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+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.
+