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9 Daniel Fandrich (11 Apr 2009)
10 - Added new libcurl source files to Symbian OS build files.
11 - Improved Symbian support for SSL.
13 Yang Tse (10 Apr 2009)
14 - Daniel Johnson improved the MacOSX-Framework shell script to now perform all
15 the steps required to build a Mac OS X four way fat ppc/i386/ppc64/x86_64
16 libcurl.framework. Four way fat framework requires OS X 10.5 SDK or later.
19 - Removed Sun compilers preprocessor block from curlbuild.h.dist, this also
20 removes it from the curlbuild.h file originally distributed by the cURL
21 project as this file is intended for systems not capable of running the
22 configure script. For those who have been building curl out of the source
23 code curl distribution tarball provided by curl.haxx.se the change implies
24 nothing. Previous change in this area committed 2 Apr becomes irrelevant.
26 Daniel Stenberg (6 Apr 2009)
27 - I clarified in the docs that CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION should return 0 on success
28 and 1 on fatal errors. Previously it only mentioned non-zero on fatal
29 errors. This is a slight change in meaning, but it follows what we've done
30 elsewhere before and it opens up for LOTS of more useful return codes
31 whenever we can think of them...
34 - Fix curl_off_t definition for builds done using Sun compilers and a
35 non-configured libcurl. In this case curl_off_t data type was gated
36 to the off_t data type which depends on the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. This
37 configuration is exactly the unwanted configuration for our curl_off_t
38 data type which must not depend on such setting. This breaks ABI for
39 libcurl libraries built with Sun compilers which were built without
40 having run the configure script with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS different than
41 64 and using the ILP32 data model.
43 Daniel Stenberg (1 Apr 2009)
44 - Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed a NULL pointer use in an infof() call if a
47 Daniel Fandrich (31 Mar 2009)
48 - Properly return an error code in curl_easy_recv (reported by Jim Freeman).
50 Daniel Stenberg (18 Mar 2009)
51 - Kamil Dudka brought a patch that enables 6 additional crypto algorithms when
52 NSS is used. These ciphers were added in NSS 3.4 and require to be enabled
55 Daniel Stenberg (13 Mar 2009)
56 - Use libssh2_version() to present the libssh2 version in case the libssh2
57 library is found to support it.
59 Yang Tse (12 Mar 2009)
60 - Added missing Curl_read() return code checking in TELNET transfers.
62 - Pierre Brico found and fixed TELNET transfers not being aborted upon
63 a write callback failure.
65 Daniel Stenberg (11 Mar 2009)
66 - Kamil Dudka made the curl tool properly call curl_global_init() before any
67 other libcurl function.
69 Yang Tse (11 Mar 2009)
70 - Added missing TELNET timeout support for Windows builds. This issue was
71 reported by Pierre Brico.
73 Daniel Stenberg (9 Mar 2009)
74 - Frank Hempel found out a bug and provided the fix:
76 curl_easy_duphandle did not necessarily duplicate the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
77 option. It only enabled the cookie engine in the destination handle if
78 data->cookies is not NULL (where data is the source handle). In case of a
79 newly initialized handle which just had the cookie support enabled by a
80 curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURL_COOKIEFILE, "")-call, handle->cookies was
81 still NULL because the setopt-call only appends the value to
82 data->change.cookielist, hence duplicating this handle would not have the
83 cookie engine switched on.
85 We also concluded that the slist-functionality would be suitable for being
86 put in its own module rather than simply hanging out in lib/sendf.c so I
87 created lib/slist.[ch] for them.
89 - Andreas Farber made the 'buildconf' script check for the presence of m4
90 scripts to make it detect a bad checkout earlier. People with older
91 checkouts who don't do cvs update with the -d option won't get the new dirs
92 and then will get funny outputs that can be a bit hard to understand and
95 Daniel Stenberg (8 Mar 2009)
96 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a code segment in ssluse.c where the
97 allocation of the memory BIO was not being properly checked.
99 - Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed the gnutls-using code: There are a few places
100 in the gnutls code where we were checking for negative values for errors,
101 when the man pages state that GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS is returned on success and
102 other values indicate error conditions.
