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2009-08-21- Andre Guibert de Bruet pointed out a missing return code check for aDaniel Stenberg
strdup() that could lead to segfault if it returned NULL. I extended his suggest patch to now have Curl_retry_request() return a regular return code and better check that.
2009-08-21- Lots of good work by Krister Johansen, mostly related to pipelining:Daniel Stenberg
Fix SIGSEGV on free'd easy_conn when pipe unexpectedly breaks Fix data corruption issue with re-connected transfers Fix use after free if we're completed but easy_conn not NULL
2009-08-13mention yesterday's changesDaniel Stenberg
2009-08-12start over fresh again towards 7.19.7Daniel Stenberg
2009-08-12- Carsten Lange reported a bug and provided a patch for TFTP upload and theDaniel Stenberg
sending of the TSIZE option. I don't like fixing bugs just hours before a release, but since it was broken and the patch fixes this for him I decided to get it in anyway.
2009-08-11- Peter Sylvester made the HTTPS test server use specific certificates forDaniel Stenberg
each test, so that the test suite can now be used to actually test the verification of cert names etc. This made an error show up in the OpenSSL- specific code where it would attempt to match the CN field even if a subjectAltName exists that doesn't match. This is now fixed and verified in test 311.
2009-08-11creditDaniel Stenberg
2009-08-02clarified configure detection of GnuTLSDaniel Stenberg
2009-08-01- Curt Bogmine reported a problem with SNI enabled on a particular server. WeDaniel Stenberg
should introduce an option to disable SNI, but as we're in feature freeze now I've addressed the obvious bug here (pointed out by Peter Sylvester): we shouldn't try to enable SNI when SSLv2 or SSLv3 is explicitly selected. Code for OpenSSL and GnuTLS was fixed. NSS doesn't seem to have a particular option for SNI, or are we simply not using it?
2009-08-01- Scott Cantor posted the bug report #2829955Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2829955) mentioning the recent SSL cert verification flaw found and exploited by Moxie Marlinspike. The presentation he did at Black Hat is available here: https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-09/bh-usa-09-archives.html#Marlinspike Apparently at least one CA allowed a subjectAltName or CN that contain a zero byte, and thus clients that assumed they would never have zero bytes were exploited to OK a certificate that didn't actually match the site. Like if the name in the cert was "example.com\0theatualsite.com", libcurl would happily verify that cert for example.com. libcurl now better use the length of the extracted name, not assuming it is zero terminated.
2009-08-01- Tanguy Fautre pointed out that OpenSSL's function RAND_screen() (presentDaniel Stenberg
only in some OpenSSL installs - like on Windows) isn't thread-safe and we agreed that moving it to the global_init() function is a decent way to deal with this situation.
2009-08-01- Alexander Beedie provided the patch for a noproxy problem: If I have setDaniel Stenberg
CURLOPT_NOPROXY to "*", or to a host that should not use a proxy, I actually could still end up using a proxy if a proxy environment variable was set.
2009-07-27- All the quote options (CURLOPT_QUOTE, CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE andDaniel Stenberg
CURLOPT_PREQUOTE) now accept a preceeding asterisk before the command to send when using FTP, as a sign that libcurl shall simply ignore the response from the server instead of treating it as an error. Not treating a 400+ FTP response code as an error means that failed commands will not abort the chain of commands, nor will they cause the connection to get disconnected.
2009-07-26- Bug report #2825989 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2825989) pointedDaniel Stenberg
out that OpenSSL-powered libcurl didn't support the SHA-2 digest algorithm, and provided the solution too: to use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() instead of the older SSLeay_* alternative. OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms was added in OpenSSL 0.9.5
2009-07-22- Added CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYDATA.Daniel Stenberg
They introduce known_host support for SSH keys to libcurl. See docs for details.
2009-07-22- David Binderman found a memory and fd leak in lib/gtls.c:load_file()Michal Marek
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/523919). When looking at the code, I found that also the ptr pointer can leak.
2009-07-08- Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug report #2813123Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2813123) and an a patch that fixes the problem: Url A is accessed using auth. Url A redirects to Url B (on a different server0. Url B reuses a persistent connection. Url B has auth, even though it's on a different server. Note: if Url B does not reuse a persistent connection, auth is not sent.
2009-06-29my CURLINFO_CERTINFO fixDaniel Stenberg
2009-06-29- Markus Koetter made CURLOPT_FTPPORT (and curl's -P/--ftpport) support a portDaniel Stenberg
range if given colon-separated after the host name/address part. Like "192.168.0.1:2000-10000"
2009-06-16- Reuven Wachtfogel made curl -o - properly produce a binary output on windowsDaniel Stenberg
(no newline translations). Use -B/--use-ascii if you rather get the ascii approach.
2009-06-16- When doing non-anonymous ftp via http proxies and the password is notMichal Marek
provided in the url, add it there (squid needs this).
2009-06-15- Eric Wong's patch:Daniel Stenberg
This allows curl(1) to be used as a client-side tunnel for arbitrary stream protocols by abusing chunked transfer encoding in both the HTTP request and HTTP response. This requires server support for sending a response while a request is still being read, of course. If attempting to read from stdin returns EAGAIN, then we pause our sender. This leaves curl to attempt to read from the socket while reading from stdin (and thus sending) is paused.
