persistant adjusts

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History of Changes
Daniel (8 March 2001)
- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've
added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine.
Daniel (5 March 2001)
- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works
using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't

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TODO
Ok, this is what I wanna do with Curl. Please tell me what you think, and
please don't hesitate to contribute and send me patches that improve this
product! (Yes, you may add things not mentioned here, these are just a
few teasers...)
Things to do in project cURL. Please tell me what you think, contribute and
send me patches that improve things!
To be done for the 7.7 release:
To do for the 7.7 release:
* Fix the random seeding. Add --egd-socket and --random-file options to the
curl client and libcurl curl_easy_setopt() interface.
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* Add a special connection-timeout that only goes for the connection phase.
To be done after the 7.7 release:
To do for the 7.8 release:
* Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same
host is requested.
To do in a future release:
* Extend the test suite to include telnet and https. The telnet could just do
ftp or http operations (for which we have test servers) and the https would
probably work against/with some of the openssl tools.
* Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time
stamp as the remote file. libcurl already is capable of fetching the remote
file's date.
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* Add asynchronous name resolving, as this enables full timeout support for
fork() systems.
* Non-blocking connect(), also to make timeouts work on windows.
* Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl
application to a separate "portability lib".
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something being worked on in this area) and perl (we have seen the first
versions of this!) comes to mind. Python anyone?
* "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib"
HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get and decode compressed documents. There
is the zlib that is pretty good at decompressing stuff. This work was
started in October 1999 but halted again since it proved more work than we
thought. It is still a good idea to implement though.
* "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib" HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get
and decode compressed documents. There is the zlib that is pretty good at
decompressing stuff. This work was started in October 1999 but halted again
since it proved more work than we thought. It is still a good idea to
implement though.
* Authentication: NTLM. It would be to support that MS crap called NTLM
* Authentication: NTLM. Support for that MS crap called NTLM
authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that
protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network
sniffing. This should however be a library-based functionality. There are a
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* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication"
A valid test page seem to exist at:
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/
And some friendly person's server source code is available at
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html
Then there's the Apache mod_digest source code too of course. It seems as
if Netscape doesn't support this, and not many servers do. Although this is
a lot better authentication method than the more common "Basic". Basic

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.\" nroff -man [file]
.\" Written by daniel@haxx.se
.\"
.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "5 March 2001" "libcurl 7.5" "libcurl Manual"
.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "6 March 2001" "libcurl 7.5" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_easy_setopt - Set curl easy-session options
.SH SYNOPSIS
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You can only set one option in each function call. A typical application uses
many curl_easy_setopt() calls in the setup phase.
NOTE: strings passed to libcurl as 'char *' arguments, will not be copied by
the library. Instead you should keep them available until libcurl no longer
needs them. Failing to do so will cause very odd behaviour or even crashes.
The
.I "handle"
is the return code from the
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.TP
.B CURLOPT_URL
The actual URL to deal with. The parameter should be a char * to a zero
terminated string. NOTE: this option is currently required!
terminated string. The string must remain present until curl no longer needs
it, as it doesn't copy the string. NOTE: this option is required to be set
before curl_easy_perform() is called.
.TP
.B CURLOPT_PROXY
If you need libcurl to use a http proxy to access the outside world, set the
proxy string with this option. The parameter should be a char * to a zero
terminated string. To specify port number in this string, append":[port]" to
terminated string. To specify port number in this string, append :[port] to
the end of the host name. The proxy string may be prefixed with
"[protocol]://" since any such prefix will be ignored.
[protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored.
.TP
.B CURLOPT_PROXYPORT
Set this long with this option to set the proxy port to use unless it is
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.TP
.B CURLOPT_RANGE
Pass a char * as parameter, which should contain the specified range you
want. It should be in the format "X-Y", where X or Y may be left out. The HTTP
want. It should be in the format "X-Y", where X or Y may be left out. HTTP
transfers also support several intervals, separated with commas as in
.I "X-Y,N-M".
.I "X-Y,N-M"
. Using this kind of multiple intervals will cause the HTTP server to send the
response document in pieces.
.TP
.B CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
Pass a char * to a buffer that the libcurl may store human readable error
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Pass a long as parameter containing the maximum time in seconds that you allow
the libcurl transfer operation to take. Do note that normally, name lookups
maky take a considerable time and that limiting the operation to less than a
few minutes risk aborting perfectly normal operations.
few minutes risk aborting perfectly normal operations. This option will cause
curl to use the SIGALRM to enable timeouting system calls.
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.B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in a HTTP