TODO: added two more libcurl ideas

Moved some ideas from "next major" to just ordinary ideas since we can
always add new things while keeping the old without doing a "next
major".
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Daniel Stenberg 2015-11-20 08:39:59 +01:00
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1.9 Cache negative name resolves
1.10 Support IDNA2008
1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamicly loaded modules
1.12 have form functions use CURL handle argument
1.13 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
2. libcurl - multi interface
2.1 More non-blocking
2.2 Fix HTTP Pipelining for PUT
2.3 Better support for same name resolves
2.2 Better support for same name resolves
2.3 Non-blocking curl_multi_remove_handle()
3. Documentation
3.1 Update date and version in man pages
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21.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
21.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
21.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
21.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
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app/invoke/used protocols would be necessary to load. See
https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/349
1.12 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
thus curl_formget() with callback cannot function without first having
curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design
mistake.
The curl_formadd() design can probably also be reconsidered to make it easier
to use and less error-prone. Probably easiest by splitting it into several
function calls.
1.13 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
specifying this data as the URL is non-standard and to be honest a bit of a
hack ;-)
Please see the following thread for more information:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-05/0178.html
1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
One of the most common problems in libcurl using applications is the lack of
type checks for curl_easy_setopt() which happens because it accepts varargs
and thus can take any type.
One possible solution to this is to introduce a few different versions of the
setopt version for the different kinds of data you can set.
curl_easy_set_num() - sets a long value
curl_easy_set_large() - sets a curl_off_t value
curl_easy_set_ptr() - sets a pointer
curl_easy_set_cb() - sets a callback PLUS its callback data
2. libcurl - multi interface
2.1 More non-blocking
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- The "DONE" operation (post transfer protocol-specific actions) for the
protocols SFTP, SMTP, FTP. Fixing Curl_done() for this is a worthy task.
2.2 Fix HTTP Pipelining for PUT
HTTP Pipelining can be a way to greatly enhance performance for multiple
serial requests and currently libcurl only supports that for HEAD and GET
requests but it should also be possible for PUT.
2.3 Better support for same name resolves
2.2 Better support for same name resolves
If a name resolve has been initiated for name NN and a second easy handle
wants to resolve that name as well, make it wait for the first resolve to end
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especially needed when adding many simultaneous handles using the same host
name when the DNS resolver can get flooded.
2.3 Non-blocking curl_multi_remove_handle()
The multi interface has a few API calls that assume a blocking behavior, like
add_handle() and remove_handle() which limits what we can do internally. The
multi API need to be moved even more into a single function that "drives"
everything in a non-blocking manner and signals when something is done. A
remove or add would then only ask for the action to get started and then
multi_perform() etc still be called until the add/remove is completed.
3. Documentation
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Changing them to return a private handle will benefit the implementation and
allow us much greater freedoms while still maintaining a solid API and ABI.
21.9 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
thus curl_formget() with callback cannot function without first having
curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design
mistake.
21.10 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
specifying this data as the URL is non-standard and to be honest a bit of a
hack ;-)
Please see the following thread for more information:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-05/0178.html