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History of Changes
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Daniel (30 October 2000)
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- T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to
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curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer
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certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option
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and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote
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peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the
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*_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about
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whether the verification succeeded or not.
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Daniel (27 October 2000)
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- Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing
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annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes
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(which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and
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of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually
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have the sigaction() function).
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Daniel (26 October 2000)
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- Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth
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that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The
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getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any
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static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass()
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function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe.
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- Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the
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url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote
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it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now.
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- Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was
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just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't
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support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d
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chunk. This enables constructs like the following:
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curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com
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Daniel (24 October 2000)
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- I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other
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systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the
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memory debugging system.
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Daniel (23 October 2000)
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- I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script
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will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and
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then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build
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release-archives.
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- Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly
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enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the
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-u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also
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suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL
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so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there...
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Daniel (20 October 2000)
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- Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port
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number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it
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isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to
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run one of those nasty servers.
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- The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been
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corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this)
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Daniel (17 October 2000)
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- Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They
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didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test
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suite...
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- I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https://
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URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this
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error:
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"libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!"
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I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual
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problem lies.
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Version 7.4.1
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Daniel (16 October 2000)
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- I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in
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the release archive (of course).
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Version 7.4
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Daniel (16 October 2000)
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- The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th.
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Daniel (12 October 2000)
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- Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used
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by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a
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few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well.
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Daniel (11 October 2000)
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- Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out
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really useful!
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Version 7.4 pre6
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Daniel (9 October 2000)
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- Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include
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file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the
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public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file.
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- Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It
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didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway.
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- Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our
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libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all
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platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a
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local buffer.
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- I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header
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generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more
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PHP-friendly multi-part posts.
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Version 7.4 pre5
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Daniel (9 October 2000)
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- Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when
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using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably
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introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7.
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- Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl.
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I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log
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all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze
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the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak
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Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup()
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didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in
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the CVS respository, not in the release archive.
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Daniel (8 October 2000)
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- Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the
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pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best
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a memory leak!
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Version 7.4 pre4
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Daniel (6 October 2000)
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- Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the
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mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP
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receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this.
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- Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working
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anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for
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7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now...
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- Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL
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stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with
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-I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid!
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- Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used
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a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes.
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Version 7.4 pre3
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Daniel (4 October 2000)
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- More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate,
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as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to
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get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP
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request. T. Bharath requested them.
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Daniel (3 October 2000)
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- Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-)
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Version 7.4 pre2
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Daniel (3 October 2000)
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- Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP
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requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do
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this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it
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this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with
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curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to
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fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer
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to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults
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are probably mine.
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Daniel (2 October 2000)
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- Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the
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progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer
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size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter
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and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to
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use on a fast one.
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I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to
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start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes
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per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It
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should make the progress meter work better.
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Version 7.4 pre1
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Daniel (29 September 2000)
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- Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets
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all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo()
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function.
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- brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and
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removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get.
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Daniel (28 September 2000)
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- Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct
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the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just
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released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error
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is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix
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release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be
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available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway.
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Version 7.3
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Daniel (28 September 2000)
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- Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former
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base64.[ch] files.
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Daniel (26 September 2000)
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- Updated some docs.
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- I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted
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patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones.
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Version 7.3-pre8
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Daniel (25 September 2000)
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- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and
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showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly
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again.
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- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative
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approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie
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header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed.
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- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell
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you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for
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nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl
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tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected.
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Daniel (23 September 2000)
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- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload
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work!
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Daniel (21 September 2000)
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- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals
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that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first!
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Daniel (20 September 2000)
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- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this
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opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer
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sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use
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malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a
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large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like
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that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness.
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- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went
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as smooth as it could.
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- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how
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to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples
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further on.
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- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the
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config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word
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"reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease.
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- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4.
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- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that
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I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding
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functions! ;-)
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Version 7.3pre5
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Daniel (19 September 2000)
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- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original
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krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global
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variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to
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clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use
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connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't
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destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects
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krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty.
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Version 7.3pre3
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Daniel (18 September 2000)
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- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to
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curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did
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not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere
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thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours!
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- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to
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the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an
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outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all
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platforms. This needs testing.
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- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the
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name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not
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returning an error even though it failed on some platforms!
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Daniel (15 September 2000)
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- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support.
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Version 7.3pre2
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Daniel (15 September 2000)
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- Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp.
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Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the
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pasv message when doing the second connect.
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Version 7.3pre1
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Daniel (15 September 2000)
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- libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The
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second connection on ftp needed that.
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- TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really
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bad at times!
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Daniel (14 September 2000)
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- -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new
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CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel
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through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp.
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Daniel (13 September 2000)
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- Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this
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and mailed the patch to the mailing list.
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Daniel (7 September 2000)
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- I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really
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a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that
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define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the
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PHP bug tracker.
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- I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage
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in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to
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this.
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Version 7.2.1
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Daniel (31 August 2000)
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- Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to
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detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?)
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- Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the
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letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and
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the reason was my lame URL decoder.
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- I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected
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that.
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Version 7.2
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Daniel (30 August 2000)
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- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they
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solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the
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AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this
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article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a
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libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking
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completely.
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So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that
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fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want
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to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the
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following three include files before that one:
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#include <net/if_dl.h>
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#include <sys/mbuf.h>
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#include <netinet/if_ether.h>
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Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all
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the source files that include it?
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Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX
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login to try everything on.
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Daniel (24 August 2000)
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- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one
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was not up to date but lacked several object files.
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- More work on the naming.
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- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as
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some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position
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for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir...
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- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary
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option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to
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work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday.
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Daniel (23 August 2000)
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- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added
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when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with
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it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think
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I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the
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file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new
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*setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since
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libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases.
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- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name
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resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms
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that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of
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this.
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- The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to
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Bjorn Reese.
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Daniel (21 August 2000)
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- Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to
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keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting...
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This needs to be addressed.
