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@@ -6,10 +6,33 @@ History of Changes +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) @@ -21,7 +44,7 @@ Daniel (18 April 2001) - 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 persistant +- 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. @@ -94,8 +117,8 @@ Daniel (3 April 2001) 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 persistant and non- - persistant connections. I think I've fixed it now. + 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. @@ -117,7 +140,7 @@ Daniel (27 March 2001) Version 7.7.1-beta1 Daniel (26 March 2001) -- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistant HTTP/1.0 +- 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. @@ -299,14 +322,14 @@ Daniel (12 March 2001) test cases. - Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the - persistant connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly + 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 persistant +- 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. @@ -326,7 +349,7 @@ Daniel (12 March 2001) 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 persistant connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have + 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) @@ -367,7 +390,7 @@ 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 persistant connections. They do + proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do not work intermixed yet though. Daniel (1 March 2001) @@ -376,7 +399,7 @@ Daniel (1 March 2001) now. Daniel (22 February 2001) -- The persistant connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent +- 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. @@ -401,7 +424,7 @@ Daniel (20 February 2001) 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 persistant connections should + Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should work. Seems cool enough. Daniel (19 February 2001) @@ -420,9 +443,9 @@ Daniel (15 February 2001) 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 persistant connections into + 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 persistant connections when + to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when applicable! Daniel (13 February 2001) |