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diff --git a/CHANGES.2000 b/CHANGES.2000 deleted file mode 100644 index 17e55da0b..000000000 --- a/CHANGES.2000 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1381 +0,0 @@ -Daniel (30 December 2000) -- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write() - as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being - one major). - -Daniel (19 December 2000) -- Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system - and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts - that happened when you did PORTed downloads. - -- Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *. - -Daniel (12 December 2000) -- Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or - hope, or at least I've tried... :-O - -- Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem - -Version 7.5.1 - -Daniel (11 December 2000) -- Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin - P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found - different newline conventions within the same file. - -- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for - the SSL stuff. - -Daniel (6 December 2000) -- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when - doing SSL connections. - -- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with - -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it - is fixed now. - -Daniel (5 December 2000) -- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland - compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with - that compiler. - -- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL - variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need - perl in the path for the test suite to run ok. - -- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems: - * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h - since the curl one differed from the SCO one - * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction - stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need). - * A few more problems remain to be researched. - -- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet. - -Daniel (4 December 2000) -- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O. - -Version 7.5 - -Daniel (1 December 2000) -- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should - build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too. - -- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when - releasing new shared library interfaces. - -Daniel (30 November 2000) -- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document - actually contains. - -Daniel (29 November 2000) -- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things - harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS. - -Version 7.5-pre5 - -Daniel (28 November 2000) -- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been - lagging. - -- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS - libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the - set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops. - -Daniel (27 November 2000) -- Added two test cases for file://. - -Daniel (22 November 2000) -- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the - modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it - involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command - which is not in the RFC959) - - curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time - after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if - the time wasn't possible to get. - - --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header - if curl could get the time of the specified file. - -- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM - file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS - connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but - others have asked for it before as well. - -Daniel (21 November 2000) -- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight: - - * curl_unescape() could return a too long string - * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks - * ftp CWD could use bad directory names - * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability - * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers - -- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP. - -- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic. - -- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp - operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now - all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl - script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run. - -Daniel (20 November 2000) -- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of - 4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make - life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying - but that can be circumvented by using a config file. - - NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location: - headers. - -- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages. - -- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It - turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names - where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the - lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase - versions. - -Daniel (17 November 2000) -- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the - test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on - memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the - cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar - things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these - problems have been removed. - -- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and - weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now, - although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main - difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must - both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also - specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and - parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like: - - user-agent = "foobar and something" - - Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're - expected to be a single non-space word. - - Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work. - -- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes - way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config - file doesn't work anymore. - -Daniel (15 November 2000) -- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication - failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters, - and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused - passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail. - -Version 7.4.2 - -Daniel (15 November 2000) -- 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used. - -Daniel (14 November 2000) -- I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled - "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE - could be assumed to work. - -- Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a - file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and - curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start - uploading from the beginning as a normal upload? - -Daniel (13 November 2000) -- Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter. - -- While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation - that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this - immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl. - -- Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c - -- I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite. - -Version 7.4.2 pre4 - -Daniel (10 November 2000) -- I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new - tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and - most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script. - - I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work. - -- Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks - for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes - depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used! - -- Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was - already uploaded, curl would hang. - -- Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the - getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have. - -- Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected - it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com), - the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between - the set domain length and the current host name. - -Daniel (9 November 2000) -- Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need - it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found - but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no - system that requires those libs to build. - -Version 7.4.2 pre3 - -Daniel (7 November 2000) -- Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a - slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed. - -Daniel (6 November 2000) -- Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in. - They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are - CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA. - -- Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong - times when location: headers were followed. - -- Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in - the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem - with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now. - -Daniel (2 November 2000) -- When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was - inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got - increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous - numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end. - -Daniel (1 November 2000) -- Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction() - isn't present, we can use signal() instead. - -- I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again - GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards - making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all... - -Daniel (31 October 2000) -- Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and - templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms. - I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root. - -Daniel (30 October 2000) -- T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to - curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer - certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option - and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote - peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the - *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about - whether the verification succeeded or not. - -Daniel (27 October 2000) -- Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing - annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes - (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and - of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually - have the sigaction() function). - -Daniel (26 October 2000) -- Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth - that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The - getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any - static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass() - function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe. - -- Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the - url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote - it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now. - -- Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was - just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't - support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d - chunk. This enables constructs like the following: - - curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com - -Daniel (24 October 2000) -- I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other - systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the - memory debugging system. - -Daniel (23 October 2000) -- I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script - will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and - then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build - release-archives. - -- Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly - enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the - -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also - suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL - so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there... - -Daniel (20 October 2000) -- Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port - number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it - isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to - run one of those nasty servers. - -- The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been - corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this) - -Daniel (17 October 2000) -- Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They - didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test - suite... - -- I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https:// - URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this - error: - "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!" - - I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual - problem lies. - -Version 