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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