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+Daniel (30 December 2000)
+- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
+ as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
+ one major).
+
+Daniel (19 December 2000)
+- Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system
+ and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts
+ that happened when you did PORTed downloads.
+
+- Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *.
+
+Daniel (12 December 2000)
+- Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or
+ hope, or at least I've tried... :-O
+
+- Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem
+
+Version 7.5.1
+
+Daniel (11 December 2000)
+- Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin
+ P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found
+ different newline conventions within the same file.
+
+- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for
+ the SSL stuff.
+
+Daniel (6 December 2000)
+- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when
+ doing SSL connections.
+
+- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with
+ -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it
+ is fixed now.
+
+Daniel (5 December 2000)
+- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland
+ compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with
+ that compiler.
+
+- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL
+ variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need
+ perl in the path for the test suite to run ok.
+
+- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems:
+ * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h
+ since the curl one differed from the SCO one
+ * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction
+ stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need).
+ * A few more problems remain to be researched.
+
+- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet.
+
+Daniel (4 December 2000)
+- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O.
+
+Version 7.5
+
+Daniel (1 December 2000)
+- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should
+ build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too.
+
+- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when
+ releasing new shared library interfaces.
+
+Daniel (30 November 2000)
+- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document
+ actually contains.
+
+Daniel (29 November 2000)
+- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things
+ harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS.
+
+Version 7.5-pre5
+
+Daniel (28 November 2000)
+- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been
+ lagging.
+
+- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
+ libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the
+ set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops.
+
+Daniel (27 November 2000)
+- Added two test cases for file://.
+
+Daniel (22 November 2000)
+- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the
+ modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it
+ involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command
+ which is not in the RFC959)
+
+ curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time
+ after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if
+ the time wasn't possible to get.
+
+ --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header
+ if curl could get the time of the specified file.
+
+- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM
+ file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS
+ connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but
+ others have asked for it before as well.
+
+Daniel (21 November 2000)
+- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight:
+
+ * curl_unescape() could return a too long string
+ * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks
+ * ftp CWD could use bad directory names
+ * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability
+ * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers
+
+- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP.
+
+- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic.
+
+- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp
+ operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now
+ all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl
+ script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run.
+
+Daniel (20 November 2000)
+- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of
+ 4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make
+ life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying
+ but that can be circumvented by using a config file.
+
+ NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location:
+ headers.
+
+- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages.
+
+- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It
+ turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names
+ where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the
+ lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase
+ versions.
+
+Daniel (17 November 2000)
+- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the
+ test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on
+ memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the
+ cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar
+ things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these
+ problems have been removed.
+
+- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and
+ weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now,
+ although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main
+ difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must
+ both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also
+ specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and
+ parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like:
+
+ user-agent = "foobar and something"
+
+ Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're
+ expected to be a single non-space word.
+
+ Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work.
+
+- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes
+ way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config
+ file doesn't work anymore.
+
+Daniel (15 November 2000)
+- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication
+ failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters,
+ and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused
+ passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail.
+
+Version 7.4.2
+
+Daniel (15 November 2000)
+- 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used.
+
+Daniel (14 November 2000)
+- I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled
+ "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE
+ could be assumed to work.
+
+- Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a
+ file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and
+ curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start
+ uploading from the beginning as a normal upload?
+
+Daniel (13 November 2000)
+- Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter.
+
+- While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation
+ that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this
+ immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl.
+
+- Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c
+
+- I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite.
+
+Version 7.4.2 pre4
+
+Daniel (10 November 2000)
+- I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new
+ tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and
+ most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script.
+
+ I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work.
+
+- Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks
+ for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes
+ depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used!
+
+- Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was
+ already uploaded, curl would hang.
+
+- Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the
+ getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have.
+
+- Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected
+ it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com),
+ the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between
+ the set domain length and the current host name.
+
+Daniel (9 November 2000)
+- Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need
+ it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found
+ but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no
+ system that requires those libs to build.
