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TODO: Added some SMB ideas
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10. LDAP
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10.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms
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11. New protocols
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11.1 RSYNC
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12. SSL
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12.1 Disable specific versions
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12.2 Provide mutex locking API
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12.3 Evaluate SSL patches
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12.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
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12.5 Export session ids
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12.6 Provide callback for cert verification
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12.7 improve configure --with-ssl
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12.8 Support DANE
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13. GnuTLS
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13.1 SSL engine stuff
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13.2 check connection
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14. SASL
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14.1 Other authentication mechanisms
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14.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
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11. SMB
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11.1 File listing support
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11.2 Honor file timestamps
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11.3 Use NTLMv2
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15. Client
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15.1 sync
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15.2 glob posts
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15.3 prevent file overwriting
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15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
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15.5 provide formpost headers
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15.6 warning when setting an option
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12. New protocols
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12.1 RSYNC
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16. Build
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16.1 roffit
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13. SSL
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13.1 Disable specific versions
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13.2 Provide mutex locking API
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13.3 Evaluate SSL patches
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13.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
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13.5 Export session ids
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13.6 Provide callback for cert verification
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13.7 improve configure --with-ssl
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13.8 Support DANE
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17. Test suite
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17.1 SSL tunnel
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17.2 nicer lacking perl message
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17.3 more protocols supported
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17.4 more platforms supported
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17.5 Add support for concurrent connections
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14. GnuTLS
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14.1 SSL engine stuff
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14.2 check connection
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18. Next SONAME bump
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18.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
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18.2 combine error codes
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18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
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15. SASL
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15.1 Other authentication mechanisms
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15.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
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16. Client
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16.1 sync
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16.2 glob posts
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16.3 prevent file overwriting
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16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
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16.5 provide formpost headers
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16.6 warning when setting an option
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19. Next major release
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19.1 cleanup return codes
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19.2 remove obsolete defines
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19.3 size_t
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19.4 remove several functions
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19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
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19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
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19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
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19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
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19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
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19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
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17. Build
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17.1 roffit
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18. Test suite
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18.1 SSL tunnel
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18.2 nicer lacking perl message
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18.3 more protocols supported
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18.4 more platforms supported
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18.5 Add support for concurrent connections
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19. Next SONAME bump
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19.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
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19.2 combine error codes
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19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
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20. Next major release
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20.1 cleanup return codes
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20.2 remove obsolete defines
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20.3 size_t
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20.4 remove several functions
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20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
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20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
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20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
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20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
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20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
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20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
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==============================================================================
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@ -393,32 +398,47 @@ to provide the data to send.
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be possible to use ldap_bind_s() instead specifying the security context
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information ourselves.
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11. New protocols
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11. SMB
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11.1 RSYNC
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11.1 File listing support
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Add support for listing the contents of a SMB share. The output should probably
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be the same as/similar to FTP.
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11.2 Honor file timestamps
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The timestamp of the transfered file should reflect that of the original file.
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11.3 Use NTLMv2
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Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1.
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12. New protocols
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12.1 RSYNC
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There's no RFC for the protocol or an URI/URL format. An implementation
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should most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync.
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12. SSL
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13. SSL
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12.1 Disable specific versions
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13.1 Disable specific versions
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Provide an option that allows for disabling specific SSL versions, such as
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SSLv2 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1767276
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12.2 Provide mutex locking API
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13.2 Provide mutex locking API
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Provide a libcurl API for setting mutex callbacks in the underlying SSL
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library, so that the same application code can use mutex-locking
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independently of OpenSSL or GnutTLS being used.
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12.3 Evaluate SSL patches
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13.3 Evaluate SSL patches
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Evaluate/apply Gertjan van Wingerde's SSL patches:
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http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-03/0087.html
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12.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
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13.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
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"Look at SSL cafile - quick traces look to me like these are done on every
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request as well, when they should only be necessary once per SSL context (or
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@ -428,7 +448,7 @@ to provide the data to send.
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style connections are re-used. It will make us use slightly more memory but
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it will libcurl do less creations and deletions of SSL contexts.
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12.5 Export session ids
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13.5 Export session ids
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Add an interface to libcurl that enables "session IDs" to get
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exported/imported. Cris Bailiff said: "OpenSSL has functions which can
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@ -436,18 +456,18 @@ to provide the data to send.
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the state from such a buffer at a later date - this is used by mod_ssl for
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apache to implement and SSL session ID cache".
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12.6 Provide callback for cert verification
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13.6 Provide callback for cert verification
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OpenSSL supports a callback for customised verification of the peer
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certificate, but this doesn't seem to be exposed in the libcurl APIs. Could
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it be? There's so much that could be done if it were!
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12.7 improve configure --with-ssl
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13.7 improve configure --with-ssl
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make the configure --with-ssl option first check for OpenSSL, then GnuTLS,
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then NSS...
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12.8 Support DANE
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13.8 Support DANE
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DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a way to provide SSL
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keys and certs over DNS using DNSSEC as an alternative to the CA model.
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http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0103.html . libunbound may be the
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correct library to base this development on.
