Use TLS vX.Y throughout the document, instead of TLS X.Y, as that was
already done in all but a few cases. Also fix a few typos.
Closes#3076
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad <Marcel.Raad@teamviewer.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- 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
In order for this API to fully work for libcurl itself, it now offers a
CURLU_GUESS_SCHEME flag that makes it "guess" scheme based on the host
name prefix just like libcurl always did. If there's no known prefix, it
will guess "http://".
Separately, it relaxes the check of the host name so that IDN host names
can be passed in as well.
Both these changes are necessary for libcurl itself to use this API.
Assisted-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Closes#3018
Add functionality so that protocols can do custom keepalive on their
connections, when an external API function is called.
Add docs for the new options in 7.62.0
Closes#1641
... and add "MAILINDEX".
As described in #2789, this is a suggested solution. Changing UID=xx to
actually get mail with UID xx and add "MAILINDEX" to get a mail with a
special index in the mail box (old behavior). So MAILINDEX=1 gives the
first non deleted mail in the mail box.
Fixes#2789Closes#2815
Transparently. The related curl_multi_setopt() options all still returns
OK when pipelining is selected.
To re-enable the support, the single line change in lib/multi.c needs to
be reverted.
See docs/DEPRECATE.md
Closes#2705
Multi-threaded applictions basically MUST set CURLOPT_NO_SIGNAL to 1L to
avoid the risk of getting a SIGPIPE.
Either way, a multi-threaded application that uses libcurl/openssl needs
to have a signhandler for or ignore SIGPIPE on its own.
Based on discussions in #2800Closes#2904
- CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION: add newlines
- CURLOPT_INTERLEAVEFUNCTION: fix the description of 'userdata'
- CURLOPT_READDATA: mention crashes, same as in CURLOPT_WRITEDATA
- CURLOPT_READFUNCTION: rename 'instream' to 'userdata' and explain
how to set it
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2868
The statement, “The application does not have to keep the string around
after setting this option,” appears to be indented under the RTMP
paragraph. It actually applies to all protocols, not just RTMP.
Eliminate the extra indentation.
Closes#2788
For compatibility with `fwrite`, the `CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION` callback is
passed two `size_t` parameters which, when multiplied, designate the
number of bytes of data passed in. In practice, CURL always sets the
first parameter (`size`) to 1.
This practice is also enshrined in documentation and cannot be changed
in future. The documentation states that the default callback is
`fwrite`, which means `fwrite` must be a suitable function for this
purpose. However, the documentation also states that the callback must
return the number of *bytes* it successfully handled, whereas ISO C
`fwrite` returns the number of items (each of size `size`) which it
wrote. The only way these numbers can be equal is if `size` is 1.
Since `size` is 1 and can never be changed in future anyway, document
that fact explicitly and let users rely on it.
Closes#2787
The code treated the set version as the *exact* version to require in
the TLS handshake, which is not what other TLS backends do and probably
not what most people expect either.
Reported-by: Andreas Olsson
Assisted-by: Gaurav Malhotra
Fixes#2691Closes#2694
The previous example was a little bit confusing, because SSL* structure
(or other "in use" SSL connection pointer) is not accessible after the
transfer is completed, therefore working with the raw TLS library
specific pointer needs to be done during transfer.
Closes#2690
Adds CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS and CURLOPT_PROXY_TLS13_CIPHERS.
curl: added --tls13-ciphers and --proxy-tls13-ciphers
Fixes#2435
Reported-by: zzq1015 on github
Closes#2607
The latest psl is cached in the multi or share handle. It is refreshed
before use after 72 hours.
New share lock CURL_LOCK_DATA_PSL controls the psl cache sharing.
If the latest psl is not available, the builtin psl is used.
Reported-by: Yaakov Selkowitz
Fixes#2553Closes#2601
The previous limit of 5 can still end up in situation that takes a very
long time and consumes a lot of CPU.
If there is still a rare use case for this, a user can provide their own
fnmatch callback for a version that allows a larger set of wildcards.
