History of Changes
+Daniel (7 February 2001)
+- SM found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that could make
+ libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if libcurl got -1
+ returned when reading the socket.
+
+- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
+ results from the proxy connection.
+
+Daniel (6 February 2001)
+- A friendly person named "SM" (nntp at iname.com) pointed out that the VC
+ makefile in src/ needed the libpath set for the debug build to work.
+
+- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
+ brought up yesterday.
+
Daniel (5 February 2001)
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
a bunch of different areas within libcurl.
- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
+ How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone?
Daniel (4 February 2001)
- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
- size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well.
+ size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
+ was done after discussions with Bob Schader.
Daniel (3 February 2001)
- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
Daniel (31 January 2001)
- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
- be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was
- a possibility to weird behaviour all over.
+ be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
+ possibility to weird behaviour all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
+ find this.
- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
curl telnet://remote.server.com
And enter the data to pass to the server on stdin. The result will be sent
- stdout or to the file you specify with -o.
+ to stdout or to the file you specify with -o.
You might want the -N/--no-buffer option to switch off the buffered output
- for slow connections or if the output from the remote site is slow and/or
- without newlines.
+ for slow connections or similar.
NOTE: the telnet protocol does not specify any way to login with a specified
- user and password and thus curl can't do that automatically. To do that, you
- need to track when the login prompt is received and send the username and
+ user and password so curl can't do that automatically. To do that, you need
+ to track when the login prompt is received and send the username and
password accordingly.
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