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TODO
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Ok, this is what I wanna do with Curl. Please tell me what you think, and
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please don't hesitate to contribute and send me patches that improve this
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product! (Yes, you may add things not mentioned here, these are just a
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few teasers...)
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* rtsp:// support -- "Real Time Streaming Protocol"
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RFC 2326
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* "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib"
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HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get and decode compressed documents. There
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is the zlib that is pretty good at decompressing stuff. This work was
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started in October 1999 but halted again since it proved more work than we
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thought. It is still a good idea to implement though.
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* HTTP Pipelining/persistant connections
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- I'm gonna introduce HTTP "pipelining". Curl should be able
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to request for several HTTP documents in one connect. It is the beginning
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for supporing more advanced functions in the future, like web site
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mirroring. This will require that the urlget() function supports several
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documents from a single HTTP server, which it doesn't today.
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- When curl supports fetching several documents from the same
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server using pipelining, I'd like to offer that function to the command
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line. Anyone has a good idea how? The current way of specifying one URL
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with the output sent to the stdout or a file gets in the way. Imagine a
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syntax that supports "additional documents from the same server" in a way
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similar to:
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curl <main URL> --more-doc <path> --more-doc <path>
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where --more-doc specifies another document on the same server. Where are
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the output files gonna be put and how should they be named? Should each
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"--more-doc" parameter require a local file name to store the result in?
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Like "--more-file" as in:
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curl <URL> --more-doc <path> --more-file <file>
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* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication"
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A valid test page seem to exist at:
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http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/
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And some friendly person's server source code is available at
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http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html
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Then there's the Apache mod_digest source code too of course.
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It seems as if Netscape doesn't support this, and not many servers
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do. Although this is a lot better authentication method than the more
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common "Basic". Basic sends the password in cleartext over the network,
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this "Digest" method uses a challange-response protocol which increases
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security quite a lot.
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* Different FTP Upload Through Web Proxy
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I don't know any web proxies that allow CONNECT through on port 21, but
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that would be the best way to do ftp upload. All we would need to do would
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be to 'CONNECT <host>:<port> HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n' and then do business as
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usual. I least I think so. It would be fun if someone tried this...
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* Multiple Proxies?
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Is there anyone that actually uses serial-proxies? I mean, send CONNECT to
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the first proxy to connect to the second proxy to which you send CONNECT to
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connect to the remote host (or even more iterations). Is there anyone
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wanting curl to support it? (Not that it would be hard, just confusing...)
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* Other proxies
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Ftp-kind proxy, Socks5, whatever kind of proxies are there?
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* IPv6 Awareness
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Where ever it would fit. I am not that into v6 yet to fully grasp what we
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would need to do, but letting the autoconf search for v6-versions of a few
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functions and then use them instead is of course the first thing to do...
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RFC 2428 "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" will be interesting. PORT
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should be replaced with EPRT for IPv6, and EPSV instead of PASV.
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* An automatic RPM package maker
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Please, write me a script that makes it. It'd make my day.
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* SSL for more protocols, like SSL-FTP...
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2000-02-21 18:49:07 -05:00
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(http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-05.txt)
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* HTTP POST resume using Range:
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