This commit was triggered by yet another OSS-Fuzz timeout due to this.
Bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8369Closes#2587
Provide a set of new timers that return the time intervals using integer
number of microseconds instead of floats.
The new info names are as following:
CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME_T
CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME_T
CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME_T
CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME_T
CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T
CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME_T
CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME_T
Closes#2495
This file wasn't included in commit 4af40b3646 which updated all
haxx.se http urls to https. The file was committed prior to that update,
but may have been merged after it and hence didn't get updated.
Closes#2550
- Move verify_certificate functionality in schannel.c into a new
file called schannel_verify.c. Additionally, some structure defintions
from schannel.c have been moved to schannel.h to allow them to be
used in schannel_verify.c.
- Make verify_certificate functionality for Schannel available on
all versions of Windows instead of just Windows CE. verify_certificate
will be invoked on Windows CE or when the user specifies
CURLOPT_CAINFO and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.
- In verify_certificate, create a custom certificate chain engine that
exclusively trusts the certificate store backed by the CURLOPT_CAINFO
file.
- doc updates of --cacert/CAINFO support for schannel
- Use CERT_NAME_SEARCH_ALL_NAMES_FLAG when invoking CertGetNameString
when available. This implements a TODO in schannel.c to improve
handling of multiple SANs in a certificate. In particular, all SANs
will now be searched instead of just the first name.
- Update tool_operate.c to not search for the curl-ca-bundle.crt file
when using Schannel to maintain backward compatibility. Previously,
any curl-ca-bundle.crt file found in that search would have been
ignored by Schannel. But, with CAINFO support, the file found by
that search would have been used as the certificate store and
could cause issues for any users that have curl-ca-bundle.crt in
the search path.
- Update url.c to not set the build time CURL_CA_BUNDLE if the selected
SSL backend is Schannel. We allow setting CA location for schannel
only when explicitly specified by the user via CURLOPT_CAINFO /
--cacert.
- Add new test cases 3000 and 3001. These test cases check that the first
and last SAN, respectively, matches the connection hostname. New test
certificates have been added for these cases. For 3000, the certificate
prefix is Server-localhost-firstSAN and for 3001, the certificate
prefix is Server-localhost-secondSAN.
- Remove TODO 15.2 (Add support for custom server certificate
validation), this commit addresses it.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1325
Users can now specify a client certificate in system certificates store
explicitly using expression like `--cert "CurrentUser\MY\<thumbprint>"`
Closes#2376
- Put a percent sign before each CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T in printf.
For example "%" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T becomes %lld or similar.
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2018-03/0140.html
Reported-by: David L.
This patch adds CURLOPT_DNS_SHUFFLE_ADDRESSES to explicitly request
shuffling of IP addresses returned for a hostname when there is more
than one. This is useful when the application knows that a round robin
approach is appropriate and is willing to accept the consequences of
potentially discarding some preference order returned by the system's
implementation.
Closes#1694
- Add new option CURLOPT_RESOLVER_START_FUNCTION to set a callback that
will be called every time before a new resolve request is started
(ie before a host is resolved) with a pointer to backend-specific
resolver data. Currently this is only useful for ares.
- Add new option CURLOPT_RESOLVER_START_DATA to set a user pointer to
pass to the resolver start callback.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2311
- In keeping with the naming of our other connect timeout options rename
CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT to CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT_MS.
This change adds the _MS suffix since the option expects milliseconds.
This is more intuitive for our users since other connect timeout options
that expect milliseconds use _MS such as CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS,
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS.
The tool option already uses an -ms suffix, --happy-eyeballs-timeout-ms.
Follow-up to 2427d94 which added the lib and tool option yesterday.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2260
- Add new option CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT to set libcurl's happy
eyeball timeout value.
- Add new optval macro CURL_HET_DEFAULT to represent the default happy
eyeballs timeout value (currently 200 ms).