104 - Bill Egert pointed out (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2671602) that
105 curl didn't use sprintf() in a way that is documented to work in POSIX but
106 since we use our own printf() code (from libcurl) that shouldn't be a
107 problem. Nonetheless I modified the code to not rely on such particular
108 features and to not cause further raised eyebrowse with no good reason.
110 Daniel Fandrich (5 Mar 2009)
111 - Expanded the security section of the libcurl-tutorial man page to cover
112 more issues for authors to consider when writing robust libcurl-using
115 Yang Tse (5 Mar 2009)
116 - Fixed NTLM authentication memory leak on SSPI enabled Windows builds. This
117 issue was noticed by Chris Deidun.
119 Daniel Fandrich (4 Mar 2009)
120 - Fixed a problem with m4 quoting in the OpenSSL configure check reported
123 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
124 - David James brought a patch that make libcurl close (all) dead connections
125 whenever you attempt to open a new connection.
127 1. After cleaning up a dead connection, "continue" instead of
128 returning FALSE. This ensures that we clean up all dead connections,
129 rather than just cleaning up the first dead connection.
130 2. Move up the cleanup for dead connections so that it occurs for
131 all connections, rather than just the connections which have the same
132 preferences as our current new connection.
134 Version 7.19.4 (3 March 2009)
136 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
137 - David Kierznowski notified us about a security flaw
138 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090303.html also known as CVE-2009-0037) in
139 which previous libcurl versions (by design) can be tricked to access an
140 arbitrary local/different file instead of a remote one when
141 CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. This flaw is now fixed in this release
142 together this the addition of two new setopt options for controlling this
145 o CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS controls what protocols libcurl is allowed to
146 follow to when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. By default, this option
147 excludes the FILE and SCP protocols and thus you nee to explicitly allow
148 them in your app if you really want that behavior.
150 o CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS controls what protocol(s) libcurl is allowed to fetch
151 using the primary URL option. This is useful if you want to allow a user or
152 other outsiders control what URL to pass to libcurl and yet not allow all
153 protocols libcurl may have been built to support.
155 Daniel Stenberg (27 Feb 2009)
156 - Senthil Raja Velu reported a problem when CURLOPT_INTERFACE and
157 CURLOPT_LOCALPORT were used together (the local port bind failed), and
158 Markus Koetter provided the fix!
160 Daniel Stenberg (25 Feb 2009)
161 - As Daniel Fandrich figured out, we must do the GnuTLS initing in the
162 curl_global_init() function to properly maintain the performing functions
163 thread-safe. We've previously (28 April 2007) moved the init to a later time
164 just to avoid it to fail very early when libgcrypt dislikes the situation,
165 but that move was bad and the fix should rather be in libgcrypt or
168 Daniel Stenberg (24 Feb 2009)
169 - Brian J. Murrell found out that Negotiate proxy authentication didn't work.
170 It happened because the code used the struct for server-based auth all the
171 time for both proxy and server auth which of course was wrong.
173 Daniel Stenberg (23 Feb 2009)
174 - After a bug reported by James Cheng I've made curl_easy_getinfo() for
175 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD return
176 -1 if the sizes aren't know. Previously these returned 0, make it impossible
177 to detect the difference between actually zero and unknown.
179 Yang Tse (23 Feb 2009)
180 - Daniel Johnson provided a shell script that will perform all the steps needed
181 to build a Mac OS X fat ppc/i386 or ppc64/x86_64 libcurl.framework
183 Daniel Stenberg (23 Feb 2009)
184 - I renamed everything in the windows builds files that used the name 'curllib'
185 to the proper 'libcurl' as clearly this caused confusion.
187 Yang Tse (20 Feb 2009)
188 - Do not halt compilation when using VS2008 to build a Windows 2000 target.
190 Daniel Stenberg (20 Feb 2009)
191 - Linus Nielsen Feltzing reported and helped me repeat and fix a problem with
192 FTP with the multi interface: when a transfer fails, like when aborted by a
193 write callback, the control connection was wrongly closed and thus not
196 This change is also an attempt to cleanup the code somewhat in this area, as
197 now the FTP code attempts to keep (better) track on pending responses
198 necessary to get read in ftp_done().
200 Daniel Stenberg (19 Feb 2009)
201 - Patrik Thunstrom reported a problem and helped me repeat it. It turned out
202 libcurl did a superfluous 1000ms wait when doing SFTP downloads!
204 We read data with libssh2 while doing the "DO" operation for SFTP and then
205 when we were about to start getting data for the actual file part, the
206 "TRANSFER" part, we waited for socket action (in 1000ms) before doing a
207 libssh2-read. But in this case libssh2 had already read and buffered the
208 data so we ended up always just waiting 1000ms before we get working on the
211 Patrick Monnerat (18 Feb 2009)
212 - FTP downloads (i.e.: RETR) ending with code 550 now return error
213 CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_NOT_FOUND instead of CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE.
215 Daniel Stenberg (17 Feb 2009)
216 - Kamil Dudka made NSS-powered builds compile and run again!
218 - A second follow-up change by Andre Guibert de Bruet to fix a related memory
219 leak like that fixed on the 14th. When zlib returns failure, we need to
220 cleanup properly before returning error.
222 - CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS can now be set to 2 in addition to 1 for
223 plain FTP connections, and it will then allow MKD to fail once and retry the
224 CWD afterwards. This is especially useful if you're doing many simultanoes
225 connections against the same server and they all have this option enabled,
226 as then CWD may first fail but then another connection does MKD before this
227 connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works! The numbers can
228 (should?) now be set with the convenience enums now called
229 CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR and CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY.
231 Tests has proven that if you're making an application that uploads a set of
232 files to an ftp server, you will get a noticable gain in speed if you're
233 using multiple connections and this option will be then be very useful.
235 Daniel Stenberg (14 Feb 2009)
236 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a memory leak in the content encoding
237 code, which could happen on libz errors.
239 Daniel Fandrich (12 Feb 2009)
240 - Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication using GnuTLS.
242 Daniel Stenberg (11 Feb 2009)
243 - CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET was added to allow an application to get to know if
244 the condition in the previous request was unmet. This is typically a time
245 condition set with CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION and was previously not possible to
246 reliably figure out. From bug report #2565128
247 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2565128) filed by Jocelyn Jaubert.
249 Daniel Fandrich (4 Feb 2009)
250 - Don't add the standard /usr/lib or /usr/include paths to LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
251 (respectively) when --with-ssl=/usr is used (patch based on FreeBSD).
253 - Added an explicit buffer limit check in msdosify() (patch based on FreeBSD).
254 This couldn't ever overflow in curl, but might if the code were used
255 elsewhere or under different conditions.
257 Daniel Stenberg (3 Feb 2009)
258 - Hidemoto Nakada provided a small fix that makes it possible to get the
259 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD size from file:// "transfers" with
260 CURLOPT_NOBODY set true.
262 Daniel Stenberg (2 Feb 2009)
263 - Patrick Scott found a rather large memory leak when using the multi
264 interface and setting CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS to something less than the number
265 of handles you add to the multi handle. All the connections that didn't fit
266 in the cache would not be properly disconnected nor freed!
268 - Craig A West brought us: libcurl now defaults to do CONNECT with HTTP
269 version 1.1 instead of 1.0 like before. This change also introduces the new
270 proxy type for libcurl called 'CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0' that then allows apps to
271 switch (back) to CONNECT 1.0 requests. The curl tool also got a --proxy1.0
272 option that works exactly like --proxy but sets CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0.
274 I updated all test cases cases that use CONNECT and I tried to do some using
275 --proxy1.0 and some updated to do CONNECT 1.1 to get both versions run.
277 Daniel Stenberg (31 Jan 2009)
278 - When building with c-ares 1.6.1 (not yet released) or later and IPv6 support
279 enabled, we can now take advantage of its brand new AF_UNSPEC support in
280 ares_gethostbyname(). This makes test case 241 finally run fine for me with
281 this setup since it now parses the "::1 ip6-localhost" line fine in my
284 Daniel Stenberg (30 Jan 2009)
285 - Scott Cantor filed bug report #2550061
286 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2550061) mentioning that I failed to
287 properly make sure that the VC9 makefiles got included in the latest
288 release. I've now fixed the release script and verified it so next release
289 will hopefully include them properly!
