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@@ -1011,1385 +1011,3 @@ Daniel (3 January 2001)
   curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
   accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
   release archive.
-
-Daniel (30 December 2000)
-- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
-  as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
-  one major).
-
-Daniel (19 December 2000)
-- Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system
-  and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts
-  that happened when you did PORTed downloads.
-
-- Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *.
-
-Daniel (12 December 2000)
-- Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or
-  hope, or at least I've tried... :-O
-
-- Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem
-
-Version 7.5.1
-
-Daniel (11 December 2000)
-- Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin
-  P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found
-  different newline conventions within the same file.
-
-- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for
-  the SSL stuff.
-
-Daniel (6 December 2000)
-- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when
-  doing SSL connections.
-
-- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with
-  -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it
-  is fixed now.
-
-Daniel (5 December 2000)
-- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland
-  compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with
-  that compiler.
-
-- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL
-  variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need
-  perl in the path for the test suite to run ok.
-
-- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems:
-  * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h
-    since the curl one differed from the SCO one
-  * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction
-    stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need).
-  * A few more problems remain to be researched.
-
-- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet.
-
-Daniel (4 December 2000)
-- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O.
-
-Version 7.5
-
-Daniel (1 December 2000)
-- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should
-  build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too.
-
-- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when
-  releasing new shared library interfaces.
-
-Daniel (30 November 2000)
-- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document
-  actually contains.
-
-Daniel (29 November 2000)
-- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things
-  harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS.
-
-Version 7.5-pre5
-
-Daniel (28 November 2000)
-- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been
-  lagging.
-
-- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
-  libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the
-  set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops.
-
-Daniel (27 November 2000)
-- Added two test cases for file://.
-
-Daniel (22 November 2000)
-- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the
-  modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it
-  involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command
-  which is not in the RFC959)
-
-  curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time
-  after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if
-  the time wasn't possible to get.
-
-  --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header
-  if curl could get the time of the specified file.
-
-- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM
-  file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS
-  connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but
-  others have asked for it before as well.
-
-Daniel (21 November 2000)
-- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight:
-
-   * curl_unescape() could return a too long string
-   * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks
-   * ftp CWD could use bad directory names
-   * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability
-   * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers
-
-- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP.
-
-- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic.
-
-- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp
-  operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now
-  all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl
-  script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run.
-
-Daniel (20 November 2000)
-- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of
-  4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make
-  life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying
-  but that can be circumvented by using a config file.
-
-  NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location:
-  headers.
-
-- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages.
-
-- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It
-  turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names
-  where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the
-  lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase
-  versions.
-
-Daniel (17 November 2000)
-- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the
-  test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on
-  memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the
-  cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar
-  things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these
-  problems have been removed.
-
-- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and
-  weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now,
-  although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main
-  difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must
-  both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also
-  specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and
-  parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like:
-
-        user-agent = "foobar and something"
-
-  Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're
-  expected to be a single non-space word.
-
-  Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work.
-
-- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes
-  way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config
-  file doesn't work anymore.
-
-Daniel (15 November 2000)
-- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication
-  failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters,
-  and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused
-  passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail.
-
-Version 7.4.2
-
-Daniel (15 November 2000)
-- 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used.
-
-Daniel (14 November 2000)
-- I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled
-  "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE
-  could be assumed to work.
-
-- Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a
-  file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and
-  curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start
-  uploading from the beginning as a normal upload?
-
-Daniel (13 November 2000)
-- Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter.
-
-- While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation
-  that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this
-  immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl.
-  
-- Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c
-
-- I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite.
-
-Version 7.4.2 pre4
-
-Daniel (10 November 2000)
-- I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new
-  tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and
-  most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script.
-
-  I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work.
-
-- Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks
-  for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes
-  depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used!
-
-- Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was
-  already uploaded, curl would hang.
-
-- Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the
-  getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have.
-  
-- Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected
-  it.  If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com),
-  the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between
-  the set domain length and the current host name.
