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Daniel (20 December 2001)
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- Björn Stenberg caught an unpleasent (but hard-to-find) bug that could cause
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libcurl to hang on transfers over proxy, when the proxy was specified with
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an environment variable!
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- Added code to make ftp operations treat the NO_BODY and HEADERS options
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better:
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NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set TRUE:
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Return a set of headers with file info
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NO_BODY set FALSE
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Transfer data as usual, HEADERS is ignored
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NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set FALSE
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Don't transfer any data, don't return any headers. Just perform the set
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of FTP commands.
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Daniel (17 December 2001)
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- Götz Babin-Ebell dove into the dark dungeons of the OpenSSL ENGINE stuff and
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made libcurl support it! This allows libcurl to do SSL connections with the
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private key stored in external hardware.
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To make this good, he had to add a bunch of new library options that'll be
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useful to others as well:
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CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE set SSL cert type (PEM/DER)
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CURLOPT_SSLKEY set SSL private key (file)
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CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPE: set SSL key type (PEM/DER/ENG)
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CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD: set the passphrase for your private key
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(CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD is an alias)
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CURLOPT_SSLENGINE: set the name of the crypto engine
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(returns CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND on error)
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CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULT: set the default engine
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There are two new failure codes:
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CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND
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CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED
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Daniel (14 December 2001)
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- We have "branched" the source-tree at a few places. Checkout the CVS sources
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with the 'multi-dev' label to get the latest multi interface development
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tree. The idea is to only branch affected files and to restrict the branch
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to the v8 multi interface development only.
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*NOTE* that if we get bug reports and patches etc, we might need to apply
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them in both branches!
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The multi-dev branch is what we are gonna use as main branch in the future
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if it turns out successful. Thus, we must maintain both now in case we need
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them. The current main branch will be used if we want to release a 7.9.3 or
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perhaps a 7.10 release before version 8. Which is very likely.
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- Marcus Webster provided code for the new CURLFORM_CONTENTHEADER option for
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curl_formadd(), that lets an application add a set of headers for that
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particular part in a multipart/form-post. He also provided a section to the
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man page that describes the new option.
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Daniel (11 December 2001)
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- Ben Greear made me aware of the fact that the Curl_failf() usage internally
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was a bit sloppy with adding newlines or not to the error messages. Let's
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once and for all say that they do not belong there!
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- When uploading files with -T to give a local file name, and you end the URL
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with a slash to have the local file name used remote too, we now no longer
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use the local directory as well. Only the file part of the -T file name
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will be appended to the right of the slash in the URL.
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Daniel (7 December 2001)
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- Michal Bonino pointed out that Digital Unix doesn't have gmtime_r so the
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link failed. Added a configure check and corrected source code.
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Version 7.9.2
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Daniel (5 December 2001)
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- Jon Travis found out that if you used libcurl and CURLOPT_UPLOAD and then
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on the same handle used CURLOPT_HTTPGET it would still attempt to upload.
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His suggested fix was perfect.
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Daniel (4 December 2001)
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- Incorporated more macos fixes and added four specific files in a new
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subdirectory below src.
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Daniel (3 December 2001)
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- Eric Lavigne reported two problems:
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First one in the curl_strnequal() function. I think this problem is rather
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macos 9 specific, as most platform provides a function to use instead of the
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one provided by libcurl.
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A second, more important, was in the way we take care of FTP responses. The
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code would read a large chunk of data and search for the end-of-response
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line within that chunk. When found, it would just skip the rest of the
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data. However, when the network connections are special, or perhaps the
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server is, we could actually get more than one response in that chunk of
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data so that when the next invoke to this function was done, the response
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had already been read and thrown away. Now, we cache the data not used in
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one call, as it could be useful in the subsequent call. Test case 126 was
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added and the test ftp server modified, to exercise this particular case.
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Version 7.9.2-pre8
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Daniel (2 December 2001)
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- Bug report #487825 correctly identified a problem when using a proxy and
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following a redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. libcurl then re-used the same
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proxy connection but without doing a proper HTTPS request.
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- Fixed win32 compiling quirks.
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Version 7.9.2-pre7
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Daniel (30 November 2001)
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- Documented --disable-epsv and CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV.
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Daniel (29 November 2001)
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- Added --disable-epsv as an option. When used, curl won't attempt to use the
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EPSV command when doing passive FTP downloads. Wrote a test case for it.
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- Eric provided a few more fixes for building on Macs. He also pointed out
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a flaw in the signal handler restoration code.
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Daniel (28 November 2001)
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- Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appeared
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only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for
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gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the
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hostent struct must be blanked before use? With Dimitris help and these
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patches, the problems seem to be history.
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- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl
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from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela
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pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must
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be able to shut if off to work everywhere.
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- I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to
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receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at
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least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t...
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- Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence.
