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
The 'hyper mode' makes line-ending checks work in the test suite for
when hyper is used. Now it also requires that HTTP or HTTPS are
mentioned as keywords to be enabled so that it doesn't wrongly adjusts
tests for other protocols.
This makes test 271 (TFTP) work again in hyper enabled builds.
Closes#7185
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
... to make tests run differently or expect different results depending
on what features that are present or not in curl.
Bonus: initial minor 'Hyper' awareness but nothing is using that yet
Closes#6304
... and use this new keywords in all the test files larger than 50K to reduce
their sizes and make them a lot easier to read and understand.
Closes#6040
Added test 348 to verify. Added a 'STOR' command to the test FTP
server to enable test 348. Documented the command in FILEFORMAT.md
Reported-by: Duncan Wilcox
Fixes#6016Closes#6017
The CMake option is now called CMAKE_USE_SCHANNEL
The winbuild flag is USE_SCHANNEL
The CI jobs and build scripts only use the new names and the new name
options
Tests now require 'Schannel' (when necessary)
Closes#5795
This allows us to make test cases to use base64 at run-time and still
use and verify information determined at run-time, such as the IMAP test
server's port number in test 842.
This change makes 12 tests run again that basically never ran since we
moved to dynamic port numbers.
ftpserver.pl is adjusted to load test instructions and test number from
the preprocessed test file.
FILEFORMAT.md now documents the new base64 encoding syntax.
Reported-by: Marcel Raad
Fixes#5761Closes#5775
OpenSSH for Windows requires paths in the format of /C:/
instead of the pseudo-POSIX paths /cygdrive/c/ or just /c/
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes#5298
The purpose with this variable is to provide a port number that is
reasonably likely to not have a listener on the local host so that tests
can try connect failures against it. It uses port 47 - "reserved"
according to IANA.
Updated six tests to use it instead of the previous different ports.
Assisted-by: Emil Engler
Closes#5270
