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@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ For the future
300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be 300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be
space separated to the next option. space separated to the next option.
* Make the curl tool support URLs that start with @ that would then mean that
the following is a plain list with URLs to download. Thus @filename.txt
reads a list of URLs from a local file. A fancy option would then be to
support @http://whatever.com that would first load a list and then get the
URLs mentioned in the list. I figure -O or something would have to be
implied by such an action.
* Improve the regular progress meter with --continue is used. It should be
noticable when there's a resume going on.
* Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time
stamp as the remote file. This requires some fiddling on FTP but comes
almost free for HTTP.
* Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as * Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as
an alternative to OpenSSL: an alternative to OpenSSL:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
@ -30,7 +44,9 @@ For the future
* Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl * Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl
application to a separate "portability lib". application to a separate "portability lib".
* Add support for other languages than C. C++ and perl comes to mind. Python? * Add support for other languages than C. C++ (rumours have been heard about
something being worked on in this area) and perl (we have seen the first
versions of this!) comes to mind. Python anyone?
* Improve the -K config file parser (the parameter following the flag should * Improve the -K config file parser (the parameter following the flag should
be possible to get specified *exactly* as it is done on a shell command be possible to get specified *exactly* as it is done on a shell command