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Version 7.1.1
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Daniel (21 August 2000)
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- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent
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me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests
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which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of
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the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a
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function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function
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will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad
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manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I
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should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on
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a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at
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http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the
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future as well.
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Daniel (18 August 2000)
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- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't
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think this is the reason for the continued trouble though.
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Daniel (17 August 2000)
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- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It
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should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems.
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Daniel (15 August 2000)
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- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well
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as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before?
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- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when
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used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got
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screwed up!
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Daniel (11 August 2000)
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- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version
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of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that
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information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of
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not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my
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Linux Redhat installation...
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Daniel (10 August 2000)
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- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace
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the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added
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the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts
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using custom Content-Types.
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Daniel (8 August 2000)
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- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no
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user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.
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Version 7.1
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Daniel (7 August 2000)
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- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker.
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|
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- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort
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of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl.
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Daniel (4 August 2000)
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- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms.
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My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to
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move an include file before another, as is now described in the source.
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AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r()
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functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile
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broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the
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configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My
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implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may
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get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to
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any system using that.
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For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread
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|
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
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|
thread-safe lib.
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|
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- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl.
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Daniel (1 August 2000)
|
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- 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
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comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the
|
|
now obsolete #define.
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|
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- 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.
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|
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- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use
|
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libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young
|
|
found out.
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Version 7.0.11beta
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Daniel (1 August 2000)
|
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- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create
|
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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!
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|
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- Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major
|
|
flaws added now.
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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.
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|
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.
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|
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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.
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|
|
Version 7.0.10beta
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|
|
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...
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|
|
|
Version 7.0.9beta
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|
|
|
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!
|
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Daniel (17 March 2000):
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- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
|
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file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
|
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VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
|
|
existence.
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Daniel (15 March 2000):
|
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- 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.
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|
|
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- 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).
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|
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- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
|
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Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
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|
|
|
Daniel (14 March 2000):
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|
- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
|
|
was never written. I fixed it now.
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|
|
|
- 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.
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|
|
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Version 6.5
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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!
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|
|
|
- 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.
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|
|
Daniel (3 March 2000):
|
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- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
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|
|
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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.
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|
|
- 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!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 December 1999):
|
|
- Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl
|
|
doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
|
|
problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
|
|
that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
|
|
the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
|
|
translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
|
|
the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 December 1999):
|
|
- When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
|
|
data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
|
|
in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 December 1999):
|
|
- General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
|
|
added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
|
|
both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (3 December 1999):
|
|
- A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen...
|
|
|
|
- who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
|
|
well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
|
|
only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).
|
|
|
|
Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999):
|
|
- Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!
|
|
|
|
- Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
|
|
different directories than the sources.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.3.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (23 November 1999):
|
|
- I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
|
|
along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
|
|
things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
|
|
server!
|
|
|
|
- Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling
|
|
that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
|
|
was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...
|
|
|
|
- Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
|
|
download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
|
|
entire download was completed. It does now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 November 1999):
|
|
- Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of
|
|
return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
|
|
occurrences and corrected this.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 November 1999):
|
|
- Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
|
|
doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
|
|
any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
|
|
when the timeout is reached.
|
|
|
|
- Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
|
|
why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 November 1999):
|
|
- I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
|
|
a plain http header file as input...
|
|
|
|
Version 6.3
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 November 1999):
|
|
- I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
|
|
respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
|
|
again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
|
|
section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
|
|
my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
|
|
is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).
|
|
|
|
- After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page
|
|
to better describe how the -F works.
|
|
|
|
- Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in
|
|
China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/
|
|
|
|
- I added the list of download mirrors to the README file
|
|
|
|
- I did add more explanations to the man page
|
|
|
|
Daniel (8 November 1999):
|
|
- I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
|
|
files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
|
|
transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 October 1999):
|
|
- Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
|
|
but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
|
|
FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
|
|
it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
|
|
be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
|
|
--range switch (previously HTTP-only).
|
|
|
|
- Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be
|
|
able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
|
|
idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
|
|
this manner:
|
|
Content-Length: XXXX
|
|
As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
|
|
info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
|
|
makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
|
|
file size the same way.
|
|
|
|
I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
|
|
just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
|
|
quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
|
|
|
|
- I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
|
|
the man page.
|
|
|
|
- Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
|
|
some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
|
|
the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti.
|
|
|
|
- I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
|
|
man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
|
|
reported and brought the suggestion.
|
|
|
|
- In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came
|
|
up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
|
|
internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
|
|
that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
|
|
obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
|
|
the one curl would set.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (27 October 1999):
|
|
- Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following
|
|
a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to
|
|
get the core.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.2
|
|
|
|
Daniel (21 October 1999):
|
|
- I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
|
|
before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
|
|
- I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
|
|
having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
|
|
when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
|
|
URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
|
|
such as curl has.)
|
|
- Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
|
|
with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
|
|
that occurred after the download was done and completed.
|
|
- Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
|
|
to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
|
|
the multiple URL support.
|
|
- Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't
|
|
honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are
|
|
case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan
|
|
also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty
|
|
of editing slightly.
|
|
- Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
|
|
the Mac OS X
|
|
- Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
|
|
to fail on OS X.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 October 1999):
|
|
- Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a
|
|
crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added
|
|
--stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a
|
|
file or stdout.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (18 October 1999):
|
|
- The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
|
|
totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
|
|
the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
|
|
been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 October 1999):
|
|
- I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
|
|
script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
|
|
thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
|
|
uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
|
|
more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
|
|
until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
|
|
adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a
|
|
short a summary is suitable:
|
|
- zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
|
|
decompression methods.
|
|
- zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
|
|
although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
|
|
want it.
|
|
- there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
|
|
a file descriptor if that is a socket
|
|
|
|
Daniel (14 October 1999):
|
|
- Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
|
|
curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
|
|
better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 October 1999):
|
|
- I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
|
|
archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
|
|
hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 October 1999):
|
|
- Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
|
|
some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
|
|
the man page.
|
|
|
|
Version 6.1beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 October 1999):
|
|
- Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I
|
|
just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named
|
|
file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a
|
|
given file:
|
|
|
|
curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com
|
|
|
|
or let curl read it out from stdin:
|
|
|
|
curl -d @- www.postit.com
|
|
|
|
Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
|
|
- Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
|
|
separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
|
|
used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".
|
|
|
|
Daniel
|
|
- Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 September 1999):
|
|
- Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work
|
|
out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default
|
|
dirs.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (28 September 1999)
|
|
- Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
|
|
or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
|
|
it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
|
|
download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
|
|
documents so that I can test this out properly.
