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2009-10-01- Tom Mueller correctly reported in bug report #2870221Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2870221) that libcurl returned an incorrect return code from the internal trynextip() function which caused him grief. This is a regression that was introduced in 7.19.1 and I find it strange it hasn't hit us harder, but I won't persue into figuring out exactly why.
2009-10-01- Constantine Sapuntzakis: The current implementation will always setDaniel Stenberg
SO_SNDBUF to CURL_WRITE_SIZE even if the SO_SNDBUF starts out larger. The patch doesn't do a setsockopt if SO_SNDBUF is already greater than CURL_WRITE_SIZE. This should help folks who have set up their computer with large send buffers.
2009-09-27- I introduced a maximum limit for received HTTP headers. It is controlled byDaniel Stenberg
the define CURL_MAX_HTTP_HEADER which is even exposed in the public header file to allow for users to fairly easy rebuild libcurl with a modified limit. The rationale for a fixed limit is that libcurl is realloc()ing a buffer to be able to put a full header into it, so that it can call the header callback with the entire header, but that also risk getting it into trouble if a server by mistake or willingly sends a header that is more or less without an end. The limit is set to 100K.
2009-09-26- John P. McCaskey posted a bug report that showed how libcurl did wrong whenDaniel Stenberg
saving received cookies with no given path, if the path in the request had a query part. That is means a question mark (?) and characters on the right side of that. I wrote test case 1105 and fixed this problem.
2009-09-25- Chris Mumford filed bug report #2861587Daniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2861587) identifying that libcurl used the OpenSSL function X509_load_crl_file() wrongly and failed if it would load a CRL file with more than one certificate within. This is now fixed.
2009-09-24revert HPUX change since it already works fineDaniel Stenberg
2009-09-23builds thread-safer on HPUXDaniel Stenberg
2009-09-16- Sven Anders reported that we introduced a cert verfication flaw for OpenSSL-Daniel Stenberg
powered libcurl in 7.19.6. If there was a X509v3 Subject Alternative Name field in the certficate it had to match and so even if non-DNS and non-IP entry was present it caused the verification to fail.
2009-09-10- Claes Jakobsson fixed a problem with cookie expiry dates at exctly the epochDaniel Stenberg
start second "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970" as the date parser then returns 0 which internally then is treated as a session cookie. That particular date is now made to get the value of 1.
2009-09-02- Daniel Johnson founded a flaw in the code convering sftp-errors to libcurlDaniel Stenberg
errors.
2009-09-01- Peter Sylvester made a debug featuer for Curl_resolv() that now will forceDaniel Stenberg
libcurl to resolve 'localhost' whatever name you use in the URL *if* you set the --interface option to (exactly) "LocalHost". This will enable us to write tests for custom hosts names but still use a local host server.
2009-09-01- configure now tries to use pkg-config for a number of sub-dependencies evenDaniel Stenberg
when cross-compiling. The key to success is then you properly setup PKG_CONFIG_PATH before invoking configure. I also improved how NSS is detected by trying nss-config if pkg-config isn't present, and as a last resort just use the lib name and force the user to setup the LIBS/LDFLAGS/CFLAGS etc properly. The previous last resort would add a range of various libs that would almost never be quite correct.
2009-08-31- When using the multi interface with FTP and you asked for NOBODY, you did noDaniel Stenberg
QUOTE commands and the request used the same path as the connection had already changed to, it would decide that no commands would be necessary for the "DO" action and that was not handled properly but libcurl would instead hang.
2009-08-24- Marc de Bruin pointed out that configure --with-gnutls=PATH didn't workDaniel Stenberg
properly and provided a fix. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2843008
2009-08-24- Eric Wong introduced support for the new option -T. (dot) that makes curlDaniel Stenberg
read stdin in a non-blocking fashion. This also brings back -T- (minus) to the previous blocking behavior since it could break stuff for people at times.
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