TODO: Updated after 7.27.0 release

Removed APOP and SASL authentication from the POP3 section and metalink
support from the client section as these features were implemented in
this release.

Moved adding gssapi to SASL into it's own section rather than repeat it
for each protocol.
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8.4 non-gcrypt
9. SMTP
9.1 Other authentication mechanisms
9.2 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism
9.3 Initial response
9.4 Pipelining
9.1 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism
9.2 Initial response
9.3 Pipelining
10. POP3
10.1 APOP Authentication
10.2 SASL based authentication mechanisms
10.3 auth= in URLs
10.1 auth= in URLs
11. IMAP
11.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms
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14. New protocols
14.1 RSYNC
15. Client
15.1 sync
15.2 glob posts
15.3 prevent file overwriting
15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
15.5 provide formpost headers
15.6 url-specific options
15.7 metalink support
15.8 warning when setting an option
15.9 IPv6 addresses with globbing
15. SASL
15.1 Other authentication mechanisms
16. Client
16.1 sync
16.2 glob posts
16.3 prevent file overwriting
16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
16.5 provide formpost headers
16.6 url-specific options
16.7 warning when setting an option
16.8 IPv6 addresses with globbing
16. Build
16.1 roffit
17. Build
17.1 roffit
17. Test suite
17.1 SSL tunnel
17.2 nicer lacking perl message
17.3 more protocols supported
17.4 more platforms supported
18. Test suite
18.1 SSL tunnel
18.2 nicer lacking perl message
18.3 more protocols supported
18.4 more platforms supported
18. Next SONAME bump
18.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp
18.2 combine error codes
18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
19. Next SONAME bump
19.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp
19.2 combine error codes
19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
19. Next major release
19.1 cleanup return codes
19.2 remove obsolete defines
19.3 size_t
19.4 remove several functions
19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
20. Next major release
20.1 cleanup return codes
20.2 remove obsolete defines
20.3 size_t
20.4 remove several functions
20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
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9. SMTP
9.1 Other authentication mechanisms
Add support for gssapi.
9.2 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism
9.1 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism
Add the ability to specify the preferred authentication mechanism or a list
of mechanisms that should be used. Not only that, but the order that is
returned by the server during the EHLO response should be honored by curl.
9.3 Initial response
9.2 Initial response
Add the ability for the user to specify whether the initial response is
included in the AUTH command. Some email servers, such as Microsoft
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http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0114.html
9.4 Pipelining
9.3 Pipelining
Add support for pipelining emails.
10. POP3
10.1 APOP Authentication
Add support for the APOP command rather than using plain text authentication
(USER and PASS) as this is very week security wise. Note: The APOP command
is specified as "APOP <username> <md5 password>", however, it isn't
supported by all mail servers.
10.2 SASL authentication mechanisms
SASL offers support for additional authentication mechanisms via the AUTH
command. Detection of an email server's support for SASL authentication
can be detected via the CAPA command whilst a list of supported mechanisms
can be retrieved with an empty AUTH command.
10.3 auth= in URLs
10.1 auth= in URLs
Being able to specify the preferred authentication mechanism in the URL as
per RFC2384.
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11.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms
Like POP3 curl currently sends usernames and passwords as clear text.
Support should also be added to support SASL based authentication mechanisms
as these are more secure.
Curl currently sends usernames and passwords as clear text whilst SASL based
authentication mechanisms can be more secure. As such, support should be
added to support these authentication mechanisms.
12. LDAP
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There's no RFC for the protocol or an URI/URL format. An implementation
should most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync.
15. Client
15. SASL
15.1 sync
15.1 Other authentication mechanisms
Add support for gssapi to SMTP and POP3.
16. Client
16.1 sync
"curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or
"curl --sync http://example.net/{index,calendar,history}.html"
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remote file is newer than the local file. A Last-Modified HTTP date header
should also be used to set the mod date on the downloaded file.
15.2 glob posts
16.2 glob posts
Globbing support for -d and -F, as in 'curl -d "name=foo[0-9]" URL'.
This is easily scripted though.
15.3 prevent file overwriting
16.3 prevent file overwriting
Add an option that prevents cURL from overwriting existing local files. When
used, and there already is an existing file with the target file name
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existing). So that index.html becomes first index.html.1 and then
index.html.2 etc.