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- FTP command sequence changes:
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EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6
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passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works
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fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it.
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SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual
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download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important
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to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size
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in there.
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Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server
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code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted!
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Daniel (27 November 2001)
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- Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin
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as it is supposed to do!
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Version 7.9.2-pre6
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Daniel (27 November 2001)
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- Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied.
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- greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release
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archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but
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I think it may come useful to people.
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- There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should
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be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in
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lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with.
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Daniel (26 November 2001)
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- Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers,
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and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat.
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Version 7.9.2-pre5
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Daniel (22 November 2001)
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- Andrés García helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537,
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which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to
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connect. This didn't happen on all systems, and more specificly I've so far
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only seen this happen on IPv4-only Linux hosts.
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- I applied the fixes for the two bugs Eric Lavigne found when doing his MacOS
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port. A missing comma in arpa_telnet.h and a pretty wild write in the FTP
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response reader function. The latter write is however likely to occur in our
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own buffer unless very big FTP server replies (>25K) are read. I've never
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seen such a reply ever, so I think this is a relatively minor risk.
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Daniel (21 November 2001)
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- Moonesamy provided code to prevent junk from being output when libcurl
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returns an error code but no error description and that corrects how make is
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run in the Makefile.dist file (that appears as root Makefile in release
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archives).
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- Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS
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(non-X).
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- Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the
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shared OpenSSL DLLs.
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Version 7.9.2-pre4
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Daniel (20 November 2001)
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- Georg Horn brought a patch that introduced CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME,
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complete with man page updates!
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Daniel (19 November 2001)
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- Miklos Nemeth provided details enough to update the Borland makefile
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properly.
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- Lars M Gustafsson found a case with a bad free(). In fact, it was so bad I'm
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amazed we never saw this before!
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- Kevin Roth patched the cygwin Makfile.
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Daniel (16 November 2001)
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- Klevtsov Vadim fixed a bug in how time-conditionals were sent when doing
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HTTP.
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Version 7.9.2-pre3
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Daniel (14 November 2001)
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- Samuel Listopad patched away the problem with SSL we got when someone call
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curl_global_init() => curl_global_cleanup() => curl_global_init(). The
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second init would not "take" and SSL would be unusable with curl from that
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point. This doesn't change the fact that calling the functions that way is
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wrong. curl_global_init() should be called exactly once and not more.
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Daniel (13 November 2001)
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- Fixed some minor variable type mixups in ftp.c that caused compiler warnings
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on HP-UX 11.00.
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- The FTP fix I did yesterday used an uninitialized variable that caused
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spurious errors when doing FTP.
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Version 7.9.2-pre2
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Daniel (12 November 2001)
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- Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple-requests problem when first a FTP
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directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The
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second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the
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previous request, when it did its initial CWD command.
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- Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improve the time diff function to
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prevent truncation a bit.
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- Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't
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work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work.
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Version 7.9.2-pre1
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Daniel (12 November 2001)
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- Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot
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faster, it should also support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask
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previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte
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after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems
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to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is
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due to the problems John Lask previously experienced.
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- Andrés García found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K
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for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a
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zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In
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reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though
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the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff.
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- I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington
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reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed
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is wrong.
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Daniel (8 November 2001)
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- Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a
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buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also
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gracefully provided a patch for this this.
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- Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the
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correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts.
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This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds
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gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really
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figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that
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works...
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Daniel (7 November 2001)
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- docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number
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system we use in the curl project.
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- Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as
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it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again.
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Daniel (6 November 2001)
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- Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed
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out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction
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struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous
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alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar.
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- Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install.
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Daniel (5 November 2001)
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- Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the
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native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now.
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Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds
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though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-(
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- John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking
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to work on all platforms.
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- John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS
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version 1 when speaking HTTPS.
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- John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that
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works a lot better than the previous!
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- Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug
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report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied.
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Version 7.9.1
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Daniel (4 November 2001)
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- I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since
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I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests
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with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of
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a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I
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wrote up tests for a few of those too.
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Daniel (2 November 2001)
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- Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations
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even under normal unixes.
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Daniel (1 November 2001)
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- When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of
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how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0
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bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-)
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- The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also
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added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file.
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- Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about
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the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc):
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http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html
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Version 7.9.1-pre7
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Daniel (31 October 2001)
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- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as
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the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported.
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- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I
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had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used
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connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection
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and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the
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SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those
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cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead.
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- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets
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in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to
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send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those
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situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and
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added checks for what they actually return.
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Version 7.9.1-pre6
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Daniel (31 October 2001)
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- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be
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more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then
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a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this
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problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider
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said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without
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actually trying an operation.
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Daniel (30 October 2001)
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- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL
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pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]
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- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description
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in the curl.1 man page.
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Daniel (29 October 2001)
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- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file
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and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function.
