_ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| Known Bugs These are problems and bugs known to exist at the time of this release. Feel free to join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! 1. HTTP 1.1 CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN in an array 1.2 Disabling HTTP Pipelining 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100 1.7 CONNECT response larger than 16KB 1.8 DNS timing is wrong for HTTP redirects 2. TLS 2.1 Hangs with PolarSSL 2.2 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support 2.3 DER in keychain 3. Email protocols 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response 3.2 No disconnect command 3.3 SMTP to multiple recipients 4. Command line 4.1 -J with %-encoded file nameas 4.2 -J with -C - fails 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts 5. Build and portability issues 5.1 Windows Borland compiler 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details 5.3 libidn and old iconv 5.4 AIX shared build with c-ares fails 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in Windows 5.6 Improper use of Autoconf cache variables 6. Authentication 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name 6.4 Negotiate needs a fake user name 7. FTP 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR 7.4 FTP with ACCT 7.5 ASCII FTP 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL 8. TELNET 8.1 TELNET and time limtiations don't work 8.2 Microsoft telnet server 9. SFTP and SCP 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct 10. SOCKS 10.1 SOCKS proxy connections are done blocking 10.2 SOCKS don't support timeouts 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS 11. Internals 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails ============================================================================== 1. HTTP 1.1 CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN in an array It is not possible to pass a 64-bit value using CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN with CURLFORM_ARRAY, when compiled on 32-bit platforms that support 64-bit integers. This is because the underlying structure 'curl_forms' uses a dual purpose char* for storing these values in via casting. For more information see the now closed related issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/608 1.2 Disabling HTTP Pipelining Disabling HTTP Pipelining when there are ongoing transfers can lead to heap corruption and crash. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1411 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs Wrong STARTTRANSFER timer accounting for POST requests Timer works fine with GET requests, but while using POST the time for CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME is wrong. While using POST CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME minus CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME is near to zero every time. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/218 https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1213 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding When creating multipart formposts. The file name part can be encoded with something beyond ascii but currently libcurl will only pass in the verbatim string the app provides. There are several browsers that already do this encoding. The key seems to be the updated draft to RFC2231: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-02 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417 If an upload using Expect: 100-continue receives an HTTP 417 response, it ought to be automatically resent without the Expect:. A workaround is for the client application to redo the transfer after disabling Expect:. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0043.html 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100 libcurl closes the connection if an HTTP 401 reply is received while it is waiting for the the 100-continue response. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-08/0462.html 1.7 CONNECT response larger than 16KB If a CONNECT response-headers are larger than BUFSIZE (16KB) when the connection is meant to be kept alive (like for NTLM proxy auth), the function will return prematurely and will confuse the rest of the HTTP protocol code. This should be very rare. 1.8 DNS timing is wrong for HTTP redirects When extracting timing information after HTTP redirects, only the last transfer's results are returned and not the totals: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/522 2. TLS 2.1 Hangs with PolarSSL "curl_easy_perform hangs with imap and PolarSSL" https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/334 2.2 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT is only implemented for the OpenSSL and NSS backends, so relying on this information in a generic app is flaky. 2.3 DER in keychain Curl doesn't recognize certificates in DER format in keychain, but it works with PEM. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1065 3. Email protocols 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response IMAP "SEARCH ALL" truncates output on large boxes. "A quick search of the code reveals that pingpong.c contains some truncation code, at line 408, when it deems the server response to be too large truncating it to 40 characters" https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1366 3.2 No disconnect command The disconnect commands (LOGOUT and QUIT) may not be sent by IMAP, POP3 and SMTP if a failure occurs during the authentication phase of a connection. 3.3 SMTP to multiple recipients When sending data to multiple recipients, curl will abort and return failure if one of the recipients indicate failure (on the "RCPT TO" command). Ordinary mail programs would proceed and still send to the ones that can receive data. This is subject for change in the future. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1116 4. Command line 4.1 -J with %-encoded file nameas -J/--remote-header-name doesn't decode %-encoded file names. RFC6266 details how it should be done. The can of worm is basically that we have no charset handling in curl and ascii >=128 is a challenge for us. Not to mention that decoding also means that we need to check for nastiness that is attempted, like "../" sequences and the like. Probably everything to the left of any embedded slashes should be cut off. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1294 4.2 -J with -C - fails When using -J (with -O), automatically resumed downloading together with "-C -" fails. Without -J the same command line works! This happens because the resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its pre-transfer size) has been figured out! https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1169 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts If using --retry and the transfer timeouts (possibly due to using -m or -y/-Y) the next attempt doesn't resume the transfer properly from what was downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565 5. Build and portability issues 5.1 Windows Borland compiler When building with the Windows Borland compiler, it fails because the "tlib" tool doesn't support hyphens (minus signs) in file names and we have such in the build. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1222 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details "curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config --cflags suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS. 5.3 libidn and old iconv Test case 165 might fail on a system which has libidn present, but with an old iconv version (2.1.3 is a known bad version), since it doesn't recognize the charset when named ISO8859-1. Changing the name to ISO-8859-1 makes the test pass, but instead makes it fail on Solaris hosts that use its native iconv. 