5 \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
12 - Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No
13 more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl-
14 prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former
15 curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate
16 setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is
19 - Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan
20 to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name
23 Version 7.0beta released
26 - Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow
27 source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to
28 a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and
29 patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also
30 makes a larger number a newer version.
33 - Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range
34 option. I corrected them.
35 - Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file
36 in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for
37 multithreaded purposes.
40 - Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7.
41 There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken.
42 <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use.
45 - FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738.
46 - FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change
47 directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with
48 Rich Gray made me notice these problems.
49 - Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the
51 - I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string
52 compares on all platforms.
55 - Been working lots on the new lib.
56 - Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work
57 better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix.
60 - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in
61 configure.in that didn't do any good.
63 Daniel (24 April 2000):
64 - Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't
65 find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison
66 <allisonb@users.sourceforge.net>.
68 Daniel (12 April 2000):
69 - Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a
72 Daniel (8 April 2000):
73 - Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes
74 and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM.
75 - I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user
76 agent string. It does now.
77 - Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs
78 on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves
79 the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to
80 build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm
81 package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build
82 a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM?
83 - Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l
84 on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native
85 cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been
86 reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It
87 is a pity there's no newer release around...
89 Daniel (4 April 2000):
90 - Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net> supplied me with two fixes that
91 appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs.
93 Daniel (2 April 2000):
94 - Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then
95 followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved.
97 Daniel (27 March 2000):
98 - H. Daphne Luong <daphne@tellme.com> pointed out that curl was wrongly
99 messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy,
100 which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings.
102 Daniel (23 March 2000):
103 - Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net> corrected my badly applied patch he
104 actually already told me about!
106 - H. Daphne Luong <daphne@tellme.com> brought me a fix that now makes curl
107 ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
108 happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...
110 Daniel (22 March 2000):
111 - Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com> supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME
112 was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been.
113 The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6
114 makefile for MS VC++.
116 Daniel (21 March 2000):
117 - I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that
118 one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne
119 Johansson made me aware of this.
123 Daniel (21 March 2000):
124 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
125 crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
126 the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
130 Daniel (20 March 2000):
131 - An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
132 overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
133 problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
134 single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
137 Daniel (19 March 2000):
138 - Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net> supplied me with a series of patches
139 that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in
140 the INSTALL file. Very nice job!
142 Daniel (17 March 2000):
143 - Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com> supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
144 file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
145 VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
148 Daniel (15 March 2000):
149 - I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
150 to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D
151 on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies
152 in that one single file.
154 - Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff.
155 Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32
156 stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now).
158 - Pascal Gaudette <pascal@gaudette.org> fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
159 Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
161 Daniel (14 March 2000):
162 - Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
163 was never written. I fixed it now.
165 - Janne Johansson <jj@dynarc.se> reported the complaints that OpenBSD does
166 when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included
167 instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in
168 the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h.
172 Daniel (13 March 2000):
173 - <curl@spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a
174 single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what
175 the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to
176 perhaps make them work better.
178 - Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl
181 - Made some beautifications in the curl man page.
183 Daniel (3 March 2000):
184 - Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and
187 Daniel (3 March 2000):
188 - Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
190 Daniel (2 March 2000):
191 - Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people
192 happy and I'll still keep them available on the web.
194 - Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter
195 display in README.curl.
197 - Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de>, Chris <cbayliss@csc.come> and Ulf
198 Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
199 fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
200 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
203 - Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
204 Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
205 every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr@gci.net>
208 - Damien Adant <dams@usa.net> mailed me his fixes for making curl compile
211 Daniel (24 February 2000):
212 - Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32.
214 I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using
215 the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %-
216 letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should
217 use another letter instead!
219 - Added more variables to -w:
227 - Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from
228 stdin in the good old "standard" curl way.
230 Daniel (22 February 2000):
231 - Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback.
233 Daniel (21 February 2000):
235 - I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
236 single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
237 completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
238 they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
239 exist as of this moment are:
241 total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
242 size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes
243 size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes
244 speed_download - the average speed of the entire download
245 speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload
247 I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others.
249 - It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new
250 progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re-
253 Daniel (16 February 2000):
254 - Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued
255 working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download
256 and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good.
258 - Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface.
260 - Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next.
262 Daniel (15 February 2000):
263 - The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it
264 is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly!
266 Daniel (11 February 2000):
267 - Paul Marquis <pmarquis@iname.com> fixed the config file parsing of curl to
268 deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.
270 - Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>'s suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
271 is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
272 similarly reads the cookies from stdin.
274 - Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
275 -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
277 - Ellis Pritchard <ellis@citria.com> made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
279 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> helped me out finding the crash in the
280 cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
283 Daniel (8 February 2000):
284 - Ron Zapp <rzapper@yahoo.com> corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that
285 prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do
286 with the difference in sprintf() return code types.
288 - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's
289 do some progress meter fixes later this week.
291 Daniel (31 January 2000):
292 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> found another core dump in the cookie
293 parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
294 that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
295 what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.
297 RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
298 compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...
300 - Mark W. Eichin <eichin@thok.org> found that while curl is uploading a form
301 to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
302 since the socket "pipe" becomes full.
304 It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
305 single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
306 of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
307 and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
309 - Zhibiao Wu <wuzb@erols.com> pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
310 although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
311 with fixing anything.
313 - Bob Schader <rschader@product-des.com> suggested I should implement resume
314 support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
317 Daniel (25 January 2000):
318 - M Travis Obenhaus <Travis.Obenhaus@aud.alcatel.com> pointed out a manual
319 mixup with -y and -Y that was corrected.
