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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2001-12-21 09:55:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2001-12-21 09:55:13 +0000 |
| commit | 221ecd0a30a7283277ba0dc9036a9afe6f99147a (patch) | |
| tree | 164e12d0bd2458191ef97547158731adb6145dea | |
| parent | 560492707d8cf2851b4717be01013bf30dab4162 (diff) | |
the changes from 1999 is now in CHANGES.1999
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@@ -1,838 +1,3 @@ -Daniel (28 December 1999): - - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl - doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a - problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines - that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of - the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just - translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with - the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names. - -Daniel (27 December 1999): - - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input - data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters - in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington. - -Daniel (13 December 1999): - - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges - added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was - both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions. - -Daniel (3 December 1999): - - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen... - - - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as - well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is - only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course). - -Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999): - - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though! - - - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in - different directories than the sources. - -Version 6.3.1 - -Daniel (23 November 1999): - - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died - along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the - things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS - server! - - - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling - that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It - was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly... - - - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP - download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the - entire download was completed. It does now. - -Daniel (19 November 1999): - - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of - return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all - occurrences and corrected this. - -Daniel (17 November 1999): - - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option - doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have - any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard - when the timeout is reached. - - - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason - why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version. - - Daniel (12 November 1999): - - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave - a plain http header file as input... - -Version 6.3 - - Daniel (10 November 1999): - - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always - respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole - again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading - section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do - my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer - is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received). - - - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page - to better describe how the -F works. - - - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in - China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/ - - - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file - - - I did add more explanations to the man page - - Daniel (8 November 1999): - - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie - files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to - transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input. - - Daniel (29 October 1999): - - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before - but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in - FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two - it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to - be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/ - --range switch (previously HTTP-only). - - - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be - able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid - idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in - this manner: - Content-Length: XXXX - As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more - info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also - makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the - file size the same way. - - I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed - just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable - quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too. - - - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in - the man page. - - - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add - some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in - the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti. - - - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl - man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay - reported and brought the suggestion. - - - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came - up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the - internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header - that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely - obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than - the one curl would set. - - Daniel (27 October 1999): - - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following - a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to - get the core. - -Version 6.2 - - Daniel (21 October 1999): - - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just - before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used. - - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without - having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again - when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the - URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system - such as curl has.) - - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6 - with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c - that occurred after the download was done and completed. - - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter - to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with - the multiple URL support. - - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't - honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are - case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan - also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty - of editing slightly. - - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize - the Mac OS X - - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking - to fail on OS X. - - Daniel (19 October 1999): - - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a - crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added - --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a - file or stdout. - - Daniel (18 October 1999): - - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now - totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force - the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has - been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one. - -Version 6.1 - - Daniel (17 October 1999): - - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure - script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially - thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and - uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become - more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait - until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better - adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a - short a summary is suitable: - - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip - decompression methods. - - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor, - although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would - want it. - - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from - a file descriptor if that is a socket - - Daniel (14 October 1999): - - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named - curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a - better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested. - - Daniel (12 October 1999): - - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release - archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and - hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur. - - Daniel (11 October 1999): - - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as - some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in - the man page. - -Version 6.1beta - - Daniel (6 October 1999): - - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I - just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named - file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a - given file: - - curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com - - or let curl read it out from stdin: - - curl -d @- www.postit.com - - Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999): - - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME - separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being - used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged". - - Daniel - - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info. - - Daniel (30 September 1999): - - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work - out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default - dirs. - - Daniel (28 September 1999) - - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress - or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that - it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens - download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP - documents so that I can test this out properly. - - - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string - a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too. - - Daniel (17 September 1999) - - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead - of file name, the data will be read from stdin. - -Version 6.0 - - Daniel (13 September 1999) - - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent. - Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This - should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE. - - - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles. - - Daniel (10 September 1999) - - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP - servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It - took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as - OK. - - - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do - turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all - cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I - doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet). - - Daniel (8 September 1999) - - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32. - - Daniel (7 September 1999) - - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by - Stefan Kanthak. - - - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile. - - Daniel (3 September 1999) - - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy. - - Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999) - - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared - library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the - directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a - ldap:// URL. - - Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999) - - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files. - - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for - performance reasons. - - Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999) - - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds. - - Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999) - - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the - root dir of the openssl installation, as in - - ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here - - - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells. - - Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999) - - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32 - compiles. - -Version 5.11 - - Daniel (25 August 1999) - - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line - realloc() system in download.c. - - - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It - probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it - as a start. - - - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be - used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really - changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this - first. - - Daniel (17 August 1999) - - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the - original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page - again. - - - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of - them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should - not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas - E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this. - - Daniel (16 August 1999) - - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location: - page. Nusu's page showed this too. - - - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times - used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it - should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this - painfully visible... - - Troy (15 August 1999) - - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the - configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include - files are in /usr/include/openssl - -Version 5.10 - - Daniel (13 August 1999) - - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of - OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of - modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get - a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had - to come up with a #if construction that deals with this... - - - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4. - - Troy (12 August 1999) - - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also - a bit rearranged. - - Daniel (12 August 1999) - - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source - tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights - allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified. - - - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when - -Wall -pedantic was used. - - - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it - will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic. - The old one still works and shows the same info. - - Daniel (11 August 1999) - - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the - configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users. - - Daniel (10 August 1999) - - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as - some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under - HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate - yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new, - we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it - still compiles there. - - Daniel (5 August 1999) - - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions - around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and - brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking - about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl. - - To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe - <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to - libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl - talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've - started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at - www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/. - - - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure - script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under - Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004! - - - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present - in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly... - - - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet - support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on - the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and - run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little - weird output. - - This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your - feed-back and input in how this is best done. - - WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current - lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time. - - - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be - defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the - configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it. - - Daniel (4 August 1999) - - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem, - which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp - servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made - some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do - hope you report if you have problems with this! - - - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl. - - Daniel (2 August 1999) - - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers - a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. - - T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999) - - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain - username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to - another location (option '-L'). - - There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which - tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line - argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since - CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it - checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to - redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd. - -Version 5.9.1 - - Daniel (30 July 1999) - - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata - functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to - correct this flaw. - - - Mark Wotton reported: - 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by - correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL - 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I - don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that. - - - Marcus Klein: - Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand. - I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten. - - Daniel (29 July 1999) - - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location: - and I could only agree and fix it! - - - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out - that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter - when supposed to. - - - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If - you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a - standard port number, curl still used that first port number. - - - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION - and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on - the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any - html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if - CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set. - - - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph - Beckmann). - - - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the - latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now - in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl - option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I - leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too. - - Daniel (9 June 1999) - - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it! - I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now. - - Daniel (4 June 1999) - - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better - with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied - something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro - and Mark Butler brought a solution for it. - - Daniel (26 May 1999) - - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a - README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann. - - - I also updated the INSTALL text. - - Daniel (25 May 1999) - - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal - with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl - -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed. - -Version 5.9 - - Daniel (22 May 1999) - - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some - problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug - report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms - when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster - and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though... - - Daniel (20 May 1999) - - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too. - - Daniel (19 May 1999) - - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread() - function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel - helped me out isolating it. - - Daniel (16 May 1999) - - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't - work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now. - - - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl - to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was - used. - - Daniel (10 May 1999) - - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source - files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them - layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the - future! - - - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl - archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a - debian package that I've made available for download at the web page - - Daniel (9 May 1999) - - Made it compile on cygwin too. - - Troy Engel (7 May 1999) - - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6 - again! - - Daniel (6 May 1999) - - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it - will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus - can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined - too. - -Version 5.8 - - Daniel (5 May 1999) - - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright - for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have - there are problems all over. - - I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last - week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at - hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this. - - Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to - generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems - can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root - before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle - a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least! - - Daniel (4 May 1999) - - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in - the regexes. - - - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to. - I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a - curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as - in: - - curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html - - This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local. - I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out - there may depend on that the file is always touched... - - - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection. - - - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send - "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it - right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date - expression or a file name to get the date from! - - Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999) - - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable - isn't set and causes the make to fail. - - Daniel (26 April 1999) - - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version - number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug - in my maketgz script! - - David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999) - - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times. - -Version 5.7.1 - - Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999) - - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned - below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h - - - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the - INSTALL file. - - Daniel - - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the - README file - - Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999) - - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1. - It needs an #include <sys/types.h> - -Version 5.7 - - Daniel (Apr 20 1999) - - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now! - - - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now - simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small! - - - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a - start. - - Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999) - - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout. - -Version 5.6.3beta - - Daniel (Apr 12 1999) - - - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing - in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should - try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone? - - - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf! - - - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as - much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it - should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you - talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the - start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to - use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really - want such a crippled solution. - - - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the - "Curr.Speed" progress meter. - - - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from - stdin. - - - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it! - - Daniel (Apr 9 1999) - - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at - all! ;-O - - Daniel (Apr 6 1999) - - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version. - - - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that - previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get - some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the - best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days! - -Version 5.6.2beta - - Daniel (Apr 4 1999) - - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how - it works. - To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header- - format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the - -b flag like: - - curl -b file http://site/foo.html - - Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets - a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string - following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel". - - To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which - sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e - to start with no existing cookies), like: - - curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html - - - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently - reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address. - - - Better "Location:" following. - - Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999) - - A subsecond display patch. - - Daniel (Mar 14 1999) - - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make - things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from - 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one - set for libcurl. - - - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted - that. - - - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under - win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-) - Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in - INSTALL for details. - - - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http - server while remaining connected. - -Version 5.6beta - - Daniel (Mar 13 1999) - - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the - suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing - HTTP headers separately in the specified file. - - - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now. - - - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files - in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++... - - Daniel (Mar 12 1999) - - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability - and smaller size. - - Daniel (Mar 11 1999) - - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate - curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into - the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as - before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so. - - libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to - the lib functions though. - - The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information - about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-) - - - Daniel (Mar 1 1999) - - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the - info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the - README and the RFC in the RESOURCES. - - Daniel (Feb 23 1999) - - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes - in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl... - - Daniel (Feb 22 1999) - - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be - the most recent. - - Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999) - - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an - RPM automatically... - -Version 5.5.1 - - Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999) - - Corrected problems in Download(). - - Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999) - - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from - compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d. - -Version 5.5 - - Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999) - - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol. - - Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999) - - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use - ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static- - buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls! - - Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999) - - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229). - It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better - formatted. - - To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in - the RFC) - - dict://dict.org/m:hello - dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex - - - Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999) - - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB. - - Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999) - - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only. - -Version 5.4 - - Daniel Stenberg - (7 Jan 1999) - - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress - reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on - again. This is now corrected! - - (4 Jan 1999) - - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If - you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file - upload. - - I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used - that. - - (4 Jan 1999) - - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it - now. - - (4 Jan 1999) - - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It - should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes. - - - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so - I redid that now. - Version 5.3a (win32 only) Troy Engel |