291 Daniel Fandrich (30 Jan 2009)
292 - Fixed --disable-proxy for FTP and SOCKS. Thanks to Daniel Egger for
295 Yang Tse (29 Jan 2009)
296 - Introduced curl_sspi.c and curl_sspi.h for the implementation of functions
297 Curl_sspi_global_init() and Curl_sspi_global_cleanup() which previously were
298 named Curl_ntlm_global_init() and Curl_ntlm_global_cleanup() in http_ntlm.c
299 Also adjusted socks_sspi.c to remove the link-time dependency on the Windows
300 SSPI library using it now in the same way as it was done in http_ntlm.c.
302 Daniel Stenberg (28 Jan 2009)
303 - Markus Moeller introduced two new options to libcurl:
304 CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE and CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC to allow libcurl
305 to do GSS-style authentication with SOCKS5 proxies. The curl tool got the
306 options called --socks5-gssapi-service and --socks5-gssapi-nec to enable
309 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jan 2009)
310 - Chad Monroe provided the new CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE option that allows an app
311 to set desired block size to use for TFTP transfers instead of the default
314 - The "-no_ticket" option was introduced in Openssl0.9.8j. It's a flag to
315 disable "rfc4507bis session ticket support". rfc4507bis was later turned
316 into the proper RFC5077 it seems: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077
318 The enabled extension concerns the session management. I wonder how often
319 libcurl stops a connection and then resumes a TLS session. also, sending the
320 session data is some overhead. .I suggest that you just use your proposed
321 patch (which explicitly disables TICKET).
323 If someone writes an application with libcurl and openssl who wants to
324 enable the feature, one can do this in the SSL callback.
326 Sharad Gupta brought this to my attention. Peter Sylvester helped me decide
327 on the proper action.
329 - Alexey Borzov filed bug report #2535504
330 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2535504) pointing out that realms with
331 quoted quotation marks in HTTP Digest headers didn't work. I've now added
332 test case 1095 that verifies my fix.
334 - Craig A West brought CURLOPT_NOPROXY and the corresponding --noproxy option.
335 They basically offer the same thing the NO_PROXY environment variable only
336 offered previously: list a set of host names that shall not use the proxy
337 even if one is specified.
339 Daniel Fandrich (20 Jan 2009)
340 - Call setlocale() for libtest tests to test the effects of locale-induced
341 libc changes on libcurl.
343 - Fixed a couple more locale-dependent toupper conversions, mainly for
344 clarity. This does fix one problem that causes ;type=i FTP URLs
345 to fail in the Turkish locale when CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE is
348 - Added tests 561 and 1091 through 1094 to test various combinations
349 of ;type= and ;mode= URLs that could potentially fail in the Turkish
352 Daniel Stenberg (20 Jan 2009)
353 - Lisa Xu pointed out that the ssh.obj file was missing from the
354 lib/Makefile.vc6 file (and thus from the vc8 and vc9 ones too).
356 Version 7.19.3 (19 January 2009)
358 Daniel Stenberg (16 Jan 2009)
359 - Andrew de los Reyes fixed curlbuild.h for "generic" gcc builds on PPC, both
362 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 2009)
363 - Tim Ansell fixed a compiler warning in lib/cookie.c
365 Daniel Stenberg (14 Jan 2009)
366 - Grant Erickson fixed timeouts for TFTP such that specifying a
367 connect-timeout, a max-time or both options work correctly and as expected
368 by passing the correct boolean value to Curl_timeleft via the
369 'duringconnect' parameter.
371 With this small change, curl TFTP now behaves as expected (and likely as
372 originally-designed):
374 1) For non-existent or unreachable dotted IP addresses:
376 a) With no options, follows the default curl 300s timeout...
377 b) With --connect-timeout only, follows that value...
378 c) With --max-time only, follows that value...
379 d) With both --connect-timeout and --max-time, follows the smaller value...
381 and times out with a "curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server" error.
383 2) For transfers to/from a valid host:
385 a) With no options, follows default curl 300s timeout for the
386 first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the default TFTP 3600s
387 timeout for the remainder of the transfer...
389 b) With --connect-time only, follows that value for the
390 first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the default TFTP 3600s
391 timeout for the remainder of the transfer...
393 c) With --max-time only, follows that value for the first
394 XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and for the remainder of the
397 d) With both --connect-timeout and --max-time, follows the former
398 for the first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the latter for the
399 remainder of the transfer...