321 - Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de> pointed out a problem to compile
322 curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
323 by Jörn's recent #include modifications!
325 Daniel (19 January 2000):
326 - Oskar Liljeblad <osk@hem.passagen.se> pointed out and corrected a problem
327 in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
328 different protocol to fail.
330 At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
331 could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
332 again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
333 on server not running on default ports.)
335 - Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> brought a fix that once again
336 made it possible to select progress bar.
338 - Jörn also fixed a few include problems.
342 Daniel (17 January 2000):
343 - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg (bjorn@haxx.nu), I made the
344 progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
345 the time spent on the download so far.
346 - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
347 browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.
349 Daniel (10 January 2000):
350 - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
351 - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
353 - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
354 that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
355 course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
356 downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
357 - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
358 install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
359 on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
360 better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
361 - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
362 - Jim Gallagher <jmgallag@usa.net> properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
363 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
364 flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
365 and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
367 Daniel (28 December 1999):
368 - Tim Verhoeven <dj@walhalla.sin.khk.be> correctly identified that curl
369 doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
370 problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
371 that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
372 the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
373 translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
374 the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.
376 Daniel (27 December 1999):
377 - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
378 data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
379 in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington
382 Daniel (13 December 1999):
383 - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
384 added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
385 both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.
387 Daniel (3 December 1999):
388 - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>...
390 - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
391 well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
392 only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).
394 Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no> (24 November 1999):
395 - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!
397 - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
398 different directories than the sources.
402 Daniel (23 November 1999):
403 - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
404 along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
405 things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
408 - Michael S. Steuer <michael@steuer.com> pointed out a bug in the -F handling
409 that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
410 was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...
412 - Jason Baietto <jason@durians.com> pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
413 download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
414 entire download was completed. It does now.
416 Daniel (19 November 1999):
417 - Chris Maltby <chris@aurema.com> very accurately criticized the lack of
418 return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
419 occurrences and corrected this.
421 Daniel (17 November 1999):
422 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
423 doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
424 any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
425 when the timeout is reached.
427 - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
428 why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.
430 Daniel (12 November 1999):
431 - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
432 a plain http header file as input...
436 Daniel (10 November 1999):
437 - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
438 respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
439 again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
440 section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
441 my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
442 is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).
444 - After comments from Robert Linden <robert.linden@postcom.deutschepost.de> I
445 also rewrote some parts of the man page to better describe how the -F
448 - Michael Anti <anti@pshowing.com> put up a new curl download mirror in
449 China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/
451 - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file
453 - I did add more explanations to the man page
455 Daniel (8 November 1999):
456 - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
457 files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
458 transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
460 Daniel (29 October 1999):
461 - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
462 but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
463 FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
464 it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
465 be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
466 --range switch (previously HTTP-only).
468 - Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> suggested that curl should be
469 able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
470 idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
473 As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
474 info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
475 makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
476 file size the same way.
478 I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
479 just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
480 quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
482 - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
485 - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
486 some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
487 the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti
490 - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
491 man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
492 <adam@oz.org> reported and brought the suggestion.
494 - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson <d98is@dtek.chalmers.se> we came
495 up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
496 internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
497 that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
498 obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
499 the one curl would set.
501 Daniel (27 October 1999):
502 - Jongki Suwandi <Jongki.Suwandi@eng.sun.com> brought a nice patch for
503 (yet another) crash when following a location:. This time you had to
504 follow a https:// server's redirect to get the core.
508 Daniel (21 October 1999):
509 - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
510 before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
511 - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
512 having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
513 when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
514 URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
516 - Benjamin Ritcey <ritcey@tfn.com> reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
517 with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
518 that occurred after the download was done and completed.
519 - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
520 to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
521 the multiple URL support.
522 - Dan Zitter <dzitter@zitter.net> correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and
523 earlier versions didn't honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message
524 Headers": "...Field names are case-insensitive..."
525 HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan also provided me with
526 a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty of editing slightly.
527 - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
529 - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
532 Daniel (19 October 1999):
533 - Len Marinaccio <len@goodnet.com> came up with some problems with curl.
534 Since Windows has a crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that
535 causes trouble. I added --stderr today which allows the user to redirect
536 the stderr stream to a file or stdout.
538 Daniel (18 October 1999):
539 - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
540 totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
541 the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
542 been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.
546 Daniel (17 October 1999):
547 - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
548 script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
549 thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
550 uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
551 more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
552 until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
553 adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a
554 short a summary is suitable:
555 - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
556 decompression methods.
557 - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
558 although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
560 - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
561 a file descriptor if that is a socket
563 Daniel (14 October 1999):
564 - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
565 curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
566 better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.
568 Daniel (12 October 1999):
569 - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
570 archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
571 hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.
573 Daniel (11 October 1999):
574 - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
575 some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
580 Daniel (6 October 1999):
581 - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> sent me a patch that made the
582 exact same thing as I just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading
583 post data from a named file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read
584 the post data from a given file:
586 curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com
588 or let curl read it out from stdin:
590 curl -d @- www.postit.com
592 Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
593 - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
594 separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
595 used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".
598 - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.
600 Daniel (30 September 1999):
601 - Felix von Leitner <felix@convergence.de> brought openssl-check fixes
602 for configure.in to work out-of-the-box when the openssl files are
603 installed in the system default dirs.
605 Daniel (28 September 1999)
606 - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
607 or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
608 it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
609 download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
610 documents so that I can test this out properly.