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|
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- As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
|
|
a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.
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Daniel (17 September 1999)
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- Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
|
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of file name, the data will be read from stdin.
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|
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Version 6.0
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Daniel (13 September 1999)
|
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- Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
|
|
Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
|
|
should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.
|
|
|
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- Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.
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|
|
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Daniel (10 September 1999)
|
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- Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP
|
|
servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It
|
|
took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as
|
|
OK.
|
|
|
|
- Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
|
|
turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
|
|
cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
|
|
doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).
|
|
|
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Daniel (8 September 1999)
|
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- Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.
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Daniel (7 September 1999)
|
|
- FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
|
|
Stefan Kanthak.
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|
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- Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.
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|
|
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Daniel (3 September 1999)
|
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- Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.
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|
|
|
Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999)
|
|
- Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
|
|
library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
|
|
directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
|
|
ldap:// URL.
|
|
|
|
Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999)
|
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- Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
|
|
- Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
|
|
performance reasons.
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|
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Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999)
|
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- Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.
|
|
|
|
Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999)
|
|
- Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
|
|
root dir of the openssl installation, as in
|
|
|
|
./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here
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|
|
- Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.
|
|
|
|
Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999)
|
|
- Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
|
|
compiles.
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|
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Version 5.11
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|
Daniel (25 August 1999)
|
|
- John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line
|
|
realloc() system in download.c.
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|
|
|
- I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
|
|
probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
|
|
as a start.
|
|
|
|
- Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
|
|
used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
|
|
changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
|
|
first.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (17 August 1999)
|
|
- Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
|
|
original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
|
|
again.
|
|
|
|
- Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
|
|
them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
|
|
not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas
|
|
E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 August 1999)
|
|
- Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
|
|
page. Nusu's page showed this too.
|
|
|
|
- Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
|
|
used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
|
|
should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
|
|
painfully visible...
|
|
|
|
Troy (15 August 1999)
|
|
- Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
|
|
configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
|
|
files are in /usr/include/openssl
|
|
|
|
Version 5.10
|
|
|
|
Daniel (13 August 1999)
|
|
- SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
|
|
OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
|
|
modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
|
|
a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
|
|
to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
|
|
|
|
- Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
|
|
|
|
Troy (12 August 1999)
|
|
- Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
|
|
a bit rearranged.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (12 August 1999)
|
|
- I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
|
|
tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
|
|
allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.
|
|
|
|
- I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
|
|
-Wall -pedantic was used.
|
|
|
|
- I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
|
|
will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
|
|
The old one still works and shows the same info.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (11 August 1999)
|
|
- Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
|
|
configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 August 1999)
|
|
- Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as
|
|
some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under
|
|
HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate
|
|
yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new,
|
|
we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it
|
|
still compiles there.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 August 1999)
|
|
- I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
|
|
around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
|
|
brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
|
|
about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.
|
|
|
|
To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
|
|
<address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
|
|
libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl
|
|
talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
|
|
started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
|
|
www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.
|
|
|
|
- Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure
|
|
script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under
|
|
Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!
|
|
|
|
- Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present
|
|
in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...
|
|
|
|
- Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet
|
|
support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on
|
|
the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and
|
|
run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little
|
|
weird output.
|
|
|
|
This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
|
|
feed-back and input in how this is best done.
|
|
|
|
WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
|
|
lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.
|
|
|
|
- David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be
|
|
defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the
|
|
configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 August 1999)
|
|
- I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
|
|
which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
|
|
servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
|
|
some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
|
|
hope you report if you have problems with this!
|
|
|
|
- Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (2 August 1999)
|
|
- Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers
|
|
a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar.
|
|
|
|
T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
|
|
- It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
|
|
username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
|
|
another location (option '-L').
|
|
|
|
There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
|
|
tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
|
|
argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
|
|
CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
|
|
checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
|
|
redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.9.1
|
|
|
|
Daniel (30 July 1999)
|
|
- Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata
|
|
functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to
|
|
correct this flaw.
|
|
|
|
- Mark Wotton reported:
|
|
'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by
|
|
correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
|
|
0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
|
|
don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.
|
|
|
|
- Marcus Klein:
|
|
Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
|
|
I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (29 July 1999)
|
|
- Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location:
|
|
and I could only agree and fix it!
|
|
|
|
- Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out
|
|
that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter
|
|
when supposed to.
|
|
|
|
- Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If
|
|
you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a
|
|
standard port number, curl still used that first port number.
|
|
|
|
- Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION
|
|
and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on
|
|
the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any
|
|
html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if
|
|
CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.
|
|
|
|
- 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
|
|
Beckmann).
|
|
|
|
- Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the
|
|
latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now
|
|
in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
|
|
option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
|
|
leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 June 1999)
|
|
- I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
|
|
I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 June 1999)
|
|
- I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
|
|
with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
|
|
something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
|
|
and Mark Butler brought a solution for it.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 May 1999)
|
|
- Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
|
|
README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann.
|
|
|
|
- I also updated the INSTALL text.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (25 May 1999)
|
|
- David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal
|
|
with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl
|
|
-F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.9
|
|
|
|
Daniel (22 May 1999)
|
|
- I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some
|
|
problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug
|
|
report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms
|
|
when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
|
|
and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (20 May 1999)
|
|
- Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (19 May 1999)
|
|
- Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread()
|
|
function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel
|
|
helped me out isolating it.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (16 May 1999)
|
|
- Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't
|
|
work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.
