History of Changes
+Daniel (11 January 2001)
+- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without
+ having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as
+ -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter
+ options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with
+ space from their parameters.
+
Daniel (8 January 2001)
- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling
curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef
* Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same
host is requested.
- * Improve the command line option parser to accept '-m300' as well as the '-m
- 300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be
- space separated to the next option.
-
* Make the curl tool support URLs that start with @ that would then mean that
the following is a plain list with URLs to download. Thus @filename.txt
reads a list of URLs from a local file. A fancy option would then be to
noticable when there's a resume going on.
* Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time
- stamp as the remote file. This requires some fiddling on FTP but comes
- almost free for HTTP.
+ stamp as the remote file. We already are capable of fetching the remote
+ file's date.
* Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as
an alternative to OpenSSL:
* Make the easy-interface support multiple file transfers. If they're done
to the same host, they should use persistant connections or similar.
+ Figure out a nice design for this.
* Add asynchronous name resolving, as this enables full timeout support for
fork() systems.