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
A struct bufref holds a buffer pointer, a data size and a destructor.
When freed or its contents are changed, the previous buffer is implicitly
released by the associated destructor. The data size, although not used
internally, allows binary data support.
A unit test checks its handling methods: test 1661
Closes#6654
- enable in the build (configure)
- header parsing
- host name lookup
- unit tests for the above
- CI build
- CURL_VERSION_HSTS bit
- curl_version_info support
- curl -V output
- curl-config --features
- CURLOPT_HSTS_CTRL
- man page for CURLOPT_HSTS_CTRL
- curl --hsts (sets CURLOPT_HSTS_CTRL and works with --libcurl)
- man page for --hsts
- save cache to disk
- load cache from disk
- CURLOPT_HSTS
- man page for CURLOPT_HSTS
- added docs/HSTS.md
- fixed --version docs
- adjusted curl_easy_duphandle
Closes#5896
Added unit test case 1655 to verify.
Close#4352
the code correctly finds the flaws in the old code,
if one temporarily restores doh.c to the old version.
This adds a new unittest intended to cover the internal functions in
the urlapi code, starting with parse_port(). In order to avoid name
collisions in debug builds, parse_port() is renamed Curl_parse_port()
since it will be exported.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad <Marcel.Raad@teamviewer.com>
The internal buffer in infof() is limited to 2048 bytes of payload plus
an additional byte for NULL termination. Servers with very long error
messages can however cause truncation of the string, which currently
isn't very clear, and leads to badly formatted output.
This appends a "...\n" (or just "..." in case the format didn't with a
newline char) marker to the end of the string to clearly show
that it has been truncated.
Also include a unittest covering infof() to try and catch any bugs
introduced in this quite important function.
Closes#3216
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad <Marcel.Raad@teamviewer.com>
- 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
This patch adds CURLOPT_DNS_SHUFFLE_ADDRESSES to explicitly request
shuffling of IP addresses returned for a hostname when there is more
than one. This is useful when the application knows that a round robin
approach is appropriate and is willing to accept the consequences of
potentially discarding some preference order returned by the system's
implementation.
Closes#1694
This enables users to preresolve but still take advantage of happy
eyeballs and trying multiple addresses if some are not connecting.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2260
Prevent `Curl_pgrsTime` from modifying `t_starttransfer` when invoked
with `TIMER_STARTTRANSFER` more than once during a single request.
When a redirect occurs, this is considered a new request and
`t_starttransfer` can be updated to reflect the `t_starttransfer` time
of the redirect request.
Closes#1616
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1602#issuecomment-310267370
- Add unit test 1604 to test the sanitize_file_name function.
- Use -DCURL_STATICLIB when building libcurltool for unit testing.
- Better detection of reserved DOS device names.
- New flags to modify sanitize behavior:
SANITIZE_ALLOW_COLONS: Allow colons
SANITIZE_ALLOW_PATH: Allow path separators and colons
SANITIZE_ALLOW_RESERVED: Allow reserved device names
SANITIZE_ALLOW_TRUNCATE: Allow truncating a long filename
- Restore sanitization of banned characters from user-specified outfile.
Prior to this commit sanitization of a user-specified outfile was
temporarily disabled in 2b6dadc because there was no way to allow path
separators and colons through while replacing other banned characters.
Now in such a case we call the sanitize function with
SANITIZE_ALLOW_PATH which allows path separators and colons to pass
through.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/624
Reported-by: Octavio Schroeder
If the precision is indeed shorter than the string, don't strlen() to
find the end because that's not how the precision operator works.
I also added a unit test for curl_msnprintf to make sure this works and
that the fix doesn't a few other basic use cases. I found a POSIX
compliance problem that I marked TODO in the unit test, and I figure we
need to add more tests in the future.
Reported-by: Török Edwin
RFC3986 details how a path part passed in as part of a URI should be
"cleaned" from dot sequences before getting used. The described
algorithm is now implemented in lib/dotdot.c with the accompanied test
case in test 1395.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1200
Reported-by: Alex Vinnik
These verfy that the 'memory tracking' subsystem is actually doing its
job when using curl tool (#96), a test in libtest (#558) and also a unit
test (#1330), in order to prevent regressions in this functionallity.
Automake documents that doing this will make it choose a different name
for intermediate object files even when sharing source files across
targets of same Makefile.am.
Up to automake 1.13.1 target's intermediate object files were placed
in the build subdirectory of the target. We depended on this, probably
undocumented behavior, to achieve same behavior as if a per-target flag
had been specified when building targets that actually belong to
different Makefile.am files.
It seems automake 1.13.2 is going to break behavior mentioned above.
So, lets use a documented behavior in order to achieve same purpose,
across automake versions, no matter where automake wishes to place
intermediate object files.
Our build targets that already were using a per-target '_CFLAGS' or
'_CPPFLAGS' need no 'fixing', these were already 'fixed'. The only
Makefile.am or Makefile.in files in libcurl's source tree touched by
this 'fix' are tests/libtest/Makefile.inc and tests/unit/Makefile.inc.
