Warning: this will make existing curl command lines that use metalink to
stop working.
Reasons for removal:
1. We've found several security problems and issues involving the
metalink support in curl. The issues are not detailed here. When
working on those, it become apparent to the team that several of the
problems are due to the system design, metalink library API and what
the metalink RFC says. They are very hard to fix on the curl side
only.
2. The metalink usage with curl was only very briefly documented and was
not following the "normal" curl usage pattern in several ways, making
it surprising and non-intuitive which could lead to further security
issues.
3. The metalink library was last updated 6 years ago and wasn't so
active the years before that either. An unmaintained library means
there's a security problem waiting to happen. This is probably reason
enough.
4. Metalink requires an XML parsing library, which is complex code (even
the smaller alternatives) and to this day often gets security
updates.
5. Metalink is not a widely used curl feature. In the 2020 curl user
survey, only 1.4% of the responders said that they'd are using it. In
2021 that number was 1.2%. Searching the web also show very few
traces of it being used, even with other tools.
6. The torrent format and associated technology clearly won for
downloading large files from multiple sources in parallel.
Cloes #7176
Reported by GCC analyzer:
Error: GCC_ANALYZER_WARNING (CWE-476):
src/tool_getparam.c: scope_hint: In function 'parse_args'
src/tool_getparam.c:2318:38: warning[-Wanalyzer-possible-null-dereference]: dereference of possibly-NULL 'orig_opt'
lib/curlx.h:56: included_from: Included from here.
src/tool_getparam.c:28: included_from: Included from here.
lib/curl_multibyte.h:70:51: note: in definition of macro 'curlx_convert_tchar_to_UTF8'
src/tool_getparam.c:2316:16: note: in expansion of macro 'curlx_convert_tchar_to_UTF8'
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes#7023
- Disable auto credentials by default. This is a breaking change
for clients that are using it, wittingly or not.
- New libcurl ssl option value CURLSSLOPT_AUTO_CLIENT_CERT tells libcurl
to automatically locate and use a client certificate for
authentication, when requested by the server.
- New curl tool options --ssl-auto-client-cert and
--proxy-ssl-auto-client-cert map to CURLSSLOPT_AUTO_CLIENT_CERT.
This option is only supported for Schannel (the native Windows SSL
library). Prior to this change Schannel would, with no notification to
the client, attempt to locate a client certificate and send it to the
server, when requested by the server. Since the server can request any
certificate that supports client authentication in the OS certificate
store it could be a privacy violation and unexpected.
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2262
Reported-by: Jeroen Ooms
Assisted-by: Wes Hinsley
Assisted-by: Rich FitzJohn
Ref: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-02/0066.html
Reported-by: Morten Minde Neergaard
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6673
This reverts commit 1cba36d216.
CMake provides properties that can be set on a target to rename the
output artifact without changing the name of a target.
Ref: #6899
- Save a parallel transfer's result code only when it fails and the
transfer is not being retried.
Prior to this change the result code was always set which meant that a
failed result could be erroneously discarded if a different transfer
later had a successful result (CURLE_OK).
Before:
> curl --fail -Z https://httpbin.org/status/404https://httpbin.org/delay/10
> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
0
After:
> curl --fail -Z https://httpbin.org/status/404https://httpbin.org/delay/10
> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
22
Closes #xxxx
Instead output a warning about it and continue with the defaults.
These SSL versions are typically not supported by the TLS libraries since a
long time back already since they are inherently insecure and broken. Asking
for them to be used will just cause an error to be returned slightly later.
In the unlikely event that a user's TLS library actually still supports these
protocol versions, this change might make the request a little less insecure.
Closes#6772
Make sure the total amount of DL/UL bytes are counted before the
transfer finalizes. Otherwise if a transfer finishes too quick, its
total numbers are not added, and results in a DL%/UL% that goes above
100%.
Detail:
progress_meter() is called periodically, and it may not catch a
transfer's total bytes if the value was unknown during the last call,
and the transfer is finished and deleted (i.e., lost) during the next
call.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6840
Prior to this change the required argument was not shown.
curl.1 before: --stderr
curl.1 after: --stderr <file>
curl --help before:
--stderr Where to redirect stderr
curl --help after:
--stderr <file> Where to redirect stderr
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6692
- Increase the minimum number of spaces between the option and the
description from 1 to 2.
Before:
~~~
-u, --user <user:password> Server user and password
-A, --user-agent <name> Send User-Agent <name> to server
-v, --verbose Make the operation more talkative
-V, --version Show version number and quit
-w, --write-out <format> Use output FORMAT after completion
--xattr Store metadata in extended file attributes
~~~
After:
~~~
-u, --user <user:password> Server user and password
-A, --user-agent <name> Send User-Agent <name> to server
-v, --verbose Make the operation more talkative
-V, --version Show version number and quit
-w, --write-out <format> Use output FORMAT after completion
--xattr Store metadata in extended file attributes
~~~
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6674
The --create-file-mode code logic accepted the value but never actually
passed it on to libcurl!
