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
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
This commit adds support to generate JSON via the writeout feature:
-w "%{json}"
It leverages the existing infrastructure as much as possible. Thus,
generating the JSON on STDERR is possible by:
-w "%{stderr}%{json}"
This implements a variant of
https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/JSON#--write-out-json.
Closes#4870
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
- replace tabs with spaces where possible
- remove line ending spaces
- remove double/triple newlines at EOF
- fix a non-UTF-8 character
- cleanup a few indentations/line continuations
in manual examples
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3037
... since the libc provided one are locale dependent in a way we don't
want. Also, the "native" isalnum() (for example) works differently on
different platforms which caused test 1307 failures on macos only.
Closes#2269
... and USE_ENVIRONMENT and --environment. It was once added for RISC OS
support and its platform specific behavior has been annoying ever
since. Added in commit c3c8bbd3b2, mostly unchanged since
then. Most probably not actually used for years.
Closes#1463
As they are after all part of the public API. Saves space and reduces
complexity. Remove the strcase defines from the curlx_ family.
Suggested-by: Dan Fandrich
Idea: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-10/0136.html
This allows the root Makefile.am to include the Makefile.inc without
causing automake to warn on it (variables named *_SOURCES are
magic). curl_SOURCES is then instead assigned properly in
src/Makefile.am only.
Closes#577
When duplicating a handle, the data to post was duplicated using
strdup() when it could be binary and contain zeroes and it was not even
zero terminated! This caused read out of bounds crashes/segfaults.
Since the lib/strdup.c file no longer is easily shared with the curl
tool with this change, it now uses its own version instead.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20141105.html
CVE: CVE-2014-3707
Reported-By: Symeon Paraschoudis
Renamed the CURLX_ONES file list definition in order to a) try and be
consistent with other file lists and b) to allow for the addition of
the curlx header files, which will assist with Visual Studio project
files generation rather than hard coding those files.
This reverts renaming and usage of lib/*.h header files done
28-12-2012, reverting 2 commits:
f871de0... build: make use of 76 lib/*.h renamed files
ffd8e12... build: rename 76 lib/*.h files
This also reverts removal of redundant include guard (redundant thanks
to changes in above commits) done 2-12-2013, reverting 1 commit:
c087374... curl_setup.h: remove redundant include guard
This also reverts renaming and usage of lib/*.c source files done
3-12-2013, reverting 3 commits:
13606bb... build: make use of 93 lib/*.c renamed files
5b6e792... build: rename 93 lib/*.c files
7d83dff... build: commit 13606bbfde follow-up 1
Start of related discussion thread:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0012.html
Asking for confirmation on pushing this revertion commit:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0048.html
Confirmation summary:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0079.html
NOTICE: The list of 2 files that have been modified by other
intermixed commits, while renamed, and also by at least one
of the 6 commits this one reverts follows below. These 2 files
will exhibit a hole in history unless git's '--follow' option
is used when viewing logs.
lib/curl_imap.h
lib/curl_smtp.h
Configuration files such as curl_config.h and all config-*.h no longer exist
nor are generated/copied into 'src' directory, now these only exist in 'lib'
directory from where curl tool sources uses them.
Additionally old src/setup.h has been refactored into src/tool_setup.h which
now pulls lib/setup.h
The possibility of a makefile needing an include path adjustment exists.
Use the new library CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE rather than disabling this via
the sockopt callback. If --keepalive-time is used, apply the value to
CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPIDLE and CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPINTVL.
It is often convinient to track back the source of a once downloaded
file; this patch makes curl store the source URL and other metadata
alongside the retrieved file by using the extended attributes (if
supported by the file system and enabled by --xattr).