+
+Version 7.4.2 pre3
+
+Daniel (7 November 2000)
+- Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a
+ slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed.
+
+Daniel (6 November 2000)
+- Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in.
+ They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are
+ CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA.
+
+- Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong
+ times when location: headers were followed.
+
+- Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in
+ the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem
+ with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now.
+
+Daniel (2 November 2000)
+- When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was
+ inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got
+ increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous
+ numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end.
+
+Daniel (1 November 2000)
+- Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction()
+ isn't present, we can use signal() instead.
+
+- I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again
+ GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards
+ making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all...
+
+Daniel (31 October 2000)
+- Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and
+ templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms.
+ I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root.
+
+Daniel (30 October 2000)
+- T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to
+ curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer
+ certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option
+ and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote
+ peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the
+ *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about
+ whether the verification succeeded or not.
+
+Daniel (27 October 2000)
+- Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing
+ annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes
+ (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and
+ of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually
+ have the sigaction() function).
+
+Daniel (26 October 2000)
+- Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth
+ that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The
+ getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any
+ static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass()
+ function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe.
+
+- Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the
+ url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote
+ it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now.
+
+- Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was
+ just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't
+ support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d
+ chunk. This enables constructs like the following:
+
+ curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com
+
+Daniel (24 October 2000)
+- I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other
+ systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the
+ memory debugging system.
+
+Daniel (23 October 2000)
+- I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script
+ will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and
+ then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build
+ release-archives.
+
+- Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly
+ enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the
+ -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also
+ suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL
+ so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there...
+
+Daniel (20 October 2000)
+- Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port
+ number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it
+ isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to
+ run one of those nasty servers.
+
+- The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been
+ corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this)
+
+Daniel (17 October 2000)
+- Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They
+ didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test
+ suite...
+
+- I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https://
+ URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this
+ error:
+ "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!"
+
+ I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual
+ problem lies.
+
+Version 7.4.1
+
+Daniel (16 October 2000)
+- I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in
+ the release archive (of course).
+
+Version 7.4
+
+Daniel (16 October 2000)
+- The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th.
+
+Daniel (12 October 2000)
+- Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used
+ by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a
+ few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well.
+
+Daniel (11 October 2000)
+- Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out
+ really useful!
+
+Version 7.4 pre6
+
+Daniel (9 October 2000)
+- Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include
+ file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the
+ public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file.
+
+- Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It
+ didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway.
+
+- Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our
+ libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all
+ platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a
+ local buffer.
+
+- I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header
+ generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more
+ PHP-friendly multi-part posts.
+
+Version 7.4 pre5
+
+Daniel (9 October 2000)
+- Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when
+ using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably
+ introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7.
+
+- Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl.
+ I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log
+ all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze
+ the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak
+ Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup()
+ didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in
+ the CVS respository, not in the release archive.
+
+Daniel (8 October 2000)
+- Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the
+ pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best
+ a memory leak!
+
+Version 7.4 pre4
+
+Daniel (6 October 2000)
+- Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the
+ mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP
+ receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this.
+
+- Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working
+ anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for
+ 7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now...
+
+- Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL
+ stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with
+ -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid!
+
+- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used
+ a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes.
+
+Version 7.4 pre3
+
+Daniel (4 October 2000)
+- More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate,
+ as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to
+ get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP
+ request. T. Bharath requested them.
+
+Daniel (3 October 2000)
+- Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-)
+
+Version 7.4 pre2
+
+Daniel (3 October 2000)
+- Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP
+ requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do
+ this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it
+ this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with
+ curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to
+ fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer
+ to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults
+ are probably mine.
+
+Daniel (2 October 2000)
+- Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the
+ progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer
+ size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter
+ and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to
+ use on a fast one.
+
+ I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to
+ start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes
+ per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It
+ should make the progress meter work better.
+
+Version 7.4 pre1
+
+Daniel (29 September 2000)
+- Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets
+ all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo()
+ function.
