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@@ -7,6 +7,24 @@ History of Changes +Daniel (4 March 2002) +- Cut off the changes done during 2001 from this changelog file and put them + in a separate file (CHANGES.2001), available from CVS of course. + +- I removed the multi directory. The example sources were moved to the + docs/examples directory where they belong. + +- Wrote 7 new man pages for the current functions in the new multi interface. + They're all still pretty basic, but we can use them as a start and add more + contents to them when we figure out what to write. The large amount of man + pages for libcurl now present made me decide to put them in a new separate + subdirectory in the docs directory. Named libcurl. + +- Giuseppe Corbelli provided a template file for the EPM package manager, it + gets generated nicely by the configure script now. + +Version 7.9.5-pre5 + Daniel (1 March 2002) - Moved the memanalyze.pl script into the tests/ dir and added it to the release archives. It was previously only present in the CVS tree. @@ -392,1962 +410,4 @@ Daniel (2 January 2002) changes done on dec-20 made test case 104 cease to work (in both branches). - Philip Gladstone pointed out a few portability problems in the source code - that didn't compile on 64-bit sparcs using Sun's native compiler... - -Daniel (20 December 2001) -- Björn Stenberg caught an unpleasent (but hard-to-find) bug that could cause - libcurl to hang on transfers over proxy, when the proxy was specified with - an environment variable! - -- Added code to make ftp operations treat the NO_BODY and HEADERS options - better: - - NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set TRUE: - Return a set of headers with file info - - NO_BODY set FALSE - Transfer data as usual, HEADERS is ignored - - NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set FALSE - Don't transfer any data, don't return any headers. Just perform the set - of FTP commands. - -Daniel (17 December 2001) -- Götz Babin-Ebell dove into the dark dungeons of the OpenSSL ENGINE stuff and - made libcurl support it! This allows libcurl to do SSL connections with the - private key stored in external hardware. - - To make this good, he had to add a bunch of new library options that'll be - useful to others as well: - - CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE set SSL cert type (PEM/DER) - CURLOPT_SSLKEY set SSL private key (file) - CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPE: set SSL key type (PEM/DER/ENG) - CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD: set the passphrase for your private key - (CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD is an alias) - CURLOPT_SSLENGINE: set the name of the crypto engine - (returns CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND on error) - CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULT: set the default engine - - There are two new failure codes: - - CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND - CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED - -Daniel (14 December 2001) -- We have "branched" the source-tree at a few places. Checkout the CVS sources - with the 'multi-dev' label to get the latest multi interface development - tree. The idea is to only branch affected files and to restrict the branch - to the v8 multi interface development only. - - *NOTE* that if we get bug reports and patches etc, we might need to apply - them in both branches! - - The multi-dev branch is what we are gonna use as main branch in the future - if it turns out successful. Thus, we must maintain both now in case we need - them. The current main branch will be used if we want to release a 7.9.3 or - perhaps a 7.10 release before version 8. Which is very likely. - -- Marcus Webster provided code for the new CURLFORM_CONTENTHEADER option for - curl_formadd(), that lets an application add a set of headers for that - particular part in a multipart/form-post. He also provided a section to the - man page that describes the new option. - -Daniel (11 December 2001) -- Ben Greear made me aware of the fact that the Curl_failf() usage internally - was a bit sloppy with adding newlines or not to the error messages. Let's - once and for all say that they do not belong there! - -- When uploading files with -T to give a local file name, and you end the URL - with a slash to have the local file name used remote too, we now no longer - use the local directory as well. Only the file part of the -T file name - will be appended to the right of the slash in the URL. - -Daniel (7 December 2001) -- Michal Bonino pointed out that Digital Unix doesn't have gmtime_r so the - link failed. Added a configure check and corrected source code. - -Version 7.9.2 - -Daniel (5 December 2001) -- Jon Travis found out that if you used libcurl and CURLOPT_UPLOAD and then - on the same handle used CURLOPT_HTTPGET it would still attempt to upload. - His suggested fix was perfect. - -Daniel (4 December 2001) -- Incorporated more macos fixes and added four specific files in a new - subdirectory below src. - -Daniel (3 December 2001) -- Eric Lavigne reported two problems: - - First one in the curl_strnequal() function. I think this problem is rather - macos 9 specific, as most platform provides a function to use instead of the - one provided by libcurl. - - A second, more important, was in the way we take care of FTP responses. The - code would read a large chunk of data and search for the end-of-response - line within that chunk. When found, it would just skip the rest of the - data. However, when the network connections are special, or perhaps the - server is, we could actually get more than one response in that chunk of - data so that when the next invoke to this function was done, the response - had already been read and thrown away. Now, we cache the data not used in - one call, as it could be useful in the subsequent call. Test case 126 was - added and the test ftp server modified, to exercise this particular case. - -Version 7.9.2-pre8 - -Daniel (2 December 2001) -- Bug report #487825 correctly identified a problem when using a proxy and - following a redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. libcurl then re-used the same - proxy connection but without doing a proper HTTPS request. - -- Fixed win32 compiling quirks. - -Version 7.9.2-pre7 - -Daniel (30 November 2001) -- Documented --disable-epsv and CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV. - -Daniel (29 November 2001) -- Added --disable-epsv as an option. When used, curl won't attempt to use the - EPSV command when doing passive FTP downloads. Wrote a test case for it. - -- Eric provided a few more fixes for building on Macs. He also pointed out - a flaw in the signal handler restoration code. - -Daniel (28 November 2001) -- Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appeared - only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for - gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the - hostent struct must be blanked before use? With Dimitris help and these - patches, the problems seem to be history. - -- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl - from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela - pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must - be able to shut if off to work everywhere. - -- I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to - receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at - least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t... - -- Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence. - -- FTP command sequence changes: - - EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6 - passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works - fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it. - - SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual - download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important - to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size - in there. - - Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server - code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted! - -Daniel (27 November 2001) -- Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin - as it is supposed to do! - -Version 7.9.2-pre6 - -Daniel (27 November 2001) -- Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied. - -- greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release - archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but - I think it may come useful to people. - -- There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should - be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in - lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with. - -Daniel (26 November 2001) -- Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers, - and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat. - -Version 7.9.2-pre5 - -Daniel (22 November 2001) -- Andrés García helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537, - which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to - connect. This didn't happen on all systems, and more specificly I've so far - only seen this happen on IPv4-only Linux hosts. - -- I applied the fixes for the two bugs Eric Lavigne found when doing his MacOS - port. A missing comma in arpa_telnet.h and a pretty wild write in the FTP - response reader function. The latter write is however likely to occur in our - own buffer unless very big FTP server replies (>25K) are read. I've never - seen such a reply ever, so I think this is a relatively minor risk. - -Daniel (21 November 2001) -- Moonesamy provided code to prevent junk from being output when libcurl - returns an error code but no error description and that corrects how make is - run in the Makefile.dist file (that appears as root Makefile in release - archives). - -- Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS - (non-X). - -- Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the - shared OpenSSL DLLs. - -Version 7.9.2-pre4 - -Daniel (20 November 2001) -- Georg Horn brought a patch that introduced CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME, - complete with man page updates! - -Daniel (19 November 2001) -- Miklos Nemeth provided details enough to update the Borland makefile - properly. - -- Lars M Gustafsson found a case with a bad free(). In fact, it was so bad I'm - amazed we never saw this before! - -- Kevin Roth patched the cygwin Makfile. - -Daniel (16 November 2001) -- Klevtsov Vadim fixed a bug in how time-conditionals were sent when doing - HTTP. - -Version 7.9.2-pre3 - -Daniel (14 November 2001) -- Samuel Listopad patched away the problem with SSL we got when someone call - curl_global_init() => curl_global_cleanup() => curl_global_init(). The - second init would not "take" and SSL would be unusable with curl from that - point. This doesn't change the fact that calling the functions that way is - wrong. curl_global_init() should be called exactly once and not more. - -Daniel (13 November 2001) -- Fixed some minor variable type mixups in ftp.c that caused compiler warnings - on HP-UX 11.00. - -- The FTP fix I did yesterday used an uninitialized variable that caused - spurious errors when doing FTP. - -Version 7.9.2-pre2 - -Daniel (12 November 2001) -- Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple-requests problem when first a FTP - directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The - second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the - previous request, when it did its initial CWD command. - -- Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improve the time diff function to - prevent truncation a bit. - -- Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't - work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work. - -Version 7.9.2-pre1 - -Daniel (12 November 2001) -- Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot - faster, it should also support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask - previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte - after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems - to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is - due to the problems John Lask previously experienced. - -- Andrés García found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K - for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a - zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In - reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though - the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff. - -- I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington - reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed - is wrong. - -Daniel (8 November 2001) -- Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a - buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also - gracefully provided a patch for this this. - -- Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the - correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts. - This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds - gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really - figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that - works... - -Daniel (7 November 2001) -- docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number - system we use in the curl project. - -- Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as - it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again. - -Daniel (6 November 2001) -- Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed - out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction - struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous - alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar. - -- Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install. - -Daniel (5 November 2001) -- Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the - native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now. - Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds - though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-( - -- John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking - to work on all platforms. - -- John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS - version 1 when speaking HTTPS. - -- John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that - works a lot better than the previous! - -- Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug - report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied. - -Version 7.9.1 - -Daniel (4 November 2001) -- I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since - I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests - with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of - a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I - wrote up tests for a few of those too. - -Daniel (2 November 2001) -- Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations - even under normal unixes. - -Daniel (1 November 2001) -- When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of - how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0 - bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-) - -- The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also - added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file. - -- Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about - the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc): - http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html - -Version 7.9.1-pre7 - -Daniel (31 October 2001) -- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as - the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported. - -- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I - had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used - connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection - and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the - SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those - cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead. - -- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets - in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to - send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those - situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and - added checks for what they actually return. - -Version 7.9.1-pre6 - -Daniel (31 October 2001) -- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be - more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then - a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this - problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider - said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without - actually trying an operation. - -Daniel (30 October 2001) -- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL - pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26] - -- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description - in the curl.1 man page. - -Daniel (29 October 2001) -- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file - and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function. - -- Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function, - that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]. - -- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the - packages/Win32/cygwin directory. - -- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP - server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one - connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167] - -- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect - code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release - (test 19)... - [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14] - -Daniel (26 October 2001) -- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the - contents is separated with more than one space. - -Daniel (25 October 2001) -- Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the - correct data has been output. - -Version 7.9.1-pre5 - -Daniel (24 October 2001) -- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie - that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The - brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25] - -Daniel (23 October 2001) -- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs - would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35] - -Daniel (22 October 2001) -- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented - preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code! - -- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from - the out-of-the-box curl release archives. - -- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report - transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the - future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be - used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the - connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the - middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data - still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64] - -Daniel (19 October 2001) -- CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return - anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this. - -- T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as - well. - -Version 7.9.1-pre4 - -Daniel (18 October 2001) -- CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if - the HTTP return code is below 400. - -Daniel (17 October 2001) -- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the - tests. - -- We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin - adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard - out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and - cygwin? - -- A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed. - It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61] - -- The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr - if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it - easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off. - -Daniel (16 October 2001) -- Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments. - -Daniel (12 October 2001) -- Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more - accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures, - and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should - now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on - the right edge. - -- After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified - the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking - if the redirected URL is absolute. - -Daniel (11 October 2001) -- Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows - 2000 running cygwin. - -Daniel (10 October 2001) -- Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser. - Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work. - -Version 7.9.1-pre3 - -Daniel (9 October 2001) -- Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new - libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0 - requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you - really MUST do that because of a silly remote server. - -- Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as - all public curl-symbols should. - -- libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal. - -Daniel (8 October 2001) -- Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was - applied. - -- Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed. - -Daniel (5 October 2001) -- Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors - on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'. - -- Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files. - -Version 7.9.1-pre2 - -Daniel (4 October 2001) -- Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper - gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling - is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost' - name. - -- Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on - IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any - resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now. - -Daniel (3 October 2001) -- Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name - resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a - thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being - passed between threads. - -- Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that - required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require - that header, that is for true servers... - -- I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now. - -Version 7.9.1-pre1 - -Daniel (3 October 2001) -- Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not - only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting - the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the - obsoleted curl_formparse. - -Daniel (2 October 2001) -- Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking - connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP - addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first - one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all - the TCP connect stuff. - -- We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support - people writing scripts without knowing what address there is. - -Daniel (28 September 2001) -- Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller - functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 - get less noticable in the sources. - -- If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl, - libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously - did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known - remote date when -R is used. - -Daniel (27 September 2001) -- Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We - will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should - fail. - -Daniel (26 September 2001) -- Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar - functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it - work. - -Daniel (25 September 2001) -- Jörn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles. - -Version 7.9 - -Daniel (23 September 2001) -- Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts - when FTP RETR failed. - -- Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled. - -Version 7.9-pre8 - -Daniel (19 September 2001) -- Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with - test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and - #440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do - now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail - to connect with an error code returned. - -- Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong. - I wrote a test case for this (45). - -Version 7.9-pre7 - -Daniel (17 September 2001) -- Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require - winsock 2.0. - -Version 7.9-pre6 - -- libtool 1.4.2 is now in use! - -Version 7.9-pre5 - -Daniel (14 September 2001) -- Added another 14 ftp tests. - -Daniel (13 September 2001) -- Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been - tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need - to write up some docs for this function. - -- Added four more ftp tests to the test suite. - -Daniel (12 September 2001) -- CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named - --ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL - connection. - -- T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out - to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet. - -Version 7.9-pre4 - -Daniel (11 September 2001) -- Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server - certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington. - -- Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test - suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been - made, but nothing really certain. - -- T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows - and works on reducing it. - -Daniel (10 September 2001) -- Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed - behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers. - -- The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled. - -Daniel (7 September 2001) -- SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was - disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on - windows. - -Daniel (6 September 2001) -- T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it - sometimes read from a NULL pointer. - -Version 7.9-pre3 - -Daniel (3 September 2001) -- Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to - set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local - file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use - -o or -O. - -- Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything. - -Daniel (1 September 2001) -- Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in - the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now - been re-run. - -- Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite - makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here. - -Version 7.9-pre2 - -Daniel (31 August 2001) -- I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used - structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit - to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully - decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get - easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL- - free bug from August 23. - -Version 7.9-pre1 - -Daniel (29 August 2001) -- The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use - that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl - knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format. - - This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl, - which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked. - There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps - it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all - of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature... - -- Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted - by Erick Nuwendam. - -Daniel (28 August 2001) -- Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems - on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well! - -- Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and - added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect: - header. Great work! - -- Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There - should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but - in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other - caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take - effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination - port number basis. - - Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and - uses a previous SSL session ID. - -- Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine. - -Daniel (27 August 2001) -- Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code - -Daniel (24 August 2001) -- T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project - files. - -- Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that - curl didn't really deal with the way one would like. - -- Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our - own portable version named strequal() that should be used! - -- Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix - debug object modules causing confusions. - -Daniel (23 August 2001) -- T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a - second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke - followed a Location: header. - -- Started the improvement work on the cookie engine: - - Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file - - A write to the possibly static string was removed - - Added a function that can output all cookies - - Now supports reading multiple cookie files - -- Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file. - -- Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to - increase readability and maintainability. - -Daniel (21 August 2001) -- Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have: - o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in - all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server - rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in - the standard replace-internal-header style. - o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to - replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function - will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way - and correct way to build form posts. - o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes - - These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9... - -- We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release - archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach. - -- Andrés García's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was - added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows. - -- Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail - on many Red Hat boxes! - -Daniel (20 August 2001) -- We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD - as well as FreeBSD - -Version 7.8.1 - -Daniel (20 August 2001) -- Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that - we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K - smaller! - -- Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t - properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to - acinclude.m4. - -Daniel (19 August 2001) -- Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs... - -Daniel (17 August 2001) -- Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global - symbols and to not use global variables. - -Version 7.8.1-pre6 - -Daniel (16 August 2001) -- S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified - with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is - used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?' - separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth. - -- curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link - with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself. - curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile - source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include - path correct. - -Daniel (15 August 2001) -- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses - were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format) - -- Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core - dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with - CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS - now equals setting it to no data at all. - -- Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work - properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the - variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed. - -- David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and - builds with that compiler. - -Daniel (14 August 2001) -- Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now. - -- An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for - windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock - stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle - with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame. - -Version 7.8.1-pre5 - -Daniel (14 August 2001) -- Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few - minor changes were necessary. - -- I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options. - I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I - corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on - the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently - added #ifdef VMS lines. - -- I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once - necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should - (hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of - OpenSSL. - -Daniel (13 August 2001) -- Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts - to be larger than 4K. - -Daniel (10 August 2001) -- S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile - -Daniel (9 August 2001) -- The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call - was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use - the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was - closed even if we looped to get more files. Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug - report #441610 - -- Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52 - -Version 7.8.1-pre4 - -Daniel (8 August 2001) -- curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned - out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in - the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around - implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for - this kind of construct. - -- Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl - verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used, - any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v). - -Daniel (7 August 2001) -- Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test - suite. - -Daniel (6 August 2001) -- Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the - directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my - initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with - libcurl easier. - -- Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file:// - URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl - does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them. - -- Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and - build under OpenVMS. - -Version 7.8.1-pre3 - -Daniel (6 August 2001) -- Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you - set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that - data. This is now fixed. - -Daniel (5 August 2001) -- Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd - 1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked - for with HTTP 1.1. - -- curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input - string especially. - -Daniel (3 August 2001) -- I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to - avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file. - -- Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license - boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory - should go to Andrew for his heads up. - -- Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you - couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a - new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP - requestr (back) to GET. - -- Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in - release archives. It should be now. - -Daniel (2 August 2001) -- Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions. - -- Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the - select() loop use far too much CPU. - -- Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's - progress callback. - -Daniel (29 June 2001) -- Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated. - -- Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL. - -Daniel (27 June 2001) -- Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled. - -- Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details. - -Version 7.8.1-pre2 - -Daniel (25 June 2001) -- Björn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading - several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was - then used for all files, resulting in weird results... - -- Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names - with spaces like when -F is used. - -Version 7.8.1-pre1 - -Daniel (20 June 2001) -- Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option - for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories - for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given. - -Daniel (19 June 2001) -- When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly - garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed - reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this. - -Daniel (12 June 2001) -- Salvador Dávila provided a fix for FTP range downloads. - -- Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file - format. We're now at a total of 26 tests. - -Daniel (11 June 2001) -- libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and - David Odin. - -Daniel (7 June 2001) -- Jörn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def - -- I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed. - -Version 7.8 - -Daniel (7 June 2001) -- SDavila provided a resumed download fix. - -Version 7.8-pre4 - -Daniel (1 June 2001) -- Sterling provided some new PHP examples. - -- Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer - work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'. - -Daniel (31 May 2001) -- CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file - to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used - anywhere in the library. - -Version 7.8-pre3 - -Daniel (31 May 2001) -- Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present - less warnings. - -- Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So, - curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to - init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all - known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely - necessary. Man page updated accordingly. - -- Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms! - -Daniel (30 May 2001) -- Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were - set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE - option is subject for complete removal... - -Version 7.8-pre2 - -Daniel (30 May 2001) -- Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages. - -- Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and - we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h - -- Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl, - available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ - -Daniel (29 May 2001) -- Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread- - safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and - lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included! - -- Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written - to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected. - -- I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a - separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it - easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information. - - I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit - you deserve. - -- lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake - -Version 7.8-pre1 - -Daniel (28 May 2001) -- curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version - of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version - 7.7.4 appears as 070704 - -- Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup... - -- T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was - not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak - memory. The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two - two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should - be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done - only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use, - and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using - libcurl completely. - - *** UPGRADE NOTICE *** - - If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two - functions mentioned above !!! - - I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL - insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk - the path they point us to. - -- Moving more test cases into the new file format. - -Version 7.7.4-pre3 - -Daniel (23 May 2001) -- Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to - modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not - "ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come. - - The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test - case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test - case and a lot less files. - -- Andrés García brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing - function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path! - -Daniel (22 May 2001) -- As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was - not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with - the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected. - -- Installed and made use of the following tool versions: - autoconf 2.50 - libtool 1.4 - automake 1.4-p1 - - I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older - versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require - at least these versions. - - As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its - previous size! - - Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my - acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working! - -Daniel (21 May 2001) -- I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the - first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel. - -- Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built - with ssl support. - -Daniel (19 May 2001) -- Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they - are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions - helped out. - -Version 7.7.4-pre2 - -Daniel (18 May 2001) -- Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper - variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix) - -- For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own. - It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions - with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.) - -Daniel (17 May 2001) -- Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that - turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that - contained files from the 7.7.2 release! - -- I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to - make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of - libcurl. - -Daniel (14 May 2001) -- Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent - connections. - -Version 7.7.4-pre1 - -Daniel (14 May 2001) -- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl. - -- Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive. - -Daniel (12 May 2001) -- Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's - certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a - proper error code. I added a brand new error code named - CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose. - -Daniel (11 May 2001) -- As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not - return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume - when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed - from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of - the fact that it can't be returned anymore! - -- Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more. - -- Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post - another one. - -- Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more! - -Daniel (10 May 2001) -- Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with - Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources. - -- Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location: - headers with an extra space after the colon. - -- Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative - directories correctly. - -Daniel (9 May 2001) -- Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line), - makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl - returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead. - Anonymous bug report. - -- stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now - added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite) - -Daniel (7 May 2001) -- Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion - that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates - filed a bug report on this. - -Version 7.7.3 - -Daniel (4 May 2001) -- All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made - this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to - them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling - Hughes. - -Daniel (3 May 2001) -- Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent - connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed - chunked and non-chunked transfers. - -- Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be - treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the - server timed-out and closed the connection. - -- Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am - -Daniel (27 April 2001) -- Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it - more easy to follow now as well. - -- Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received - a "Content-Length: 0" header. - -- Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl - compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though! - -- Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't - explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew. - -Daniel (26 April 2001) -- I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps - work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal - unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the - function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it - makes a notable speed difference. - -Daniel (25 April 2001) -- Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for - non-default port numbers. - -Daniel (24 April 2001) -- I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the - data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this. - -- Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on - the alredy written perl servers easily. - -Daniel (23 April 2001) -- The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one - of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply - weird version string output! - -Version 7.7.2 - -Daniel (22 April 2001) -- Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows. - -- Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would - lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request. - -Daniel (20 April 2001) -- Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote - a 'libcurl overview' man page. - -- Spell-fixed some documents. - -- S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page. - -- Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present - separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package. - -Daniel (19 April 2001) -- Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the - --write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-) - -Version 7.7.2-pre1 - -Daniel (19 April 2001) - -- Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro. - -Daniel (18 April 2001) -- Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It - displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current - libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4 - and IPv6. - -- I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks - working and options that receives those slist pointers. - -- Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent - connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is - important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not - in the main struct as this previously did. - -Daniel (17 April 2001) -- Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new - error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download - actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present. - Should this return OK instead? - -- I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a - curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to - figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn - should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl. - - This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used - successfully in other (library based) projects. - -- Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone - for the If-Modified-Since style headers. - -- Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c - for curl to build on Ultrix. - -Daniel (11 April 2001) -- Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use - of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security - hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server - sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP - request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable! - - Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash. - -- S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on - windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set - that timeout! - -- Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl! - -- Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface. - -- I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to - Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It - works, but it is still very basic. - -Daniel (10 April 2001) -- The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as - it wasn't properly reset between transfers! - -- Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made - me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback - function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE - * when headers are written from within libcurl. - -Daniel (7 April 2001) -- Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in - the curl_easy_setopt man page. - -Daniel (6 April 2001) -- Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure - change their version define format often... - -- curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing! - -Version 7.7.1 - -Daniel (3 April 2001) -- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to - read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed. - Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected. - -- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that - it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non- - persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now. - -Daniel (29 March 2001) -- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface. - -- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the - control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted - connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used - that to verify the functionality. - -Daniel (27 March 2001) -- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried - to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent - after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly! - -- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny - example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the - examples. - -Version 7.7.1-beta1 - -Daniel (26 March 2001) -- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0 - connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this - problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the - curl-and-php mailing list. - -Daniel (24 March 2001) -- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it, - which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a - way that gnroff doesn't like. - -Daniel (23 March 2001) -- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of - $(MAKE) for the test target. - -- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not - curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7! - -- S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ). - -- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string - in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an - application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report - from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then - caused a libcurl crash! - -- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously, - curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one. - -- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl - http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which - made the second request return very odd results. - -Daniel (22 March 2001) -- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests - when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses - GET in the following request(s). - -- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of - curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same - connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly. - -- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks - like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion. - -Version 7.7 - -Daniel (22 March 2001) -- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is - detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of - arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware - of this need. - -- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape - functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The - escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one - had. - -- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up. - -Version 7.7-beta5 - -Daniel (19 March 2001) -- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense - that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this - problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was - added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right. - -- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do - form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header - engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT - and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616 - has all the details. Seems to work now! - -Daniel (16 March 2001) -- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back. - -- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release - archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs, - examples and updates you think fit. - -- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples - into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please - help me here as well! - -- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a - "chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts - even if the Content-Length: size is unknown. - -Daniel (15 March 2001) -- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT - option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the - connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire - file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others. - - I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the - item from the TODO. - -Version 7.7-beta4 - -Daniel (14 March 2001) -- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely - again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set. - - I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with - curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then! - -- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was - a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't - work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use - getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try - that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't - have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info. - -- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with - user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute, - without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and - crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that - tests this. - -- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request - data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range - of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously. - -- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details. - -Version 7.7-beta3 - -Daniel (14 March 2001) -- Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches - for non-SSL compiles. - -- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level - functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the - Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to - curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still - undocumented). - - This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with - just a drop-in replacement. - -- Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles: - o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t - o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement - o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again - o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files - o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state - -Daniel (13 March 2001) -- It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the - chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot - the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top - of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly - wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data - in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted). - - Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well. - -Version 7.7-beta2 - -Daniel (13 March 2001) -- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported - policies. - -- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies - CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now - supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy - is chosen. - -Daniel (12 March 2001) -- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the - SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl - client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I - need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember - that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered - weak (HTTPS connections). - -- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length - and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is - the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60 - test cases. - -- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the - persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly - thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now - implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new - implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, - CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are: - CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION. - -- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent - connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file - transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK. - I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well. - -- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so - that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple - connections... Now I get 100% test case OK. - -- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are - all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are - located. Horrible. - -- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing - that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though - (Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what - the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot - of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe. - - Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP) - not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have - to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK. - -Daniel (8 March 2001) -- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if - MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if - there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected. - -Version 7.7-beta1 - -Daniel (8 March 2001) -- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've - added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine. - -- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers. - -Daniel (5 March 2001) -- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works - using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't - handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this. - -- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It - should make it a lot nicer library-wise. - -- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first- - then-do approach. - -Daniel (4 March 2001) -- More bugs erased. - -Version 7.7-alpha2 - -Daniel (4 March 2001) -- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive - before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will - then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection! - -Daniel (2 March 2001) -- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness! - -- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has - proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do - not work intermixed yet though. - -Daniel (1 March 2001) -- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that - curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does - now. - -Daniel (22 February 2001) -- The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent - request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection - if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one. - -- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page - that I applied. - -Daniel (20 February 2001) -- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends. - -- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and - improvements: - - * Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does. - * Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only - XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV). - * Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used. - * Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!) - -- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of - struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific - data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the - mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs - and more will follow. - - Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should - work. Seems cool enough. - -Daniel (19 February 2001) -- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project - easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file. - -- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the - library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The - low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality. - -Daniel (15 February 2001) -- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with - CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in - libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to - switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL - string switches off the POST again. - -- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn - Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into - libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made - to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when - applicable! - -Daniel (13 February 2001) -- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages. - Suggested by Larry Fahnoe. - -Version 7.6.1 - -Daniel (9 February 2001) -- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS - PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet. - -Daniel (8 February 2001) -- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having - curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty - password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to - support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user - and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you - specify you want the prompt otherwise? - -- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and - HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes). - -- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue. - -- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on - request. - -- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly. - -Version 7.6.1-pre3 - -Daniel (7 February 2001) -- S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that - could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if - libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket. - -- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the - results from the proxy connection. - -Daniel (6 February 2001) -- S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set - for the debug build to work. - -- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver - brought up yesterday. - -Daniel (5 February 2001) -- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to - a bunch of different areas within libcurl. - -- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with - the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a - patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler. - How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone? - -Daniel (4 February 2001) -- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options: - CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They - return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given - direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length: - size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This - was done after discussions with Bob Schader. - -Daniel (3 February 2001) -- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more - recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to - not include WIN32 anymore. - -Version 7.6.1-pre2 - -Daniel (31 January 2001) -- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to - be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a - possibility to weird behavior all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me - find this. - -- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested. - I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple - of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc. - -Daniel (30 January 2001) -- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and - now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows - a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server - doesn't seem to support range requests. - -Daniel (29 January 2001) -- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33). - -Version 7.6.1-pre1 - -Daniel (29 January 2001) -- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end - and it works for him. - -Daniel (27 January 2001) -- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a - Content-Range header when resuming a PUT. - -- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP - download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field - in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for - this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing. - -- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP. - -- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It - makes the output slightly better for resumes. - -- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt - to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a - URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on - what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a - second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported. - - I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff. - -Version 7.6 - -Daniel (26 January 2001) -- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small - piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can - now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT - the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL. - -Version 7.6-pre4 - -Daniel (25 January 2001) -- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for - reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and - swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested - in the next beta-round coming right up. - -- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied - his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the - function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write(). - - I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and - reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing - would only have to be implemented at one point. - -- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the - total time very accurate on subsecond levels. - -- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout - value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently - no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only. - -Daniel (24 January 2001) -- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile - properly with cygwin. - -- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code - that corrected a potential memory leak. - -- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more - easy to read and understand! - -Daniel (23 January 2001) -- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version - string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be - set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled. - -- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when - IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'... - -- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an - error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't - follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string - is used instead. - - I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want* - globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure - seriously confuse the globber. - -Daniel (22 January 2001) -- Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even - during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions... - -- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on - the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly. - -Daniel (19 January 2001) -- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last - code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports. - -- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem - in src/main.c that I took care of. - -Version 7.6-pre3 - -Daniel (17 January 2001) -- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new - lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer() - to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function - in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols. - -Daniel (11 January 2001) -- Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[] - letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly - mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by - Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry. - -- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without - having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as - -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter - options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with - space from their parameters. - -Daniel (8 January 2001) -- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling - curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef - HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems. - -- Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made - the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout. - -- Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work - correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make - dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms' - automatically build RPMs! - -Loic Dachary (6 January 2001) -- Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root. - -- make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST - in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES). - -Daniel (5 January 2001) -- Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs - can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There - must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to - stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package. - -- The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now. - -- Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal - symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other - libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should - be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS - document to say this as well. - -Version 7.5.2 - -Daniel (4 January 2001) -- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command - line option and what happens when you specify that option more than - once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before. - -- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For - odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with - curl's dependencies on libcurl... - -- Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file. - The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in - case anyone would need it. - -- I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about - files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build - curl when you get the sources off CVS. - -- Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license. - -Daniel (3 January 2001) -- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL - -- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of - 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. + that didn't compile on 64-bit sparcs using Sun's native
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/CHANGES.2001 b/CHANGES.2001 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e4fe0c00f --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES.2001 @@ -0,0 +1,1957 @@ +Daniel (20 December 2001) +- Björn Stenberg caught an unpleasent (but hard-to-find) bug that could cause + libcurl to hang on transfers over proxy, when the proxy was specified with + an environment variable! + +- Added code to make ftp operations treat the NO_BODY and HEADERS options + better: + + NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set TRUE: + Return a set of headers with file info + + NO_BODY set FALSE + Transfer data as usual, HEADERS is ignored + + NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set FALSE + Don't transfer any data, don't return any headers. Just perform the set + of FTP commands. + +Daniel (17 December 2001) +- Götz Babin-Ebell dove into the dark dungeons of the OpenSSL ENGINE stuff and + made libcurl support it! This allows libcurl to do SSL connections with the + private key stored in external hardware. + + To make this good, he had to add a bunch of new library options that'll be + useful to others as well: + + CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE set SSL cert type (PEM/DER) + CURLOPT_SSLKEY set SSL private key (file) + CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPE: set SSL key type (PEM/DER/ENG) + CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD: set the passphrase for your private key + (CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD is an alias) + CURLOPT_SSLENGINE: set the name of the crypto engine + (returns CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND on error) + CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULT: set the default engine + + There are two new failure codes: + + CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND + CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED + +Daniel (14 December 2001) +- We have "branched" the source-tree at a few places. Checkout the CVS sources + with the 'multi-dev' label to get the latest multi interface development + tree. The idea is to only branch affected files and to restrict the branch + to the v8 multi interface development only. + + *NOTE* that if we get bug reports and patches etc, we might need to apply + them in both branches! + + The multi-dev branch is what we are gonna use as main branch in the future + if it turns out successful. Thus, we must maintain both now in case we need + them. The current main branch will be used if we want to release a 7.9.3 or + perhaps a 7.10 release before version 8. Which is very likely. + +- Marcus Webster provided code for the new CURLFORM_CONTENTHEADER option for + curl_formadd(), that lets an application add a set of headers for that + particular part in a multipart/form-post. He also provided a section to the + man page that describes the new option. + +Daniel (11 December 2001) +- Ben Greear made me aware of the fact that the Curl_failf() usage internally + was a bit sloppy with adding newlines or not to the error messages. Let's + once and for all say that they do not belong there! + +- When uploading files with -T to give a local file name, and you end the URL + with a slash to have the local file name used remote too, we now no longer + use the local directory as well. Only the file part of the -T file name + will be appended to the right of the slash in the URL. + +Daniel (7 December 2001) +- Michal Bonino pointed out that Digital Unix doesn't have gmtime_r so the + link failed. Added a configure check and corrected source code. + +Version 7.9.2 + +Daniel (5 December 2001) +- Jon Travis found out that if you used libcurl and CURLOPT_UPLOAD and then + on the same handle used CURLOPT_HTTPGET it would still attempt to upload. + His suggested fix was perfect. + +Daniel (4 December 2001) +- Incorporated more macos fixes and added four specific files in a new + subdirectory below src. + +Daniel (3 December 2001) +- Eric Lavigne reported two problems: + + First one in the curl_strnequal() function. I think this problem is rather + macos 9 specific, as most platform provides a function to use instead of the + one provided by libcurl. + + A second, more important, was in the way we take care of FTP responses. The + code would read a large chunk of data and search for the end-of-response + line within that chunk. When found, it would just skip the rest of the + data. However, when the network connections are special, or perhaps the + server is, we could actually get more than one response in that chunk of + data so that when the next invoke to this function was done, the response + had already been read and thrown away. Now, we cache the data not used in + one call, as it could be useful in the subsequent call. Test case 126 was + added and the test ftp server modified, to exercise this particular case. + +Version 7.9.2-pre8 + +Daniel (2 December 2001) +- Bug report #487825 correctly identified a problem when using a proxy and + following a redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. libcurl then re-used the same + proxy connection but without doing a proper HTTPS request. + +- Fixed win32 compiling quirks. + +Version 7.9.2-pre7 + +Daniel (30 November 2001) +- Documented --disable-epsv and CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV. + +Daniel (29 November 2001) +- Added --disable-epsv as an option. When used, curl won't attempt to use the + EPSV command when doing passive FTP downloads. Wrote a test case for it. + +- Eric provided a few more fixes for building on Macs. He also pointed out + a flaw in the signal handler restoration code. + +Daniel (28 November 2001) +- Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appeared + only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for + gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the + hostent struct must be blanked before use? With Dimitris help and these + patches, the problems seem to be history. + +- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl + from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela + pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must + be able to shut if off to work everywhere. + +- I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to + receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at + least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t... + +- Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence. + +- FTP command sequence changes: + + EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6 + passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works + fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it. + + SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual + download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important + to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size + in there. + + Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server + code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted! + +Daniel (27 November 2001) +- Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin + as it is supposed to do! + +Version 7.9.2-pre6 + +Daniel (27 November 2001) +- Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied. + +- greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release + archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but + I think it may come useful to people. + +- There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should + be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in + lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with. + +Daniel (26 November 2001) +- Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers, + and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat. + +Version 7.9.2-pre5 + +Daniel (22 November 2001) +- Andrés García helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537, + which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to + connect. This didn't happen on all systems, and more specificly I've so far + only seen this happen on IPv4-only Linux hosts. + +- I applied the fixes for the two bugs Eric Lavigne found when doing his MacOS + port. A missing comma in arpa_telnet.h and a pretty wild write in the FTP + response reader function. The latter write is however likely to occur in our + own buffer unless very big FTP server replies (>25K) are read. I've never + seen such a reply ever, so I think this is a relatively minor risk. + +Daniel (21 November 2001) +- Moonesamy provided code to prevent junk from being output when libcurl + returns an error code but no error description and that corrects how make is + run in the Makefile.dist file (that appears as root Makefile in release + archives). + +- Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS + (non-X). + +- Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the + shared OpenSSL DLLs. + +Version 7.9.2-pre4 + +Daniel (20 November 2001) +- Georg Horn brought a patch that introduced CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME, + complete with man page updates! + +Daniel (19 November 2001) +- Miklos Nemeth provided details enough to update the Borland makefile + properly. + +- Lars M Gustafsson found a case with a bad free(). In fact, it was so bad I'm + amazed we never saw this before! + +- Kevin Roth patched the cygwin Makfile. + +Daniel (16 November 2001) +- Klevtsov Vadim fixed a bug in how time-conditionals were sent when doing + HTTP. + +Version 7.9.2-pre3 + +Daniel (14 November 2001) +- Samuel Listopad patched away the problem with SSL we got when someone call + curl_global_init() => curl_global_cleanup() => curl_global_init(). The + second init would not "take" and SSL would be unusable with curl from that + point. This doesn't change the fact that calling the functions that way is + wrong. curl_global_init() should be called exactly once and not more. + +Daniel (13 November 2001) +- Fixed some minor variable type mixups in ftp.c that caused compiler warnings + on HP-UX 11.00. + +- The FTP fix I did yesterday used an uninitialized variable that caused + spurious errors when doing FTP. + +Version 7.9.2-pre2 + +Daniel (12 November 2001) +- Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple-requests problem when first a FTP + directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The + second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the + previous request, when it did its initial CWD command. + +- Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improve the time diff function to + prevent truncation a bit. + +- Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't + work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work. + +Version 7.9.2-pre1 + +Daniel (12 November 2001) +- Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot + faster, it should also support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask + previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte + after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems + to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is + due to the problems John Lask previously experienced. + +- Andrés García found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K + for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a + zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In + reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though + the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff. + +- I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington + reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed + is wrong. + +Daniel (8 November 2001) +- Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a + buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also + gracefully provided a patch for this this. + +- Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the + correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts. + This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds + gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really + figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that + works... + +Daniel (7 November 2001) +- docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number + system we use in the curl project. + +- Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as + it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again. + +Daniel (6 November 2001) +- Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed + out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction + struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous + alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar. + +- Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install. + +Daniel (5 November 2001) +- Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the + native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now. + Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds + though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-( + +- John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking + to work on all platforms. + +- John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS + version 1 when speaking HTTPS. + +- John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that + works a lot better than the previous! + +- Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug + report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied. + +Version 7.9.1 + +Daniel (4 November 2001) +- I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since + I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests + with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of + a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I + wrote up tests for a few of those too. + +Daniel (2 November 2001) +- Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations + even under normal unixes. + +Daniel (1 November 2001) +- When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of + how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0 + bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-) + +- The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also + added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file. + +- Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about + the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc): + http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html + +Version 7.9.1-pre7 + +Daniel (31 October 2001) +- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as + the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported. + +- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I + had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used + connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection + and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the + SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those + cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead. + +- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets + in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to + send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those + situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and + added checks for what they actually return. + +Version 7.9.1-pre6 + +Daniel (31 October 2001) +- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be + more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then + a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this + problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider + said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without + actually trying an operation. + +Daniel (30 October 2001) +- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL + pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26] + +- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description + in the curl.1 man page. + +Daniel (29 October 2001) +- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file + and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function. + +- Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function, + that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]. + +- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the + packages/Win32/cygwin directory. + +- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP + server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one + connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167] + +- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect + code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release + (test 19)... + [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14] + +Daniel (26 October 2001) +- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the + contents is separated with more than one space. + +Daniel (25 October 2001) +- Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the + correct data has been output. + +Version 7.9.1-pre5 + +Daniel (24 October 2001) +- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie + that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The + brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25] + +Daniel (23 October 2001) +- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs + would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35] + +Daniel (22 October 2001) +- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented + preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code! + +- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from + the out-of-the-box curl release archives. + +- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report + transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the + future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be + used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the + connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the + middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data + still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64] + +Daniel (19 October 2001) +- CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return + anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this. + +- T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as + well. + +Version 7.9.1-pre4 + +Daniel (18 October 2001) +- CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if + the HTTP return code is below 400. + +Daniel (17 October 2001) +- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the + tests. + +- We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin + adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard + out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and + cygwin? + +- A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed. + It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61] + +- The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr + if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it + easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off. + +Daniel (16 October 2001) +- Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments. + +Daniel (12 October 2001) +- Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more + accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures, + and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should + now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on + the right edge. + +- After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified + the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking + if the redirected URL is absolute. + +Daniel (11 October 2001) +- Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows + 2000 running cygwin. + +Daniel (10 October 2001) +- Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser. + Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work. + +Version 7.9.1-pre3 + +Daniel (9 October 2001) +- Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new + libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0 + requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you + really MUST do that because of a silly remote server. + +- Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as + all public curl-symbols should. + +- libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal. + +Daniel (8 October 2001) +- Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was + applied. + +- Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed. + +Daniel (5 October 2001) +- Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors + on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'. + +- Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files. + +Version 7.9.1-pre2 + +Daniel (4 October 2001) +- Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper + gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling + is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost' + name. + +- Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on + IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any + resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now. + +Daniel (3 October 2001) +- Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name + resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a + thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being + passed between threads. + +- Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that + required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require + that header, that is for true servers... + +- I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now. + +Version 7.9.1-pre1 + +Daniel (3 October 2001) +- Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not + only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting + the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the + obsoleted curl_formparse. + +Daniel (2 October 2001) +- Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking + connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP + addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first + one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all + the TCP connect stuff. + +- We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support + people writing scripts without knowing what address there is. + +Daniel (28 September 2001) +- Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller + functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 + get less noticable in the sources. + +- If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl, + libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously + did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known + remote date when -R is used. + +Daniel (27 September 2001) +- Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We + will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should + fail. + +Daniel (26 September 2001) +- Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar + functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it + work. + +Daniel (25 September 2001) +- Jörn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles. + +Version 7.9 + +Daniel (23 September 2001) +- Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts + when FTP RETR failed. + +- Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled. + +Version 7.9-pre8 + +Daniel (19 September 2001) +- Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with + test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and + #440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do + now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail + to connect with an error code returned. + +- Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong. + I wrote a test case for this (45). + +Version 7.9-pre7 + +Daniel (17 September 2001) +- Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require + winsock 2.0. + +Version 7.9-pre6 + +- libtool 1.4.2 is now in use! + +Version 7.9-pre5 + +Daniel (14 September 2001) +- Added another 14 ftp tests. + +Daniel (13 September 2001) +- Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been + tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need + to write up some docs for this function. + +- Added four more ftp tests to the test suite. + +Daniel (12 September 2001) +- CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named + --ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL + connection. + +- T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out + to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet. + +Version 7.9-pre4 + +Daniel (11 September 2001) +- Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server + certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington. + +- Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test + suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been + made, but nothing really certain. + +- T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows + and works on reducing it. + +Daniel (10 September 2001) +- Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed + behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers. + +- The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled. + +Daniel (7 September 2001) +- SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was + disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on + windows. + +Daniel (6 September 2001) +- T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it + sometimes read from a NULL pointer. + +Version 7.9-pre3 + +Daniel (3 September 2001) +- Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to + set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local + file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use + -o or -O. + +- Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything. + +Daniel (1 September 2001) +- Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in + the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now + been re-run. + +- Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite + makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here. + +Version 7.9-pre2 + +Daniel (31 August 2001) +- I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used + structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit + to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully + decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get + easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL- + free bug from August 23. + +Version 7.9-pre1 + +Daniel (29 August 2001) +- The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use + that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl + knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format. + + This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl, + which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked. + There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps + it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all + of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature... + +- Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted + by Erick Nuwendam. + +Daniel (28 August 2001) +- Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems + on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well! + +- Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and + added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect: + header. Great work! + +- Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There + should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but + in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other + caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take + effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination + port number basis. + + Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and + uses a previous SSL session ID. + +- Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine. + +Daniel (27 August 2001) +- Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code + +Daniel (24 August 2001) +- T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project + files. + +- Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that + curl didn't really deal with the way one would like. + +- Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our + own portable version named strequal() that should be used! + +- Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix + debug object modules causing confusions. + +Daniel (23 August 2001) +- T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a + second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke + followed a Location: header. + +- Started the improvement work on the cookie engine: + - Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file + - A write to the possibly static string was removed + - Added a function that can output all cookies + - Now supports reading multiple cookie files + +- Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file. + +- Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to + increase readability and maintainability. + +Daniel (21 August 2001) +- Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have: + o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in + all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server + rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in + the standard replace-internal-header style. + o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to + replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function + will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way + and correct way to build form posts. + o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes + + These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9... + +- We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release + archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach. + +- Andrés García's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was + added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows. + +- Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail + on many Red Hat boxes! + +Daniel (20 August 2001) +- We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD + as well as FreeBSD + +Version 7.8.1 + +Daniel (20 August 2001) +- Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that + we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K + smaller! + +- Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t + properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to + acinclude.m4. + +Daniel (19 August 2001) +- Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs... + +Daniel (17 August 2001) +- Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global + symbols and to not use global variables. + +Version 7.8.1-pre6 + +Daniel (16 August 2001) +- S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified + with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is + used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?' + separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth. + +- curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link + with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself. + curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile + source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include + path correct. + +Daniel (15 August 2001) +- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses + were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format) + +- Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core + dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with + CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS + now equals setting it to no data at all. + +- Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work + properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the + variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed. + +- David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and + builds with that compiler. + +Daniel (14 August 2001) +- Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now. + +- An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for + windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock + stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle + with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame. + +Version 7.8.1-pre5 + +Daniel (14 August 2001) +- Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few + minor changes were necessary. + +- I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options. + I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I + corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on + the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently + added #ifdef VMS lines. + +- I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once + necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should + (hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of + OpenSSL. + +Daniel (13 August 2001) +- Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts + to be larger than 4K. + +Daniel (10 August 2001) +- S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile + +Daniel (9 August 2001) +- The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call + was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use + the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was + closed even if we looped to get more files. Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug + report #441610 + +- Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52 + +Version 7.8.1-pre4 + +Daniel (8 August 2001) +- curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned + out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in + the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around + implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for + this kind of construct. + +- Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl + verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used, + any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v). + +Daniel (7 August 2001) +- Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test + suite. + +Daniel (6 August 2001) +- Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the + directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my + initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with + libcurl easier. + +- Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file:// + URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl + does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them. + +- Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and + build under OpenVMS. + +Version 7.8.1-pre3 + +Daniel (6 August 2001) +- Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you + set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that + data. This is now fixed. + +Daniel (5 August 2001) +- Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd + 1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked + for with HTTP 1.1. + +- curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input + string especially. + +Daniel (3 August 2001) +- I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to + avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file. + +- Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license + boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory + should go to Andrew for his heads up. + +- Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you + couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a + new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP + requestr (back) to GET. + +- Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in + release archives. It should be now. + +Daniel (2 August 2001) +- Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions. + +- Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the + select() loop use far too much CPU. + +- Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's + progress callback. + +Daniel (29 June 2001) +- Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated. + +- Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL. + +Daniel (27 June 2001) +- Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled. + +- Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details. + +Version 7.8.1-pre2 + +Daniel (25 June 2001) +- Björn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading + several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was + then used for all files, resulting in weird results... + +- Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names + with spaces like when -F is used. + +Version 7.8.1-pre1 + +Daniel (20 June 2001) +- Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option + for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories + for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given. + +Daniel (19 June 2001) +- When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly + garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed + reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this. + +Daniel (12 June 2001) +- Salvador Dávila provided a fix for FTP range downloads. + +- Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file + format. We're now at a total of 26 tests. + +Daniel (11 June 2001) +- libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and + David Odin. + +Daniel (7 June 2001) +- Jörn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def + +- I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed. + +Version 7.8 + +Daniel (7 June 2001) +- SDavila provided a resumed download fix. + +Version 7.8-pre4 + +Daniel (1 June 2001) +- Sterling provided some new PHP examples. + +- Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer + work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'. + +Daniel (31 May 2001) +- CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file + to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used + anywhere in the library. + +Version 7.8-pre3 + +Daniel (31 May 2001) +- Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present + less warnings. + +- Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So, + curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to + init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all + known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely + necessary. Man page updated accordingly. + +- Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms! + +Daniel (30 May 2001) +- Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were + set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE + option is subject for complete removal... + +Version 7.8-pre2 + +Daniel (30 May 2001) +- Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages. + +- Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and + we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h + +- Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl, + available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ + +Daniel (29 May 2001) +- Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread- + safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and + lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included! + +- Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written + to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected. + +- I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a + separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it + easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information. + + I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit + you deserve. + +- lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake + +Version 7.8-pre1 + +Daniel (28 May 2001) +- curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version + of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version + 7.7.4 appears as 070704 + +- Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup... + +- T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was + not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak + memory. The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two + two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should + be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done + only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use, + and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using + libcurl completely. + + *** UPGRADE NOTICE *** + + If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two + functions mentioned above !!! + + I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL + insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk + the path they point us to. + +- Moving more test cases into the new file format. + +Version 7.7.4-pre3 + +Daniel (23 May 2001) +- Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to + modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not + "ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come. + + The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test + case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test + case and a lot less files. + +- Andrés García brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing + function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path! + +Daniel (22 May 2001) +- As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was + not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with + the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected. + +- Installed and made use of the following tool versions: + autoconf 2.50 + libtool 1.4 + automake 1.4-p1 + + I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older + versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require + at least these versions. + + As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its + previous size! + + Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my + acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working! + +Daniel (21 May 2001) +- I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the + first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel. + +- Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built + with ssl support. + +Daniel (19 May 2001) +- Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they + are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions + helped out. + +Version 7.7.4-pre2 + +Daniel (18 May 2001) +- Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper + variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix) + +- For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own. + It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions + with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.) + +Daniel (17 May 2001) +- Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that + turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that + contained files from the 7.7.2 release! + +- I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to + make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of + libcurl. + +Daniel (14 May 2001) +- Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent + connections. + +Version 7.7.4-pre1 + +Daniel (14 May 2001) +- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl. + +- Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive. + +Daniel (12 May 2001) +- Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's + certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a + proper error code. I added a brand new error code named + CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose. + +Daniel (11 May 2001) +- As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not + return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume + when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed + from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of + the fact that it can't be returned anymore! + +- Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more. + +- Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post + another one. + +- Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more! + +Daniel (10 May 2001) +- Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with + Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources. + +- Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location: + headers with an extra space after the colon. + +- Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative + directories correctly. + +Daniel (9 May 2001) +- Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line), + makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl + returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead. + Anonymous bug report. + +- stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now + added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite) + +Daniel (7 May 2001) +- Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion + that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates + filed a bug report on this. + +Version 7.7.3 + +Daniel (4 May 2001) +- All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made + this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to + them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling + Hughes. + +Daniel (3 May 2001) +- Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent + connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed + chunked and non-chunked transfers. + +- Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be + treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the + server timed-out and closed the connection. + +- Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am + +Daniel (27 April 2001) +- Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it + more easy to follow now as well. + +- Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received + a "Content-Length: 0" header. + +- Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl + compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though! + +- Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't + explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew. + +Daniel (26 April 2001) +- I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps + work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal + unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the + function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it + makes a notable speed difference. + +Daniel (25 April 2001) +- Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for + non-default port numbers. + +Daniel (24 April 2001) +- I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the + data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this. + +- Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on + the alredy written perl servers easily. + +Daniel (23 April 2001) +- The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one + of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply + weird version string output! + +Version 7.7.2 + +Daniel (22 April 2001) +- Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows. + +- Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would + lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request. + +Daniel (20 April 2001) +- Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote + a 'libcurl overview' man page. + +- Spell-fixed some documents. + +- S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page. + +- Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present + separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package. + +Daniel (19 April 2001) +- Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the + --write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-) + +Version 7.7.2-pre1 + +Daniel (19 April 2001) + +- Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro. + +Daniel (18 April 2001) +- Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It + displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current + libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4 + and IPv6. + +- I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks + working and options that receives those slist pointers. + +- Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent + connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is + important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not + in the main struct as this previously did. + +Daniel (17 April 2001) +- Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new + error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download + actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present. + Should this return OK instead? + +- I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a + curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to + figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn + should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl. + + This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used + successfully in other (library based) projects. + +- Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone + for the If-Modified-Since style headers. + +- Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c + for curl to build on Ultrix. + +Daniel (11 April 2001) +- Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use + of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security + hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server + sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP + request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable! + + Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash. + +- S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on + windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set + that timeout! + +- Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl! + +- Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface. + +- I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to + Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It + works, but it is still very basic. + +Daniel (10 April 2001) +- The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as + it wasn't properly reset between transfers! + +- Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made + me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback + function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE + * when headers are written from within libcurl. + +Daniel (7 April 2001) +- Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in + the curl_easy_setopt man page. + +Daniel (6 April 2001) +- Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure + change their version define format often... + +- curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing! + +Version 7.7.1 + +Daniel (3 April 2001) +- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to + read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed. + Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected. + +- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that + it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non- + persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now. + +Daniel (29 March 2001) +- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface. + +- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the + control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted + connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used + that to verify the functionality. + +Daniel (27 March 2001) +- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried + to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent + after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly! + +- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny + example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the + examples. + +Version 7.7.1-beta1 + +Daniel (26 March 2001) +- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0 + connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this + problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the + curl-and-php mailing list. + +Daniel (24 March 2001) +- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it, + which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a + way that gnroff doesn't like. + +Daniel (23 March 2001) +- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of + $(MAKE) for the test target. + +- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not + curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7! + +- S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ). + +- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string + in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an + application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report + from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then + caused a libcurl crash! + +- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously, + curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one. + +- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl + http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which + made the second request return very odd results. + +Daniel (22 March 2001) +- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests + when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses + GET in the following request(s). + +- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of + curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same + connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly. + +- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks + like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion. + +Version 7.7 + +Daniel (22 March 2001) +- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is + detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of + arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware + of this need. + +- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape + functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The + escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one + had. + +- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up. + +Version 7.7-beta5 + +Daniel (19 March 2001) +- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense + that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this + problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was + added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right. + +- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do + form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header + engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT + and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616 + has all the details. Seems to work now! + +Daniel (16 March 2001) +- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back. + +- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release + archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs, + examples and updates you think fit. + +- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples + into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please + help me here as well! + +- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a + "chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts + even if the Content-Length: size is unknown. + +Daniel (15 March 2001) +- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT + option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the + connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire + file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others. + + I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the + item from the TODO. + +Version 7.7-beta4 + +Daniel (14 March 