
+- Applied Gisle's fixes to make curl build fine with lcc-win32
+
+Version 7.12.0 (2 June 2004)
+
+Daniel (1 June 2004)
+- I clarified the --create-dirs option somewhat in the curl man page.
+
+- Renaud Duhaut corrected the curl_unescape man page.
+
+- David Byron modified one of Massimiliano Ziccardi's recent MSVC makefile
+ changes to now again use the mm lib by default.
+
+Daniel (26 May 2004)
+- Mohun Biswas added release-zlib and debug-zlib targets to the MSVC libcurl
+ Makefile
+
+- David Byron reported a problem with proxy authentication when doing CONNECT,
+ like when accessing HTTPS sites wiht a proxy. This probably broke when I
+ rewrote the auth stuff recently.
+
+- I added fileupload.c in the examples directory, showing how an upload to a
+ file:// URL is made.
+
+Daniel (25 May 2004)
+- Massimiliano Ziccardi updated the MSVC makefiles.
+
+Daniel (24 May 2004)
+- libcurl now supports "uploading" to file:// URLs. Test 204 and 205 were
+ added to verify.
+
+- Simon Josefsson added a idn_free() function in libidn 0.4.5 as a reaction to
+ Gisle's previous mail. We now use this function, and thus we require libidn
+ 0.4.5 or later. No earlier version will do.
+
+- Robert D. Young reported that CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIE could
+ not be used both in one request. Fixed it and added test case 172 to verify.
+
+Daniel (21 May 2004)
+- While talking to host a.b.c, libcurl did wrongly not accept cookies that
+ were set to the domain .a.b.c (that is with a dot prefix). This is now fixed
+ and test case 171 verifies it.
+
+Daniel (20 May 2004)
+- Jesse Noller reported that the upload speed info reported by libcurl was
+ wrong. The same was true for the download speed. Fixed now.
+
+Daniel (19 May 2004)
+- David Byron added test case 170 - this used to crash the previous version of
+ curl.
+
+Daniel (17 May 2004)
+- Peter Sylvester's patch that addresses two flaws in the peer certificate
+ name verification:
+ o when multiple common names are used (as in the curl tests), the last name
+ needs to be selected.
+ o allow comparing with encoded values, at least with BMP and ISO latin1
+ encoded T61strings.
+
+- All 191 test cases run through the torture test OK! 'make test-torture' is
+ now available in the root makefile (on configure-based environments).
+
+Daniel (14 May 2004)
+- With a slightly modified ftpserver.pl I've now run almost all tests through
+ with runtests.pl -t. This is goodness!
+
+- Since I have been unable to contact the CVS admins for several months, I've
+ decided that the current CVS hosting was not good enough. I've now moved the
+ CVS repo once again, see README for updated cvs checkout instructions.
+
+Daniel (13 May 2004)
+- runtests.pl -t now runs fine all the way to test 100. I believe test case
+ 100 fails because of an FTP server problem.
+
+Daniel (12 May 2004)
+- General cleanups all over to make libcurl survive and do well when a memory
+ function returns NULL. runtests.pl -t now works fine for the first 26 test
+ cases.
+
+Daniel (11 May 2004)
+- Seshubabu Pasam provided a patch that introduces curl_global_init_mem() -
+ like normal curl_global_init() but allows the app to replace all memory
+ functions with its own set. I modified it slightly.
+
+- Based on Luca Alteas' comments, I modified the curllib.dsp generation code.
+
+Daniel (10 May 2004)
+- Gisle mailed Simon Josefsson (of libidn fame) about the benefits of a
+ separate free()-function by that lib to make sure the memory is freed by the
+ same memory subsystem that allocated it. He responded positively and this
+ will likely cause us to require a newer version of libidn as soon as Simon
+ releases one with such a libidn_free() function.
+
+- James Bursa made runtests.pl's -t option work for any given test case, and I
+ edited to allow -g too. Not even test case 1 worked...
+
+- Luca Altea made the nc= field not use quotes in outgoing HTTP Digest headers.
+
+- Andrés García fixed a problem in the test script that made it fail to
+ recognize our own running HTTP server.
+
+Daniel (7 May 2004)
+- James Bursa fixed the memanalyze.pl script to conder malloc(0) areas OK to
+ free() and he made two failed-resolve error messages use the new display-
+ name instead of the internally-used name.
+
+- Gisle Vanem tried curl with
+ www.etdomenenavnkanmaksimaltinneholdesekstitrebokstaversliksomdette.com
+ which caused problems, and I fixed the single zero byte buffer overwrite
+ that occurred (due to a stupid protocol buffer size and parser).
+
+- Made the lib/curllib.dsp file get generated automaticly when a distribution
+ package is made, with the msvcproj.* files as templates and all
+ win32-sources added. I think this can be made to work better than the always
+ lagging-behind previous approach. I'm not sure this builds a working project
+ file right now though!
+
+Daniel (6 May 2004)
+- Michael Benedict brought a fix that fills in the errorbuffer properly when
+ ares fails to resolve a name for a case not previously dealt with like this.
+
+Daniel (5 May 2004)
+- Joe Halpin fixed the annoying typecast warning in lib/ldap.c
+
+- Gisle Vanem fixes:
+ o memdebug to not access NULL on several places
+ o libcurl.def; curl_formparse is gone.
+ o progress.c; fixed the percent values being trunced to 0.
+ o if2ip.*; constified the 'interface' argument.
+
+- Tor Arntsen reported that many of his autobuilds froze and I found and fixed
+ a problem introduced with the HTTP auth overhaul that could lead to a
+ never-ending internal request-loop due to un-initialized variables!
+
+- Removed several compiler warnings on various compilers/platforms.
+
+Daniel (4 May 2004)
+- curl_formparse() has been removed from the library. It has been marked and
+ mentioned as deprecated for several years.
+
+Daniel (3 May 2004)
+- Rewritten HTTP authentication code. The previous code could not properly
+ deal with the added test cases 167, 168 and 169. I've now rewritten the code
+ to better separate host and proxy authentication and not re-use the same
+ variables as much as before as it proved non working in the more involved
+ cases. All the current tests run OK now, and so do the new ones. The curl
+ tool got a new option named --proxy-digest to enable HTTP Digest
+ authentication with the proxy. I also made the library support it.
+
+- Gisle Vanem made the LDAP code work with wldap32.dll as supplied with
+ Win-98/ME/2000/XP, so no extra .dlls are required when curl/libcurl is used
+ on these Windows versions.
+
+Daniel (30 April 2004)
+- runtests.pl now scans the valgrind log for valgrind-detected memory leaks
+ after each test case if valgrind was found and used.
+
+- I modified the app-code in curl to include the new lib/curlx.h and only
+ access those functions using the curlx_-prefix in preparation for the future
+ removal of several curl_-functions from the public libcurl API.
+
+- Introduced lib/curlx.h as a single header to provide the curlx_-functions
+ to apps.
+
+- Added notices in the man pages for curl_getenv, curl_mprintf, curl_strequal
+ and curl_strnequal that they are subject for removal in a future release.
+ STOP USING THESE FUNCTIONS.
+
+- Mihai Ionescu noticed he couldn't do formposts with whitespace in the file
+ names and yes, I broke that on April 23. Sigh. I fixed it now and added
+ test case 166 to verify it.
+
+- Luca Altea pointed out a mistake left from the Digest patch of yesterday.
+
+Daniel (29 April 2004)
+- Made IDN domains work when sending requsts over HTTP proxy as well. Added
+ test case 165 to verify the functionality.
+
+- Fixed a bug in the new internal host name setup when re-using connections.
+
+- James Bursa found out that curl_easy_duphandle() with ares-built libcurl
+ created a bad handle that would crash in the first name resolve attempt. This
+ is now fixed and test case 512 was added to verify it.
+
+- Luca Altea provided a major HTTP Digest code fix and cleanup. We now follow
+ the Digest RFC a lot better.
+
+- Gisle Vanem made the SSL code use ERR_error_string_n() where applicable.
+
+Daniel (27 April 2004)
+- I remodeled Gisle's IDN code slightly and now we convert both the host name
+ and proxy name to the ACE encoded version to use internally for resolves and
+ cookies etc. They are now using one 'struct hostname' each that keep both
+ the original name and the possibly encoded name. IDN resolves work for me
+ now using ipv6, ipv4 and ares resolving. Even cookies on IDN sites seem to
+ do right. I got some failures at first when CHARSET wasn't set at all which
+ confused libidn completely and it decided by encoding of choice was
+ 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'...
+
+- made 'configure --without-libidn' work
+
+Daniel (25 April 2004)
+- Fixed the src/hugehelp.c file to include "setup.h" instead of "config.h" to
+ make the problems with USE_MANUAL on windows go away.
+
+- configure --without-ssl could still wrongly include some OpenSSL info in the
+ Makefiles if pkg-config had info about OpenSSL. Bug #941762 reported by
+ Martin.
+
+- Since we can now build and use quite a large set of 3rd party libraries, I
+ decided I would make configure produce a summary at the end showing what
+ libraries it uses and if not, what option to use to make it use that. I also
+ added some other random info that is nice in a "configure summary" output.
+
+- Applied TommyTam's patch that now make curl work with telnet and stdin
+ properly on Windows.
+
+- The changes for today below were made by me and Gisle Vanem.
+
+ The file previously known as hostip.c has now undergone a huge cleanup and
+ split:
+
+ hostip.c explained
+ ==================
+
+ The main COMPILE-TIME DEFINES to keep in mind when reading the host*.c
+ source file are these:
+
+ CURLRES_IPV6 - this host has getaddrinfo() and family, and thus we use
+ that. The host may not be able to resolve IPv6, but we don't really have to
+ take that into account. Hosts that aren't IPv6-enabled have CURLRES_IPV4
+ defined.
+
+ CURLRES_ARES - is defined if libcurl is built to use c-ares for asynchronous
+ name resolves. It cannot have ENABLE_IPV6 defined at the same time, as
+ c-ares has no ipv6 support. This can be Windows or *nix.
+
+ CURLRES_THREADED - is defined if libcurl is built to run under (native)
+ Windows, and then the name resolve will be done in a new thread, and the
+ supported asynch API will be the same as for ares-builds.
+
+ If any of the two previous are defined, CURLRES_ASYNCH is defined too. If
+ libcurl is not built to use an asynchronous resolver, CURLRES_SYNCH is
+ defined.
+
+ The host*.c sources files are split up like this:
+
+ hostip.c - method-independent resolver functions and utility functions
+ hostasyn.c - functions for asynchronous name resolves
+ hostsyn.c - functions for synchronous name resolves
+ hostares.c - functions for ares-using name resolves
+ hostthre.c - functions for threaded name resolves
+ hostip4.c - ipv4-specific functions
+ hostip6.c - ipv6-specific functions
+
+ The hostip.h is the single united header file for all this. It defines the
+ CURLRES_* defines based on the config*.h and setup.h defines.
+
+- Added function header comments to many functions in an attempt to better
+ explain the purpose of them all.
+
+- configure --with-libidn is now supported. It makes the configure script
+ check for libidn libs and include files in the prefix path given. If you
+ say --with-libidn=/usr/local, it will check for the lib in /usr/local/lib
+ and the includes in /usr/local/include etc.
+
+- curl_version_info() now returns a struct aged CURLVERSION_THIRD including
+ libidn version info. The string curl_version() returns also includes libidn
+ version info, if available.
+
+Version 7.11.2 (26 April 2004)
+
+Daniel (25 April 2004)
+- Erwin Authried pointed out that configure --disable-manual didn't do right
+ if you already had a src/hugehelp.c source file present (which most people
+ do I guess). It now uses the USE_MANUAL define properly.
+
+Daniel (23 April 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem found and fixed a memory leak when doing (failing) Windows
+ threaded name resolves.
+
+- I also added test case 163 just to make sure -F "var=<file" works fine and
+ can pass on characters such as newlines, carriage-return and tabs.
+
+- When we added test case 162 without adding the necessary requirement field
+ in the test meta data we could see that curl didn't complain if you used
+ --proxy-ntlm even if the underlying libcurl it uses has no NTLM support! I
+ now made it check this first, and it now exists with a "the installed
+ libcurl version doesn't support this" message if it happens again.
+
+Daniel (22 April 2004)
+- David Byron found and fixed a small bug with the --fail and authentication
+ stuff added a few weeks ago. Turns out that if you specify --proxy-ntlm and
+ communicate with a proxy that requires basic authentication, the proxy
+ properly returns a 407, but the failure detection code doesn't realize it
+ should give up, so curl returns with exit code 0. Test case 162 added to
+ verify the functionality.
+
+- allow newlines in the contents when doing -F "var=[contents]"
+ Robert Marlow reported.
+
+- If a transfer is found out to be only partial, libcurl will now treat that
+ as a problem serious enough to skip the final QUIT command before closing
+ the control connection. To avoid the risk that it will "hang" waiting for
+ the QUIT response. Added test case 161 to verify this.
+
+Daniel (21 April 2004)
+- Modified the heuristics for dealing with the test 160 scenario. When a
+ connection is re-used and nothing at all is received from it (because the
+ server closes the connection), we will now retry the request on a fresh new
+ connection. The previous ECONNRESET stuff from January 30 was removed again
+ as it didn't detect the situation good enough.
+
+Daniel (20 April 2004)
+- Added test case 160 to verify that curl works correctly when it gets a
+ connection reset when trying to re-use a connection. It should then simply
+ create a new connection and resend the request.
+
+Daniel (19 April 2004)
+- No more 512 byte limit for host name (inclusing name + password) in libcurl.
+ An added bonus is that we use less memory for the typical (shorter URL)
+ case.
+
+- Cleaned up the sources to better use the terms 'hostname' and 'path'
+ internally when referring to that data. The buffers used for keep that info
+ is called 'namebuffer' and 'pathbuffer'. Much easier to read and understand
+ than the previous mess.
+
+Daniel (15 April 2004)
+- Modified runtests.pl again to remove all log files in the log/ dir between
+ each test, and then made -p display all non-zero byte files in the log dir.
+ It should make that data more usable and contain less rubbish.
+
+- ftpserver.pl now produces log files more similar to how the sws ones look
+ and they now also contains a bit more details to help debugging ftp
+ problems.
+
+- Removed the fixed maximum amount of dir levels the FTP code supported.
+ Previously we had a fixed array for 100 levels, now we save space in each
+ handle by allocating only for a few level by default and then enlarging that
+ in case of need (with no maximum depth). Adjusted test case 142 to verify
+ that 150 dir levels work fine. An added bonus is that we use less memory
+ for the typical (not very deep) case.
+
+Daniel (14 April 2004)
+- Asking for CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6 when ipv6 addresses can't be resolved will
+ now cause the resolve function to return NULL immediately. This flaw was
+ pointed out by Gisle Vanem.
+
+- Gisle Vanem made curl -4/-6 actually set the desired option to libcurl.
+
+- runtests.pl now has a new option (-p) that will display "interesting" log
+ files to stdout in case of a test failure. This is primarily intended to be
+ used in the 'full-test' make target that is used by the autobuild tests, as
+ we then get a much better chance to understand (remote) test failures based
+ on autobuild logs alone.
+
+Daniel (13 April 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem made the multi interface work again on Windows even when built
+ without ares. Before this, select() would return -1 during the name resolve
+ phase since curl_multi_fdset() didn't return any fd_set at all which wasn't
+ appreciated!
+
+- curl_easy_duphandle() now duplicates the tcp_nodelay info as well.
+
+Daniel (11 April 2004)
+- Applied David Byron's patch for the MSVC libcurl makefile for builds with
+ zlib.
+
+Daniel (9 April 2004)
+- Dirk Manske improved the timer resolution for CURLINFO_*_TIME, it can now
+ be down to usec if the system sypports it.
+
+Daniel (7 April 2004)
+- A request that sends "Expect: 100-continue" and gets nothing but a single
+ 100 response back will now return a CURLE_GOT_NOTHING. Test 158 verifies.
+
+- The strtoofft() macro is now named curlx_strtoofft() to use the curlx_*
+ approach fully.
+
+Daniel (6 April 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem's fixed bug #927979 reported by Nathan O'Sullivan. The problem
+ made libcurl on Windows leak a small amount of memory in each name resolve
+ when not used as a DLL.
+
+- New authentication code added, particularly noticable when doing POST or PUT
+ with Digest or NTLM. libcurl will now use HEAD to negotiate the
+ authentication and when done perform the requested POST. Previously libcurl
+ sent POST immediately and expected the server to reply a final status code
+ with an error and then libcurl would not send the request-body but instead
+ send then next request in the sequence.
+
+ The reason for this change is due to IIS6 barfing on libcurl when we attempt
+ to POST with NTLM authentication. The reason for the problems is found in
+ RFC2616 section 8.2.3 regarding how servers should deal with the 100
+ continue request-header:
+
+ If it responds with a final status code, it MAY close the transport
+ connection or it MAY continue to read and discard the rest of the
+ request.
+
+ Previous versions of IIS clearly did close the connection in this case,
+ while this newer version decided it should "read and discard". That would've
+ forced us to send the whole POST (or PUT) data only to have it discarded and
+ then be forced to send it again. To avoid that huge penality, we switch to
+ using HEAD until we are authenticated and then send the POST.
+
+ The only actual drawback I can think of (except for the odd sites that might
+ treat HEAD differently than they would treat POST/PUT when given the same
+ URL) is that if you do POST with CURLAUTH_ANY set and the site requires NO
+ authentication, libcurl will still use a HEAD in a first round and then do a
+ POST.
+
+ If you do a HEAD or a GET on a site using CURLAUTH_ANY, libcurl will send
+ an un-authenticated request at once, which then is the only request if the
+ site requires no auth.
+
+ Alan Pinstein helped me work out the protocol details by figuring out why
+ libcurl failed and what IIS6 expects.
+
+- The --limit-rate logic was corrected and now it works a lot better for
+ higher speeds, such as '10m' or similar. Reported in bug report #930249.
+
+- Introducing curlx_tvnow() and curlx_tvdiff() using the new curlx_* fashion.
+ #include "timeval.h" from the lib dir to get the protos etc. Note that
+ these are NOT part of the libcurl API. The curl app simply uses the same
+ source files as the library does and therefore the file needs to be compiled
+ and linked with curl too, not just when creating libcurl.
+
+- lib/strerror.c no longer uses sys_nerr on non-windows platforms since it
+ isn't portable enough
+
+Daniel (2 April 2004)
+- In the curl_strnqual.3 man page, we now prepend the man3 dir to the file
+ name to work better. As pointed out by Robin Kay.
+
+- Andrés García updated the mingw makefiles.
+
+- Dirk Manske fixed a problem I recently added in the progress meter code that
+ broke subsecond resolution for CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME. He also pointed out a
+ mistake in the code that produces the final update of the progress meter
+ that would often prevent it from actually being updated that final time.
+
+Daniel (1 April 2004)
+- Dirk Manske fixed a memory leak that happened when we use ares for name
+ resolves and decides to time-out before ares does it. This fix uses the
+ brand new ares_cancel() function which is not present in c-ares 1.1.0.
+
+ When told to enable ares, the configure script now checks for presence of
+ the ares_cancel function to alert users if they attempt to use a too old
+ c-ares library.
+
+Daniel (31 March 2004)
+- Roy Shan fixed a flaw that prevented ares name resolve timeouts to occur!
+
+- Dirk Manske found out that libcurl timed out waiting for resolves far too
+ easy when libcurl was built to use (c-)ares for name resolving.
+
+- Further Digest fixing and a successful test case 153 now makes me believe
+ Mitz Wark's problems are fixed.
+
+- Andres Garcia figured out that test case 63, while working, only proved a
+ flaw in libcurl's 'http_proxy' parser when a user name and password is
+ provided. The user name was not extracted properly (and 'http' was always
+ used as user name).
+
+- Andrés García fixed compiler warnings in our ioctlsocket() usage.
+
+Daniel (30 March 2004)
+- Joe Halpin faced problems with the getnameinfo() argument ai_flags and the
+ particular bit named 'NI_WITHSCOPEID' on Solaris 9 for Intel. I've now
+ written a configure test that checks for a working NI_WITHSCOPEID
+ implemenation. No code uses the result from this test yet, it is still
+ experimental. James Carlson wrote in comp.unix.solaris: "It's a bug
+ (5006623) -- it's not supported and shouldn't be in the header file."
+
+- I provided Mitz Wark with a first patch in order to fix libcurl's problems
+ to re-negotiate Digest authentication (when 'stale=true' is included in the
+ response header).
+
+- Roy Shan discovered that the multi interface didn't properly timeout name
+ lookups which could make handles get stuck in that state and thus never get
+ completed. I've produced a first test patch that attempts to correct this.
+
+- David Byron's patch was appplied to make CURLOPT_FAILONERROR work nicely
+ even with authentcations such as NTLM or Digest enabled. Test cases 150, 151
+ and 152 were added to verify the functionality.
+
+Daniel (29 March 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem updated files for the djgpp/MS-DOS build.
+
+- Andrés García helped me work out a fix for the runtests.pl script to make
+ the file:// tests run fine when tested with the mingw-built version of curl.
+
+- Fixed an include issue with netinet/tcp.h on AIX, based on input by Tor.
+ This also required a minor fix of the configure script.
+
+- The postit2.c source example used the wrong struct name for the post data.
+
+Daniel (26 March 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem improved ipv6 support on windows by making the curl build to use
+ the correct getaddrinfo() function.
+
+Daniel (25 March 2004)
+- It turned out that AIX, despite having a "thread-safe libc", doesn't offer
+ all traditional functions thread-safe. This URL is informative on this
+ subject:
+
+ http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/ \
+ genprogc/thread_quick_ref.htm
+
+ As a result of this, we now check for three *_r() functions on recent AIX
+ versions as well that the URL mentions aren't thread-safe in AIX 5.1.
+
+- renamed curl_strerror.[ch] to strerror.[ch]
+
+- Joe Halpin added CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY and --tcp-nodelay to make it possible
+ for users to disable the Nagle algorthim-usage.
+
+- Tor Arntsen provided some interesting strerror_r() knowledge. glibc has its
+ own API which differs from the POSIX one. Daniel adjusted the configure
+ script to detect the version in use, and the code now uses the new defines
+ accordingly.
+
+- Fixed some build flaws with the new lib/curl_strerror.c source file.
+
+Daniel (24 March 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem's fix to replace the bad use of strerror(). This introduces
+ Curl_strerror() that attempts to be thread-safe _and_ works on Windows too!
+
+- Tor Arntsen spell-fixed lots of libcurl man pages.
+
+- Tor Arntsen made testcurl.pl work with older perl 5 versions, and Daniel
+ made it not use chdir .. to go back, as that isn't very good when you've
+ setup a testdir containing symlinks.
+
+- Added a check for strerror_r() in the configure script.
+
+Daniel (23 March 2004)
+- Added Greg Hewgill's testcurl.pl script to CVS. We have not moved over to
+ use this script for the real distributed testing just yet, but it is only
+ a matter of time.
+
+- Gisle Vanem provided code that makes curl report a better error message
+ if --interface fails on windows.
+
+- The regular progress meter is now fixed to never wrap due to long lines. All
+ fields are now static sized. If the time in the time fields get a time value
+ that would represent a time that is 100 hours or more (if not, it remains
+ using a HH:MM:SS display), it switches first to a "NNNd NNh" display (for
+ days and hours) and if that isn't enough it switches to a "NNNd" display if
+ it is more than 999 days.
+
+ Several of the calculations were also moved to fixed-point math instead of
+ using doubles.
+
+Daniel (22 March 2004)
+- Glen Nakamura noticed CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD didn't work as it
+ used to do if CURLOPT_NOBODY is set TRUE.
+
+- Kevin Roth patched the cygwin package makefile and README to adjust to
+ new cygwin packaging guidelines.
+
+- Enabled "NT responses" in the NTLM authentication. Doing this simply means
+ that we provide an extra chunk of data in each "type-3 message". The only
+ reason for doing this is that it seems that using only the "Lanmanager hash"
+ (as we've been doing until now) doesn't support passwords longer than 14
+ characters and it turns out there are users out there who want to use
+ libcurl and NTLM with such passwords! ;-) Seven NTLM-related test cases were
+ updated accordingly. Mentioned as issue 29 in TODO-RELEASE, bug report
+ #915609
+
+- Moved the generated libcurl version info to a new header file, named
+ curl/curlver.h. Now interested parties can include ONLY version info, should
+ anyone want that (and it seems at least some windows resource files would).
+ Mentioned as issue 27 in TODO-RELEASE.
+
+Daniel (21 March 2004)
+- Fixed the root Makefile to use tabs for the netware target. Günter Knauf
+ pointed this out.
+
+- Marty Kuhrt's VMS cleanup
+
+- Thomas Schwinge made buildconf recognize ACLOCAL_FLAGS to invoke aclocal
+ with particular pre-determined options.
+
+Version 7.11.1 (19 March 2004)
+
+Daniel (18 March 2004)
+- Tor Arntsen brought some info about SGI IRIX:
+
+ IRIX supports 3 different executable/object formats, -32, -n32 and -64.
+ -n32 is default 32-bit format, -32 is the "old" 32-bit format, and -64 is
+ the 64-bit format. Libraries for the different formats are in lib, lib32
+ and lib64 respectively.
+
+ We've now adjusted the configure script to adapt to this when scanning for
+ 3rd party libs, such as OpenSSL.
+
+Daniel (17 March 2004)
+- Watz pointed out a few missing files in the MSVC project description file.
+
+- Günter Knauf brought patches, code and makefiles to build curl on Novell
+ NetWare.
+
+Daniel (15 March 2004)
+- Lots of libcurl man pages were updated to contain references to other man
+ pages the recognized way so that they appear as nice hyperlinks in the HTML
+ versions.
+
+- buildconf now checks the m4 version too, since autoconf requires a GNU m4
+ version to build proper configure scripts.
+
+Daniel (12 March 2004)
+- Added CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, the large file version of
+ CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE to allow POSTs larger than 2GB.
+
+- David Byron fixed an uninitialized variable case/crash.
+
+Daniel (10 March 2004)
+- Jeff Lawson fixed the SSL connection to deal with received signals during the
+ connect.
+
+- Changed the OS string for win32 to become "i386-pc-win32".
+
+Daniel (9 March 2004)
+- Changed the internals to use curl_socket_t for socket variable type. This
+ should enable us to build with less warnings on Windows, where SOCKET is
+ used which is an unsigned int, while most other platforms use a mere int.
+
+- Modified lib/config-win32.h to build fine on MSVC again.
+
+Version 7.11.1-pre1 (8 March 2004)
+
+Daniel (8 March 2004)
+- Minor fix to make curl CURL_VERSION_LARGEFILE is only set if curl_off_t is
+ larger than 4 bytes.
+
+Daniel (4 March 2004)
+- Improved PUT/POST with NTLM/Digest authentication, the so called issue 12.
+
+- Modified the test HTTP server a lot to work with the upcoming changes for
+ PUT/POST with NTLM/Digest authentication (like test case 88). Added Andrés
+ García's win32-changes. Improved the logging.
+
+- Fixed the file:-related progress/getinfo stuff a bit more.
+
+Daniel (4 March 2004)
+- I corrected a problem with the multi interface when following a Location:
+ header or when doing multiple-request authentications. A subsequent request
+ could erroneously re-use a previous connection that was sent with
+ Connection: close. Christopher R. Palmer reported.
+
+- Andrés García patched curl to prevent warnings while compiling with mingw,
+ mainly because it is now possible to have both WIN32 and HAVE_CONFIG_H
+ defined.
+
+- When transferring files from a file: URL, the progress meter and other
+ transfer metrics were not updated properly.
+
+- David Byron provided a "version resource" file to the curl executable for
+ the windows builds.
+
+Daniel (3 March 2004)
+- David Byron's work on making libcurl only require winsock 1.1 on Windows
+ machines.
+
+- More variable cleanups based on compiler warnings generated by Tor Arntsen's
+ autobuilds with MIPSPro.
+
+- Joe Halpin helped us fix some pedantic compiler warnings on FreeBSD.
+
+- Applied Tom Bates' patch to build on nsr-tandem-nsk.
+
+- Dan Fandrich corrected some flaws in the configure GSS detection.
+
+Daniel (2 March 2004)
+- Fixed the libcurl code to use FORMAT_OFF_T for printf() formatting
+ curl_off_t types internally.
+
+Daniel (1 March 2004)
+- Added CURL_VERSION_LARGEFILE as a feature-bit in the curl_version_info()
+ response, that signals if this libcurl supports >2GB files. curl -V now
+ outputs 'Largefile' in the Features: field if this is the case. Most systems
+ are likely to support this.
+
+- We offer a CURL_FORMAT_OFF_T define in the public header, which can be used
+ to printf() curl_off_t variables. We also modified the libcurl sources to
+ use this define instead of the previous %Od approach (although I've left the
+ O-flag functional in the code). This should also prevent compilers to warn
+ on the home-grown option.
+
+- Fixed the resume-check code to test for a working resume at the end of the
+ headers and not at the first body-byte.
+
+- CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE is now considered obsolete. Stop using it. If
+ you need a global DNS cache for whatever reason, use the share interface and
+ you'll get a global cache that works the way it should work. You can even
+ have any number of global caches, all at your command. This is now also
+ mentioned in the docs.
+
+- Made the *printf code support the z-flag to enable size_t printf() in a
+ manner similar to how glibc allows it. To make printfing of this work on
+ platforms with 64bit size_t and 32bit ints. If there even are any! ;-)
+
+- Christopher R. Palmer discovered that if you CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT and
+ CURLAUTH_NTLM (or CURLAUTH_ANY and libcurl then picked NTLM), libcurl would
+ loop without succeeding to authenticate due to the new connection that was
+ made for all round-trips in the authentication. Now, the FRESH_CONNECT is
+ remade to only matter for the first connection made with curl_easy_perform()
+ and all the rest that might follow due to FOLLOWLOCATION or HTTP
+ authentication are now ignoring that option.
+
+- Adjusted the QUIT code slightly since it could core-dump.
+
+- Corrected the test suite's FTP server to provide a correct size to the
+ 'verifiedserver' request.
+
+Daniel (27 February 2004)
+- Joe Halpin made the FTP code send QUIT on the control connection before
+ disconnecting the TCP connection. This is what good-behaving ftp clients
+ should do.
+
+Daniel (26 February 2004)
+- David Byron updated several files to make curl build fine on MSVC 6. He
+ also added the 'buildconf.bat' that works like the 'buildconf + configure'
+ combo does on unixes.
+
+- Gisle Vanem made the memdebug stuff support calloc() as well.
+
+- Tor Arntsen pointed out that testcurl.sh needed to remove the generated
+ files in order to have them re-generated in each build.
+
+- Andy Serpa found out that the share interface did not enjoy life when not
+ having the lock and unlock callbacks set, even though documented to be
+ OK. It still is OK, and now the code won't segfault anymore!
+
+Daniel (25 February 2004)
+- Based on a patch by Greg Hewgill I modified how long long is used in the
+ mprintf code, as we can use a 64bit type with MSVC that is a long long
+ equivalent. This corrects some weird large file behaviors on windows.
+
+- Tor Arntsen helped me work out --enable-debug to work better with different
+ versions of the gcc and icc compilers.
+
+- Added CURLOPT_SHARE to the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page.
+
+Daniel (22 February 2004)
+- Applied the final pieces of Gisle Vanem's patch that brings a working name
+ resolve timeout to the windows versions of curl!
+
+Daniel (21 February 2004)
+- David Byron's fix to allow the speed-limit logic work even if you set
+ limit-rate. It does work on the expense of the rate limiter.
+
+Daniel (20 February 2004)
+- configure --enable-debug with gcc now also tries to detect the icc compiler
+ (which somehow gets treated as if it is a gcc) to stop using all the gcc
+ options with it, and we also provide -isystem options for each extra -I
+ option the configure script has figured out (for OpenSSL, kerberos, zlib,
+ Heimdal etc). This of course to prevent warnings on headers we don't have
+ control of.
+
+Daniel (19 February 2004)
+- Doug Porter made libcurl use the HOME environment variable before the
+ getpwuid results when looking for .netrc files.
+
+- If 'configure --enable-debug' is used with gcc, it now checks which gcc
+ version it is and uses as picky compiler options as possible for the
+ particular version.
+
+- Code that can be used in both the lib and in the curl app is now made to use
+ the curlx_ prefix. The first function to be available like this is the
+ curlx_strtoll() function. This is made to allow the app to use existing code,
+ but without polluting the libcurl API. Further explanations posted here:
+
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-02/0215.html
+
+Daniel (18 February 2004)
+- Fixed buildconf to not use "which" as AIX and Tru64 have what have been
+ referred to as "horribly broken 'which' programs".
+
+- Made sure dns cache timeout set to -1 really means caching forever.
+
+Daniel (17 February 2004)
+- Made it possibly to build c-ares with the libcurl memdebug system to better
+ track memory.
+
+Daniel (16 February 2004)
+- When using ares, we now initialize the ares 'channel' in curl_easy_init()
+ and re-use that same handle during the entire curl handle's life-time. It
+ improves performance.
+
+- Fixed a problem when displaying verbose for ipv6-enabled libcurls and
+ re-used connections. Problem reported and fix verified by Grigory Entin.
+
+- Jeff Lawson fixed the version-check in the SOCKS5 code.
+
+Daniel (15 February 2004)
+- Fixed a case where a host cache entry was not flagged in-use properly when a
+ cached entry was used.
+
+- Andrés García's patch that checks for winmm in the configure script was
+ applied.
+
+Daniel (13 February 2004)
+- Ben Greear's SO_BINDTODEVICE patch for the binding of the local end to a
+ specific network interface.
+
+- Greg Hewgill found out that the variable holding 'contentlength' wasn't big
+ enough to hold a large file!
+
+- Tor Arntsen fixed a 64bit-related problem in date-related code in the ftp
+ department, and there was another potential problem in the name resolve code
+ too.
+
+Daniel (11 February 2004)
+- Removed a few variables that were only set but never used, as some compilers
+ warn about that and we do not like compiler warnings!
+
+- Removed the need for symlinks in the tests/data directory if curl is built
+ outside of the source directory and the 'make test' is used. This was done
+ by providing a "source dir path" to the scripts/servers.
+
+- Now, if the configure script can't find an nroff tool or an option to nroff
+ to use to convert man pages with, it will completely switch off the built-in
+ manual.
+
+- 'configure --disable-manual' completely disables the built-in manual from
+ the curl command tool.
+
+- Andrés García fixed the configure script and a minor source edit, and now
+ he has managed to get msys/mingw to run configure and then build!
+
+Daniel (9 February 2004)
+- The default HTTP Accept: header was modified to the much simpler
+ "Accept: */*".
+
+- P R Schaffner updated the curl-ssl spec file for RPMs.
+
+- Dominick Meglio brought lots of documentation for the share interface's man
+ pages that were previously missing.
+
+- Tor Arntsen provided a patch that makes libcurl work-around a bug in the
+ AIX5 implementation of getaddrinfo(). This makes the FTP PORT stuff work on
+ ipv6-enabled AIX builds.
+
+- Ken Rastatter provided portability fixes for the curlgtk.c example, and now
+ it runs on windows with GTK as well!
+
+Daniel (6 February 2004)
+- Andrés García made the configure script find gethostbyname() fine when run
+ with mingw on windows.
+
+- Modified the ldap code to use proper function pointers all over (instead of
+ mixed data and function pointers) to work-around the picky MIPSPro compiler
+ warnings.
+
+- A custom Host: header is only considered if the request is not made by
+ following a location. After discussions with Tim Baker.
+
+Daniel (5 February 2004)
+- The libz part of the configure script now only set the two libz-related
+ define HAVE_ZLIB_H and HAVE_LIBZ if both the lib and the header is found.
+ If one is missing, none of the defines is set.
+
+- Andrés García fixed the Mingw makefiles.
+
+- Len Krause reported that curl 7.9.X could do uploading from stdin without
+ doing chunked encoding, which current curl cannot do even if you disable
+ the transfer-encoding chunked header. Now it can again, and test case 98
+ verifies this functionality.
+
+- Tor Arntsen fixed a weird getaddrinfo() usage in the FTP code, preventing
+ the ipv6-code for PORT work on AIX 5.2. We now also provide (better) error
+ messages when bailing out in the that function.
+
+- Tor Arntsen now provides AIX and IRIX (using gcc, xlc and the MIPSPro
+ compilers) automated build logs (http://curl.haxx.se/auto/) and we've fixed
+ numerous minor quirks to make less warnings appear.
+
+Daniel (4 February 2004)
+- Based on a patch by Gilad, we now use the custom timeouts when waiting for a
+ server to connect when using FTP PORT. Previously we always waited 10
+ seconds, no more no less. We now also changed the default (if no timeout is
+ set) to wait 60 seconds for the connect before we fail.
+
+Daniel (3 February 2004)
+- Modified to link with c-ares instead of ares.
+
+Daniel (2 February 2004)
+- Added a configure test to check for which option the (g)nroff tool wants
+ to extract plain text from the man pages. Tor Arntsen told us the AIX
+ version of GNU gnroff doesn't support -man!
+
+- Added an undef of accept in memdebug.h to make curl build with --enable-debug
+ on AIX 5.2 which seems to have accept defined. Reported by Tor Arntsen.
+
+- curl_version() now includes c-ares version info, and curl_version_info() now
+ returns a struct with version SECOND that also includes that info.
+
+- We are now officially using c-ares for asynch name resolves. c-ares is the
+ new library, based on the existing ares but with an extended and slightly
+ modified API.
+
+- Dirk improved the ares timeout code, and now we also include the ares error
+ string when we fail to resolve a name.
+
+- Another tweak to make test case 91 run fine. Now we have another bit on a
+ connection that is set true if the connection is marked for 'retry'. That
+ makes the connection get closed and re-opened and the HTTP-done code must
+ not complain on the fact that no data was received.
+
+- Based on Dirk Manske's patch, I modified the name resolving with ares to
+ feature a timeout for really slow lookups. It now defaults to 300 seconds,
+ but is now adjusted to the CONNECTTIMEOUT/TIMOUE timeouts if one of them
+ is set.
+
+- Fixed the inclusion of ca-bundle.h to really use the one in the build dir
+ before the one in the source dir. Domenico Andreoli found out and reported.
+
+- Added test case 97, a simple POST with a custom Content-Type header
+ replacing the original application/x-www-form-urlencoded one.
+
+Daniel (30 January 2004)
+- Added code that attempts to fix the test 91 failure. As has been figured out
+ by Patrick Smith, the error happens because we re-use a connection that the
+ server is just about to close and we even manage to send away the request
+ without seeing an error. On the first read attempt we get a ECONNRESET.
+ Starting now, we attempt to detect this and if so, we retry the request on a
+ fresh connection.
+
+- I added test case 510 which is a custom program that does a POST using a
+ read callback, with chunked transfer-encoding.
+
+- Adjusted one of the MPE/iX changes as it made test case 504 fail all over.
+
+- Added --socks as a recognized option. It works just like --proxy but sets a
+ SOCKS5 proxy to use. SOCKS5 support has been available in libcurl for a
+ while, just not provided by the curl tool. This does not currently work for
+ IPv6-enabled libcurls.
+
+Daniel (29 January 2004)
+- Stadler Stephan pointed out that src/hugehelp.c included config.h without
+ checking the define if its present...
+
+- Ken Hirsch provided patches to make curl build fine on the MPE/iX operating
+ system.
+
+- Dan Fandrich compiled curl with lots of aggressively pedantic compiler
+ options and thus found a few minor errors and did some general cleanups to
+ avoid them.
