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.
--- /dev/null
+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.
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