401 and times out with a "curl: (28) Timeout was reached" error as
404 Daniel Stenberg (13 Jan 2009)
405 - Michael Wallner fixed a NULL pointer deref when calling
406 curl_easy_setup(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, "SESS") on a CURL handle with no
409 - Stefan Teleman brought a patch to fix the default curlbuild.h file for the
412 Daniel Stenberg (12 Jan 2009)
413 - Based on bug report #2498665 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2498665)
414 by Daniel Black, I've now added magic to the configure script that makes it
415 use pkg-config to detect gnutls details as well if the existing method
416 (using libgnutls-config) fails. While doing this, I cleaned up and unified
417 the pkg-config usage when detecting openssl and nss as well.
419 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 2009)
420 - Karl Moerder brought the patch that creates vc9 Makefiles, and I made
421 'maketgz' now use the actual makefile targets to do the VC8 and VC9
424 Daniel Stenberg (10 Jan 2009)
425 - Emil Romanus fixed:
427 When using the multi interface over HTTP and the server returns a Location
428 header, the running easy handle will get stuck in the CURLM_STATE_PERFORM
429 state, leaving the external event loop stuck waiting for data from the
430 ingoing socket (when using the curl_multi_socket_action stuff). While this
431 bug was pretty hard to find, it seems to require only a one-line fix. The
432 break statement on line 1374 in multi.c caused the function to skip the call
435 How to reproduce this bug? Well, that's another question. evhiperfifo.c in
436 the examples directory chokes on this bug only _sometimes_, probably
437 depending on how fast the URLs are added. One way of testing the bug out is
438 writing to hiper.fifo from more than one source at the same time.
440 Daniel Fandrich (7 Jan 2009)
441 - Unified much of the SessionHandle initialization done in Curl_open() and
442 curl_easy_reset() by creating Curl_init_userdefined(). This had the side
443 effect of fixing curl_easy_reset() so it now also resets
444 CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD and CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE
446 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 2009)
447 - Rob Crittenden did once again provide an NSS update:
449 I have to jump through a few hoops now with the NSS library initialization
450 since another part of an application may have already initialized NSS by the
451 time Curl gets invoked. This patch is more careful to only shutdown the NSS
452 library if Curl did the initialization.
454 It also adds in a bit of code to set the default ciphers if the app that
455 call NSS_Init* did not call NSS_SetDomesticPolicy() or set specific
456 ciphers. One might argue that this lets other application developers get
457 lazy and/or they aren't using the NSS API correctly, and you'd be right.
458 But still, this will avoid terribly difficult-to-trace crashes and is
461 Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2009)
462 - 'reconf' is removed since we rather have users use 'buildconf'
464 Daniel Stenberg (31 Dec 2008)
465 - Bas Mevissen reported http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2479030 pointing
466 out that 'reconf' didn't properly point out the m4 subdirectory when running
469 Daniel Stenberg (29 Dec 2008)
470 - Phil Lisiecki filed bug report #2413067
471 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2413067) that identified a problem that
472 would cause libcurl to mark a DNS cache entry "in use" eternally if the
473 subsequence TCP connect failed. It would thus never get pruned and refreshed
474 as it should've been.
476 Phil provided his own patch to this problem that while it seemed to work
477 wasn't complete and thus I wrote my own fix to the problem.
479 Daniel Stenberg (28 Dec 2008)
480 - Peter Korsgaard fixed building libcurl with "configure --with-ssl
483 - Anthony Bryan fixed more language and spelling flaws in man pages.
485 Daniel Stenberg (22 Dec 2008)
486 - Given a recent enough libssh2, libcurl can now seek/resume with SFTP even
487 on file indexes beyond 2 or 4GB.
489 - Anthony Bryan provided a set of patches that cleaned up manual language,
490 corrected spellings and more.
492 Daniel Stenberg (20 Dec 2008)
493 - Igor Novoseltsev fixed a bad situation for the multi_socket() API when doing
494 pipelining, as libcurl could then easily get confused and A) work on the
495 handle that was not "first in queue" on a pipeline, or even B) tell the app
496 to REMOVE a socket while it was in use by a second handle in a pipeline. Both
497 errors caused hanging or stalling applications.
499 Daniel Stenberg (19 Dec 2008)
500 - curl_multi_timeout() could return a timeout value of 0 even though nothing
501 was actually ready to get done, as the internal time resolution is higher
502 than the returned millisecond timer. Therefore it could cause applications
503 running on fast processors to do short bursts of busy-loops.
