diff --git a/CHANGES.1999 b/CHANGES.1999 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2e733bf41 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES.1999 @@ -0,0 +1,835 @@ +Daniel (28 December 1999): + - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl + doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a + problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines + that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of + the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just + translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with + the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names. + +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. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington. + +Daniel (13 December 1999): + - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges + added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was + both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions. + +Daniel (3 December 1999): + - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen... + + - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as + well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is + only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course). + +Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999): + - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though! + + - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in + different directories than the sources. + +Version 6.3.1 + +Daniel (23 November 1999): + - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died + along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the + things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS + server! + + - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling + that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It + was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly... + + - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP + download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the + entire download was completed. It does now. + +Daniel (19 November 1999): + - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of + return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all + occurrences and corrected this. + +Daniel (17 November 1999): + - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option + doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have + any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard + when the timeout is reached. + + - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason + why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version. + + Daniel (12 November 1999): + - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave + a plain http header file as input... + +Version 6.3 + + Daniel (10 November 1999): + - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always + respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole + again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading + section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do + my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer + is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received). + + - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page + to better describe how the -F works. + + - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in + China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/ + + - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file + + - I did add more explanations to the man page + + 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 + 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 + but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in + FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two + it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to + be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/ + --range switch (previously HTTP-only). + + - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be + able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid + idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in + this manner: + Content-Length: XXXX + As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more + info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also + 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 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. + + - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in + the man page. + + - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add + some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in + the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti. + + - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl + man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay + reported and brought the suggestion. + + - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came + up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the + internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header + that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely + obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than + the one curl would set. + + Daniel (27 October 1999): + - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following + a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to + get the core. + +Version 6.2 + + Daniel (21 October 1999): + - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just + before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used. + - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without + having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again + when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the + URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system + such as curl has.) + - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6 + with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c + that occurred after the download was done and completed. + - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter + to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with + the multiple URL support. + - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't + honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are + case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan + also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty + of editing slightly. + - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize + the Mac OS X + - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking + to fail on OS X. + + Daniel (19 October 1999): + - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a + crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added + --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a + file or stdout. + + Daniel (18 October 1999): + - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now + totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force + the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has + been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one. + +Version 6.1 + + Daniel (17 October 1999): + - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure + script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially + thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and + uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become + more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait + until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better + adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a + short a summary is suitable: + - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip + decompression methods. + - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor, + although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would + want it. + - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from + a file descriptor if that is a socket + + Daniel (14 October 1999): + - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named + curl and adjusted all #include lines to use to maintain a + better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested. + + Daniel (12 October 1999): + - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release + archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and + hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur. + + Daniel (11 October 1999): + - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as + some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in + the man page. + +Version 6.1beta + + Daniel (6 October 1999): + - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I + just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named + file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a + given file: + + curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com + + or let curl read it out from stdin: + + curl -d @- www.postit.com + + Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999): + - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME + separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being + used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged". + + Daniel + - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info. + + Daniel (30 September 1999): + - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work + out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default + dirs. + + Daniel (28 September 1999) + - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress + or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that + it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens + download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP + documents so that I can test this out properly. + + - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string + a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too. + + Daniel (17 September 1999) + - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead + of file name, the data will be read from stdin. + +Version 6.0 + + Daniel (13 September 1999) + - Added -X/--http-request to enable any HTTP command to be sent. + Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This + should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE. + + - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles. + + Daniel (10 September 1999) + - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP + servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It + took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as + OK. + + - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do + turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all + cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I + doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet). + + Daniel (8 September 1999) + - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32. + + Daniel (7 September 1999) + - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by + Stefan Kanthak. + + - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile. + + Daniel (3 September 1999) + - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy. + + Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999) + - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared + library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the + directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a + ldap:// URL. + + Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999) + - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files. + - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for + performance reasons. + + Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999) + - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds. + + Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999) + - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the + root dir of the openssl installation, as in + + ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here + + - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells. + + Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999) + - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32 + compiles. + +Version 5.11 + + Daniel (25 August 1999) + - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line + realloc() system in download.c. + + - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It + probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it + as a start. + + - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be + used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really + changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this + first. + + Daniel (17 August 1999) + - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the + original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page + again. + + - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of + them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should + not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas + E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this. + + Daniel (16 August 1999) + - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location: + page. Nusu's page showed this too. + + - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times + used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it + should've. Nusu brought me an URL that made this + painfully visible... + + Troy (15 August 1999) + - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the + configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include + files are in /usr/include/openssl + +Version 5.10 + + Daniel (13 August 1999) + - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of + 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 construction that deals with this... + + - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4. + + Troy (12 August 1999) + - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also + a bit rearranged. + + Daniel (12 August 1999) + - I had to copy a good include file into the curl source + tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights + allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified. + + - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when + -Wall -pedantic was used. + + - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it + will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic. + The old one still works and shows the same info. + + Daniel (11 August 1999) + - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the + configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users. + + Daniel (10 August 1999) + - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as + some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under + HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate + yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new, + we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it + still compiles there. + + Daniel (5 August 1999) + - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions + around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and + brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking + about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl. + + To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe +
' in the body of a mail and send it to + libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl + talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've + started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at + www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/. + + - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure + script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under + Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004! + + - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present + in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly... + + - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet + support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on + the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and + run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little + weird output. + + This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your + feed-back and input in how this is best done. + + WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current + lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time. + + - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be + defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the + configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it. + + Daniel (4 August 1999) + - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem, + which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp + servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made + some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do + hope you report if you have problems with this! + + - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl. + + Daniel (2 August 1999) + - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers + a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. + + T. Yamada (30 July 1999) + - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain + 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 + tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line + argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since + CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it + checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to + redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd. + +Version 5.9.1 + + Daniel (30 July 1999) + - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata + functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to + correct this flaw. + + - Mark Wotton reported: + 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by + correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL + 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I + don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that. + + - Marcus Klein: + Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand. + I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten. + + Daniel (29 July 1999) + - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location: + and I could only agree and fix it! + + - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out + that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter + when supposed to. + + - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If + you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a + standard port number, curl still used that first port number. + + - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION + and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on + the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any + html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if + CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set. + + - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph + Beckmann). + + - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the + latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now + in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl + option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I + leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too. + + Daniel (9 June 1999) + - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it! + I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now. + + Daniel (4 June 1999) + - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better + with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied + something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro + and Mark Butler brought a solution for it. + + Daniel (26 May 1999) + - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a + README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann. + + - I also updated the INSTALL text. + + Daniel (25 May 1999) + - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal + with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl + -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed. + +Version 5.9 + + Daniel (22 May 1999) + - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some + problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug + report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms + when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster + and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though... + + Daniel (20 May 1999) + - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too. + + Daniel (19 May 1999) + - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread() + function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel + helped me out isolating it. + + Daniel (16 May 1999) + - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't + work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now. + + - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl + to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was + used. + + Daniel (10 May 1999) + - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source + files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them + layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the + future! + + - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl + archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a + debian package that I've made available for download at the web page + + Daniel (9 May 1999) + - Made it compile on cygwin too. + + Troy Engel (7 May 1999) + - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6 + again! + + Daniel (6 May 1999) + - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it + will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus + can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined + too. + +Version 5.8 + + Daniel (5 May 1999) + - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright + for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have + there are problems all over. + + I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last + week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root are some of them reporting this. + + Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to + generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems + can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root + before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle + a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least! + + Daniel (4 May 1999) + - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in + the regexes. + + - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to. + I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a + curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as + in: + + curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html + + This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local. + I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out + there may depend on that the file is always touched... + + - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection. + + - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send + "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it + right away! Try -z where expression is a full GNU date + expression or a file name to get the date from! + + Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999) + - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable + isn't set and causes the make to fail. + + Daniel (26 April 1999) + - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version + number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug + in my maketgz script! + + David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999) + - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times. + +Version 5.7.1 + + Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999) + - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned + below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h + + - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the + INSTALL file. + + Daniel + - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the + README file + + Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999) + - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1. + It needs an #include + +Version 5.7 + + Daniel (Apr 20 1999) + - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now! + + - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now + simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small! + + - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a + start. + + Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999) + - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout. + +Version 5.6.3beta + + Daniel (Apr 12 1999) + + - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef when connect()ing + in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should + try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone? + + - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf! + + - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as + much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it + should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you + talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the + start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to + use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really + want such a crippled solution. + + - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the + "Curr.Speed" progress meter. + + - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from + stdin. + + - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it! + + Daniel (Apr 9 1999) + - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at + all! ;-O + + Daniel (Apr 6 1999) + - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version. + + - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that + previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get + some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the + best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days! + +Version 5.6.2beta + + Daniel (Apr 4 1999) + - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how + it works. + To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header- + format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the + -b flag like: + + curl -b file http://site/foo.html + + Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets + a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string + following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel". + + To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which + sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e + to start with no existing cookies), like: + + curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html + + - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently + reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address. + + - Better "Location:" following. + + Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999) + - A subsecond display patch. + + Daniel (Mar 14 1999) + - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make + things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from + 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one + set for libcurl. + + - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted + that. + + - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under + win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-) + Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in + INSTALL for details. + + - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http + server while remaining connected. + +Version 5.6beta + + Daniel (Mar 13 1999) + - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the + suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing + HTTP headers separately in the specified file. + + - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now. + + - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files + in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++... + + Daniel (Mar 12 1999) + - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability + and smaller size. + + Daniel (Mar 11 1999) + - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate + curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into + the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as + before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so. + + libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to + the lib functions though. + + The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information + about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-) + + + Daniel (Mar 1 1999) + - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the + info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the + README and the RFC in the RESOURCES. + + Daniel (Feb 23 1999) + - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes + in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl... + + Daniel (Feb 22 1999) + - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be + the most recent. + + Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999) + - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an + RPM automatically... + +Version 5.5.1 + + Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999) + - Corrected problems in Download(). + + Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999) + - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from + compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d. + +Version 5.5 + + Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999) + - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol. + + Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999) + - reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use + ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static- + buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls! + + Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999) + - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229). + It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better + formatted. + + To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in + the RFC) + + dict://dict.org/m:hello + dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex + + + Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999) + - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB. + + Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999) + - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only. + +Version 5.4 + + Daniel Stenberg + (7 Jan 1999) + - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress + reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on + again. This is now corrected! + + (4 Jan 1999) + - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If + you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file + upload. + + I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used + that. + + (4 Jan 1999) + - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it + now. + + (4 Jan 1999) + - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It + should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes. + + - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so + I redid that now. +