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It is still better and with + the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names. + +Daniel (27 December 1999): + - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input + data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters + in the saved data. Correctfully identified and reported by Paul Harrington + <paul@pizza.org>. + +Daniel (13 December 1999): + - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges + added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was + both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions. + +Daniel (3 December 1999): + - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>... + + - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as + well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is + only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course). + +Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no> (24 November 1999): + - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though! + + - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in + different directories than the sources. + +Version 6.3.1 + +Daniel (23 November 1999): + - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died + along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the + things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS + server! + + - Michael S. Steuer <michael@steuer.com> pointed out a bug in the -F handling + that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It + was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly... + + - Jason Baietto <jason@durians.com> pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP + download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the + entire download was completed. It does now. + +Daniel (19 November 1999): + - Chris Maltby <chris@aurema.com> very accurately criticized the lack of + return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all + occurrences and corrected this. + +Daniel (17 November 1999): + - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> pointed out that the -m/--max-time option + doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have + any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard + when the timeout is reached. + + - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason + why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version. + + Daniel (12 November 1999): + - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave + a plain http header file as input... + +Version 6.3 + + Daniel (10 November 1999): + - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always + respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole + again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading + section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do + my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer + is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received). + + - After comments from Robert Linden <robert.linden@postcom.deutschepost.de> I + also rewrote some parts of the man page to better describe how the -F + works. + + - Michael Anti <anti@pshowing.com> put up a new curl download mirror in + China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/ + + - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file + + - I did add more explanations to the man page + + Daniel (8 November 1999): + - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie + files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to + transparantly figure out what kind of file it got as input. + + Daniel (29 October 1999): + - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before + but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in + FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two + it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to + be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/ + --range switch (previously HTTP-only). + + - Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> suggested that curl should be + able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid + idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in + this manner: + Content-Length: XXXX + As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more + info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also + makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the + file size the same way. + + I changed the order of the QUOTE command execusions. They're now executed + just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable + quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too. + + - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in + the man page. + + - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add + some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in + the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti + <anti@pshowing.com>. + + - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl + man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay + <adam@oz.org> reported and brought the suggestion. + + - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson <d98is@dtek.chalmers.se> we came + up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the + internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header + that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely + obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than + the one curl would set. + + Daniel (27 October 1999): + - Jongki Suwandi <Jongki.Suwandi@eng.sun.com> brought a nice patch for + (yet another) crash when following a location:. This time you had to + follow a https:// server's redirect to get the core. + +Version 6.2 + + Daniel (21 October 1999): + - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just + before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used. + - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without + having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again + when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the + URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system + such as curl has.) + - Benjamin Ritcey <ritcey@tfn.com> reported a core dump under solaris 2.6 + with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c + that occurred after the download was done and completed. + - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter + to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with + the multiple URL support. + - Dan Zitter <dzitter@zitter.net> correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and + earlier versions didn't honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message + Headers": "...Field names are case-insensitive..." + HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan also provided me with + a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty of editing slightly. + - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize + the Mac OS X + - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking + to fail on OS X. + + Daniel (19 October 1999): + - Len Marinaccio <len@goodnet.com> came up with some problems with curl. + Since Windows has a crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that + causes trouble. I added --stderr today which allows the user to redirect + the stderr stream to a file or stdout. + + Daniel (18 October 1999): + - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now + totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force + the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has + been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one. + +Version 6.1 + + Daniel (17 October 1999): + - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure + script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially + thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and + uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become + more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait + until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better + adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a + short a summary is suitable: + - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip + decompression methods. + - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor, + although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would + want it. + - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from + a file descriptor if that is a socket + + Daniel (14 October 1999): + - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named + curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a + better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested. + + Daniel (12 October 1999): + - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release + archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and + hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur. + + Daniel (11 October 1999): + - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as + some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in + the man page. + +Version 6.1beta + + Daniel (6 October 1999): + - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> sent me a patch that made the + exact same thing as I just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading + post data from a named file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read + the post data from a given file: + + curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com + + or let curl read it out from stdin: + + curl -d @- www.postit.com + + Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999): + - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME + separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being + used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged". + + Daniel + - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info. + + Daniel (30 September 1999): + - Felix von Leitner <felix@convergence.de> brought openssl-check fixes + for configure.in to work out-of-the-box when the openssl files are + installed in the system default dirs. + + Daniel (28 September 1999) + - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress + or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that + it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens + download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP + documents so that I can test this out properly. + + - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string + a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too. + + Daniel (17 September 1999) + - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead + of file name, the data will be read from stdin. + +Version 6.0 + + Daniel (13 September 1999) + - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent. + Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This + should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE. + + - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles. + + Daniel (10 September 1999) + - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> pointed out a problem. Curl + didn't check the FTP servers return code properly after the --quote + commands were issued. It took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX + codes should be accepted as OK. + + - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do + turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all + cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I + doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet). + + Daniel (8 September 1999) + - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32. + + Daniel (7 September 1999) + - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by + Stefan Kanthak <Stefan.Kanthak@mchp.siemens.de>. + + - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile. + + Daniel (3 September 1999) + - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy. + + Bjorn Reese <breese@mail1.stofanet.dk> (31 August 1999) + - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared + library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the + directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a + ldap:// URL. + + Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> (31 August 1999) + - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files. + - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for + performance reasons. + + Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> (30 August 1999) + - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds. + + Matthew Clarke <clamat@van.maves.ca> (30 August 1999) + - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the + root dir of the openssl installation, as in + + ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here + + - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells. + + Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> (26 August 1999) + - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32 + compiles. + +Version 5.11 + + Daniel (25 August 1999) + - John Weismiller <johnweis@home.com> pointed out a bug in the header-line + realloc() system in download.c. + + - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It + probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it + as a start. + + - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be + used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really + changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this + first. + + Daniel (17 August 1999) + - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the + original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page + again. + + - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of + them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should + not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas E. Wegscheid + <wegscd@whirlpool.com>. I also changed the README text a little regarding + this. + + Daniel (16 August 1999) + - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location: + page. Nusu's page showed this too. + + - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times + used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it + should've. Nusu <nus@intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this + painfully visible... + + Troy (15 August 1999) + - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the + configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include + files are in /usr/include/openssl + +Version 5.10 + + Daniel (13 August 1999) + - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of + OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of + modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get + a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had + to come up with a #if contruction that deals with this... + + - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4. + + Troy (12 August 1999) + - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also + a bit rearranged. + + Daniel (12 August 1999) + - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source + tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights + allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified. + + - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when + -Wall -pedantic was used. + + - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it + will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic. + The old one still works and shows the same info. + + Daniel (11 August 1999) + - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the + configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users. + + Daniel (10 August 1999) + - Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> helped me with some stupid + Makefile things, as well as some fiddling with the getdate.c + stuff that he had problems with under HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be + compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate yacc or bison is found by the + configure script. Since this is slightly new, we need to test the output + getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it still compiles there. + + Daniel (5 August 1999) + - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions + around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and + brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking + about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl. + + To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe + <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to + libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl + talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've + started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at + www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/. + + - Stefan Kanthak <Stefan.Kanthak@mchp.siemens.de> contacted me regarding a + few problems in the configure script which he discovered when trying to + make curl compile and build under Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004! + + - Marcus Klein <m.klein@in-olpe.de> very accurately informed me that + src/version.h was not present in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly... + + - Linus Nielsen <Linus.Nielsen@sth.frontec.se> rewrote the telnet:// part and + now curl offers limited