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
... or the cookies won't get sent. Push users to using the "Netscape"
format instead, which curl uses when saving a cookie "jar".
Reported-by: Martin Dorey
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Fixes#6723Closes#7077
- 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
Instead output a warning about it and continue with the defaults.
These SSL versions are typically not supported by the TLS libraries since a
long time back already since they are inherently insecure and broken. Asking
for them to be used will just cause an error to be returned slightly later.
In the unlikely event that a user's TLS library actually still supports these
protocol versions, this change might make the request a little less insecure.
Closes#6772
- Document in DOH that some SSL settings are inherited but DOH hostname
and peer verification are not and are controlled separately.
- Document that CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION is inherited by DOH handles but
we're considering changing behavior to no longer inherit it. Request
feedback.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6688
Prior to this change the required argument was not shown.
curl.1 before: --stderr
curl.1 after: --stderr <file>
curl --help before:
--stderr Where to redirect stderr
curl --help after:
--stderr <file> Where to redirect stderr
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6692
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>
- add CURLINFO_REFERER libcurl option
- add --write-out '%{referer}' command-line option
- extend --xattr command-line option to fill user.xdg.referrer.url extended
attribute with the referrer (if there was any)
Closes#6591
- 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
- one source file per line
- convert tabs to spaces
- do not align line-continuation backslashes
- sort source files alphabetically
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes#6593
- Deduplicate the logic used by write-out and write-out json.
Rather than have separate writeLong, writeString, etc, logic for
each of write-out and write-out json instead have respective shared
functions that can output either format and a 'use_json' parameter to
indicate whether it is json that is output.
This will make it easier to maintain. Rather than have to go through
two sets of logic now we only have to go through one.
- Support write-out %{errormsg} and %{exitcode} in json.
- Clarify in the doc that %{exitcode} is the exit code of the transfer.
Prior to this change it just said "The numerical exitcode" which
implies it's the exit code of the tool, and it's not necessarily that.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6544
In a url after <scheme>:// follows the possibly empty authority part
till the next /, so that url missed a /.
Closes#6573
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
- 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
The script warns if the length of $opt and $desc is > 78. However, these
two variables are on totally separate lines so the check makes no sense.
Also the $bitmask field is totally forgotten. Currently this leads to
two warnings within `--resolve` and `--aws-sigv4`.
Closes#6438
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
Extend the syntax of CURLOPT_RESOLVE strings: allow using a '+' prefix
(similar to the existing '-' prefix for removing entries) to add
DNS cache entries that will time out just like entries that are added
by libcurl itself.
Append " (non-permanent)" to info log message in case a non-permanent
entry is added.
Adjust relevant comments to reflect the new behavior.
Adjust documentation.
Extend unit1607 to test the new functionality.
Closes#6294
In particular, these ones can help a user to create its own error
message when one or transfers fail.
writeout: add 'onerror', 'url', 'urlnum', 'exitcode', 'errormsg'
onerror - lets a user only show the rest on non-zero exit codes
url - the input URL used for this transfer
urlnum - the numerical URL counter (0 indexed) for this transfer
exitcode - the numerical exit code for the transfer
errormsg - obvious
Reported-by: Earnestly on github
Fixes#6199Closes#6207
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
The command line tool also independently sets --ftp-skip-pasv-ip by
default.
Ten test cases updated to adapt the modified --libcurl output.
Bug: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8284.html
CVE-2020-8284
Reported-by: Varnavas Papaioannou
- 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
Daniel Stenberg