-
-Daniel (9 November 2000)
-- Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need
-  it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found
-  but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no
-  system that requires those libs to build.
-  
-Version 7.4.2 pre3
-
-Daniel (7 November 2000)
-- Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a
-  slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed.
-
-Daniel (6 November 2000)
-- Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in.
-  They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are
-  CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA.
-
-- Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong
-  times when location: headers were followed.
-
-- Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in
-  the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem
-  with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now.
-  
-Daniel (2 November 2000)
-- When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was
-  inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got
-  increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous
-  numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end.
-
-Daniel (1 November 2000)
-- Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction()
-  isn't present, we can use signal() instead.
-
-- I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again
-  GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards
-  making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all...
-
-Daniel (31 October 2000)
-- Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and
-  templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms.
-  I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root.
-
-Daniel (30 October 2000)
-- T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to
-  curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer
-  certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option
-  and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote
-  peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the
-  *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about
-  whether the verification succeeded or not.  
-
-Daniel (27 October 2000)
-- Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing
-  annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes
-  (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and
-  of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually
-  have the sigaction() function).
-
-Daniel (26 October 2000)
-- Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth
-  that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The
-  getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any
-  static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass()
-  function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe.
-  
-- Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the
-  url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote
-  it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now.
-
-- Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was
-  just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't
-  support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d
-  chunk. This enables constructs like the following:
-
-        curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com
-
-Daniel (24 October 2000)
-- I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other
-  systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the
-  memory debugging system.
-
-Daniel (23 October 2000)
-- I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script
-  will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and
-  then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build
-  release-archives.
-
-- Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly
-  enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the
-  -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also
-  suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL
-  so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there...
-  
-Daniel (20 October 2000)
-- Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port
-  number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it
-  isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to
-  run one of those nasty servers.
-
-- The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been
-  corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this)
-
-Daniel (17 October 2000)
-- Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They
-  didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test
-  suite...
-  
-- I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https://
-  URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this
-  error:
-        "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!"
-
-  I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual
-  problem lies.
-
-Version 7.4.1
-
-Daniel (16 October 2000)
-- I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in
-  the release archive (of course).
-
-Version 7.4
-
-Daniel (16 October 2000)
-- The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th.
-
-Daniel (12 October 2000)
-- Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used
-  by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a
-  few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well.
-
-Daniel (11 October 2000)
-- Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out
-  really useful!
-
-Version 7.4 pre6
-
-Daniel (9 October 2000)
-- Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include
-  file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the
-  public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file.
-
-- Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It
-  didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway.
-
-- Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our
-  libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all
-  platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a
-  local buffer.
-
-- I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header
-  generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more
-  PHP-friendly multi-part posts.
-
-Version 7.4 pre5
-
-Daniel (9 October 2000)
-- Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when
-  using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably
-  introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7.
-
-- Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl.
-  I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log
-  all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze
-  the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak
-  Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup()
-  didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in
-  the CVS respository, not in the release archive.
-
-Daniel (8 October 2000)
-- Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the
-  pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best
-  a memory leak!
-
-Version 7.4 pre4
-
-Daniel (6 October 2000)
-- Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the
-  mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP
-  receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this.
-
-- Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working
-  anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for
-  7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now...
-
-- Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL
-  stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with
-  -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid!
-
-- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used
-  a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes.
-
-Version 7.4 pre3
-
-Daniel (4 October 2000)
-- More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate,
-  as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to
-  get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP
-  request. T. Bharath requested them.
-  
-Daniel (3 October 2000)
-- Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-)
-
-Version 7.4 pre2
-
-Daniel (3 October 2000)
-- Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP
-  requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do
-  this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it
-  this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with
-  curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to
-  fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer
-  to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults
-  are probably mine.
-
-Daniel (2 October 2000)
-- Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the
-  progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer
-  size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter
-  and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to
-  use on a fast one.
-
-  I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to
-  start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes
-  per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It
-  should make the progress meter work better.
-  
-Version 7.4 pre1
-
-Daniel (29 September 2000)
-- Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets
-  all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo()
-  function.