telnet support. If you run curl like 'curl + telnet://host' you'll get all output on the screen and curl will read input + from stdin. You'll be able to login and run commands etc, but since the + output is buffered, expect to get a little weird output. + + This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your + feed-back and input in how this is best done. + + WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current + lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time. + + - David Sanderson <david@transarc.com> reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or + HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX + 11.0. I updated the configure script to check for alloca.h which should + make it. + + Daniel (4 August 1999) + - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem, + which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp + servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made + some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do + hope you report if you have problems with this! + + - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl. + + Daniel (2 August 1999) + - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no>. It offers + a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. + + T. Yamada <tai@imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999) + - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain + username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is auto-matically redirected to + another location (option '-L'). + + There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which + tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line + argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since + CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it + checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to + redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd. + +Version 5.9.1 + + Daniel (30 July 1999) + - Steve Walch <swalch@cisoft.com> pointed out that there is a memory leak in + the formdata functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and + supposed to correct this flaw. + + - Mark Wotton <mwotton@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> reported: + 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by + correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL + 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I + don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that. + + - Marcus Klein <m.klein@in-olpe.de>: + Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand. + I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten. + + Daniel (29 July 1999) + - Costya Shulyupin <costya@trivnet.com> suggested support for longer URLs + when following Location: and I could only agree and fix it! + + - Leigh Purdie <leighp@defcen.gov.au> found a problem in the upload/POST + department. It turned out that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer + instead of the byte counter when supposed to. + + - Costya Shulyupin <costya@trivnet.com> pointed out a problem with port + numbers and Location:. If you had a server at a non-standard port that + redirected to an URL using a standard port number, curl still used that + first port number. + + - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> pointed out a problem when using both + CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the + CONF_FAILONERROR exits on the 302-code that the follow location header + outputs it will never show any html on location: pages. I have now made it + look for >=400 codes if CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set. + + - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph + Beckmann). + + - Joshua Swink <jpswink@hotmail.com> and Rick Welykochy <rick@praxis.com.au> + were the first to point out to me that the latest OpenSSL package now have + moved the standard include path. It is now in + /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl + option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I + leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too. + + Daniel (9 June 1999) + - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it! + I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now. + + Daniel (4 June 1999) + - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better + with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied + something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro + <ashley@compsoc.man.ac.uk> and Mark Butler <butlerm@xmission.com> brought a + solution for it. + + Daniel (26 May 1999) + - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a + README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de>. + + - I also updated the INSTALL text. + + Daniel (25 May 1999) + - David Jonathan Lowsky <dlowsky@leland.stanford.edu> correctly pointed out + that curl didn't properly deal with form posting where the variable + shouldn't have any content, as in curl -F "form=" www.site.com. It was + now fixed. + +Version 5.9 + + Daniel (22 May 1999) + - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick <aaronsca@hotmail.com> in + which he states he has some problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have + previously got another bug report from Stefan Grether + <stefan.grether@ubs.com> which points at an error with similar sympthoms + when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster + and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though... + + Daniel (20 May 1999) + - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too. + + Daniel (19 May 1999) + - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the + sread() function. Adam Coyne <adam@gamespy.com> found the problem in the + win32 version, and Troy Engel helped me out isolating it. + + Daniel (16 May 1999) + - Richard Adams <Richard@Slayford.com> pointed out a bug I introduced in + 5.8. --dump-header doesn't work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now. + + - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink <jpswink@hotmail.com> I added -S / + --show-error to force curl to display the error message in case of an + error, even if -s/--silent was used. + + Daniel (10 May 1999) + - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source + files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them + layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the + future! + + - Leon Breedt <ljb@debian.org> sent me some files I've not put into the main + curl archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent + me a debian package that I've made available for download at the web page + + Daniel (9 May 1999) + - Made it compile on cygwin too. + + Troy Engel (7 May 1999) + - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6 + again! + + Daniel (6 May 1999) + - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it + will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus + can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined + too. + +Version 5.8 + + Daniel (5 May 1999) + - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright + for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have + there are problems all over. + + I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last + week... Claudio Neves <claudio@nextis.com> and Federico Bianchi + <bianchi@pc-arte2.arte.unipi.it> and root <duggerj001@hawaii.rr.com> are + some of them reporting this. + + Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to + generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems + can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root + before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle + a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least! + + Daniel (4 May 1999) + - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in + the regexes. + + - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to. + I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a + curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as + in: + + curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html + + This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local. + I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out + there may depend on that the file is always touched... + + - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection. + + - Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de> requested that curl should + be able to send "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. + I implemented it right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full + GNU date expression or a file name