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- Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function,
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that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26].
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- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the
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packages/Win32/cygwin directory.
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- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP
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server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one
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connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167]
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- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect
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code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release
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(test 19)...
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[http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14]
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Daniel (26 October 2001)
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- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the
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contents is separated with more than one space.
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Daniel (25 October 2001)
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- Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the
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correct data has been output.
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Version 7.9.1-pre5
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Daniel (24 October 2001)
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- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie
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that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The
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brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25]
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Daniel (23 October 2001)
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- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs
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would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35]
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Daniel (22 October 2001)
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- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented
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preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code!
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- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from
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the out-of-the-box curl release archives.
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- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report
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transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the
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future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be
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used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the
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connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the
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middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data
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still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64]
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Daniel (19 October 2001)
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- CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return
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anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this.
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- T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as
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well.
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Version 7.9.1-pre4
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Daniel (18 October 2001)
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- CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if
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the HTTP return code is below 400.
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Daniel (17 October 2001)
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- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the
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tests.
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- We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin
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adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard
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out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and
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cygwin?
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- A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed.
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It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61]
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|
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- The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr
|
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if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it
|
|
easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off.
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Daniel (16 October 2001)
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- Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments.
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Daniel (12 October 2001)
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- Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more
|
|
accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures,
|
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and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should
|
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now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on
|
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the right edge.
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|
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- After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified
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the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking
|
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if the redirected URL is absolute.
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Daniel (11 October 2001)
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- Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows
|
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2000 running cygwin.
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Daniel (10 October 2001)
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- Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser.
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Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work.
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Version 7.9.1-pre3
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Daniel (9 October 2001)
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- Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new
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libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0
|
|
requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you
|
|
really MUST do that because of a silly remote server.
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|
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- Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as
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|
all public curl-symbols should.
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|
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- libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal.
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Daniel (8 October 2001)
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- Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was
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applied.
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- Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed.
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Daniel (5 October 2001)
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- Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors
|
|
on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'.
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|
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- Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files.
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Version 7.9.1-pre2
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Daniel (4 October 2001)
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- Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper
|
|
gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling
|
|
is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost'
|
|
name.
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|
|
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- Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on
|
|
IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any
|
|
resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now.
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|
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Daniel (3 October 2001)
|
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- Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name
|
|
resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a
|
|
thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being
|
|
passed between threads.
|
|
|
|
- Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that
|
|
required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require
|
|
that header, that is for true servers...
|
|
|
|
- I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now.
|
|
|
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Version 7.9.1-pre1
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Daniel (3 October 2001)
|
|
- Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not
|
|
only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting
|
|
the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the
|
|
obsoleted curl_formparse.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 October 2001)
|
|
- Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking
|
|
connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP
|
|
addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first
|
|
one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all
|
|
the TCP connect stuff.
|
|
|
|
- We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support
|
|
people writing scripts without knowing what address there is.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 September 2001)
|
|
- Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller
|
|
functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6
|
|
get less noticable in the sources.
|
|
|
|
- If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl,
|
|
libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously
|
|
did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known
|
|
remote date when -R is used.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 September 2001)
|
|
- Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We
|
|
will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should
|
|
fail.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 September 2001)
|
|
- Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar
|
|
functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it
|
|
work.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 September 2001)
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 September 2001)
|
|
- Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts
|
|
when FTP RETR failed.
|
|
|
|
- Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre8
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|
|
|
Daniel (19 September 2001)
|
|
- Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with
|
|
test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and
|
|
#440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do
|
|
now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail
|
|
to connect with an error code returned.
|
|
|
|
- Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong.
|
|
I wrote a test case for this (45).
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre7
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 September 2001)
|
|
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require
|
|
winsock 2.0.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre6
|
|
|
|
- libtool 1.4.2 is now in use!
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 September 2001)
|
|
- Added another 14 ftp tests.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 September 2001)
|
|
- Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been
|
|
tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need
|
|
to write up some docs for this function.
|
|
|
|
- Added four more ftp tests to the test suite.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 September 2001)
|
|
- CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named
|
|
--ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL
|
|
connection.
|
|
|
|
- T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out
|
|
to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 September 2001)
|
|
- Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server
|
|
certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington.
|
|
|
|
- Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test
|
|
suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been
|
|
made, but nothing really certain.
|
|
|
|
- T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows
|
|
and works on reducing it.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 September 2001)
|
|
- Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed
|
|
behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers.
|
|
|
|
- The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (7 September 2001)
|
|
- SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was
|
|
disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on
|
|
windows.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 September 2001)
|
|
- T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it
|
|
sometimes read from a NULL pointer.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 September 2001)
|
|
- Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to
|
|
set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local
|
|
file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use
|
|
-o or -O.
|
|
|
|
- Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (1 September 2001)
|
|
- Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in
|
|
the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now
|
|
been re-run.