|
|
|
|
- After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl
|
|
to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was
|
|
used.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (10 May 1999)
|
|
- I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
|
|
files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
|
|
layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
|
|
future!
|
|
|
|
- Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl
|
|
archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a
|
|
debian package that I've made available for download at the web page
|
|
|
|
Daniel (9 May 1999)
|
|
- Made it compile on cygwin too.
|
|
|
|
Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
|
|
- Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
|
|
again!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (6 May 1999)
|
|
- I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
|
|
will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
|
|
can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
|
|
too.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.8
|
|
|
|
Daniel (5 May 1999)
|
|
- I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
|
|
for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
|
|
there are problems all over.
|
|
|
|
I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
|
|
week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at
|
|
hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this.
|
|
|
|
Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
|
|
generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
|
|
can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
|
|
before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
|
|
a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (4 May 1999)
|
|
- mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
|
|
the regexes.
|
|
|
|
- I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
|
|
I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
|
|
curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
|
|
in:
|
|
|
|
curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html
|
|
|
|
This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
|
|
I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
|
|
there may depend on that the file is always touched...
|
|
|
|
- Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.
|
|
|
|
- Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send
|
|
"If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it
|
|
right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date
|
|
expression or a file name to get the date from!
|
|
|
|
Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999)
|
|
- Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
|
|
isn't set and causes the make to fail.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (26 April 1999)
|
|
- Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version
|
|
number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug
|
|
in my maketgz script!
|
|
|
|
David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999)
|
|
- Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.7.1
|
|
|
|
Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999)
|
|
- Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
|
|
below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h
|
|
|
|
- Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
|
|
INSTALL file.
|
|
|
|
Daniel
|
|
- New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
|
|
README file
|
|
|
|
Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999)
|
|
- hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
|
|
It needs an #include <sys/types.h>
|
|
|
|
Version 5.7
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
|
|
- Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!
|
|
|
|
- Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
|
|
simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!
|
|
|
|
- Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
|
|
start.
|
|
|
|
Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999)
|
|
- Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.6.3beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Apr 12 1999)
|
|
|
|
- Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
|
|
in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
|
|
try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?
|
|
|
|
- The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!
|
|
|
|
- I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
|
|
much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
|
|
should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
|
|
talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
|
|
start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
|
|
use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
|
|
want such a crippled solution.
|
|
|
|
- Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the
|
|
"Curr.Speed" progress meter.
|
|
|
|
- Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from
|
|
stdin.
|
|
|
|
- I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Apr 9 1999)
|
|
- Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at
|
|
all! ;-O
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Apr 6 1999)
|
|
- Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.
|
|
|
|
- I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
|
|
previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
|
|
some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
|
|
best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!
|
|
|
|
Version 5.6.2beta
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Apr 4 1999)
|
|
- Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
|
|
it works.
|
|
To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
|
|
format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
|
|
-b flag like:
|
|
|
|
curl -b file http://site/foo.html
|
|
|
|
Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
|
|
a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
|
|
following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".
|
|
|
|
To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
|
|
sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
|
|
to start with no existing cookies), like:
|
|
|
|
curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html
|
|
|
|
- Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
|
|
reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.
|
|
|
|
- Better "Location:" following.
|
|
|
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Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
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- A subsecond display patch.
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|
|
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Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
|
|
- I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
|
|
things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
|
|
5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
|
|
set for libcurl.
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|
|
|
- Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
|
|
that.
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|
|
|
- Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
|
|
win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
|
|
Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
|
|
INSTALL for details.
|
|
|
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- Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
|
|
server while remaining connected.
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|
|
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Version 5.6beta
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|
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Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
|
|
- Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the
|
|
suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing
|
|
HTTP headers separately in the specified file.
|
|
|
|
- Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.
|
|
|
|
- Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
|
|
in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
|
|
- Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
|
|
and smaller size.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
|
|
- Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
|
|
curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
|
|
the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
|
|
before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.
|
|
|
|
libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
|
|
the lib functions though.
|
|
|
|
The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
|
|
about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Mar 1 1999)
|
|
- Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the
|
|
info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the
|
|
README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
|
|
- Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
|
|
in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...
|
|
|
|
Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
|
|
- Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
|
|
the most recent.
|
|
|
|
Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999)
|
|
- Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
|
|
RPM automatically...
|
|
|
|
Version 5.5.1
|
|
|
|
Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Corrected problems in Download().
|
|
|
|
Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from
|
|
compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.5
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
|
|
- <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
|
|
ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
|
|
buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!
|
|
|
|
Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999)
|
|
- I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
|
|
It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
|
|
formatted.
|
|
|
|
To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
|
|
the RFC)
|
|
|
|
dict://dict.org/m:hello
|
|
dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.4
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
(7 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress
|
|
reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on
|
|
again. This is now corrected!
|
|
|
|
(4 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If
|
|
you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file
|
|
upload.
|
|
|
|
I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
|
|
that.
|
|
|
|
(4 Jan 1999)
|
|
- Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it
|
|
now.
|
|
|
|
(4 Jan 1999)
|
|
- As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It
|
|
should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes.
|
|
|
|
- Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
|
|
I redid that now.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.3a (win32 only)
|
|
|
|
Troy Engel
|
|
- Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.3
|
|
|
|
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998)
|
|
- I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to
|
|
send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote
|
|
command-line arguments.
|
|
|
|
You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in
|
|
order. This is what I use for my MVS upload:
|
|
|
|
curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test
|
|
|
|
Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order.
|
|
|
|
- Made it compile smoothly on AIX.
|
|
|
|
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (18 Dec 1998)
|
|
- Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server.
|
|
|
|
Troy Engel (17 Dec 1998)
|
|
- Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung, caused curl to crash on the -A
|
|
flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems should've!
|
|
|
|
- Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _
|
|
instead of . and \ instead of / in win32).
|
|
|
|
- steve <fisk at polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the
|
|
ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size)
|
|
info. I hope it works better now!
