5 \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
10 - Feedback from Serge Semashko made me change the error message returned when
11 CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR is returned.
13 - Anonymous in bug report #745122 pointed out that we should really be using
14 SSL_CTX_set_options(... SSL_OP_ALL) to work around flaws in existing SSL
18 - Andreas Ley and Rich Gray helped me point out that no version of HP-UX has
19 the sys/select.h header file so including it unconditionally in curl/multi.h
20 is not a good thing. Now we check for HPUX and avoid using that header on
23 - Rudy Koento experienced problems with curl's recent habit of POSTing data in
24 two separate send() calls, first the headers and then the data. I've now
25 made a fix that for static and known content that is less than 100K in size,
26 everything is now sent in one single system call again. This is also better
27 for network performance reasons.
29 - I modified the main makefile to not build the test suite and a few other
30 unnecessary things by default. Now, the test suite is built when 'make test'
31 is run. This reduces build time for those who don't care for the test
32 suite, and it also reduces confusion for people using platforms where the
33 test suite build fails!
36 - Chris Lewis pointed out a flaw in the #ifdefs in curl/multi.h for Windows,
37 which is now corrected.
39 - Jis Joy found another flaw in the SOCK5 code, as libcurl treated the socks5
40 proxy a little too much like as if it was a http proxy.
43 - Ricardo Cadime found a socket leak when listing directories without
44 contents. Test cases 144 and 145 were added to verify the fix.
46 - Rudy Koento found yet another problem when a HTTP server returns only a
47 single-line of contents without any headers at all. libcurl then failed to
48 count the data, thus returning error 52 "no contents". Test case 66 was
49 added to verify that we now do right.
51 Version 7.10.6-pre1 (23 May 2003)
54 - Jis in bug report #741841, fixed a bug in the SOCKS5 proxy-using code.
57 - David Remahl set up a test-server for me providing Digest authentication,
58 and I wrote the first working code that support it. The test suite was
59 modified slightly as well to work better for it and --digest was added to
60 the command line options (and CURLOPT_HTTPDIGEST to the library)... RFC2617
61 has all the gory details.
64 - David Balazic pointed out that curl_unescape() didn't check that %-codes
65 were correctly followed by two hexadecimal digits when it unescape strings.
66 Now, we do the check and only %XX codes are unescaped if the X letters are
69 - Gisle Vanem made curl build with djgpp on DOS.
71 - Gisle Vanem improved the mkhelp.pl script to make a nicer manual that is
75 - Gisle Vanem provided a fix that makes libcurl more conservative, not
76 expecting h_aliases of the hostent struct to always be non-NULL.
79 - As requested by Martin Michlmayr in Debian bug report #193630, libcurl now
80 supports user name and password in the proxy environment variables. Added
81 test case 63 to verify this.
83 Version 7.10.5 (19 May 2003)
86 - Changed the order for the in_addr_t testing, as 'unsigned long' seems to be
87 a very common type inet_addr() returns.
90 - George Comninos provided a fix that calls the progress meter when waiting
91 for FTP command responses take >1 second. It'll make applications more
92 "responsive" even when dealing with very slow ftp servers.
95 - George Comninos pointed out that libcurl uploads had two quirks:
96 o when using FTP PORT command, it used blocking sockets!
97 o it could loop a long time without doing progress meter updates
98 Both items are fixed now.
101 - Dan Fandrich changed CURLOPT_ENCODING to select all supported encodings if
102 set to "". This frees the application from having to know which encodings
103 the library supports.
105 - Dan Fandrich pointed out we had three unnecessary files in CVS that is
106 generated with libtoolize, so they're now removed and libtoolize is invoked
107 accordingly in the buildconf script.
109 - Avery Fay found out that the CURLOPT_INTERFACE way of first checking if the
110 given name is a network interface gave a real performance penalty on Linux,
111 so now we more appropriately first check if it is an IP number and if so
112 we don't check for a network interface with that name.
114 - CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT added. Set this to FALSE to disable libcurl's attempts
115 to use EPRT and LPRT before the traditional PORT command. The command line
116 tool sets this option with '--disable-eprt'.
118 Version 7.10.5-pre2 (6 May 2003)
121 - Kevin Delafield reported another case where we didn't correctly check for
122 EAGAIN but only EWOULDBLOCK, which caused badness on HPUX.
125 - Ben Greear noticed that the check for 'writable argv' exited the configure
126 script when run for cross-compiling, which wasn't nice. Now it'll default to
127 no and output a warning about the fact that it was not checked for.
