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
If event_del is called with the event struct (still) zeroed out, a
segmentation fault may occur. event_initialized checks whether the
event struct is nonzero.
Closes#6876
- 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
- 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
Add files that are generated by 'make examples' and remove some that
have been renamed.
The commits that renamed the programs are e9625c5bc6 (imap.c and
simplesmtp.c were renamed to imap-fetch.c and smtp-send.c) and
ad39e7ec01 (pop3slist.c and pop3s.c were renamed to pop3-list.c and
pop3-ssl.c).
Closes#6240
configure --enable-debug now enables -Wassign-enum with clang,
identifying several enum "abuses" also fixed.
Reported-by: Gisle Vanem
Bug: 879007f811 (commitcomment-42087553)Closes#5929
According to wikipedia:
While "web site" was the original spelling, this variant has become
rarely used, and "website" has become the standard spelling
Closes#5822
Without the -D command line option, checksrc.pl won't know which
directory to load the ".checksrc" file from when building out of the
source tree.
Reported-by: Marcel Raad
Fixes#5715Closes#5755
They're not thread-safe so they should not be used in libcurl code.
Explictly enabled when deemed necessary and in examples and tests
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Sterchele
Closes#5732
include zstd curl patch for Makefile.m32 from vszakats
and include Add CMake support for zstd from Peter Wu
Helped-by: Viktor Szakats
Helped-by: Peter Wu
Closes#5453
If `index.html` does not exist in the directory from which the example
is invoked, the fopen(upload, "rb") invocation in `setup` would fail,
returning NULL. This value is subsequently passed as the FILE* argument
of the `fread` invocation in the `read_callback` function, which is the
actual cause of the crash (apparently `fread` assumes that argument to
be non-null).
In addition, mitigate some possible crashes of similar origin.
Closes#5463
- 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
This example has repeatedly been reported to contain bugs, and as users
copy and paste code from this into production, I now deem it better to
not provide the example at all.
Closes#5090Closes#5322
This fixes the error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside C99
mode by declaring the loop increment variable in the beginning of the
block instead of inside the for loop.
Fixes#5254
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported by the new script 'scripts/copyright.pl'. The script has a
regex whitelist for the files that don't need copyright headers.
Removed three (mostly usesless) README files from docs/
Closes#5141
The comment was confusing and suggested that setting CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS
to 0L would both enable and disable debug output at the same time, like
a Schrödinger's cat of CURLOPTs.
Closes#4745
