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10 - I made curl support multiple -T options, as well as -T "{file1,file2}"
11 style globbing. One -T for each URL is supported.
13 - Jeff Pohlmeyer found a segfault when using ares-enabled libcurl and the
14 multi interface when trying a non-existing host name. Now
16 - Made the libcurl printf code support long longs if available.
18 - Loren Kirkby pointed out that we did not clean up all SSL-allocated memory
19 in curl_global_cleanup().
22 - Setting CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or CURLOPT_READFUNCTION to NULL will now make
23 them get the internal defaults restored. Previously this could cause a
26 Version 7.10.7 (15 August 2003)
29 - I modified the memdebug system to return failure on memory allocation
30 functions after a set amount of successful ones. This enables us to test
31 out-of-memory situations in a controlled manner and we can make sure that
32 curl/libcurl behaves good in those.
34 This made me find and fix several spots where we did not cleanup properly
35 when bailing out due to errors (low memory).
37 - Corrected test case 74. Made using -o with bad #[num] codes complain and
38 bail out. Made #[num] support numbers larger than 9 as well. Added test
39 case 86 for a proper range globbing test as well.
41 Version 7.10.7-pre4 (12 August 2003)
44 - curl_version_info() now returns a flag if libcurl was built with asynch DNS
45 support, and this is now also displayed with 'curl -V'.
47 - Added a few new man pages to the docs/libcurl dir: curl_share_init,
48 curl_share_setopt, curl_share_cleanup, libcurl-easy and libcurl-share.
51 - Mike Cherepov made the local binding code work for Windows, which makes
52 the option CURLOPT_INTERFACE work on Windows as well.
54 - Vincent Sanders updated the fopen.c example code a lot.
56 - --proxy-ntlm is now supported by the curl tool. It forces the proxy
57 authentication to be made using NTLM. It does not yet work for HTTPS over
58 proxies (or other proxy-tunneling options). Test case 81 and 82 do some
59 simple initial ntlm testing.
61 - Found and fixed a minor memory leak on re-used connections with
64 - I removed -@ and -Z as valid short options. They were very rarely used (@
65 wasn't even documented).
67 - Serge Semashko introduced CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, and make it work when set to
68 CURLAUTH_NTLM and/or CURLAUTH_BASIC. The PROXAUTH is similar to HTTPAUTH,
69 but is for the proxy connection only, and HTTPAUTH is for the remote host.
71 - Fixed loading of cookies with blank contents from a cookie jar. Also made the
72 cookie functions inform on added and skipped cookies (for cookie debugging).
74 Version 7.10.7-pre3 (8 August 2003)
77 - Applied David Byron's fix for file:// URLs with drive letters included.
79 - I added the --ftp-create-dirs to the client code, which activates Early's
80 CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS option, and wrote test case 147 to verify
81 it. Added the option to the curl.1 man page too. Added the option to the
82 curl_easy_setopt.3 man page too.
85 - Test case 60 failed on ia64 and AMD Opteron. Fixed now.
87 - Fixed a printf problem that resulted in urlglobbing bugs (bug #203827 in the
88 debian bug tracker). Added test case 74 to verify the fix and to discover if
89 this breaks in the future.
91 - "make distcheck" works again.
93 Version 7.10.7-pre2 (6 August 2003)
96 - Duncan Wilcox helped me verify that the latest incarnation of my ares patch
97 builds fine on Mac OS X (see the new lib/README.ares) file for all details.
99 - Salvatore Sorrentino filed bug report #783116 and Early Ehlinger posted a
100 bug report to the libcurl list, both identifying a problem with FTP
101 persitent connections and how the dir hiearchy was not properly reset
104 - David Byron's thoughts on a fixed Makefile in tests/ were applied.
106 - Jan Sundin reported a case where curl ignored a cookie that browsers don't,
107 which turned up to be due to the number of dots in the 'domain'. I've now
108 made curl follow the the original netscape cookie spec less strict on that
112 - Dirk Manske added cookie support for the experimental, hidden and still
113 undocumented share feature!
115 - Mark Fletcher provided an excellent bug report that identified a problem
116 with FOLLOWLOCATION and chunked transfer-encoding, as libcurl would not
117 properly ignore the body contents of 3XX response that included the
121 - Added option CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS
122 This option will force the target file's path to be created if it
123 does not already exist on the remote system.
126 - include/curl/curl.h
127 Added option CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS
129 Added function ftp_mkd, which issues a MKD command
130 Added function ftp_force_cwd, which attempts a CWD,
131 and does a MKD and retries the CWD if the original CWD
133 Modified ftp_perform() to call its change directory function
134 through a pointer. The pointer points to ftp_cwd by default,
135 and is modified to point to ftp_force_cwd IFF
136 data->set.ftp_create_missing_dirs is not 0.