+
+- brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and
+ removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get.
+
+Daniel (28 September 2000)
+- Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct
+ the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just
+ released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error
+ is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix
+ release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be
+ available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway.
+
+Version 7.3
+
+Daniel (28 September 2000)
+- Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former
+ base64.[ch] files.
+
+Daniel (26 September 2000)
+- Updated some docs.
+
+- I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted
+ patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones.
+
+Version 7.3-pre8
+
+Daniel (25 September 2000)
+- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and
+ showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly
+ again.
+
+- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative
+ approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie
+ header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed.
+
+- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell
+ you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for
+ nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl
+ tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected.
+
+Daniel (23 September 2000)
+- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload
+ work!
+
+Daniel (21 September 2000)
+- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals
+ that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first!
+
+Daniel (20 September 2000)
+- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this
+ opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer
+ sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use
+ malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a
+ large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like
+ that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness.
+
+- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went
+ as smooth as it could.
+
+- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how
+ to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples
+ further on.
+
+- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the
+ config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word
+ "reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease.
+
+- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4.
+
+- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that
+ I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding
+ functions! ;-)
+
+Version 7.3pre5
+
+Daniel (19 September 2000)
+- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original
+ krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global
+ variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to
+ clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use
+ connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't
+ destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects
+ krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty.
+
+Version 7.3pre3
+
+Daniel (18 September 2000)
+- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to
+ curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did
+ not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere
+ thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours!
+
+- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to
+ the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an
+ outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all
+ platforms. This needs testing.
+
+- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the
+ name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not
+ returning an error even though it failed on some platforms!
+
+Daniel (15 September 2000)
+- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support.
+
+Version 7.3pre2
+
+Daniel (15 September 2000)
+- Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp.
+ Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the
+ pasv message when doing the second connect.
+
+Version 7.3pre1
+
+Daniel (15 September 2000)
+- libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The
+ second connection on ftp needed that.
+
+- TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really
+ bad at times!
+
+Daniel (14 September 2000)
+- -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new
+ CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel
+ through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp.
+
+Daniel (13 September 2000)
+- Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this
+ and mailed the patch to the mailing list.
+
+Daniel (7 September 2000)
+- I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really
+ a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that
+ define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the
+ PHP bug tracker.
+
+- I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage
+ in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to
+ this.
+
+Version 7.2.1
+
+Daniel (31 August 2000)
+- Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to
+ detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?)
+
+- Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the
+ letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and
+ the reason was my lame URL decoder.
+
+- I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected
+ that.
+
+Version 7.2
+
+Daniel (30 August 2000)
+- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they
+ solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the
+ AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this
+ article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a
+ libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking
+ completely.
+
+ So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that
+ fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want
+ to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the
+ following three include files before that one:
+
+ #include <net/if_dl.h>
+ #include <sys/mbuf.h>
+ #include <netinet/if_ether.h>
+
+ Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all
+ the source files that include it?
+
+ Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX
+ login to try everything on.
+
+Daniel (24 August 2000)
+- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one
+ was not up to date but lacked several object files.
+
+- More work on the naming.
+
+- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as
+ some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position
+ for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir...
+
+- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary
+ option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to
+ work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday.
+
+Daniel (23 August 2000)
+- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added
+ when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with
+ it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think
+ I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the
+ file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new
+ *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since
+ libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases.
+
+- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name
+ resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms
+ that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of
+ this.
+
+- The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to
+ Bjorn Reese.
+
+Daniel (21 August 2000)
+- Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to
+ keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting...
+ This needs to be addressed.
+
+Version 7.1.1
+
+Daniel (21 August 2000)
+- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent
+ me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests
+ which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of
+ the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a
+ function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function
+ will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad
+ manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I
+ should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on
+ a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at
+ http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the
+ future as well.
+
+Daniel (18 August 2000)
+- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't
+ think this is the reason for the continued trouble though.
