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2007-01-23recountDaniel Stenberg
2007-01-16- Armel Asselin improved libcurl to behave a lot better when an easy handleDaniel Stenberg
doing an FTP transfer is removed from a multi handle before completion. The fix also fixed the "alive counter" to be correct on "premature removal" for all protocols.
2007-01-14- David McCreedy provided libcurl changes for doing HTTP communication onDaniel Stenberg
non-ASCII platforms. It does add some complexity, most notably with more #ifdefs, but I want to see this supported added and I can't see how we can add it without the extra stuff added.
2007-01-134GB download and cookielist "ALL" fixesDaniel Stenberg
2007-01-05- Linus Nielsen Feltzing introduced the --ftp-ssl-ccc command line option toDaniel Stenberg
curl that uses the new CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option in libcurl. If enabled, it will make libcurl shutdown SSL/TLS after the authentication is done on a FTP-SSL operation.
2007-01-03- David McCreedy made changes to allow base64 encoding/decoding to work onDaniel Stenberg
non-ASCII platforms.
2007-01-03- Matt Witherspoon fixed the flaw which made libcurl 7.16.0 always storeDaniel Stenberg
downloaded data in two buffers, just to be able to deal with a special HTTP pipelining case. That is now only activated for pipelined transfers. In Matt's case, it showed as a considerable performance difference,
2007-01-02- Victor Snezhko helped us fix bug report #1603712Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1603712) (known bug #36) --limit-rate (CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE and CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE) are broken on Windows (since 7.16.0, but that's when they were introduced as previous to that the limiting logic was made in the application only and not in the library). It was actually also broken on select()-based systems (as apposed to poll()) but we haven't had any such reports. We now use select(), Sleep() or delay() properly to sleep a while without waiting for anything input or output when the rate limiting is activated with the easy interface.
2006-12-29curl_easy_duphandle() sets the magic number in the new handleDaniel Stenberg
2006-12-25mention the no_proxy workDaniel Stenberg
2006-12-22- Robert Foreman provided a prime example snippet showing how libcurl wouldDaniel Stenberg
get confused and not acknowledge the 'no_proxy' variable properly once it had used the proxy and you re-used the same easy handle. I made sure the proxy name is properly stored in the connect struct rather than the sessionhandle/easy struct.
2006-12-22When setting a proxy with environment variables and (for example) runningDaniel Stenberg
'curl [URL]' with a URL without a protocol prefix, curl would not send a correct request as it failed to add the protocol prefix.
2006-12-21Robson Braga Araujo reported bug #1618359Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1618359) and subsequently provided a patch for it: when downloading 2 zero byte files in a row, curl 7.16.0 enters an infinite loop, while curl 7.16.1-20061218 does one additional unnecessary request. Fix: During the "Major overhaul introducing http pipelining support and shared connection cache within the multi handle." change, headerbytecount was moved to live in the Curl_transfer_keeper structure. But that structure is reset in the Transfer method, losing the information that we had about the header size. This patch moves it back to the connectdata struct.
2006-12-16Brendan Jurd provided a fix that now prevents libcurl from getting a SIGPIPEDaniel Stenberg
during certain conditions when GnuTLS is used.
2006-12-11Alexey Simak found out that when doing FTP with the multi interface andDaniel Stenberg
something went wrong like it got a bad response code back from the server, libcurl would leak memory. Added test case 538 to verify the fix. I also noted that the connection would get cached in that case, which doesn't make sense since it cannot be re-use when the authentication has failed. I fixed that issue too at the same time, and also that the path would be "remembered" in vain for cases where the connection was about to get closed.
2006-12-06Sebastien Willemijns reported bug #1603712Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1603712) which is about connections getting cut off prematurely when --limit-rate is used. While I found no such problems in my tests nor in my reading of the code, I found that the --limit-rate code was severly flawed (since it was moved into the lib, since 7.15.5) when used with the easy interface and it didn't work as documented so I reworked it somewhat and now it works for my tests.
2006-12-05Stefan Krause pointed out a compiler warning with a picky MSCV compiler whenDaniel Stenberg
passing a curl_off_t argument to the Curl_read_rewind() function which takes an size_t argument. Curl_read_rewind() also had debug code left in it and it was put in a different source file with no good reason when only used from one single spot.
2006-12-05Sh Diao reported that CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY doesn't work, and indeed, there isDaniel Stenberg
no code present in the library that receives the option. Since it was not possible to use, we know that no current users exist and thus we simply removed it from the docs and made the code always use the default path of the code.
2006-12-05Jared Lundell filed bug report #1604956Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1604956) which identified setting CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to zero caused libcurl to SIGSEGV. Starting now, libcurl will always internally use no less than 1 entry in the connection cache.
2006-12-05CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE works again with a cleaned up order of doing things inDaniel Stenberg
Curl_done()
2006-12-05Martin Skinner brought back bug report #1230118 to haunt us once again.Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1230118) curl_getdate() did not work properly for all input dates on Windows. It was mostly seen on some TZ time zones using DST. Luckily, Martin also provided a fix.
2006-12-05Alexey Simak filed bug report #1600447Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1600447) in which he noted that active FTP connections don't work with the multi interface. The problem is here that the multi interface state machine has a state during which it can wait for the data connection to connect, but the active connection is not done in the same step in the sequence as the passive one is so it doesn't quite work for active. The active FTP code still use a blocking function to allow the remote server to connect. The fix (work-around is a better word) for this problem is to set the boolean prematurely that the data connection is completed, so that the "wait for connect" phase ends at once.