138 Modified Curl_setopt to recognize CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS
140 Added ftp_create_missing_dirs to struct UserDefined
142 - Minor Bugfix for CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION with FTP - if the file was not
143 present to do the time comparison, it would fail.
146 In ftp_perform(), the call to ftp_getfiletime() used to be followed
150 And then by the code that actually did the time comparison.
151 The code that did the comparison handled the case where the filetime
152 was not available (as indicated by info.filetime < 0 or set.timevalue
153 < 0), so I replaced the if (result) return result with a switch(result)
154 that allows CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE to fall through to the
155 normal time comparison.
158 - When proxy authentication is used in a CONNECT request (as used for all SSL
159 connects and otherwise enforced tunnel-thru-proxy requests), the same
160 authentication header is also wrongly sent to the remote host.
162 This is a rather significant info leak. I've fixed it now and mailed a patch
163 and warning to the mailing lists.
166 - David Byron provided a patch to make 7.10.6 build correctly with the
167 compressed hugehelp.c source file.
169 Version 7.10.7-pre1 (31 July 2003)
172 - Jörg Müller-Tolk updated the VC makefile.
174 - Daniel Noguerol made the ftp code output "Accept-Ranges: bytes" in similar
175 style like other faked HTTP headers when NOBODY and HEADER are used. I
176 updated two corresponding test cases too.
178 - Marty Kuhrt pointed out a compilation problem on VMS due to my having
179 changed a type from long to time_t, and I'm now changing it back to work
182 He also indicated that distributing the src/hugehelp.c in a compressed state
183 like I acccidentally did may not be the smartest move... I've now fixed the
184 distribute procudere to automaticly generate an uncompressed version when I
185 make release archives.
188 - Gisle Vanem brought changes to the mkhelp script for the generation of the
189 compressed help text on some platforms.
191 Version 7.10.6 (28 July 2003)
194 - François Pons brought a patch that once again made curl deal with ftp and
195 "double slash" as indicating the root directory. In the RFC1738-fix of April
196 30, that ability was removed (since it is not the "right" way). So, starting
197 now we can list the root dir of an ftp server both these ways:
199 curl ftp://server.com/%2f as well as
200 curl ftp://server.com//
203 - Henry Bland pointed out that we included sys/resource.h without good reason
204 in several source files. Without it included, QNX builds better...
206 - Andrés García updated the mingw makefiles.
209 - Tracy Boehrer experienced DNS cache problems and did some nice debugging
210 and tracking which made it easy for me to correct the problem and Tracy
211 could verify that it did cure the problem! When re-using a connection we
212 now make sure we don't re-use the 'connect_addr' struct.
214 - Daniel Kouril corrected the GSS-Negotiate code.
216 - Juan F. Codagnone provided fixes to allow curl to build fine on Windows
220 - Edited the curl/curl.h include file to build on Windows properly.
223 - Moved the proxy credentials from the SessionHandle struct to the connectdata
224 struct, to make multiple proxy connections with differerent user names work.
226 - Adjusted the NTLM code to support proxy functionality.
228 - Made the krb4 stuff compile with the user+password fields moved.
230 Version 7.10.6-pre4 (21 July 2003)
233 - David Gardner pointed out in bug report 770755 that using the FTP command
234 CWD with a blank argument is a bad idea and I made libcurl skip empty path
235 segments starting now.
238 - Cris pointed out that my fix on July 16th didn't work fully. His pointing
239 out this (and his patch) also made me realize that we have a very similar
240 bug in the FTP connection re-use code. We must store a separate user and
241 password field for each connection we keep (at least for FTP and HTTP+NTLM
242 connections, so I made us do this unconditionally).
244 - Since NTLM authenticates connections instead of single requests, I had to
245 re-arrange how we store the NTLM data and I had to improve the test suite to
246 finally work properly with persistancy to make the NTLM tests run fine
247 again. This also forced me to have to update lots of HTTP test cases.
250 - Cris Bailiff's bug report 768275 pointed out that using Basic auth with
251 wrong user+password caused an endless loop. Fixed now. He also found out that
252 we didn't properly authenticate connections with NTLM. Fixed too.
254 - Dan Winship provided fixes for the NTLM code.
257 - Doug Kaufman provided additional fixes for the DOS port.
260 - Rick Richardson pointed out that using setvbuf() to achive non-buffering
261 on output is no-good for SCO Xenix and other unixes. We switched over to
262 using plain fflush() instead.