+
+- Dirk Manske fixed a flaw in ares that prevented it to use non-blocking
+ sockets properly.
+
+Daniel (28 January 2004)
+- Richard Bramante fixed chunked transfer-encoded "uploads" to send a final
+ CRLF combo properly.
+
+Daniel (27 January 2004)
+- Made the response-headers during a CONNECT request to a proxy get passed on
+ as regular headers, so they appear with -i/-I options and similar.
+
+- Based on a patch by Gisle Vanem, I've made the progress meter display
+ properly switch to a GB-display when more than 9999MB have been transfered.
+
+Daniel (23 January 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem pointed out a curlrc parser problem/crash when an option with a
+ required didn't have one and was on the last line of a file.
+
+- More Windows fixes for large files. We now build and link with
+ ../lib/strtoofft.c in the app code since Curl_strtoll() is not a provided
+ libcurl function... Perhaps we should consider a 'common' dir or similar
+ where we put source code used in both the lib and the client. Or perhaps
+ we'll just make this function available in the library...
+
+- Vincent Bronner found out the socks5 code crashed when no username was
+ set.
+
+- Vincent Bronner spotted a problem with proxy username/password when re-using
+ a persistent connection.
+
+- Fixed the progress meter display for files larger than 2^31 bytes. Gisle
+ Vanem reported.
+
+Daniel (22 January 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem made strtoll() get used when curl is built with the mingw
+ compiler.
+
+- Gisle Vanem fixed the compressed help text code to display properly.
+
+- Removed the '#define HttpPost' from the public header file, as curl_httppost
+ is the proper name and it has been for quite some time now. Fixes another
+ name space pollution.
+
+- Added 'curl_off_t' typedef in the public header file, to be used to provide
+ large file sizes to the *_LARGE options. Adjusted the code all over to use
+ this variable type instead of 'off_t'. This is an attempt to make the large
+ file support work on more platforms. The configure script now checks the
+ size of the curl_off_t instead of the plain off_t.
+
+Version 7.11.0 (22 January 2004)
+
+Daniel (21 January 2004)
+- Removed the defines in the public header file with TIMECOND_ prefixes. They
+ have been obsolete since April 22nd 2002, and if this causes anyone any
+ problems now it is very easy to just add CURL_ to the names. This corrects
+ this name space pollution.
+
+Daniel (19 January 2004)
+- David Byron cleaned up how --trace with no option was treated, and also
+ arguments in a config file without a required parameter!
+
+Daniel (16 January 2004)
+- Gisle Vanem fixed a few issues where compilers warned about variables
+ possibly being used unassigned.
+
+- Minor Interix build problem fixed.
+
+Daniel (15 January 2004)
+- Peter Sylvester pointed out some necessary escaping needed in the
+ acinclude.m4 file when automake 1.8 or later is used.
+
+Daniel (14 January 2004)
+- Vincent Bronner fixed the Curl_resolv() return code. This extends the fix
+ Steve Green provided on december 3...
+
+Daniel (13 January 2004)
+- Luke Call made the win32 version of the password prompting function support
+ backspace.
+
+- Dan Fandrich fixed the hugehelp source file to contain both a compressed and
+ an uncompressed version in the distribution, so that more people easier can
+ build curl with the compressed version.
+
+- Diego Casorran brought another AmigaOS build patch for native Amiga builds.
+
+- Matt Veenstra updated the Mac OS X framework files.
+
+- Brian R Duffy brought a section to the INSTALL file on how to build a
+ SSL-enabled curl using the free Borland C++ compiler. He also updated the
+ Borland lib/Makefile.b32.
+
+- I fixed the test case 509 which I broke yesterday. Now the libtest are
+ compiled with an include path that points to the library's source dir, so
+ that the libtests can include files from the source tree. This was made to
+ make it possible to use the USE_SSLEAY define in the library test files.
+
+Daniel (12 January 2004)
+- Peter Sylvester brought code that now allows a callback to modified the URL
+ even when the multi interface is used, and then libcurl will simulate a
+ "follow location" to that new URL. Test 509 was added to test this feature.
+
+- Extended the time we retry servers in the test script, and I also made it
+ retry the https and ftps servers before they are considered bad. I believe
+ the previous approach could turn problematic on really slow hosts.
+
+Version 7.11.0-pre1 (12 January 2004)
+
+Daniel (11 January 2004)
+- Dominick Meglio pointed out FTPS should use default port 990 according to
+ IANA.
+
+Daniel (8 January 2004)
+- Fixed the SPNEGO configure check to not use -R or other non-portable options
+ in the LDFLAGS. Reported by Pierre in bug report #872930.
+
+Daniel (5 January 2004)
+- Dan Fandrich provided a fix on our zlib usage.
+
+- David J Meyer's patch that introduce large file support to libcurl was
+ applied. New curl_easy_setopt options that accept 'off_t' arguments are:
+
+ INFILESIZE_LARGE
+ RESUME_FROM_LARGE
+ MAXFILESIZE_LARGE
+
+Daniel (4 January 2004)
+- Based on Dominick Meglio's comments, I made our private version of
+ gettimeofday() declared static. This would otherwise collide with the same
+ function in other libs (like ares for example).
+
+- Added Dominick Meglio's description on how to build libcurl with ares
+ on win32.
+Daniel (19 December)
+- CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE was not possible to set.
+
+- Gisle Vanem updated the djgpp build files.
+
+Daniel (18 December)
+- John McGowan reported a redirect-problem that happened if a site used a URL
+ like "url.com?var=content" (without a proper slash) and from that address
+ redirected the user-agent to an absolute directory.
+
+- David Byron made libcurl build fine with both the .NET and VC6 versions of
+ MSVC
+
+Daniel (16 December)
+- Updated test 506 since it started to fail after the cache prune change
+ yesterday. I also changed it slightly to feature a counter in each debug
+ output for easier tracing.
+
+Daniel (15 December)
+- Old DNS cache entries are now only pruned after curl is done with a request,
+ and not in the actual name resolve call.
+
+- corrected the --enable-ares patch
+
+- Giuseppe Attardi found and fixed a problem within libcurl that re-used
+ already freed memory.
+
+Daniel (10 December)
+- Gisle Vanem reported that the dict support was broken. I broke it during my
+ ftps-changes overhaul. I've now added a 'curlassert' function that can be
+ used to verify expressions, to prevent future errors of the same
+ kind. They're only present in debug-builds.
+
+- Diego Casorran made curl and libcurl possible to build natively (no more
+ need for the ixemul library) on AmigaOS.
+
+- Dominick Meglio made configure --enable-ares support a given path to the
+ installed ares lib, instead of always using it in the curl source tree.
+ This also fixed the curl-config --libs output.
+
+- Eric S. Raymond patched a very minor man page format error in
+ libcurl-errors.3
+
+Daniel (8 December)
+- Fixed the flaw that made -lz appear twice on the link command line.
+
+- After correspondence with Gisle Vanem, I changed the 'connection aborted'
+ error text when the FTP response reader failed to more specificly identify
+ what the problem is.
+
+- Based on a patch from Dominick Meglio, curl-config --feature now outputs
+ 'AsynchDNS' as a feature if libcurl was built with ares. The feature name
+ is the same that 'curl -V' outputs, for simplicity.
+
+Daniel (3 December)
+- Marty Kuhrt made the build up-to-date on VMS, and moved most of the VMS-
+ specific stuff in the client code to a separate header file.
+
+- Steve Green fixed a return code bug in Curl_resolv(), that made the socks5
+ code fail.
+
+- swalkaus at yahoo.com patched libcurl to ignore Content-Length: headers
+ when Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used, as mandated by RFC2616.
+
+Daniel (2 December)
+- --ftp-pasv was added, which serves the only purpose of overriding a
+ previously set --ftpport option. Starting now, --ftp-port is a recognized
+ alias for --ftpport for consistency.
+
+- Giuseppe Attardi pointed out that we should use MSG_NOSIGNAL when we use
+ send() and recv(). I added checks for the define in the configure script and
+ adjusted the code accordingly. If the symbol is present, we won't attempt
+ to ignore the SIGPIPE signal.
+
+Daniel (1 December)
+- Mathias Axelsson set up a bsdftpd-ssl server for me and I could make curl
+ run fine against its FTPS implementation. Now these FTPS-related things
+ work:
+ o explicit and implicit FTPS
+ o active (PORT) and passive (PASV)
+ o upload and download
+ o verified against bsdftpd-ssl and RaidenFTPD
+
+Daniel (27 November)
+- James Clancy made the Borland Makefiles up to date.
+
+- Markus Moeller improved the SPNEGO detection in the configure script.
+
+Daniel (25 November)
+- Dave May filed bug report #848371, identifying that if you'd do POST over a
+ proxy to a https server, libcurl didn't POST at all, it just made a GET! It
+ turned out to be because libcurl wrongly didn't consider the authentication
+ "negotiation phase" to be complete yet.
+
+ I added test case 95 to verify my fix for this.
+
+Daniel (24 November)
+- Thanks to Mathias Axelsson, I've been able to work on FTPS for libcurl and it
+ seems to work somewhat fine now.
+
+ The FTPS stuff is based on RFC2228 and the murray-auth-ftp-ssl draft
+ (version 12). There seems to exist quite a few servers that have implemented
+ the server side of this.
+
+ We can now use ftps:// URLs to explicitly switch on SSL/TSL for the control
+ connection and the data connection (dealing with two SSL connections forced
+ me to change a lot of stuff in libcurl).
+
+ Alternatively, and what seems to be the recommended way, we can set the new
+ option CURLOPT_FTP_SSL to one of these values:
+
+ CURLFTPSSL_NOPE, - do not attempt to use SSL
+ CURLFTPSSL_TRY - try using SSL, proceed anyway otherwise
+ CURLFTPSSL_CONTROL - SSL for the control connection or fail
+ CURLFTPSSL_ALL - SSL for all communication or fail
+
+ Any failure to set the desired level will make libcurl fail with the error
+ code CURLE_FTP_SSL_FAILED. This new option makes a "normal" ftp:// transfer
+ attempt to be made securely.
+
+ I've been able to login and get files (passively) from Mathias' server using
+ both ftps:// and CURLOPT_FTP_SSL. (I've made 'curl' understand the --ftp-ssl
+ option that sets CURLFTPSSL_TRY.)
+
+- Gaz Iqbal fixed a range string memory leak.
+
+- Gisle Vanem fixed the Windows builds.
+
+- Added the new FTPSSL defines in curl/curl.h
+
+Daniel (20 November)
+- Josh Kapell filed bug report #845247 as he found an endless loop when
+ getting a 407 back from a proxy when no user+password was given. Added test
+ case 94 to verify the fix.
+
+Daniel (19 November)
+- Kevin Roth fixed a progress-bar problem on Windows.
+
+- While working with Nicolas Croiset's bug report #843739, I noticed two minor
+ problems related to ftp partial downloads: if a partial transfer is
+ detected, we must close the connection as we cannot know in what state it is
+ anymore. This looks like a ProFTPD bug:
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2003-11/0079.html
+
+Daniel (17 November)
+- Maciej W. Rozycki made the configure script use a cache variable for the
+ writable argv test. This way, the default can be overridden better (for
+ cross-compiles etc)
+
+Daniel (15 November)
+- Mathias Axelsson found out libcurl sometimes freed the server certificate
+ twice, leading to crashes!
+
+Daniel (14 November)
+- Siddhartha Prakash Jain found a case with a bad resolve that we didn't
+ properly bail out from, when using ares.
+
+Daniel (13 November)
+- Default Content-Type for parts in multipart formposts has changed to
+ "application/octet-stream". This seems more appropriate, and I believe
+ mozilla and the likes do this. In the same area: .html files now get
+ text/html as Content-Type. (Pointed out in bug report #839806)
+
+- Gisle Vanem corrected the --progress-bar output by doing a flush of the
+ output, which apparently makes it look better on at least windows, but
+ possibly other platforms too.
+
+- Peter Sylvester identified a problem in the connect code, which made the
+ multi interface on a ipv6-enabled solaris box do bad. Test case 504 to be
+ specific. I've spent some time to clean-up the Curl_connecthost() function
+ now to use less duplicated code for the two different sections: ipv6 and
+ ipv4.
+
+Daniel (11 November)
+- Added CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE. Use this to tell libcurl which file to use instead
+ of trying to find a .netrc in the current user's home directory. The
+ existing .netrc file finder is somewhat naive and is far from perfect on
+ several platforms that aren't unix-style. If this option isn't set when
+ CURLOPT_NETRC is set, the previous approach will still be used.
+
+ The current .netrc check code now also support longer than 256 bytes path
+ names.
+
+Daniel (10 November)
+- Kang-Jin Lee pointed out that the generated ca-bundle.h file shouldn't be
+ written in the source dir if a different build dir is used.
+
+- After Sébastien Willemijns' bug report, we now check the separators properly
+ in the 229-reply servers respond on a EPSV command and bail out better if
+ the reply string is not RFC2428-compliant.
+
+Daniel (7 November)
+- Based on Gisle Vanem's patch, I made curl try harder to get the home
+ directory of the current user, in order to find the default .curlrc file.
+ We're also considering moving out the HOME-dir code from libcurl, and
+ instead have the app pass in the path to the .netrc file (which is the only
+ logic left in libcurl that uses the HOME dir). Then curl can use the home
+ dir for that purpose too.
+
+- Ralph Mitchell's updated testcurl.sh to the script to take an existing
+ directory name and build/run/test curl in there instead of trying to update
+ from CVS. Using this approach, the script can now be used to test daily
+ tarballs etc.
+
+- Gisle Vanem added a "resource file" to the Windows DLL builds, to contain
+ information such as version number, library name, copyright info etc.
+
+Daniel (6 November)
+- curl checks if the existing libcurl supports things like --ntlm, --negotiate
+ and --krb4 and returns error if not.
+
+- I added three new global defines in the curl/curl.h header:
+ LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR, LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR and LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH. They
+ are the three numbers in the library's version number, separated for easier
+ usage. 'maketgz' was updated accordingly to generate these numbers properly
+ when building release-archives.
+
+- Uninitialized variable fix, reported by both Marty Kuhrt and Benjamin
+ Gerard.
+
+- Matt Veenstra provided build files to build libcurl as a "framework" under
+ Mac OS X. See the lib/libcurl.framework.make for details.
+
+- Removed the defines of TRUE and FALSE from the curl/curl.h header file.
+ They're not in our name space so we should not fiddle with them.
+
+Daniel (5 November)
+- Replaced the man page to HTML converter program with a new one: roffit.
+ Makes nicer web pages.
+
+Daniel (4 November)
+- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed the MSVC makefiles to let them build curl fine
+ on Windows.
+
+- Kevin Roth corrected the cygwin package generator and spell-fixed the
+ comment in the ca-bundle.h file.
+
+Version 7.10.8 (1 November 2003)
+
+Daniel (31 October)
+- Assume that MDTM on an FTP server returns the timestamp using the UTC time
+ zone. This changes the time CURLINFO_FILETIME returns for a given file over
+ FTP, and will change existing uses of CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION. It will make
+ the functionality more similar to how the HTTP one is already working.
+
+- Command line options that take numerical parameters (such as -y, -Y, -C etc)
+ now report error and exit if the parameter isn't truly a number greater than
+ or equal to zero. This helps users to notice bad usage earlier. Before, when
+ a user forgot or missed to add a numerical parameter to an option, the
+ command line parser would simply "eat" the following option and it would
+ cause great confusion.
+
+Daniel (30 October)
+- David Hull made libcurl deal with NOBODY and HEADER for file:// the same way
+ it already does for FTP: it provides HTTP-looking headers that provide info
+ only about the file, without doing the actual transfer. The curl tool then
+ lets --head do this.
+
+Daniel (29 October)
+- runtests.pl now checks for and use valgrind if present. It will redirect the
+ valgrind results in log/valgrind[num] but it currently doesn't scan that
+ file for any errors or anything, that is still only made manually.
+
+- David Hull made the file: URL parser also accept the somewhat sloppy file
+ syntax: file:/path. I added test case 203 to verify this.
+
+Daniel (28 October)
+- Dan C tracked down yet another weird behavior in the glibc gethostbyname_r()
+ function for some specific versions (reported on 2.2.5 and 2.1.1), and
+ provided a fix. On Linux machines with these glibc versions, non-ipv6
+ builds of libcurl would often fail to resolve perfectly resolvable host
+ names.
+
+Daniel (26 October)
+- James Bursa found out that curl_msnprintf() could write the trailing
+ zero-byte outside its given buffer size. This could happen if you generated
+ a very long error message as then libcurl would overwrite the ERRORBUFFER
+ with one byte. Using a non-existing very long local file:// name is one case
+ that could make this occur.
+
+Daniel (24 October)
+- David Hull filed bug report #829827. It identified a problem with -C - if
+ the full file already was downloaded and thus the server responded with a
+ 416. libcurl would then wrongly use the Content-Length: header and expect
+ that size to get transfer, causing a "hang" until the server closed the
+ connection and then an error 18 ("still N bytes data left of the transfer").
+
+ Now we don't return any error at all, but I think libcurl should perhaps
+ return some kind of info since the requested range was out of the size of
+ the document.
+
+- Based on David Hull's fix in bug report #804599, we now check for solaris and
+ gcc in configure and set the -mimpure-text link flag for linking the lib
+ better.
+
+- I've introduced a -t option to the runtests.pl script. With that option set,
+ the script runs special "memory torture" tests. For each test command line
+ in that section, the script first runs the command line and counts the total
+ amount of allocations made. It then runs the exact same command line again,
+ forcing allocation number N to fail. It will try every N from 1 to the total
+ number of amounts made. For every invoke, it checks that no memory was
+ leaked as that would indicate a bad cleanup somewhere in the code.
+
+ This is just beginning to work, and I've already made some corrections in
+ libcurl code. When this code works somewhat fine, I'll make sure 'make test'
+ in the root dir will run these tests as well.
+
+Daniel (23 October)
+- Georg Horn fixed how the CA verification is made. Verifications can now be
+ made while at the same time the result of it can be ignored. This also
+ affects the curl tool as -k can now be used together with --cacert or
+ --capath.
+
+Daniel (22 October)
+- Gisle Vanem found out --disable-eprt didn't work and patched it.
+
+- Test case 91 was modified and could now repeat the problem Kevin Roth has
+ reported, and the bug was fixed.
+
+- Dylan Ellicott added vc-libcurl-ssl-dll as a target to the root makefile
+ to build a static libcurl that links with a shared OpenSSL using MSVC.
+
+Daniel (21 October)
+- Andrés García updated the mingw32 makefiles.
+
+Version 7.10.8-pre5 (21 October 2003)
+
+Daniel (19 October)
+- Georg Horn made libcurl output more info on SSL failures when receiving
+ data.
+
+Version 7.10.8-pre4 (18 October 2003)
+
+Daniel (17 October)
+- Dominick Meglio implemented CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE and --max-filesize.
+
+- Made libcurl show verbose info about what auth type and user name that is
+ being sent in its HTTP request-headers.
+
+Daniel (16 October)
+- Removed support for CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA. libcurl
+ no longer prompt for passwords under any circumstances. Password prompting
+ was instead moved to curl, which now prompts for password if -u or -U lack
+ it. This solves the problem Kevin Roth reported when curl prompted for
+ password twice when doing NTLM authentication.
+
+- I rewrote the SSL subjectAltName check to avoid having to rely on OpenLDAP-
+ licensed derivate code.
+
+Daniel (15 October)
+- Avoid doing getsockopt() on Windows to verify connects. It seems that this
+ hogs Windows machines when libcurl is being used multi-threaded (with > ~50
+ threads). Andrew Fuller helped us verify and test this.
+
+Daniel (14 October)
+- Kimmo Kinnunen fixed a crash with duphandle() when CURLDEBUG is set.
+
+- Gisle Vanem made libcurl build and work with IPv6 on Windows.