|
|
|
|
Version 5.2.1
|
|
|
|
Steven G. Johnson (Dec 14, 1998)
|
|
- Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the
|
|
environment variables.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.2
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998)
|
|
- Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the
|
|
hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using
|
|
both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man
|
|
page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c
|
|
file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times
|
|
anyway.
|
|
|
|
- gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char'
|
|
if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to
|
|
int. So I did to compile warning free with that too.
|
|
|
|
- Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I
|
|
need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long
|
|
comforming systems!
|
|
|
|
Version 5.1 (not publicly released)
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998)
|
|
- I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone?
|
|
|
|
- Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl
|
|
now reads and understands the following environment variables:
|
|
|
|
HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY
|
|
|
|
They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be
|
|
set with
|
|
|
|
ALL_PROXY
|
|
|
|
And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any
|
|
proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts).
|
|
|
|
NO_PROXY
|
|
|
|
The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.
|
|
|
|
- Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix.
|
|
|
|
- Wrote the curl.1 man page.
|
|
|
|
- Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is
|
|
based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully,
|
|
there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now.
|
|
|
|
- Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under
|
|
solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok.
|
|
|
|
Oren Tirosh (Dec 3, 1998)
|
|
- Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM
|
|
packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec.
|
|
|
|
Troy Engel
|
|
- Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.0
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998)
|
|
- Not a single bug report in ages.
|
|
- Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the
|
|
Win32 VC++ crap.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.0 beta 24
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998)
|
|
|
|
HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE:
|
|
|
|
* Pre-requisite software:
|
|
What To build what Reads data from
|
|
==== ============= ===============
|
|
GNU automake Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 configure.in
|
|
GNU make(1) - " -
|
|
GNU gcc(1) - " -
|
|
GNU autoconf configure configure.in
|
|
GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in configure.in, acconfig.h
|
|
|
|
* Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES.
|
|
|
|
* Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive.
|
|
|
|
maketgz does:
|
|
|
|
- Enters the newly created version number in url.h.
|
|
- (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless
|
|
you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.)
|
|
If you have it, it'll run it.
|
|
- If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly
|
|
created version number and autoconf will be run.
|
|
- Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base
|
|
name of the current directory up to the first '-'.)
|
|
- Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving
|
|
permissions and directory structure.
|
|
- Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz
|
|
- gzips the archive
|
|
- Removes the new directory and all its contents.
|
|
|
|
* When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named
|
|
curl-<version>.tar.gz.
|
|
|
|
Done!
|
|
|
|
(1) They're required to make automake run properly.
|
|
(2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998)
|
|
- I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in
|
|
another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this
|
|
new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different
|
|
variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves
|
|
to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler!
|
|
- Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now.
|
|
- Brian Chaplin reported yet another problem in
|
|
multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new
|
|
version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback!
|
|
- Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes
|
|
an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one.
|
|
- Mailing list opened (see README).
|
|
- Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells
|
|
host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section
|
|
about PORT vs PASV in the README.
|
|
|
|
Version 5.0 beta 21
|
|
|
|
Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998)
|
|
- Introduced automake stuff.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998)
|
|
- Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own
|
|
private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM
|
|
format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by
|
|
downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site
|
|
at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can
|
|
convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format. Use
|
|
it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'. If this isn't a
|
|
cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-)
|
|
- Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out.
|
|
(curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do
|
|
have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must
|
|
be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to
|
|
get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n.
|
|
|
|
Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998)
|
|
- Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser.
|
|
- Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that
|
|
source file).
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998)
|
|
- We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX.
|
|
Thanks again to Bjorn Reese and Martin Staael.
|
|
- Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out
|
|
how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get
|
|
really good.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998)
|
|
- Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line.
|
|
Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I
|
|
downloaded a gopher page with it)!
|
|
- Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I
|
|
had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will
|
|
be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used.
|
|
- stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my
|
|
changes don't make other versions go nuts instead.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998)
|
|
- Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX
|
|
warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent
|
|
me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead
|
|
of strequal()...
|
|
- I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little.
|
|
- Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be
|
|
sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything
|
|
after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird
|
|
name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'.
|
|
- Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command
|
|
line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid.
|
|
- Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I
|
|
believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now.
|
|
|
|
Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998)
|
|
- Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license
|
|
- Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag
|
|
- Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998)
|
|
- Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation
|
|
I build a release archive!
|
|
- I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to
|
|
be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in
|
|
curl -lsv ftp.site.com
|
|
Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters
|
|
that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the
|
|
last in a merged sequence:
|
|
curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com
|
|
is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause
|
|
unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped).
|
|
- I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL
|
|
license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming.
|
|
- Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now
|
|
setup.h.
|
|
- The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive.
|
|
|
|
Angus Mackay (Nov 5, 1998)
|
|
- Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998)
|
|
- Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own
|
|
specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use
|
|
a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once
|
|
for every custom header you want to add.
|
|
- Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files.
|
|
- Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy
|
|
usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to
|
|
write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the
|
|
.curlrc file anyway.
|
|
- Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data
|
|
which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST.
|
|
Shiraz Kanga asked for the feature and my brother,
|
|
Björn Stenberg helped me design the user
|
|
interface for this beast. This feature requires quite some docs,
|
|
since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-)
|
|
- A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to
|
|
0.8 will *not* work with curl!
|
|
- Wil Langford reported a bug that occurred since curl
|
|
did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it.
|
|
- Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read
|
|
first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as
|
|
additional config items.
|
|
- Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read.
|
|
- You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file
|
|
specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through
|
|
that.
|
|
- I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports
|
|
could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name
|
|
instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names.
|
|
- Martin Staael reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT
|
|
(test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this
|
|
version anymore.
|
|
- Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file
|
|
using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other
|
|
available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary
|
|
transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though!
|
|
:-)
|
|
- Troy Engel pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME")
|
|
usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with
|
|
this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that...
|
|
- A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built
|
|
with SSL support...
|
|
- Ryan Nelson sent me comments about building curl
|
|
with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure
|
|
script, it should work better and automatically now...
|
|
- Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses
|
|
proxy port number separate from normal port number.