2009-06-10- Fabian Keil ran clang on the (lib)curl code, found a bunch of warnings andDaniel Stenberg
contributed a range of patches to fix them.
2009-06-09initialize fread callback pointer to avoid compiler warningYang Tse
2009-06-08- Claes Jakobsson provided a patch for libcurl-NSS that fixed a bad refcountDaniel Stenberg
issue with client certs that caused issues like segfaults. http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0316.html
2009-06-08- Triggered by bug report #2798852 and the patch in there, I fixed configureDaniel Stenberg
to detect gnutls build options with pkg-config only and not libgnutls-config anymore since GnuTLS has stopped distributing that tool. If an explicit path is given to configure, we will instead guess on how to link and use that lib. I did not use the patch from the bug report.
2009-06-08djgpp build fixDaniel Stenberg
2009-06-07Bill Hoffman (6 June 2009)Daniel Stenberg
- Added some cmake docs and fixed socklen_t in the build.
2009-06-07- Eric Wong fixed --no-buffer to actually switch off output buffering. BeenDaniel Stenberg
broken since 7.19.0
2009-06-05mention last changesYang Tse
2009-06-05remove conflict markersDaniel Stenberg
2009-06-05- Setting the Content-Length: header from your app when you do a POST or PUTDaniel Stenberg
is almost always a VERY BAD IDEA. Yet there are still apps out there doing this, and now recently it triggered a bug/side-effect in libcurl as when libcurl sends a POST or PUT with NTLM, it sends an empty post first when it knows it will just get a 401/407 back. If the app then replaced the Content-Length header, it caused the server to wait for input that libcurl wouldn't send. Aaron Oneal reported this problem in bug report #2799008 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2799008) and helped us verify the fix.
2009-06-04allow building libcurl for VxWorksYang Tse
2009-06-01- Claes Jakobsson fixed the configure script to better find and use NSSDaniel Stenberg
without pkg-config.
2009-06-01credit John E. MalmbergYang Tse
2009-05-27- Claes Jakobsson fixed libcurl-NSS to build fine even without theDaniel Stenberg
PK11_CreateGenericObject() function.
2009-05-27- Mike Crowe pointed out that setting CURLOPT_USERPWD to NULL used to clearDaniel Stenberg
the auth credentials back in 7.19.0 and earlier while now you have to set "" to get the same effect. His patch brings back the ability to use NULL.
2009-05-27- Andre Guibert de Bruet found a call to a OpenSSL function that didn't checkDaniel Stenberg
for a failure properly.
2009-05-27- Frank McGeough provided a small OpenSSL #include fix to make libcurl compileDaniel Stenberg
fine with Nokia 5th edition 1.0 SDK for Symbian.
2009-05-25- bug report #2796358 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2796358) pointedDaniel Stenberg
out that the cookie parser would leak memory when it parses cookies that are received with domain, path etc set multiple times in the same header. While such a cookie is questionable, they occur in the wild and libcurl no longer leaks memory for them. I added such a header to test case 8.
2009-05-19- Kamil Dudka brought the patch from the Redhat bug entryDaniel Stenberg
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427966 which was libcurl closing a bad file descriptor when closing down the FTP data connection. Caolan McNamara seems to be the original author of it.
2009-05-18start climbing to 7.19.6Daniel Stenberg
2009-05-17- James Bursa posted a patch to the mailing list that fixed a problem withDaniel Stenberg
no_proxy which made it not skip the proxy if the URL entered contained a user name. I added test case 1101 to verify.
2009-05-11- Balint Szilakszi reported a memory leak when libcurl did gzip decompressionDaniel Stenberg
of streams that had some parts (legitimately) missing. We now provide and use a proper cleanup function for the content encoding submodule. http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0092.html
2009-05-11- Kamil Dudka provided a fix for libcurl-NSS reported by Michael CronenworthDaniel Stenberg
at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612#c12 If an incorrect password is given while loading a private key, libcurl ends up in an infinite loop consuming memory. The bug is critical.
2009-05-11- I fixed the problem with doing NTLM, POST and then following a 302 redirect,Daniel Stenberg
as reported by Ebenezer Ikonne (on curl-users) and Laurent Rabret (on curl-library). The transfer was mistakenly marked to get more data to send but since it didn't actually have that, it just hung there...
2009-05-08Ah, this was committed by mistake as part of my previous commit but it seemsDaniel Stenberg
to work so I'll let it remain and here's the comment about it! From Lenaic's mail posted to curl-library Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 22:46:14 +0200.
2009-05-08- Constantine Sapuntzakis fixed bug report #2784055Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2784055) identifying a problem to connect to SOCKS proxies when using the multi interface. It turned out to almost not work at all previously. We need to wait for the TCP connect to be properly verified before doing the SOCKS magic. There's still a flaw in the FTP code for this.
2009-05-07- Man page *roff problems fixed thanks to input from Colin Watson. ProblemsDaniel Stenberg
reported in the Debian package.
2009-05-07- Vijay G filed bug report #2723236Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723236) identifying a problem with libcurl's TFTP code and its lack of dealing with the OACK packet.