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
This was previously defined by the obsolete AC_TYPE_SIGNAL macro,
which was removed in 2682e5f5. The deprecation text says
> Your code may safely assume C89 semantics that RETSIGTYPE is void.
So, remove it and just use void instead.
Closes#6861
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>
Reported by the new script 'scripts/copyright.pl'. The script has a
regex whitelist for the files that don't need copyright headers.
Removed three (mostly usesless) README files from docs/
Closes#5141
- s/USE_CYASSL/USE_WOLFSSL/
- Remove old compatibility macros.
Follow-up to 1c6c59a from several months ago when CyaSSL named symbols
were renamed to wolfSSL. The wolfSSL library was formerly named CyaSSL
and we kept using their old name for compatibility reasons, until
earlier this year.
- remove unused variables
- declare conditionally used variables conditionally
- suppress unused variable warnings in the CMake tests
- remove dead variable stores
- consistently use WIN32 macro to detect Windows
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3739
The DCL code had a typo in one of the commands which would make the
OpenSSL discovery on VAX fail. The correct syntax is F$ENVIRONMENT.
Closes#3407
Reviewed-by: Viktor Szakats <commit@vszakats.net>
Commit 709cf76f6b deprecated USE_SSLEAY, as curl since long isn't
compatible with the SSLeay library. This removes the few leftovers that
were omitted in the less frequently used platform targets.
Closes#3270
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Commit efc696a2e0 renamed persistant.c to persistent.c to
fix the typo in the name, but missed to update the OpenVMS package
files which still looked for the old name.
Closes#3217
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Szakats <commit@vszakats.net>
As has been outlined in the DEPRECATE.md document, the axTLS code has
been disabled for 6 months and is hereby removed.
Use a better supported TLS library!
Assisted-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Closes#3194
- replace tabs with spaces where possible
- remove line ending spaces
- remove double/triple newlines at EOF
- fix a non-UTF-8 character
- cleanup a few indentations/line continuations
in manual examples
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3037
We're mostly saying just "curl" in lower case these days so here's a big
cleanup to adapt to this reality. A few instances are left as the
project could still formally be considered called cURL.
Since we're using CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY in imap, pop3 and smtp as
more of a generic "failed to parse" introduce an alias without FTP in
the name.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/975
setup-vms.h: Symbol case fixups submitted by Michael Steve
build_gnv_curl_pcsi_desc.com: VSI aka as VMS Software, is now the
supplier of new versions of VMS. The install kit needs to accept
VSI as a producer.
SSLeay was the name of the library that was subsequently turned into
OpenSSL many moons ago (1999). curl does not work with the old SSLeay
library since years. This is now reflected by only using USE_OPENSSL in
code that depends on OpenSSL.
lib/setup-vms.h : VAX HP OpenSSL port is ancient, needs help.
More defines to set symbols to uppercase.
src/tool_main.c : Fix parameter to vms_special_exit() call.
packages/vms/ :
backup_gnv_curl_src.com : Fix the error message to have the correct package.
build_curl-config_script.com : Rewrite to be more accurate.
build_libcurl_pc.com : Use tool_version.h now.
build_vms.com : Fix to handle lib/vtls directory.
curl_gnv_build_steps.txt : Updated build procedure documentation.
generate_config_vms_h_curl.com :
* VAX does not support 64 bit ints, so no NTLM support for now.
* VAX HP SSL port is ancient, needs some help.
* Disable NGHTTP2 for now, not ported to VMS.
* Disable UNIX_SOCKETS, not available on VMS yet.
* HP GSSAPI port does not have gss_nt_service_name.
gnv_link_curl.com : Update for new curl structure.
pcsi_product_gnv_curl.com : Set up to optionally do a complete build.
Add the curl release notes to the release note document generated for
VMS packages.
Add the different filenames generated by a daily build to the
cleanup procedures.
These are the files needed to build VMS distribution packages known as
PCSI kits.
Also minor update to the existing files, mainly to the documentation and
file clean up code.
Update the packages/vms/readme file to be current.
Also some files for the GNV based build were either missing or needed an
update.
curl_crtl_init.c is a special file that is run before main() to
set up the proper C runtime behavior.
generate_vax_transfer.com generates the VAX transfer vector modules from
the gnv_libcurl_symbols.opt file.
gnv_conftest.c_first is a helper file needed for configure scripts to
come up with the expected answers on VMS.
gnv_libcurl_symbols.opt is the public symbols for the libcurl shared
image.
gnv_link_curl.com builds the shared libcurl image and rebuilds other
programs to use it.
macro32_exactcase.patch is a hack to make a local copy of the VMS Macro32
assembler case sensitive, which is needed to build the VAX transfer modules.
report_openssl_version.c is a tool for help verify that the libcurl
shared image is being built for a minium version of openssl.