|
|
- 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on:
|
|
Host SSL Compiler
|
|
SunOS 5.5 no gcc
|
|
SunOS 5.5.1 yes gcc
|
|
SunOS 5.6 no cc (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem)
|
|
SunOS 4.1.3 no gcc (without ANSI C headers)
|
|
SunOS 4.1.2 no gcc (native compiler failed)
|
|
Linux 2.0.18 no gcc
|
|
Linux 2.0.32 yes gcc
|
|
Linux 2.0.35 no gcc (with glibc)
|
|
IRIX 6.2 no gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings)
|
|
IRIX 6.4 no cc (generated warnings though)
|
|
Win32 no Borland
|
|
OSF4.0 no ?
|
|
|
|
- Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't
|
|
set.
|
|
- When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases
|
|
like:
|
|
curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com
|
|
Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so
|
|
if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol
|
|
string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used
|
|
without proxy.
|
|
- Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different
|
|
https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number
|
|
correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the
|
|
proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL.
|
|
- Bjorn Reese helped me work around one of the compiler
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warnings on IRIX native cc compiles.
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Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998)
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Daniel Stenberg
|
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- John A. Bristor suggested a config file switch,
|
|
and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long
|
|
time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce
|
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the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to
|
|
load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the
|
|
config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl
|
|
-h' or the README.
|
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- I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would
|
|
want to enable with curl anyway.
|
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- Martin Staael helped me add the 'irix' target. Now
|
|
"make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines.
|
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- Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second
|
|
will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that
|
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you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc.
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Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998)
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Daniel Stenberg
|
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- Martin Staael suggested curl would support cookies.
|
|
I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's
|
|
also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text.
|
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- dmh <dmh at jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could
|
|
manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work
|
|
for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway).
|
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- Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script
|
|
that checks all links of a web page by using curl.
|
|
- Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the
|
|
src/ dir from now on!
|
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- Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license.
|
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I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the
|
|
Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You
|
|
must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute
|
|
curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need
|
|
to offer the world the source to that too.
|
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- Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET
|
|
request. It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do
|
|
that anyway. Thanks to Gordon Beaton for the report!
|
|
- -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael. This makes
|
|
curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location: redirect if one is present in the HTTP
|
|
headers. If -i or -I is used with this flag, you will see headers from all
|
|
sites the Location: points to. Do note that the first server can point to a
|
|
second that points to a third etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said
|
|
to be an AbsoluteURI in RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've
|
|
made curl ATTEMPT to do the best it can to deal with the reality.
|
|
- Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads
|
|
files that a web page links to.
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|
|
|
Version 4.8.4
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- As Julian Romero Nieto reported, curl reported wrong version number.
|
|
- As Teemu Yli-Elsila pointed out, the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all
|
|
other versions for win32) didn't work with binary files since I'm too used
|
|
to the UNIX style fopen() where binary and text don't differ...
|
|
- Ralph Beckmann brought me some changes that lets curl compile error and
|
|
warning free with -Wall -pedantic with g++. I also took the opportunity to
|
|
clean off some unused variables and similar.
|
|
- Ralph Beckmann made me aware of a really odd bug now corrected. When curl
|
|
read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided into more than one read
|
|
and the first read showed a full line *exactly* (i.e ending with a
|
|
newline), curl did not behave well.
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|
|
|
Version 4.8.3
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the
|
|
changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't
|
|
upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain
|
|
corrected. Reported by Julian Romero Nieto.
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|
|
|
Version 4.8.2
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Bernhard Iselborn reported two FTP protocol errors curl did. They're now
|
|
corrected. Both appeared when getting files from a MS FTP server! :-)
|
|
|
|
Version 4.8.1
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The
|
|
final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered
|
|
which made it sometimes look odd.
|
|
- Thanks to David Long I got rid of a silly bug that happened if a HTTP-page
|
|
had nothing but header. Appearantly Solaris deals with negative sizes in
|
|
fwrite() calls a lot better than Linux does... =B-]
|
|
|
|
Version 4.8
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to
|
|
specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a
|
|
download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server
|
|
since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of
|
|
the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to
|
|
use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing
|
|
the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get
|
|
the end of a file.
|
|
- recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument.
|
|
|
|
Version 4.7
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount
|
|
(speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time.
|
|
- Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a
|
|
whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be
|
|
used. I agree it isn't the wisest thing to do to make a separate new
|
|
connection for each file and directory for this.
|
|
|
|
Version 4.6
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user
|
|
and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is
|
|
the new switch.
|
|
- Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string.
|
|
- Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the
|
|
verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it.
|
|
- Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name
|
|
resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first
|
|
sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen reported.
|
|
- Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-)
|
|
- Added bug report email address in the README.
|
|
- Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average
|
|
speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of
|
|
the entire transfer so far.
|
|
|
|
Version 4.5.1
|
|
Linas Vepstas
|
|
- SSL through proxy fix
|
|
- Added -A to allow User-Agent: changes
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Made the -A work when SSL-through-proxy.
|
|
|
|
Version 4.5
|
|
Linas Vepstas
|
|
- More SSL corrections
|
|
- I've added a port to AIX.
|
|
- running SSL through a proxy causes a chunk of code to be executred twice.
|
|
one of those blocks needs to be deleted.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Made -i and -I work again
|
|
|
|
Version 4.4
|
|
Linas Vepstas
|
|
- -x can now also specify proxyport when used as in 'proxyhost:proxyport'
|
|
- SSL fixes
|
|
|
|
Version 4.3
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Adjusted to compile under win32 (VisualC++ 5). The -P switch does not
|
|
support network interface names in win32. I couldn't figure out how!
|
|
|
|
Version 4.2
|
|
Linas Vepstas / Sampo Kellomaki
|
|
- Added SSL / SSLeay support (https://)
|
|
- Added the -T usage for HTTP POST.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Bugfixed the SSL implementation.