612 - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
613 a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.
615 Daniel (17 September 1999)
616 - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
617 of file name, the data will be read from stdin.
621 Daniel (13 September 1999)
622 - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
623 Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
624 should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.
626 - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.
628 Daniel (10 September 1999)
629 - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> pointed out a problem. Curl
630 didn't check the FTP servers return code properly after the --quote
631 commands were issued. It took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX
632 codes should be accepted as OK.
634 - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
635 turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
636 cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
637 doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).
639 Daniel (8 September 1999)
640 - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.
642 Daniel (7 September 1999)
643 - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
644 Stefan Kanthak <Stefan.Kanthak@mchp.siemens.de>.
646 - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.
648 Daniel (3 September 1999)
649 - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.
651 Bjorn Reese <breese@mail1.stofanet.dk> (31 August 1999)
652 - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
653 library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
654 directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
657 Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> (31 August 1999)
658 - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
659 - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
662 Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> (30 August 1999)
663 - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.
665 Matthew Clarke <clamat@van.maves.ca> (30 August 1999)
666 - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
667 root dir of the openssl installation, as in
669 ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here
671 - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.
673 Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> (26 August 1999)
674 - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
679 Daniel (25 August 1999)
680 - John Weismiller <johnweis@home.com> pointed out a bug in the header-line
681 realloc() system in download.c.
683 - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
684 probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
687 - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
688 used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
689 changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
692 Daniel (17 August 1999)
693 - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
694 original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
697 - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
698 them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
699 not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas E. Wegscheid
700 <wegscd@whirlpool.com>. I also changed the README text a little regarding
703 Daniel (16 August 1999)
704 - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
705 page. Nusu's page showed this too.
707 - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
708 used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
709 should've. Nusu <nus@intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
712 Troy (15 August 1999)
713 - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
714 configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
715 files are in /usr/include/openssl
719 Daniel (13 August 1999)
720 - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
721 OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
722 modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
723 a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
724 to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
726 - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
728 Troy (12 August 1999)
729 - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
732 Daniel (12 August 1999)
733 - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
734 tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
735 allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.
737 - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
738 -Wall -pedantic was used.
740 - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
741 will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
742 The old one still works and shows the same info.
744 Daniel (11 August 1999)
745 - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
746 configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.
748 Daniel (10 August 1999)
749 - Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> helped me with some stupid
750 Makefile things, as well as some fiddling with the getdate.c
751 stuff that he had problems with under HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be
752 compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate yacc or bison is found by the
753 configure script. Since this is slightly new, we need to test the output
754 getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it still compiles there.
756 Daniel (5 August 1999)
757 - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
758 around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
759 brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
760 about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.
762 To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
763 <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
764 libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl
765 talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
766 started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
767 www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.
769 - Stefan Kanthak <Stefan.Kanthak@mchp.siemens.de> contacted me regarding a
770 few problems in the configure script which he discovered when trying to
771 make curl compile and build under Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!
773 - Marcus Klein <m.klein@in-olpe.de> very accurately informed me that
774 src/version.h was not present in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...
776 - Linus Nielsen <Linus.Nielsen@sth.frontec.se> rewrote the telnet:// part and
777 now curl offers limited telnet support. If you run curl like 'curl
778 telnet://host' you'll get all output on the screen and curl will read input
779 from stdin. You'll be able to login and run commands etc, but since the
780 output is buffered, expect to get a little weird output.
782 This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
783 feed-back and input in how this is best done.
785 WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
786 lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.
788 - David Sanderson <david@transarc.com> reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or
789 HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX
790 11.0. I updated the configure script to check for alloca.h which should
793 Daniel (4 August 1999)
794 - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
795 which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
796 servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
797 some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
798 hope you report if you have problems with this!
800 - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.
802 Daniel (2 August 1999)
803 - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no>. It offers
804 a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar.
806 T. Yamada <tai@imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
807 - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
808 username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
809 another location (option '-L').
811 There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
812 tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
813 argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
814 CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
815 checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
816 redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.
820 Daniel (30 July 1999)
821 - Steve Walch <swalch@cisoft.com> pointed out that there is a memory leak in
822 the formdata functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and
823 supposed to correct this flaw.
825 - Mark Wotton <mwotton@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> reported:
826 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by
827 correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
828 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
829 don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.
831 - Marcus Klein <m.klein@in-olpe.de>:
832 Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
833 I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.
835 Daniel (29 July 1999)
836 - Costya Shulyupin <costya@trivnet.com> suggested support for longer URLs
837 when following Location: and I could only agree and fix it!
839 - Leigh Purdie <leighp@defcen.gov.au> found a problem in the upload/POST
840 department. It turned out that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer
841 instead of the byte counter when supposed to.
843 - Costya Shulyupin <costya@trivnet.com> pointed out a problem with port
844 numbers and Location:. If you had a server at a non-standard port that
845 redirected to an URL using a standard port number, curl still used that
848 - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> pointed out a problem when using both
849 CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the
850 CONF_FAILONERROR exits on the 302-code that the follow location header
851 outputs it will never show any html on location: pages. I have now made it
852 look for >=400 codes if CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.
854 - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
857 - Joshua Swink <jpswink@hotmail.com> and Rick Welykochy <rick@praxis.com.au>
858 were the first to point out to me that the latest OpenSSL package now have
859 moved the standard include path. It is now in
860 /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
861 option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
862 leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.