-
-- brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and
-  removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get.
-
-Daniel (28 September 2000)
-- Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct
-  the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just
-  released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error
-  is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix
-  release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be
-  available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway.
-
-Version 7.3
-
-Daniel (28 September 2000)
-- Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former
-  base64.[ch] files.
-
-Daniel (26 September 2000)
-- Updated some docs.
-
-- I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted
-  patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones.
-  
-Version 7.3-pre8
-
-Daniel (25 September 2000)
-- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and
-  showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly
-  again.
-
-- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative
-  approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie
-  header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed.
-
-- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell
-  you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for
-  nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl
-  tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected.
-
-Daniel (23 September 2000)
-- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload
-  work!
-
-Daniel (21 September 2000)
-- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals
-  that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first!
-
-Daniel (20 September 2000)
-- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this
-  opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer
-  sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use
-  malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a
-  large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like
-  that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness.
-
-- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went
-  as smooth as it could.
-
-- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how
-  to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples
-  further on.
-
-- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the
-  config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word
-  "reservered".  I figure that is some kind of C++ decease.
-
-- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4.
-
-- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that
-  I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding
-  functions! ;-)
-
-Version 7.3pre5
-
-Daniel (19 September 2000)
-- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original
-  krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global
-  variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to
-  clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use
-  connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't
-  destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects
-  krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty.
-
-Version 7.3pre3
-
-Daniel (18 September 2000)
-- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to
-  curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did
-  not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere
-  thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours!
-
-- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to
-  the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an
-  outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all
-  platforms. This needs testing.
-
-- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the
-  name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not
-  returning an error even though it failed on some platforms!
-
-Daniel (15 September 2000)
-- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support.
-
-Version 7.3pre2
-
-Daniel (15 September 2000)
-- Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp.
-  Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the
-  pasv message when doing the second connect.
-  
-Version 7.3pre1
-
-Daniel (15 September 2000)
-- libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The
-  second connection on ftp needed that.
-
-- TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really
-  bad at times!
-  
-Daniel (14 September 2000)
-- -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new
-  CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel
-  through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp.
-
-Daniel (13 September 2000)
-- Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this
-  and mailed the patch to the mailing list.
-
-Daniel (7 September 2000)
-- I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really
-  a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that
-  define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the
-  PHP bug tracker.
-
-- I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage
-  in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to
-  this.
-
-Version 7.2.1
-
-Daniel (31 August 2000)
-- Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to
-  detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?)
-
-- Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the
-  letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and
-  the reason was my lame URL decoder.
-
-- I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected
-  that.
-
-Version 7.2
-
-Daniel (30 August 2000)
-- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they
-  solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the
-  AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this
-  article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a
-  libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking
-  completely.
-
-  So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that
-  fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want
-  to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the
-  following three include files before that one:
-
-        #include <net/if_dl.h>
-        #include <sys/mbuf.h>
-        #include <netinet/if_ether.h>
-
-  Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all
-  the source files that include it?
-
-  Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX
-  login to try everything on.
-
-Daniel (24 August 2000)
-- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one
-  was not up to date but lacked several object files.
-
-- More work on the naming.
-
-- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as
-  some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position
-  for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir...
-
-- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary
-  option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to
-  work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday.
-
-Daniel (23 August 2000)
-- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added
-  when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with
-  it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think
-  I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the
-  file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new
-  *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since
-  libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases.
-
-- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name
-  resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms
-  that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of
-  this.
-
-- The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to
-  Bjorn Reese.
-
-Daniel (21 August 2000)
-- Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to
-  keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting...
-  This needs to be addressed.
-
-Version 7.1.1
-
-Daniel (21 August 2000)
-- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent
-  me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests
-  which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of
-  the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a
-  function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function
-  will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad
-  manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I
-  should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on
-  a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at
-  http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the
-  future as well.
-
-Daniel (18 August 2000)
-- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't
-  think this is the reason for the continued trouble though.
