Daniel (30 December 2000) - Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write() as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being one major). Daniel (19 December 2000) - Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts that happened when you did PORTed downloads. - Added an include in since it uses FILE *. Daniel (12 December 2000) - Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or hope, or at least I've tried... :-O - Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem Version 7.5.1 Daniel (11 December 2000) - Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found different newline conventions within the same file. - Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for the SSL stuff. Daniel (6 December 2000) - Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when doing SSL connections. - James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it is fixed now. Daniel (5 December 2000) - Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with that compiler. - Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need perl in the path for the test suite to run ok. - Rich Gray found numerous portability problems: * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h since the curl one differed from the SCO one * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need). * A few more problems remain to be researched. - Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet. Daniel (4 December 2000) - Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O. Version 7.5 Daniel (1 December 2000) - Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too. - Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when releasing new shared library interfaces. Daniel (30 November 2000) - Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document actually contains. Daniel (29 November 2000) - I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS. Version 7.5-pre5 Daniel (28 November 2000) - I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been lagging. - James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops. Daniel (27 November 2000) - Added two test cases for file://. Daniel (22 November 2000) - Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command which is not in the RFC959) curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if the time wasn't possible to get. --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header if curl could get the time of the specified file. - Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but others have asked for it before as well. Daniel (21 November 2000) - Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight: * curl_unescape() could return a too long string * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks * ftp CWD could use bad directory names * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers - Added a bunch of test cases for FTP. - General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic. - I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run. Daniel (20 November 2000) - Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of 4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying but that can be circumvented by using a config file. NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location: headers. - Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages. - Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase versions. Daniel (17 November 2000) - curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these problems have been removed. - Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now, although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like: user-agent = "foobar and something" Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're expected to be a single non-space word. Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work. - Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config file doesn't work anymore. Daniel (15 November 2000) - Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters, and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail. Version 7.4.2 Daniel (15 November 2000) - 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used. Daniel (14 November 2000) - I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE could be assumed to work. - Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start uploading from the beginning as a normal upload? Daniel (13 November 2000) - Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter. - While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl. - Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c - I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite. Version 7.4.2 pre4 Daniel (10 November 2000) - I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script. I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work. - Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used! - Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was already uploaded, curl would hang. - Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have. - Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com), the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between the set domain length and the current host name. Daniel (9 November 2000) - Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no system that requires those libs to build. Version 7.4.2 pre3 Daniel (7 November 2000) - Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed. Daniel (6 November 2000) - Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in. They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA. - Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong times when location: headers were followed. - Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now. Daniel (2 November 2000) - When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end. Daniel (1 November 2000) - Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction() isn't present, we can use signal() instead. - I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all... Daniel (31 October 2000) - Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms. I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root. Daniel (30 October 2000) - T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about whether the verification succeeded or not. Daniel (27 October 2000) - Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually have the sigaction() function). Daniel (26 October 2000) - Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass() function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe. - Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now. - Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d chunk. This enables constructs like the following: curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com Daniel (24 October 2000) - I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the memory debugging system. Daniel (23 October 2000) - I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build release-archives. - Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there... Daniel (20 October 2000) - Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to run one of those nasty servers. - The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this) Daniel (17 October 2000) - Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test suite... - I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https:// URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this error: "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!" I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual problem lies. Version 7.4.1 Daniel (16 October 2000) - I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in the release archive (of course). Version 7.4 Daniel (16 October 2000) - The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th. Daniel (12 October 2000) - Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well. Daniel (11 October 2000) - Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out really useful! Version 7.4 pre6 Daniel (9 October 2000) - Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file. - Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway. - Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a local buffer. - I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more PHP-friendly multi-part posts. Version 7.4 pre5 Daniel (9 October 2000) - Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7. - Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl. I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup() didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in the CVS respository, not in the release archive. Daniel (8 October 2000) - Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best a memory leak! Version 7.4 pre4 Daniel (6 October 2000) - Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this. - Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for 7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now... - Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid! - Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes. Version 7.4 pre3 Daniel (4 October 2000) - More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate, as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP request. T. Bharath requested them. Daniel (3 October 2000) - Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-) Version 7.4 pre2 Daniel (3 October 2000) - Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults are probably mine. Daniel (2 October 2000) - Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to use on a fast one. I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It should make the progress meter work better. Version 7.4 pre1 Daniel (29 September 2000) - Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo() function. - brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get. Daniel (28 September 2000) - Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway. Version 7.3 Daniel (28 September 2000) - Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former base64.