865 - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
866 I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.
869 - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
870 with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
871 something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
872 <ashley@compsoc.man.ac.uk> and Mark Butler <butlerm@xmission.com> brought a
876 - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
877 README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de>.
879 - I also updated the INSTALL text.
882 - David Jonathan Lowsky <dlowsky@leland.stanford.edu> correctly pointed out
883 that curl didn't properly deal with form posting where the variable
884 shouldn't have any content, as in curl -F "form=" www.site.com. It was
890 - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick <aaronsca@hotmail.com> in
891 which he states he has some problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have
892 previously got another bug report from Stefan Grether
893 <stefan.grether@ubs.com> which points at an error with similar sympthoms
894 when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
895 and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...
898 - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.
901 - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the
902 sread() function. Adam Coyne <adam@gamespy.com> found the problem in the
903 win32 version, and Troy Engel helped me out isolating it.
906 - Richard Adams <Richard@Slayford.com> pointed out a bug I introduced in
907 5.8. --dump-header doesn't work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.
909 - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink <jpswink@hotmail.com> I added -S /
910 --show-error to force curl to display the error message in case of an
911 error, even if -s/--silent was used.
914 - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
915 files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
916 layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
919 - Leon Breedt <ljb@debian.org> sent me some files I've not put into the main
920 curl archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent
921 me a debian package that I've made available for download at the web page
924 - Made it compile on cygwin too.
926 Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
927 - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
931 - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
932 will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
933 can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
939 - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
940 for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
941 there are problems all over.
943 I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
944 week... Claudio Neves <claudio@nextis.com> and Federico Bianchi
945 <bianchi@pc-arte2.arte.unipi.it> and root <duggerj001@hawaii.rr.com> are
946 some of them reporting this.
948 Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
949 generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
950 can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
951 before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
952 a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!
955 - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
958 - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
959 I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
960 curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
963 curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html
965 This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
966 I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
967 there may depend on that the file is always touched...
969 - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.
971 - Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de> requested that curl should
972 be able to send "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea.
973 I implemented it right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full
974 GNU date expression or a file name to get the date from!
976 Stephan Lagerholm <stephan@unilog.se> (30 Apr 1999)
977 - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
978 isn't set and causes the make to fail.
980 Daniel (26 April 1999)
981 - Am I silly or what? <Irving_Wolfe@wolfe.net> pointed out to me that the
982 curl version number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was
983 due to a bug in my maketgz script!
985 David Eriksson <david@2good.com> (25 Apr 1999)
986 - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.
990 Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net> (23 Apr 1999)
991 - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
992 below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h
994 - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
998 - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
1001 Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@Eng.Sun.COM> (20 Apr 1999)
1002 - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
1003 It needs an #include <sys/types.h>
1007 Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
1008 - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!
1010 - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
1011 simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!
1013 - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
1016 Eric Thelin <eric@generation-i.com> (15 Apr 1999)
1017 - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.
1021 Daniel (Apr 12 1999)
1023 - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
1024 in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
1025 try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?
1027 - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!
1029 - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
1030 much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
1031 should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
1032 talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
1033 start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
1034 use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
1035 want such a crippled solution.
1037 - Marc Boucher <marc@mbsi.ca> sent me a patch that corrected a math error
1038 for the "Curr.Speed" progress meter.
1040 - Eric Thelin <eric@generation-i.com> sent me a patch that enables '-K -'
1041 to read a config file from stdin.
1043 - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!
1046 - Yu Xin <is@isee.za.net> pointed out a problem with ftp download resume.
1047 It didn't work at all! ;-O
1050 - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.
1052 - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
1053 previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
1054 some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
1055 best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!
1060 - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
1062 To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
1063 format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
1066 curl -b file http://site/foo.html
1068 Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
1069 a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
1070 following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".
1072 To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
1073 sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
1074 to start with no existing cookies), like:
1076 curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html
1078 - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
1079 reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.
1081 - Better "Location:" following.
1083 Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
1084 - A subsecond display patch.
1086 Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
1087 - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
1088 things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
1089 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
1092 - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
1095 - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
1096 win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
1097 Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
1098 INSTALL for details.
1100 - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
1101 server while remaining connected.
1105 Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
1106 - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement
1107 the suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com>. -D or
1108 --dump-header is now storing HTTP headers separately in the specified
1111 - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.
1113 - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
1114 in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...
1116 Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
1117 - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
1120 Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
1121 - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
1122 curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
1123 the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
1124 before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.
1126 libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
1127 the lib functions though.
1129 The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
1130 about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)
1134 - Todd Kaufmann <tkaufmann@adforce.com> sent me a good link to Netscape's
1135 cookie spec as well as the info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them.
1136 The link is now in the README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.
1138 Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
1139 - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
1140 in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...
1142 Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
1143 - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
1146 Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr> (Fri Feb 5 1999)
1147 - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
1148 RPM automatically...
1152 Mark Butler <butlerm@xmission.com> (27 Jan 1999)
1153 - Corrected problems in Download().
1155 Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
1156 - Jeremie Petit <Jeremie.Petit@Digital.com> pointed out a few flaws in the
1157 source that prevented it from compile warning free with the native
1158 compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.
1162 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
1163 - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.
1165 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
1166 - <jswink@softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
1167 ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
1168 buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!
1170 Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> (10 Jan 1999)
1171 - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
1172 It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
1175 To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
1178 dict://dict.org/m:hello
1179 dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex
1182 Vicente Garcia <verot@redestb.es> (10 Jan 1999)
1183 - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.
1185 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
1186 - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.
