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2009-03-05Expanded the security section of the libcurl-tutorial man page to coverDan Fandrich
more issues for authors to consider when writing robust libcurl-using applications.
2009-03-0315 additional contributor from the 7.19.4 RELEASE-NOTESDaniel Stenberg
2009-03-02- David Kierznowski notified us about a security flawDaniel Stenberg
(http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090303.html also known as CVE-2009-0037) in which previous libcurl versions (by design) can be tricked to access an arbitrary local/different file instead of a remote one when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. This flaw is now fixed in this release together this the addition of two new setopt options for controlling this new behavior: o CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS controls what protocols libcurl is allowed to follow to when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. By default, this option excludes the FILE and SCP protocols and thus you nee to explicitly allow them in your app if you really want that behavior. o CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS controls what protocol(s) libcurl is allowed to fetch using the primary URL option. This is useful if you want to allow a user or other outsiders control what URL to pass to libcurl and yet not allow all protocols libcurl may have been built to support.
2009-03-02the Eiffel bindingDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-27mention the '-o -' trickDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-234.17 Non-functional connect timeoutsDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-23- After a bug reported by James Cheng I've made curl_easy_getinfo() forDaniel Stenberg
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD return -1 if the sizes aren't know. Previously these returned 0, make it impossible to detect the difference between actually zero and unknown.
2009-02-23mention default port numberDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-23- I renamed everything in the windows builds files that used the name 'curllib'Daniel Stenberg
to the proper 'libcurl' as clearly this caused confusion.
2009-02-20clarified the FTP passive/active mode options somewhatDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-19The C++ binding home was changedDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-17three new CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR* symbolsDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-17- CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS can now be set to 2 in addition to 1 forDaniel Stenberg
plain FTP connections, and it will then allow MKD to fail once and retry the CWD afterwards. This is especially useful if you're doing many simultanoes connections against the same server and they all have this option enabled, as then CWD may first fail but then another connection does MKD before this connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works! The numbers can (should?) now be set with the convenience enums now called CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR and CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY. Tests has proven that if you're making an application that uploads a set of files to an ftp server, you will get a noticable gain in speed if you're using multiple connections and this option will be then be very useful.
2009-02-13Anthony Bryan's letter=>symbol fixesDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-12Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication using GnuTLS.Dan Fandrich
2009-02-11- CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET was added to allow an application to get to know ifDaniel Stenberg
the condition in the previous request was unmet. This is typically a time condition set with CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION and was previously not possible to reliably figure out. From bug report #2565128 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2565128)
2009-02-10completed the CURLPROXY_ collectionDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-10include the symbols-in-versions file in the release archiveDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-10introducing the symbols-in-versions file, in an effort to help app authorsDaniel Stenberg
to better know and track symbols in earlier libcurl versions
2009-02-10mention when CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE was addedDaniel Stenberg
2009-02-09#45. libcurl built to support ipv6 uses getaddrinfo() to resolve host names.Daniel Stenberg
getaddrinfo() sorts the response list This isn't a libcurl bug since this is how getaddrinfo() is *supposed* to work! Apparently you deal with this using the /etc/gai.conf file.
2009-02-09#53. SFTP busy-loop problem. should be fixed in 7.19.3 with libssh2 1.0 (orDaniel Stenberg
later)
2009-02-06Mention the first release of CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHODDan Fandrich
2009-02-04Fixed a typo (spotted in the FreeBSD ports).Dan Fandrich
2009-02-02- Craig A West brought us: libcurl now defaults to do CONNECT with HTTPDaniel Stenberg
version 1.1 instead of 1.0 like before. This change also introduces the new proxy type for libcurl called 'CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0' that then allows apps to switch (back) to CONNECT 1.0 requests. The curl tool also got a --proxy1.0 option that works exactly like --proxy but sets CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0. I updated all test cases cases that use CONNECT and I tried to do some using --proxy1.0 and some updated to do CONNECT 1.1 to get both versions run.
2009-01-30Mentioned some other characters that may need escaping on the curl commandDan Fandrich
line and fixed a few typos.
2009-01-28- Markus Moeller introduced two new options to libcurl:Daniel Stenberg
CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE and CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC to allow libcurl to do GSS-style authentication with SOCKS5 proxies. The curl tool got the options called --socks5-gssapi-service and --socks5-gssapi-nec to enable these.
2009-01-26- Chad Monroe provided the new CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE option that allows an appDaniel Stenberg
to set desired block size to use for TFTP transfers instead of the default 512 bytes.
2009-01-25- Craig A West brought CURLOPT_NOPROXY and the corresponding --noproxy option.Daniel Stenberg
They basically offer the same thing the NO_PROXY environment variable only offered previously: list a set of host names that shall not use the proxy even if one is specified.
2009-01-1917 new contributors from the 7.19.3 releaseDaniel Stenberg
2009-01-15Add steps needed for zlib support under MinixDan Fandrich
2009-01-14a bunch of minor updatesDaniel Stenberg
2009-01-1362. CURLOPT_TIMEOUT does not work properly with the regular multi andDaniel Stenberg
multi_socket interfaces. The work-around for apps is to simply remove the easy handle once the time is up. See also: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2501457
2009-01-12make this example not only replace an internal header but also add a totallyDaniel Stenberg
new and non-standard one
2009-01-12Mohun Biswas clarifiedDaniel Stenberg
2009-01-08Added a few more issuesDan Fandrich
2008-12-29further clarifcation based on input from Anthony BryanDaniel Stenberg
2008-12-28Anthony Bryan's man page cleanup in language and spellingDaniel Stenberg
2008-12-28Anthony Bryan reported quirks, I updatedDaniel Stenberg
2008-12-28Anthony Bryan reported and I corrected two typos.Daniel Stenberg
2008-12-28The CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL description wasn't properly formatted and thus wasDaniel Stenberg
corrupted in ouputs. Another report from Anthony Bryan.
2008-12-28Anthony Bryan reported this outputs wrong in the PDF and I've now tried toDaniel Stenberg
escape these letters what I think is the correct way.
2008-12-22- Anthony Bryan provided a set of patches that cleaned up manual language,Daniel Stenberg
corrected spellings and more.
2008-12-19expand the CURLOPT_POSTREDIR explanationDaniel Stenberg
2008-12-10- Internet Explorer had a broken HTTP digest authentication before v7 andDaniel Stenberg
there are servers "out there" that relies on the client doing this broken Digest authentication. Apache even comes with an option to work with such broken clients. The difference is only for URLs that contain a query-part (a '?'-letter and text to the right of it). libcurl now supports this quirk, and you enable it by setting the CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit in the bitmask you pass to the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH or CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH options. They are thus individually controlled to server and proxy.
2008-12-09Documented CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY as being useful only on HTTP URLs.Dan Fandrich
2008-12-03filled in SONAME number bump info, after some CVS diggingDaniel Stenberg
2008-12-01added some more entries for stuff done the last ~2 yearsDaniel Stenberg
2008-11-30People have successfully ran libcurl on iphoneDaniel Stenberg
2008-11-21Markus Koetter's adaptation of hiperfifo.c to instead use libevDaniel Stenberg