-
-Daniel (17 August 2000)
-- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It
-  should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems.
-
-Daniel (15 August 2000)
-- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well
-  as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before?
-
-- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when
-  used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got
-  screwed up!
-
-Daniel (11 August 2000)
-- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version
-  of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that
-  information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of
-  not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my
-  Linux Redhat installation...
-
-Daniel (10 August 2000)
-- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace
-  the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added
-  the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts
-  using custom Content-Types.
-
-Daniel (8 August 2000)
-- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no
-  user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.
-
-Version 7.1
-
-Daniel (7 August 2000)
-- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker.
-
-- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort
-  of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl.
-
-Daniel (4 August 2000)
-- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms.
-  My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to
-  move an include file before another, as is now described in the source.
-
-  AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r()
-  functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile
-  broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the
-  configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My
-  implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may
-  get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to
-  any system using that.
-
-  For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread
-  to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few
-  functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work
-  although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use
-  libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a
-  thread-safe lib.
-
-- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl.
-
-Daniel (1 August 2000)
-- Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal()
-  that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true
-  function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string
-  comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the
-  now obsolete #define.
-
-- Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's
-  JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range
-  headers.
-
-- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use
-  libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young
-  found out.
-
-Version 7.0.11beta
-
-Daniel (1 August 2000)
-- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create
-  the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as
-  it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories
-  without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in
-  both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level
-  makefile that succeeds in install everything properly!
-
-- Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major
-  flaws added now.
-
-Daniel (31 July 2000)
-- Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one
-  of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank
-  ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a
-  little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new
-  one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any
-  blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header.
-
-Daniel (29 July 2000)
-- It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now
-  I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it.
-
-- I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left
-  names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug
-  reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email
-  addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me
-  working on this.
-
-Daniel (27 July 2000)
-- Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an
-  environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I
-  corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra
-  beta release just for this.
-
-Version 7.0.10beta
-
-Daniel (27 July 2000)
-- So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add
-  the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as
-  symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed
-  on 7.0.9...
-
-Version 7.0.9beta
-
-Daniel (25 July 2000)
-- Kristian Köhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl
-  libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the
-  recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some
-  other nice cleanups.
-
-- In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a
-  page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another
-  server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that
-  server as well.
-
-  Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect
-  and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several
-  fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at
-  least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which
-  means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl
-  to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards
-  curl back to server A again, the password will be used again.
-
-  This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use
-  the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think
-  that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole".
-
-  As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and
-  will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that.
-
-- As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading
-  function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!)
-  if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a
-  default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I
-  don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to
-  get received...
-
-- Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for
-  the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to
-  suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from
-  'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded
-  contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or
-  textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used
-  %s or similar in a -F file name.
-
-- As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring
-  files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be
-  the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very
-  well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size
-  may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing
-  ASCII transfers in FTP.
-
-Daniel (24 July 2000)
-- Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy
-  port number to be set separately from the proxy host name.
-
-- Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug.
-
-- The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously
-  accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at
-  evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out.
-
-- The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in
-  when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was
-  discovered by Rich Gray.
-
-- Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in
-  curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory.
-
-- Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not
-  properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should
-  now have been fixed.
-
-- HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing
-  problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash.
-  Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering
-  and suggesting a fix...
-
-Daniel (21 June 2000)
-- After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a
-  HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some
-  checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request
-  command, no matter what the user wants! ;-)
-
-Version 7.0.8beta
-
-Daniel (20 June 2000)
-- I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se
-  instead of the previous one.
-
-- As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer
-  makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has
-  been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only
-  interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time.
-
-  While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto
-  referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or
-  only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the
-  previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding
-  document.
-
-- My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only
-  when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It
-  turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that
-  didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as
-  it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O
-
-Version 7.0.7beta
-
-Daniel (16 June 2000)
-- I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar
-  stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the
-  recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like
-  before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at
-  the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This
-  code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour!