|
|
|
|
- Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite
|
|
makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 August 2001)
|
|
- I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used
|
|
structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit
|
|
to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully
|
|
decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get
|
|
easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL-
|
|
free bug from August 23.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.9-pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 August 2001)
|
|
- The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use
|
|
that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl
|
|
knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format.
|
|
|
|
This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl,
|
|
which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked.
|
|
There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps
|
|
it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all
|
|
of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature...
|
|
|
|
- Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted
|
|
by Erick Nuwendam.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 August 2001)
|
|
- Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems
|
|
on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well!
|
|
|
|
- Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and
|
|
added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect:
|
|
header. Great work!
|
|
|
|
- Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There
|
|
should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but
|
|
in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other
|
|
caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take
|
|
effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination
|
|
port number basis.
|
|
|
|
Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and
|
|
uses a previous SSL session ID.
|
|
|
|
- Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 August 2001)
|
|
- Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 August 2001)
|
|
- T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project
|
|
files.
|
|
|
|
- Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that
|
|
curl didn't really deal with the way one would like.
|
|
|
|
- Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our
|
|
own portable version named strequal() that should be used!
|
|
|
|
- Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix
|
|
debug object modules causing confusions.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 August 2001)
|
|
- T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a
|
|
second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke
|
|
followed a Location: header.
|
|
|
|
- Started the improvement work on the cookie engine:
|
|
- Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file
|
|
- A write to the possibly static string was removed
|
|
- Added a function that can output all cookies
|
|
- Now supports reading multiple cookie files
|
|
|
|
- Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file.
|
|
|
|
- Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to
|
|
increase readability and maintainability.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 August 2001)
|
|
- Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have:
|
|
o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in
|
|
all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server
|
|
rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in
|
|
the standard replace-internal-header style.
|
|
o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to
|
|
replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function
|
|
will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way
|
|
and correct way to build form posts.
|
|
o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes
|
|
|
|
These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9...
|
|
|
|
- We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release
|
|
archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach.
|
|
|
|
- Andrés García's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was
|
|
added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail
|
|
on many Red Hat boxes!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 August 2001)
|
|
- We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD
|
|
as well as FreeBSD
|
|
|
|
Version 7.8.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 August 2001)
|
|
- Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that
|
|
we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K
|
|
smaller!
|
|
|
|
- Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t
|
|
properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to
|
|
acinclude.m4.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 August 2001)
|
|
- Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 August 2001)
|
|
- Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global
|
|
symbols and to not use global variables.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.8.1-pre6
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 August 2001)
|
|
- S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified
|
|
with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is
|
|
used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?'
|
|
separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth.
|
|
|
|
- curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link
|
|
with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself.
|
|
curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile
|
|
source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include
|
|
path correct.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 August 2001)
|
|
- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses
|
|
were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format)
|
|
|
|
- Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core
|
|
dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with
|
|
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
|
|
now equals setting it to no data at all.
|
|
|
|
- Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work
|
|
properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the
|
|
variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed.
|
|
|
|
- David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and
|
|
builds with that compiler.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 August 2001)
|
|
- Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now.
|
|
|
|
- An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for
|
|
windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock
|
|
stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle
|
|
with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.8.1-pre5
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 August 2001)
|
|
- Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few
|
|
minor changes were necessary.
|
|
|
|
- I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options.
|
|
I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I
|
|
corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on
|
|
the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently
|
|
added #ifdef VMS lines.
|
|
|
|
- I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once
|
|
necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should
|
|
(hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of
|
|
OpenSSL.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 August 2001)
|
|
- Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts
|
|
to be larger than 4K.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 August 2001)
|
|
- S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 August 2001)
|
|
- The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call
|
|
was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use
|
|
the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was
|
|
closed even if we looped to get more files. Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug
|
|
report #441610
|
|
|
|
- Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52
|
|
|
|
Version 7.8.1-pre4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 August 2001)
|
|
- curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned
|
|
out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in
|
|
the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around
|
|
implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for
|
|
this kind of construct.
|
|
|
|
- Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl
|
|
verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used,
|
|
any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v).
|
|
|
|
Daniel (7 August 2001)
|
|
- Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test
|
|
suite.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 August 2001)
|
|
- Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the
|
|
directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my
|
|
initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with
|
|
libcurl easier.
|
|
|
|
- Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file://
|
|
URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl
|
|
does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them.
|
|
|
|
- Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and
|
|
build under OpenVMS.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.8.1-pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 August 2001)
|
|
- Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you
|
|
set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that
|
|
data. This is now fixed.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 August 2001)
|
|
- Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd
|
|
1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked
|
|
for with HTTP 1.1.
|
|
|
|
- curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input
|
|
string especially.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 August 2001)
|
|
- I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to
|
|
avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file.
|
|
|
|
- Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license
|
|
boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory
|
|
should go to Andrew for his heads up.
|
|
|
|
- Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you
|
|
couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a
|
|
new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP
|
|
requestr (back) to GET.
|
|
|
|
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in
|
|
release archives. It should be now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 August 2001)
|
|
- Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions.
|
|
|
|
- Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the
|
|
select() loop use far too much CPU.