5.4 AIX shared build with c-ares fails curl version 7.12.2 fails on AIX if compiled with --enable-ares. The workaround is to combine --enable-ares with --disable-shared 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in Windows If a URL or filename can't be encoded using the user's current codepage then it can only be encoded properly in the Unicode character set. Windows uses UTF-16 encoding for Unicode and stores it in wide characters, however curl and libcurl are not equipped for that at the moment. And, except for Cygwin, Windows can't use UTF-8 as a locale. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=345 https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=731 5.6 Improper use of Autoconf cache variables A number of macros used in curl's configure modify the Autoconf cache variables which breaks configure variable caching. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/603 6. Authentication 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode NTLM authentication involving unicode user name or password only works properly if built with UNICODE defined together with the WinSSL/schannel backend. The original problem was mentioned in: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-10/0024.html https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=896 The WinSSL/schannel version verified to work as mentioned in https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0073.html 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build libcurl fails to build with MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) due to KfW's library header files exporting symbols/macros that should be kept private to the KfW library. See ticket #5601 at http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/ 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name NTLM authentication using SSPI (on Windows) when (lib)curl is running in "system context" will make it use wrong(?) user name - at least when compared to what winhttp does. See https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=535 6.4 Negotiate needs a fake user name To get HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication to work fine, you need to provide a (fake) user name (this concerns both curl and the lib) because the code wrongly only considers authentication if there's a user name provided. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=440 How? https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html 7. FTP 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response If a connection is made to a FTP server but the server then just never sends the 220 response or otherwise is dead slow, libcurl will not acknowledge the connection timeout during that phase but only the "real" timeout - which may surprise users as it is probably considered to be the connect phase to most people. Brought up (and is being misunderstood) in: https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=856 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server When doing FTP over a socks proxy or CONNECT through HTTP proxy and the multi interface is used, libcurl will fail if the (passive) TCP connection for the data transfer isn't more or less instant as the code does not properly wait for the connect to be confirmed. See test case 564 for a first shot at a test case. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR It seems sensible to be able to use CURLOPT_NOBODY and CURLOPT_FAILONERROR with FTP to detect if a file exists or not, but it is not working: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0295.html 7.4 FTP with ACCT When doing an operation over FTP that requires the ACCT command (but not when logging in), the operation will fail since libcurl doesn't detect this and thus fails to issue the correct command: https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=635 7.5 ASCII FTP FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1 clearly describes how this should be done: The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard form to his own internal form. Since 7.15.4 at least line endings are converted. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts FTP URLs passed to curl may contain NUL (0x00) in the RFC 1738 , , and components, encoded as "%00". The problem is that curl_unescape does not detect this, but instead returns a shortened C string. From a strict FTP protocol standpoint, NUL is a valid character within RFC 959 , so the way to handle this correctly in curl would be to use a data structure other than a plain C string, one that can handle embedded NUL characters. From a practical standpoint, most FTP servers would not meaningfully support NUL characters within RFC 959 , anyway (e.g., Unix pathnames may not contain NUL). 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument). The only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the empty part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to indicate that the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL remain even when this bug is fixed). 8. TELNET 8.1 TELNET and time limtiations don't work When using telnet, the time limitation options don't work. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=846 8.2 Microsoft telnet server There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=649 9. SFTP and SCP 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct When libcurl sends CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE commands when connected to a SFTP server using the multi interface, the commands are not being sent correctly and instead the connection is "cancelled" (the operation is considered done) prematurely. There is a half-baked (busy-looping) patch provided in the bug report but it cannot be accepted as-is. See https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=748 10. SOCKS 10.1 SOCKS proxy connections are done blocking Both SOCKS5 and SOCKS4 proxy connections are done blocking, which is very bad when used with the multi interface. 10.2 SOCKS don't support timeouts The SOCKS4 connection codes don't properly acknowledge (connect) timeouts. According to bug #1556528, even the SOCKS5 connect code does not do it right: https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=604 When connecting to a SOCK proxy, the (connect) timeout is not properly acknowledged after the actual TCP connect (during the SOCKS "negotiate" phase). 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS libcurl doesn't support FTPS over a SOCKS proxy. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS libcurl doesn't support active FTP over a SOCKS proxy 11. Internals 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS Curl sends DNS requests for hostnames with a .onion TLD. This leaks information about what the user is attempting to access, and violates this requirement of RFC7686: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686 Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/543 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails If you ask libcurl to resolve a hostname like example.com to IPv6 addresses only. But you only have IPv4 connectivity. libcurl will correctly fail with CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT. But the error buffer set by CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER remains empty. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/544