to get the date from! + + Stephan Lagerholm <stephan@unilog.se> (30 Apr 1999) + - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable + isn't set and causes the make to fail. + + Daniel (26 April 1999) + - Am I silly or what? <Irving_Wolfe@wolfe.net> pointed out to me that the + curl version number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was + due to a bug in my maketgz script! + + David Eriksson <david@2good.com> (25 Apr 1999) + - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times. + +Version 5.7.1 + + Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net> (23 Apr 1999) + - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned + below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h + + - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the + INSTALL file. + + Daniel + - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the + README file + + Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@Eng.Sun.COM> (20 Apr 1999) + - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1. + It needs an #include <sys/types.h> + +Version 5.7 + + Daniel (Apr 20 1999) + - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now! + + - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now + simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small! + + - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a + start. + + Eric Thelin <eric@generation-i.com> (15 Apr 1999) + - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout. + +Version 5.6.3beta + + Daniel (Apr 12 1999) + + - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing + in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should + try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone? + + - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf! + + - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as + much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it + should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you + talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the + start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to + use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really + want such a crippled solution. + + - Marc Boucher <marc@mbsi.ca> sent me a patch that corrected a math error + for the "Curr.Speed" progress meter. + + - Eric Thelin <eric@generation-i.com> sent me a patch that enables '-K -' + to read a config file from stdin. + + - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it! + + Daniel (Apr 9 1999) + - Yu Xin <is@isee.za.net> pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. + It didn't work at all! ;-O + + Daniel (Apr 6 1999) + - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version. + + - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that + previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get + some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the + best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days! + +Version 5.6.2beta + + Daniel (Apr 4 1999) + - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how + it works. + To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header- + format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the + -b flag like: + + curl -b file http://site/foo.html + + Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets + a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string + following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel". + + To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which + sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e + to start with no existing cookies), like: + + curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html + + - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently + reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address. + + - Better "Location:" following. + + Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> (Tue, 30 Mar 1999) + - A subsecond display patch. + + Daniel (Mar 14 1999) + - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make + things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from + 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one + set for libcurl. + + - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted + that. + + - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under + win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-) + Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in + INSTALL for details. + + - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http + server while remaining connected. + +Version 5.6beta + + Daniel (Mar 13 1999) + - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement + the suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com>. -D or + --dump-header is now storing HTTP headers separately in the specified + file. + + - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now. + + - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files + in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++... + + Daniel (Mar 12 1999) + - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability + and smaller size. + + Daniel (Mar 11 1999) + - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate + curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into + the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as + before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so. + + libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to + the lib functions though. + + The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information + about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-) + + + Daniel (Mar 1 1999) + - Todd Kaufmann <tkaufmann@adforce.com> sent me a good link to Netscape's + cookie spec as well as the info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. + The link is now in the README and the RFC in the RESOURCES. + + Daniel (Feb 23 1999) + - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes + in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl... + + Daniel (Feb 22 1999) + - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be + the most recent. + + Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr> (Fri Feb 5 1999) + - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an + RPM automatically... + +Version 5.5.1 + + Mark Butler <butlerm@xmission.com> (27 Jan 1999) + - Corrected problems in Download(). + + Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999) + - Jeremie Petit <Jeremie.Petit@Digital.com> pointed out a few flaws in the + source that prevented it from compile warning free with the native + compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d. + +Version 5.5 + + Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999) + - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol. + + Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999) + - <jswink@softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use + ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static- + buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls! + + Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> (10 Jan 1999) + - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229). + It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better + formatted. + + To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in + the RFC) + + dict://dict.org/m:hello + dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex + + + Vicente Garcia <verot@redestb.es> (10 Jan 1999) + - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB. + + Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999) + - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only. + +Version 5.4 + + Daniel Stenberg + (7 Jan 1999) + - <Irving_Wolfe@Wolfe.Net> reported that curl -s didn't always supress the + progress reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched + it on again. This is now corrected! + + (4 Jan 1999) + - Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@mtg.co.at> suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me + out to test it. If you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will + be used for file upload. + + I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used + that. + + (4 Jan 1999) + - Erik Jacobsen <erik@mint.com> found a width bug in the mprintf() function. + I corrected it now. + + (4 Jan 1999) + - As John V. Chow <johnchow@brooklinetech.com> pointed out to me, curl + accepted very limited URL sizes. It should now accept path parts that are + up to at least 4096 bytes. + + - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so + I redid that now. + +Version 5.3a (win32 only) + + Troy Engel + - Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part. + +Version 5.3 + + Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998) + - I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to + send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote + command-line arguments. + + You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in + order. This is what I use for my MVS upload: + + curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test + + Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order. + + - Made it compile smoothly on AIX. + + Gilbert Ramirez Jr. <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu> (18 Dec 1998) + - Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server. + + Troy Engel <tengel@sonic.net> (17 Dec 1998) + - Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug. + + Daniel Stenberg + - A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung <htl10@cus.cam.ac.uk>, caused + curl to crash on the -A flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems + should've! + + - Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _ + instead of . and \ instead of / in win32). + + - steve <fisk@polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the + ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size) + info. I hope it works better now! + +Version 5.2.1 + + Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> (Dec 14, 1998) + - Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the + environment variables. + +Version 5.2 + + Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998) + - Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the + hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using + both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man + page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c + file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times + anyway. + + - gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char' + if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to + int. So I did to compile warning free with that too. + + - Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I + need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long + comforming systems! + +Version 5.1 (not publicly released) + + Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998) + - I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone? + + - Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl + now reads and understands the following environment variables: + + HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY + + They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be + set with + + ALL_PROXY + + And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any + proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts). + + NO_PROXY + + The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables. + + - Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix. + + - Wrote the curl.1 man page. + + - Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is + based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully, + there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now. + + - Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under + solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok. + + Oren Tirosh <oren@hishome.net> (Dec 3, 1998) + - Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM + packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec. + + Troy Engel <tengel@sonic.net> + - Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32. + +Version 5.0 + + Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998) + - Not a single bug report in ages. + - Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the + Win32 VC++ crap. + +Version 5.0 beta 24 + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998) + + HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE: + + * Pre-requisite software: + What To build what Reads data from + ==== ============= =============== + GNU automake Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 configure.in + GNU make(1) - " - + GNU gcc(1) - " - + GNU autoconf configure configure.in + GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in configure.in, acconfig.h + + * Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES. + + * Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive. + + maketgz does: + + - Enters the newly created version number in url.h. + - (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless + you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.) + If you have it, it'll run it. + - If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly + created version number and autoconf will be run. + - Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base + name of the current directory up to the first '-'.) + - Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving + permissions and directory structure. + - Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz + - gzips the archive + - Removes the new directory and all its contents. + + * When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named + curl-<version>.tar.gz. + + Done! + + (1) They're required to make automake run properly. + (2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive. + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998) + - I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in + another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this + new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different + variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves + to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler! + - Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now. + - Brian Chaplin <bchaplin@capital-mkts.com> reported yet another problem in + multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new + version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback! + - Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes + an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one. + - Mailing list opened (see README). + - Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells + host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section + about PORT vs PASV in the README. + +Version 5.0 beta 21 + + Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998) + - Introduced automake stuff. + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998) + - Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own + private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM + format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by + downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site + at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can + convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format. Use + it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'. If this isn't a + cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-) + - Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out. + (curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do + have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must + be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to + get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n. + + Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998) + - Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser. + - Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that + source file). + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998) + - We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX. + Thanks again to Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> and Martin Staael + <martin@netgroup.dk>. + - Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out + how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get + really good. + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998) + - Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line. + Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I + downloaded a gopher page with it)! + - Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I + had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will + be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used. + - stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my + changes don't make other versions go nuts instead. + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998) + - Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX + warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent + me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead + of strequal()... + - I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little. + - Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be + sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything + after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird + name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'. + - Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command + line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid. + - Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I + believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now. + + Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998) + - Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license + - Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag + - Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998) + - Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation + I build a release archive! + - I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to + be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in + curl -lsv ftp.site.com + Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters + that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the + last in a merged sequence: + curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com + is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause + unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped). + - I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL + license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming. + - Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now + setup.h. + - The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive. + + Angus Mackay <amackay@gus.ml.org> (Nov 5, 1998) + - Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff + + Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998) + - Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own + specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use + a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once + for every custom header you want to add. + - Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files. + - Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy + usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to + write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the + .curlrc file anyway. + - Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data + which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST. + Shiraz Kanga <skanga@bigfoot.com> asked for the feature and my brother, + Björn Stenberg <Bjorn.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se> helped me design the user + interface for this beast. This feature requires quite some docs, + since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-) + - A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to + 0.8 will *not* work with curl! + - Wil Langford <wil@langford.net> reported a bug that occurred since curl + did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it. + - Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read + first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as + additional config items. + - Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read. + - You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file + specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through + that. + - I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports + could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name + instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names. + - Martin Staael <martin@netgroup.dk> reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT + (test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this + version anymore. + - Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file + using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other + available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary + transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though! + :-) + - Troy Engel <tengel@palladium.net> pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME") + usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with + this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that... + - A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built + with SSL support... + - r-y-a-n/n-e-l-s-o-n <ryan@inch.com> sent me comments about building curl + with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure + script, it should work better and automatically now... + - Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses + proxy port number separate from normal port number. + - 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on: + Host SSL Compiler + SunOS 5.5 no gcc + SunOS 5.5.1 yes gcc + SunOS 5.6 no cc (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem) + SunOS 4.1.3 no gcc (without ANSI C headers) + SunOS 4.1.2 no gcc (native compiler failed) + Linux 2.0.18 no gcc + Linux 2.0.32 yes gcc + Linux 2.0.35 no gcc (with glibc) + IRIX 6.2 no gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings) + IRIX 6.4 no cc (generated warnings though) + Win32 no Borland + OSF4.0 no ? + + - Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't + set. + - When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases + like: + curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com + Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so + if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol + string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used + without proxy. + - Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different + https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number + correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the + proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL. + - Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> helped me work around one of the compiler + warnings on IRIX native cc compiles. + +Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998) + Daniel Stenberg + - John A. Bristor <jbristor@bellsouth.net> suggested a config file switch, + and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long + time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce + the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to + load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the + config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl + -h' or the README. + - I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would + want to enable with curl anyway. + - Martin Staael <Martin@Staael.dk> helped me add the 'irix' target. Now + "make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines. + - Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second + will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that + you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc. + +Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998) + Daniel Stenberg + - Martin Staael <Martin@Staael.dk> suggested curl would support cookies. + I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's + also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text. + - dmh <dmh@jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could + manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work + for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway). + - Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script + that checks all links of a web page by using curl. + - Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the + src/ dir from now on! + - Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license. + I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the + Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You + must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute + curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need + to offer the world the source to that too. + - Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET + request. It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do + that anyway. Thanks to Gordon Beaton <gordon@erix.ericsson.se> for the + report! + - -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael + <Martin@Staael.dk>. This makes curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location: + redirect if one is present in the HTTP headers. If -i or -I is used with + this flag, you will see headers from all sites the Location: points to. Do + note that the first server can point to a second that points to a third + etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said to be an AbsoluteURI in + RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've made curl ATTEMPT to do + the best it can to deal with the reality. + - Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads + files that a web page links