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
Azure Pipelines is currently being used for debug builds,
let's also run some non-debug (release) Windows builds and
make use of previously underutilized Cirrus CI for that.
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad
Closes#6991
An updated freebsd-12-2 image was added a few months ago, and this
older one is consistently failing to go past `pkginstall`:
```
Newer FreeBSD version for package py37-mlt:
To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes
- package: 1202000
- running kernel: 1201000
Ignore the mismatch and continue? [Y/n]: pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages for wrong OS version: FreeBSD:12:amd64
```
FreeBSD thread suggests that 12.1 is EOL, and best to avoid.
Ref: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/78856/
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes#6622
The OpenSSH server instance for the testsuite cannot
be started on FreeBSD, therefore the SFTP and SCP
tests are disabled right away from the beginning.
The previous OS version specific logic for SKIP_TESTS
is no longer needed/used and can therefore be removed.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Follow up to #6211Closes#6229
Meant to be the last of the 11 series and so make sure that all
other references reflect all 11 versions so they can be retired
together later.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5668
The tftpd server may still be busy if the total timeout of
25 seconds has not been reached or no sread error was received
during or after the execution of the timeout test 1238.
Once the next TFTP test comes around (eg. 1242 or 1243),
those will fail because the tftpd server is still waiting
on data from curl due to the UDP protocol being stateless
and having no connection close. On Linux this error may not
happen, because ICMP errors generated due to a swrite error
can also be returned async on the next sread call instead.
Therefore we will now just kill the tftpd server after test
1238 to make sure that the following tests are not affected.
This enables us to no longer ignore tests 1242, 1243, 2002
and 2003 on the CI platforms CirrusCI and AppVeyor.
Assisted-by: Peter Wu
Closes#5364
... as we can't seem to start the sshd server on it. Those problems
existed before d1239b50be (running the SSH server on a random port),
but they're more noticable now since there are more failed attempts in
the logs.
Closes#5315
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
Update smbserver.py and negtelnetserver.py to be compatible with
Python 3 while staying backwards-compatible to support Python 2.
Fix string encoding and handling of echoed and transferred data.
Tested with both Python 2.7.17 and Python 3.7.7
Reported-by: Daniel Stenberg
Assisted-by: Kamil Dudka
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad
Fixes#5104Closes#5110
FreeBSD 13.0 is apparently close to a year away from a stable release
and has proven to cause intermittent builds failures recently.
Assisted-by: Dan Fandrich
Assisted-by: Fedor Korotkov
Fixes#5028Closes#5029
Newlines aren't preserved in this section so they're needed to separate
commands. The exports luckily worked anyway as a single long line, but
erroneously exported a variable called "export"
[skip ci]
If more commits are submitted to master between the time of triggering
the first Cirrus build and the time the final build gets started, the
desired commit is no longer at HEAD and the build will error out.
[skip ci]
The build logs will be at https://cirrus-ci.com/github/curl/curl
Some tests are currently failing and so disabled for now. The SSH server
isn't starting for the SSH tests due to unsupported options used in its
config file. The DICT server also is failing on startup.
