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should be replaced with the name of your debugger, in most cases that will
be 'gdb', but 'dbx' and others also occur.
When the debugger has finnished loading the core file and presents you a
When the debugger has finished loading the core file and presents you a
prompt, you can give the compiler instructions. Enter 'where' (without the
quotes) and press return.
The list that is presented is the stack trace. If everything worked, it is
supposed to contain the chaing of functions that were called when curl
supposed to contain the chain of functions that were called when curl
crashed.

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Daniel (23 March 2000):
actually already told me about!
- H. Daphne Luong <daphne@tellme.com> brought me a fix that now makes curl
ingore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...
Daniel (22 March 2000):
@ -32,14 +32,13 @@ Version 6.5.2
Daniel (21 March 2000):
- Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
the -D adjustments in src/main.c, see also a separate 6.5.1-patch on the
web site.
the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
Version 6.5.1
Daniel (20 March 2000):
- An anynomous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL convertions. The main
- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
Johansson).
@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ Daniel (17 March 2000):
- Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com> supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
existance.
existence.
Daniel (15 March 2000):
- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
@ -106,13 +105,13 @@ Daniel (2 March 2000):
- Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de>, Chris <cbayliss@csc.come> and Ulf
Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became appearant when they released openssl
0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behaviour (not seeding a random number
fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
thing).
- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
every byte curl receives within some prefered time. Andrew <tmr@gci.net>
every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr@gci.net>
suggested this.
- Damien Adant <dams@usa.net> mailed me his fixes for making curl compile
@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ Daniel (21 February 2000):
- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
they are specifed as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
exist as of this moment are:
total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ Daniel (11 February 2000):
- Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>'s suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
similarily reads the cookies from stdin.
similarly reads the cookies from stdin.
- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
-o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
@ -187,7 +186,7 @@ Daniel (11 February 2000):
- Ellis Pritchard <ellis@citria.com> made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
- Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> helped me out finding the crash in the
cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habbit of sending empty cookies to
cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
the server.
Daniel (8 February 2000):
@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ Daniel (31 January 2000):
and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
- Zhibiao Wu <wuzb@erols.com> pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
although I did not get a reproducable way to do this why I have to wait
although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
with fixing anything.
- Bob Schader <rschader@product-des.com> suggested I should implement resume
@ -272,7 +271,7 @@ Daniel (10 January 2000):
- Jim Gallagher <jmgallag@usa.net> properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
and thefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
Daniel (28 December 1999):
- Tim Verhoeven <dj@walhalla.sin.khk.be> correctly identified that curl
@ -286,7 +285,7 @@ Daniel (28 December 1999):
Daniel (27 December 1999):
- When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
in the saved data. Correctfully identified and reported by Paul Harrington
in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington
<paul@pizza.org>.
Daniel (13 December 1999):
@ -365,7 +364,7 @@ Version 6.3
Daniel (8 November 1999):
- I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
transparantly figure out what kind of file it got as input.
transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
Daniel (29 October 1999):
- Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
@ -385,7 +384,7 @@ Version 6.3
makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
file size the same way.
I changed the order of the QUOTE command execusions. They're now executed
I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
@ -631,7 +630,7 @@ Version 5.10
OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
to come up with a #if contruction that deals with this...
to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
- Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
@ -715,7 +714,7 @@ Version 5.10
T. Yamada <tai@imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
- It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is auto-matically redirected to
username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
another location (option '-L').
There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which

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General Style
Keep your functions small. If they're small you avoid a lot of mistakes and
you don't accidentaly mix up variables.
you don't accidentally mix up variables.
Non-clobbering All Over

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INSTALL
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How To Compile
Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. The
way to proceed is mainly devided in two different ways: the unix way or the
way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the
windows way.
If you're using Windows (95, 98, NT) or OS/2, you should continue reading from
the Win32 header below. All other systems should be capable of being installed
as described un the the UNIX header.
as described in the the UNIX header.
PORTS
=====
Just to show off, this is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and
operating systems that curl has been compiled for:
- Ultrix
- SINIX-Z v5
Alpha DEC OSF 4
HP-PA HP-UX
MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1
PowerPC Mac OS X
Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7
Sparc SunOS 4.1.*
i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2
MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
HP-PA HP-UX
Alpha DEC OSF 4
i386 Solaris 2.7
PowerPC Mac OS X
Power AIX 4.3.1
- Ultrix
i386 FreeBSD
i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2
i386 NetBSD
i386 OpenBSD
m68k OpenBSD
i386 Windows 95, 98, NT
i386 OS/2
i386 OpenBSD
i386 Solaris 2.7
i386 Windows 95, 98, NT
m68k AmigaOS 3
m68k OpenBSD
UNIX
====
The configure script *always* tries to find a working SSL library unless
explicitely told not to. If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed in the
default search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything
explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default
search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything
special.
If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can
run configure like so:
If you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure
like:
./configure --with-ssl
If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example,
/opt/OpenSSL,) you can run configure like this:
If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL,)
you can run configure like this:
./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL
@ -60,10 +61,10 @@ UNIX
./configure --without-ssl
If you have SSLeay or OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in
one place and the header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the
LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables prior to running configure.
Something like this should work:
If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the
header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this
should work:
(with the Bourne shell and its clones):
@ -193,9 +194,9 @@ Win32
Microsoft / Borland style
-------------------------
If you have OpenSSL/SSLeay, and want curl to take advantage of it,
edit your project properties to use the SSL include path, link with
the SSL libs and define the USE_SSLEAY symbol.
If you have OpenSSL, and want curl to take advantage of it, edit your
project properties to use the SSL include path, link with the SSL libs
and define the USE_SSLEAY symbol.
IBM OS/2
@ -213,10 +214,10 @@ IBM OS/2
- GNU sed
- autoconf 2.13
If you want to build with OpenSSL, SSLeay, or OpenLDAP support, you'll
need to download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to
port SSL libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx.
You'll find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk.Ohme
If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to
download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL
libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx. You'll
find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk.Ohme
If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined
symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
@ -228,8 +229,8 @@ IBM OS/2
If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in
CFLAGS.
OpenSSL/SSLeay
==============
OpenSSL
=======
You'll find OpenSSL information at: