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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ TODO * Introduce an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to know what cookies that are received. Pushing interface that calls a callback on each received cookie? Querying interface that asks about - existing cookies? We probably need both. + existing cookies? We probably need both. Enable applications to modify + existing cookies as well. * Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system. @@ -23,13 +24,6 @@ TODO less copy of data and thus a faster operation. [http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt] - * Run-time querying about library characterics. What protocols do this - running libcurl support? What is the version number of the running libcurl - (returning the well-defined version-#define). This could possibly be made - by allowing curl_easy_getinfo() work with a NULL pointer for global info, - but perhaps better would be to introduce a new curl_getinfo() (or similar) - function for global info reading. - * Add asynchronous name resolving (http://daniel.haxx.se/resolver/). This should be made to work on most of the supported platforms, or otherwise it isn't really interesting. @@ -51,12 +45,9 @@ TODO >4GB all over. Bug reports (and source reviews) indicate that it doesn't currently work properly. - * Make the built-in progress meter use its own dedicated output stream, and - make it possible to set it. Use stderr by default. - * CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE. Prevent downloads that are larger than the specified size. CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED would then be returned. Gautam Mani - requested. That is, the download should even begin but be aborted + requested. That is, the download should not even begin but be aborted immediately. * Allow the http_proxy (and other) environment variables to contain user and @@ -66,8 +57,7 @@ TODO LIBCURL - multi interface * Make sure we don't ever loop because of non-blocking sockets return - EWOULDBLOCK or similar. This concerns the HTTP request sending (and - especially regular HTTP POST), the FTP command sending etc. + EWOULDBLOCK or similar. This FTP command sending etc. * Make uploads treated better. We need a way to tell libcurl we have data to write, as the current system expects us to upload data each time the socket @@ -86,6 +76,9 @@ TODO receiver will convert the data from the standard form to his own internal form." + * Since USERPWD always override the user and password specified in URLs, we + might need another way to specify user+password for anonymous ftp logins. + * An option to only download remote FTP files if they're newer than the local one is a good idea, and it would fit right into the same syntax as the already working http dito works. It of course requires that 'MDTM' works, @@ -103,12 +96,6 @@ TODO also prevents the authentication info from getting sent when following locations to legitimate other host names. - * "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib" HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get - and decode compressed documents. There is the zlib that is pretty good at - decompressing stuff. This work was started in October 1999 but halted again - since it proved more work than we thought. It is still a good idea to - implement though. This requires the filter system mentioned above. - * Authentication: NTLM. Support for that MS crap called NTLM authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network |