1192 - <Irving_Wolfe@Wolfe.Net> reported that curl -s didn't always supress the
1193 progress reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched
1194 it on again. This is now corrected!
1197 - Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@mtg.co.at> suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me
1198 out to test it. If you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will
1199 be used for file upload.
1201 I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
1205 - Erik Jacobsen <erik@mint.com> found a width bug in the mprintf() function.
1209 - As John V. Chow <johnchow@brooklinetech.com> pointed out to me, curl
1210 accepted very limited URL sizes. It should now accept path parts that are
1211 up to at least 4096 bytes.
1213 - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
1216 Version 5.3a (win32 only)
1219 - Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part.
1223 Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998)
1224 - I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to
1225 send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote
1226 command-line arguments.
1228 You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in
1229 order. This is what I use for my MVS upload:
1231 curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test
1233 Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order.
1235 - Made it compile smoothly on AIX.
1237 Gilbert Ramirez Jr. <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu> (18 Dec 1998)
1238 - Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server.
1240 Troy Engel <tengel@sonic.net> (17 Dec 1998)
1241 - Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug.
1244 - A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung <htl10@cus.cam.ac.uk>, caused
1245 curl to crash on the -A flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems
1248 - Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _
1249 instead of . and \ instead of / in win32).
1251 - steve <fisk@polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the
1252 ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size)
1253 info. I hope it works better now!
1257 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> (Dec 14, 1998)
1258 - Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the
1259 environment variables.
1263 Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998)
1264 - Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the
1265 hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using
1266 both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man
1267 page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c
1268 file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times
1271 - gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char'
1272 if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to
1273 int. So I did to compile warning free with that too.
1275 - Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I
1276 need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long
1279 Version 5.1 (not publicly released)
1281 Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998)
1282 - I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone?
1284 - Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl
1285 now reads and understands the following environment variables:
1287 HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY
1289 They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be
1294 And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any
1295 proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts).
1299 The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.
1301 - Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix.
1303 - Wrote the curl.1 man page.
1305 - Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is
1306 based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully,
1307 there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now.
1309 - Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under
1310 solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok.
1312 Oren Tirosh <oren@hishome.net> (Dec 3, 1998)
1313 - Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM
1314 packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec.
1316 Troy Engel <tengel@sonic.net>
1317 - Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32.
1321 Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998)
1322 - Not a single bug report in ages.
1323 - Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the
1328 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998)
1330 HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE:
1332 * Pre-requisite software:
1333 What To build what Reads data from
1334 ==== ============= ===============
1335 GNU automake Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 configure.in
1338 GNU autoconf configure configure.in
1339 GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in configure.in, acconfig.h
1341 * Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES.
1343 * Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive.
1347 - Enters the newly created version number in url.h.
1348 - (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless
1349 you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.)
1350 If you have it, it'll run it.
1351 - If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly
1352 created version number and autoconf will be run.
1353 - Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base
1354 name of the current directory up to the first '-'.)
1355 - Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving
1356 permissions and directory structure.
1357 - Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz
1359 - Removes the new directory and all its contents.
1361 * When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named
1362 curl-<version>.tar.gz.
1366 (1) They're required to make automake run properly.
1367 (2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive.
1369 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998)
1370 - I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in
1371 another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this
1372 new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different
1373 variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves
1374 to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler!
1375 - Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now.
1376 - Brian Chaplin <bchaplin@capital-mkts.com> reported yet another problem in
1377 multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new
1378 version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback!
1379 - Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes
1380 an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one.
1381 - Mailing list opened (see README).
1382 - Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells
1383 host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section
1384 about PORT vs PASV in the README.
1388 Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998)
1389 - Introduced automake stuff.
1391 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998)
1392 - Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own
1393 private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM
1394 format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by
1395 downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site
1396 at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can
1397 convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format. Use
1398 it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'. If this isn't a
1399 cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-)
1400 - Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out.
1401 (curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do
1402 have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must
1403 be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to
1404 get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n.
1406 Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998)
1407 - Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser.
1408 - Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that
1411 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998)
1412 - We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX.
1413 Thanks again to Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> and Martin Staael
1414 <martin@netgroup.dk>.
1415 - Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out
1416 how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get
1419 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998)
1420 - Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line.
1421 Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I
1422 downloaded a gopher page with it)!
1423 - Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I
1424 had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will
1425 be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used.
1426 - stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my
1427 changes don't make other versions go nuts instead.
1429 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998)
1430 - Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX
1431 warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent
1432 me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead
1434 - I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little.
1435 - Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be
1436 sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything
1437 after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird
1438 name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'.
1439 - Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command
1440 line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid.
1441 - Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I
1442 believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now.
1444 Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998)
1445 - Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license
1446 - Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag
1447 - Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
1449 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998)
1450 - Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation
1451 I build a release archive!
1452 - I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to
1453 be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in
1454 curl -lsv ftp.site.com
1455 Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters
1456 that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the
1457 last in a merged sequence:
1458 curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com
1459 is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause
1460 unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped).
1461 - I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL
1462 license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming.
1463 - Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now
1465 - The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive.
1467 Angus Mackay <amackay@gus.ml.org> (Nov 5, 1998)
1468 - Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff
1470 Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998)
1471 - Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own
1472 specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use
1473 a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once
1474 for every custom header you want to add.
1475 - Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files.
1476 - Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy
1477 usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to
1478 write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the
1479 .curlrc file anyway.
1480 - Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data
1481 which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST.