264 - Dan Grayson pointed out that we set the CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable wrongly in
265 the configure script, and I had to change some build stuff to make the new
268 - Peter Sylvester's patch was applied that introduces the following:
270 CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION to set a callback that gets called with the
271 OpenSSL's ssl_ctx pointer passed in and allow a callback to act on it. If
272 anything but CURLE_OK is returned, that will also be returned by libcurl
273 all the way back. If this function changes the CURLOPT_URL, libcurl will
274 detect this and instead go use the new URL.
276 CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_DATA is a pointer you set to get passed to the callback set
277 with CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.
280 - David Byron provided a patch that allows a client to quit the test suite's
283 - Gisle Vanem found and patched a lib handle leak in the ldap code.
286 - More NTLM-improvements. Less code. Smaller packets back and forth.
289 - Eric Glass provided us with a better doc on NTLM details, and I added more
290 comments and clarified the current code more. Using the new knowledge, we
291 should be able to make the NTLM stuff work even better.
292 Eric's original URL: http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html
293 Version stored and provided at curl site: http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/ntlm.html
295 - Fixed the minor compile problems pre3 had if built without GSSAPI and/or
298 Version 7.10.6-pre3 (19 June 2003)
301 - Made curl use curl_free() on memory returned by curl_getenv(), as this
302 should theoreticly make it possibly to build and run curl and libcurl with
303 different memory allocation schemes with no problems.
306 - Improved the mkhelp.pl a bit further to make a nicer hugehelp text and to
307 include a better comment in the top for the gzip compressed version.
310 - CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH is now a bitmask, in which you set which authentication
311 type(s) you want to use. If more than one is set, libcurl will use one of
312 the selected one and the one it considers is more secure. Test case 67 and
313 68 (for NTLM) were fixed and we've reduced a round-trip for specific --ntlm
314 featches, and test case 69 and 70 were added for testing authentication
315 "picking". --anyauth is the new command line tool option, and I also added
316 --basic for completeness (that's the default type).
318 - Fixed the runtests.pl script to use the info provided by the new curl -V
321 - --enable-debug now sets the CURLDEBUG define instead of MALLOCDEBUG, as it
322 is meant to be a generic debug conditional.
324 - curl_version_info() can now return CURL_VERSION_DEBUG as a feature bit, to
325 indicate that the library was built with CURLDEBUG set.
327 - Ralph Mitchell found out that some web applications very badly uses white
328 spaces in Location: redirects, and apparently IE is a browser (the only
329 one?) that supports this abomination. Based on Ralph's patch, I added code
330 that now attempts to replace white spaces with the proper "%20" or "+".
331 Test case 40 and 42 were added to verify my changes.
333 - curl -V now also outputs a list of features the available library offers (if
336 - The curl_version() string now includes "GSS" if libcurl is built with GSSAPI
339 - David Orrell reported that libcurl still crashed when sending HUGE requests
340 over HTTPS... I fixed.
342 Version 7.10.6-pre2 (16 June 2003)
345 - curl_version_info() now returns bitmasked information weather NTLM and
346 GSSNEGOTIATE are supported, since it is doomed to vary on different
349 - I remade the HTTP Digest code to use the MD5-code provided by OpenSSL if
350 that is present, and only use our own MD5-code if it isn't.
353 - More NTLM help, fixes and patches from Cris Bailiff.
355 - Marty Kuhrt brought include fixes for making VMS builds warning-free.
358 - NTLM authentication works somewhat against the test servers provided by
359 Mathias Axelsson and Cris Bailiff. Use by setting CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH to
360 CURLAUTH_NTLM to libcurl, or --ntlm for the curl tool. Test case 67 and 68
361 were added for this. NTLM-support requires OpenSSL.
363 - Dan Fandrich provided a patch, that granted that gzip and libz are available
364 at build-time, compresses the hugehelp text in the curl command line and
365 uncompresses it at request. Saves some ~60K in the final output executable.
368 - Long day of fighting the NTLM demons.
371 - Modified how to set auth type to libcurl. Now use CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH instead,
372 and pick method. Supported ones currently are:
373 CURLAUTH_BASIC - default selection
374 CURLAUTH_DIGEST - formerly CURLOPT_HTTPDIGEST
375 CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE
377 - Daniel Kouril added HTTP GSS-Negotiate authentication support, as defined in
378 the IETF draft draft-brezak-spnego-http-04.txt. In use already by various
379 Microsoft web applications. --negotiate is the new family member. To take
380 advantage of this, you need one of these packages:
382 o Heimdal Kerberos5 http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/heimdal.html
383 o GSSAPI from Globus http://www.globus.org/
384 o GSSAPI libraries from MIT Kerberos5 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
386 - A missing ending bracket (']') while doing URL globbing could lead to a
387 segfault. While fixing this, I also introduced better error reporting in the
388 globbing code. (All this is application code outside libcurl.)