+
+Daniel (13 October)
+- Giuseppe Attardi reported yet another segfault with ares and the multi
+ interface. Me fixed.
+
+- Domenico Andreoli removed the extra LDFLAGS assignment in lib/Makefile.am
+ that was reported about in the debian bug report #212086.
+
+ Domenico also fixed two makefiles where we used 'gnroff' instead of the more
+ portable $(NROFF).
+
+Daniel (12 October)
+- Dirk Manske made the share locking around DNS lookups slightly different to
+ allow the share system's DNS lookups to run somewhat more
+ independent/faster.
+
+Daniel (9 October)
+- Lachlan O'Dea fixed a resume problem: "If I set CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM, perform
+ an HTTP download, then reset CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM to 0, the next download
+ still has a Range header with a garbage value." bug report #820502
+
+- Dominick Meglio made the inet_pton.c file build fine using MSVC.
+
+- The 'sws' test suite web server now #include setup.h from the lib directory.
+ This makes it more portable easier.
+
+Version 7.10.8-pre3 (8 October 2003)
+
+Daniel (8 October)
+- Frank Ticheler provided a patch that fixes how libcurl connects to multiple
+ addresses, if one of them fails (ipv4-code).
+
+Daniel (7 October)
+- Neil Dunbar provided a patch that now makes libcurl check SSL
+ subjectAltNames when matching certs. This is apparently detailed in RFC2818
+ as the right thing to do. I had to add configure checks for inet_pton() and
+ our own (strictly speaking, code from BIND written by Paul Vixie) provided
+ code for the function for platforms that miss it.
+
+- HTTP POST using the read callback didn't work, as Florian Schoppmann
+ reported.
+
+Daniel (5 October)
+- Shared provided a few fixes to make libcurl build on BeOS
+ out-of-the-box. New code for BeOS-style non-blocking sockets, provided by
+ Shard and Jeremy Friesner. Modified the autoconf check for non-blocking
+ sockets to check for this kind too.
+
+Daniel (4 October)
+- Vincent Bronner pointed out that if you set CURLOPT_COOKIE for a transfer
+ and then set it to NULL in a subsequent one, the previous cookie was still
+ sent off!
+
+- Jon Turner fixed a problem libcurl had when it failed on an FTP transfer due
+ to a bad path, it would cause the next transfer to use a bad path as well.
+
+- Siddhartha Prakash Jain provided a patch with a fix for libcurl with ares,
+ when working on IP-only names as we then could return "wait" status when the
+ name in fact already was resolved. I edited the patch slightly to not expose
+ asynch details to non-ares aware source code.
+
+Daniel (3 October)
+- Neil Spring posted the debian bug report #213180, and pointed out that using
+ the name 'access' in a function prototype is not very wise as some compilers
+ complain.
+
+- Peter Sylvester provided his and Jean-Paul Merlin's curlx.c example source
+ code that shows how they use ssl and callbacks.
+
+Daniel (2 October)
+- James MacMillan's patch makes curl build on QNX 6.2.x.
+
+Daniel (26 September)
+- My daughter was born!
+
+Daniel (23 September)
+- Added support for -4/--ipv4 and -6/--ipv6 to force names to resolve to that
+ particular IP version. They only work for IPv6-enabled libcurls.
+
+- curl -V now outputs 'SPNEGO' as a feature in case libcurl was built to
+ support that.
+
+Version 7.10.8-pre2 (22 September 2003)
+
+Daniel (22 September)
+- Giuseppe Attardi found a segfault in libcurl when using the multi interface
+ with ares and doing repeated operations against a non-resolving host name.
+
+Daniel (19 September)
+- Added the CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE option, that allows an application to select
+ what kind of IP addresses he wants to use when resolving host names. This
+ is only interesting when using host names that resolve addresses using more
+ than one version of IP.
+
+- Applied Markus Moeller's patch that introduces SPNEGO support if libcurl
+ is built with the FBopenssl libraries. curl_version_info() now returns
+ info on SPNEGO availability. The patch also made the GSSAPI stuff work fine
+ with the MIT GSS-library (the Heimdal one still works too).
+
+Daniel (16 September)
+- Doing PUT with --digest failed, as reported in bug report #805853.
+
+- Using --anyauth that picked NTLM, and then a redirect closed the connection
+ and took curl to a second NTLM page made curl fail. Bug report #806328
+ identified the problem, test case 90 was added to verify the fix.
+
+Daniel (14 September)
+- codemastr brought a patch for ares to make the Windows portions of it work
+ properly on NT4. I uploaded a new diff and updated the docs on where to get
+ it etc.
+
+- Jeff Pohlmeyer tracked down a very hard-to-find bug where we removed a
+ cached DNS entry even though it may be in use, which caused "random" memory
+ to get overwritten and thus "random" crashes.
+
+Daniel (12 September)
+- Based on a bug report by David Kimdon, I made the runtests.pl script clear
+ all possible proxy environment variables before the tests are run.
+
+- By default, easy handles within a multi handle now share DNS cache.
+
+- Tim Bartley brought a patch that makes the GSSNEGOTIATE option work for
+ Microsoft's "Negotiate" authentication as well.
+
+Daniel (11 September)
+- A zero-length proxy string confused FTP transfers.
+
+- Bjorn Reese found a case with an uninitialized pointer, only present when
+ built for ares.
+
+Version 7.10.8-pre1 (8 September 2003)
+
+Daniel (7 September)
+- Jurij Smakov found out that the non-OpenSSL MD5 code was not working on
+ Alpha (or ia64). Only the OpenSSL-version did. I made a fix I think corrects
+ the problem.
+
+Daniel (5 September)
+- Kevin Fisk reported that configure --enable-thread didn't work. I fixed.
+
+- De-macrofied the lib/hash.c source code somewhat.
+
+Daniel (4 September)
+- CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_AVAIL added, Based on Joerg
+ Mueller-Tolk's patch,
+
+Early (4 September)
+- Added CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT - allows user to set strict timeout
+ requirements on the FTP server's ability to respond to individual commands
+ without placing global requirements on transfer or connect time. Files
+ affected:
+ - include/curl/curl.h
+ Added option CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT
+ - lib/ftp.c
+ Added branch inside Curl_GetFTPResponse to check for
+ data->set.ftp_response_timeout
+ - lib/url.c
+ Modified Curl_setopt to recognize CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT
+ - lib/urldata.h
+ Added ftp_response_timeout to struct UserDefined
+
+Daniel (3 September)
+- Peter Pentchev found and fixed two problems in the test suite's web server
+ code, that made it segfault at times.
+
+- Jörg Mueller-Tolk improved the proxy user+password handling, especially
+ when providing a blank password.
+
+Daniel (2 September)
+- Fix for making CONNECT to proxies do the correct magic to allow NTLM, Digest
+ and similar to work.
+
+Daniel (1 September)
+- Henrik Storner made libcurl work fine with OpenLDAP 2.1.22 (current).
+
+- Jeff Pohlmeyer added a proper error message for non-resolving hosts when
+ using ares for lookups.
+
+Daniel (25 August)
+- John McGowan reported that curl -k still failed if the HTTPS server's CN
+ field wasn't obtainable. This was due to the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST being
+ set to 1, and libcurl failed if the CN was missing. Starting now, having it
+ set to 1 will simply output a warning if no CN could be obtained (as having
+ a mismatch is OK).
+
+Daniel (21 August)
+- Vincent Sanders provided a fix for name resolving when linked with uClibc.
+
+Daniel (20 August)
+- Gerd v. Egidy provided a patch that makes libcurl store the FTP response
+ code from ftp servers. Using curl_easy_getinfo() with CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE
+ returns that data. The option is therefore now also known as
+ CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE.
+
+- Antoine Calando found a segfault when doing multi-part/formpost using
+ the multi interface.
+
+- Antoine Calando pointed out that curl_multi_info_read() didn't set the
+ msgs_in_queue to 0 properly when returning NULL.
+
+Daniel (19 August)
+- I made curl support multiple -T options, as well as -T "{file1,file2}"
+ style globbing. One -T for each URL is supported.
+
+- Jeff Pohlmeyer found a segfault when using ares-enabled libcurl and the
+ multi interface when trying a non-existing host name.
+
+- Made the libcurl printf code support long longs if available.
+
+- Loren Kirkby pointed out that we did not clean up all SSL-allocated memory
+ in curl_global_cleanup().
+
+Daniel (17 August)
+- Setting CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or CURLOPT_READFUNCTION to NULL will now make
+ them get the internal defaults restored. Previously this could cause a
+ segfault. We should aim at having all pointer-related options get restored
+ to default/safe values when set to NULL.
+
+Version 7.10.7 (15 August 2003)
+
+Daniel (14 August)
+- I modified the memdebug system to return failure on memory allocation
+ functions after a set amount of successful ones. This enables us to test
+ out-of-memory situations in a controlled manner and we can make sure that
+ curl/libcurl behaves good in those.
+
+ This made me find and fix several spots where we did not cleanup properly
+ when bailing out due to errors (low memory).
+
+- Corrected test case 74. Made using -o with bad #[num] codes complain and
+ bail out. Made #[num] support numbers larger than 9 as well. Added test
+ case 86 for a proper range globbing test as well.
+
+Version 7.10.7-pre4 (12 August 2003)
+
+Daniel (12 August)
+- curl_version_info() now returns a flag if libcurl was built with asynch DNS
+ support, and this is now also displayed with 'curl -V'.
+
+- Added a few new man pages to the docs/libcurl dir: curl_share_init,
+ curl_share_setopt, curl_share_cleanup, libcurl-easy and libcurl-share.
+
+Daniel (11 August)
+- Mike Cherepov made the local binding code work for Windows, which makes
+ the option CURLOPT_INTERFACE work on Windows as well.
+
+- Vincent Sanders updated the fopen.c example code a lot.
+
+- --proxy-ntlm is now supported by the curl tool. It forces the proxy
+ authentication to be made using NTLM. It does not yet work for HTTPS over
+ proxies (or other proxy-tunneling options). Test case 81 and 82 do some
+ simple initial ntlm testing.
+
+- Found and fixed a minor memory leak on re-used connections with
+ proxy-authentication.
+
+- I removed -@ and -Z as valid short options. They were very rarely used (@
+ wasn't even documented).
+
+- Serge Semashko introduced CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, and make it work when set to
+ CURLAUTH_NTLM and/or CURLAUTH_BASIC. The PROXAUTH is similar to HTTPAUTH,
+ but is for the proxy connection only, and HTTPAUTH is for the remote host.
+
+- Fixed loading of cookies with blank contents from a cookie jar. Also made the
+ cookie functions inform on added and skipped cookies (for cookie debugging).
+
+Version 7.10.7-pre3 (8 August 2003)
+
+Daniel (8 August)
+- Applied David Byron's fix for file:// URLs with drive letters included.
+
+- I added the --ftp-create-dirs to the client code, which activates Early's
+ CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS option, and wrote test case 147 to verify
+ it. Added the option to the curl.1 man page too. Added the option to the
+ curl_easy_setopt.3 man page too.
+
+Daniel (7 August)
+- Test case 60 failed on ia64 and AMD Opteron. Fixed now.
+
+- Fixed a printf problem that resulted in urlglobbing bugs (bug #203827 in the
+ debian bug tracker). Added test case 74 to verify the fix and to discover if
+ this breaks in the future.
+
+- "make distcheck" works again.
+
+Version 7.10.7-pre2 (6 August 2003)
+
+Daniel (5 August)
+- Duncan Wilcox helped me verify that the latest incarnation of my ares patch
+ builds fine on Mac OS X (see the new lib/README.ares) file for all details.
+
+- Salvatore Sorrentino filed bug report #783116 and Early Ehlinger posted a
+ bug report to the libcurl list, both identifying a problem with FTP
+ persistent connections and how the dir hierarchy was not properly reset
+ between files.
+
+- David Byron's thoughts on a fixed Makefile in tests/ were applied.
+
+- Jan Sundin reported a case where curl ignored a cookie that browsers don't,
+ which turned up to be due to the number of dots in the 'domain'. I've now
+ made curl follow the the original netscape cookie spec less strict on that
+ part.
+
+Daniel (4 August)
+- Dirk Manske added cookie support for the experimental, hidden and still
+ undocumented share feature!
+
+- Mark Fletcher provided an excellent bug report that identified a problem
+ with FOLLOWLOCATION and chunked transfer-encoding, as libcurl would not
+ properly ignore the body contents of 3XX response that included the
+ Location: header.
+
+Early (6 August)
+- Added option CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS
+ This option will force the target file's path to be created if it
+ does not already exist on the remote system.
+
+ Files affected:
+ - include/curl/curl.h
+ Added option CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS
+ - lib/ftp.c
+ Added function ftp_mkd, which issues a MKD command
+ Added function ftp_force_cwd, which attempts a CWD,
+ and does a MKD and retries the CWD if the original CWD
+ fails
+ Modified ftp_perform() to call its change directory function
+ through a pointer. The pointer points to ftp_cwd by default,
+ and is modified to point to ftp_force_cwd IFF
+ data->set.ftp_create_missing_dirs is not 0.
+ - lib/url.c
+ Modified Curl_setopt to recognize CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS
+ - lib/urldata.h
+ Added ftp_create_missing_dirs to struct UserDefined
+
+- Minor Bugfix for CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION with FTP - if the file was not
+ present to do the time comparison, it would fail.
+ Files affected:
+ - lib/ftp.c
+ In ftp_perform(), the call to ftp_getfiletime() used to be followed
+ by
+ if (result)
+ return result;
+ And then by the code that actually did the time comparison.
+ The code that did the comparison handled the case where the filetime
+ was not available (as indicated by info.filetime < 0 or set.timevalue
+ < 0), so I replaced the if (result) return result with a switch(result)
+ that allows CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE to fall through to the
+ normal time comparison.
+
+Daniel (3 August)
+- When proxy authentication is used in a CONNECT request (as used for all SSL
+ connects and otherwise enforced tunnel-thru-proxy requests), the same
+ authentication header is also wrongly sent to the remote host.
+
+ This is a rather significant info leak. I've fixed it now and mailed a patch
+ and warning to the mailing lists.
+
+Daniel (1 August)
+- David Byron provided a patch to make 7.10.6 build correctly with the
+ compressed hugehelp.c source file.
+
+Version 7.10.7-pre1 (31 July 2003)
+
+Daniel (30 July)
+- Jörg Müller-Tolk updated the VC makefile.
+
+- Daniel Noguerol made the ftp code output "Accept-Ranges: bytes" in similar
+ style like other faked HTTP headers when NOBODY and HEADER are used. I
+ updated two corresponding test cases too.
+
+- Marty Kuhrt pointed out a compilation problem on VMS due to my having
+ changed a type from long to time_t, and I'm now changing it back to work
+ more portably...
+
+ He also indicated that distributing the src/hugehelp.c in a compressed state
+ like I accidentally did may not be the smartest move... I've now fixed the
+ distribute procedure to automatically generate an uncompressed version when I
+ make release archives.
+
+Daniel (29 July)
+- Gisle Vanem brought changes to the mkhelp script for the generation of the
+ compressed help text on some platforms.
+
+Version 7.10.6 (28 July 2003)
+
+Daniel (28 July)
+- François Pons brought a patch that once again made curl deal with ftp and
+ "double slash" as indicating the root directory. In the RFC1738-fix of April
+ 30, that ability was removed (since it is not the "right" way). So, starting
+ now we can list the root dir of an ftp server both these ways:
+
+ curl ftp://server.com/%2f as well as
+ curl ftp://server.com//
+
+Daniel (24 July)
+- Henry Bland pointed out that we included sys/resource.h without good reason
+ in several source files. Without it included, QNX builds better...
+
+- Andrés García updated the mingw makefiles.
+
+Daniel (23 July)
+- Tracy Boehrer experienced DNS cache problems and did some nice debugging
+ and tracking which made it easy for me to correct the problem and Tracy
+ could verify that it did cure the problem! When re-using a connection we
+ now make sure we don't re-use the 'connect_addr' struct.
+
+- Daniel Kouril corrected the GSS-Negotiate code.
+
+- Juan F. Codagnone provided fixes to allow curl to build fine on Windows
+ again.
+
+Daniel (22 July)
+- Edited the curl/curl.h include file to build on Windows properly.
+
+Daniel (21 July)
+- Moved the proxy credentials from the SessionHandle struct to the connectdata
+ struct, to make multiple proxy connections with differerent user names work.
+
+- Adjusted the NTLM code to support proxy functionality.
+
+- Made the krb4 stuff compile with the user+password fields moved.
+
+Version 7.10.6-pre4 (21 July 2003)
+
+Daniel (20 July)
+- David Gardner pointed out in bug report 770755 that using the FTP command
+ CWD with a blank argument is a bad idea and I made libcurl skip empty path
+ segments starting now.
+
+Daniel (18 July)
+- Cris pointed out that my fix on July 16th didn't work fully. His pointing
+ out this (and his patch) also made me realize that we have a very similar
+ bug in the FTP connection re-use code. We must store a separate user and
+ password field for each connection we keep (at least for FTP and HTTP+NTLM
+ connections, so I made us do this unconditionally).
+
+- Since NTLM authenticates connections instead of single requests, I had to
+ re-arrange how we store the NTLM data and I had to improve the test suite to
+ finally work properly with persistency to make the NTLM tests run fine
+ again. This also forced me to have to update lots of HTTP test cases.
+
+Daniel (16 July)
+- Cris Bailiff's bug report 768275 pointed out that using Basic auth with
+ wrong user+password caused an endless loop. Fixed now. He also found out that
+ we didn't properly authenticate connections with NTLM. Fixed too.
+
+- Dan Winship provided fixes for the NTLM code.
+
+Daniel (5 July)
+- Doug Kaufman provided additional fixes for the DOS port.
+
+Daniel (4 July)
+- Rick Richardson pointed out that using setvbuf() to achieve non-buffering
+ on output is no-good for SCO Xenix and other unixes. We switched over to
+ using plain fflush() instead.
+
+- Dan Grayson pointed out that we set the CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable wrongly in
+ the configure script, and I had to change some build stuff to make the new
+ way work.
+
+- Peter Sylvester's patch was applied that introduces the following:
+
+ CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION to set a callback that gets called with the
+ OpenSSL's ssl_ctx pointer passed in and allow a callback to act on it. If
+ anything but CURLE_OK is returned, that will also be returned by libcurl
+ all the way back. If this function changes the CURLOPT_URL, libcurl will
+ detect this and instead go use the new URL.
+
+ CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_DATA is a pointer you set to get passed to the callback set
+ with CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.
+
+Daniel (1 July)
+- David Byron provided a patch that allows a client to quit the test suite's
+ HTTP server.
+
+- Gisle Vanem found and patched a lib handle leak in the ldap code.
+
+Daniel (25 June)
+- More NTLM-improvements. Less code. Smaller packets back and forth.
+
+Daniel (23 June)
+- Eric Glass provided us with a better doc on NTLM details, and I added more
+ comments and clarified the current code more. Using the new knowledge, we
+ should be able to make the NTLM stuff work even better.
+ Eric's original URL: http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html
+ Version stored and provided at curl site: http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/ntlm.html
+
+- Fixed the minor compile problems pre3 had if built without GSSAPI and/or
+ SSL.
+
+Version 7.10.6-pre3 (19 June 2003)
+
+Daniel (19 June)
+- Made curl use curl_free() on memory returned by curl_getenv(), as this
+ should theoreticly make it possibly to build and run curl and libcurl with
+ different memory allocation schemes with no problems.
+
+Daniel (18 June)
+- Improved the mkhelp.pl a bit further to make a nicer hugehelp text and to
+ include a better comment in the top for the gzip compressed version.
+
+Daniel (17 June)
+- CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH is now a bitmask, in which you set which authentication
+ type(s) you want to use. If more than one is set, libcurl will use one of
+ the selected one and the one it considers is more secure. Test case 67 and
+ 68 (for NTLM) were fixed and we've reduced a round-trip for specific --ntlm
+ fetches, and test case 69 and 70 were added for testing authentication
+ "picking". --anyauth is the new command line tool option, and I also added
+ --basic for completeness (that's the default type).