to. + +Version 4.8.4 + Daniel Stenberg + - As Julian Romero Nieto <jromero@anaya.es> reported, curl reported wrong + version number. + - As Teemu Yli-Elsila <tylielsi@mail.student.oulu.fi> pointed out, + the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all other versions for win32) + didn't work with binary files since I'm too used to the UNIX style + fopen() where binary and text don't differ... + - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> brought me some changes that lets + curl compile error and warning free with -Wall -pedantic with + g++. I also took the opportunity to clean off some unused variables + and similar. + - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> made me aware of a really odd bug + now corrected. When curl read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided + into more than one read and the first read showed a full line *exactly* + (i.e ending with a newline), curl did not behave well. + +Version 4.8.3 + Daniel Stenberg + - I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the + changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't + upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain + corrected. Reported by Julian Romero Nieto <jromero@anaya.es>. + +Version 4.8.2 + Daniel Stenberg + - Bernhard Iselborn <biselbor@rhrk.uni-kl.de> reported two FTP protocol + errors curl did. They're now corrected. Both appeared when getting files + from a MS FTP server! :-) + +Version 4.8.1 + Daniel Stenberg + - Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The + final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered + which made it sometimes look odd. + - Thanks to David Long <long@research.bell-labs.com> I got rid of a silly + bug that happened if a HTTP-page had nothing but header. Appearantly + Solaris deals with negative sizes in fwrite() calls a lot better than + Linux does... =B-] + +Version 4.8 + Daniel Stenberg + - Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to + specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a + download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server + since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of + the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to + use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing + the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get + the end of a file. + - recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument. + +Version 4.7 + Daniel Stenberg + - Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount + (speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time. + - Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a + whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be + used. I agree it isn't the wisest thing to do to make a separate new + connection for each file and directory for this. + +Version 4.6 + Daniel Stenberg + - Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user + and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is + the new switch. + - Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string. + - Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the + verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it. + - Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name + resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first + sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen <swear@aa.net> + reported. + - Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-) + - Added bug report email address in the README. + - Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average + speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of + the entire transfer so far. + +Version 4.5.1 + Linas Vepstas + - SSL through proxy fix + - Added -A to allow User-Agent: changes + + Daniel Stenberg + - Made the -A work when SSL-through-proxy. + +Version 4.5 + Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org> + - More SSL corrections + - I've added a port to AIX. + - running SSL through a proxy causes a chunk of code to be executred twice. + one of those blocks needs to be deleted. + + Daniel Stenberg + - Made -i and -I work again + +Version 4.4 + Linas Vepstas <linas@us.ibm.com> + - -x can now also specify proxyport when used as in 'proxyhost:proxyport' + - SSL fixes + +Version 4.3 + Daniel Stenberg + - Adjusted to compile under win32 (VisualC++ 5). The -P switch does not + support network interface names in win32. I couldn't figure out how! + +Version 4.2 + Linas Vepstas / Sampo Kellomaki + - Added SSL / SSLeay support (https://) + - Added the -T usage for HTTP POST. + + Daniel Stenberg + - Bugfixed the SSL implementation. + - Made -P a lot better to use other IP addresses. It now accepts a following + parameter that can be either + interface - i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you + want to use + IP address - i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number + host name - i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine + "-" - (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's + default + - The Makefile is now ready to compile for solaris, sunos4 and linux right + out of the box. + - Better generated version string seen with 'curl -V' + +Version 4.1 + Daniel Stenberg + - The IP number returned by the ftp server as a reply to PASV does no longer + have to DNS resolve. In fact, no IP-number-only addresses have to anymore. + - Binds better to available port when -P is used. + - Now LISTs ./ instead of / when used as in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. The reason + for this is that exactly that site, ftp.funet.fi, does not allow LIST / + while LIST ./ is fine. Any objections? + +Version 4 (1998-03-20) + Daniel Stenberg + - I took another huge step and changed both version number and project name! + The reason for the new name is that there are just one too many programs + named urlget already and this program already can a lot more than merely + getting URLs, and the reason for the version number is that I did add the + pretty big change in -P and since I changed name I wanted to start with + something fresh! + - The --style flags are working better now. + - Listing directories with FTP often reported that the file transfer was + incomplete. Wrong assumptions were too common for directories, why no + size will be attempted to get compared on them from now on. + - Implemented the -P flag that let's the ftp control issue a PORT command + instead of the standard PASV. + - -a for appending FTP uploads works. + +*************************************************************************** + +Version 3.12 + Daniel Stenberg + - End-of-header tracking still lacked support for \r\n or just \n at the + end of the last header line. + Sergio Barresi <sbarresi@imispa.it> + - Added PROXY authentication. + Rafael Sagula + - Fixed some little bugs. + +Version 3.11 + Daniel Stenberg + - The header parsing was still not correct since the 3.2 modification... + +Version 3.10 + Daniel Stenberg + - 3.7 and 3.9 were simultaneously developed and merged into this version. + - FTP upload did not work correctly since 3.2. + +Version 3.9 + Rafael Sagula + - Added the "-e <url> / --referer <url>" option where we can specify + the referer page. Obviously, this is necessary only to fool the + server, but... + +Version 3.7 + Daniel Stenberg + - Now checks the last error code sent from the ftp server after a file has + been received or uploaded. Wasn't done previously. + - When 'urlget <host>' is used without a 'protocol://' first in the host part, + it now checks for host names starting with ftp or gopher and if it does, + it uses that protocol by default instead of http. + +Version 3.6 + Daniel Stenberg + - Silly mistake made the POST bug. This has now also been tested to work with + proxy. + +Version 3.5 + Daniel Stenberg + - Highly inspired by Rafael Sagula's changes to the 3.1 that added an almost + functional POST, I applied his changes into this version and made them work. + (It seems POST requires the Content-Type and Content-Length headers.) It is + now usable with the -d switch. + +Version 3.3 - 3.4 + Passed to avoid confusions + +Version 3.2 + Daniel Stenberg + - Major rewrite of two crucial parts of this code: upload and download. + They are both now using a select() switch, that allows much better + progress meter and time control. + - alarm() usage removed completely + - FTP get can now list directory contents if the path ends with a slash '/'. + Urlget on a ftp-path that doesn't end with a slash means urlget will + attempt getting it as a file name. + - FTP directory view supports -l for "list-only" which lists