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+Daniel (28 December 1999):
+ - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl
+ doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
+ problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
+ that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
+ the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
+ translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
+ the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.
+
+Daniel (27 December 1999):
+ - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
+ data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
+ in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington.
+
+Daniel (13 December 1999):
+ - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
+ added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
+ both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.
+
+Daniel (3 December 1999):
+ - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen...
+
+ - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
+ well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
+ only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).
+
+Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999):
+ - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!
+
+ - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
+ different directories than the sources.
+
+Version 6.3.1
+
+Daniel (23 November 1999):
+ - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
+ along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
+ things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
+ server!
+
+ - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling
+ that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
+ was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...
+
+ - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
+ download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
+ entire download was completed. It does now.
+
+Daniel (19 November 1999):
+ - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of
+ return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
+ occurrences and corrected this.
+
+Daniel (17 November 1999):
+ - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
+ doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
+ any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
+ when the timeout is reached.
+
+ - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
+ why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.
+
+ Daniel (12 November 1999):
+ - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
+ a plain http header file as input...
+
+Version 6.3
+
+ Daniel (10 November 1999):
+ - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
+ respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
+ again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
+ section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
+ my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
+ is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).
+
+ - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page
+ to better describe how the -F works.
+
+ - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in
+ China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/
+
+ - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file
+
+ - I did add more explanations to the man page
+
+ Daniel (8 November 1999):
+ - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
+ files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
+ transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
+
+ Daniel (29 October 1999):
+ - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
+ but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
+ FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
+ it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
+ be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
+ --range switch (previously HTTP-only).
+
+ - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be
+ able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
+ idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
+ this manner:
+ Content-Length: XXXX
+ As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
+ info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
+ makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
+ file size the same way.
+
+ I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
+ just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
+ quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
+
+ - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
+ the man page.
+
+ - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
+ some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
+ the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti.
+
+ - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
+ man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
+ reported and brought the suggestion.
+
+ - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came
+ up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
+ internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
+ that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
+ obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
+ the one curl would set.
+
+ Daniel (27 October 1999):
+ - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following
+ a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to
+ get the core.
+
+Version 6.2
+
+ Daniel (21 October 1999):
+ - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
+ before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
+ - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
+ having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
+ when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
+ URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
+ such as curl has.)
+ - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
+ with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
+ that occurred after the download was done and completed.
+ - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
+ to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
+ the multiple URL support.
+ - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't
+ honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are
+ case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan
+ also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty
+ of editing slightly.
+ - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
+ the Mac OS X
+ - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
+ to fail on OS X.
+
+ Daniel (19 October 1999):
+ - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a
+ crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added
+ --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a
+ file or stdout.
+
+ Daniel (18 October 1999):
+ - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
+ totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
+ the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
+ been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.
+
+Version 6.1
+
+ Daniel (17 October 1999):
+ - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
+ script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
+ thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
+ uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
+ more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
+ until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
+ adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a
+ short a summary is suitable:
+ - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
+ decompression methods.
+ - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
+ although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
+ want it.
+ - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
+ a file descriptor if that is a socket
+
+ Daniel (14 October 1999):
+ - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
+ curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
+ better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.
+
+ Daniel (12 October 1999):
+ - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
+ archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
+ hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.
+
+ Daniel (11 October 1999):
+ - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
+ some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
+ the man page.
+
+Version 6.1beta
+
+ Daniel (6 October 1999):
+ - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I
+ just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named
+ file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a
+ given file:
+
+ curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com
+
+ or let curl read it out from stdin:
+
+ curl -d @- www.postit.com
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
+ - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
+ separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
+ used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".
+
+ Daniel
+ - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.
+
+ Daniel (30 September 1999):
+ - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work
+ out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default
+ dirs.
+
+ Daniel (28 September 1999)
+ - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
+ or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
+ it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
+ download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
+ documents so that I can test this out properly.
+
+ - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
+ a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.
+
+ Daniel (17 September 1999)
+ - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
+ of file name, the data will be read from stdin.
+
+Version 6.0
+
+ Daniel (13 September 1999)
+ - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
+ Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
+ should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.
+
+ - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.
+
+ Daniel (10 September 1999)
+ - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP
+ servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It
+ took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as
+ OK.