391 - David Orrell found out that sending a huge GET request over HTTPS could
392 make libcurl fail and return an error code.
395 - Richard Bramante found out that "Content-Length: 0" was not properly used by
396 libcurl if the response-headers indicated that the connection would be
399 - David Byron's patch was applied, that makes the --progress-bar take the
400 local size into account when doing resumed downloads.
402 - Feedback from Serge Semashko made me change the error message returned when
403 CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR is returned.
405 - Anonymous in bug report #745122 pointed out that we should really be using
406 SSL_CTX_set_options(... SSL_OP_ALL) to work around flaws in existing SSL
410 - Andreas Ley and Rich Gray helped me point out that no version of HP-UX has
411 the sys/select.h header file so including it unconditionally in curl/multi.h
412 is not a good thing. Now we check for HPUX and avoid using that header on
415 - Rudy Koento experienced problems with curl's recent habit of POSTing data in
416 two separate send() calls, first the headers and then the data. I've now
417 made a fix that for static and known content that is less than 100K in size,
418 everything is now sent in one single system call again. This is also better
419 for network performance reasons.
421 - I modified the main makefile to not build the test suite and a few other
422 unnecessary things by default. Now, the test suite is built when 'make test'
423 is run. This reduces build time for those who don't care for the test
424 suite, and it also reduces confusion for people using platforms where the
425 test suite build fails!
428 - Chris Lewis pointed out a flaw in the #ifdefs in curl/multi.h for Windows,
429 which is now corrected.
431 - Jis Joy found another flaw in the SOCK5 code, as libcurl treated the socks5
432 proxy a little too much like as if it was a http proxy.
435 - Ricardo Cadime found a socket leak when listing directories without
436 contents. Test cases 144 and 145 were added to verify the fix.
438 - Rudy Koento found yet another problem when a HTTP server returns only a
439 single-line of contents without any headers at all. libcurl then failed to
440 count the data, thus returning error 52 "no contents". Test case 66 was
441 added to verify that we now do right.
443 Version 7.10.6-pre1 (23 May 2003)
446 - Jis in bug report #741841, fixed a bug in the SOCKS5 proxy-using code.
449 - David Remahl set up a test-server for me providing Digest authentication,
450 and I wrote the first working code that support it. The test suite was
451 modified slightly as well to work better for it and --digest was added to
452 the command line options (and CURLOPT_HTTPDIGEST to the library)... RFC2617
453 has all the gory details.
456 - David Balazic pointed out that curl_unescape() didn't check that %-codes
457 were correctly followed by two hexadecimal digits when it unescape strings.
458 Now, we do the check and only %XX codes are unescaped if the X letters are
461 - Gisle Vanem made curl build with djgpp on DOS.
463 - Gisle Vanem improved the mkhelp.pl script to make a nicer manual that is
467 - Gisle Vanem provided a fix that makes libcurl more conservative, not
468 expecting h_aliases of the hostent struct to always be non-NULL.
471 - As requested by Martin Michlmayr in Debian bug report #193630, libcurl now
472 supports user name and password in the proxy environment variables. Added
473 test case 63 to verify this.
475 Version 7.10.5 (19 May 2003)
478 - Changed the order for the in_addr_t testing, as 'unsigned long' seems to be
479 a very common type inet_addr() returns.
482 - George Comninos provided a fix that calls the progress meter when waiting
483 for FTP command responses take >1 second. It'll make applications more
484 "responsive" even when dealing with very slow ftp servers.
487 - George Comninos pointed out that libcurl uploads had two quirks:
488 o when using FTP PORT command, it used blocking sockets!
489 o it could loop a long time without doing progress meter updates
490 Both items are fixed now.
493 - Dan Fandrich changed CURLOPT_ENCODING to select all supported encodings if
494 set to "". This frees the application from having to know which encodings
495 the library supports.
497 - Dan Fandrich pointed out we had three unnecessary files in CVS that is
498 generated with libtoolize, so they're now removed and libtoolize is invoked
499 accordingly in the buildconf script.
501 - Avery Fay found out that the CURLOPT_INTERFACE way of first checking if the
502 given name is a network interface gave a real performance penalty on Linux,
503 so now we more appropriately first check if it is an IP number and if so
504 we don't check for a network interface with that name.
506 - CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT added. Set this to FALSE to disable libcurl's attempts
507 to use EPRT and LPRT before the traditional PORT command. The command line
508 tool sets this option with '--disable-eprt'.