15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
The client could be told to use maximum N simultaneous parallel transfers and
then just make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one
connection to the same remote host. This would require the client to use the
multi interface. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595
15.5 provide formpost headers
16.5 provide formpost headers
Extending the capabilities of the multipart formposting. How about leaving
the ';type=foo' syntax as it is and adding an extra tag (headers) which
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which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text,
8bit...)
15.6 url-specific options
16.6 url-specific options
Provide a way to make options bound to a specific URL among several on the
command line. Possibly by letting ':' separate options between URLs,
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The example would do a POST-GET-POST combination on a single command line.
15.7 metalink support
Add metalink support to curl (http://www.metalinker.org/). This is most useful
with simultaneous parallel transfers (11.6) but not necessary.
15.8 warning when setting an option
16.7 warning when setting an option
Display a warning when libcurl returns an error when setting an option.
This can be useful to tell when support for a particular feature hasn't been
compiled into the library.
15.9 IPv6 addresses with globbing
16.8 IPv6 addresses with globbing
Currently the command line client needs to get url globbing disabled (with
-g) for it to support IPv6 numerical addresses. This is a rather silly flaw
that should be corrected. It probably involves a smarter detection of the
'[' and ']' letters.
16. Build
17. Build
16.1 roffit
17.1 roffit
Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that
instead of (g)nroff when building src/hugehelp.c
17. Test suite
18. Test suite
17.1 SSL tunnel
18.1 SSL tunnel
Make our own version of stunnel for simple port forwarding to enable HTTPS
and FTP-SSL tests without the stunnel dependency, and it could allow us to
provide test tools built with either OpenSSL or GnuTLS
17.2 nicer lacking perl message
18.2 nicer lacking perl message
If perl wasn't found by the configure script, don't attempt to run the tests
but explain something nice why it doesn't.
17.3 more protocols supported
18.3 more protocols supported
Extend the test suite to include more protocols. The telnet could just do ftp
or http operations (for which we have test servers).
17.4 more platforms supported
18.4 more platforms supported
Make the test suite work on more platforms. OpenBSD and Mac OS. Remove
fork()s and it should become even more portable.
18. Next SONAME bump
19. Next SONAME bump
18.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp
19.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp
#undef CURL_FTP_HTTPSTYLE_HEAD in lib/ftp.c to remove the HTTP-style headers
from being output in NOBODY requests over ftp
18.2 combine error codes
19.2 combine error codes
Combine some of the error codes to remove duplicates. The original
numbering should not be changed, and the old identifiers would be
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CURLE_TFTP_PERM => CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED
18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
The current prototype only provides 'purpose' that tells what the
connection/socket is for, but not any protocol or similar. It makes it hard
for applications to differentiate on TCP vs UDP and even HTTP vs FTP and
similar.
19. Next major release
20. Next major release
19.1 cleanup return codes
20.1 cleanup return codes
curl_easy_cleanup() returns void, but curl_multi_cleanup() returns a
CURLMcode. These should be changed to be the same.
19.2 remove obsolete defines
20.2 remove obsolete defines
remove obsolete defines from curl/curl.h
19.3 size_t
20.3 size_t
make several functions use size_t instead of int in their APIs
19.4 remove several functions
20.4 remove several functions
remove the following functions from the public API:
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curl_multi_socket_all
19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
Remove support for CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, it has gotten too kludgy and weird
internally. Let the app judge success or not for itself.
19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
Remove support for a global DNS cache. Anything global is silly, and we
already offer the share interface for the same functionality but done
"right".
19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
The internally provided progress meter output doesn't belong in the library.
Basically no application wants it (apart from curl) but instead applications
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variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work
correctly.
19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
curl_formadd() was made to fill in a public struct, but the fact that the
struct is public is never really used by application for their own advantage
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Changing them to return a private handle will benefit the implementation and
allow us much greater freedoms while still maintining a solid API and ABI.
19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
curl_formadd() and curl_formget() both currently have no CURL handle
argument, but both can use a callback that is set in the easy handle, and
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curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design
mistake.
19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
Rather than use the URL to specify the mail client string to present in the
HELO and EHLO commands, libcurl should support a new CURLOPT specifically for