7.4.1 - -Daniel (16 October 2000) -- I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in - the release archive (of course). - -Version 7.4 - -Daniel (16 October 2000) -- The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th. - -Daniel (12 October 2000) -- Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used - by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a - few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well. - -Daniel (11 October 2000) -- Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out - really useful! - -Version 7.4 pre6 - -Daniel (9 October 2000) -- Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include - file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the - public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file. - -- Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It - didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway. - -- Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our - libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all - platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a - local buffer. - -- I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header - generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more - PHP-friendly multi-part posts. - -Version 7.4 pre5 - -Daniel (9 October 2000) -- Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when - using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably - introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7. - -- Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl. - I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log - all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze - the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak - Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup() - didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in - the CVS respository, not in the release archive. - -Daniel (8 October 2000) -- Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the - pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best - a memory leak! - -Version 7.4 pre4 - -Daniel (6 October 2000) -- Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the - mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP - receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this. - -- Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working - anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for - 7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now... - -- Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL - stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with - -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid! - -- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used - a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes. - -Version 7.4 pre3 - -Daniel (4 October 2000) -- More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate, - as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to - get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP - request. T. Bharath requested them. - -Daniel (3 October 2000) -- Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-) - -Version 7.4 pre2 - -Daniel (3 October 2000) -- Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP - requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do - this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it - this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with - curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to - fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer - to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults - are probably mine. - -Daniel (2 October 2000) -- Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the - progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer - size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter - and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to - use on a fast one. - - I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to - start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes - per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It - should make the progress meter work better. - -Version 7.4 pre1 - -Daniel (29 September 2000) -- Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets - all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo() - function. - -- brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and - removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get. - -Daniel (28 September 2000) -- Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct - the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just - released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error - is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix - release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be - available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway. - -Version 7.3 - -Daniel (28 September 2000) -- Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former - base64.[ch] files. - -Daniel (26 September 2000) -- Updated some docs. - -- I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted - patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones. - -Version 7.3-pre8 - -Daniel (25 September 2000) -- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and - showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly - again. - -- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative - approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie - header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed. - -- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell - you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for - nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl - tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected. - -Daniel (23 September 2000) -- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload - work! - -Daniel (21 September 2000) -- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals - that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first! - -Daniel (20 September 2000) -- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this - opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer - sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use - malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a - large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like - that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness. - -- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went - as smooth as it could. - -- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how - to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples - further on. - -- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the - config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word - "reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease. - -- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4. - -- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that - I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding - functions! ;-) - -Version 7.3pre5 - -Daniel (19 September 2000) -- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original - krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global - variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to - clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use - connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't - destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects - krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty. - -Version 7.3pre3 - -Daniel (18 September 2000) -- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to - curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did - not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere - thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours! - -- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to - the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an - outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all - platforms. This needs testing. - -- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the - name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not - returning an error even though it failed on some platforms! - -Daniel (15 September 2000) -- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support. - -Version 7.3pre2 - -Daniel (15 September 2000) -- Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp. - Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the - pasv message when doing the second connect. - -Version 7.3pre1 - -Daniel (15 September 2000) -- libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The - second connection on ftp needed that. - -- TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really - bad at times! - -Daniel (14 September 2000) -- -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new - CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel - through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp. - -Daniel (13 September 2000) -- Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this - and mailed the patch to the mailing list. - -Daniel (7 September 2000) -- I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really - a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that - define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the - PHP bug tracker. - -- I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage - in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to - this. - -Version 7.2.1 - -Daniel (31 August 2000) -- Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to - detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?) - -- Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the - letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and - the reason was my lame URL decoder. - -- I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected - that. - -Version 7.2 - -Daniel (30 August 2000) -- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they - solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the - AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this - article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a - libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking - completely. - - So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that - fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want - to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the - following three include files before that one: - - #include <net/if_dl.h> - #include <sys/mbuf.h> - #include <netinet/if_ether.h> - - Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all - the source files that include it? - - Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX - login to try everything on. - -Daniel (24 August 2000) -- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one - was not up to date but lacked several object files. - -- More work on the naming. - -- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as - some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position - for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir... - -- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary - option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to - work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday. - -Daniel (23 August 2000) -- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added - when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with - it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think - I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the - file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new - *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since - libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases. - -- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name - resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms - that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of - this. - -- The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to - Bjorn Reese. - -Daniel (21 August 2000) -- Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to - keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting... - This needs to be addressed. - -Version 7.1.1 - -Daniel (21 August 2000) -- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent - me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests - which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of - the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a - function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function - will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad - manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I - should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on - a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at - http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the - future as well. - -Daniel (18 August 2000) -- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't - think this is the reason for the continued trouble though. - -Daniel (17 August 2000) -- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It - should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems. - -Daniel (15 August 2000) -- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well - as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before? - -- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when - used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got - screwed up! - -Daniel (11 August 2000) -- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version - of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that - information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of - not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my - Linux Redhat installation... - -Daniel (10 August 2000) -- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace - the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added - the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts - using custom Content-Types. - -Daniel (8 August 2000) -- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no - user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this. - -Version 7.1 - -Daniel (7 August 2000) -- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker. - -- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort - of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl. - -Daniel (4 August 2000) -- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms. - My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to - move an include file before another, as is now described in the source. - - AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() - functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile - broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the - configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My - implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may - get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to - any system using that. - - For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread - to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few - functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work - although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use - libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a - thread-safe lib. - -- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl. - -Daniel (1 August 2000) -- Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal() - that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true - function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string - comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the - now obsolete #define. - -- Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's - JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range - headers. - -- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use - libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young - found out. - -Version 7.0.11beta - -Daniel (1 August 2000) -- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create - the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as - it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories - without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in - both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level - makefile that succeeds in install everything properly! - -- Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major - flaws added now. - -Daniel (31 July 2000) -- Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one - of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank - ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a - little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new - one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any - blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header. - -Daniel (29 July 2000) -- It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now - I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it. - -- I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left - names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug - reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email - addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me - working on this. - -Daniel (27 July 2000) -- Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an - environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I - corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra - beta release just for this. - -Version 7.0.10beta - -Daniel (27 July 2000) -- So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add - the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as - symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed - on 7.0.9... - -Version 7.0.9beta - -Daniel (25 July 2000) -- Kristian Köhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl - libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the - recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some - other nice cleanups. - -- In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a - page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another - server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that - server as well. - - Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect - and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several - fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at - least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which - means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl - to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards - curl back to server A again, the password will be used again. - - This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use - the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think - that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole". - - As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and - will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that. - -- As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading - function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!) - if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a - default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I - don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to - get received... - -- Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for - the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to - suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from - 'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded - contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or - textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used - %s or similar in a -F file name. - -- As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring - files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be - the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very - well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size - may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing - ASCII transfers in FTP. - -Daniel (24 July 2000) -- Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy - port number to be set separately from the proxy host name. - -- Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug. - -- The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously - accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at - evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out. - -- The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in - when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was - discovered by Rich Gray. - -- Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in - curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory. - -- Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not - properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should - now have been fixed. - -- HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing - problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash. - Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering - and suggesting a fix... - -Daniel (21 June 2000) -- After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a - HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some - checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request - command, no matter what the user wants! ;-) - -Version 7.0.8beta - -Daniel (20 June 2000) -- I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se - instead of the previous one. - -- As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer - makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has - been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only - interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time. - - While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto - referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or - only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the - previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding - document. - -- My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only - when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It - turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that - didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as - it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O - -Version 7.0.7beta - -Daniel (16 June 2000) -- I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar - stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the - recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like - before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at - the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This - code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour! - ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed - this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE - from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it - will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also - will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of - getting the writeout data and move that too to the client). - -- I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I - found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well. - -Daniel (15 June 2000) -- I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of - course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover - corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used - this feature with v7? - -- Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in - v7. Hm. - -Daniel (14 June 2000) -- Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it - should. I corrected this. - -Version 7.0.6beta - -Daniel (14 June 2000) -- Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling): - lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32) - src/main.c had several minor problems - lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice - src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define - both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the - define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32 - to set it. - -Version 7.0.5beta - -Daniel (14 June 2000) -- Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems. - -- Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to - binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option - is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was - already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The - libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now - obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32 - compiler around. - -Daniel (13 June 2000) -- Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup() - since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected. - -Daniel (9 June 2000) -- Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file. - -Daniel (8 June 2000) -- So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it - should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it - right now. -- Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just - in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers. -- Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly. - -Version 7.0.4beta - -Daniel (2 June 2000) -- I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all - but the first request. -- Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic - curl_slist. -- Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c - -Version 7.0.3beta - -Daniel (31 May 2000) -- So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to - compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to - feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add - a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly. - -Version 7.0.2beta - -Daniel (29 May 2000) -- Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only - toggles one of those bits. - -- Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add - usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around, - since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as - solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script. - - I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my - Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now. - -Daniel (22 May 2000) -- Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as - well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems - to be reserved in some gcc versions! - -- Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX - needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined. - More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work. - -Version 7.0.1beta - -Daniel (21 May 2000) -- Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No - more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl- - prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former - curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate - setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is - now using that. - -- Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan - to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name - lookups. - -Version 7.0beta - -Daniel (18 May 2000) -- Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow - source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to - a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and - patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also - makes a larger number a newer version. - -Daniel (17 May 2000) -- Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range - option. I corrected them. -- Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file - in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for - multithreaded purposes. - -Daniel (16 May 2000) -- Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7. - There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken. - <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use. - -Daniel (14 May 2000) -- FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738. -- FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change - directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with - Rich Gray made me notice these problems. -- Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the - src/usrglob.c file. -- I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string - compares on all platforms. - -Daniel (8 May 2000): -- Been working lots on the new lib. -- Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work - better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix. - -Daniel (2 May 2000): -- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in - configure.in that didn't do any good. - -Daniel (24 April 2000): -- Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't - find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison - -Daniel (12 April 2000): -- Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a - better one... - -Daniel (8 April 2000): -- Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes - and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM. -- I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user - agent string. It does now. -- Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs - on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves - the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to - build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm - package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build - a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM? -- Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l - on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native - cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been - reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It - is a pity there's no newer release around... - -Daniel (4 April 2000): -- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that - appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs. - -Daniel (2 April 2000): -- Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then - followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved. - -Daniel (27 March 2000): -- H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly - messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy, - which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings. - -Daniel (23 March 2000): -- Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he - actually already told me about! - -- H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl - ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to - happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded... - -Daniel (22 March 2000): -- Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME - was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been. - The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6 - makefile for MS VC++. - -Daniel (21 March 2000): -- I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that - one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne - Johansson made me aware of this. - -Version 6.5.2 - -Daniel (21 March 2000): -- Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1 - crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was - the -D adjustments in src/main.c. - -Version 6.5.1 - -Daniel (20 March 2000): -- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer - overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main - problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this - single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne - Johansson). - -Daniel (19 March 2000): -- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches - that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in - the INSTALL file. Very nice job! - -Daniel (17 March 2000): -- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6 - file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that - VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's - existence. - -Daniel (15 March 2000): -- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything - to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D - on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies - in that one single file. - -- Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff. - Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32 - stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now). - -- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the - Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h. - -Daniel (14 March 2000): -- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output - was never written. I fixed it now. - -- Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does - when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included - instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in - the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h. - -Version 6.5 - -Daniel (13 March 2000): -- <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a - single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what - the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to - perhaps make them work better. - -- Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl - script needs it! - -- Made some beautifications in the curl man page. - -Daniel (3 March 2000): -- Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and - HAVE_STRDUP. - -Daniel (3 March 2000): -- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package. - -Daniel (2 March 2000): -- Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people - happy and I'll still keep them available on the web. - -- Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter - display in README.curl. - -- Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf - Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for - fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl - 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number - thing). - -- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream. - Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get - every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net> - suggested this. - -- Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix. - -Daniel (24 February 2000): -- Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32. - - I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using - the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %- - letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should - use another letter instead! - -- Added more variables to -w: - - 'http_code' - 'time_namelookup' - 'time_connect' - 'time_pretransfer' - 'url_effective' - -- Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from - stdin in the good old "standard" curl way. - -Daniel (22 February 2000): -- Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback. - -Daniel (21 February 2000): - -- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a - single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has - completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and - they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that - exist as of this moment are: - - total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals) - size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes - size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes - speed_download - the average speed of the entire download - speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload - - I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others. - -- It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new - progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re- - introduced! :-/ - -Daniel (16 February 2000): -- Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued - working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download - and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good. - -- Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface. - -- Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next. - -Daniel (15 February 2000): -- The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it - is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly! - -Daniel (11 February 2000): -- Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to - deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K. - -- Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b - is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also - similarly reads the cookies from stdin. - -- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way - -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file... - -- Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X. - -- Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the - cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to - the server. - -Daniel (8 February 2000): - - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that - prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do - with the difference in sprintf() return code types. - - - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's - do some progress meter fixes later this week. - -Daniel (31 January 2000): - - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie - parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think - that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see - what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all. - - RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are - compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though... - - - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form - to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while - since the socket "pipe" becomes full. - - It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new - single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required - of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue - and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well. - - - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area, - although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait - with fixing anything. - - - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume - support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion - I'll work on it. - -Daniel (25 January 2000): - - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was - corrected. - - - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile - curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed - by Jörn's recent #include modifications! - -Daniel (19 January 2000): - - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem - in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a - different protocol to fail. - - At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I - could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it - again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following - on server not running on default ports.) - - - Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again - made it possible to select progress bar. - - - Jörn also fixed a few include problems. - -Version 6.4 - -Daniel (17 January 2000): - - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the - progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows - the time spent on the download so far. - - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web - browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu. - -Daniel (10 January 2000): - - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice! - - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer - quote commands. - - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means - that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of - course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or - downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-) - - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and - install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores - on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a - better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff. - - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page. - - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf - 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L - flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks - and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs! - |