curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
release archive.
-
-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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