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@@ -65,61 +65,66 @@ 10. LDAP 10.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms - 11. New protocols - 11.1 RSYNC - - 12. SSL - 12.1 Disable specific versions - 12.2 Provide mutex locking API - 12.3 Evaluate SSL patches - 12.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts - 12.5 Export session ids - 12.6 Provide callback for cert verification - 12.7 improve configure --with-ssl - 12.8 Support DANE - - 13. GnuTLS - 13.1 SSL engine stuff - 13.2 check connection - - 14. SASL - 14.1 Other authentication mechanisms - 14.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication + 11. SMB + 11.1 File listing support + 11.2 Honor file timestamps + 11.3 Use NTLMv2 - 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 warning when setting an option - - 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 - 17.5 Add support for concurrent connections - - 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 + 12. New protocols + 12.1 RSYNC + + 13. SSL + 13.1 Disable specific versions + 13.2 Provide mutex locking API + 13.3 Evaluate SSL patches + 13.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts + 13.5 Export session ids + 13.6 Provide callback for cert verification + 13.7 improve configure --with-ssl + 13.8 Support DANE + + 14. GnuTLS + 14.1 SSL engine stuff + 14.2 check connection + + 15. SASL + 15.1 Other authentication mechanisms + 15.2 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 ============================================================================== @@ -393,32 +398,47 @@ to provide the data to send. be possible to use ldap_bind_s() instead specifying the security context information ourselves. -11. New protocols +11. SMB + +11.1 File listing support + +Add support for listing the contents of a SMB share. The output should probably +be the same as/similar to FTP. + +11.2 Honor file timestamps + +The timestamp of the transfered file should reflect that of the original file. + +11.3 Use NTLMv2 + +Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1. + +12. New protocols -11.1 RSYNC +12.1 RSYNC 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. -12. SSL +13. SSL -12.1 Disable specific versions +13.1 Disable specific versions Provide an option that allows for disabling specific SSL versions, such as SSLv2 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1767276 -12.2 Provide mutex locking API +13.2 Provide mutex locking API Provide a libcurl API for setting mutex callbacks in the underlying SSL library, so that the same application code can use mutex-locking independently of OpenSSL or GnutTLS being used. -12.3 Evaluate SSL patches +13.3 Evaluate SSL patches Evaluate/apply Gertjan van Wingerde's SSL patches: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-03/0087.html -12.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts +13.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts "Look at SSL cafile - quick traces look to me like these are done on every request as well, when they should only be necessary once per SSL context (or @@ -428,7 +448,7 @@ to provide the data to send. style connections are re-used. It will make us use slightly more memory but it will libcurl do less creations and deletions of SSL contexts. -12.5 Export session ids +13.5 Export session ids Add an interface to libcurl that enables "session IDs" to get exported/imported. Cris Bailiff said: "OpenSSL has functions which can @@ -436,18 +456,18 @@ to provide the data to send. the state from such a buffer at a later date - this is used by mod_ssl for apache to implement and SSL session ID cache". -12.6 Provide callback for cert verification +13.6 Provide callback for cert verification OpenSSL supports a callback for customised verification of the peer certificate, but this doesn't seem to be exposed in the libcurl APIs. Could it be? There's so much that could be done if it were! -12.7 improve configure --with-ssl +13.7 improve configure --with-ssl make the configure --with-ssl option first check for OpenSSL, then GnuTLS, then NSS... -12.8 Support DANE +13.8 Support DANE DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a way to provide SSL keys and certs over DNS using DNSSEC as an alternative to the CA model. @@ -459,34 +479,34 @@ to provide the data to send. http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0103.html . libunbound may be the correct library to base this development on. -13. GnuTLS +14. GnuTLS -13.1 SSL engine stuff +14.1 SSL engine stuff Is this even possible? -13.2 check connection +14.2 check connection Add a way to check if the connection seems to be alive, to correspond to the SSL_peak() way we use with OpenSSL. -14. SASL +15. SASL -14.1 Other authentication mechanisms +15.1 Other authentication mechanisms Add support for other authentication mechanisms such as EXTERNAL, OLP, GSS-SPNEGO and others. -14.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication +15.2 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). -15. Client +16. Client -15.1 sync +16.1 sync "curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or "curl --sync http://example.net/{index,calendar,history}.html" @@ -495,12 +515,12 @@ 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 @@ -508,14 +528,14 @@ 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 @@ -529,43 +549,43 @@ to provide the data to send. which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text, 8bit...) -15.6 warning when setting an option +16.6 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. -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/tool_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. -17.5 Add support for concurrent connections +18.5 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 @@ -579,14 +599,14 @@ to provide the data to send. and thus the wait for connections loop is never entered to receive the second connection. -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 @@ -611,29 +631,29 @@ 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: @@ -654,18 +674,18 @@ 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 @@ -675,7 +695,7 @@ 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 @@ -684,7 +704,7 @@ 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 maintaining 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 @@ -692,7 +712,7 @@ 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 |