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@@ -87,44 +87,49 @@ 14.1 SSL engine stuff 14.2 check connection - 15. SASL - 15.1 Other authentication mechanisms - 15.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication + 15. WinSSL/SChannel + 15.1 Add support for client certificate authentication + 15.2 Add support for custom server certificate validation + 15.3 Add support for the --ciphers option + + 16. SASL + 16.1 Other authentication mechanisms + 16.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication - 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 warning when setting an option - - 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 - 18.5 Add support for concurrent connections - - 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 + 17. Client + 17.1 sync + 17.2 glob posts + 17.3 prevent file overwriting + 17.4 simultaneous parallel transfers + 17.5 provide formpost headers + 17.6 warning when setting an option + + 18. Build + 18.1 roffit + + 19. Test suite + 19.1 SSL tunnel + 19.2 nicer lacking perl message + 19.3 more protocols supported + 19.4 more platforms supported + 19.5 Add support for concurrent connections + + 20. Next SONAME bump + 20.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP + 20.2 combine error codes + 20.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype + + 21. Next major release + 21.1 cleanup return codes + 21.2 remove obsolete defines + 21.3 size_t + 21.4 remove several functions + 21.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR + 21.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE + 21.7 remove progress meter from libcurl + 21.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public + 21.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument + 21.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option ============================================================================== @@ -490,23 +495,58 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. Add a way to check if the connection seems to be alive, to correspond to the SSL_peak() way we use with OpenSSL. -15. SASL +15. WinSSL/SChannel -15.1 Other authentication mechanisms +15.1 Add support for client certificate authentication + + WinSSL/SChannel currently makes use of the OS-level system and user + certificate and private key stores. This does not allow the application + or the user to supply a custom client certificate using curl or libcurl. + + Therefore support for the existing -E/--cert and --key options should be + implemented by supplying a custom certificate to the SChannel APIs, see: + - Getting a Certificate for Schannel + http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375447.aspx + +15.2 Add support for custom server certificate validation + + WinSSL/SChannel currently makes use of the OS-level system and user + certificate trust store. This does not allow the application or user to + customize the server certificate validation process using curl or libcurl. + + Therefore support for the existing --cacert or --capath options should be + implemented by supplying a custom certificate to the SChannel APIs, see: + - Getting a Certificate for Schannel + http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375447.aspx + +15.3 Add support for the --ciphers option + + The cipher suites used by WinSSL/SChannel are configured on an OS-level + instead of an application-level. This does not allow the application or + the user to customize the configured cipher suites using curl or libcurl. + + Therefore support for the existing --ciphers option should be implemented + by mapping the OpenSSL/GnuTLS cipher suites to the SChannel APIs, see + - Specifying Schannel Ciphers and Cipher Strengths + http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380161.aspx + +16. SASL + +16.1 Other authentication mechanisms Add support for other authentication mechanisms such as OLP, GSS-SPNEGO and others. -15.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication +16.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication Currently the GSSAPI authentication only supports the default QOP of auth (Authentication), whilst Kerberos V5 supports both auth-int (Authentication with integrity protection) and auth-conf (Authentication with integrity and privacy protection). -16. Client +17. Client -16.1 sync +17.1 sync "curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or "curl --sync http://example.net/{index,calendar,history}.html" @@ -515,12 +555,12 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. 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. -16.2 glob posts +17.2 glob posts Globbing support for -d and -F, as in 'curl -d "name=foo[0-9]" URL'. This is easily scripted though. -16.3 prevent file overwriting +17.3 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 @@ -528,14 +568,14 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. existing). So that index.html becomes first index.html.1 and then index.html.2 etc. -16.4 simultaneous parallel transfers +17.4 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 -16.5 provide formpost headers +17.5 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 @@ -549,43 +589,43 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text, 8bit...) -16.6 warning when setting an option +17.6 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. -17. Build +18. Build -17.1 roffit +18.1 roffit Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that instead of (g)nroff when building src/tool_hugehelp.c -18. Test suite +19. Test suite -18.1 SSL tunnel +19.1 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 -18.2 nicer lacking perl message +19.2 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. -18.3 more protocols supported +19.3 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). -18.4 more platforms supported +19.4 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. -18.5 Add support for concurrent connections +19.5 Add support for concurrent connections Tests 836, 882 and 938 were designed to verify that separate connections aren't used when using different login credentials in protocols that shouldn't re-use @@ -599,14 +639,14 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. and thus the wait for connections loop is never entered to receive the second connection. -19. Next SONAME bump +20. Next SONAME bump -19.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP +20.1 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 -19.2 combine error codes +20.2 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 @@ -631,29 +671,29 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. CURLE_TFTP_PERM => CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED -19.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype +20.3 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. -20. Next major release +21. Next major release -20.1 cleanup return codes +21.1 cleanup return codes curl_easy_cleanup() returns void, but curl_multi_cleanup() returns a CURLMcode. These should be changed to be the same. -20.2 remove obsolete defines +21.2 remove obsolete defines remove obsolete defines from curl/curl.h -20.3 size_t +21.3 size_t make several functions use size_t instead of int in their APIs -20.4 remove several functions +21.4 remove several functions remove the following functions from the public API: @@ -674,18 +714,18 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. curl_multi_socket_all -20.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR +21.5 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. -20.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE +21.6 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". -20.7 remove progress meter from libcurl +21.7 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 @@ -695,7 +735,7 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work correctly. -20.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public +21.8 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 @@ -704,7 +744,7 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. Changing them to return a private handle will benefit the implementation and allow us much greater freedoms while still maintaining a solid API and ABI. -20.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument +21.9 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 @@ -712,7 +752,7 @@ Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design mistake. -20.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option +21.10 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 |