504 curl_multi_timeout() will now only return 0 if the timeout is actually
507 - Using the libssh2 0.19 function libssh2_session_block_directions(), libcurl
508 now has an improved ability to do right when the multi interface (both
509 "regular" and multi_socket) is used for SCP and SFTP transfers. This should
510 result in (much) less busy-loop situations and thus less CPU usage with no
513 Daniel Stenberg (17 Dec 2008)
514 - SCP and SFTP with the multi interface had the same flaw: the 'DONE'
515 operation didn't complete properly if the EAGAIN equivalent was returned but
516 libcurl would simply continue with a half-completed close operation
517 performed. This ruined persistent connection re-use and cause some
518 SSH-protocol errors in general. The correction is unfortunately adding a
519 blocking function - doing it entirely non-blocking should be considered for
522 Gisle Vanem (16 Dec 2008)
523 - Added the possibility to use the Watt-32 tcp/ip stack under Windows.
524 The change simply involved adding a USE_WATT32 section in the
525 config-win32.h files (under ./lib and ./src). This section disables
526 the use of any Winsock headers.
528 Daniel Stenberg (16 Dec 2008)
529 - libssh2_sftp_last_error() was wrongly used at some places in libcurl which
530 made libcurl sometimes not properly abort problematic SFTP transfers.
532 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2008)
533 - More work with Igor Novoseltsev to first fix the remaining stuff for
534 removing easy handles from multi handles when the easy handle is/was within
535 a HTTP pipeline. His bug report #2351653
536 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2351653) was also related and was
537 eventually fixed by a patch by Igor himself.
539 Yang Tse (12 Dec 2008)
540 - Patrick Monnerat fixed a build regression, introduced in 7.19.2, affecting
541 OS/400 compilations with IPv6 enabled.
543 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2008)
544 - Mark Karpeles filed bug report #2416182 titled "crash in ConnectionExists
545 when using duphandle+curl_mutli"
546 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2416182) which showed that
547 curl_easy_duphandle() wrongly also copied the pointer to the connection
548 cache, which was plain wrong and caused a segfault if the handle would be
549 used in a different multi handle than the handle it was duplicated from.
551 Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
552 - Keshav Krity found out that libcurl failed to deal with dotted IPv6
553 addresses if they were very long (>39 letters) due to a too strict address
554 validity parser. It now accepts addresses up to 45 bytes long.
556 Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
557 - Internet Explorer had a broken HTTP digest authentication before v7 and
558 there are servers "out there" that relies on the client doing this broken
559 Digest authentication. Apache even comes with an option to work with such
562 The difference is only for URLs that contain a query-part (a '?'-letter and
563 text to the right of it).
565 libcurl now supports this quirk, and you enable it by setting the
566 CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit in the bitmask you pass to the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH or
567 CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH options. They are thus individually controlled to server
570 (note that there's no way to activate this with the curl tool yet)
572 Daniel Fandrich (9 Dec 2008)
573 - Added test cases 1089 and 1090 to test --write-out after a redirect to
574 test a report that the size didn't work, but these test cases pass.
576 - Documented CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY as being useful only on HTTP URLs.
578 Daniel Stenberg (9 Dec 2008)
579 - Ken Hirsch simplified how libcurl does FTPS: now it doesn't assume any
580 particular state for the control connection like it did before for implicit
581 FTPS (libcurl assumed such control connections to be encrypted while some
582 FTPS servers such as FileZilla assumes such connections to be clear
583 mode). Use the CURLOPT_USE_SSL option to set your desired level.
585 Daniel Stenberg (8 Dec 2008)
586 - Fred Machado posted about a weird FTP problem on the curl-users list and when
587 researching it, it turned out he got a 550 response back from a SIZE command
588 and then I fell over the text in RFC3659 that says:
590 The presence of the 550 error response to a SIZE command MUST NOT be taken
591 by the client as an indication that the file cannot be transferred in the
592 current MODE and TYPE.
594 In other words: the change I did on September 30th 2008 and that has been
595 included in the last two releases were a regression and a bad idea. We MUST
596 NOT take a 550 response from SIZE as a hint that the file doesn't exist.
598 - Christian Krause filed bug #2221237
599 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2221237) that identified an infinite
600 loop during GSS authentication given some specific conditions. With his
601 patience and great feedback I managed to narrow down the problem and
602 eventually fix it although I can't test any of this myself!