1482 Shiraz Kanga <skanga@bigfoot.com> asked for the feature and my brother,
1483 Björn Stenberg <Bjorn.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se> helped me design the user
1484 interface for this beast. This feature requires quite some docs,
1485 since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-)
1486 - A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to
1487 0.8 will *not* work with curl!
1488 - Wil Langford <wil@langford.net> reported a bug that occurred since curl
1489 did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it.
1490 - Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read
1491 first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as
1492 additional config items.
1493 - Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read.
1494 - You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file
1495 specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through
1497 - I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports
1498 could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name
1499 instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names.
1500 - Martin Staael <martin@netgroup.dk> reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT
1501 (test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this
1503 - Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file
1504 using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other
1505 available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary
1506 transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though!
1508 - Troy Engel <tengel@palladium.net> pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME")
1509 usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with
1510 this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that...
1511 - A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built
1513 - r-y-a-n/n-e-l-s-o-n <ryan@inch.com> sent me comments about building curl
1514 with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure
1515 script, it should work better and automatically now...
1516 - Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses
1517 proxy port number separate from normal port number.
1518 - 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on:
1522 SunOS 5.6 no cc (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem)
1523 SunOS 4.1.3 no gcc (without ANSI C headers)
1524 SunOS 4.1.2 no gcc (native compiler failed)
1526 Linux 2.0.32 yes gcc
1527 Linux 2.0.35 no gcc (with glibc)
1528 IRIX 6.2 no gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings)
1529 IRIX 6.4 no cc (generated warnings though)
1533 - Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't
1535 - When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases
1537 curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com
1538 Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so
1539 if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol
1540 string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used
1542 - Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different
1543 https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number
1544 correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the
1545 proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL.
1546 - Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> helped me work around one of the compiler
1547 warnings on IRIX native cc compiles.
1549 Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998)
1551 - John A. Bristor <jbristor@bellsouth.net> suggested a config file switch,
1552 and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long
1553 time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce
1554 the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to
1555 load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the
1556 config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl
1558 - I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would
1559 want to enable with curl anyway.
1560 - Martin Staael <Martin@Staael.dk> helped me add the 'irix' target. Now
1561 "make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines.
1562 - Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second
1563 will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that
1564 you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc.
1566 Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998)
1568 - Martin Staael <Martin@Staael.dk> suggested curl would support cookies.
1569 I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's
1570 also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text.
1571 - dmh <dmh@jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could
1572 manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work
1573 for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway).
1574 - Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script
1575 that checks all links of a web page by using curl.
1576 - Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the
1577 src/ dir from now on!
1578 - Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license.
1579 I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the
1580 Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You
1581 must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute
1582 curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need
1583 to offer the world the source to that too.
1584 - Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET
1585 request. It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do
1586 that anyway. Thanks to Gordon Beaton <gordon@erix.ericsson.se> for the
1588 - -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael
1589 <Martin@Staael.dk>. This makes curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location:
1590 redirect if one is present in the HTTP headers. If -i or -I is used with
1591 this flag, you will see headers from all sites the Location: points to. Do
1592 note that the first server can point to a second that points to a third
1593 etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said to be an AbsoluteURI in
1594 RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've made curl ATTEMPT to do
1595 the best it can to deal with the reality.
1596 - Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads
1597 files that a web page links to.
1601 - As Julian Romero Nieto <jromero@anaya.es> reported, curl reported wrong
1603 - As Teemu Yli-Elsila <tylielsi@mail.student.oulu.fi> pointed out,
1604 the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all other versions for win32)
1605 didn't work with binary files since I'm too used to the UNIX style
1606 fopen() where binary and text don't differ...
1607 - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> brought me some changes that lets
1608 curl compile error and warning free with -Wall -pedantic with
1609 g++. I also took the opportunity to clean off some unused variables
1611 - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> made me aware of a really odd bug
1612 now corrected. When curl read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided
1613 into more than one read and the first read showed a full line *exactly*
1614 (i.e ending with a newline), curl did not behave well.
1618 - I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the
1619 changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't
1620 upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain
1621 corrected. Reported by Julian Romero Nieto <jromero@anaya.es>.
1625 - Bernhard Iselborn <biselbor@rhrk.uni-kl.de> reported two FTP protocol
1626 errors curl did. They're now corrected. Both appeared when getting files
1627 from a MS FTP server! :-)
1631 - Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The
1632 final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered
1633 which made it sometimes look odd.
1634 - Thanks to David Long <long@research.bell-labs.com> I got rid of a silly
1635 bug that happened if a HTTP-page had nothing but header. Appearantly
1636 Solaris deals with negative sizes in fwrite() calls a lot better than
1641 - Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to
1642 specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a
1643 download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server
1644 since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of
1645 the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to
1646 use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing
1647 the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get
1649 - recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument.
1653 - Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount
1654 (speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time.
1655 - Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a
1656 whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be
1657 used. I agree it isn't the wisest thing to do to make a separate new
1658 connection for each file and directory for this.
1662 - Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user
1663 and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is
1665 - Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string.
1666 - Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the
1667 verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it.
1668 - Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name
1669 resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first
1670 sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen <swear@aa.net>
1672 - Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-)
1673 - Added bug report email address in the README.
1674 - Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average
1675 speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of
1676 the entire transfer so far.
1680 - SSL through proxy fix
1681 - Added -A to allow User-Agent: changes
1684 - Made the -A work when SSL-through-proxy.
1687 Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
1688 - More SSL corrections
1689 - I've added a port to AIX.
1690 - running SSL through a proxy causes a chunk of code to be executred twice.
1691 one of those blocks needs to be deleted.