+
+- Fixed the runtests.pl script to use the info provided by the new curl -V
+ output.
+
+- --enable-debug now sets the CURLDEBUG define instead of MALLOCDEBUG, as it
+ is meant to be a generic debug conditional.
+
+- curl_version_info() can now return CURL_VERSION_DEBUG as a feature bit, to
+ indicate that the library was built with CURLDEBUG set.
+
+- Ralph Mitchell found out that some web applications very badly uses white
+ spaces in Location: redirects, and apparently IE is a browser (the only
+ one?) that supports this abomination. Based on Ralph's patch, I added code
+ that now attempts to replace white spaces with the proper "%20" or "+".
+ Test case 40 and 42 were added to verify my changes.
+
+- curl -V now also outputs a list of features the available library offers (if
+ any).
+
+- The curl_version() string now includes "GSS" if libcurl is built with GSSAPI
+ support.
+
+- David Orrell reported that libcurl still crashed when sending HUGE requests
+ over HTTPS... I fixed.
+
+Version 7.10.6-pre2 (16 June 2003)
+
+Daniel (16 June)
+- curl_version_info() now returns bitmasked information weather NTLM and
+ GSSNEGOTIATE are supported, since it is doomed to vary on different
+ installations.
+
+- I remade the HTTP Digest code to use the MD5-code provided by OpenSSL if
+ that is present, and only use our own MD5-code if it isn't.
+
+Daniel (13 June)
+- More NTLM help, fixes and patches from Cris Bailiff.
+
+- Marty Kuhrt brought include fixes for making VMS builds warning-free.
+
+Daniel (12 June)
+- NTLM authentication works somewhat against the test servers provided by
+ Mathias Axelsson and Cris Bailiff. Use by setting CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH to
+ CURLAUTH_NTLM to libcurl, or --ntlm for the curl tool. Test case 67 and 68
+ were added for this. NTLM-support requires OpenSSL.
+
+- Dan Fandrich provided a patch, that granted that gzip and libz are available
+ at build-time, compresses the hugehelp text in the curl command line and
+ uncompresses it at request. Saves some ~60K in the final output executable.
+
+Daniel (11 June)
+- Long day of fighting the NTLM demons.
+
+Daniel (10 June)
+- Modified how to set auth type to libcurl. Now use CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH instead,
+ and pick method. Supported ones currently are:
+ CURLAUTH_BASIC - default selection
+ CURLAUTH_DIGEST - formerly CURLOPT_HTTPDIGEST
+ CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE
+
+- Daniel Kouril added HTTP GSS-Negotiate authentication support, as defined in
+ the IETF draft draft-brezak-spnego-http-04.txt. In use already by various
+ Microsoft web applications. --negotiate is the new family member. To take
+ advantage of this, you need one of these packages:
+
+ o Heimdal Kerberos5 http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/heimdal.html
+ o GSSAPI from Globus http://www.globus.org/
+ o GSSAPI libraries from MIT Kerberos5 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
+
+- A missing ending bracket (']') while doing URL globbing could lead to a
+ segfault. While fixing this, I also introduced better error reporting in the
+ globbing code. (All this is application code outside libcurl.)
+
+Daniel (6 June)
+- David Orrell found out that sending a huge GET request over HTTPS could
+ make libcurl fail and return an error code.
+
+Daniel (2 June)
+- Richard Bramante found out that "Content-Length: 0" was not properly used by
+ libcurl if the response-headers indicated that the connection would be
+ closed.
+
+- David Byron's patch was applied, that makes the --progress-bar take the
+ local size into account when doing resumed downloads.
+
+- Feedback from Serge Semashko made me change the error message returned when
+ CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR is returned.
+
+- Anonymous in bug report #745122 pointed out that we should really be using
+ SSL_CTX_set_options(... SSL_OP_ALL) to work around flaws in existing SSL
+ implementations.
+
+Daniel (27 May)
+- Andreas Ley and Rich Gray helped me point out that no version of HP-UX has
+ the sys/select.h header file so including it unconditionally in curl/multi.h
+ is not a good thing. Now we check for HPUX and avoid using that header on
+ such systems.
+
+- Rudy Koento experienced problems with curl's recent habit of POSTing data in
+ two separate send() calls, first the headers and then the data. I've now
+ made a fix that for static and known content that is less than 100K in size,
+ everything is now sent in one single system call again. This is also better
+ for network performance reasons.
+
+- I modified the main makefile to not build the test suite and a few other
+ unnecessary things by default. Now, the test suite is built when 'make test'
+ is run. This reduces build time for those who don't care for the test
+ suite, and it also reduces confusion for people using platforms where the
+ test suite build fails!
+
+Daniel (26 May)
+- Chris Lewis pointed out a flaw in the #ifdefs in curl/multi.h for Windows,
+ which is now corrected.
+
+- Jis Joy found another flaw in the SOCK5 code, as libcurl treated the socks5
+ proxy a little too much like as if it was a http proxy.
+
+Daniel (23 May)
+- Ricardo Cadime found a socket leak when listing directories without
+ contents. Test cases 144 and 145 were added to verify the fix.
+
+- Rudy Koento found yet another problem when a HTTP server returns only a
+ single-line of contents without any headers at all. libcurl then failed to
+ count the data, thus returning error 52 "no contents". Test case 66 was
+ added to verify that we now do right.
+
+Version 7.10.6-pre1 (23 May 2003)
+
+Daniel (23 May)
+- Jis in bug report #741841, fixed a bug in the SOCKS5 proxy-using code.
+
+Daniel (22 May)
+- David Remahl set up a test-server for me providing Digest authentication,
+ and I wrote the first working code that support it. The test suite was
+ modified slightly as well to work better for it and --digest was added to
+ the command line options (and CURLOPT_HTTPDIGEST to the library)... RFC2617
+ has all the gory details.
+
+Daniel (21 May)
+- David Balazic pointed out that curl_unescape() didn't check that %-codes
+ were correctly followed by two hexadecimal digits when it unescape strings.
+ Now, we do the check and only %XX codes are unescaped if the X letters are
+ hexadecimals.
+
+- Gisle Vanem made curl build with djgpp on DOS.
+
+- Gisle Vanem improved the mkhelp.pl script to make a nicer manual that is
+ shown with curl -M.
+
+Daniel (20 May)
+- Gisle Vanem provided a fix that makes libcurl more conservative, not
+ expecting h_aliases of the hostent struct to always be non-NULL.
+
+Daniel (19 May)
+- As requested by Martin Michlmayr in Debian bug report #193630, libcurl now
+ supports user name and password in the proxy environment variables. Added
+ test case 63 to verify this.
+
+Version 7.10.5 (19 May 2003)
+
+Daniel (15 May)
+- Changed the order for the in_addr_t testing, as 'unsigned long' seems to be
+ a very common type inet_addr() returns.
+
+Daniel (14 May)
+- George Comninos provided a fix that calls the progress meter when waiting
+ for FTP command responses take >1 second. It'll make applications more
+ "responsive" even when dealing with very slow ftp servers.
+
+Daniel (12 May)
+- George Comninos pointed out that libcurl uploads had two quirks:
+ o when using FTP PORT command, it used blocking sockets!
+ o it could loop a long time without doing progress meter updates
+ Both items are fixed now.
+
+Daniel (9 May)
+- Dan Fandrich changed CURLOPT_ENCODING to select all supported encodings if
+ set to "". This frees the application from having to know which encodings
+ the library supports.
+
+- Dan Fandrich pointed out we had three unnecessary files in CVS that is
+ generated with libtoolize, so they're now removed and libtoolize is invoked
+ accordingly in the buildconf script.
+
+- Avery Fay found out that the CURLOPT_INTERFACE way of first checking if the
+ given name is a network interface gave a real performance penalty on Linux,
+ so now we more appropriately first check if it is an IP number and if so
+ we don't check for a network interface with that name.
+
+- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT added. Set this to FALSE to disable libcurl's attempts
+ to use EPRT and LPRT before the traditional PORT command. The command line
+ tool sets this option with '--disable-eprt'.
+
+Version 7.10.5-pre2 (6 May 2003)
+
+Daniel (6 May)
+- Kevin Delafield reported another case where we didn't correctly check for
+ EAGAIN but only EWOULDBLOCK, which caused badness on HPUX.
+
+Daniel (4 May)
+- Ben Greear noticed that the check for 'writable argv' exited the configure
+ script when run for cross-compiling, which wasn't nice. Now it'll default to
+ no and output a warning about the fact that it was not checked for.
+
+Daniel (2 May)
+- Added test case 62 and fixed some more on the cookie sending with a custom
+ Host: header set.
+
+Daniel (1 May)
+- Andy Cedilnik fixed a few compiler warnings.
+
+- Made the "SSL read error: 5" error message more verbose, by adding code that
+ queries the OpenSSL library to fill in the error buffer.
+
+Daniel (30 Apr)
+- Added sys/select.h include in the curl/multi.h file, after having been
+ reminded about this by Rich Gray.
+
+- I made each test set its own server requirements, thus abandoning the
+ previous system where the test number implied what server(s) to use for a
+ specific test.
+
+- David Balazic made curl more RFC1738-compliant for FTP URLs, by fixing so
+ that libcurl now uses one CWD command for each path part. A bunch of test
+ cases were fixed to work accordingly.
+
+- Cookie fixes:
+
+ A. Save domains in jars like Mozilla does. It means all domains set in
+ Set-Cookie: headers are dot-prefixed.
+ B. Save and use the 'tailmatch' field in the Mozilla/Netscape cookie jars
+ (the second column).
+ C. Reject cookies using illegal domains in the Set-Cookie: line. Concerns
+ both domains with too few dots or domains that are outside the currently
+ operating server host's domain.
+ D. Set the path part by default to the one used in the request, if none was
+ set in the Set-Cookie line.
+
+ To make item C really good, I also made libcurl notice custom Host: headers
+ and extract the host name set in there and use that as the host name for the
+ site we're getting the cookies from. This allows user to specify a site's
+ IP-address, but still be able to receive and send its cookies properly if
+ you provide a valid Host: name for the site.
+
+Daniel (29 Apr)
+- Peter Kovacs provided a patch that makes the CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME work fine
+ when using the multi interface (too).
+
+Version 7.10.5-pre1 (23 Apr 2003)
+
+Daniel (23 Apr)
+- Upgraded to libtool 1.5.
+
+Daniel (22 Apr)
+- Peter Sylvester pointed out that curl_easy_setopt() will always (wrongly)
+ return CURLE_OK no matter what happens.
+
+- Dan Fandrich fixed some gzip decompression bugs and flaws.
+
+Daniel (16 Apr)
+- Fixed minor typo in man page, reported in the Debian bug tracker.
+
+Daniel (15 Apr)
+- Fixed some FTP tests in the test suite that failed on my Solaris host, due
+ to the config.h not being included before the system headers. When done that
+ way, it did get a mixed sense of if big files are supported or not and then
+ stat() and fstat() (as used in test case 505) got confused and failed to
+ return a proper file size.
+
+- Formposting a file using a .html suffix is now properly set to Content-Type: text/html.
+
+Daniel (14 Apr)
+- Fixed the SSL error handling to return proper SSL error messages again, they
+ broke in 7.10.4. I also attempt to track down CA cert problems and then
+ return the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code.
+
+- The curl tool now intercepts the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code and displays
+ a fairly big and explanatory error message. Kevin Roth helped me out with
+ the wording.
+
+Daniel (11 Apr)
+- Nic Hines provided a second patch for gzip decompression, and fixed a bug
+ when deflate or gzip contents were downloaded using chunked encoding.
+
+- Dan Fandrich made libcurl support automatic decompression of gzip contents
+ (as an addition to the previous deflate support).
+
+- I made the CWD command during FTP session consider all 2xy codes to be OK
+ responses.
+
+Daniel (10 Apr)
+- Vlad Krupin fixed a URL parsing issue. URLs that were not using a slash
+ after the host name, but still had "?" and parameters appended, as in
+ "http://hostname.com?foobar=moo", were not properly parsed by libcurl.
+
+Daniel (9 Apr)
+- Made CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION work for FTP transfers, using the same syntax as
+ for HTTP. This then made -z work for ftp transfers too. Added test case 139
+ and 140 for verifying this.
+
+- Getting the file date of an ftp file used the wrong time zone when
+ displayed. It is supposedly always GMT. Added test case 141 for this.
+
+- Made the test suite's FTP server support MDTM.
+
+- The default DEBUGFUNCTION, as enabled with CURLOPT_VERBOSE now outputs
+ CURLINFO_HEADER_IN data as well. The most notable effect from this is that
+ using curl -v, you get to see the incoming "headers" as well. This is
+ perhaps most useful when doing ftp.
+
+Daniel (8 Apr)
+- James Bursa fixed a flaw in the Content-Type extraction code, which missed
+ the first letter if no space followed the colon.
+
+- Magnus Nilsson pointed out that share.c was missing in the MSVC project
+ file.
+
+Daniel (6 Apr)
+- Ryan Weaver provided a patch that makes the CA cert bundle not get installed
+ anymore when 'configure --without-ssl' has been used.
+
+Daniel (4 Apr)
+- Martijn Broenland found another cases where a server application didn't
+ like the boundary string used by curl when doing a multi-part/formpost. We
+ modified the boundary string to look like the one IE uses, as this is
+ probably gonna make curl work with more applications.
+
+Daniel (3 Apr)
+- Kevin Roth reported that a bunch of tests fails on cygwin. One set fails
+ when using perl 5.8 (and they run fine with perl 5.6), and another set
+ failed because of an artifact in the test suite's FTP server that I
+ corrected. It turned out the FTP server code was still having a file opened
+ while the main test script removed it and invoked the HTTP server that
+ attempted to create the same file name of the file the FTP server kept open.
+ This operation works fine on unix, but not on cygwin.
+
+Version 7.10.4 (2 Apr 2003)
+
+Daniel (1 Apr)
+- Added test case 505 to exercise FTP upload with rename done with libcurl,
+ and for that I had to extend the test suite's FTP server to deal with the
+ RNFR and RNTO commands.
+
+Daniel (31 Mar)
+- Even more SSL config check modifications after Richard's testing.
+
+Version 7.10.4-pre6 (31 Mar 2003)
+
+Daniel (31 Mar)
+- More fixes for the SSL session ID cache checks when SSL configs are changed
+ between connections. Based on tests and talks with Richard Bramante.
+
+- Guillaume Cottenceau provided a patch that added CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.
+ When enabled, it will prevent libcurl from limiting to which host it sends
+ user+password to when following locations. By default, libcurl only sends
+ name and password to the original host used in the first URL, but with this
+ option set it will send the auth info to all hosts it follows location
+ headers to. The new tool command line option for this is named
+ "--location-trusted".
+
+- Frankie Fong reported a problem with libcurl if you re-used an easy handle
+ with a proxy, and you first made a https:// connection to a host and then
+ switched to a http:// one to the same host. libcurl would then wrongly re-use
+ the same connection for it and fail to get the second URL properly
+
+Daniel (29 Mar)
+- Dan Shearer's fix that makes curl complain if invoked with nothing but "curl
+ -O" was applied.
+
+Daniel (26 Mar)
+- Bryan Kemp was friendly enough to lend me an account on his Redhat 9 box and
+ I could fix the configure problems on redhat 8.1 and 9 in no time thanks to
+ this. Thanks a bunch Bryan!
+
+Daniel (25 Mar)
+- Renamed configure.in to configure.ac
+
+Version 7.10.4-pre5 (25 Mar 2003)
+
+Daniel (25 Mar)
+- Richard Bramante provided a fix for a handle re-use problem seen when you
+ change options on an SSL-enabled connection between requests. Previously,
+ changing peer verification or host verification and similar things was not
+ taken into account when a connection were checked for re-use and thus
+ enabling stricter check between requests on a re-used connection made no
+ difference and the connection would thus be used erroneously.
+
+Daniel (24 Mar)
+- Götz Babin-Ebell pointed out that the ca-bundle.crt file contained a
+ certificate from Trustcenter that was a demo certificate only that was never
+ intended to be part of a CA bundle.
+
+Daniel (21 Mar)
+- Life is a mystery. Within a time period of 17 hours, Tim Pope and Michael
+ Churchill filed one bug report each, both identifying problems with a second
+ transfer when doing persistent transfers re-using a connection. Tim's one is
+ #706624, labeled "Multiple uploads per handle fail" and Michael's #707003
+ "Does not send Authorization: header when reusing connection". I could track
+ both down to the same piece of logic and it turned out libcurl was not using
+ new settings properly when re-using an existing connection. This concerned
+ both uploading and downloading and involved exactly those pieces these two
+ reports identified. This code has been this faulty since the day I
+ introduced persistent connection support in libcurl, more than 2 years ago.
+
+Daniel (20 Mar 2003)
+- Five year anniversary. Today five years ago, the first ever curl release saw
+ the light of day.
+
+Daniel (17 Mar)
+- Andy Cedilnik corrected flaws in some libcurl example-usage sources.
+
+Daniel (16 Mar)
+- Juan F. Codagnone reported that the fix from March 2nd was incomplete.
+
+- Added code to the configure.in to check for select() argument types. I've
+ not made any code use the results just yet though.
+
+Daniel (15 Mar)
+- Gisle Vanem provided two patches to build better on Windows.
+
+- Adjusted the test suite code to better make sure that the server(s) required
+ for a specific test is properly started before the test case is attempted.
+ Many tests now run a lot faster than before.
+
+Daniel (14 Mar)
+- Another configure.in adjustment made the configure detect functions properly
+ on HPUX now.
+
+Daniel (13 Mar)
+- Philippe Raoult fixed pre4-compile quirks for FreeBSD.
+
+Version 7.10.4-pre4 (13 Mar 2003)
+
+Daniel (13 Mar)
+- Added a backup-check for functions that aren't found by AC_CHECK_FUNCS()
+ as I believe some checks on HPUX need this. At least some of the info given
+ to us by Rick Jones seemed to indicate this.
+
+Daniel (12 Mar)
+- Thomas Tonino found out that if you used the curl tool to do PUT operations
+ as in 'curl www.foo.com/dir/ -T file' and the file name included for example
+ space or other characters that don't belong in URLs, curl did not properly
+ URL encode them before using them in the URL.
+
+- Added an option to configure called --enable-libgcc that simply adds -lgcc
+ to the LIBS variable, as this seems to be a common problem.
+
+- I modified the configure.in file, so that the headers are now checked in an
+ order of "viality". We must also make sure to use the "default headers"
+ parameter to AC_CHECK_HEADERS() so that headers are checked with the proper
+ prerequisites included (i.e all the major and generally important header
+ files are included there by default). This might be what we need for various
+ Sun, HP, AIX and Tru64 systems to behave good again on the header check
+ front.
+
+- Rick Jones pointed out a few compiler warnings on HP-UX that I addressed.
+
+- I made the configure --help output nicer by using AC_HELP_STRING() a lot
+ more.
+
+Daniel (11 Mar)
+- Christophe Demory fixed the socket sending code to work better on HP-UX
+ when sending data to a socket that would block. It then returns EAGAIN, not
+ EWOULDBLOCK.
+
+- Richard Gorton improved the seeding function for systems without a good
+ and reliable random source.
+
+- Richard Gorton fixed a few warnings that popped up when you built curl
+ using the Sun compiler on a 64bit SPARC platform.
+
+- Martin C. Martin fixed a case where a connect failure using the multi
+ interface didn't produce a human readable error string.
+
+Daniel (10 Mar)
+- Reverted ltmain.sh back to libtool 1.4.2 status again, as the 1.4.3 version
+ broke the build on numerous platforms. It seems that libtool 1.4.3 puts some
+ requirements on what versions of the other tools (autoconf + automake) that
+ I am not familiar with and thus I couldn't fulfill at this point.