2001) +- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely + again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set. + + I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with + curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then! + +- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was + a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't + work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use + getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try + that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't + have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info. + +- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with + user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute, + without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and + crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that + tests this. + +- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request + data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range + of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously. + +- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details. + +Version 7.7-beta3 + +Daniel (14 March 2001) +- Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches + for non-SSL compiles. + +- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level + functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the + Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to + curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still + undocumented). + + This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with + just a drop-in replacement. + +- Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles: + o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t + o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement + o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again + o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files + o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state + +Daniel (13 March 2001) +- It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the + chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot + the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top + of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly + wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data + in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted). + + Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well. + +Version 7.7-beta2 + +Daniel (13 March 2001) +- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported + policies. + +- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies + CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now + supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy + is chosen. + +Daniel (12 March 2001) +- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the + SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl + client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I + need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember + that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered + weak (HTTPS connections). + +- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length + and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is + the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60 + test cases. + +- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the + persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly + thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now + implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new + implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, + CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are: + CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION. + +- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent + connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file + transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK. + I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well. + +- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so + that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple + connections... Now I get 100% test case OK. + +- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are + all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are + located. Horrible. + +- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing + that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though + (Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what + the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot + of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe. + + Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP) + not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have + to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK. + +Daniel (8 March 2001) +- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if + MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if + there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected. + +Version 7.7-beta1 + +Daniel (8 March 2001) +- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've + added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine. + +- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers. + +Daniel (5 March 2001) +- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works + using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't + handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this. + +- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It + should make it a lot nicer library-wise. + +- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first- + then-do approach. + +Daniel (4 March 2001) +- More bugs erased. + +Version 7.7-alpha2 + +Daniel (4 March 2001) +- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive + before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will + then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection! + +Daniel (2 March 2001) +- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness! + +- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has + proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do + not work intermixed yet though. + +Daniel (1 March 2001) +- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that + curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does + now. + +Daniel (22 February 2001) +- The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent + request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection + if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one. + +- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page + that I applied. + +Daniel (20 February 2001) +- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends. + +- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and + improvements: + + * Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does. + * Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only + XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV). + * Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used. + * Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!) + +- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of + struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific + data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the + mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs + and more will follow. + + Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should + work. Seems cool enough. + +Daniel (19 February 2001) +- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project + easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file. + +- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the + library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The + low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality. + +Daniel (15 February 2001) +- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with + CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in + libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to + switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL + string switches off the POST again. + +- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn + Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into + libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made + to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when + applicable! + +Daniel (13 February 2001) +- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages. + Suggested by Larry Fahnoe. + +Version 7.6.1 + +Daniel (9 February 2001) +- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS + PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet. + +Daniel (8 February 2001) +- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having + curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty + password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to + support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user + and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you + specify you want the prompt otherwise? + +- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and + HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes). + +- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue. + +- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on + request. + +- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly. + +Version 7.6.1-pre3 + +Daniel (7 February 2001) +- S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that + could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if + libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket. + +- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the + results from the proxy connection. + +Daniel (6 February 2001) +- S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set + for the debug build to work. + +- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver + brought up yesterday. + +Daniel (5 February 2001) +- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to + a bunch of different areas within libcurl. + +- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with + the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a + patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler. + How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone? + +Daniel (4 February 2001) +- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options: + CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They + return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given + direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length: + size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This + was done after discussions with Bob Schader. + +Daniel (3 February 2001) +- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more + recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to + not include WIN32 anymore. + +Version 7.6.1-pre2 + +Daniel (31 January 2001) +- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to + be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a + possibility to weird behavior all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me + find this. + +- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested. + I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple + of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc. + +Daniel (30 January 2001) +- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and + now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows + a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server + doesn't seem to support range requests. + +Daniel (29 January 2001) +- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33). + +Version 7.6.1-pre1 + +Daniel (29 January 2001) +- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end + and it works for him. + +Daniel (27 January 2001) +- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a + Content-Range header when resuming a PUT. + +- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP + download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field + in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for + this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing. + +- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP. + +- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It + makes the output slightly better for resumes. + +- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt + to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a + URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on + what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a + second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported. + + I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff. + +Version 7.6 + +Daniel (26 January 2001) +- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small + piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can + now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT + the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL. + +Version 7.6-pre4 + +Daniel (25 January 2001) +- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for + reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and + swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested + in the next beta-round coming right up. + +- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied + his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the + function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write(). + + I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and + reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing + would only have to be implemented at one point. + +- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the + total time very accurate on subsecond levels. + +- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout + value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently + no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only. + +Daniel (24 January 2001) +- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile + properly with cygwin. + +- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code + that corrected a potential memory leak. + +- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more + easy to read and understand! + +Daniel (23 January 2001) +- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version + string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be + set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled. + +- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when + IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'... + +- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an + error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't + follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string + is used instead. + + I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want* + globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure + seriously confuse the globber. + +Daniel (22 January 2001) +- Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even + during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions... + +- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on + the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly. + +Daniel (19 January 2001) +- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last + code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports. + +- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem + in src/main.c that I took care of. + +Version 7.6-pre3 + +Daniel (17 January 2001) +- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new + lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer() + to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function + in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols. + +Daniel (11 January 2001) +- Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[] + letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly + mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by + Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry. + +- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without + having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as + -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter + options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with + space from their parameters. + +Daniel (8 January 2001) +- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling + curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef + HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems. + +- Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made + the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout. + +- Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work + correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make + dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms' + automatically build RPMs! + +Loic Dachary (6 January 2001) +- Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root. + +- make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST + in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES). + +Daniel (5 January 2001) +- Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs + can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There + must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to + stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package. + +- The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now. + +- Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal + symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other + libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should + be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS + document to say this as well. + +Version 7.5.2 + +Daniel (4 January 2001) +- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command + line option and what happens when you specify that option more than + once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before. + +- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For + odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with + curl's dependencies on libcurl... + +- Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file. + The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in + case anyone would need it. + +- I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about + files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build + curl when you get the sources off CVS. + +- Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license. + +Daniel (3 January 2001) +- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL + +- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of + 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. |