Follow-up to a7696c7343 (shipped in 7.75.0)
Reported-by: Johannes Lesr
Fixes#6657Closes#6666
Commit e06fa7462a removed support for libgcrypt leaving only
support for nettle which has been the default crypto library in
GnuTLS for a long time. There were however a few conditionals on
USE_GNUTLS_NETTLE which cause compilation errors in the metalink
code (as it used the gcrypt fallback instead as a result). See the
below autobuild for an example of the error:
https://curl.se/dev/log.cgi?id=20210225123226-30704#prob1
This removes all uses of USE_GNUTLS_NETTLE and also removes the
gcrypt support from the metalink code while at it.
Closes#6656
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Previously only a single -b cookie parameter was supported with the last
one winning. This adds support for supplying multiple -b params to have
them serialized semicolon separated. Both cookiefiles and cookies can be
entered multiple times.
Closes#6649
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- add CURLINFO_REFERER libcurl option
- add --write-out '%{referer}' command-line option
- extend --xattr command-line option to fill user.xdg.referrer.url extended
attribute with the referrer (if there was any)
Closes#6591
Previously an empty 'Referer:' header was added to the HTTP request when
passing `--referer ';auto'` or `--referer ''` on the command-line. This
patch makes `--referer` work like `--header 'Referer:'` and will only add
the header if it has a non-zero length value.
Reviewed-by: Jay Satiro
Closes#6610
- New libcurl options CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYHOST,
CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS do the
same as their respective counterparts.
- New curl tool options --doh-insecure and --doh-cert-status do the same
as their respective counterparts.
Prior to this change DOH SSL certificate verification settings for
verifyhost and verifypeer were supposed to be inherited respectively
from CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, but due to a bug
were not. As a result DOH verification remained at the default, ie
enabled, and it was not possible to disable. This commit changes
behavior so that the DOH verification settings are independent and not
inherited.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4579#issuecomment-554723676
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4578
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6597
- Deduplicate the logic used by write-out and write-out json.
Rather than have separate writeLong, writeString, etc, logic for
each of write-out and write-out json instead have respective shared
functions that can output either format and a 'use_json' parameter to
indicate whether it is json that is output.
This will make it easier to maintain. Rather than have to go through
two sets of logic now we only have to go through one.
- Support write-out %{errormsg} and %{exitcode} in json.
- Clarify in the doc that %{exitcode} is the exit code of the transfer.
Prior to this change it just said "The numerical exitcode" which
implies it's the exit code of the tool, and it's not necessarily that.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6544
- Add support services without region and service prefixes in
the URL endpoint (ex. Min.IO, GCP, Yandex Cloud, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions, etc)
by providing region and service parameters via aws-sigv4 option.
- Add [:region[:service]] suffix to aws-sigv4 option;
- Fix memory allocation errors.
- Refactor memory management.
- Use Curl_http_method instead() STRING_CUSTOMREQUEST.
- Refactor canonical headers generating.
- Remove repeated sha256_to_hex() usage.
- Add some docs fixes.
- Add some codestyle fixes.
- Add overloaded strndup() for debug - curl_dbg_strndup().
- Update tests.
Closes#6524
- Update build instructions in packages/DOS/README
- Extend 'VPATH' with 'vquic' and 'vssh'.
- Allow 'Makefile.dist' to build both 'lib' and 'src'.
- Allow using the Windows hosted djgpp cross compiler to build for MSDOS
under Windows.
- 'USE_SSL' -> 'USE_OPENSSL'
- Added a 'link_EXE' macro. Etc, etc.
- Linking 'curl.exe' needs '$(CURLX_CFILES)' too.
- Do not pick-up '../lib/djgpp/*.o' files. Recompile locally.
- Generate a gzipped 'tool_hugehelp.c' if 'USE_ZLIB=1'.
- Remove 'djgpp-clean'
- Adapt to new C-ares directory structure
- Use conditional variable assignments
Clarify the 'conditional variable assignment' in 'common.dj'.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6382
- Move Windows terminal init code from tool_main to tool_doswin.
- Restore the original console settings on CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK.
Background: On Windows the curl tool changes the console settings to
enable virtual terminal processing (eg color output) if supported
(ie Win 10). The original settings are restored on exit but prior to
this change were not restored in the case of the CTRL signals.
Windows VT behavior varies depending on console/powershell/terminal;
refer to the discussion in #6226.
Assisted-by: Rich Turner
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6226
- Fix the failed truncation and failed writing body error messages to
not be shown unless error messages are shown. (ie the user has
specified -sS, or has not specified -s).
- Also prefix same error messages with "curl: ", for example:
curl: (23) Failed to truncate, exiting
Prior to this change the failed truncation error messages would be shown
if not -s, but did not account for -sS which should show.
Prior to this change the failed writing body error messages would be
shown always.
Ref: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-S
Bug: https://curl.se/mail/archive-2020-12/0017.html
Reported-by: Hongyi Zhao
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6402
We currently use both spellings the british "behaviour" and the american
"behavior". However "behavior" is more used in the project so I think
it's worth dropping the british name.
Closes#6395
