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@@ -62,15 +62,12 @@ 8.4 non-gcrypt 9. SMTP - 9.1 Other authentication mechanisms - 9.2 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism - 9.3 Initial response - 9.4 Pipelining + 9.1 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism + 9.2 Initial response + 9.3 Pipelining 10. POP3 - 10.1 APOP Authentication - 10.2 SASL based authentication mechanisms - 10.3 auth= in URLs + 10.1 auth= in URLs 11. IMAP 11.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms @@ -83,42 +80,44 @@ 14. New protocols 14.1 RSYNC - 15. Client - 15.1 sync - 15.2 glob posts - 15.3 prevent file overwriting - 15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers - 15.5 provide formpost headers - 15.6 url-specific options - 15.7 metalink support - 15.8 warning when setting an option - 15.9 IPv6 addresses with globbing - - 16. Build - 16.1 roffit - - 17. Test suite - 17.1 SSL tunnel - 17.2 nicer lacking perl message - 17.3 more protocols supported - 17.4 more platforms supported - - 18. Next SONAME bump - 18.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp - 18.2 combine error codes - 18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype - - 19. Next major release - 19.1 cleanup return codes - 19.2 remove obsolete defines - 19.3 size_t - 19.4 remove several functions - 19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR - 19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE - 19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl - 19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public - 19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument - 19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option + 15. SASL + 15.1 Other authentication mechanisms + + 16. Client + 16.1 sync + 16.2 glob posts + 16.3 prevent file overwriting + 16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers + 16.5 provide formpost headers + 16.6 url-specific options + 16.7 warning when setting an option + 16.8 IPv6 addresses with globbing + + 17. Build + 17.1 roffit + + 18. Test suite + 18.1 SSL tunnel + 18.2 nicer lacking perl message + 18.3 more protocols supported + 18.4 more platforms supported + + 19. Next SONAME bump + 19.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp + 19.2 combine error codes + 19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype + + 20. Next major release + 20.1 cleanup return codes + 20.2 remove obsolete defines + 20.3 size_t + 20.4 remove several functions + 20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR + 20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE + 20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl + 20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public + 20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument + 20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option ============================================================================== @@ -380,17 +379,13 @@ to provide the data to send. 9. SMTP -9.1 Other authentication mechanisms - - Add support for gssapi. - -9.2 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism +9.1 Specify the preferred authentication mechanism Add the ability to specify the preferred authentication mechanism or a list of mechanisms that should be used. Not only that, but the order that is returned by the server during the EHLO response should be honored by curl. -9.3 Initial response +9.2 Initial response Add the ability for the user to specify whether the initial response is included in the AUTH command. Some email servers, such as Microsoft @@ -399,27 +394,13 @@ to provide the data to send. http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-03/0114.html -9.4 Pipelining +9.3 Pipelining Add support for pipelining emails. 10. POP3 -10.1 APOP Authentication - - Add support for the APOP command rather than using plain text authentication - (USER and PASS) as this is very week security wise. Note: The APOP command - is specified as "APOP <username> <md5 password>", however, it isn't - supported by all mail servers. - -10.2 SASL authentication mechanisms - - SASL offers support for additional authentication mechanisms via the AUTH - command. Detection of an email server's support for SASL authentication - can be detected via the CAPA command whilst a list of supported mechanisms - can be retrieved with an empty AUTH command. - -10.3 auth= in URLs +10.1 auth= in URLs Being able to specify the preferred authentication mechanism in the URL as per RFC2384. @@ -428,9 +409,9 @@ to provide the data to send. 11.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms - Like POP3 curl currently sends usernames and passwords as clear text. - Support should also be added to support SASL based authentication mechanisms - as these are more secure. + Curl currently sends usernames and passwords as clear text whilst SASL based + authentication mechanisms can be more secure. As such, support should be + added to support these authentication mechanisms. 12. LDAP @@ -451,9 +432,15 @@ to provide the data to send. There's no RFC for the protocol or an URI/URL format. An implementation should most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync. -15. Client +15. SASL + +15.1 Other authentication mechanisms + + Add support for gssapi to SMTP and POP3. -15.1 sync +16. Client + +16.1 sync "curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or "curl --sync http://example.net/{index,calendar,history}.html" @@ -462,12 +449,12 @@ to provide the data to send. remote file is newer than the local file. A Last-Modified HTTP date header should also be used to set the mod date on the downloaded file. -15.2 glob posts +16.2 glob posts Globbing support for -d and -F, as in 'curl -d "name=foo[0-9]" URL'. This is easily scripted though. -15.3 prevent file overwriting +16.3 prevent file overwriting Add an option that prevents cURL from overwriting existing local files. When used, and there already is an existing file with the target file name @@ -475,14 +462,14 @@ to provide the data to send. existing). So that index.html becomes first index.html.1 and then index.html.2 etc. -15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers +16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers The client could be told to use maximum N simultaneous parallel transfers and then just make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one connection to the same remote host. This would require the client to use the multi interface. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595 -15.5 provide formpost headers +16.5 provide formpost headers Extending the capabilities of the multipart formposting. How about leaving the ';type=foo' syntax as it is and adding an extra tag (headers) which @@ -496,7 +483,7 @@ to provide the data to send. which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text, 8bit...) -15.6 url-specific options +16.6 url-specific options Provide a way to make options bound to a specific URL among several on the command line. Possibly by letting ':' separate options between URLs, @@ -510,62 +497,57 @@ to provide the data to send. The example would do a POST-GET-POST combination on a single command line. -15.7 metalink support - - Add metalink support to curl (http://www.metalinker.org/). This is most useful - with simultaneous parallel transfers (11.6) but not necessary. - -15.8 warning when setting an option +16.7 warning when setting an option Display a warning when libcurl returns an error when setting an option. This can be useful to tell when support for a particular feature hasn't been compiled into the library. -15.9 IPv6 addresses with globbing +16.8 IPv6 addresses with globbing Currently the command line client needs to get url globbing disabled (with -g) for it to support IPv6 numerical addresses. This is a rather silly flaw that should be corrected. It probably involves a smarter detection of the '[' and ']' letters. -16. Build +17. Build -16.1 roffit +17.1 roffit Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that instead of (g)nroff when building src/hugehelp.c -17. Test suite +18. Test suite -17.1 SSL tunnel +18.1 SSL tunnel Make our own version of stunnel for simple port forwarding to enable HTTPS and FTP-SSL tests without the stunnel dependency, and it could allow us to provide test tools built with either OpenSSL or GnuTLS -17.2 nicer lacking perl message +18.2 nicer lacking perl message If perl wasn't found by the configure script, don't attempt to run the tests but explain something nice why it doesn't. -17.3 more protocols supported +18.3 more protocols supported Extend the test suite to include more protocols. The telnet could just do ftp or http operations (for which we have test servers). -17.4 more platforms supported +18.4 more platforms supported Make the test suite work on more platforms. OpenBSD and Mac OS. Remove fork()s and it should become even more portable. -18. Next SONAME bump +19. Next SONAME bump -18.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp +19.1 http-style HEAD output for ftp #undef CURL_FTP_HTTPSTYLE_HEAD in lib/ftp.c to remove the HTTP-style headers from being output in NOBODY requests over ftp -18.2 combine error codes +19.2 combine error codes Combine some of the error codes to remove duplicates. The original numbering should not be changed, and the old identifiers would be @@ -590,29 +572,29 @@ to provide the data to send. CURLE_TFTP_PERM => CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED -18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype +19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype The current prototype only provides 'purpose' that tells what the connection/socket is for, but not any protocol or similar. It makes it hard for applications to differentiate on TCP vs UDP and even HTTP vs FTP and similar. -19. Next major release +20. Next major release -19.1 cleanup return codes +20.1 cleanup return codes curl_easy_cleanup() returns void, but curl_multi_cleanup() returns a CURLMcode. These should be changed to be the same. -19.2 remove obsolete defines +20.2 remove obsolete defines remove obsolete defines from curl/curl.h -19.3 size_t +20.3 size_t make several functions use size_t instead of int in their APIs -19.4 remove several functions +20.4 remove several functions remove the following functions from the public API: @@ -633,18 +615,18 @@ to provide the data to send. curl_multi_socket_all -19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR +20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR Remove support for CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, it has gotten too kludgy and weird internally. Let the app judge success or not for itself. -19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE +20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE Remove support for a global DNS cache. Anything global is silly, and we already offer the share interface for the same functionality but done "right". -19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl +20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl The internally provided progress meter output doesn't belong in the library. Basically no application wants it (apart from curl) but instead applications @@ -654,7 +636,7 @@ to provide the data to send. variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work correctly. -19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public +20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public curl_formadd() was made to fill in a public struct, but the fact that the struct is public is never really used by application for their own advantage @@ -663,7 +645,7 @@ to provide the data to send. Changing them to return a private handle will benefit the implementation and allow us much greater freedoms while still maintining a solid API and ABI. -19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument +20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument curl_formadd() and curl_formget() both currently have no CURL handle argument, but both can use a callback that is set in the easy handle, and @@ -671,7 +653,7 @@ to provide the data to send. curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design mistake. -19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option +20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option Rather than use the URL to specify the mail client string to present in the HELO and EHLO commands, libcurl should support a new CURLOPT specifically for |