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- Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's
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progress callback.
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Daniel (29 June 2001)
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- Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated.
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- Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL.
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Daniel (27 June 2001)
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- Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled.
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- Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details.
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Version 7.8.1-pre2
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Daniel (25 June 2001)
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- Björn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading
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several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was
|
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then used for all files, resulting in weird results...
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- Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names
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with spaces like when -F is used.
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Version 7.8.1-pre1
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Daniel (20 June 2001)
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- Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option
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for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories
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for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given.
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Daniel (19 June 2001)
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- When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly
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garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed
|
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reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this.
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Daniel (12 June 2001)
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- Salvador Dávila provided a fix for FTP range downloads.
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|
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- Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file
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format. We're now at a total of 26 tests.
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Daniel (11 June 2001)
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- libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and
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David Odin.
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Daniel (7 June 2001)
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- Jörn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def
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- I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed.
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Version 7.8
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Daniel (7 June 2001)
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- SDavila provided a resumed download fix.
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Version 7.8-pre4
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Daniel (1 June 2001)
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- Sterling provided some new PHP examples.
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|
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- Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer
|
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work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'.
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Daniel (31 May 2001)
|
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- CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file
|
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to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used
|
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anywhere in the library.
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Version 7.8-pre3
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Daniel (31 May 2001)
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- Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present
|
|
less warnings.
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|
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- Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So,
|
|
curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to
|
|
init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all
|
|
known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely
|
|
necessary. Man page updated accordingly.
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|
|
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- Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms!
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|
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Daniel (30 May 2001)
|
|
- Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were
|
|
set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE
|
|
option is subject for complete removal...
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|
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Version 7.8-pre2
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Daniel (30 May 2001)
|
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- Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages.
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|
|
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- Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and
|
|
we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h
|
|
|
|
- Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl,
|
|
available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
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|
|
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Daniel (29 May 2001)
|
|
- Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread-
|
|
safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and
|
|
lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included!
|
|
|
|
- Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written
|
|
to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected.
|
|
|
|
- I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a
|
|
separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it
|
|
easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information.
|
|
|
|
I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit
|
|
you deserve.
|
|
|
|
- lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake
|
|
|
|
Version 7.8-pre1
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|
|
|
Daniel (28 May 2001)
|
|
- curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version
|
|
of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version
|
|
7.7.4 appears as 070704
|
|
|
|
- Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup...
|
|
|
|
- T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was
|
|
not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak
|
|
memory. The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two
|
|
two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should
|
|
be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done
|
|
only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use,
|
|
and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using
|
|
libcurl completely.
|
|
|
|
*** UPGRADE NOTICE ***
|
|
|
|
If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two
|
|
functions mentioned above !!!
|
|
|
|
I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL
|
|
insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk
|
|
the path they point us to.
|
|
|
|
- Moving more test cases into the new file format.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.4-pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 May 2001)
|
|
- Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to
|
|
modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not
|
|
"ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come.
|
|
|
|
The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test
|
|
case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test
|
|
case and a lot less files.
|
|
|
|
- Andrés García brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing
|
|
function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 May 2001)
|
|
- As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was
|
|
not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with
|
|
the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected.
|
|
|
|
- Installed and made use of the following tool versions:
|
|
autoconf 2.50
|
|
libtool 1.4
|
|
automake 1.4-p1
|
|
|
|
I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older
|
|
versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require
|
|
at least these versions.
|
|
|
|
As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its
|
|
previous size!
|
|
|
|
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my
|
|
acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 May 2001)
|
|
- I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the
|
|
first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel.
|
|
|
|
- Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built
|
|
with ssl support.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 May 2001)
|
|
- Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they
|
|
are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions
|
|
helped out.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.4-pre2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (18 May 2001)
|
|
- Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper
|
|
variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix)
|
|
|
|
- For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own.
|
|
It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions
|
|
with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.)