130 - Added test case 62 and fixed some more on the cookie sending with a custom
134 - Andy Cedilnik fixed a few compiler warnings.
136 - Made the "SSL read error: 5" error message more verbose, by adding code that
137 queries the OpenSSL library to fill in the error buffer.
140 - Added sys/select.h include in the curl/multi.h file, after having been
141 reminded about this by Rich Gray.
143 - I made each test set its own server requirements, thus abandoning the
144 previous system where the test number implied what server(s) to use for a
147 - David Balazic made curl more RFC1738-compliant for FTP URLs, by fixing so
148 that libcurl now uses one CWD command for each path part. A bunch of test
149 cases were fixed to work accordingly.
153 A. Save domains in jars like Mozilla does. It means all domains set in
154 Set-Cookie: headers are dot-prefixed.
155 B. Save and use the 'tailmatch' field in the Mozilla/Netscape cookie jars
157 C. Reject cookies using illegal domains in the Set-Cookie: line. Concerns
158 both domains with too few dots or domains that are outside the currently
159 operating server host's domain.
160 D. Set the path part by default to the one used in the request, if none was
161 set in the Set-Cookie line.
163 To make item C really good, I also made libcurl notice custom Host: headers
164 and extract the host name set in there and use that as the host name for the
165 site we're getting the cookies from. This allows user to specify a site's
166 IP-address, but still be able to receive and send its cookies properly if
167 you provide a valid Host: name for the site.
170 - Peter Kovacs provided a patch that makes the CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME work fine
171 when using the multi interface (too).
173 Version 7.10.5-pre1 (23 Apr 2003)
176 - Upgraded to libtool 1.5.
179 - Peter Sylvester pointed out that curl_easy_setopt() will always (wrongly)
180 return CURLE_OK no matter what happens.
182 - Dan Fandrich fixed some gzip decompression bugs and flaws.
185 - Fixed minor typo in man page, reported in the Debian bug tracker.
188 - Fixed some FTP tests in the test suite that failed on my Solaris host, due
189 to the config.h not being included before the system headers. When done that
190 way, it did get a mixed sense of if big files are supported or not and then
191 stat() and fstat() (as used in test case 505) got confused and failed to
192 return a proper file size.
194 - Formposting a file using a .html suffix is now properly set to Content-Type: text/html.
197 - Fixed the SSL error handling to return proper SSL error messages again, they
198 broke in 7.10.4. I also attempt to track down CA cert problems and then
199 return the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code.
201 - The curl tool now intercepts the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code and displays
202 a fairly big and explanatory error message. Kevin Roth helped me out with
206 - Nic Hines provided a second patch for gzip decompression, and fixed a bug
207 when deflate or gzip contents were downloaded using chunked encoding.
209 - Dan Fandrich made libcurl support automatic decompression of gzip contents
210 (as an addition to the previous deflate support).
212 - I made the CWD command during FTP session consider all 2xy codes to be OK
216 - Vlad Krupin fixed a URL parsing issue. URLs that were not using a slash
217 after the host name, but still had "?" and parameters appended, as in
218 "http://hostname.com?foobar=moo", were not properly parsed by libcurl.
221 - Made CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION work for FTP transfers, using the same syntax as
222 for HTTP. This then made -z work for ftp transfers too. Added test case 139
223 and 140 for verifying this.
225 - Getting the file date of an ftp file used the wrong time zone when
226 displayed. It is supposedly always GMT. Added test case 141 for this.
228 - Made the test suite's FTP server support MDTM.
230 - The default DEBUGFUNCTION, as enabled with CURLOPT_VERBOSE now outputs
231 CURLINFO_HEADER_IN data as well. The most notable effect from this is that
232 using curl -v, you get to see the incoming "headers" as well. This is
233 perhaps most useful when doing ftp.
236 - James Bursa fixed a flaw in the Content-Type extraction code, which missed
237 the first letter if no space followed the colon.
239 - Magnus Nilsson pointed out that share.c was missing in the MSVC project
243 - Ryan Weaver provided a patch that makes the CA cert bundle not get installed
244 anymore when 'configure --without-ssl' has been used.
247 - Martijn Broenland found another cases where a server application didn't
248 like the boundary string used by curl when foing a multi-part/formpost. We
249 modified the boundary string to look like the one IE uses, as this is
250 probably gonna make curl work with more applications.
253 - Kevin Roth reported that a bunch of tests fails on cygwin. One set fails
254 when using perl 5.8 (and they run fine with perl 5.6), and another set
255 failed because of an artifact in the test suite's FTP server that I
256 corrected. It turned out the FTP server code was still having a file opened
257 while the main test script removed it and invoked the HTTP server that
258 attempted to create the same file name of the file the FTP server kept open.