1694 - Made -i and -I work again
1697 Linas Vepstas <linas@us.ibm.com>
1698 - -x can now also specify proxyport when used as in 'proxyhost:proxyport'
1703 - Adjusted to compile under win32 (VisualC++ 5). The -P switch does not
1704 support network interface names in win32. I couldn't figure out how!
1707 Linas Vepstas / Sampo Kellomaki
1708 - Added SSL / SSLeay support (https://)
1709 - Added the -T usage for HTTP POST.
1712 - Bugfixed the SSL implementation.
1713 - Made -P a lot better to use other IP addresses. It now accepts a following
1714 parameter that can be either
1715 interface - i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you
1717 IP address - i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number
1718 host name - i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
1719 "-" - (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's
1721 - The Makefile is now ready to compile for solaris, sunos4 and linux right
1723 - Better generated version string seen with 'curl -V'
1727 - The IP number returned by the ftp server as a reply to PASV does no longer
1728 have to DNS resolve. In fact, no IP-number-only addresses have to anymore.
1729 - Binds better to available port when -P is used.
1730 - Now LISTs ./ instead of / when used as in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. The reason
1731 for this is that exactly that site, ftp.funet.fi, does not allow LIST /
1732 while LIST ./ is fine. Any objections?
1734 Version 4 (1998-03-20)
1736 - I took another huge step and changed both version number and project name!
1737 The reason for the new name is that there are just one too many programs
1738 named urlget already and this program already can a lot more than merely
1739 getting URLs, and the reason for the version number is that I did add the
1740 pretty big change in -P and since I changed name I wanted to start with
1742 - The --style flags are working better now.
1743 - Listing directories with FTP often reported that the file transfer was
1744 incomplete. Wrong assumptions were too common for directories, why no
1745 size will be attempted to get compared on them from now on.
1746 - Implemented the -P flag that let's the ftp control issue a PORT command
1747 instead of the standard PASV.
1748 - -a for appending FTP uploads works.
1750 ***************************************************************************
1754 - End-of-header tracking still lacked support for \r\n or just \n at the
1755 end of the last header line.
1756 Sergio Barresi <sbarresi@imispa.it>
1757 - Added PROXY authentication.
1759 - Fixed some little bugs.
1763 - The header parsing was still not correct since the 3.2 modification...
1767 - 3.7 and 3.9 were simultaneously developed and merged into this version.
1768 - FTP upload did not work correctly since 3.2.
1772 - Added the "-e <url> / --referer <url>" option where we can specify
1773 the referer page. Obviously, this is necessary only to fool the
1778 - Now checks the last error code sent from the ftp server after a file has
1779 been received or uploaded. Wasn't done previously.
1780 - When 'urlget <host>' is used without a 'protocol://' first in the host part,
1781 it now checks for host names starting with ftp or gopher and if it does,
1782 it uses that protocol by default instead of http.
1786 - Silly mistake made the POST bug. This has now also been tested to work with
1791 - Highly inspired by Rafael Sagula's changes to the 3.1 that added an almost
1792 functional POST, I applied his changes into this version and made them work.
1793 (It seems POST requires the Content-Type and Content-Length headers.) It is
1794 now usable with the -d switch.
1797 Passed to avoid confusions
1801 - Major rewrite of two crucial parts of this code: upload and download.
1802 They are both now using a select() switch, that allows much better
1803 progress meter and time control.
1804 - alarm() usage removed completely
1805 - FTP get can now list directory contents if the path ends with a slash '/'.
1806 Urlget on a ftp-path that doesn't end with a slash means urlget will
1807 attempt getting it as a file name.
1808 - FTP directory view supports -l for "list-only" which lists the file names
1810 - All operations support -m for max time usage in seconds allowed.
1811 - FTP upload now allows the size of the uploaded file to be provided, and
1812 thus it can better check it actually uploaded the whole file. It also
1813 makes the progress meter for uploads much better!
1814 - Made the parameter parsing fail in cases like 'urlget -r 900' which
1815 previously tried to connect to the host named '900'.
1819 - Pointed out how to correct the 3 warnings in win32-compiles.
1822 - Removed all calls to exit().
1823 - Made the short help text get written to stdout instead of stderr.
1824 - Made this file instead of keeping these comments in the source.
1825 - Made two callback hooks, that enable external programs to use urlget()
1826 easier and to grab the output/offer the input easier.
1827 - It is evident that Win32-compiles are painful. I watched the output from
1828 the Borland C++ v5 and it was awful. Just ignore all those warnings.
1832 - Added FTP upload capabilities. The name urlget gets a bit silly now
1833 when we can put too... =)
1834 - Restructured the source quite a lot.
1835 Changed the urlget() interface. This way, we will survive changes much
1836 better. New features can come and old can be removed without us needing
1837 to change the interface. I've written a small explanation in urlget.h
1839 - New flags include -t, -T, -O and -h. The -h text is generated by the new
1844 - Added a fix to make it compile smoothly on Amiga using the SAS/C
1848 - Believe it or not, but the STUPID Novell web server seems to require
1849 that the Host: keyword is used, so well I use it and I (re-introduce) the
1850 urlget User-Agent:. I still have to check that this Host: usage works with
1851 proxies... 'Host:' is required for HTTP/1.1 GET according to RFC2068.
1855 - some little modifications
1859 - Removed the -l option and introduced the -f option instead. Now I'll
1860 rewrite the former -l kludge in an external script that'll use urlget to
1861 fetch multipart files like that.