604 Daniel Fandrich (3 Dec 2008)
605 - Fixed the getifaddrs version of Curl_if2ip to work on systems without IPv6
608 Daniel Stenberg (3 Dec 2008)
609 - Igor Novoseltsev filed bug #2351645
610 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2351645) that identified a problem with
611 the multi interface that occured if you removed an easy handle while in
612 progress and the handle was used in a HTTP pipeline.
614 - Pawel Kierski pointed out a mistake in the cookie code that could lead to a
615 bad fclose() after a fatal error had occured.
616 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2382219)
618 Daniel Fandrich (25 Nov 2008)
619 - If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, the HTTP test
620 server adds 1 to num to get the data section to return. This allows
621 testing authentication negotiations using the Basic authentication
624 - Added tests 1087 and 1088 to test Basic authentication on a redirect
625 with and without --location-trusted
627 Daniel Stenberg (24 Nov 2008)
628 - Based on a patch by Vlad Grachov, libcurl now uses a new libssh2 0.19
629 function when built to support SCP and SFTP that helps the library to know
630 in which direction a particular libssh2 operation would return EAGAIN so
631 that libcurl knows what socket conditions to wait for before trying the
632 function call again. Previously (and still when using libssh2 0.18 or
633 earlier), libcurl will busy-loop in this situation when the easy interface
636 Daniel Fandrich (20 Nov 2008)
637 - Automatically detect OpenBSD's CA cert bundle.
639 Daniel Stenberg (19 Nov 2008)
640 - I removed the default use of "Pragma: no-cache" from libcurl when a proxy is
641 used. It has been used since forever but it was never a good idea to use
642 unless explicitly asked for.
644 - Josef Wolf's extension that allows a $TESTDIR/gdbinit$testnum file that when
645 you use runtests.pl -g, will be sourced by gdb to allow additional fancy or
648 - Christian Krause reported and fixed a memory leak that would occur with HTTP
649 GSS/kerberos authentication (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2284386)
651 - Andreas Wurf and Markus Koetter helped me analyze a problem that Andreas got
652 when uploading files to a single FTP server using multiple easy handle
653 handles with the multi interface. Occasionally a handle would stall in
656 The problem turned out to be a side-effect of the ConnectionExists()
657 function's eagerness to re-use a handle for HTTP pipelining so it would
658 select it even if already being in use, due to an inadequate check for its
659 chances of being used for pipelnining.
661 Daniel Fandrich (17 Nov 2008)
662 - Added more compiler warning options for gcc 4.3
664 Yang Tse (17 Nov 2008)
665 - Fix a remaining problem in the inet_pton() runtime configure check. And
666 fix internal Curl_inet_pton() failures to reject certain malformed literals.
668 - Make configure script check if ioctl with the SIOCGIFADDR command can be
669 used, and define HAVE_IOCTL_SIOCGIFADDR if appropriate.
671 Daniel Stenberg (16 Nov 2008)
672 - Christian Krause fixed a build failure when building with gss support
673 enabled and FTP disabled.
675 - Added check for NULL returns from strdup() in src/main.c and lib/formdata.c
676 - reported by Jim Meyering also prevent buffer overflow on MSDOS when you do
677 for example -O on a url with a file name part longer than PATH_MAX letters
679 - lib/nss.c fixes based on the report by Jim Meyering: I went over and added
680 checks for return codes for all calls to malloc and strdup that were
681 missing. I also changed a few malloc(13) to use arrays on the stack and a
682 few malloc(PATH_MAX) to instead use aprintf() to lower memory use.
684 - I fixed a memory leak in Curl_nss_connect() when CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT is
687 Daniel Fandrich (14 Nov 2008)
688 - Added .xml as one of the few common file extensions known by the multipart
691 - Added some #ifdefs around header files and change the EAGAIN test to
692 fix compilation on Cell (reported by Jeff Curley).
694 Yang Tse (14 Nov 2008)
695 - Fixed several configure script issues affecting checks for inet_ntoa_r(),
696 inet_ntop(), inet_pton(), getifaddrs(), fcntl() and getaddrinfo().
698 Yang Tse (13 Nov 2008)
699 - Refactored configure script detection of functions used to set sockets into
700 non-blocking mode, and decouple function detection from function capability.
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