|
|
- Made -P a lot better to use other IP addresses. It now accepts a following
|
|
parameter that can be either
|
|
interface - i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you
|
|
want to use
|
|
IP address - i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number
|
|
host name - i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
|
|
"-" - (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's
|
|
default
|
|
- The Makefile is now ready to compile for solaris, sunos4 and linux right
|
|
out of the box.
|
|
- Better generated version string seen with 'curl -V'
|
|
|
|
Version 4.1
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- The IP number returned by the ftp server as a reply to PASV does no longer
|
|
have to DNS resolve. In fact, no IP-number-only addresses have to anymore.
|
|
- Binds better to available port when -P is used.
|
|
- Now LISTs ./ instead of / when used as in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. The reason
|
|
for this is that exactly that site, ftp.funet.fi, does not allow LIST /
|
|
while LIST ./ is fine. Any objections?
|
|
|
|
Version 4 (1998-03-20)
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- I took another huge step and changed both version number and project name!
|
|
The reason for the new name is that there are just one too many programs
|
|
named urlget already and this program already can a lot more than merely
|
|
getting URLs, and the reason for the version number is that I did add the
|
|
pretty big change in -P and since I changed name I wanted to start with
|
|
something fresh!
|
|
- The --style flags are working better now.
|
|
- Listing directories with FTP often reported that the file transfer was
|
|
incomplete. Wrong assumptions were too common for directories, why no
|
|
size will be attempted to get compared on them from now on.
|
|
- Implemented the -P flag that let's the ftp control issue a PORT command
|
|
instead of the standard PASV.
|
|
- -a for appending FTP uploads works.
|
|
|
|
***************************************************************************
|
|
|
|
Version 3.12 (14 March 1998)
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- End-of-header tracking still lacked support for \r\n or just \n at the
|
|
end of the last header line.
|
|
Sergio Barresi
|
|
- Added PROXY authentication.
|
|
Rafael Sagula
|
|
- Fixed some little bugs.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.11
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- The header parsing was still not correct since the 3.2 modification...
|
|
|
|
Version 3.10
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- 3.7 and 3.9 were simultaneously developed and merged into this version.
|
|
- FTP upload did not work correctly since 3.2.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.9
|
|
Rafael Sagula
|
|
- Added the "-e <url> / --referer <url>" option where we can specify
|
|
the referer page. Obviously, this is necessary only to fool the
|
|
server, but...
|
|
|
|
Version 3.7
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Now checks the last error code sent from the ftp server after a file has
|
|
been received or uploaded. Wasn't done previously.
|
|
- When 'urlget <host>' is used without a 'protocol://' first in the host part,
|
|
it now checks for host names starting with ftp or gopher and if it does,
|
|
it uses that protocol by default instead of http.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.6
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Silly mistake made the POST bug. This has now also been tested to work with
|
|
proxy.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.5
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Highly inspired by Rafael Sagula's changes to the 3.1 that added an almost
|
|
functional POST, I applied his changes into this version and made them work.
|
|
(It seems POST requires the Content-Type and Content-Length headers.) It is
|
|
now usable with the -d switch.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.3 - 3.4
|
|
Passed to avoid confusions
|
|
|
|
Version 3.2
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Major rewrite of two crucial parts of this code: upload and download.
|
|
They are both now using a select() switch, that allows much better
|
|
progress meter and time control.
|
|
- alarm() usage removed completely
|
|
- FTP get can now list directory contents if the path ends with a slash '/'.
|
|
Urlget on a ftp-path that doesn't end with a slash means urlget will
|
|
attempt getting it as a file name.
|
|
- FTP directory view supports -l for "list-only" which lists the file names
|
|
only.
|
|
- All operations support -m for max time usage in seconds allowed.
|
|
- FTP upload now allows the size of the uploaded file to be provided, and
|
|
thus it can better check it actually uploaded the whole file. It also
|
|
makes the progress meter for uploads much better!
|
|
- Made the parameter parsing fail in cases like 'urlget -r 900' which
|
|
previously tried to connect to the host named '900'.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.1
|
|
Kjell Ericson
|
|
- Pointed out how to correct the 3 warnings in win32-compiles.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Removed all calls to exit().
|
|
- Made the short help text get written to stdout instead of stderr.
|
|
- Made this file instead of keeping these comments in the source.
|
|
- Made two callback hooks, that enable external programs to use urlget()
|
|
easier and to grab the output/offer the input easier.
|
|
- It is evident that Win32-compiles are painful. I watched the output from
|
|
the Borland C++ v5 and it was awful. Just ignore all those warnings.
|
|
|
|
Version 3.0
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Added FTP upload capabilities. The name urlget gets a bit silly now
|
|
when we can put too... =)
|
|
- Restructured the source quite a lot.
|
|
Changed the urlget() interface. This way, we will survive changes much
|
|
better. New features can come and old can be removed without us needing
|
|
to change the interface. I've written a small explanation in urlget.h
|
|
that explains it.
|
|
- New flags include -t, -T, -O and -h. The -h text is generated by the new
|
|
mkhelp script.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.9
|
|
Remco van Hooff
|
|
- Added a fix to make it compile smoothly on Amiga using the SAS/C
|
|
compiler.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Believe it or not, but the STUPID Novell web server seems to require
|
|
that the Host: keyword is used, so well I use it and I (re-introduce) the
|
|
urlget User-Agent:. I still have to check that this Host: usage works with
|
|
proxies... 'Host:' is required for HTTP/1.1 GET according to RFC2068.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.8
|
|
Rafael Sagula
|
|
- some little modifications
|
|
|
|
Version 2.7
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Removed the -l option and introduced the -f option instead. Now I'll
|
|
rewrite the former -l kludge in an external script that'll use urlget to
|
|
fetch multipart files like that.
|
|
- '-f' is introduced, it means Fail without output in case of HTTP server
|
|
errors (return code >=300).
|
|
- Added support for -r, ranges. Specify which part of a document you
|
|
want, and only that part is returned. Only with HTTP/1.1-servers.
|
|
- Split up the source in 3 parts. Now all pure URL functions are in
|
|
urlget.c and stuff that deals with the stand-alone program is in main.c.