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 May 2001)
|
|
- Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that
|
|
turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that
|
|
contained files from the 7.7.2 release!
|
|
|
|
- I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to
|
|
make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of
|
|
libcurl.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 May 2001)
|
|
- Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent
|
|
connections.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.4-pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 May 2001)
|
|
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl.
|
|
|
|
- Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 May 2001)
|
|
- Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's
|
|
certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a
|
|
proper error code. I added a brand new error code named
|
|
CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 May 2001)
|
|
- As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not
|
|
return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume
|
|
when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed
|
|
from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of
|
|
the fact that it can't be returned anymore!
|
|
|
|
- Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more.
|
|
|
|
- Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post
|
|
another one.
|
|
|
|
- Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 May 2001)
|
|
- Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with
|
|
Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources.
|
|
|
|
- Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location:
|
|
headers with an extra space after the colon.
|
|
|
|
- Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative
|
|
directories correctly.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 May 2001)
|
|
- Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line),
|
|
makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl
|
|
returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead.
|
|
Anonymous bug report.
|
|
|
|
- stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now
|
|
added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite)
|
|
|
|
Daniel (7 May 2001)
|
|
- Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion
|
|
that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates
|
|
filed a bug report on this.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 May 2001)
|
|
- All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made
|
|
this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to
|
|
them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling
|
|
Hughes.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 May 2001)
|
|
- Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent
|
|
connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed
|
|
chunked and non-chunked transfers.
|
|
|
|
- Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be
|
|
treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the
|
|
server timed-out and closed the connection.
|
|
|
|
- Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 April 2001)
|
|
- Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it
|
|
more easy to follow now as well.
|
|
|
|
- Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received
|
|
a "Content-Length: 0" header.
|
|
|
|
- Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl
|
|
compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though!
|
|
|
|
- Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't
|
|
explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 April 2001)
|
|
- I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps
|
|
work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal
|
|
unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the
|
|
function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it
|
|
makes a notable speed difference.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 April 2001)
|
|
- Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for
|
|
non-default port numbers.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 April 2001)
|
|
- I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the
|
|
data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this.
|
|
|
|
- Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on
|
|
the alredy written perl servers easily.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 April 2001)
|
|
- The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one
|
|
of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply
|
|
weird version string output!
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 April 2001)
|
|
- Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows.
|
|
|
|
- Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would
|
|
lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 April 2001)
|
|
- Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote
|
|
a 'libcurl overview' man page.
|
|
|
|
- Spell-fixed some documents.
|
|
|
|
- S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page.
|
|
|
|
- Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present
|
|
separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 April 2001)
|
|
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the
|
|
--write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-)
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.2-pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 April 2001)
|
|
|
|
- Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (18 April 2001)
|
|
- Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It
|
|
displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current
|
|
libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4
|
|
and IPv6.
|
|
|
|
- I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks
|
|
working and options that receives those slist pointers.
|
|
|
|
- Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent
|
|
connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is
|
|
important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not
|
|
in the main struct as this previously did.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 April 2001)
|
|
- Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new
|
|
error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download
|
|
actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present.
|
|
Should this return OK instead?
|
|
|
|
- I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a
|
|
curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to
|
|
figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn
|
|
should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl.
|
|
|
|
This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used
|
|
successfully in other (library based) projects.
|
|
|
|
- Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone
|
|
for the If-Modified-Since style headers.
|
|
|
|
- Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c
|
|
for curl to build on Ultrix.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 April 2001)
|
|
- Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use
|
|
of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security
|
|
hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server
|
|
sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP
|
|
request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable!
|
|
|
|
Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash.
|
|
|
|
- S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on
|
|
windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set
|
|
that timeout!
|
|
|
|
- Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl!
|
|
|
|
- Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface.
|
|
|
|
- I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to
|
|
Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It
|
|
works, but it is still very basic.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 April 2001)
|
|
- The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as
|
|
it wasn't properly reset between transfers!
|
|
|
|
- Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made
|
|
me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback
|
|
function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE
|
|
* when headers are written from within libcurl.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (7 April 2001)
|
|
- Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in
|
|
the curl_easy_setopt man page.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 April 2001)
|
|
- Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure
|
|
change their version define format often...
|
|
|
|
- curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing!
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 April 2001)
|
|
- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
|
|
read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
|
|
Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.
|
|
|
|
- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
|
|
it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non-
|
|
persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 March 2001)
|
|
- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.
|
|
|
|
- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the
|
|
control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted
|
|
connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used
|
|
that to verify the functionality.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 March 2001)
|
|
- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried
|
|
to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent
|
|
after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly!
|
|
|
|
- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny
|
|
example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the
|
|
examples.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7.1-beta1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 March 2001)
|
|
- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0
|
|
connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
|
|
problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the
|
|
curl-and-php mailing list.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 March 2001)
|
|
- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it,
|
|
which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a
|
|
way that gnroff doesn't like.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 March 2001)
|
|
- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of
|
|
$(MAKE) for the test target.
|
|
|
|
- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not
|
|
curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7!
|
|
|
|
- S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ).
|
|
|
|
- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string
|
|
in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an
|
|
application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report
|
|
from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then
|
|
caused a libcurl crash!
|
|
|
|
- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously,
|
|
curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one.
|
|
|
|
- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl
|
|
http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which
|
|
made the second request return very odd results.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 March 2001)
|
|
- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests
|
|
when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses
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GET in the following request(s).