+
+Daniel (17 August 2000)
+- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It
+ should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems.
+
+Daniel (15 August 2000)
+- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well
+ as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before?
+
+- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when
+ used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got
+ screwed up!
+
+Daniel (11 August 2000)
+- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version
+ of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that
+ information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of
+ not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my
+ Linux Redhat installation...
+
+Daniel (10 August 2000)
+- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace
+ the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added
+ the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts
+ using custom Content-Types.
+
+Daniel (8 August 2000)
+- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no
+ user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.
+
+Version 7.1
+
+Daniel (7 August 2000)
+- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker.
+
+- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort
+ of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl.
+
+Daniel (4 August 2000)
+- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms.
+ My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to
+ move an include file before another, as is now described in the source.
+
+ AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r()
+ functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile
+ broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the
+ configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My
+ implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may
+ get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to
+ any system using that.
+
+ For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread
+ to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few
+ functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work
+ although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use
+ libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a
+ thread-safe lib.
+
+- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl.
+
+Daniel (1 August 2000)
+- Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal()
+ that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true
+ function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string
+ comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the
+ now obsolete #define.
+
+- Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's
+ JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range
+ headers.
+
+- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use
+ libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young
+ found out.
+
+Version 7.0.11beta
+
+Daniel (1 August 2000)
+- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create
+ the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as
+ it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories
+ without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in
+ both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level
+ makefile that succeeds in install everything properly!
+
+- Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major
+ flaws added now.
+
+Daniel (31 July 2000)
+- Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one
+ of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank
+ ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a
+ little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new
+ one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any
+ blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header.
+
+Daniel (29 July 2000)
+- It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now
+ I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it.
+
+- I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left
+ names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug
+ reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email
+ addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me
+ working on this.
+
+Daniel (27 July 2000)
+- Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an
+ environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I
+ corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra
+ beta release just for this.
+
+Version 7.0.10beta
+
+Daniel (27 July 2000)
+- So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add
+ the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as
+ symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed
+ on 7.0.9...
+
+Version 7.0.9beta
+
+Daniel (25 July 2000)
+- Kristian Köhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl
+ libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the
+ recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some
+ other nice cleanups.
+
+- In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a
+ page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another
+ server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that
+ server as well.
+
+ Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect
+ and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several
+ fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at
+ least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which
+ means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl
+ to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards
+ curl back to server A again, the password will be used again.
+
+ This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use
+ the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think
+ that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole".
+
+ As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and
+ will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that.
+
+- As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading
+ function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!)
+ if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a
+ default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I
+ don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to
+ get received...
+
+- Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for
+ the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to
+ suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from
+ 'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded
+ contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or
+ textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used
+ %s or similar in a -F file name.
+
+- As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring
+ files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be
+ the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very
+ well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size
+ may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing
+ ASCII transfers in FTP.
+
+Daniel (24 July 2000)
+- Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy
+ port number to be set separately from the proxy host name.
+
+- Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug.
+
+- The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously
+ accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at
+ evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out.
+
+- The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in
+ when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was
+ discovered by Rich Gray.
+
+- Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in
+ curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory.
+
+- Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not
+ properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should
+ now have been fixed.
+
+- HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing
+ problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash.
+ Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering
+ and suggesting a fix...
+
+Daniel (21 June 2000)
+- After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a
+ HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some
+ checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request
+ command, no matter what the user wants! ;-)
+
+Version 7.0.8beta
+
+Daniel (20 June 2000)
+- I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se
+ instead of the previous one.
+
+- As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer
+ makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has
+ been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only
+ interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time.
+
+ While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto
+ referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or
+ only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the
+ previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding
+ document.
+
+- My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only
+ when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It
+ turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that
+ didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as
+ it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O
+
+Version 7.0.7beta
+
+Daniel (16 June 2000)
+- I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar
+ stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the
+ recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like
+ before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at
+ the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This
+ code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour!
+ ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed
+ this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE
+ from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it
+ will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also
+ will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of
+ getting the writeout data and move that too to the client).
+
+- I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I
+ found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well.
+
+Daniel (15 June 2000)
+- I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of
+ course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover
+ corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used
+ this feature with v7?
+
+- Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in
+ v7. Hm.
+
+Daniel (14 June 2000)
+- Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it
+ should. I corrected this.
+
+Version 7.0.6beta
+
+Daniel (14 June 2000)
+- Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling):
+ lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32)
+ src/main.c had several minor problems
+ lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice
+ src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define
+ both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the
+ define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32
+ to set it.
+
+Version 7.0.5beta
+
+Daniel (14 June 2000)
+- Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems.
+
+- Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to
+ binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option
+ is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was
+ already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The
+ libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now
+ obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32
+ compiler around.
+
+Daniel (13 June 2000)
+- Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup()
+ since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected.
+
+Daniel (9 June 2000)
+- Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file.
+
+Daniel (8 June 2000)
+- So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it
+ should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it
+ right now.
+- Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just
+ in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers.
+- Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly.
+
+Version 7.0.4beta
+
+Daniel (2 June 2000)
+- I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all
+ but the first request.
+- Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic
+ curl_slist.
+- Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c
+
+Version 7.0.3beta
+
+Daniel (31 May 2000)
+- So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to
+ compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to
+ feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add
+ a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly.
+
+Version 7.0.2beta
+
+Daniel (29 May 2000)
+- Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only
+ toggles one of those bits.
+
+- Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add
+ usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around,
+ since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as
+ solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script.
+
+ I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my
+ Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now.
+
+Daniel (22 May 2000)
+- Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as
+ well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems
+ to be reserved in some gcc versions!
+
+- Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX
+ needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined.
+ More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work.
+
+Version 7.0.1beta
+
+Daniel (21 May 2000)
+- Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No
+ more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl-
+ prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former
+ curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate
+ setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is
+ now using that.
+
+- Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan
+ to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name
+ lookups.
+
+Version 7.0beta
+
+Daniel (18 May 2000)
+- Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow
+ source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to
+ a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and
+ patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also
+ makes a larger number a newer version.
+
+Daniel (17 May 2000)
+- Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range
+ option. I corrected them.
+- Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file
+ in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for
+ multithreaded purposes.
+
+Daniel (16 May 2000)
+- Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7.
+ There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken.
+ <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use.
+
+Daniel (14 May 2000)
+- FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738.
+- FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change
+ directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with
+ Rich Gray made me notice these problems.
+- Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the
+ src/usrglob.c file.
+- I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string
+ compares on all platforms.
+
+Daniel (8 May 2000):
+- Been working lots on the new lib.
+- Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work
+ better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix.
+
+Daniel (2 May 2000):
+- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in
+ configure.in that didn't do any good.
+
+Daniel (24 April 2000):
+- Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't
+ find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison
+
+Daniel (12 April 2000):
+- Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a
+ better one...
+
+Daniel (8 April 2000):
+- Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes
+ and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM.
+- I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user
+ agent string. It does now.
+- Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs
+ on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves
+ the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to
+ build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm
+ package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build
+ a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM?
+- Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l
+ on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native
+ cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been
+ reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It
+ is a pity there's no newer release around...
+
+Daniel (4 April 2000):
+- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that
+ appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs.
+
+Daniel (2 April 2000):
+- Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then
+ followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved.
+
+Daniel (27 March 2000):
+- H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly
+ messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy,
+ which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings.
+
+Daniel (23 March 2000):
+- Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he
+ actually already told me about!
+
+- H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl
+ ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
+ happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...
+
+Daniel (22 March 2000):
+- Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME
+ was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been.
+ The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6
+ makefile for MS VC++.
+
+Daniel (21 March 2000):
+- I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that
+ one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne
+ Johansson made me aware of this.