[ch] files. Daniel (26 September 2000) - Updated some docs. - I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones. Version 7.3-pre8 Daniel (25 September 2000) - Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly again. - Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed. - I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected. Daniel (23 September 2000) - Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload work! Daniel (21 September 2000) - The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first! Daniel (20 September 2000) - Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness. - Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went as smooth as it could. - Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples further on. - Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word "reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease. - Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4. - Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding functions! ;-) Version 7.3pre5 Daniel (19 September 2000) - The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty. Version 7.3pre3 Daniel (18 September 2000) - Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours! - Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all platforms. This needs testing. - Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not returning an error even though it failed on some platforms! Daniel (15 September 2000) - Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support. Version 7.3pre2 Daniel (15 September 2000) - Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp. Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the pasv message when doing the second connect. Version 7.3pre1 Daniel (15 September 2000) - libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The second connection on ftp needed that. - TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really bad at times! Daniel (14 September 2000) - -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp. Daniel (13 September 2000) - Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this and mailed the patch to the mailing list. Daniel (7 September 2000) - I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the PHP bug tracker. - I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to this. Version 7.2.1 Daniel (31 August 2000) - Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?) - Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and the reason was my lame URL decoder. - I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected that. Version 7.2 Daniel (30 August 2000) - Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking completely. So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want to '#include ', I can get tid of the warnings by include the following three include files before that one: #include #include #include Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all the source files that include it? Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX login to try everything on. Daniel (24 August 2000) - Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one was not up to date but lacked several object files. - More work on the naming. - Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir... - As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday. Daniel (23 August 2000) - Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases. - Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of this. - The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to Bjorn Reese. Daniel (21 August 2000) - Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting... This needs to be addressed. Version 7.1.1 Daniel (21 August 2000) - Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the future as well. Daniel (18 August 2000) - I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't think this is the reason for the continued trouble though. Daniel (17 August 2000) - Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems. Daniel (15 August 2000) - Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before? - Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got screwed up! Daniel (11 August 2000) - Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my Linux Redhat installation... Daniel (10 August 2000) - Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts using custom Content-Types. Daniel (8 August 2000) - Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this. Version 7.1 Daniel (7 August 2000) - My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker. - I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl. Daniel (4 August 2000) - Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms. My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to move an include file before another, as is now described in the source. AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to any system using that. For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a thread-safe lib. - Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl. Daniel (1 August 2000) - Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal() that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the now obsolete #define. - Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range headers. - The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young found out. Version 7.0.11beta Daniel (1 August 2000) - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level makefile that succeeds in install everything properly! - Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major flaws added now. Daniel (31 July 2000) - Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header. Daniel (29 July 2000) - It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it. - I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me working on this. Daniel (27 July 2000) - Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra beta release just for this. Version 7.0.10beta Daniel (27 July 2000) - So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed on 7.0.9... Version 7.0.9beta Daniel (25 July 2000) - Kristian Köhntopp brought a fix that makes libcurl libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some other nice cleanups. - In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that server as well. Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards curl back to server A again, the password will be used again. This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole". As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that. - As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!) if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to get received... - Torsten Foertsch brought a set of fixes for the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=, when transferring files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing ASCII transfers in FTP. Daniel (24 July 2000) - Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy port number to be set separately from the proxy host name. - Andrew pointed out a netrc manual bug. - The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan pointed this out. - The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was discovered by Rich Gray. - Howard, Blaise pointed out a missing free() in curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory. - Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should now have been fixed. - HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash. Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls for discovering and suggesting a fix... Daniel (21 June 2000) - After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request command, no matter what the user wants! ;-) Version 7.0.8beta Daniel (20 June 2000) - I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se instead of the previous one. - As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time. While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding document. - My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O Version 7.0.7beta Daniel (16 June 2000) - I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour! ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of getting the writeout data and move that too to the client). - I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well. Daniel (15 June 2000) - I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used this feature with v7? - Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in v7. Hm. Daniel (14 June 2000) - Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it should. I corrected this. Version 7.0.6beta Daniel (14 June 2000) - Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling): lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32) src/main.c had several minor problems lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32 to set it. Version 7.0.5beta Daniel (14 June 2000) - Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems. - Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32 compiler around. Daniel (13 June 2000) - Luong Dinh Dung found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup() since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected. Daniel (9 June 2000) - Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file. Daniel (8 June 2000) - So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it right now. - Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers. - Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly. Version 7.0.4beta Daniel (2 June 2000) - I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all but the first request. - Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic curl_slist. - Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c Version 7.0.3beta Daniel (31 May 2000) - So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly. Version 7.0.2beta Daniel (29 May 2000) - Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only toggles one of those bits. - Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc that add usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around, since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script. I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now. Daniel (22 May 2000) - Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems to be reserved in some gcc versions! - Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined. More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work. Version 7.0.1beta Daniel (21 May 2000) - Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl- prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is now using that. - Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name lookups. Version 7.0beta Daniel (18 May 2000) - Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also makes a larger number a newer version. Daniel (17 May 2000) - Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range option. I corrected them. - Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for multithreaded purposes. Daniel (16 May 2000) - Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7. There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken. is the include file to use. Daniel (14 May 2000) - FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738. - FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with Rich Gray made me notice these problems. - Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the src/usrglob.c file. - I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string compares on all platforms. Daniel (8 May 2000): - Been working lots on the new lib. - Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix. Daniel (2 May 2000): - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in configure.in that didn't do any good. Daniel (24 April 2000): - Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison Daniel (12 April 2000): - Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a better one... Daniel (8 April 2000): - Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM. - I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user agent string. It does now. - Habibie supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM? - Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It is a pity there's no newer release around... Daniel (4 April 2000): - Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs. Daniel (2 April 2000): - Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved. Daniel (27 March 2000): - H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy, which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings. Daniel (23 March 2000): - Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he actually already told me about! - H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded... Daniel (22 March 2000): - Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been. The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6 makefile for MS VC++. Daniel (21 March 2000): - I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne Johansson made me aware of this. Version 6.5.2 Daniel (21 March 2000): - Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1 crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was the -D adjustments in src/main.c. Version 6.5.1 Daniel (20 March 2000): - An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne Johansson). Daniel (19 March 2000): - Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in the INSTALL file. Very nice job! Daniel (17 March 2000): - Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6 file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's existence. Daniel (15 March 2000): - I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies in that one single file. - Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff. Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32 stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now). - Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h. Daniel (14 March 2000): - Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output was never written. I fixed it now. - Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h. Version 6.5 Daniel (13 March 2000): - pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to perhaps make them work better. - Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl script needs it! - Made some beautifications in the curl man page. Daniel (3 March 2000): - Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and HAVE_STRDUP. Daniel (3 March 2000): - Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package. Daniel (2 March 2000): - Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people happy and I'll still keep them available on the web. - Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter display in README.curl. - Jörn Hartroth, Chris and Ulf Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number thing). - Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream. Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew suggested this. - Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix. Daniel (24 February 2000): - Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32. I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %- letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should use another letter instead! - Added more variables to -w: 'http_code' 'time_namelookup' 'time_connect' 'time_pretransfer' 'url_effective' - Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from stdin in the good old "standard" curl way. Daniel (22 February 2000): - Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback. Daniel (21 February 2000): - I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that exist as of this moment are: total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals) size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes speed_download - the average speed of the entire download speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others. - It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re- introduced! :-/ Daniel (16 February 2000): - Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good. - Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface. - Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next. Daniel (15 February 2000): - The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly! Daniel (11 February 2000): - Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K. - Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b is implemented. Now -b@ works as well as the old style. -b@- also similarly reads the cookies from stdin. - Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file... - Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X. - Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to the server. Daniel (8 February 2000): - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do with the difference in sprintf() return code types. - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's do some progress meter fixes later this week. Daniel (31 January 2000): - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all. RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though... - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while since the socket "pipe" becomes full. It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well. - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area, although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait with fixing anything. - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion I'll work on it. Daniel (25 January 2000): - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was corrected. - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed by Jörn's recent #include modifications! Daniel (19 January 2000): - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a different protocol to fail. At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following on server not running on default ports.) - Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again made it possible to select progress bar. - Jörn also fixed a few include problems. Version 6.4 Daniel (17 January 2000): - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows the time spent on the download so far. - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu. Daniel (10 January 2000): - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice! - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer quote commands. - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-) - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff. - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page. - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!