-  ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed
-  this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE
-  from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it
-  will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also
-  will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of
-  getting the writeout data and move that too to the client).
-
-- I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I
-  found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well.
-
-Daniel (15 June 2000)
-- I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of
-  course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover
-  corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used
-  this feature with v7?
-
-- Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in
-  v7. Hm.
-
-Daniel (14 June 2000)
-- Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it
-  should. I corrected this.
-
-Version 7.0.6beta
-
-Daniel (14 June 2000)
-- Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling):
-  lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32)
-  src/main.c had several minor problems
-  lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice
-  src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define
-  both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the
-  define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32
-  to set it.
-
-Version 7.0.5beta
-
-Daniel (14 June 2000)
-- Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems.
-
-- Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to
-  binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option
-  is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was
-  already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The
-  libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now
-  obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32
-  compiler around.
-
-Daniel (13 June 2000)
-- Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup()
-  since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected.
-
-Daniel (9 June 2000)
-- Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file.
-
-Daniel (8 June 2000)
-- So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it
-  should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it
-  right now.
-- Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just
-  in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers.
-- Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly.
-
-Version 7.0.4beta
-
-Daniel (2 June 2000)
-- I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all
-  but the first request.
-- Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic
-  curl_slist.
-- Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c
-
-Version 7.0.3beta
-
-Daniel (31 May 2000)
-- So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to
-  compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to
-  feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add
-  a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly.
-
-Version 7.0.2beta
-
-Daniel (29 May 2000)
-- Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only
-  toggles one of those bits.
-
-- Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add
-  usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around,
-  since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as
-  solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script.
-
-  I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my
-  Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now.
-
-Daniel (22 May 2000)
-- Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as
-  well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems
-  to be reserved in some gcc versions!
-
-- Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX
-  needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined.
-  More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work.
-
-Version 7.0.1beta
-
-Daniel (21 May 2000)
-- Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No
-  more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl-
-  prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former
-  curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate
-  setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is
-  now using that.
-
-- Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan
-  to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name
-  lookups.
-
-Version 7.0beta
-
-Daniel (18 May 2000)
-- Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow
-  source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to
-  a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and
-  patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also
-  makes a larger number a newer version.
-
-Daniel (17 May 2000)
-- Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range
-  option. I corrected them.
-- Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file
-  in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for
-  multithreaded purposes.
-
-Daniel (16 May 2000)
-- Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7.
-  There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken.
-  <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use.
-
-Daniel (14 May 2000)
-- FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738.
-- FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change
-  directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with
-  Rich Gray made me notice these problems.
-- Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the
-  src/usrglob.c file.
-- I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string
-  compares on all platforms.
-
-Daniel (8 May 2000):
-- Been working lots on the new lib.
-- Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work
-  better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix.
-
-Daniel (2 May 2000):
-- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in
-  configure.in that didn't do any good.
-
-Daniel (24 April 2000):
-- Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't
-  find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison
-
-Daniel (12 April 2000):
-- Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a
-  better one...
-
-Daniel (8 April 2000):
-- Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes
-  and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM.
-- I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user
-  agent string. It does now.
-- Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs
-  on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves
-  the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to
-  build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm
-  package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build
-  a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM?
-- Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l
-  on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native
-  cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been
-  reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It
-  is a pity there's no newer release around...
-
-Daniel (4 April 2000):
-- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that
-  appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs.
-
-Daniel (2 April 2000):
-- Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then
-  followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved.
-
-Daniel (27 March 2000):
-- H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly
-  messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy,
-  which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings.
-
-Daniel (23 March 2000):
-- Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he
-  actually already told me about!
-
-- H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl
-  ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
-  happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...
-
-Daniel (22 March 2000):
-- Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME
-  was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been.
-  The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6
-  makefile for MS VC++.
-
-Daniel (21 March 2000):
-- I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that
-  one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne
-  Johansson made me aware of this.