+
+ Yes, this is more than mildly frustrating.
+
+Daniel (7 Mar)
+- Run libtoolize version 1.4.3.
+
+Version 7.10.4-pre3 (4 Mar 2003)
+
+Daniel (3 Mar)
+- Added share.obj to the VC6 and Borland libcurl makefiles.
+
+- Troels Walsted Hansen found and investigated a problem with libcurl on AIX,
+ presumably only on 4.3 or later. gethostbyname_r() is not returning data
+ that is possible to "keep" and cache the way libcurl does. But instead these
+ versions of AIX uses a gethostbyname() that works thread-safely we can
+ instead use the ordinary gethostbyname() and our pack_hostent() approach to
+ achieve what we want. The configure script now attempts to detect AIX 4.3 or
+ later to adjust for this.
+
+Daniel (2 Mar)
+- Juan F. Codagnone found a problem introduced in 7.10.3 when you first did a
+ POST and then back to a GET using the same easy handle.
+
+Daniel (28 Feb)
+- Removed the strequal and strnequal defines from curl/curl.h header. They
+ were never meant for the public header anyway. Philippe Raoult brought it
+ up.
+
+- James Bursa fixed the RISC OS build.
+
+Daniel (27 Feb)
+- Avery Fay pointed out the very misleading curl_multi_info_read man page, and
+ I updated it to become more accurate.
+
+- Salvatore Sorrentino found a problem with FTP downloading that turned out to
+ be his FTP server returning size zero (0 bytes) when SIZE was used on a file
+ while being in BINARY mode. We now make a second check for the actual size
+ by scanning the RETR reply anyway, even if the SIZE command returned 0.
+
+Daniel (26 Feb)
+- Kyle Sallee reported a case where he would do a transfer that didn't update
+ the progress meter properly. It turned out to be a case where libcurl would
+ loop a little too eagerly in the transfer loop, which isn't really good for
+ the APIs, especially not the multi API.
+
+Version 7.10.4-pre2 (24 Feb 2003)
+
+Daniel (24 Feb)
+- Kjetil Jacobsen found out that setting CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to a value higher
+ than 5 could cause a segfault.
+
+- I believe I fixed the 'Expect: 100-continue' behavior that has been broken
+ for a while (I think since my change dated Dec 10 2002). When this header is
+ used, libcurl should wait for a HTTP 100 (or timeout) before sending the
+ post/put data.
+
+Daniel (14 Feb)
+- Matthew Clarke provided some info what to modify to make curl build
+ flawlessly on AIX 3.2.5.
+
+- Martin C. Martin found and fixed a problem in the multi interface when
+ running on Windows and trying to connect to a port without a listener.
+
+Daniel (13 Feb)
+- Christopher R. Palmer fixed Curl_base64_encode() to deal with zeroes in the
+ data to encode.
+
+Daniel (4 Feb)
+- Jean-Philippe added the first code that enables the 'share' system. This
+ should now enable sharing of DNS data between two curl easy handles.
+
+- Incorporated Nico Baggus' fixes to again compile flawlessly on VMS.
+
+- James Bursa corrected a bad comment in the public include file curl/multi.h
+
+- Peter Forret reported one of those error:00000000 cases in libcurl again
+ when connecting to a HTTPS site, and this time I did discover some oddities
+ in how curl reports SSL errors back. It could miss showing the actual error.
+
+Version 7.10.4-pre1 (3 Feb 2003)
+
+Daniel (3 Feb)
+- Removed things in the docs saying capath doesn't work on Windows, as Julian
+ Noble told us it works fine.
+
+Daniel (31 Jan)
+- Kevin Roth fixed the zlib build stuff in the Mingw32 makefile.
+
+Daniel (30 Jan)
+- Kevin Roth found out that curl on Windows always checked for the CA cert
+ bundle using the environment variable and the path scan, even though
+ -k/--insecure was used.
+
+- Hamish Mackenzie pointed out that curl only did strict host name verifying
+ if capath or cainfo was used. Now it'll always do it unless -k / --insecure
+ is used!
+
+- Pavel Cenek pointed out that the Content-Type extraction was done wrongly
+ as the full string was not fetched. Added test case 57 to verify that curl
+ does it right now.
+
+Daniel (29 Jan)
+- Jamie Wilkinson provided a patch that now makes curl attempt to clear out
+ "sensitive" command line arguments so that they don't appear in ps outputs
+ (only on platforms that allow writing to argv[]).
+
+- John McGowan found out that the DEBUGFUNCTION could be called with bad
+ arguments and thus cause the --trace outputs to go wrong.
+
+- Removed all the emacs local variables from all files. Mats Lidell provided
+ the new sample.emacs file (for a sample of what to include in your .emacs)
+ and the curl-style.el that sets a better c-style for editing curl sources.
+
+- Dave Halbakken found a problem with FTP downloads that could accidently
+ return CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE when curl_easy_perform() was called with NOBODY
+ set TRUE.
+
+Daniel (27 Jan)
+- The fopen.c example was flawed as Nick Humfrey noticed, and I fixed it to
+ work again.
+
+Daniel (24 Jan)
+- Bertrand Demiddelaer found and fixed a memory leak (the content-type string)
+ when following locations.
+
+Daniel (22 Jan 2003)
+- Ian Wilkes and Legoff Vincent both independently provided fixes for making
+ curl/multi.h work properly when compiled with a C++ compiler.
+
+Daniel (20 Jan 2003)
+- Fixed 'buildconf' to check version number of the required tools before
+ they're actually used.
+
+- Wrote 'testcurl.sh', a script targeted for automatic and distributed curl
+ tests on various platforms.
+
+- David Thiel pointed out that the .netrc file was not being dealt with
+ properly anymore. I broke this in the password prompting "fix".
+
+- Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer patched libcurl to allocate the scratch buffer only
+ on demand and thus we save 32KB in each curl handle that don't use that
+ buffer. This need appeared when some people started using thousands of
+ simultaneous curl handles... :-)
+
+Daniel (16 Jan 2003)
+- Markus Oberhumer fixed curl-config --cflags when the includedir was not
+ /usr/include.
+
+- Markus Oberhumer fixed CURLINFO_PRIVATE to properly return NULL if it was
+ set to NULL!
+
+Version 7.10.3 (14 Jan 2003)
+
+Daniel (10 Jan 2003)
+- Steve Oliphant pointed out that test case 105 did not work anymore and this
+ was due to a missing fix for the password prompting.
+
+Version 7.10.3-pre6 (10 Jan 2003)
+
+Daniel (9 Jan 2003)
+- Bryan Kemp pointed out that curl -u could not provide a blank password
+ without prompting the user. It can now. -u username: makes the password
+ empty, while -u username makes curl prompt the user for a password.
+
+- Kjetil Jacobsen found a remaining connect problem in the multi interface on
+ ipv4 systems (Linux only?), that I fixed and Kjetil verified that it fixed
+ his problems.
+
+- memanalyze.pl now reads a file name from the command line, and no longer
+ takes the data on stdin as before.
+
+Version 7.10.3-pre5 (9 Jan 2003)
+
+Daniel (9 Jan 2003)
+- Fixed tests/memanalyze.pl to work with file names that contain colons (as on
+ Windows).
+
+- Kjetil Jacobsen quickly pointed out that lib/share.h was missing...
+
+Version 7.10.3-pre4 (9 Jan 2003)
+
+Daniel (9 Jan 2003)
+- Updated lib/share.c quite a bit to match the design document at
+ http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sharing.txt a lot more.
+
+ I'll try to update the document soonish. share.c is still not actually used
+ by libcurl, but the API is slowly getting there and we can start
+ implementing code that takes advantage of this system.
+
+Daniel (8 Jan 2003)
+- Updated share stuff in curl/curl.h, including data types, structs and
+ function prototypes. The corresponding files in lib/ were also modified
+ of course to remain compilable. Based on input from Jean-Philippe and also
+ to make it more in line with the design document.
+
+- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre patched a very trivial memory leak in
+ curl_escape() that would happen when realloc() returns NULL...
+
+- Matthew Blain provided feedback to make the --create-dirs stuff build
+ properly on Windows.
+
+- Fixed the #include in tests/libtest/first.c as Legoff Vincent pointed out.
+
+Daniel (7 Jan 2003)
+- Philippe Raoult provided a patch that now makes libcurl properly support
+ wildcard checks for certificate names.
+
+- Simon Liu added CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES, to let an application set other
+ strings recognized as "HTTP 200" to allow http-like protocols to get
+ downloaded fine by curl.
+
+- Now using autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2
+
+- Doing "curl -I ftp://domain/non-existing-file" still outputed a date!
+ Wayne Haigh reported.
+
+- The error message is now written properly with a newline in the --trace
+ file.
+
+Daniel (6 Jan 2003)
+- Sterling Hughes fixed a possible bug: previously, if you called
+ curl_easy_perform and then set the global dns cache, the global cache
+ wouldn't be used. Pointed out by Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre.
+
+- Matthew Blain's fixed the VC6 libcurl makefile to include better debug data
+ on debug builds.
+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.
+Daniel (20 December 2001)
+- Björn Stenberg caught an unpleasent (but hard-to-find) bug that could cause
+ libcurl to hang on transfers over proxy, when the proxy was specified with
+ an environment variable!
+
+- Added code to make ftp operations treat the NO_BODY and HEADERS options
+ better:
+
+ NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set TRUE:
+ Return a set of headers with file info
+
+ NO_BODY set FALSE
+ Transfer data as usual, HEADERS is ignored
+
+ NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set FALSE
+ Don't transfer any data, don't return any headers. Just perform the set
+ of FTP commands.
+
+Daniel (17 December 2001)
+- Götz Babin-Ebell dove into the dark dungeons of the OpenSSL ENGINE stuff and
+ made libcurl support it! This allows libcurl to do SSL connections with the
+ private key stored in external hardware.
+
+ To make this good, he had to add a bunch of new library options that'll be
+ useful to others as well:
+
+ CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE set SSL cert type (PEM/DER)
+ CURLOPT_SSLKEY set SSL private key (file)
+ CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPE: set SSL key type (PEM/DER/ENG)
+ CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD: set the passphrase for your private key
+ (CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD is an alias)
+ CURLOPT_SSLENGINE: set the name of the crypto engine
+ (returns CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND on error)
+ CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULT: set the default engine
+
+ There are two new failure codes:
+
+ CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND
+ CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED
+
+Daniel (14 December 2001)
+- We have "branched" the source-tree at a few places. Checkout the CVS sources
+ with the 'multi-dev' label to get the latest multi interface development
+ tree. The idea is to only branch affected files and to restrict the branch
+ to the v8 multi interface development only.
+
+ *NOTE* that if we get bug reports and patches etc, we might need to apply
+ them in both branches!
+
+ The multi-dev branch is what we are gonna use as main branch in the future
+ if it turns out successful. Thus, we must maintain both now in case we need
+ them. The current main branch will be used if we want to release a 7.9.3 or
+ perhaps a 7.10 release before version 8. Which is very likely.
+
+- Marcus Webster provided code for the new CURLFORM_CONTENTHEADER option for
+ curl_formadd(), that lets an application add a set of headers for that
+ particular part in a multipart/form-post. He also provided a section to the
+ man page that describes the new option.
+
+Daniel (11 December 2001)
+- Ben Greear made me aware of the fact that the Curl_failf() usage internally
+ was a bit sloppy with adding newlines or not to the error messages. Let's
+ once and for all say that they do not belong there!
+
+- When uploading files with -T to give a local file name, and you end the URL
+ with a slash to have the local file name used remote too, we now no longer
+ use the local directory as well. Only the file part of the -T file name
+ will be appended to the right of the slash in the URL.
+
+Daniel (7 December 2001)
+- Michal Bonino pointed out that Digital Unix doesn't have gmtime_r so the
+ link failed. Added a configure check and corrected source code.
+
+Version 7.9.2
+
+Daniel (5 December 2001)
+- Jon Travis found out that if you used libcurl and CURLOPT_UPLOAD and then
+ on the same handle used CURLOPT_HTTPGET it would still attempt to upload.
+ His suggested fix was perfect.
+
+Daniel (4 December 2001)
+- Incorporated more macos fixes and added four specific files in a new
+ subdirectory below src.
+
+Daniel (3 December 2001)
+- Eric Lavigne reported two problems:
+
+ First one in the curl_strnequal() function. I think this problem is rather
+ macos 9 specific, as most platform provides a function to use instead of the
+ one provided by libcurl.
+
+ A second, more important, was in the way we take care of FTP responses. The
+ code would read a large chunk of data and search for the end-of-response
+ line within that chunk. When found, it would just skip the rest of the
+ data. However, when the network connections are special, or perhaps the
+ server is, we could actually get more than one response in that chunk of
+ data so that when the next invoke to this function was done, the response
+ had already been read and thrown away. Now, we cache the data not used in
+ one call, as it could be useful in the subsequent call. Test case 126 was
+ added and the test ftp server modified, to exercise this particular case.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre8
+
+Daniel (2 December 2001)
+- Bug report #487825 correctly identified a problem when using a proxy and
+ following a redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. libcurl then re-used the same
+ proxy connection but without doing a proper HTTPS request.
+
+- Fixed win32 compiling quirks.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre7
+
+Daniel (30 November 2001)
+- Documented --disable-epsv and CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV.
+
+Daniel (29 November 2001)
+- Added --disable-epsv as an option. When used, curl won't attempt to use the
+ EPSV command when doing passive FTP downloads. Wrote a test case for it.
+
+- Eric provided a few more fixes for building on Macs. He also pointed out
+ a flaw in the signal handler restoration code.
+
+Daniel (28 November 2001)
+- Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appeared
+ only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for
+ gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the
+ hostent struct must be blanked before use? With Dimitris help and these
+ patches, the problems seem to be history.
+
+- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl
+ from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela
+ pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must
+ be able to shut if off to work everywhere.
+
+- I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to
+ receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at
+ least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t...
+
+- Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence.
+
+- FTP command sequence changes:
+
+ EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6
+ passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works
+ fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it.
+
+ SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual
+ download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important
+ to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size
+ in there.
+
+ Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server
+ code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted!
+
+Daniel (27 November 2001)
+- Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin
+ as it is supposed to do!
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre6
+
+Daniel (27 November 2001)
+- Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied.
+
+- greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release
+ archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but
+ I think it may come useful to people.
+
+- There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should
+ be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in
+ lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with.
+
+Daniel (26 November 2001)
+- Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers,
+ and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre5
+
+Daniel (22 November 2001)
+- Andrés García helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537,
+ which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to
+ connect. This didn't happen on all systems, and more specificly I've so far
+ only seen this happen on IPv4-only Linux hosts.
+
+- I applied the fixes for the two bugs Eric Lavigne found when doing his MacOS
+ port. A missing comma in arpa_telnet.h and a pretty wild write in the FTP
+ response reader function. The latter write is however likely to occur in our
+ own buffer unless very big FTP server replies (>25K) are read. I've never
+ seen such a reply ever, so I think this is a relatively minor risk.
+
+Daniel (21 November 2001)
+- Moonesamy provided code to prevent junk from being output when libcurl
+ returns an error code but no error description and that corrects how make is
+ run in the Makefile.dist file (that appears as root Makefile in release
+ archives).
+
+- Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS
+ (non-X).
+
+- Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the
+ shared OpenSSL DLLs.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre4
+
+Daniel (20 November 2001)
+- Georg Horn brought a patch that introduced CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME,
+ complete with man page updates!
+
+Daniel (19 November 2001)
+- Miklos Nemeth provided details enough to update the Borland makefile
+ properly.
+
+- Lars M Gustafsson found a case with a bad free(). In fact, it was so bad I'm
+ amazed we never saw this before!
+
+- Kevin Roth patched the cygwin Makfile.
+
+Daniel (16 November 2001)
+- Klevtsov Vadim fixed a bug in how time-conditionals were sent when doing
+ HTTP.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre3
+
+Daniel (14 November 2001)
+- Samuel Listopad patched away the problem with SSL we got when someone call
+ curl_global_init() => curl_global_cleanup() => curl_global_init(). The
+ second init would not "take" and SSL would be unusable with curl from that
+ point. This doesn't change the fact that calling the functions that way is
+ wrong. curl_global_init() should be called exactly once and not more.
+
+Daniel (13 November 2001)
+- Fixed some minor variable type mixups in ftp.c that caused compiler warnings
+ on HP-UX 11.00.
+
+- The FTP fix I did yesterday used an uninitialized variable that caused
+ spurious errors when doing FTP.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre2
+
+Daniel (12 November 2001)
+- Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple-requests problem when first a FTP
+ directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The
+ second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the
+ previous request, when it did its initial CWD command.
+
+- Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improve the time diff function to
+ prevent truncation a bit.
+
+- Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't
+ work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work.
+
+Version 7.9.2-pre1
+
+Daniel (12 November 2001)
+- Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot
+ faster, it should also support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask
+ previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte
+ after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems
+ to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is
+ due to the problems John Lask previously experienced.
+
+- Andrés García found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K
+ for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a
+ zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In
+ reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though
+ the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff.
+
+- I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington
+ reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed
+ is wrong.
+
+Daniel (8 November 2001)
+- Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a
+ buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also
+ gracefully provided a patch for this this.
+
+- Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the
+ correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts.
+ This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds
+ gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really
+ figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that
+ works...
+
+Daniel (7 November 2001)
+- docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number
+ system we use in the curl project.
+
+- Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as
+ it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again.
+
+Daniel (6 November 2001)
+- Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed
+ out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction
+ struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous
+ alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar.
+
+- Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install.
+
+Daniel (5 November 2001)
+- Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the
+ native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now.
+ Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds
+ though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-(
+
+- John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking
+ to work on all platforms.
+
+- John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS
+ version 1 when speaking HTTPS.
+
+- John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that
+ works a lot better than the previous!
+
+- Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug
+ report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied.
+
+Version 7.9.1
+
+Daniel (4 November 2001)
+- I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since
+ I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests
+ with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of
+ a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I
+ wrote up tests for a few of those too.
+
+Daniel (2 November 2001)
+- Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations
+ even under normal unixes.
+
+Daniel (1 November 2001)
+- When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of
+ how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0
+ bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-)
+
+- The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also
+ added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file.
+
+- Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about
+ the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc):
+ http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre7
+
+Daniel (31 October 2001)
+- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as
+ the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported.
+
+- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I
+ had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used
+ connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection
+ and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the
+ SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those
+ cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead.
+
+- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets
+ in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to
+ send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those
+ situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and
+ added checks for what they actually return.
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre6
+
+Daniel (31 October 2001)
+- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be
+ more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then
+ a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this
+ problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider
+ said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without
+ actually trying an operation.
+
+Daniel (30 October 2001)
+- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL
+ pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]
+
+- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description
+ in the curl.1 man page.
+
+Daniel (29 October 2001)
+- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file
+ and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function.
+
+- Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function,
+ that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26].
+
+- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the
+ packages/Win32/cygwin directory.
+
+- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP
+ server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one
+ connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167]
+
+- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect
+ code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release
+ (test 19)...
+ [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14]
+
+Daniel (26 October 2001)
+- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the
+ contents is separated with more than one space.
+
+Daniel (25 October 2001)
+- Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the
+ correct data has been output.
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre5
+
+Daniel (24 October 2001)
+- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie
+ that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The
+ brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25]
+
+Daniel (23 October 2001)
+- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs
+ would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35]
+
+Daniel (22 October 2001)
+- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented
+ preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code!
+
+- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from
+ the out-of-the-box curl release archives.
+
+- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report
+ transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the
+ future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be
+ used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the
+ connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the
+ middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data
+ still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64]
+
+Daniel (19 October 2001)
+- CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return
+ anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this.
+
+- T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as
+ well.
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre4
+
+Daniel (18 October 2001)
+- CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if
+ the HTTP return code is below 400.
