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-How cURL Became Like This
-=========================
-
-Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg was spending time writing an IRC bot
-for an Amiga related channel on EFnet. He then came up with the idea to make
-currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
-users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to
-automate their retrieval.
-
-Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that
-Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently release version 0.1 of. After
-a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed.
-
-1997
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-
-HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support.
-
-We soon found and fixed support for getting currencies over GOPHER.  Once FTP
-download support was added, the name of the project was changed and urlget 2.0
-was released in August 1997. The http-only days were already passed.
-
-1998
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-
-The project slowly grew bigger. When upload capabilities were added and the
-name once again was misleading, a second name change was made and on March 20,
-1998 curl 4 was released. (The version numbering from the previous names was
-kept.)
-
-(Unrelated to this project a company called Curl Corporation registered a US
-trademark on the name "CURL" on May 18 1998. That company had then already
-registered the curl.com domain back in November of the previous year. All this
-was revealed to us much later.)
-
-SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library.
-
-August, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net.
-
-October, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support,
-curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of
-code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of
-"copyleft".
-
-November, configure script and reported successful compiles on several
-major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and
-curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added.
-
-Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man
-page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it.
-
-1999
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-
-January, DICT support added.
-
-OpenSSL took over where SSLeay was abandoned.
-
-May, first Debian package.
-
-August, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits
-weekly. Moved site to curl.haxx.nu.
-
-Released curl 6.0 in September. 15000 lines of code.
-
-December 28, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services
-for managing the project.
-
-2000
-----
-
-Spring 2000, major internal overhaul to provide a suitable library interface.
-The first non-beta release was named 7.1 and arrived in August. This offered
-the easy interface and turned out to be the beginning of actually getting
-other software and programs to get based on and powered by libcurl. Almost
-20000 lines of code.
-
-June 2000: the curl site moves to "curl.haxx.se"
-
-August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly.
-
-The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third
-party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since
-the release of PHP 4.0.2. This would soon get followers. More than 16
-different bindings exist at the time of this writing.
-
-September, kerberos4 support was added.
-
-In November started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written
-from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1.
-
-2001
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-
-January, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or
-MPL). The MIT license is extremely liberal and can be used combined with GPL
-in other projects. This would finally put an end to the "complaints" from
-people involved in GPLed projects that previously were prohibited from using
-libcurl while it was released under MPL only. (Due to the fact that MPL is
-deemed "GPL incompatible".)
-
-curl supports HTTP 1.1 starting with the release of 7.7, March 22 2001. This
-also introduced libcurl's ability to do persistent connections. 24000 lines of
-code. The libcurl major SONAME number was bumped to 2 due to this overhaul.
-
-The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001.
-
-August. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and
-more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD
-ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation
-contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have
-never since got in touch again.
-
-September, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the
-forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and
-without much whistles.
-
-2002
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-
-June, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is
-35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations
-of CPUs and operating systems.
-
-To estimate number of users of the curl tool or libcurl library is next to
-impossible. Around 5000 downloaded packages each week from the main site gives
-a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS
-distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software.
-
-September, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license
-only.
-
-2003
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-
-January. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds.
-
-February, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment,
-there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site.
-
-Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June)
-and Negotiate (June).
-
-November: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors
-to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors.
-
-December, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported.
-
-2004
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-
-January: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support.
-
-June: curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors.
-
-This release bumped the major SONAME to 3 due to the removal of the
-curl_formparse() function
-
-August: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1
-
-    Public curl release number:               82
-    Releases counted from the very beginning: 109
-    Available command line options:           96
-    Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     120
-    Number of public functions in libcurl:    36
-    Amount of public web site mirrors:        12
-    Number of known libcurl bindings:         26
-
-2005
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-
-April. GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is
-built.
-
-September: TFTP support was added.
-
-More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors.
-
-December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow
-
-2006
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-
-January. We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation
-that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that
-nobody had found out in all this time we removed it instead of fixing it.
-
-March: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow
-
-April: Added the multi_socket() API
-
-September: The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the
-removal of ftp third party transfer support.
-
-November: Added SCP and SFTP support
-
-2007
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-
-February: Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff
-
-July: security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification
-
-2008
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-
-November:
-
-    Command line options:         128
-    curl_easy_setopt() options:   158
-    Public functions in libcurl:  58
-    Known libcurl bindings:       37
-    Contributors:                 683
-
- 145,000 unique visitors. >100 GB downloaded.
-
-2009
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-
-March: security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access
-
-August: security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name
-
-December: Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
-
-2010
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-
-January: Added support for RTSP
-
-February: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length
-
-March: The project switched over to use git (hosted by github) instead of CVS
-for source code control
-
-May: Added support for RTMP
-
-Added support for PolarSSL to do the SSL/TLS stuff
-
-August:
-
-    Public curl releases:         117
-    Command line options:         138
-    curl_easy_setopt() options:   180
-    Public functions in libcurl:  58
-    Known libcurl bindings:       39
-    Contributors:                 808
-
- Gopher support added (re-added actually)
-
-2012
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-
- July: Added support for Schannel (native Windows TLS backend) and Darwin SSL
- (Native Mac OS X and iOS TLS backend).
-
- Supports metalink
-
- October: SSH-agent support.
-
-2013
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-
- February: Cleaned up internals to always uses the "multi" non-blocking
- approach internally and only expose the blocking API with a wrapper.
-
- September: First small steps on supporting HTTP/2 with nghttp2.
-
- October: Removed krb4 support.
-
- December: Happy eyeballs.
-
-2014
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-
- March: first real release supporting HTTP/2
-
- September: Web site had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data