|
|
- I took a few minutes and wrote an embryo of a README file to explain
|
|
a few things.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.6
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Made the -l (loop) thing use the new CONF_FAILONERROR which makes
|
|
urlget() return error code if non-successful. It also won't output anything
|
|
then. Now finally removed the HTTP 1.0 and error 404 dependencies.
|
|
- Added -I which uses the HEAD request to get the header only from a
|
|
http-server.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.5
|
|
Rafael Sagula
|
|
- Made the progress meter use HHH:MM:SS instead of only seconds.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.4
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and
|
|
mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from
|
|
really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the
|
|
download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which
|
|
makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty,
|
|
the progress meter is shut off.
|
|
- Increased buffer size used for reading.
|
|
- Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing.
|
|
- Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64
|
|
encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in
|
|
RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one. To get a
|
|
http document from a place that requires user and password, use an URL
|
|
like:
|
|
|
|
http://user:passwd@www.site.to.leach/doc.html
|
|
|
|
I also added the -u flag, since WHEN USING A PROXY YOU CAN'T SPECIFY THE
|
|
USER AND PASSWORD WITH HTTP LIKE THAT. The -u flag works for ftp too, but
|
|
not if used with proxy. To do the same as the above one, you can invoke:
|
|
|
|
urlget -u user:passwd http://www.site.to.leach/doc.html
|
|
|
|
Version 2.3
|
|
Rafael Sagula
|
|
- Added "-o" option (output file)
|
|
- Added URG_HTTP_NOT_FOUND return code.
|
|
(Daniel's note:)
|
|
Perhaps we should detect all kinds of errors and instead of writing that
|
|
custom string for the particular 404-error, use the error text we actually
|
|
get from the server. See further details in RFC2068 (HTTP 1.1
|
|
definition). The current way also relies on a HTTP/1.0 reply, which newer
|
|
servers might not do.
|
|
- Looping mode ("-l" option). It's easier to get various split files.
|
|
(Daniel's note:)
|
|
Use it like 'urlget -l 1 http://from.this.site/file%d.html', which will
|
|
make urlget to attempt to fetch all files named file1.html, file2.html etc
|
|
until no more files are found. This is only a modification of the
|
|
STAND_ALONE part, nothing in the urlget() function was modfified for this.
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Changed the -h to be -i instead. -h should be preserved to help use.
|
|
- Bjorn Reese indicated that Borland _might_ use '_WIN32' instead of the
|
|
VC++ WIN32 define and therefore I added a little fix for that.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.2
|
|
Johan Andersson
|
|
- The urlget function didn't set the path to url when using proxy.
|
|
- Fixed bug with IMC proxy. Now using (almost) complete GET command.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Made it compile on Solaris. Had to reorganize the includes a bit.
|
|
(so Win32, Linux, SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 compile fine.)
|
|
- Made Johan's keepalive keyword optional with the -k flag (since it
|
|
makes a lot of urlgets take a lot longer time).
|
|
- Made a '-h' switch in case you want the HTTP-header in the output.
|
|
|
|
Version 2.1
|
|
Daniel Stenberg and Kjell Ericson
|
|
- Win32-compilable
|
|
- No more global variables
|
|
- Mute option (no output at all to stderr)
|
|
- Full range of return codes from urlget(), which is now written to be a
|
|
function for easy-to-use in [other] programs.
|
|
- Define STAND_ALONE to compile the stand alone urlget program
|
|
- Now compiles with gcc options -ansi -Wall -pedantic ;)
|
|
|
|
Version 2.0
|
|
- Introducing ftp GET support. The FTP URL type is recognized and used.
|
|
- Renamed the project to 'urlget'.
|
|
- Supports the user+passwd in the FTP URL (otherwise it tries anonymous
|
|
login with a weird email address as password).
|
|
|
|
Version 1.5
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- The skip_header() crap messed it up big-time. By simply removing that
|
|
one we can all of a sudden download anything ;)
|
|
- No longer requires a trailing slash on the URLs.
|
|
- If the given URL isn't prefixed with 'http://', HTTP is assumed and
|
|
given a try!
|
|
- 'void main()' is history.
|
|
|
|
Version 1.4
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- The gopher source used the ppath variable instead of path which could
|
|
lead to disaster.
|
|
|
|
Version 1.3
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Well, I added a lame text about the time it took to get the data. I also
|
|
fought against Johan to prevent his -f option (to specify a file name
|
|
that should be written instead of stdout)! =)
|
|
- Made it write 'connection refused' for that particular connect()
|
|
problem.
|
|
- Renumbered the version. Let's not make silly 1.0.X versions, this is
|
|
a plain 1.3 instead.
|
|
|
|
Version 1.2
|
|
Johan Andersson
|
|
- Discovered and fixed the problem with getting binary files. puts() is
|
|
now replaced with fwrite(). (Daniel's note: this also fixed the buffer
|
|
overwrite problem I found in the previous version.)
|
|
|
|
Rafael Sagula
|
|
- Let "-p" before "-x".
|
|
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
|
|
- Bugfixed the proxy usage. It should *NOT* use nor strip the port number
|
|
from the URL but simply pass that information to the proxy. This also
|
|
made the user/password fields possible to use in proxy [ftp-] URLs.
|
|
(like in ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README)
|
|
|
|
Johan Andersson
|
|
- Implemented HTTP proxy support.
|
|
- Receive byte counter added.
|
|
|
|
Bjorn Reese
|
|
- Implemented URLs (and skipped the old syntax).
|
|
- Output is written to stdout, so to achieve the above example, do:
|
|
httpget http://143.54.10.6/info_logo.gif > test.gif
|
|
|
|
Version 1.1
|
|
Daniel Stenberg
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- Adjusted it slightly to accept named hosts on the command line. We
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wouldn't wanna use IP numbers for the rest of our lifes, would we?
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Version 1.0
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Rafael Sagula
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- Wrote the initial httpget, which started all this!
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