+
+Version 6.5.2
+
+Daniel (21 March 2000):
+- Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
+ crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
+ the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
+
+Version 6.5.1
+
+Daniel (20 March 2000):
+- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
+ overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
+ problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
+ single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
+ Johansson).
+
+Daniel (19 March 2000):
+- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches
+ that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in
+ the INSTALL file. Very nice job!
+
+Daniel (17 March 2000):
+- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
+ file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
+ VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
+ existence.
+
+Daniel (15 March 2000):
+- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
+ to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D
+ on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies
+ in that one single file.
+
+- Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff.
+ Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32
+ stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now).
+
+- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
+ Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
+
+Daniel (14 March 2000):
+- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
+ was never written. I fixed it now.
+
+- Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does
+ when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included
+ instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in
+ the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h.
+
+Version 6.5
+
+Daniel (13 March 2000):
+- <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a
+ single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what
+ the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to
+ perhaps make them work better.
+
+- Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl
+ script needs it!
+
+- Made some beautifications in the curl man page.
+
+Daniel (3 March 2000):
+- Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and
+ HAVE_STRDUP.
+
+Daniel (3 March 2000):
+- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
+
+Daniel (2 March 2000):
+- Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people
+ happy and I'll still keep them available on the web.
+
+- Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter
+ display in README.curl.
+
+- Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf
+ Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
+ fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
+ 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
+ thing).
+
+- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
+ Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
+ every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net>
+ suggested this.
+
+- Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix.
+
+Daniel (24 February 2000):
+- Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32.
+
+ I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using
+ the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %-
+ letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should
+ use another letter instead!
+
+- Added more variables to -w:
+
+ 'http_code'
+ 'time_namelookup'
+ 'time_connect'
+ 'time_pretransfer'
+ 'url_effective'
+
+- Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from
+ stdin in the good old "standard" curl way.
+
+Daniel (22 February 2000):
+- Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback.
+
+Daniel (21 February 2000):
+
+- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
+ single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
+ completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
+ they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
+ exist as of this moment are:
+
+ total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
+ size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes
+ size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes
+ speed_download - the average speed of the entire download
+ speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload
+
+ I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others.
+
+- It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new
+ progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re-
+ introduced! :-/
+
+Daniel (16 February 2000):
+- Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued
+ working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download
+ and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good.
+
+- Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface.
+
+- Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next.
+
+Daniel (15 February 2000):
+- The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it
+ is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly!
+
+Daniel (11 February 2000):
+- Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to
+ deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.
+
+- Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
+ is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
+ similarly reads the cookies from stdin.
+
+- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
+ -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
+
+- Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
+
+- Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the
+ cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
+ the server.
+
+Daniel (8 February 2000):
+ - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that
+ prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do
+ with the difference in sprintf() return code types.
+
+ - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's
+ do some progress meter fixes later this week.
+
+Daniel (31 January 2000):
+ - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie
+ parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
+ that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
+ what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.
+
+ RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
+ compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...
+
+ - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form
+ to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
+ since the socket "pipe" becomes full.
+
+ It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
+ single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
+ of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
+ and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
+
+ - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
+ although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
+ with fixing anything.
+
+ - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume
+ support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
+ I'll work on it.
+
+Daniel (25 January 2000):
+ - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was
+ corrected.
+
+ - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile
+ curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
+ by Jörn's recent #include modifications!
+
+Daniel (19 January 2000):
+ - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem
+ in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
+ different protocol to fail.
+
+ At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
+ could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
+ again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
+ on server not running on default ports.)
+
+ - Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again
+ made it possible to select progress bar.
+
+ - Jörn also fixed a few include problems.
+
+Version 6.4
+
+Daniel (17 January 2000):
+ - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the
+ progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
+ the time spent on the download so far.
+ - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
+ browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.
+
+Daniel (10 January 2000):
+ - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
+ - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
+ quote commands.
+ - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
+ that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
+ course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
+ downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
+ - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
+ install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
+ on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
+ better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
+ - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
+ - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
+ 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
+ flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
+ and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
+
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