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
- 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
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>
- 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
- 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
This option sets the (octal) mode to use for the remote file when one is
created, using the SFTP, SCP or FILE protocols. When not set, the
default is 0644.
Closes#6244
- 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
- Stick to a single unified way to use structs
- Make checksrc complain on 'typedef struct {'
- Allow them in tests, public headers and examples
- Let MD4_CTX, MD5_CTX, and SHA256_CTX typedefs remain as they actually
typedef different types/structs depending on build conditions.
Closes#5338
- Implement new option CURLSSLOPT_REVOKE_BEST_EFFORT and
--ssl-revoke-best-effort to allow a "best effort" revocation check.
A best effort revocation check ignores errors that the revocation check
was unable to take place. The reasoning is described in detail below and
discussed further in the PR.
---
When running e.g. with Fiddler, the schannel backend fails with an
unhelpful error message:
Unknown error (0x80092012) - The revocation function was unable
to check revocation for the certificate.
Sadly, many enterprise users who are stuck behind MITM proxies suffer
the very same problem.
This has been discussed in plenty of issues:
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3727,
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/264, for example.
In the latter, a Microsoft Edge developer even made the case that the
common behavior is to ignore issues when a certificate has no recorded
distribution point for revocation lists, or when the server is offline.
This is also known as "best effort" strategy and addresses the Fiddler
issue.
Unfortunately, this strategy was not chosen as the default for schannel
(and is therefore a backend-specific behavior: OpenSSL seems to happily
ignore the offline servers and missing distribution points).
To maintain backward-compatibility, we therefore add a new flag
(`CURLSSLOPT_REVOKE_BEST_EFFORT`) and a new option
(`--ssl-revoke-best-effort`) to select the new behavior.
Due to the many related issues Git for Windows and GitHub Desktop, the
plan is to make this behavior the default in these software packages.
The test 2070 was added to verify this behavior, adapted from 310.
Based-on-work-by: georgeok <giorgos.n.oikonomou@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Markus Olsson <j.markus.olsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4981
Starting with this change when doing parallel transfers, without this
option set, curl will prefer to create new transfers multiplexed on an
existing connection rather than creating a brand new one.
--parallel-immediate can be set to tell curl to prefer to use new
connections rather than to wait and try to multiplex.
libcurl-wise, this means that curl will set CURLOPT_PIPEWAIT by default
on parallel transfers.
Suggested-by: Tom van der Woerdt
Closes#4500
This should again enable crazy-large download ranges of the style
[1-10000000] that otherwise easily ran out of memory starting in 7.66.0
when this new handle allocating scheme was introduced.
Reported-by: Peter Sumatra
Fixes#4393Closes#4438
Even though it cannot fall-back to a lower HTTP version automatically. The
safer way to upgrade remains via CURLOPT_ALTSVC.
CURLOPT_H3 no longer has any bits that do anything and might be removed
before we remove the experimental label.
Updated the curl tool accordingly to use "--http3".
Closes#4197
USe configure --with-ngtcp2 or --with-quiche
Using either option will enable a HTTP3 build.
Co-authored-by: Alessandro Ghedini <alessandro@ghedini.me>
Closes#3500
This is done by making sure each individual transfer is first added to a
linked list as then they can be performed serially, or at will, in
parallel.
Closes#3804
- Revert all commits related to the SASL authzid feature since the next
release will be a patch release, 7.65.1.
Prior to this change CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID / --sasl-authzid was destined
for the next release, assuming it would be a feature release 7.66.0.
However instead the next release will be a patch release, 7.65.1 and
will not contain any new features.
After the patch release after the reverted commits can be restored by
using cherry-pick:
git cherry-pick a14d72ca9499ff8c1cc36c2a8d520edf690
Details for all reverted commits:
Revert "os400: take care of CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID in curl_easy_setopt_ccsid()."
This reverts commit 0edf6907ae.
Revert "tests: Fix the line endings for the SASL alt-auth tests"
This reverts commit c2a8d52a13.
Revert "examples: Added SASL PLAIN authorisation identity (authzid) examples"
This reverts commit 8c1cc369d0.
Revert "curl: --sasl-authzid added to support CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID from the tool"
This reverts commit a9499ff136.
Revert "sasl: Implement SASL authorisation identity via CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID"
This reverts commit a14d72ca2f.
Option -F generates an intermediate representation of the mime structure
that is used later to create the libcurl mime structure and generate
the --libcurl statements.
Reported-by: Daniel Stenberg
Fixes#3532Closes#3546
Added CURLOPT_HTTP09_ALLOWED and --http0.9 for this purpose.
For now, both the tool and library allow HTTP/0.9 by default.
docs/DEPRECATE.md lays out the plan for when to reverse that default: 6
months after the 7.64.0 release. The options are added already now so
that applications/scripts can start using them already now.
Fixes#2873Closes#3383
The tool's local port command line range parser didn't check for integer
overflows and could pass "weird" data to libcurl for this option.
libcurl however, has a strict range check for the values so it rejects
anything outside of the accepted range.
Reported-by: Brian Carpenter
Closes#3242
Adds CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS and CURLOPT_PROXY_TLS13_CIPHERS.
curl: added --tls13-ciphers and --proxy-tls13-ciphers
Fixes#2435
Reported-by: zzq1015 on github
Closes#2607
The feature is only enabled if the output is believed to be a tty.
-J: There's some minor differences and improvements in -J handling, as
now J should work with -i and it actually creates a file first using the
initial name and then *renames* that to the one found in
Content-Disposition (if any).
-i: only shows headers for HTTP transfers now (as documented).
Previously it would also show for pieces of the transfer that were HTTP
(for example when doing FTP over a HTTP proxy).
-i: now shows trailers as well. Previously they were not shown at all.
--libcurl: the CURLOPT_HEADER is no longer set, as the header output is
now done in the header callback.
- Add new option CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT to set libcurl's happy
eyeball timeout value.
- Add new optval macro CURL_HET_DEFAULT to represent the default happy
eyeballs timeout value (currently 200 ms).
- Add new tool option --happy-eyeballs-timeout-ms to expose
CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT. The -ms suffix is used because the
other -timeout options in the tool expect seconds not milliseconds.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2260
By properly keeping track of the last entry in the list of URLs/uploads
to handle, curl now avoids many meaningless traverses of the list which
speeds up many-URL handling *MASSIVELY* (several magnitudes on 100K
URLs).
Added test 1291, to verify that it doesn't take ages - but we don't have
any detection of "too slow" command in the test suite.
Reported-by: arainchik on github
Fixes#1959Closes#2052
The required low-level logic was already available as part of
`libssh2` (via `LIBSSH2_FLAG_COMPRESS` `libssh2_session_flag()`[1]
option.)
This patch adds the new `libcurl` option `CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION`
(boolean) and the new `curl` command-line option `--compressed-ssh`
to request this `libssh2` feature. To have compression enabled, it
is required that the SSH server supports a (zlib) compatible
compression method and that `libssh2` was built with `zlib` support
enabled.
[1] https://www.libssh2.org/libssh2_session_flag.html
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1732
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1735
... to enable sending "OPTIONS *" which wasn't possible previously.
This option currently only works for HTTP.
Added test cases 1298 + 1299 to verify
Fixes#1280Closes#1462
