Things to do in project cURL. Please tell me what you think, contribute and
send me patches that improve things!
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To do in a future release (random order):
* Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same
host is requested. Note: is this really prioritized now with the persistent
connections?
- * Make ftps:// work properly (test case 400+ in CVS)
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* Suggested on the mailing list: CURLOPT_FTP_MKDIR...!
* Rewrite parts of the test suite. Make a (XML?) format to store all
* Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl
application to a separate "portability lib".
- * Add support for other languages than C. C++ (rumours have been heard about
- something being worked on in this area) and perl (we have seen the first
- versions of this!) comes to mind. Python anyone?
+ * Add libcurl support/interfaces for more languages. C++ wrapper? Python
+ anyone?
* "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib" HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get
and decode compressed documents. There is the zlib that is pretty good at
* Other proxies
Ftp-kind proxy, Socks5, whatever kind of proxies are there?
- * IPv6 Awareness and support. (This is partly done.) RFC 2428 "FTP
+ * Full IPv6 Awareness and support. (This is partly done.) RFC 2428 "FTP
Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" is interesting. PORT should be replaced with
- EPRT for IPv6 (done), and EPSV instead of PASV. HTTP proxies are left to
- add support for.
+ EPRT for IPv6 (done), and EPSV instead of PASV.