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|
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- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of
|
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curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same
|
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connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly.
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|
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- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks
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like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion.
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Version 7.7
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Daniel (22 March 2001)
|
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- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is
|
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detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of
|
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arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware
|
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of this need.
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|
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- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape
|
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functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The
|
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escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one
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had.
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- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up.
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Version 7.7-beta5
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Daniel (19 March 2001)
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- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense
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that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this
|
|
problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was
|
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added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right.
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|
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- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do
|
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form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header
|
|
engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT
|
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and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616
|
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has all the details. Seems to work now!
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Daniel (16 March 2001)
|
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- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back.
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|
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- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release
|
|
archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs,
|
|
examples and updates you think fit.
|
|
|
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- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples
|
|
into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please
|
|
help me here as well!
|
|
|
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- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a
|
|
"chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts
|
|
even if the Content-Length: size is unknown.
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|
|
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Daniel (15 March 2001)
|
|
- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
|
|
option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the
|
|
connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire
|
|
file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others.
|
|
|
|
I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the
|
|
item from the TODO.
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|
|
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Version 7.7-beta4
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|
|
|
Daniel (14 March 2001)
|
|
- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely
|
|
again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set.
|
|
|
|
I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with
|
|
curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then!
|
|
|
|
- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was
|
|
a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't
|
|
work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use
|
|
getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try
|
|
that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't
|
|
have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info.
|
|
|
|
- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with
|
|
user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute,
|
|
without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and
|
|
crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that
|
|
tests this.
|
|
|
|
- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request
|
|
data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range
|
|
of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously.
|
|
|
|
- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7-beta3
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|
|
|
Daniel (14 March 2001)
|
|
- Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches
|
|
for non-SSL compiles.
|
|
|
|
- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level
|
|
functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the
|
|
Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to
|
|
curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still
|
|
undocumented).
|
|
|
|
This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with
|
|
just a drop-in replacement.
|
|
|
|
- Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles:
|
|
o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t
|
|
o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement
|
|
o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again
|
|
o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files
|
|
o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 March 2001)
|
|
- It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the
|
|
chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot
|
|
the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top
|
|
of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly
|
|
wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data
|
|
in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted).
|
|
|
|
Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7-beta2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 March 2001)
|
|
- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported
|
|
policies.
|
|
|
|
- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies
|
|
CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now
|
|
supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy
|
|
is chosen.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 March 2001)
|
|
- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the
|
|
SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl
|
|
client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I
|
|
need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember
|
|
that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered
|
|
weak (HTTPS connections).
|
|
|
|
- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length
|
|
and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is
|
|
the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60
|
|
test cases.
|
|
|
|
- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the
|
|
persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly
|
|
thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now
|
|
implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new
|
|
implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,
|
|
CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are:
|
|
CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION.
|
|
|
|
- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent
|
|
connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file
|
|
transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK.
|
|
I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well.
|
|
|
|
- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so
|
|
that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple
|
|
connections... Now I get 100% test case OK.
|
|
|
|
- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are
|
|
all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are
|
|
located. Horrible.
|
|
|
|
- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing
|
|
that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though
|
|
(Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what
|
|
the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot
|
|
of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe.
|
|
|
|
Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP)
|
|
not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have
|
|
to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 March 2001)
|
|
- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if
|
|
MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if
|
|
there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7-beta1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 March 2001)
|
|
- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've
|
|
added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine.
|
|
|
|
- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 March 2001)
|
|
- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works
|
|
using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't
|
|
handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this.
|
|
|
|
- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It
|
|
should make it a lot nicer library-wise.
|
|
|
|
- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first-
|
|
then-do approach.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 March 2001)
|
|
- More bugs erased.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.7-alpha2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 March 2001)
|
|
- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive
|
|
before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will
|
|
then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 March 2001)
|
|
- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness!
|
|
|
|
- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has
|
|
proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do
|
|
not work intermixed yet though.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (1 March 2001)
|
|
- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that
|
|
curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does
|
|
now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 February 2001)
|
|
- The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent
|
|
request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection
|
|
if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one.
|
|
|
|
- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page
|
|
that I applied.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 February 2001)
|
|
- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends.
|
|
|
|
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and
|
|
improvements:
|
|
|
|
* Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does.
|
|
* Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only
|
|
XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV).
|
|
* Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used.
|
|
* Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!)
|
|
|
|
- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of
|
|
struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific
|
|
data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the
|
|
mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs
|
|
and more will follow.
|
|
|
|
Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should
|
|
work. Seems cool enough.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 February 2001)
|
|
- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project
|
|
easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file.
|
|
|
|
- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the
|
|
library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The
|
|
low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (15 February 2001)
|
|
- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with
|
|
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in
|
|
libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to
|
|
switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL
|
|
string switches off the POST again.