510 Version 7.10.5-pre2 (6 May 2003)
513 - Kevin Delafield reported another case where we didn't correctly check for
514 EAGAIN but only EWOULDBLOCK, which caused badness on HPUX.
517 - Ben Greear noticed that the check for 'writable argv' exited the configure
518 script when run for cross-compiling, which wasn't nice. Now it'll default to
519 no and output a warning about the fact that it was not checked for.
522 - Added test case 62 and fixed some more on the cookie sending with a custom
526 - Andy Cedilnik fixed a few compiler warnings.
528 - Made the "SSL read error: 5" error message more verbose, by adding code that
529 queries the OpenSSL library to fill in the error buffer.
532 - Added sys/select.h include in the curl/multi.h file, after having been
533 reminded about this by Rich Gray.
535 - I made each test set its own server requirements, thus abandoning the
536 previous system where the test number implied what server(s) to use for a
539 - David Balazic made curl more RFC1738-compliant for FTP URLs, by fixing so
540 that libcurl now uses one CWD command for each path part. A bunch of test
541 cases were fixed to work accordingly.
545 A. Save domains in jars like Mozilla does. It means all domains set in
546 Set-Cookie: headers are dot-prefixed.
547 B. Save and use the 'tailmatch' field in the Mozilla/Netscape cookie jars
549 C. Reject cookies using illegal domains in the Set-Cookie: line. Concerns
550 both domains with too few dots or domains that are outside the currently
551 operating server host's domain.
552 D. Set the path part by default to the one used in the request, if none was
553 set in the Set-Cookie line.
555 To make item C really good, I also made libcurl notice custom Host: headers
556 and extract the host name set in there and use that as the host name for the
557 site we're getting the cookies from. This allows user to specify a site's
558 IP-address, but still be able to receive and send its cookies properly if
559 you provide a valid Host: name for the site.
562 - Peter Kovacs provided a patch that makes the CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME work fine
563 when using the multi interface (too).
565 Version 7.10.5-pre1 (23 Apr 2003)
568 - Upgraded to libtool 1.5.
571 - Peter Sylvester pointed out that curl_easy_setopt() will always (wrongly)
572 return CURLE_OK no matter what happens.
574 - Dan Fandrich fixed some gzip decompression bugs and flaws.
577 - Fixed minor typo in man page, reported in the Debian bug tracker.
580 - Fixed some FTP tests in the test suite that failed on my Solaris host, due
581 to the config.h not being included before the system headers. When done that
582 way, it did get a mixed sense of if big files are supported or not and then
583 stat() and fstat() (as used in test case 505) got confused and failed to
584 return a proper file size.
586 - Formposting a file using a .html suffix is now properly set to Content-Type: text/html.
589 - Fixed the SSL error handling to return proper SSL error messages again, they
590 broke in 7.10.4. I also attempt to track down CA cert problems and then
591 return the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code.
593 - The curl tool now intercepts the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code and displays
594 a fairly big and explanatory error message. Kevin Roth helped me out with
598 - Nic Hines provided a second patch for gzip decompression, and fixed a bug
599 when deflate or gzip contents were downloaded using chunked encoding.
601 - Dan Fandrich made libcurl support automatic decompression of gzip contents
602 (as an addition to the previous deflate support).
604 - I made the CWD command during FTP session consider all 2xy codes to be OK
608 - Vlad Krupin fixed a URL parsing issue. URLs that were not using a slash
609 after the host name, but still had "?" and parameters appended, as in
610 "http://hostname.com?foobar=moo", were not properly parsed by libcurl.
613 - Made CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION work for FTP transfers, using the same syntax as
614 for HTTP. This then made -z work for ftp transfers too. Added test case 139
615 and 140 for verifying this.
617 - Getting the file date of an ftp file used the wrong time zone when
618 displayed. It is supposedly always GMT. Added test case 141 for this.
620 - Made the test suite's FTP server support MDTM.
622 - The default DEBUGFUNCTION, as enabled with CURLOPT_VERBOSE now outputs
623 CURLINFO_HEADER_IN data as well. The most notable effect from this is that
624 using curl -v, you get to see the incoming "headers" as well. This is
625 perhaps most useful when doing ftp.
628 - James Bursa fixed a flaw in the Content-Type extraction code, which missed
629 the first letter if no space followed the colon.
631 - Magnus Nilsson pointed out that share.c was missing in the MSVC project
635 - Ryan Weaver provided a patch that makes the CA cert bundle not get installed
636 anymore when 'configure --without-ssl' has been used.