- Add new tool option --happy-eyeballs-timeout-ms to expose
CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT. The -ms suffix is used because the
other -timeout options in the tool expect seconds not milliseconds.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2260
This enables users to preresolve but still take advantage of happy
eyeballs and trying multiple addresses if some are not connecting.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2260
Make curl_getdate() handle dates before 1970 as well (returning negative
values).
Make test 517 test dates for 64 bit time_t.
This fixes bug (3) mentioned in #2238Closes#2250
... unless CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH is set to allow them. This matches how
curl already handles Authorization headers created internally.
Note: this changes behavior slightly, for the sake of reducing mistakes.
Added test 317 and 318 to verify.
Reported-by: Craig de Stigter
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-b3bf.html
A mime tree attached to an easy handle using CURLOPT_MIMEPOST is
strongly bound to the handle: there is a pointer to the easy handle in
each item of the mime tree and following the parent pointer list
of mime items ends in a dummy part stored within the handle.
Because of this binding, a mime tree cannot be shared between different
easy handles, thus it needs to be cloned upon easy handle duplication.
There is no way for the caller to get the duplicated mime tree
handle: it is then set to be automatically destroyed upon freeing the
new easy handle.
New test 654 checks proper mime structure duplication/release.
Add a warning note in curl_mime_data_cb() documentation about sharing
user data between duplicated handles.
Closes#2235
- Ignore X509_R_CERT_ALREADY_IN_HASH_TABLE errors in the CTX callback
since it's possible the cert may have already been loaded by libcurl.
- Remove the EXAMPLE code in the CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.3 doc.
Instead have it direct the reader to this cacertinmem.c example.
- Fix the CA certificate to use the right CA for example.com, Digicert.
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-12/0057.html
Reported-by: Thomas van Hesteren
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2182
Connections that are used for HTTP/1.1 Pipelining or HTTP/2 multiplexing
only get additional transfers added to them if the existing connection
is held by the same multi or easy handle. libcurl does not support doing
HTTP/2 streams in different threads using a shared connection.
Closes#2152
This bit is no longer used. It is not clear what it meant for users to
"init the TLS" in a world with different TLS backends and since the
introduction of multissl, libcurl didn't properly work if inited without
this bit set.
Not a single user responded to the call for users of it:
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-11/0072.html
Reported-by: Evgeny Grin
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Fixes#2089Fixes#2083Closes#2107
... so that IPv6 addresses can be passed like they can for connect-to
and how they're used in URLs.
Added test 1324 to verify
Reported-by: Alex Malinovich
Fixes#2087Closes#2091
This uses the brotli external library (https://github.com/google/brotli).
Brotli becomes a feature: additional curl_version_info() bit and
structure fields are provided for it and CURLVERSION_NOW bumped.
Tests 314 and 315 check Brotli content unencoding with correct and
erroneous data.
Some tests are updated to accomodate with the now configuration dependent
parameters of the Accept-Encoding header.
... that are multiplied by 1000 when stored.
For 32 bit long systems, the max value accepted (2147483 seconds) is >
596 hours which is unlikely to ever be set by a legitimate application -
and previously it didn't work either, it just caused undefined behavior.
Also updated the man pages for these timeout options to mention the
return code.
Closes#1938
- Use spaces instead of tabs as the delimiter.
Follow up to 7c52b12 which added the entry. The entry had used tabs but
the symbol-scan parser doesn't recognize tabs and would fail the symbol.
curl_mime_encoder() is operational and documented.
curl tool -F option is extended with ";encoder=".
curl tool --libcurl option generates calls to curl_mime_encoder().
New encoder tests 648 & 649.
Test 1404 extended with an encoder specification.
To support telling a string is nul-terminated, symbol CURL_ZERO_TERMINATED
has been introduced.
Documentation updated accordingly.
symbols in versions updated. Added form API symbols deprecation info.
This feature is badly supported in Windows: as a replacement, a caller has
to use curl_mime_data_cb() with fread, fseek and possibly fclose
callbacks to process opened files.