the file names + only. + - All operations support -m for max time usage in seconds allowed. + - FTP upload now allows the size of the uploaded file to be provided, and + thus it can better check it actually uploaded the whole file. It also + makes the progress meter for uploads much better! + - Made the parameter parsing fail in cases like 'urlget -r 900' which + previously tried to connect to the host named '900'. + +Version 3.1 + Kjell Ericson + - Pointed out how to correct the 3 warnings in win32-compiles. + + Daniel Stenberg + - Removed all calls to exit(). + - Made the short help text get written to stdout instead of stderr. + - Made this file instead of keeping these comments in the source. + - Made two callback hooks, that enable external programs to use urlget() + easier and to grab the output/offer the input easier. + - It is evident that Win32-compiles are painful. I watched the output from + the Borland C++ v5 and it was awful. Just ignore all those warnings. + +Version 3.0 + Daniel Stenberg + - Added FTP upload capabilities. The name urlget gets a bit silly now + when we can put too... =) + - Restructured the source quite a lot. + Changed the urlget() interface. This way, we will survive changes much + better. New features can come and old can be removed without us needing + to change the interface. I've written a small explanation in urlget.h + that explains it. + - New flags include -t, -T, -O and -h. The -h text is generated by the new + mkhelp script. + +Version 2.9 + Remco van Hooff + - Added a fix to make it compile smoothly on Amiga using the SAS/C + compiler. + + Daniel Stenberg + - Believe it or not, but the STUPID Novell web server seems to require + that the Host: keyword is used, so well I use it and I (re-introduce) the + urlget User-Agent:. I still have to check that this Host: usage works with + proxies... 'Host:' is required for HTTP/1.1 GET according to RFC2068. + +Version 2.8 + Rafael Sagula + - some little modifications + +Version 2.7 + Daniel Stenberg + - Removed the -l option and introduced the -f option instead. Now I'll + rewrite the former -l kludge in an external script that'll use urlget to + fetch multipart files like that. + - '-f' is introduced, it means Fail without output in case of HTTP server + errors (return code >=300). + - Added support for -r, ranges. Specify which part of a document you + want, and only that part is returned. Only with HTTP/1.1-servers. + - Split up the source in 3 parts. Now all pure URL functions are in + urlget.c and stuff that deals with the stand-alone program is in main.c. + - I took a few minutes and wrote an embryo of a README file to explain + a few things. + +Version 2.6 + Daniel Stenberg + - Made the -l (loop) thing use the new CONF_FAILONERROR which makes + urlget() return error code if non-successful. It also won't output anything + then. Now finally removed the HTTP 1.0 and error 404 dependencies. + - Added -I which uses the HEAD request to get the header only from a + http-server. + +Version 2.5 + Rafael Sagula + - Made the progress meter use HHH:MM:SS instead of only seconds. + +Version 2.4 + Daniel Stenberg + - Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and + mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from + really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the + download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which + makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty, + the progress meter is shut off. + - Increased buffer size used for reading. + - Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing. + - Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64 + encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in + RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one. To get a + http document from a place that requires user and password, use an URL + like: + + http://user:passwd@www.site.to.leach/doc.html + + I also added the -u flag, since WHEN USING A PROXY YOU CAN'T SPECIFY THE + USER AND PASSWORD WITH HTTP LIKE THAT. The -u flag works for ftp too, but + not if used with proxy. To do the same as the above one, you can invoke: + + urlget -u user:passwd http://www.site.to.leach/doc.html + +Version 2.3 + Rafael Sagula + - Added "-o" option (output file) + - Added URG_HTTP_NOT_FOUND return code. + (Daniel's note:) + Perhaps we should detect all kinds of errors and instead of writing that + custom string for the particular 404-error, use the error text we actually + get from the server. See further details in RFC2068 (HTTP 1.1 + definition). The current way also relies on a HTTP/1.0 reply, which newer + servers might not do. + - Looping mode ("-l" option). It's easier to get various split files. + (Daniel's note:) + Use it like 'urlget -l 1 http://from.this.site/file%d.html', which will + make urlget to attempt to fetch all files named file1.html, file2.html etc + until no more files are found. This is only a modification of the + STAND_ALONE part, nothing in the urlget() function was modfified for this. + Daniel Stenberg + - Changed the -h to be -i instead. -h should be preserved to help use. + - Bjorn Reese indicated that Borland _might_ use '_WIN32' instead of the + VC++ WIN32 define and therefore I added a little fix for that. + +Version 2.2 + Johan Andersson + - The urlget function didn't set the path to url when using proxy. + - Fixed bug with IMC proxy. Now using (almost) complete GET command. + + Daniel Stenberg + - Made it compile on Solaris. Had to reorganize the includes a bit. + (so Win32, Linux, SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 compile fine.) + - Made Johan's keepalive keyword optional with the -k flag (since it + makes a lot of urlgets take a lot longer time). + - Made a '-h' switch in case you want the HTTP-header in the output. + +Version 2.1 + Daniel Stenberg and Kjell Ericson + - Win32-compilable + - No more global variables + - Mute option (no output at all to stderr) + - Full range of return codes from urlget(), which is now written to be a + function for easy-to-use in [other] programs. + - Define STAND_ALONE to compile the stand alone urlget program + - Now compiles with gcc options -ansi -Wall -pedantic ;) + +Version 2.0 + - Introducing ftp GET support. The FTP URL type is recognized and used. + - Renamed the project to 'urlget'. + - Supports the user+passwd in the FTP URL (otherwise it tries anonymous + login with a weird email address as password). + +Version 1.5 + Daniel Stenberg + - The skip_header() crap messed it up big-time. By simply removing that + one we can all of a sudden download anything ;) + - No longer requires a trailing slash on the URLs. + - If the given URL isn't prefixed with 'http://', HTTP is assumed and + given a try! + - 'void main()' is history. + +Version 1.4 + Daniel Stenberg + - The gopher source used the ppath variable instead of path which could + lead to disaster. + +Version 1.3 + Daniel Stenberg + - Well, I added a lame text about the time it took to get the data. I also + fought against Johan to prevent his -f option (to specify a file name + that should be written instead of stdout)! =) + - Made it write 'connection refused' for that particular connect() + problem. + - Renumbered the version. Let's not make silly 1.0.X versions, this is + a plain 1.3 instead. + +Version 1.2 + Johan Andersson + - Discovered and fixed the problem with getting binary files. puts() is + now replaced with fwrite(). (Daniel's note: this also fixed the buffer + overwrite problem I found in the previous version.) + + Rafael Sagula <sagula@inf.ufrgs.br> + - Let "-p" before "-x". + + Daniel Stenberg <Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se> + - Bugfixed the proxy usage. It should *NOT* use nor strip the port number + from the URL but simply pass that information to the proxy. This also + made the user/password fields possible to use in proxy [ftp-] URLs. + (like in ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README) + + Johan Andersson <johan@homemail.com> + - Implemented HTTP proxy support. + - Receive byte counter added. + + Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> + - Implemented URLs (and skipped the old syntax). + - Output is written to stdout, so to achieve the above example, do: + httpget http://143.54.10.6/info_logo.gif > test.gif + +Version 1.1 + Daniel Stenberg <Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se> + - Adjusted it slightly to accept named hosts on the command line. We + wouldn't wanna use IP numbers for the rest of our lifes, would we? + +Version 1.0 + Rafael Sagula <sagula@inf.ufrgs.br> + - Wrote the initial httpget, which started all this! |