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@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ TODO
* The new 'multi' interface is being designed. Work out the details, start
implementing and write test applications!
[http://curl.haxx.se/dev/multi.h]
* Add a name resolve cache to libcurl to make repeated fetches to the same
host name (when persitancy isn't available) faster.
[http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/lib/multi.h]
* Introduce another callback interface for upload/download that makes one
less copy of data and thus a faster operation.
@ -33,13 +30,28 @@ TODO
telnet, ldap, dict or file.
* Add asynchronous name resolving. http://curl.haxx.se/dev/async-resolver.txt
This should be made to work on most of the supported platforms, or
otherwise it isn't really interesting.
* Strip any trailing CR from the error message when Curl_failf() is used.
* Data sharing. Tell which easy handles within a multi handle that should
share cookies, connection cache, dns cache, ssl session cache.
* Mutexes. By adding mutex callback support, the 'data sharing' mentioned
above can be made between several easy handles running in different threads
too. The actual mutex implementations will be left for the application to
implement, libcurl will merely call 'getmutex' and 'leavemutex' callbacks.
* No-faster-then-this transfers. Many people have limited bandwidth and they
want the ability to make sure their transfers never use more bandwith than
they think is good.
* Set the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option to make libcurl notice and disconnect
very long time idle connections.
DOCUMENTATION
* Document all CURLcode error codes, why they happen and what most likely
will make them not happen again.
will make them not happen again. In a libcurl point of view.
FTP
@ -54,11 +66,7 @@ TODO
already working http dito works. It of course requires that 'MDTM' works,
and it isn't a standard FTP command.
* Suggested on the mailing list: CURLOPT_FTP_MKDIR...!
* Always use the FTP SIZE command before downloading, as that makes it more
likely that we know the size when downloading. Some sites support SIZE but
don't show the size in the RETR response!
* Add FTPS support with SSL for the data connection too.
HTTP
@ -83,34 +91,53 @@ TODO
http://www.innovation.ch/java/ntlm.html that contains detailed reverse-
engineered info.
* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication"
A valid test page seem to exist at:
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/
And some friendly person's server source code is available at
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html
Then there's the Apache mod_digest source code too of course. It seems as
if Netscape doesn't support this, and not many servers do. Although this is
a lot better authentication method than the more common "Basic". Basic
sends the password in cleartext over the network, this "Digest" method uses
a challange-response protocol which increases security quite a lot.
* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication" A valid test page seem
to exist at: http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/ And some friendly
person's server source code is available at
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html Then there's the Apache
mod_digest source code too of course. It seems as if Netscape doesn't
support this, and not many servers do. Although this is a lot better
authentication method than the more common "Basic". Basic sends the
password in cleartext over the network, this "Digest" method uses a
challange-response protocol which increases security quite a lot.
* Pipelining. Sending multiple requests before the previous one(s) are done.
This could possibly be implemented using the multi interface to queue
requests and the response data.
TELNET
* Make TELNET work on windows98!
* Reading input (to send to the remote server) on stdin is a crappy solution
for library purposes. We need to invent a good way for the application to
be able to provide the data to send.
* Move the telnet support's network select() loop go away and merge the code
into the main transfer loop. Until this is done, the multi interface won't
work for telnet.
SSL
* Add an interface to libcurl that enables "session IDs" to get
exported/imported. Cris Bailiff said: "OpenSSL has functions which can
serialise the current SSL state to a buffer of your choice, and
recover/reset the state from such a buffer at a later date - this is used
by mod_ssl for apache to implement and SSL session ID cache"
by mod_ssl for apache to implement and SSL session ID cache". This whole
idea might become moot if we enable the 'data sharing' as mentioned in the
LIBCURL label above.
* Make curl's SSL layer option capable of using other free SSL libraries.
Such as the Mozilla Security Services
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/) and GNUTLS
(http://gnutls.hellug.gr/)
LDAP
* Look over the implementation. The looping will have to "go away" from the
lib/ldap.c source file and get moved to the main network code so that the
multi interface and friends will work for LDAP as well.
CLIENT
* "curl ftp://site.com/*.txt"
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the same syntax to specify several files to get uploaded (using the same
persistant connection), using -T.
* Say you have a list of FTP addresses to download in a file named
ftp-list.txt: "cat ftp-list.txt | xargs curl -O -O -O [...]". curl _needs_
an "-Oalways" flag -- all addresses on the command line use the base
filename to store locally. Else a script must precount the # of URLs,
construct the proper number of "-O"s...
* When the multi interface has been implemented and proved to work, the
client could be told to use maximum N simultaneous transfers and then just
make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one
connection to the same remote host.
TEST SUITE