-
-Version 6.5.2
-
-Daniel (21 March 2000):
-- Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
-  crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
-  the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
-
-Version 6.5.1
-
-Daniel (20 March 2000):
-- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
-  overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
-  problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
-  single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
-  Johansson).
-
-Daniel (19 March 2000):
-- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches
-  that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in
-  the INSTALL file. Very nice job!
-
-Daniel (17 March 2000):
-- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
-  file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
-  VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
-  existence.
-
-Daniel (15 March 2000):
-- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
-  to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D
-  on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies
-  in that one single file.
-
-- Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff.
-  Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32
-  stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now).
-
-- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
-  Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
-
-Daniel (14 March 2000):
-- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
-  was never written. I fixed it now.
-
-- Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does
-  when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included
-  instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in
-  the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h.
-
-Version 6.5
-
-Daniel (13 March 2000):
-- <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a
-  single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what
-  the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to
-  perhaps make them work better.
-
-- Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl
-  script needs it!
-
-- Made some beautifications in the curl man page.
-
-Daniel (3 March 2000):
-- Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and
-  HAVE_STRDUP.
-
-Daniel (3 March 2000):
-- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
-
-Daniel (2 March 2000):
-- Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people
-  happy and I'll still keep them available on the web.
-
-- Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter
-  display in README.curl.
-
-- Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf
-  Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
-  fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
-  0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
-  thing).
-
-- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
-  Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
-  every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net>
-  suggested this.
-
-- Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix.
-
-Daniel (24 February 2000):
-- Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32.
-
-  I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using
-  the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %-
-  letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should
-  use another letter instead!
-
-- Added more variables to -w:
-
-  'http_code'
-  'time_namelookup'
-  'time_connect'
-  'time_pretransfer'
-  'url_effective'
-
-- Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from
-  stdin in the good old "standard" curl way.
-
-Daniel (22 February 2000):
-- Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback.
-
-Daniel (21 February 2000):
-
-- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
-  single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
-  completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
-  they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
-  exist as of this moment are:
-
-        total_time     - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
-        size_download  - total downloaded amount of bytes
-        size_upload    - total uploaded amount of bytes
-        speed_download - the average speed of the entire download
-        speed_upload   - the average speed of the entire upload
-
-  I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others.
-
-- It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new
-  progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re-
-  introduced! :-/
-
-Daniel (16 February 2000):
-- Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued
-  working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download
-  and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good.
-
-- Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface.
-
-- Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next.
-
-Daniel (15 February 2000):
-- The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it
-  is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly!
-
-Daniel (11 February 2000):
-- Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to
-  deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.
-
-- Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
-  is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
-  similarly reads the cookies from stdin.
-
-- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
-  -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
-
-- Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
-
-- Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the
-  cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
-  the server.
-
-Daniel (8 February 2000):
- - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that
-   prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do
-   with the difference in sprintf() return code types.
-
- - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's
-   do some progress meter fixes later this week.
-
-Daniel (31 January 2000):
- - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie
-   parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
-   that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
-   what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.
-
-   RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
-   compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...
-
- - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form
-   to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
-   since the socket "pipe" becomes full.
-
-   It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
-   single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
-   of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
-   and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
-
- - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
-   although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
-   with fixing anything.
-
- - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume
-   support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
-   I'll work on it.
-
-Daniel (25 January 2000):
- - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was
-   corrected.
-
- - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile
-   curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
-   by Jörn's recent #include modifications!
-
-Daniel (19 January 2000):
- - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem
-   in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
-   different protocol to fail.
-
-   At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
-   could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
-   again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
-   on server not running on default ports.)
-
- - Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again
-   made it possible to select progress bar.
-
- - Jörn also fixed a few include problems.
-
-Version 6.4
-
-Daniel (17 January 2000):
- - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the
-   progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
-   the time spent on the download so far.
- - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
-   browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.
-
-Daniel (10 January 2000):
- - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
- - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
-   quote commands.
- - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
-   that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
-   course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
-   downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
- - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
-   install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
-   on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
-   better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
- - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
- - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
-   2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
-   flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
-   and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
-