The cli tool and documentation are updated accordingly.
The feature is however kept internally for form API compatibility, with
the known caveats it always had.
As a side effect, stdin size is not determined by the cli tool even if
possible and this results in a chunked transfer encoding. Test 173 is
updated accordingly.
it is a one time *set*, not necessarily a one time use... it can be
called again if the first call failed or just listed the alternatives.
clarify that the available backends are the ones this build supports
plus add some formatting
Reported-by: Rich Gray
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-08/0119.html
Let's add a compile time safe API to select an SSL backend. This
function needs to be called *before* curl_global_init(), and can be
called only once.
Side note: we do not explicitly test that it is called before
curl_global_init(), but we do verify that it is not called multiple times
(even implicitly).
If SSL is used before the function was called, it will use whatever the
CURL_SSL_BACKEND environment variable says (or default to the first
available SSL backend), and if a subsequent call to
curl_global_sslset() disagrees with the previous choice, it will fail
with CURLSSLSET_TOO_LATE.
The function also accepts an "avail" parameter to point to a (read-only)
NULL-terminated list of available backends. This comes in real handy if
an application wants to let the user choose between whatever SSL backends
the currently available libcurl has to offer: simply call
curl_global_sslset(-1, NULL, &avail);
which will return CURLSSLSET_UNKNOWN_BACKEND and populate the avail
variable to point to the relevant information to present to the user.
Just like with the HTTP/2 push functions, we have to add the function
declaration of curl_global_sslset() function to the header file
*multi.h* because VMS and OS/400 require a stable order of functions
declared in include/curl/*.h (where the header files are sorted
alphabetically). This looks a bit funny, but it cannot be helped.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The required low-level logic was already available as part of
`libssh2` (via `LIBSSH2_FLAG_COMPRESS` `libssh2_session_flag()`[1]
option.)
This patch adds the new `libcurl` option `CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION`
(boolean) and the new `curl` command-line option `--compressed-ssh`
to request this `libssh2` feature. To have compression enabled, it
is required that the SSH server supports a (zlib) compatible
compression method and that `libssh2` was built with `zlib` support
enabled.
[1] https://www.libssh2.org/libssh2_session_flag.html
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1732
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1735
If libcurl was built with GSS-API support, it unconditionally advertised
GSS-API authentication while connecting to a SOCKS5 proxy. This caused
problems in environments with improperly configured Kerberos: a stock
libcurl failed to connect, despite libcurl built without GSS-API
connected fine using username and password.
This commit introduces the CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH option to control the
allowed methods for SOCKS5 authentication at run time.
Note that a new option was preferred over reusing CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH
for compatibility reasons because the set of authentication methods
allowed by default was different for HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies.
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-01/0005.html
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1454
... to enable sending "OPTIONS *" which wasn't possible previously.
This option currently only works for HTTP.
Added test cases 1298 + 1299 to verify
Fixes#1280Closes#1462
This change introduces new alternatives for the existing six
curl_easy_getinfo() options that return sizes or speeds as doubles. The
new versions are named like the old ones but with an appended '_T':
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD_T
CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD_T
CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD_T
CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD_T
CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD_T
Closes#1511
Some code (e.g. Curl_fillreadbuffer) assumes that this buffer is not
exceedingly tiny and will break if it is. This same check is already
done at run time in the CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE option.
The module contains a more comprehensive set of trust information than
supported by nss-pem, because libnssckbi.so also includes information
about distrusted certificates.
Reviewed-by: Kai Engert
Closes#1414
For some reason, CMake 2.8.12.2 did not expand the list argument in a
single DEPENDS argument. Remove the quotes, so it gets expanded into
multiple arguments for add_custom_command and add_custom_target.