1862 - '-f' is introduced, it means Fail without output in case of HTTP server
1863 errors (return code >=300).
1864 - Added support for -r, ranges. Specify which part of a document you
1865 want, and only that part is returned. Only with HTTP/1.1-servers.
1866 - Split up the source in 3 parts. Now all pure URL functions are in
1867 urlget.c and stuff that deals with the stand-alone program is in main.c.
1868 - I took a few minutes and wrote an embryo of a README file to explain
1873 - Made the -l (loop) thing use the new CONF_FAILONERROR which makes
1874 urlget() return error code if non-successful. It also won't output anything
1875 then. Now finally removed the HTTP 1.0 and error 404 dependencies.
1876 - Added -I which uses the HEAD request to get the header only from a
1881 - Made the progress meter use HHH:MM:SS instead of only seconds.
1885 - Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and
1886 mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from
1887 really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the
1888 download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which
1889 makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty,
1890 the progress meter is shut off.
1891 - Increased buffer size used for reading.
1892 - Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing.
1893 - Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64
1894 encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in
1895 RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one. To get a
1896 http document from a place that requires user and password, use an URL
1899 http://user:passwd@www.site.to.leach/doc.html
1901 I also added the -u flag, since WHEN USING A PROXY YOU CAN'T SPECIFY THE
1902 USER AND PASSWORD WITH HTTP LIKE THAT. The -u flag works for ftp too, but
1903 not if used with proxy. To do the same as the above one, you can invoke:
1905 urlget -u user:passwd http://www.site.to.leach/doc.html
1909 - Added "-o" option (output file)
1910 - Added URG_HTTP_NOT_FOUND return code.
1912 Perhaps we should detect all kinds of errors and instead of writing that
1913 custom string for the particular 404-error, use the error text we actually
1914 get from the server. See further details in RFC2068 (HTTP 1.1
1915 definition). The current way also relies on a HTTP/1.0 reply, which newer
1916 servers might not do.
1917 - Looping mode ("-l" option). It's easier to get various split files.
1919 Use it like 'urlget -l 1 http://from.this.site/file%d.html', which will
1920 make urlget to attempt to fetch all files named file1.html, file2.html etc
1921 until no more files are found. This is only a modification of the
1922 STAND_ALONE part, nothing in the urlget() function was modfified for this.
1924 - Changed the -h to be -i instead. -h should be preserved to help use.
1925 - Bjorn Reese indicated that Borland _might_ use '_WIN32' instead of the
1926 VC++ WIN32 define and therefore I added a little fix for that.
1930 - The urlget function didn't set the path to url when using proxy.
1931 - Fixed bug with IMC proxy. Now using (almost) complete GET command.
1934 - Made it compile on Solaris. Had to reorganize the includes a bit.
1935 (so Win32, Linux, SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 compile fine.)
1936 - Made Johan's keepalive keyword optional with the -k flag (since it
1937 makes a lot of urlgets take a lot longer time).
1938 - Made a '-h' switch in case you want the HTTP-header in the output.
1941 Daniel Stenberg and Kjell Ericson
1943 - No more global variables
1944 - Mute option (no output at all to stderr)
1945 - Full range of return codes from urlget(), which is now written to be a
1946 function for easy-to-use in [other] programs.
1947 - Define STAND_ALONE to compile the stand alone urlget program
1948 - Now compiles with gcc options -ansi -Wall -pedantic ;)
1951 - Introducing ftp GET support. The FTP URL type is recognized and used.
1952 - Renamed the project to 'urlget'.
1953 - Supports the user+passwd in the FTP URL (otherwise it tries anonymous
1954 login with a weird email address as password).
1958 - The skip_header() crap messed it up big-time. By simply removing that
1959 one we can all of a sudden download anything ;)
1960 - No longer requires a trailing slash on the URLs.
1961 - If the given URL isn't prefixed with 'http://', HTTP is assumed and
1963 - 'void main()' is history.
1967 - The gopher source used the ppath variable instead of path which could
1972 - Well, I added a lame text about the time it took to get the data. I also
1973 fought against Johan to prevent his -f option (to specify a file name
1974 that should be written instead of stdout)! =)
1975 - Made it write 'connection refused' for that particular connect()
1977 - Renumbered the version. Let's not make silly 1.0.X versions, this is
1978 a plain 1.3 instead.
1982 - Discovered and fixed the problem with getting binary files. puts() is
1983 now replaced with fwrite(). (Daniel's note: this also fixed the buffer
1984 overwrite problem I found in the previous version.)
1986 Rafael Sagula <sagula@inf.ufrgs.br>
1987 - Let "-p" before "-x".
1989 Daniel Stenberg <Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se>
1990 - Bugfixed the proxy usage. It should *NOT* use nor strip the port number
1991 from the URL but simply pass that information to the proxy. This also
1992 made the user/password fields possible to use in proxy [ftp-] URLs.
1993 (like in ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README)
1995 Johan Andersson <johan@homemail.com>
1996 - Implemented HTTP proxy support.
1997 - Receive byte counter added.
1999 Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk>
2000 - Implemented URLs (and skipped the old syntax).
2001 - Output is written to stdout, so to achieve the above example, do:
2002 httpget http://143.54.10.6/info_logo.gif > test.gif
2005 Daniel Stenberg <Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se>
2006 - Adjusted it slightly to accept named hosts on the command line. We
2007 wouldn't wanna use IP numbers for the rest of our lifes, would we?
2010 Rafael Sagula <sagula@inf.ufrgs.br>
2011 - Wrote the initial httpget, which started all this!
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