639 - Martijn Broenland found another cases where a server application didn't
640 like the boundary string used by curl when foing a multi-part/formpost. We
641 modified the boundary string to look like the one IE uses, as this is
642 probably gonna make curl work with more applications.
645 - Kevin Roth reported that a bunch of tests fails on cygwin. One set fails
646 when using perl 5.8 (and they run fine with perl 5.6), and another set
647 failed because of an artifact in the test suite's FTP server that I
648 corrected. It turned out the FTP server code was still having a file opened
649 while the main test script removed it and invoked the HTTP server that
650 attempted to create the same file name of the file the FTP server kept open.
651 This operation works fine on unix, but not on cygwin.
653 Version 7.10.4 (2 Apr 2003)
656 - Added test case 505 to exercise FTP upload with rename done with libcurl,
657 and for that I had to extend the test suite's FTP server to deal with the
658 RNFR and RNTO commands.
661 - Even more SSL config check modifications after Richard's testing.
663 Version 7.10.4-pre6 (31 Mar 2003)
666 - More fixes for the SSL session ID cache checks when SSL configs are changed
667 between connections. Based on tests and talks with Richard Bramante.
669 - Guillaume Cottenceau provided a patch that added CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.
670 When enabled, it will prevent libcurl from limiting to which host it sends
671 user+password to when following locations. By default, libcurl only sends
672 name and password to the original host used in the first URL, but with this
673 option set it will send the auth info to all hosts it follows location
674 headers to. The new tool command line option for this is named
675 "--location-trusted".
677 - Frankie Fong reported a problem with libcurl if you re-used an easy handle
678 with a proxy, and you first made a https:// connction to a host and then
679 switched to a http:// one to the same host. libcurl would then wrongly re-use
680 the same connection for it and fail to get the second URL properly
683 - Dan Shearer's fix that makes curl complain if invoked with nothing but "curl
687 - Bryan Kemp was friendly enough to lend me an account on his Redhat 9 box and
688 I could fix the configure problems on redhat 8.1 and 9 in no time thanks to
689 this. Thanks a bunch Bryan!
692 - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac
694 Version 7.10.4-pre5 (25 Mar 2003)
697 - Richard Bramante provided a fix for a handle re-use problem seen when you
698 change options on an SSL-enabled connection between requests. Previously,
699 changing peer verification or host verification and similar things was not
700 taken into account when a connection were checked for re-use and thus
701 enabling stricter check between requests on a re-used connection made no
702 difference and the connection would thus be used erroneously.
705 - Götz Babin-Ebell pointed out that the ca-bundle.crt file contained a
706 certificate from Trustcenter that was a demo certificate only that was never
707 indended to be part of a CA bundle.
710 - Life is a mystery. Within a time period of 17 hours, Tim Pope and Michael
711 Churchill filed one bug report each, both identifying problems with a second
712 transfer when doing persistant transfers re-using a connection. Tim's one is
713 #706624, labeled "Multiple uploads per handle fail" and Michael's #707003
714 "Does not send Authorization: header when reusing connection". I could track
715 both down to the same piece of logic and it turned out libcurl was not using
716 new settings properly when re-using an existing connection. This concerned
717 both uploading and downloading and involved exactly those pieces these two
718 reports identified. This code has been this faulty since the day I
719 introduced persistant connection support in libcurl, more than 2 years ago.
722 - Five year anniversary. Today five years ago, the first ever curl release saw
726 - Andy Cedilnik corrected flaws in some libcurl example-usage sources.
729 - Juan F. Codagnone reported that the fix from March 2nd was incomplete.
731 - Added code to the configure.in to check for select() argument types. I've
732 not made any code use the results just yet though.
735 - Gisle Vanem provided two patches to build better on Windows.
737 - Adjusted the test suite code to better make sure that the server(s) required
738 for a specific test is properly started before the test case is attempted.
739 Many tests now run a lot faster than before.
742 - Another configure.in adjustment made the configure detect functions properly
746 - Philippe Raoult fixed pre4-compile quirks for FreeBSD.
748 Version 7.10.4-pre4 (13 Mar 2003)
751 - Added a backup-check for functions that aren't found by AC_CHECK_FUNCS()
752 as I believe some checks on HPUX need this. At least some of the info given
753 to us by Rick Jones seemed to indicate this.
756 - Thomas Tonino found out that if you used the curl tool to do PUT operations
757 as in 'curl www.foo.com/dir/ -T file' and the file name included for example
758 space or other characters that don't belong in URLs, curl did not properly
759 URL encode them before using them in the URL.
761 - Added an option to configure called --enable-libgcc that simply adds -lgcc
762 to the LIBS variable, as this seems to be a common problem.