259 This operation works fine on unix, but not on cygwin.
261 Version 7.10.4 (2 Apr 2003)
264 - Added test case 505 to exercise FTP upload with rename done with libcurl,
265 and for that I had to extend the test suite's FTP server to deal with the
266 RNFR and RNTO commands.
269 - Even more SSL config check modifications after Richard's testing.
271 Version 7.10.4-pre6 (31 Mar 2003)
274 - More fixes for the SSL session ID cache checks when SSL configs are changed
275 between connections. Based on tests and talks with Richard Bramante.
277 - Guillaume Cottenceau provided a patch that added CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.
278 When enabled, it will prevent libcurl from limiting to which host it sends
279 user+password to when following locations. By default, libcurl only sends
280 name and password to the original host used in the first URL, but with this
281 option set it will send the auth info to all hosts it follows location
282 headers to. The new tool command line option for this is named
283 "--location-trusted".
285 - Frankie Fong reported a problem with libcurl if you re-used an easy handle
286 with a proxy, and you first made a https:// connction to a host and then
287 switched to a http:// one to the same host. libcurl would then wrongly re-use
288 the same connection for it and fail to get the second URL properly
291 - Dan Shearer's fix that makes curl complain if invoked with nothing but "curl
295 - Bryan Kemp was friendly enough to lend me an account on his Redhat 9 box and
296 I could fix the configure problems on redhat 8.1 and 9 in no time thanks to
297 this. Thanks a bunch Bryan!
300 - Renamed configure.in to configure.ac
302 Version 7.10.4-pre5 (25 Mar 2003)
305 - Richard Bramante provided a fix for a handle re-use problem seen when you
306 change options on an SSL-enabled connection between requests. Previously,
307 changing peer verification or host verification and similar things was not
308 taken into account when a connection were checked for re-use and thus
309 enabling stricter check between requests on a re-used connection made no
310 difference and the connection would thus be used erroneously.
313 - Götz Babin-Ebell pointed out that the ca-bundle.crt file contained a
314 certificate from Trustcenter that was a demo certificate only that was never
315 indended to be part of a CA bundle.
318 - Life is a mystery. Within a time period of 17 hours, Tim Pope and Michael
319 Churchill filed one bug report each, both identifying problems with a second
320 transfer when doing persistant transfers re-using a connection. Tim's one is
321 #706624, labeled "Multiple uploads per handle fail" and Michael's #707003
322 "Does not send Authorization: header when reusing connection". I could track
323 both down to the same piece of logic and it turned out libcurl was not using
324 new settings properly when re-using an existing connection. This concerned
325 both uploading and downloading and involved exactly those pieces these two
326 reports identified. This code has been this faulty since the day I
327 introduced persistant connection support in libcurl, more than 2 years ago.
330 - Five year anniversary. Today five years ago, the first ever curl release saw
334 - Andy Cedilnik corrected flaws in some libcurl example-usage sources.
337 - Juan F. Codagnone reported that the fix from March 2nd was incomplete.
339 - Added code to the configure.in to check for select() argument types. I've
340 not made any code use the results just yet though.
343 - Gisle Vanem provided two patches to build better on Windows.
345 - Adjusted the test suite code to better make sure that the server(s) required
346 for a specific test is properly started before the test case is attempted.
347 Many tests now run a lot faster than before.
350 - Another configure.in adjustment made the configure detect functions properly
354 - Philippe Raoult fixed pre4-compile quirks for FreeBSD.
356 Version 7.10.4-pre4 (13 Mar 2003)
359 - Added a backup-check for functions that aren't found by AC_CHECK_FUNCS()
360 as I believe some checks on HPUX need this. At least some of the info given
361 to us by Rick Jones seemed to indicate this.
364 - Thomas Tonino found out that if you used the curl tool to do PUT operations
365 as in 'curl www.foo.com/dir/ -T file' and the file name included for example
366 space or other characters that don't belong in URLs, curl did not properly
367 URL encode them before using them in the URL.
369 - Added an option to configure called --enable-libgcc that simply adds -lgcc
370 to the LIBS variable, as this seems to be a common problem.
372 - I modified the configure.in file, so that the headers are now checked in an
373 order of "viality". We must also make sure to use the "default headers"
374 parameter to AC_CHECK_HEADERS() so that headers are checked with the proper
375 prerequisites included (i.e all the major and generally important header
376 files are included there by default). This might be what we need for various
377 Sun, HP, AIX and Tru64 systems to behave good again on the header check
380 - Rick Jones pointed out a few compiler warnings on HP-UX that I addressed.
