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@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ 1.17 Add support for IRIs 1.18 try next proxy if one doesn't work 1.19 Timeout idle connections from the pool + 1.20 SRV and URI DNS records + 1.21 QUIC + 1.22 Monitor connections in the connection pool + 1.23 Offer API to flush the connection pool 2. libcurl - multi interface 2.1 More non-blocking @@ -60,10 +64,9 @@ 5.1 Better persistency for HTTP 1.0 5.2 support FF3 sqlite cookie files 5.3 Rearrange request header order - 5.4 SPDY 5.5 auth= in URLs 5.6 Refuse "downgrade" redirects - 5.7 More compressions + 5.7 Brotli compression 6. TELNET 6.1 ditch stdin @@ -103,6 +106,7 @@ 13.6 Provide callback for cert verification 13.7 improve configure --with-ssl 13.8 Support DANE + 13.9 Support TLS v1.3 14. GnuTLS 14.1 SSL engine stuff @@ -227,11 +231,12 @@ 1.8 Allow SSL (HTTPS) to proxy To prevent local users from snooping on your traffic to the proxy. Supported - by Chrome already: + by Firefox and Chrome already: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/secure-web-proxy - ...and by Firefox soon: - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378637 + See this stale work in progress branch: + https://github.com/curl/curl/tree/HTTPS-proxy based on this PR: + https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/305 1.9 Cache negative name resolves @@ -342,6 +347,39 @@ in the pool), we should introduce a timeout so that connections that have been idle for N seconds get closed. +1.20 SRV and URI DNS records + + Offer support for resolving SRV and URI DNS records for libcurl to know which + server to connect to for various protocols (including HTTP!). + +1.21 QUIC + + The standardization process of QUIC has been taken to the IETF and can be + followed on the [IETF QUIC Mailing + list](https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/quic). I'd like us to get on the + bandwagon. Ideally, this would be done with a separate library/project to + handle the binary/framing layer in a similar fashion to how HTTP/2 is + implemented. This, to allow other projects to benefit from the work and to + thus broaden the interest and chance of others to participate. + +1.22 Monitor connections in the connection pool + + If the server sends HTTP/2 frames (like for example an HTTP/2 PING frame) to + curl while the connection is held in curl's connection pool, the socket will + be found readable when considered for reuse and that makes curl think it is + dead and then it will be closed and a new connection gets created instead. + + This is *best* fixed by adding monitoring to connections while they are kept + in the pool so that pings can be responded to appropriately. It would also + proper allow libcurl to close connections (earlier) when they are closed by + the server. Also, see "1.19 Timeout idle connections from the pool" + +1.23 Offer API to flush the connection pool + + Sometimes applications want to flush all the existing connections kept alive. + An API could allow a forced flush or just a forced loop that would properly + close all connections that have been closed by the server already. + 2. libcurl - multi interface @@ -473,14 +511,6 @@ This is not detailed in any FTP specification. headers use a default value so only headers that need to be moved have to be specified. -5.4 SPDY - - Chrome and Firefox already support SPDY and lots of web services do. There's - a library for us to use for this (spdylay) that has a similar API and the - same author as nghttp2. - - spdylay: https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/spdylay - 5.5 auth= in URLs Add the ability to specify the preferred authentication mechanism to use by @@ -500,7 +530,7 @@ This is not detailed in any FTP specification. Consider a way to tell curl to refuse to "downgrade" protocol with a redirect and/or possibly a bit that refuses redirect to change protocol completely. -5.7 More compressions +5.7 Brotli compression Compression algorithms that perform better than gzip are being considered for use and inclusion in existing browsers. For example 'brotli'. If servers @@ -658,6 +688,18 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0103.html . libunbound may be the correct library to base this development on. + Björn Stenberg wrote a separate initial take on DANE that was never + completed. + +13.9 Support TLS v1.3 + + TLS version 1.3 is about to ship and is getting implemented by TLS libraries + as we speak. We should start to support the symbol and make sure all backends + handle it accordingly, then gradually add support as the TLS libraries add + the corresponding support. There may be a need to add some additional options + to allow libcurl to take advantage of the new features in 1.3. + + 14. GnuTLS 14.1 SSL engine stuff |