After a research team wrote a document[1] that found several live source
codes out there in the wild that misused the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
option thinking it was a boolean, this change now bans 1 as a value and
will make libcurl return error for it.
1 was never a sensible value to use in production but was introduced
back in the days to help debugging. It was always documented clearly
this way.
1 was never supported by all SSL backends in libcurl, so this cleanup
makes the treatment of it unified.
The report's list of mistakes for this option were all PHP code and
while there's a binding layer between libcurl and PHP, the PHP team has
decided that they have an as thin layer as possible on top of libcurl so
they will not alter or specifically filter a 'TRUE' value for this
particular option. I sympathize with that position.
[1] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/10/25/libcurl-claimed-to-be-dangerous/
Since automake 1.12.4, the warnings are issued on running automake:
warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
Avoid INCLUDES and roll these flags into AM_CPPFLAGS.
Compile tested on:
Ubuntu 10.04 (automake 1:1.11.1-1)
Ubuntu 12.04 (automake 1:1.11.3-1ubuntu2)
Arch Linux (automake 1.12.4)
The URL we used before is the one that goes directly to 'add' a bug
report, but since you can only do that after first having logged in to
sourceforge, the link often doesn't work for visitors.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3582408
Reported by: Oscar Norlander
This is a minor change in behavior after having been pointed out by Mark
Tully and discussed on the list. Initially this case would internally
call poll() with no sockets and a timeout which would equal a sleep for
that specified time.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-10/0076.html
Reported by: Mark Tully
The test would hang and get aborted with a "ABORTING TEST, since it
seems that it would have run forever." until I prevented that from
happening.
I also fixed the data file which got broken CRLF line endings when I
sucked down the path from Joe's repo == my fault.
Removed #37 from KNOWN_BUGS as this fix and test case verifies exactly
this.
"Currently you can only share DNS and/or COOKIE data" is incorrect since
also SSL sessions can be shared.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3562261
Reported by: Joe Mason
It's conceivable that after the first time curl_multi_perform returns,
the outvalue still_running will be 0, but work will have been done. This
is shown by a workload of small, purely file:// based URLs. Ensure that
we always read pending messages off the multi handle by forcing the
while loop to run at least once.
Removed APOP and SASL authentication from the POP3 section and metalink
support from the client section as these features were implemented in
this release.
Moved adding gssapi to SASL into it's own section rather than repeat it
for each protocol.
Documented that --include will be ignored if both --metalink
and --include are specified.
Also documented that a Metalink file in the local file system
cannot be used if FILE protocol is disabled.
Version number is removed in order to make this info consistent with
how we do it with other MS and Linux system libraries for which we don't
provide this info.
Identifier changed from 'WinSSPI' to 'schannel' given that this is the
actual provider of the SSL/TLS support. libcurl can still be built with
SSPI and without SCHANNEL support.
- For all *FUNCTION options, they now all show the complete prototype in
the description. Previously some of them would just refer to a
typedef'ed function pointer in the curl.h header.
- I made the phrasing of that "Pass a pointer to a function that matches
the following prototype" the same for all *FUNCTION option descriptions.
- I removed some uses of 'should'. I think I sometimes over-use this
word as in many places I actually mean MUST or otherwise more specific
and not-so-optional synonyms.
Added new sections 11. IMAP and 12. LDAP to document adding SASL based
authentication.
Renumbered current sections 11 to 17 as 13 to 19.
Additionally added 19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option.
Setting bit 2 for this value was documented as having a constant value
defined as CURL_REDIR_POST_303 yet referenced a 302 request.
Additionally corrected the meaning of CURL_REDIR_POST_ALL for all three
bits and fixed problems with the bolding of keywords in this section.
Standardised how RFCs are referenced so that the website may autolink to
the correct documentation on ietf.org. Additionally removed the one link
to RFC3986 on curl.haxx.se.
The curl-config command must be used twice in the single command line to
work properly in some environments.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3528241
Reported by: Julian Taylor