Patrick Monnerat and I modified libcurl so that now it *copies* all strings

passed to it with curl_easy_setopt()! Previously it has always just refered
to the data, forcing the user to keep the data around until libcurl is done
with it. That is now history and libcurl will instead clone the given
strings and keep private copies.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

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                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel S (1 August 2007)
+- Patrick Monnerat and I modified libcurl so that now it *copies* all strings
+  passed to it with curl_easy_setopt()! Previously it has always just refered
+  to the data, forcing the user to keep the data around until libcurl is done
+  with it. That is now history and libcurl will instead clone the given
+  strings and keep private copies. This is also part of Patrick Monnerat's
+  OS/400 port.
+
+  Due to this being a somewhat interesting change API wise, I've decided to
+  bump the version of the upcoming release to 7.17.0. Older applications will
+  of course not notice this change nor do they have to care, but new
+  applications can be written to take advantage of this.
+
 - Greg Morse reported a problem with POSTing using ANYAUTH to a server
   requiring NTLM, and he provided test code and a test server and we worked
   out a bug fix. We failed to count sent body data at times, which then caused