2006-12-05Matt Witherspoon fixed a problem case when the CPU load went to 100% when aDaniel Stenberg
HTTP upload was disconnected: "What appears to be happening is that my system (Linux 2.6.17 and 2.6.13) is setting *only* POLLHUP on poll() when the conditions in my previous mail occur. As you can see, select.c:Curl_select() does not check for POLLHUP. So basically what was happening, is poll() was returning immediately (with POLLHUP set), but when Curl_select() looked at the bits, neither POLLERR or POLLOUT was set. This still caused Curl_readwrite() to be called, which quickly returned. Then the transfer() loop kept continuing at full speed forever."
2006-12-05curl.dsmirror.nl is another mirrorDaniel Stenberg
2006-12-01Toon Verwaest reported that there are servers that send the Content-Range:Daniel Stenberg
header in a third, not suppported by libcurl, format and we agreed that we could make the parser more forgiving to accept all the three found variations.
2006-11-25Venkat Akella found out that libcurl did not like HTTP responses that simplyDaniel Stenberg
responded with a single status line and no headers nor body. Starting now, a HTTP response on a persistent connection (i.e not set to be closed after the response has been taken care of) must have Content-Length or chunked encoding set, or libcurl will simply assume that there is no body. To my horror I learned that we had no less than 57(!) test cases that did bad HTTP responses like this, and even the test http server (sws) responded badly when queried by the test system if it is the test system. So although the actual fix for the problem was tiny, going through all the newly failing test cases got really painful and boring.
2006-11-24James Housley did lots of work and introduced SFTP downloads.Daniel Stenberg
2006-11-21new french mirrorDaniel Stenberg
2006-11-18new ruby binding, new tclcurl releaseDaniel Stenberg
2006-11-13Ron in bug #1595348 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1595348) pointedDaniel Stenberg
out a stack overwrite (and the corresponding fix) on 64bit Windows when dealing with HTTP chunked encoding.
2006-11-09Nir Soffer updated libcurl.framework.make: fix symlinks, should link toDaniel Stenberg
Versions, not to ./Versions and indentation improvments
2006-11-09Dmitriy Sergeyev found a SIGSEGV with his test04.c example posted on 7 NovDaniel Stenberg
2006. It turned out we wrongly assumed that the connection cache was present when tearing down a connection.
2006-11-09Ciprian Badescu found a SIGSEGV when doing multiple TFTP transfers using theDaniel Stenberg
multi interface, but I could also repeat it doing multiple sequential ones with the easy interface. Using Ciprian's test case, I could fix it.
2006-11-08Bradford Bruce reported that when setting CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION withoutDaniel Stenberg
CURLOPT_VERBOSE set to non-zero, you still got a few debug messages from the SSL handshake. This is now stopped.
2006-11-07add missing namesDaniel Stenberg
2006-11-03Olaf Stueben provided a patch that I edited slightly. It fixes the notoriousDaniel Stenberg
KNOWN_BUGS #25, which happens when a proxy closes the connection when libcurl has sent CONNECT, as part of an authentication negotiation. Starting now, libcurl will re-connect accordingly and continue the authentication as it should.
2006-11-02update the counterDaniel Stenberg
2006-11-02James Housley brought support for SCP transfersDaniel Stenberg
2006-10-30start working on 7.16.1Daniel Stenberg
2006-10-297.16.0 materialDaniel Stenberg
2006-10-25Fixed CURLOPT_FAILONERROR to return CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR even for theDaniel Stenberg
case when 401 or 407 are returned, *IF* no auth credentials have been given. The CURLOPT_FAILONERROR option is not possible to make fool-proof for 401 and 407 cases when auth credentials is given, but we've now covered this somewhat more. You might get some amounts of headers transferred before this situation is detected, like for when a "100-continue" is received as a response to a POST/PUT and a 401 or 407 is received immediately afterwards. Added test 281 to verify this change.
2006-10-21Nir Soffer for his Makefile.am fixDaniel Stenberg
2006-10-21Armel Asselin separated CA cert verification problems from problems withDaniel Stenberg
reading the (local) CA cert file to let users easier pinpoint the actual problem. CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE (77) is the new libcurl error code.
2006-10-18changes done the last few daysDaniel Stenberg
2006-10-17Please welcome our new haxx.se curl mirror, for really fast Swedish access.Daniel Stenberg
2006-10-13The tagging of application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST body data sentDan Fandrich
to the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION callback has been fixed (it was erroneously included as part of the header). A message was also added to the command line tool to show when data is being sent, enabled when --verbose is used.
2006-10-12Starting now, adding an easy handle to a multi stack that was already addedDaniel Stenberg
to a multi stack will cause CURLM_BAD_EASY_HANDLE to get returned.
2006-10-12Jeff Pohlmeyer has been working with the hiperfifo.c example source code,Daniel Stenberg
and while doing so it became apparent that the current timeout system for the socket API really was a bit awkward since it become quite some work to be sure we have the correct timeout set. Jeff then provided the new CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION that is yet another callback the app can set to get to know when the general timeout time changes and thus for an application like hiperfifo.c it makes everything a lot easier and nicer. There's a CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA option too of course in good old libcurl tradition.
2006-10-09new mirrorsDaniel Stenberg
2006-10-06Bogdan Nicula's hanging test case was converted to test case 533 and the testDaniel Stenberg
now runs fine.