+
+ - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
+ turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
+ cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
+ doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).
+
+ Daniel (8 September 1999)
+ - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.
+
+ Daniel (7 September 1999)
+ - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
+ Stefan Kanthak.
+
+ - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.
+
+ Daniel (3 September 1999)
+ - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.
+
+ Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999)
+ - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
+ library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
+ directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
+ ldap:// URL.
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999)
+ - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
+ - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
+ performance reasons.
+
+ Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999)
+ - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.
+
+ Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999)
+ - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
+ root dir of the openssl installation, as in
+
+ ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here
+
+ - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999)
+ - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
+ compiles.
+
+Version 5.11
+
+ Daniel (25 August 1999)
+ - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line
+ realloc() system in download.c.
+
+ - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
+ probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
+ as a start.
+
+ - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
+ used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
+ changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
+ first.
+
+ Daniel (17 August 1999)
+ - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
+ original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
+ again.
+
+ - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
+ them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
+ not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas
+ E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this.
+
+ Daniel (16 August 1999)
+ - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
+ page. Nusu's page showed this too.
+
+ - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
+ used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
+ should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
+ painfully visible...
+
+ Troy (15 August 1999)
+ - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
+ configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
+ files are in /usr/include/openssl
+
+Version 5.10
+
+ Daniel (13 August 1999)
+ - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
+ OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
+ modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
+ a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
+ to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
+
+ - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
+
+ Troy (12 August 1999)
+ - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
+ a bit rearranged.
+
+ Daniel (12 August 1999)
+ - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
+ tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
+ allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.
+
+ - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
+ -Wall -pedantic was used.
+
+ - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
+ will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
+ The old one still works and shows the same info.
+
+ Daniel (11 August 1999)
+ - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
+ configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.
+
+ Daniel (10 August 1999)
+ - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as
+ some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under
+ HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate
+ yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new,
+ we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it
+ still compiles there.
+
+ Daniel (5 August 1999)
+ - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
+ around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
+ brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
+ about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.
+
+ To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
+ <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
+ libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl
+ talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
+ started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
+ www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.
+
+ - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure
+ script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under
+ Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!
+
+ - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present
+ in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...
+
+ - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet
+ support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on
+ the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and
+ run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little
+ weird output.
+
+ This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
+ feed-back and input in how this is best done.
+
+ WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
+ lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.
+
+ - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be
+ defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the
+ configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it.
+
+ Daniel (4 August 1999)
+ - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
+ which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
+ servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
+ some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
+ hope you report if you have problems with this!
+
+ - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.
+
+ Daniel (2 August 1999)
+ - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers
+ a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar.
+
+ T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
+ - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
+ username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
+ another location (option '-L').
+
+ There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
+ tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
+ argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
+ CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
+ checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
+ redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.
+
+Version 5.9.1
+
+ Daniel (30 July 1999)
+ - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata
+ functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to
+ correct this flaw.
+
+ - Mark Wotton reported:
+ 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by
+ correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
+ 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
+ don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.
+
+ - Marcus Klein:
+ Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
+ I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.
+
+ Daniel (29 July 1999)
+ - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location:
+ and I could only agree and fix it!
+
+ - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out
+ that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter
+ when supposed to.
+
+ - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If
+ you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a
+ standard port number, curl still used that first port number.
+
+ - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION
+ and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on
+ the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any
+ html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if
+ CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.
+
+ - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
+ Beckmann).
+
+ - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the
+ latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now
+ in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
+ option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
+ leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.
+
+ Daniel (9 June 1999)
+ - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
+ I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.
+
+ Daniel (4 June 1999)
+ - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
+ with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
+ something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
+ and Mark Butler brought a solution for it.
+
+ Daniel (26 May 1999)
+ - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
+ README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann.
+
+ - I also updated the INSTALL text.
+
+ Daniel (25 May 1999)
+ - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal
+ with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl
+ -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed.
+
+Version 5.9
+
+ Daniel (22 May 1999)
+ - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some
+ problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug
+ report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms
+ when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
+ and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...
+
+ Daniel (20 May 1999)
+ - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.
+
+ Daniel (19 May 1999)
+ - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread()
+ function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel
+ helped me out isolating it.