+
+Daniel (17 October 2001)
+- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the
+ tests.
+
+- We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin
+ adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard
+ out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and
+ cygwin?
+
+- A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed.
+ It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61]
+
+- The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr
+ if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it
+ easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off.
+
+Daniel (16 October 2001)
+- Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments.
+
+Daniel (12 October 2001)
+- Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more
+ accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures,
+ and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should
+ now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on
+ the right edge.
+
+- After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified
+ the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking
+ if the redirected URL is absolute.
+
+Daniel (11 October 2001)
+- Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows
+ 2000 running cygwin.
+
+Daniel (10 October 2001)
+- Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser.
+ Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work.
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre3
+
+Daniel (9 October 2001)
+- Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new
+ libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0
+ requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you
+ really MUST do that because of a silly remote server.
+
+- Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as
+ all public curl-symbols should.
+
+- libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal.
+
+Daniel (8 October 2001)
+- Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was
+ applied.
+
+- Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed.
+
+Daniel (5 October 2001)
+- Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors
+ on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'.
+
+- Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files.
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre2
+
+Daniel (4 October 2001)
+- Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper
+ gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling
+ is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost'
+ name.
+
+- Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on
+ IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any
+ resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now.
+
+Daniel (3 October 2001)
+- Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name
+ resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a
+ thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being
+ passed between threads.
+
+- Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that
+ required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require
+ that header, that is for true servers...
+
+- I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now.
+
+Version 7.9.1-pre1
+
+Daniel (3 October 2001)
+- Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not
+ only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting
+ the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the
+ obsoleted curl_formparse.
+
+Daniel (2 October 2001)
+- Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking
+ connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP
+ addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first
+ one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all
+ the TCP connect stuff.
+
+- We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support
+ people writing scripts without knowing what address there is.
+
+Daniel (28 September 2001)
+- Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller
+ functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6
+ get less noticable in the sources.
+
+- If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl,
+ libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously
+ did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known
+ remote date when -R is used.
+
+Daniel (27 September 2001)
+- Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We
+ will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should
+ fail.
+
+Daniel (26 September 2001)
+- Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar
+ functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it
+ work.
+
+Daniel (25 September 2001)
+- Jörn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles.
+
+Version 7.9
+
+Daniel (23 September 2001)
+- Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts
+ when FTP RETR failed.
+
+- Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled.
+
+Version 7.9-pre8
+
+Daniel (19 September 2001)
+- Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with
+ test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and
+ #440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do
+ now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail
+ to connect with an error code returned.
+
+- Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong.
+ I wrote a test case for this (45).
+
+Version 7.9-pre7
+
+Daniel (17 September 2001)
+- Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require
+ winsock 2.0.
+
+Version 7.9-pre6
+
+- libtool 1.4.2 is now in use!
+
+Version 7.9-pre5
+
+Daniel (14 September 2001)
+- Added another 14 ftp tests.
+
+Daniel (13 September 2001)
+- Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been
+ tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need
+ to write up some docs for this function.
+
+- Added four more ftp tests to the test suite.
+
+Daniel (12 September 2001)
+- CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named
+ --ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL
+ connection.
+
+- T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out
+ to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet.
+
+Version 7.9-pre4
+
+Daniel (11 September 2001)
+- Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server
+ certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington.
+
+- Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test
+ suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been
+ made, but nothing really certain.
+
+- T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows
+ and works on reducing it.
+
+Daniel (10 September 2001)
+- Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed
+ behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers.
+
+- The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled.
+
+Daniel (7 September 2001)
+- SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was
+ disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on
+ windows.
+
+Daniel (6 September 2001)
+- T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it
+ sometimes read from a NULL pointer.
+
+Version 7.9-pre3
+
+Daniel (3 September 2001)
+- Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to
+ set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local
+ file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use
+ -o or -O.
+
+- Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything.
+
+Daniel (1 September 2001)
+- Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in
+ the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now
+ been re-run.
+
+- Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite
+ makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here.
+
+Version 7.9-pre2
+
+Daniel (31 August 2001)
+- I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used
+ structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit
+ to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully
+ decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get
+ easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL-
+ free bug from August 23.
+
+Version 7.9-pre1
+
+Daniel (29 August 2001)
+- The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use
+ that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl
+ knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format.
+
+ This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl,
+ which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked.
+ There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps
+ it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all
+ of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature...
+
+- Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted
+ by Erick Nuwendam.
+
+Daniel (28 August 2001)
+- Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems
+ on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well!
+
+- Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and
+ added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect:
+ header. Great work!
+
+- Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There
+ should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but
+ in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other
+ caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take
+ effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination
+ port number basis.
+
+ Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and
+ uses a previous SSL session ID.
+
+- Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine.
+
+Daniel (27 August 2001)
+- Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code
+
+Daniel (24 August 2001)
+- T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project
+ files.
+
+- Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that
+ curl didn't really deal with the way one would like.
+
+- Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our
+ own portable version named strequal() that should be used!
+
+- Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix
+ debug object modules causing confusions.
+
+Daniel (23 August 2001)
+- T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a
+ second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke
+ followed a Location: header.
+
+- Started the improvement work on the cookie engine:
+ - Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file
+ - A write to the possibly static string was removed
+ - Added a function that can output all cookies
+ - Now supports reading multiple cookie files
+
+- Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file.
+
+- Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to
+ increase readability and maintainability.
+
+Daniel (21 August 2001)
+- Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have:
+ o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in
+ all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server
+ rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in
+ the standard replace-internal-header style.
+ o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to
+ replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function
+ will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way
+ and correct way to build form posts.
+ o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes
+
+ These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9...
+
+- We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release
+ archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach.
+
+- Andrés García's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was
+ added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows.
+
+- Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail
+ on many Red Hat boxes!
+
+Daniel (20 August 2001)
+- We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD
+ as well as FreeBSD
+
+Version 7.8.1
+
+Daniel (20 August 2001)
+- Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that
+ we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K
+ smaller!
+
+- Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t
+ properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to
+ acinclude.m4.
+
+Daniel (19 August 2001)
+- Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs...
+
+Daniel (17 August 2001)
+- Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global
+ symbols and to not use global variables.
+
+Version 7.8.1-pre6
+
+Daniel (16 August 2001)
+- S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified
+ with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is
+ used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?'
+ separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth.
+
+- curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link
+ with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself.
+ curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile
+ source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include
+ path correct.
+
+Daniel (15 August 2001)
+- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses
+ were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format)
+
+- Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core
+ dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with
+ CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
+ now equals setting it to no data at all.
+
+- Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work
+ properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the
+ variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed.
+
+- David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and
+ builds with that compiler.
+
+Daniel (14 August 2001)
+- Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now.
+
+- An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for
+ windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock
+ stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle
+ with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame.
+
+Version 7.8.1-pre5
+
+Daniel (14 August 2001)
+- Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few
+ minor changes were necessary.
+
+- I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options.
+ I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I
+ corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on
+ the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently
+ added #ifdef VMS lines.
+
+- I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once
+ necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should
+ (hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of
+ OpenSSL.
+
+Daniel (13 August 2001)
+- Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts
+ to be larger than 4K.
+
+Daniel (10 August 2001)
+- S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile
+
+Daniel (9 August 2001)
+- The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call
+ was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use
+ the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was
+ closed even if we looped to get more files. Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug
+ report #441610
+
+- Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52
+
+Version 7.8.1-pre4
+
+Daniel (8 August 2001)
+- curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned
+ out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in
+ the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around
+ implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for
+ this kind of construct.
+
+- Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl
+ verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used,
+ any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v).
+
+Daniel (7 August 2001)
+- Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test
+ suite.
+
+Daniel (6 August 2001)
+- Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the
+ directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my
+ initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with
+ libcurl easier.
+
+- Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file://
+ URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl
+ does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them.
+
+- Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and
+ build under OpenVMS.
+
+Version 7.8.1-pre3
+
+Daniel (6 August 2001)
+- Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you
+ set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that
+ data. This is now fixed.
+
+Daniel (5 August 2001)
+- Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd
+ 1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked
+ for with HTTP 1.1.
+
+- curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input
+ string especially.
+
+Daniel (3 August 2001)
+- I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to
+ avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file.
+
+- Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license
+ boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory
+ should go to Andrew for his heads up.
+
+- Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you
+ couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a
+ new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP
+ requestr (back) to GET.
+
+- Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in
+ release archives. It should be now.
+
+Daniel (2 August 2001)
+- Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions.
+
+- Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the
+ select() loop use far too much CPU.
+
+- Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's
+ progress callback.
+
+Daniel (29 June 2001)
+- Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated.
+
+- Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL.
+
+Daniel (27 June 2001)
+- Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled.
+
+- Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details.
+
+Version 7.8.1-pre2
+
+Daniel (25 June 2001)
+- Björn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading
+ several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was
+ then used for all files, resulting in weird results...
+
+- Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names
+ with spaces like when -F is used.
+
+Version 7.8.1-pre1
+
+Daniel (20 June 2001)
+- Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option
+ for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories
+ for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given.
+
+Daniel (19 June 2001)
+- When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly
+ garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed
+ reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this.
+
+Daniel (12 June 2001)
+- Salvador Dávila provided a fix for FTP range downloads.
+
+- Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file
+ format. We're now at a total of 26 tests.
+
+Daniel (11 June 2001)
+- libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and
+ David Odin.
+
+Daniel (7 June 2001)
+- Jörn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def
+
+- I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed.
+
+Version 7.8
+
+Daniel (7 June 2001)
+- SDavila provided a resumed download fix.
+
+Version 7.8-pre4
+
+Daniel (1 June 2001)
+- Sterling provided some new PHP examples.
+
+- Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer
+ work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'.
+
+Daniel (31 May 2001)
+- CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file
+ to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used
+ anywhere in the library.
+
+Version 7.8-pre3
+
+Daniel (31 May 2001)
+- Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present
+ less warnings.
+
+- Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So,
+ curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to
+ init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all
+ known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely
+ necessary. Man page updated accordingly.
+
+- Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms!
+
+Daniel (30 May 2001)
+- Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were
+ set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE
+ option is subject for complete removal...
+
+Version 7.8-pre2
+
+Daniel (30 May 2001)
+- Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages.
+
+- Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and
+ we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h
+
+- Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl,
+ available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
+
+Daniel (29 May 2001)
+- Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread-
+ safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and
+ lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included!
+
+- Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written
+ to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected.
+
+- I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a
+ separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it
+ easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information.
+
+ I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit
+ you deserve.
+
+- lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake
+
+Version 7.8-pre1
+
+Daniel (28 May 2001)
+- curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version
+ of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version
+ 7.7.4 appears as 070704
+
+- Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup...
+
+- T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was
+ not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak
+ memory. The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two
+ two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should
+ be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done
+ only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use,
+ and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using
+ libcurl completely.
+
+ *** UPGRADE NOTICE ***
+
+ If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two
+ functions mentioned above !!!
+
+ I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL
+ insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk
+ the path they point us to.
+
+- Moving more test cases into the new file format.
+
+Version 7.7.4-pre3
+
+Daniel (23 May 2001)
+- Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to
+ modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not
+ "ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come.
+
+ The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test
+ case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test
+ case and a lot less files.
+
+- Andrés García brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing
+ function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path!
+
+Daniel (22 May 2001)
+- As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was
+ not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with
+ the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected.
+
+- Installed and made use of the following tool versions:
+ autoconf 2.50
+ libtool 1.4
+ automake 1.4-p1
+
+ I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older
+ versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require
+ at least these versions.
+
+ As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its
+ previous size!
+
+ Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my
+ acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working!
+
+Daniel (21 May 2001)
+- I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the
+ first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel.
+
+- Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built
+ with ssl support.
+
+Daniel (19 May 2001)
+- Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they
+ are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions
+ helped out.
+
+Version 7.7.4-pre2
+
+Daniel (18 May 2001)
+- Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper
+ variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix)
+
+- For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own.
+ It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions
+ with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.)
+
+Daniel (17 May 2001)
+- Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that
+ turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that
+ contained files from the 7.7.2 release!
+
+- I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to
+ make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of
+ libcurl.
+
+Daniel (14 May 2001)
+- Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent
+ connections.
+
+Version 7.7.4-pre1
+
+Daniel (14 May 2001)
+- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl.
+
+- Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive.
+
+Daniel (12 May 2001)
+- Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's
+ certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a
+ proper error code. I added a brand new error code named
+ CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose.
+
+Daniel (11 May 2001)
+- As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not
+ return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume
+ when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed
+ from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of
+ the fact that it can't be returned anymore!
+
+- Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more.
+
+- Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post
+ another one.
+
+- Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more!
+
+Daniel (10 May 2001)
+- Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with
+ Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources.
+
+- Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location:
+ headers with an extra space after the colon.
+
+- Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative
+ directories correctly.
+
+Daniel (9 May 2001)
+- Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line),
+ makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl
+ returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead.
+ Anonymous bug report.
+
+- stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now
+ added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite)
+
+Daniel (7 May 2001)
+- Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion
+ that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates
+ filed a bug report on this.
+
+Version 7.7.3
+
+Daniel (4 May 2001)
+- All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made
+ this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to
+ them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling
+ Hughes.
+
+Daniel (3 May 2001)
+- Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent
+ connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed
+ chunked and non-chunked transfers.
+
+- Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be
+ treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the
+ server timed-out and closed the connection.
+
+- Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am
+
+Daniel (27 April 2001)
+- Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it
+ more easy to follow now as well.
+
+- Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received
+ a "Content-Length: 0" header.
+
+- Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl
+ compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though!
+
+- Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't
+ explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew.
+
+Daniel (26 April 2001)
+- I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps
+ work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal
+ unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the
+ function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it
+ makes a notable speed difference.
+
+Daniel (25 April 2001)
+- Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for
+ non-default port numbers.
+
+Daniel (24 April 2001)
+- I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the
+ data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this.
+
+- Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on
+ the alredy written perl servers easily.
+
+Daniel (23 April 2001)
+- The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one
+ of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply
+ weird version string output!
+
+Version 7.7.2
+
+Daniel (22 April 2001)
+- Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows.
+
+- Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would
+ lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request.
+
+Daniel (20 April 2001)
+- Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote
+ a 'libcurl overview' man page.
+
+- Spell-fixed some documents.
+
+- S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page.
+
+- Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present
+ separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package.
+
+Daniel (19 April 2001)
+- Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the
+ --write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-)
+
+Version 7.7.2-pre1
+
+Daniel (19 April 2001)
+
+- Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
+
+Daniel (18 April 2001)
+- Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It
+ displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current
+ libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4
+ and IPv6.
+
+- I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks
+ working and options that receives those slist pointers.
+
+- Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent
+ connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is
+ important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not
+ in the main struct as this previously did.
+
+Daniel (17 April 2001)
+- Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new
+ error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download
+ actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present.
+ Should this return OK instead?
+
+- I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a
+ curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to
+ figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn
+ should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl.
+
+ This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used
+ successfully in other (library based) projects.
+
+- Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone
+ for the If-Modified-Since style headers.
+
+- Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c
+ for curl to build on Ultrix.
+
+Daniel (11 April 2001)
+- Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use
+ of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security
+ hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server
+ sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP
+ request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable!
+
+ Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash.
+
+- S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on
+ windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set
+ that timeout!
+
+- Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl!
+
+- Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface.
+
+- I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to
+ Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It
+ works, but it is still very basic.
+
+Daniel (10 April 2001)
+- The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as
+ it wasn't properly reset between transfers!
+
+- Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made
+ me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback
+ function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE
+ * when headers are written from within libcurl.
+
+Daniel (7 April 2001)
+- Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in
+ the curl_easy_setopt man page.
+
+Daniel (6 April 2001)
+- Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure
+ change their version define format often...
+
+- curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing!
+
+Version 7.7.1
+
+Daniel (3 April 2001)
+- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
+ read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
+ Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.
+
+- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
+ it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non-
+ persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now.
+
+Daniel (29 March 2001)
+- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.
+
+- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the
+ control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted
+ connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used
+ that to verify the functionality.
+
+Daniel (27 March 2001)
+- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried
+ to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent
+ after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly!
+
+- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny
+ example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the
+ examples.
+
+Version 7.7.1-beta1
+
+Daniel (26 March 2001)
+- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0
+ connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
+ problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the
+ curl-and-php mailing list.
+
+Daniel (24 March 2001)
+- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it,
+ which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a
+ way that gnroff doesn't like.
+
+Daniel (23 March 2001)
+- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of
+ $(MAKE) for the test target.
+
+- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not
+ curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7!
+
+- S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ).
+
+- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string
+ in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an
+ application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report
+ from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then
+ caused a libcurl crash!
+
+- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously,
+ curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one.
+
+- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl
+ http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which
+ made the second request return very odd results.
+
+Daniel (22 March 2001)
+- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests
+ when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses
+ GET in the following request(s).
+
+- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of
+ curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same
+ connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly.
+
+- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks
+ like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion.
+
+Version 7.7
+
+Daniel (22 March 2001)
+- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is
+ detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of
+ arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware
+ of this need.
+
+- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape
+ functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The
+ escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one
+ had.
+
+- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up.
+
+Version 7.7-beta5
+
+Daniel (19 March 2001)
+- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense
+ that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this
+ problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was
+ added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right.
+
+- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do
+ form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header
+ engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT
+ and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616
+ has all the details. Seems to work now!
+
+Daniel (16 March 2001)
+- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back.
+
+- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release
+ archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs,
+ examples and updates you think fit.
+
+- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples
+ into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please
+ help me here as well!
+
+- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a
+ "chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts
+ even if the Content-Length: size is unknown.
+
+Daniel (15 March 2001)
+- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
+ option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the
+ connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire
+ file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others.
+
+ I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the
+ item from the TODO.
+
+Version 7.7-beta4
+
+Daniel (14 March 2001)
+- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely
+ again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set.
+
+ I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with
+ curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then!
+
+- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was
+ a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't
+ work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use
+ getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try
+ that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't
+ have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info.
+
+- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with
+ user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute,
+ without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and
+ crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that
+ tests this.
+
+- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request
+ data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range
+ of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously.
+
+- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details.
+
+Version 7.7-beta3
+
+Daniel (14 March 2001)
+- Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches
+ for non-SSL compiles.
+
+- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level
+ functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the
+ Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to
+ curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still
+ undocumented).
+
+ This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with
+ just a drop-in replacement.
+
+- Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles:
+ o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t
+ o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement
+ o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again
+ o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files
+ o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state
+
+Daniel (13 March 2001)
+- It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the
+ chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot
+ the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top
+ of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly
+ wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data
+ in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted).
+
+ Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well.
+
+Version 7.7-beta2
+
+Daniel (13 March 2001)
+- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported
+ policies.
+
+- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies
+ CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now
+ supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy
+ is chosen.
+
+Daniel (12 March 2001)
+- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the
+ SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl
+ client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I
+ need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember
+ that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered
+ weak (HTTPS connections).
+
+- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length
+ and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is
+ the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60
+ test cases.
+
+- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the
+ persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly
+ thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now
+ implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new
+ implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,
+ CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are:
+ CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION.
+
+- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent
+ connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file
+ transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK.
+ I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well.
+
+- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so
+ that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple
+ connections... Now I get 100% test case OK.
+
+- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are
+ all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are
+ located. Horrible.
+
+- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing
+ that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though
+ (Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what
+ the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot
+ of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe.
+
+ Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP)
+ not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have
+ to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK.
+
+Daniel (8 March 2001)
+- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if
+ MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if
+ there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected.
+
+Version 7.7-beta1
+
+Daniel (8 March 2001)
+- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've
+ added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine.
+
+- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers.
+
+Daniel (5 March 2001)
+- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works
+ using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't
+ handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this.
+
+- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It
+ should make it a lot nicer library-wise.
+
+- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first-
+ then-do approach.