|
|
|
|
- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn
|
|
Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into
|
|
libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made
|
|
to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when
|
|
applicable!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 February 2001)
|
|
- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages.
|
|
Suggested by Larry Fahnoe.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 February 2001)
|
|
- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
|
|
PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 February 2001)
|
|
- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
|
|
curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty
|
|
password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to
|
|
support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user
|
|
and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you
|
|
specify you want the prompt otherwise?
|
|
|
|
- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and
|
|
HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes).
|
|
|
|
- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue.
|
|
|
|
- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on
|
|
request.
|
|
|
|
- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1-pre3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (7 February 2001)
|
|
- S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that
|
|
could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if
|
|
libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket.
|
|
|
|
- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
|
|
results from the proxy connection.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 February 2001)
|
|
- S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set
|
|
for the debug build to work.
|
|
|
|
- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
|
|
brought up yesterday.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 February 2001)
|
|
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
|
|
a bunch of different areas within libcurl.
|
|
|
|
- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
|
|
the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
|
|
patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
|
|
How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone?
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 February 2001)
|
|
- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
|
|
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
|
|
return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
|
|
direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
|
|
size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
|
|
was done after discussions with Bob Schader.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 February 2001)
|
|
- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
|
|
recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to
|
|
not include WIN32 anymore.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1-pre2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (31 January 2001)
|
|
- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
|
|
be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
|
|
possibility to weird behavior all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
|
|
find this.
|
|
|
|
- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
|
|
I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
|
|
of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 January 2001)
|
|
- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and
|
|
now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows
|
|
a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server
|
|
doesn't seem to support range requests.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 January 2001)
|
|
- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33).
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6.1-pre1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 January 2001)
|
|
- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end
|
|
and it works for him.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 January 2001)
|
|
- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a
|
|
Content-Range header when resuming a PUT.
|
|
|
|
- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP
|
|
download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field
|
|
in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for
|
|
this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing.
|
|
|
|
- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP.
|
|
|
|
- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It
|
|
makes the output slightly better for resumes.
|
|
|
|
- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt
|
|
to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a
|
|
URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on
|
|
what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a
|
|
second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported.
|
|
|
|
I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 January 2001)
|
|
- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small
|
|
piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can
|
|
now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT
|
|
the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL.
|
|
|
|
Version 7.6-pre4
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 January 2001)
|
|
- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for
|
|
reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and
|
|
swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested
|
|
in the next beta-round coming right up.
|
|
|
|
- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied
|
|
his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the
|
|
function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write().
|
|
|
|
I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and
|
|
reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing
|
|
would only have to be implemented at one point.
|
|
|
|
- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the
|
|
total time very accurate on subsecond levels.
|
|
|
|
- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout
|
|
value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently
|
|
no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (24 January 2001)
|
|
- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile
|
|
properly with cygwin.
|
|
|
|
- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code
|
|
that corrected a potential memory leak.
|
|
|
|
- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more
|
|
easy to read and understand!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 January 2001)
|
|
- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version
|
|
string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be
|
|
set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled.
|
|
|
|
- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when
|
|
IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'...
|
|
|
|
- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an
|
|
error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't
|
|
follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string
|
|
is used instead.
|
|
|
|
I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want*
|
|
globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure
|
|
seriously confuse the globber.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 January 2001)
|
|
- Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even
|
|
during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions...
|
|
|
|
- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on
|
|
the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 January 2001)
|
|
- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last
|
|
code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports.
|
|
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- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem
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in src/main.c that I took care of.
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Version 7.6-pre3
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Daniel (17 January 2001)
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- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new
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lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer()
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to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function
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in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols.
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Daniel (11 January 2001)
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- Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[]
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letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly
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mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by
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Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry.
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- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without
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having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as
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-o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter
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options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with
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space from their parameters.
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Daniel (8 January 2001)
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- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling
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curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef
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HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems.
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- Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made
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the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout.
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- Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work
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correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make
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dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms'
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automatically build RPMs!
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Loic Dachary (6 January 2001)
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- Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root.
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- make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST
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in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES).
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Daniel (5 January 2001)
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- Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs
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can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There
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must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to
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stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package.
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- The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now.
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- Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal
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symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other
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libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should
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be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS
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document to say this as well.
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Version 7.5.2
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Daniel (4 January 2001)
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- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command
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line option and what happens when you specify that option more than
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once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before.
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- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For
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odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with
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curl's dependencies on libcurl...
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- Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file.
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The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in
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case anyone would need it.
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- I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about
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files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build
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curl when you get the sources off CVS.
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- Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license.
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Daniel (3 January 2001)
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- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL
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- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of
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curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
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accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
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release archive.
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