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1370Closes#1372
Note that for some reason there is this warning (that also exists with
autotools, added since curl-7_15_1-94-ga718cb05f):
docs/libcurl/curl_multi_socket_all.3:1: can't open `man3/curl_multi_socket.3': No such file or directory
Additionally, adjust the roffit --mandir option to support creating
links when doing out-of-tree builds.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1288
For easier sharing with CMake. The contents were reformatted to use
two-space indent and expanded tabs (matching lib/Makefile.common).
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1288
- Add new option CURLOPT_SUPPRESS_CONNECT_HEADERS to allow suppressing
proxy CONNECT response headers from the user callback functions
CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION and CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.
- Add new tool option --suppress-connect-headers to expose
CURLOPT_SUPPRESS_CONNECT_HEADERS and allow suppressing proxy CONNECT
response headers from --dump-header and --include.
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Assisted-by: CarloCannas@users.noreply.github.com
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/783
This commit introduces the CURL_SSLVERSION_MAX_* constants as well as
the --tls-max option of the curl tool.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1166
In DarwinSSL the SSLSetPeerDomainName function is used to enable both
sending SNI and verifying the host. When host verification is disabled
the function cannot be called, therefore SNI is disabled as well.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1240
- Change CURLOPT_PROXY_CAPATH to return CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN if the option
is not supported, which is the same as what we already do for
CURLOPT_CAPATH.
- Change the curl tool to handle CURLOPT_PROXY_CAPATH error
CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN as a warning instead of as an error, which is the
same as what we already do for CURLOPT_CAPATH.
- Fix CAPATH docs to show that CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN is returned when the
respective CAPATH option is not supported by the SSL library.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1257
Replace use of fixed macro BUFSIZE to define the size of the receive
buffer. Reappropriate CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE to include enlarging receive
buffer size. Upon setting, resize buffer if larger than the current
default size up to a MAX_BUFSIZE (512KB). This can benefit protocols
like SFTP.
Closes#1222
In addition to unix domain sockets, Linux also supports an
abstract namespace which is independent of the filesystem.
In order to support it, add new CURLOPT_ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET
option which uses the same storage as CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH
internally, along with a flag to specify abstract socket.
On non-supporting platforms, the abstract address will be
interpreted as an empty string and fail gracefully.
Also add new --abstract-unix-socket tool parameter.
Signed-off-by: Isaac Boukris <iboukris@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Chungtsun Li (typeless)
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu
Closes#1197Fixes#1061
Follow-up to 82245ea: Fix the example program sendrecv.c (handle
CURLE_AGAIN, handle incomplete send). Improve the documentation
for curl_easy_recv() and curl_easy_send().
Reviewed-by: Frank Meier
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1134
CURLOPT_SOCKS_PROXY -> CURLOPT_PRE_PROXY
Added the corresponding --preroxy command line option. Sets a SOCKS
proxy to connect to _before_ connecting to a HTTP(S) proxy.
This was added as part of the SOCKS+HTTPS proxy merge but there's no
need to support this as we prefer to have the protocol specified as a
prefix instead.
Adds access to the effectively used protocol/scheme to both libcurl and
curl, both in string and numeric (CURLPROTO_*) form.
Note that the string form will be uppercase, as it is just the internal
string.
As these strings are declared internally as const, and all other strings
returned by curl_easy_getinfo() are de-facto const as well, string
handling in getinfo.c got const-ified.
Closes#1137
* HTTPS proxies:
An HTTPS proxy receives all transactions over an SSL/TLS connection.
Once a secure connection with the proxy is established, the user agent
uses the proxy as usual, including sending CONNECT requests to instruct
the proxy to establish a [usually secure] TCP tunnel with an origin
server. HTTPS proxies protect nearly all aspects of user-proxy
communications as opposed to HTTP proxies that receive all requests
(including CONNECT requests) in vulnerable clear text.
With HTTPS proxies, it is possible to have two concurrent _nested_
SSL/TLS sessions: the "outer" one between the user agent and the proxy
and the "inner" one between the user agent and the origin server
(through the proxy). This change adds supports for such nested sessions
as well.