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13. GnuTLS
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14. GnuTLS
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13.1 SSL engine stuff
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14.1 SSL engine stuff
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Is this even possible?
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13.2 check connection
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14.2 check connection
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Add a way to check if the connection seems to be alive, to correspond to the
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SSL_peak() way we use with OpenSSL.
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14. SASL
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15. SASL
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14.1 Other authentication mechanisms
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15.1 Other authentication mechanisms
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Add support for other authentication mechanisms such as EXTERNAL, OLP,
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GSS-SPNEGO and others.
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14.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
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15.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
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Currently the GSSAPI authentication only supports the default QOP of auth
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(Authentication), whilst Kerberos V5 supports both auth-int (Authentication
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with integrity protection) and auth-conf (Authentication with integrity and
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privacy protection).
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15. Client
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16. Client
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15.1 sync
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16.1 sync
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"curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or
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"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
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should also be used to set the mod date on the downloaded file.
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15.2 glob posts
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16.2 glob posts
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Globbing support for -d and -F, as in 'curl -d "name=foo[0-9]" URL'.
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This is easily scripted though.
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15.3 prevent file overwriting
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16.3 prevent file overwriting
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Add an option that prevents cURL from overwriting existing local files. When
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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
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index.html.2 etc.
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15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
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16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
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The client could be told to use maximum N simultaneous parallel transfers and
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then just make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one
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connection to the same remote host. This would require the client to use the
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multi interface. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595
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15.5 provide formpost headers
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16.5 provide formpost headers
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Extending the capabilities of the multipart formposting. How about leaving
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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,
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8bit...)
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15.6 warning when setting an option
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16.6 warning when setting an option
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Display a warning when libcurl returns an error when setting an option.
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This can be useful to tell when support for a particular feature hasn't been
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compiled into the library.
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16. Build
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17. Build
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16.1 roffit
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17.1 roffit
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Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that
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instead of (g)nroff when building src/tool_hugehelp.c
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17. Test suite
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18. Test suite
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17.1 SSL tunnel
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18.1 SSL tunnel
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Make our own version of stunnel for simple port forwarding to enable HTTPS
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and FTP-SSL tests without the stunnel dependency, and it could allow us to
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provide test tools built with either OpenSSL or GnuTLS
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17.2 nicer lacking perl message
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18.2 nicer lacking perl message
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If perl wasn't found by the configure script, don't attempt to run the tests
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but explain something nice why it doesn't.
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17.3 more protocols supported
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18.3 more protocols supported
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Extend the test suite to include more protocols. The telnet could just do FTP
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or http operations (for which we have test servers).
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17.4 more platforms supported
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18.4 more platforms supported
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Make the test suite work on more platforms. OpenBSD and Mac OS. Remove
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fork()s and it should become even more portable.
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17.5 Add support for concurrent connections
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18.5 Add support for concurrent connections
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Tests 836, 882 and 938 were designed to verify that separate connections aren't
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used when using different login credentials in protocols that shouldn't re-use
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and thus the wait for connections loop is never entered to receive the second
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connection.
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18. Next SONAME bump
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19. Next SONAME bump
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18.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
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19.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
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#undef CURL_FTP_HTTPSTYLE_HEAD in lib/ftp.c to remove the HTTP-style headers
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from being output in NOBODY requests over FTP
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18.2 combine error codes
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19.2 combine error codes
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Combine some of the error codes to remove duplicates. The original
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numbering should not be changed, and the old identifiers would be
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CURLE_TFTP_PERM => CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED
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18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
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19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
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The current prototype only provides 'purpose' that tells what the
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connection/socket is for, but not any protocol or similar. It makes it hard
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for applications to differentiate on TCP vs UDP and even HTTP vs FTP and
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similar.
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19. Next major release
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20. Next major release
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19.1 cleanup return codes
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20.1 cleanup return codes
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curl_easy_cleanup() returns void, but curl_multi_cleanup() returns a
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CURLMcode. These should be changed to be the same.
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19.2 remove obsolete defines
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20.2 remove obsolete defines
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remove obsolete defines from curl/curl.h
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19.3 size_t
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20.3 size_t
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make several functions use size_t instead of int in their APIs
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19.4 remove several functions
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20.4 remove several functions
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remove the following functions from the public API:
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curl_multi_socket_all
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19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
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20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
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Remove support for CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, it has gotten too kludgy and weird
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internally. Let the app judge success or not for itself.
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19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
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20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
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Remove support for a global DNS cache. Anything global is silly, and we
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already offer the share interface for the same functionality but done
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"right".
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19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
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20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
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The internally provided progress meter output doesn't belong in the library.
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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
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correctly.
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19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
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20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
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curl_formadd() was made to fill in a public struct, but the fact that the
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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
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allow us much greater freedoms while still maintaining a solid API and ABI.
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19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
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20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
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curl_formadd() and curl_formget() both currently have no CURL handle
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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
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mistake.
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19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
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20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
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Rather than use the URL to specify the mail client string to present in the
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HELO and EHLO commands, libcurl should support a new CURLOPT specifically for
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