764 - I modified the configure.in file, so that the headers are now checked in an
765 order of "viality". We must also make sure to use the "default headers"
766 parameter to AC_CHECK_HEADERS() so that headers are checked with the proper
767 prerequisites included (i.e all the major and generally important header
768 files are included there by default). This might be what we need for various
769 Sun, HP, AIX and Tru64 systems to behave good again on the header check
772 - Rick Jones pointed out a few compiler warnings on HP-UX that I addressed.
774 - I made the configure --help output nicer by using AC_HELP_STRING() a lot
778 - Christophe Demory fixed the socket sending code to work better on HP-UX
779 when sending data to a socket that would block. It then returns EAGAIN, not
782 - Richard Gorton improved the seeding function for systems without a good
783 and reliable random source.
785 - Richard Gorton fixed a few warnings that popped up when you built curl
786 using the Sun compiler on a 64bit SPARC platform.
788 - Martin C. Martin fixed a case where a connect failure using the multi
789 interface didn't produce a human readable error string.
792 - Reverted ltmain.sh back to libtool 1.4.2 status again, as the 1.4.3 version
793 broke the build on numerous platforms. It seems that libtool 1.4.3 puts some
794 requirements on what versions of the other tools (autoconf + automake) that
795 I am not familiar with and thus I couldn't fulfill at this point.
797 Yes, this is more than mildly frustrating.
800 - Run libtoolize version 1.4.3.
802 Version 7.10.4-pre3 (4 Mar 2003)
805 - Added share.obj to the VC6 and Borland libcurl makefiles.
807 - Troels Walsted Hansen found and investigated a problem with libcurl on AIX,
808 presumably only on 4.3 or later. gethostbyname_r() is not returning data
809 that is possible to "keep" and cache the way libcurl does. But instead these
810 versions of AIX uses a gethostbyname() that works thread-safely we can
811 instead use the ordinary gethostbyname() and our pack_hostent() approach to
812 achieve what we want. The configure script now attempts to detect AIX 4.3 or
813 later to adjust for this.
816 - Juan F. Codagnone found a problem introduced in 7.10.3 when you first did a
817 POST and then back to a GET using the same easy handle.
820 - Removed the strequal and strnequal defines from curl/curl.h header. They
821 were never meant for the public header anyway. Philippe Raoult brought it
824 - James Bursa fixed the RISC OS build.
827 - Avery Fay pointed out the very misleading curl_multi_info_read man page, and
828 I updated it to become more accurate.
830 - Salvatore Sorrentino found a problem with FTP downloading that turned out to
831 be his FTP server returning size zero (0 bytes) when SIZE was used on a file
832 while being in BINARY mode. We now make a second check for the actual size
833 by scanning the RETR reply anyway, even if the SIZE command returned 0.
836 - Kyle Sallee reported a case where he would do a transfer that didn't update
837 the progress meter properly. It turned out to be a case where libcurl would
838 loop a little too eagerly in the tranfer loop, which isn't really good for
839 the APIs, especially not the multi API.
841 Version 7.10.4-pre2 (24 Feb 2003)
844 - Kjetil Jacobsen found out that setting CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to a value higher
845 than 5 could cause a segfault.
847 - I believe I fixed the 'Expect: 100-continue' behavior that has been broken
848 for a while (I think since my change dated Dec 10 2002). When this header is
849 used, libcurl should wait for a HTTP 100 (or timeout) before sending the
853 - Matthew Clarke provided some info what to modify to make curl build
854 flawlessly on AIX 3.2.5.
856 - Martin C. Martin found and fixed a problem in the multi interface when
857 running on Windows and trying to connect to a port without a listener.
860 - Christopher R. Palmer fixed Curl_base64_encode() to deal with zeroes in the
864 - Jean-Philippe added the first code that enables the 'share' system. This
865 should now enable sharing of DNS data between two curl easy handles.
867 - Incorporated Nico Baggus' fixes to again compile flawlessly on VMS.
869 - James Bursa corrected a bad comment in the public include file curl/multi.h
871 - Peter Forret reported one of those error:00000000 cases in libcurl again
872 when connecting to a HTTPS site, and this time I did discover some oddities
873 in how curl reports SSL errors back. It could miss showing the actual error.
875 Version 7.10.4-pre1 (3 Feb 2003)
878 - Removed things in the docs saying capath doesn't work on Windows, as Julian
879 Noble told us it works fine.
882 - Kevin Roth fixed the zlib build stuff in the Mingw32 makefile.
885 - Kevin Roth found out that curl on Windows always checked for the CA cert
886 bundle using the environment variable and the path scan, even though
887 -k/--insecure was used.