+
+ Daniel (16 May 1999)
+ - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't
+ work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.
+
+ - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl
+ to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was
+ used.
+
+ Daniel (10 May 1999)
+ - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
+ files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
+ layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
+ future!
+
+ - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl
+ archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a
+ debian package that I've made available for download at the web page
+
+ Daniel (9 May 1999)
+ - Made it compile on cygwin too.
+
+ Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
+ - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
+ again!
+
+ Daniel (6 May 1999)
+ - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
+ will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
+ can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
+ too.
+
+Version 5.8
+
+ Daniel (5 May 1999)
+ - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
+ for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
+ there are problems all over.
+
+ I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
+ week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at
+ hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this.
+
+ Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
+ generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
+ can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
+ before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
+ a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!
+
+ Daniel (4 May 1999)
+ - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
+ the regexes.
+
+ - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
+ I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
+ curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
+ in:
+
+ curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html
+
+ This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
+ I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
+ there may depend on that the file is always touched...
+
+ - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.
+
+ - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send
+ "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it
+ right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date
+ expression or a file name to get the date from!
+
+ Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999)
+ - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
+ isn't set and causes the make to fail.
+
+ Daniel (26 April 1999)
+ - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version
+ number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug
+ in my maketgz script!
+
+ David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999)
+ - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.
+
+Version 5.7.1
+
+ Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999)
+ - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
+ below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h
+
+ - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
+ INSTALL file.
+
+ Daniel
+ - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
+ README file
+
+ Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999)
+ - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
+ It needs an #include <sys/types.h>
+
+Version 5.7
+
+ Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
+ - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!
+
+ - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
+ simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!
+
+ - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
+ start.
+
+ Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999)
+ - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.
+
+Version 5.6.3beta
+
+ Daniel (Apr 12 1999)
+
+ - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
+ in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
+ try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?
+
+ - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!
+
+ - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
+ much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
+ should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
+ talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
+ start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
+ use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
+ want such a crippled solution.
+
+ - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the
+ "Curr.Speed" progress meter.
+
+ - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from
+ stdin.
+
+ - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!
+
+ Daniel (Apr 9 1999)
+ - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at
+ all! ;-O
+
+ Daniel (Apr 6 1999)
+ - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.
+
+ - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
+ previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
+ some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
+ best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!
+
+Version 5.6.2beta
+
+ Daniel (Apr 4 1999)
+ - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
+ it works.
+ To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
+ format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
+ -b flag like:
+
+ curl -b file http://site/foo.html
+
+ Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
+ a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
+ following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".
+
+ To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
+ sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
+ to start with no existing cookies), like:
+
+ curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html
+
+ - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
+ reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.
+
+ - Better "Location:" following.
+
+ Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
+ - A subsecond display patch.
+
+ Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
+ - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
+ things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
+ 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
+ set for libcurl.
+
+ - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
+ that.
+
+ - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
+ win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
+ Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
+ INSTALL for details.
+
+ - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
+ server while remaining connected.
+
+Version 5.6beta
+
+ Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
+ - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the
+ suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing
+ HTTP headers separately in the specified file.
+
+ - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.
+
+ - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
+ in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...
+
+ Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
+ - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
+ and smaller size.
+
+ Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
+ - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
+ curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
+ the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
+ before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.
+
+ libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
+ the lib functions though.
+
+ The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
+ about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)
+
+
+ Daniel (Mar 1 1999)
+ - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the
+ info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the
+ README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.
+
+ Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
+ - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
+ in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...
+
+ Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
+ - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
+ the most recent.
+
+ Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999)
+ - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
+ RPM automatically...
+
+Version 5.5.1
+
+ Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected problems in Download().
+
+ Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
+ - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from
+ compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.
+
+Version 5.5
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
+ - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
+ - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
+ ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
+ buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!
+
+ Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999)
+ - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
+ It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
+ formatted.
+
+ To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
+ the RFC)
+
+ dict://dict.org/m:hello
+ dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex
+
+
+ Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.
+
+Version 5.4
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ (7 Jan 1999)
+ - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress
+ reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on
+ again. This is now corrected!
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If
+ you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file
+ upload.
+
+ I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
+ that.
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it
+ now.
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It
+ should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes.
+
+ - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
+ I redid that now.
+
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