+
+Daniel (4 March 2001)
+- More bugs erased.
+
+Version 7.7-alpha2
+
+Daniel (4 March 2001)
+- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive
+ before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will
+ then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection!
+
+Daniel (2 March 2001)
+- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness!
+
+- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has
+ proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do
+ not work intermixed yet though.
+
+Daniel (1 March 2001)
+- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that
+ curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does
+ now.
+
+Daniel (22 February 2001)
+- The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent
+ request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection
+ if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one.
+
+- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page
+ that I applied.
+
+Daniel (20 February 2001)
+- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends.
+
+- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and
+ improvements:
+
+ * Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does.
+ * Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only
+ XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV).
+ * Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used.
+ * Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!)
+
+- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of
+ struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific
+ data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the
+ mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs
+ and more will follow.
+
+ Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should
+ work. Seems cool enough.
+
+Daniel (19 February 2001)
+- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project
+ easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file.
+
+- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the
+ library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The
+ low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality.
+
+Daniel (15 February 2001)
+- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with
+ CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in
+ libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to
+ switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL
+ string switches off the POST again.
+
+- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn
+ Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into
+ libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made
+ to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when
+ applicable!
+
+Daniel (13 February 2001)
+- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages.
+ Suggested by Larry Fahnoe.
+
+Version 7.6.1
+
+Daniel (9 February 2001)
+- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
+ PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.
+
+Daniel (8 February 2001)
+- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
+ curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty
+ password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to
+ support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user
+ and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you
+ specify you want the prompt otherwise?
+
+- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and
+ HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes).
+
+- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue.
+
+- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on
+ request.
+
+- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly.
+
+Version 7.6.1-pre3
+
+Daniel (7 February 2001)
+- S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that
+ could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if
+ libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket.
+
+- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
+ results from the proxy connection.
+
+Daniel (6 February 2001)
+- S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set
+ for the debug build to work.
+
+- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
+ brought up yesterday.
+
+Daniel (5 February 2001)
+- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
+ a bunch of different areas within libcurl.
+
+- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
+ the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
+ patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
+ How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone?
+
+Daniel (4 February 2001)
+- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
+ CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
+ return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
+ direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
+ size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
+ was done after discussions with Bob Schader.
+
+Daniel (3 February 2001)
+- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
+ recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to
+ not include WIN32 anymore.
+
+Version 7.6.1-pre2
+
+Daniel (31 January 2001)
+- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
+ be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
+ possibility to weird behavior all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
+ find this.
+
+- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
+ I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
+ of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc.
+
+Daniel (30 January 2001)
+- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and
+ now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows
+ a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server
+ doesn't seem to support range requests.
+
+Daniel (29 January 2001)
+- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33).
+
+Version 7.6.1-pre1
+
+Daniel (29 January 2001)
+- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end
+ and it works for him.
+
+Daniel (27 January 2001)
+- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a
+ Content-Range header when resuming a PUT.
+
+- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP
+ download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field
+ in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for
+ this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing.
+
+- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP.
+
+- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It
+ makes the output slightly better for resumes.
+
+- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt
+ to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a
+ URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on
+ what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a
+ second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported.
+
+ I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff.
+
+Version 7.6
+
+Daniel (26 January 2001)
+- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small
+ piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can
+ now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT
+ the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL.
+
+Version 7.6-pre4
+
+Daniel (25 January 2001)
+- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for
+ reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and
+ swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested
+ in the next beta-round coming right up.
+
+- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied
+ his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the
+ function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write().
+
+ I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and
+ reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing
+ would only have to be implemented at one point.
+
+- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the
+ total time very accurate on subsecond levels.
+
+- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout
+ value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently
+ no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only.
+
+Daniel (24 January 2001)
+- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile
+ properly with cygwin.
+
+- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code
+ that corrected a potential memory leak.
+
+- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more
+ easy to read and understand!
+
+Daniel (23 January 2001)
+- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version
+ string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be
+ set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled.
+
+- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when
+ IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'...
+
+- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an
+ error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't
+ follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string
+ is used instead.
+
+ I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want*
+ globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure
+ seriously confuse the globber.
+
+Daniel (22 January 2001)
+- Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even
+ during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions...
+
+- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on
+ the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly.
+
+Daniel (19 January 2001)
+- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last
+ code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports.
+
+- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem
+ in src/main.c that I took care of.
+
+Version 7.6-pre3
+
+Daniel (17 January 2001)
+- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new
+ lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer()
+ to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function
+ in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols.
+
+Daniel (11 January 2001)
+- Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[]
+ letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly
+ mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by
+ Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry.
+
+- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without
+ having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as
+ -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter
+ options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with
+ space from their parameters.
+
+Daniel (8 January 2001)
+- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling
+ curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef
+ HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems.
+
+- Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made
+ the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout.
+
+- Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work
+ correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make
+ dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms'
+ automatically build RPMs!
+
+Loic Dachary (6 January 2001)
+- Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root.
+
+- make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST
+ in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES).
+
+Daniel (5 January 2001)
+- Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs
+ can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There
+ must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to
+ stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package.
+
+- The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now.
+
+- Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal
+ symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other
+ libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should
+ be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS
+ document to say this as well.
+
+Version 7.5.2
+
+Daniel (4 January 2001)
+- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command
+ line option and what happens when you specify that option more than
+ once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before.
+
+- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For
+ odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with
+ curl's dependencies on libcurl...
+
+- Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file.
+ The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in
+ case anyone would need it.
+
+- I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about
+ files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build
+ curl when you get the sources off CVS.
+
+- Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license.
+
+Daniel (3 January 2001)
+- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL
+
+- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of
+ curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
+ accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
+ release archive.
+Daniel (30 December 2000)
+- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
+ as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
+ one major).
+
+Daniel (19 December 2000)
+- Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system
+ and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts
+ that happened when you did PORTed downloads.
+
+- Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *.
+
+Daniel (12 December 2000)
+- Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or
+ hope, or at least I've tried... :-O
+
+- Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem
+
+Version 7.5.1
+
+Daniel (11 December 2000)
+- Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin
+ P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found
+ different newline conventions within the same file.
+
+- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for
+ the SSL stuff.
+
+Daniel (6 December 2000)
+- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when
+ doing SSL connections.
+
+- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with
+ -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it
+ is fixed now.
+
+Daniel (5 December 2000)
+- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland
+ compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with
+ that compiler.
+
+- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL
+ variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need
+ perl in the path for the test suite to run ok.
+
+- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems:
+ * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h
+ since the curl one differed from the SCO one
+ * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction
+ stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need).
+ * A few more problems remain to be researched.
+
+- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet.
+
+Daniel (4 December 2000)
+- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O.
+
+Version 7.5
+
+Daniel (1 December 2000)
+- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should
+ build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too.
+
+- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when
+ releasing new shared library interfaces.
+
+Daniel (30 November 2000)
+- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document
+ actually contains.
+
+Daniel (29 November 2000)
+- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things
+ harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS.
+
+Version 7.5-pre5
+
+Daniel (28 November 2000)
+- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been
+ lagging.
+
+- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
+ libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the
+ set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops.
+
+Daniel (27 November 2000)
+- Added two test cases for file://.
+
+Daniel (22 November 2000)
+- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the
+ modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it
+ involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command
+ which is not in the RFC959)
+
+ curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time
+ after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if
+ the time wasn't possible to get.
+
+ --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header
+ if curl could get the time of the specified file.
+
+- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM
+ file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS
+ connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but
+ others have asked for it before as well.
+
+Daniel (21 November 2000)
+- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight:
+
+ * curl_unescape() could return a too long string
+ * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks
+ * ftp CWD could use bad directory names
+ * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability
+ * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers
+
+- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP.
+
+- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic.
+
+- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp
+ 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!
+
+Daniel (28 December 1999):
+ - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl
+ doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
+ problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
+ that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
+ the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
+ translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
+ the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.
+
+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. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington.
+
+Daniel (13 December 1999):
+ - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
+ added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
+ both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.
+
+Daniel (3 December 1999):
+ - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen...
+
+ - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
+ well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
+ only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).
+
+Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999):
+ - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!
+
+ - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
+ different directories than the sources.
+
+Version 6.3.1
+
+Daniel (23 November 1999):
+ - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
+ along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
+ things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
+ server!
+
+ - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling
+ that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
+ was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...
+
+ - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
+ download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
+ entire download was completed. It does now.
+
+Daniel (19 November 1999):
+ - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of
+ return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
+ occurrences and corrected this.
+
+Daniel (17 November 1999):
+ - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
+ doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
+ any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
+ when the timeout is reached.
+
+ - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
+ why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.
+
+ Daniel (12 November 1999):
+ - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
+ a plain http header file as input...
+
+Version 6.3
+
+ Daniel (10 November 1999):
+ - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
+ respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
+ again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
+ section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
+ my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
+ is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).
+
+ - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page
+ to better describe how the -F works.
+
+ - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in
+ China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/
+
+ - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file
+
+ - I did add more explanations to the man page
+
+ 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
+ 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
+ but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
+ FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
+ it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
+ be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
+ --range switch (previously HTTP-only).
+
+ - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be
+ able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
+ idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
+ this manner:
+ Content-Length: XXXX
+ As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
+ info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
+ 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 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.
+
+ - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
+ the man page.
+
+ - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
+ some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
+ the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti.
+
+ - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
+ man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
+ reported and brought the suggestion.
+
+ - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came
+ up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
+ internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
+ that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
+ obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
+ the one curl would set.
+
+ Daniel (27 October 1999):
+ - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following
+ a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to
+ get the core.
+
+Version 6.2
+
+ Daniel (21 October 1999):
+ - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
+ before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
+ - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
+ having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
+ when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
+ URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
+ such as curl has.)
+ - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
+ with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
+ that occurred after the download was done and completed.
+ - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
+ to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
+ the multiple URL support.
+ - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't
+ honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are
+ case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan
+ also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty
+ of editing slightly.
+ - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
+ the Mac OS X
+ - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
+ to fail on OS X.
+
+ Daniel (19 October 1999):
+ - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a
+ crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added
+ --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a
+ file or stdout.
+
+ Daniel (18 October 1999):
+ - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
+ totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
+ the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
+ been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.
+
+Version 6.1
+
+ Daniel (17 October 1999):
+ - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
+ script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
+ thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
+ uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
+ more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
+ until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
+ adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a
+ short a summary is suitable:
+ - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
+ decompression methods.
+ - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
+ although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
+ want it.
+ - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
+ a file descriptor if that is a socket
+
+ Daniel (14 October 1999):
+ - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
+ curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
+ better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.
+
+ Daniel (12 October 1999):
+ - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
+ archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
+ hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.
+
+ Daniel (11 October 1999):
+ - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
+ some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
+ the man page.
+
+Version 6.1beta
+
+ Daniel (6 October 1999):
+ - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I
+ just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named
+ file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a
+ given file:
+
+ curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com
+
+ or let curl read it out from stdin:
+
+ curl -d @- www.postit.com
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
+ - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
+ separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
+ used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".
+
+ Daniel
+ - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.
+
+ Daniel (30 September 1999):
+ - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work
+ out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default
+ dirs.
+
+ Daniel (28 September 1999)
+ - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
+ or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
+ it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
+ download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
+ documents so that I can test this out properly.
+
+ - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
+ a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.
+
+ Daniel (17 September 1999)
+ - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
+ of file name, the data will be read from stdin.
+
+Version 6.0
+
+ Daniel (13 September 1999)
+ - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
+ Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
+ should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.
+
+ - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.
+
+ Daniel (10 September 1999)
+ - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP
+ servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It
+ took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as
+ OK.
+
+ - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
+ turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
+ cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
+ doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).
+
+ Daniel (8 September 1999)
+ - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.
+
+ Daniel (7 September 1999)
+ - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
+ Stefan Kanthak.
+
+ - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.
+
+ Daniel (3 September 1999)
+ - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.
+
+ Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999)
+ - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
+ library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
+ directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
+ ldap:// URL.
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999)
+ - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
+ - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
+ performance reasons.
+
+ Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999)
+ - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.
+
+ Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999)
+ - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
+ root dir of the openssl installation, as in
+
+ ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here
+
+ - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999)
+ - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
+ compiles.
+
+Version 5.11
+
+ Daniel (25 August 1999)
+ - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line
+ realloc() system in download.c.
+
+ - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
+ probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
+ as a start.
+
+ - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
+ used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
+ changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
+ first.
+
+ Daniel (17 August 1999)
+ - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
+ original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
+ again.
+
+ - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
+ them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
+ not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas
+ E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this.
+
+ Daniel (16 August 1999)
+ - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
+ page. Nusu's page showed this too.
+
+ - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
+ used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
+ should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
+ painfully visible...
+
+ Troy (15 August 1999)
+ - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
+ configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
+ files are in /usr/include/openssl
+
+Version 5.10
+
+ Daniel (13 August 1999)
+ - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
+ 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 construction that deals with this...
+
+ - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
+
+ Troy (12 August 1999)
+ - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
+ a bit rearranged.
+
+ Daniel (12 August 1999)
+ - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
+ tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
+ allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.
+
+ - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
+ -Wall -pedantic was used.
+
+ - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
+ will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
+ The old one still works and shows the same info.
+
+ Daniel (11 August 1999)
+ - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
+ configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.
+
+ Daniel (10 August 1999)
+ - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as
+ some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under
+ HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate
+ yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new,
+ we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it
+ still compiles there.
+
+ Daniel (5 August 1999)
+ - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
+ around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
+ brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
+ about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.
+
+ To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
+ <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
+ libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl
+ talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
+ started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
+ www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.
+
+ - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure
+ script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under
+ Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!
+
+ - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present
+ in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...
+
+ - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet
+ support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on
+ the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and
+ run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little
+ weird output.
+
+ This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
+ feed-back and input in how this is best done.
+
+ WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
+ lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.
+
+ - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be
+ defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the
+ configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it.
+
+ Daniel (4 August 1999)
+ - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
+ which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
+ servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
+ some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
+ hope you report if you have problems with this!
+
+ - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.
+
+ Daniel (2 August 1999)
+ - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers
+ a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar.
+
+ T. Yamada <tai at 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 automatically redirected to
+ another location (option '-L').
+
+ There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
+ tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
+ argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
+ CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
+ checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
+ redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.
+
+Version 5.9.1
+
+ Daniel (30 July 1999)
+ - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata
+ functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to
+ correct this flaw.
+
+ - Mark Wotton reported:
+ 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by
+ correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
+ 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
+ don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.
+
+ - Marcus Klein:
+ Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
+ I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.
+
+ Daniel (29 July 1999)
+ - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location:
+ and I could only agree and fix it!
+
+ - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out
+ that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter
+ when supposed to.
+
+ - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If
+ you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a
+ standard port number, curl still used that first port number.
+
+ - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION
+ and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on
+ the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any
+ html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if
+ CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.
+
+ - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
+ Beckmann).
+
+ - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the
+ latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now
+ in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
+ option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
+ leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.
+
+ Daniel (9 June 1999)
+ - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
+ I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.
+
+ Daniel (4 June 1999)
+ - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
+ with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
+ something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
+ and Mark Butler brought a solution for it.
+
+ Daniel (26 May 1999)
+ - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
+ README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann.
+
+ - I also updated the INSTALL text.
+
+ Daniel (25 May 1999)
+ - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal
+ with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl
+ -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed.
+
+Version 5.9
+
+ Daniel (22 May 1999)
+ - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some
+ problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug
+ report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms
+ when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
+ and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...
+
+ Daniel (20 May 1999)
+ - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.
+
+ Daniel (19 May 1999)
+ - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread()
+ function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel
+ helped me out isolating it.
+
+ Daniel (16 May 1999)
+ - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't
+ work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.
+
+ - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl
+ to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was
+ used.
+
+ Daniel (10 May 1999)
+ - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
+ files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
+ layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
+ future!
+
+ - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl
+ archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a
+ debian package that I've made available for download at the web page
+
+ Daniel (9 May 1999)
+ - Made it compile on cygwin too.
+
+ Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
+ - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
+ again!
+
+ Daniel (6 May 1999)
+ - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
+ will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
+ can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
+ too.
+
+Version 5.8
+
+ Daniel (5 May 1999)
+ - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
+ for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
+ there are problems all over.
+
+ I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
+ week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at
+ hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this.
+
+ Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
+ generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
+ can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
+ before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
+ a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!
+
+ Daniel (4 May 1999)
+ - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
+ the regexes.
+
+ - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
+ I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
+ curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
+ in:
+
+ curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html
+
+ This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
+ I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
+ there may depend on that the file is always touched...
+
+ - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.
+
+ - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send
+ "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it
+ right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date
+ expression or a file name to get the date from!
+
+ Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999)
+ - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
+ isn't set and causes the make to fail.
+
+ Daniel (26 April 1999)
+ - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version
+ number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug
+ in my maketgz script!
+
+ David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999)
+ - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.
+
+Version 5.7.1
+
+ Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999)
+ - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
+ below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h
+
+ - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
+ INSTALL file.
+
+ Daniel
+ - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
+ README file
+
+ Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999)
+ - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
+ It needs an #include <sys/types.h>
+
+Version 5.7
+
+ Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
+ - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!
+
+ - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
+ simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!
+
+ - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
+ start.
+
+ Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999)
+ - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.
+
+Version 5.6.3beta
+
+ Daniel (Apr 12 1999)
+
+ - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
+ in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
+ try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?
+
+ - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!
+
+ - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
+ much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
+ should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
+ talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
+ start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
+ use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
+ want such a crippled solution.
+
+ - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the
+ "Curr.Speed" progress meter.
+
+ - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from
+ stdin.
+
+ - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!
+
+ Daniel (Apr 9 1999)
+ - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at
+ all! ;-O
+
+ Daniel (Apr 6 1999)
+ - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.
+
+ - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
+ previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
+ some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
+ best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!
+
+Version 5.6.2beta
+
+ Daniel (Apr 4 1999)
+ - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
+ it works.
+ To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
+ format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
+ -b flag like:
+
+ curl -b file http://site/foo.html
+
+ Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
+ a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
+ following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".
+
+ To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
+ sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
+ to start with no existing cookies), like:
+
+ curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html
+
+ - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
+ reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.
+
+ - Better "Location:" following.
+
+ Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
+ - A subsecond display patch.
+
+ Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
+ - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
+ things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
+ 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
+ set for libcurl.
+
+ - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
+ that.
+
+ - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
+ win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
+ Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
+ INSTALL for details.
+
+ - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
+ server while remaining connected.
+
+Version 5.6beta
+
+ Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
+ - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the
+ suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing
+ HTTP headers separately in the specified file.
+
+ - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.
+
+ - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
+ in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...
+
+ Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
+ - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
+ and smaller size.
+
+ Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
+ - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
+ curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
+ the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
+ before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.
+
+ libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
+ the lib functions though.
+
+ The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
+ about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)
+
+
+ Daniel (Mar 1 1999)
+ - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the
+ info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the
+ README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.
+
+ Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
+ - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
+ in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...
+
+ Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
+ - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
+ the most recent.
+
+ Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999)
+ - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
+ RPM automatically...
+
+Version 5.5.1
+
+ Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected problems in Download().
+
+ Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
+ - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from
+ compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.
+
+Version 5.5
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
+ - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
+ - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
+ ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
+ buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!
+
+ Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999)
+ - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
+ It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
+ formatted.
+
+ To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
+ the RFC)
+
+ dict://dict.org/m:hello
+ dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex
+
+
+ Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.
+
+Version 5.4
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ (7 Jan 1999)
+ - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress
+ reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on
+ again. This is now corrected!
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If
+ you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file
+ upload.
+
+ I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
+ that.
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it
+ now.
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It
+ should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes.
+
+ - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
+ I redid that now.
+
Version 5.3a (win32 only)
Troy Engel
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