889 - Hamish Mackenzie pointed out that curl only did strict host name verifying
890 if capath or cainfo was used. Now it'll always do it unless -k / --insecure
893 - Pavel Cenek pointed out that the Content-Type extraction was done wrongly
894 as the full string was not fetched. Added test case 57 to verify that curl
898 - Jamie Wilkinson provided a patch that now makes curl attempt to clear out
899 "sensitive" command line arguments so that they don't appear in ps outputs
900 (only on platforms that allow writing to argv[]).
902 - John McGowan found out that the DEBUGFUNCTION could be called with bad
903 arguments and thus cause the --trace outputs to go wrong.
905 - Removed all the emacs local variables from all files. Mats Lidell provided
906 the new sample.emacs file (for a sample of what to include in your .emacs)
907 and the curl-style.el that sets a better c-style for editing curl sources.
909 - Dave Halbakken found a problem with FTP downloads that could accidently
910 return CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE when curl_easy_perform() was called with NOBODY
914 - The fopen.c example was flawed as Nick Humfrey noticed, and I fixed it to
918 - Bertrand Demiddelaer found and fixed a memory leak (the content-type string)
919 when following locations.
922 - Ian Wilkes and Legoff Vincent both independently provided fixes for making
923 curl/multi.h work properly when compiled with a C++ compiler.
926 - Fixed 'buildconf' to check version number of the required tools before
927 they're actually used.
929 - Wrote 'testcurl.sh', a script targeted for automatic and distributed curl
930 tests on various platforms.
932 - David Thiel pointed out that the .netrc file was not being dealt with
933 properly anymore. I broke this in the password prompting "fix".
935 - Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer patched libcurl to allocate the scratch buffer only
936 on demand and thus we save 32KB in each curl handle that don't use that
937 buffer. This need appeared when some people started using thousands of
938 simultaneous curl handles... :-)
941 - Markus Oberhumer fixed curl-config --cflags when the includedir was not
944 - Markus Oberhumer fixed CURLINFO_PRIVATE to properly return NULL if it was
947 Version 7.10.3 (14 Jan 2003)
950 - Steve Oliphant pointed out that test case 105 did not work anymore and this
951 was due to a missing fix for the password prompting.
953 Version 7.10.3-pre6 (10 Jan 2003)
956 - Bryan Kemp pointed out that curl -u could not provide a blank password
957 without prompting the user. It can now. -u username: makes the password
958 empty, while -u username makes curl prompt the user for a password.
960 - Kjetil Jacobsen found a remaining connect problem in the multi interface on
961 ipv4 systems (Linux only?), that I fixed and Kjetil verified that it fixed
964 - memanalyze.pl now reads a file name from the command line, and no longer
965 takes the data on stdin as before.
967 Version 7.10.3-pre5 (9 Jan 2003)
970 - Fixed tests/memanalyze.pl to work with file names that contain colons (as on
973 - Kjetil Jacobsen quickly pointed out that lib/share.h was missing...
975 Version 7.10.3-pre4 (9 Jan 2003)
978 - Updated lib/share.c quite a bit to match the design document at
979 http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sharing.txt a lot more.
981 I'll try to update the document soonish. share.c is still not actually used
982 by libcurl, but the API is slowly getting there and we can start
983 implementing code that takes advantage of this system.
986 - Updated share stuff in curl/curl.h, including data types, structs and
987 function prototypes. The corresponding files in lib/ were also modified
988 of course to remain compilable. Based on input from Jean-Philippe and also
989 to make it more in line with the design document.
991 - Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre patched a very trivial memory leak in
992 curl_escape() that would happen when realloc() returns NULL...
994 - Matthew Blain provided feedback to make the --create-dirs stuff build
997 - Fixed the #include in tests/libtest/first.c as Legoff Vincent pointed out.
1000 - Philippe Raoult provided a patch that now makes libcurl properly support
1001 wildcard checks for certificate names.
1003 - Simon Liu added CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES, to let an application set other
1004 strings recognized as "HTTP 200" to allow http-like protocols to get
1005 downloaded fine by curl.
1007 - Now using autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2
1009 - Doing "curl -I ftp://domain/non-existing-file" still outputed a date!
1010 Wayne Haigh reported.
1012 - The error message is now written properly with a newline in the --trace
1016 - Sterling Hughes fixed a possible bug: previously, if you called
1017 curl_easy_perform and then set the global dns cache, the global cache
1018 wouldn't be used. Pointed out by Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre.
1020 - Matthew Blain's fixed the VC6 libcurl makefile to include better debug data