A secure connection with a proxy requires its own set of the usual SSL
options (their actual descriptions differ and need polishing, see TODO):
--proxy-cacert FILE CA certificate to verify peer against
--proxy-capath DIR CA directory to verify peer against
--proxy-cert CERT[:PASSWD] Client certificate file and password
--proxy-cert-type TYPE Certificate file type (DER/PEM/ENG)
--proxy-ciphers LIST SSL ciphers to use
--proxy-crlfile FILE Get a CRL list in PEM format from the file
--proxy-insecure Allow connections to proxies with bad certs
--proxy-key KEY Private key file name
--proxy-key-type TYPE Private key file type (DER/PEM/ENG)
--proxy-pass PASS Pass phrase for the private key
--proxy-ssl-allow-beast Allow security flaw to improve interop
--proxy-sslv2 Use SSLv2
--proxy-sslv3 Use SSLv3
--proxy-tlsv1 Use TLSv1
--proxy-tlsuser USER TLS username
--proxy-tlspassword STRING TLS password
--proxy-tlsauthtype STRING TLS authentication type (default SRP)
All --proxy-foo options are independent from their --foo counterparts,
except --proxy-crlfile which defaults to --crlfile and --proxy-capath
which defaults to --capath.
Curl now also supports %{proxy_ssl_verify_result} --write-out variable,
similar to the existing %{ssl_verify_result} variable.
Supported backends: OpenSSL, GnuTLS, and NSS.
* A SOCKS proxy + HTTP/HTTPS proxy combination:
If both --socks* and --proxy options are given, Curl first connects to
the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS
proxy.
TODO: Update documentation for the new APIs and --proxy-* options.
Look for "Added in 7.XXX" marks.
Add the new option CURLOPT_KEEP_SENDING_ON_ERROR to control whether
sending the request body shall be completed when the server responds
early with an error status code.
This is suitable for manual NTLM authentication.
Reviewed-by: Jay Satiro
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/904
.. and add that --proto-redir and CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS do not
override protocols denied by --proto and CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS.
- Add a test to enforce: --proto deny must override --proto-redir allow
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1031
Since we're using CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY in imap, pop3 and smtp as
more of a generic "failed to parse" introduce an alias without FTP in
the name.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/975
Speed limits (from CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE &
CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE) were applied simply by comparing limits
with the cumulative average speed of the entire transfer; While this
might work at times with good/constant connections, in other cases it
can result to the limits simply being "ignored" for more than "short
bursts" (as told in man page).
Consider a download that goes on much slower than the limit for some
time (because bandwidth is used elsewhere, server is slow, whatever the
reason), then once things get better, curl would simply ignore the limit
up until the average speed (since the beginning of the transfer) reached
the limit. This could prove the limit useless to effectively avoid
using the entire bandwidth (at least for quite some time).
So instead, we now use a "moving starting point" as reference, and every
time at least as much as the limit as been transferred, we can reset
this starting point to the current position. This gets a good limiting
effect that applies to the "current speed" with instant reactivity (in
case of sudden speed burst).
Closes#971
After a few wasted hours hunting down the reason for slowness during a
TLS handshake that turned out to be because of TCP_NODELAY not being
set, I think we have enough motivation to toggle the default for this
option. We now enable TCP_NODELAY by default and allow applications to
switch it off.
This also makes --tcp-nodelay unnecessary, but --no-tcp-nodelay can be
used to disable it.
Thanks-to: Tim Rühsen
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-06/0143.html
When CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is set to an empty string libcurl will send a
zero-byte POST. Prior to this change it was documented as sending data
from the read callback.
This also changes the wording of what happens when empty or NULL so that
it's hopefully easier to understand for people whose primary language
isn't English.
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/862
Reported-by: Askar Safin
The connect-to list isn't copied so as long as the handle may be used
for a transfer the list must be valid.
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/819
Reported-by: Michael Kaufmann
Because the old OpenSSL link now redirects to their master documentation
(currently 1.1.0), which does not document the required actions for
OpenSSL <= 1.0.2.