382 - I made the configure --help output nicer by using AC_HELP_STRING() a lot
386 - Christophe Demory fixed the socket sending code to work better on HP-UX
387 when sending data to a socket that would block. It then returns EAGAIN, not
390 - Richard Gorton improved the seeding function for systems without a good
391 and reliable random source.
393 - Richard Gorton fixed a few warnings that popped up when you built curl
394 using the Sun compiler on a 64bit SPARC platform.
396 - Martin C. Martin fixed a case where a connect failure using the multi
397 interface didn't produce a human readable error string.
400 - Reverted ltmain.sh back to libtool 1.4.2 status again, as the 1.4.3 version
401 broke the build on numerous platforms. It seems that libtool 1.4.3 puts some
402 requirements on what versions of the other tools (autoconf + automake) that
403 I am not familiar with and thus I couldn't fulfill at this point.
405 Yes, this is more than mildly frustrating.
408 - Run libtoolize version 1.4.3.
410 Version 7.10.4-pre3 (4 Mar 2003)
413 - Added share.obj to the VC6 and Borland libcurl makefiles.
415 - Troels Walsted Hansen found and investigated a problem with libcurl on AIX,
416 presumably only on 4.3 or later. gethostbyname_r() is not returning data
417 that is possible to "keep" and cache the way libcurl does. But instead these
418 versions of AIX uses a gethostbyname() that works thread-safely we can
419 instead use the ordinary gethostbyname() and our pack_hostent() approach to
420 achieve what we want. The configure script now attempts to detect AIX 4.3 or
421 later to adjust for this.
424 - Juan F. Codagnone found a problem introduced in 7.10.3 when you first did a
425 POST and then back to a GET using the same easy handle.
428 - Removed the strequal and strnequal defines from curl/curl.h header. They
429 were never meant for the public header anyway. Philippe Raoult brought it
432 - James Bursa fixed the RISC OS build.
435 - Avery Fay pointed out the very misleading curl_multi_info_read man page, and
436 I updated it to become more accurate.
438 - Salvatore Sorrentino found a problem with FTP downloading that turned out to
439 be his FTP server returning size zero (0 bytes) when SIZE was used on a file
440 while being in BINARY mode. We now make a second check for the actual size
441 by scanning the RETR reply anyway, even if the SIZE command returned 0.
444 - Kyle Sallee reported a case where he would do a transfer that didn't update
445 the progress meter properly. It turned out to be a case where libcurl would
446 loop a little too eagerly in the tranfer loop, which isn't really good for
447 the APIs, especially not the multi API.
449 Version 7.10.4-pre2 (24 Feb 2003)
452 - Kjetil Jacobsen found out that setting CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to a value higher
453 than 5 could cause a segfault.
455 - I believe I fixed the 'Expect: 100-continue' behavior that has been broken
456 for a while (I think since my change dated Dec 10 2002). When this header is
457 used, libcurl should wait for a HTTP 100 (or timeout) before sending the
461 - Matthew Clarke provided some info what to modify to make curl build
462 flawlessly on AIX 3.2.5.
464 - Martin C. Martin found and fixed a problem in the multi interface when
465 running on Windows and trying to connect to a port without a listener.
468 - Christopher R. Palmer fixed Curl_base64_encode() to deal with zeroes in the
472 - Jean-Philippe added the first code that enables the 'share' system. This
473 should now enable sharing of DNS data between two curl easy handles.
475 - Incorporated Nico Baggus' fixes to again compile flawlessly on VMS.
477 - James Bursa corrected a bad comment in the public include file curl/multi.h
479 - Peter Forret reported one of those error:00000000 cases in libcurl again
480 when connecting to a HTTPS site, and this time I did discover some oddities
481 in how curl reports SSL errors back. It could miss showing the actual error.
483 Version 7.10.4-pre1 (3 Feb 2003)
486 - Removed things in the docs saying capath doesn't work on Windows, as Julian
487 Noble told us it works fine.
490 - Kevin Roth fixed the zlib build stuff in the Mingw32 makefile.
493 - Kevin Roth found out that curl on Windows always checked for the CA cert
494 bundle using the environment variable and the path scan, even though
495 -k/--insecure was used.
497 - Hamish Mackenzie pointed out that curl only did strict host name verifying
498 if capath or cainfo was used. Now it'll always do it unless -k / --insecure
501 - Pavel Cenek pointed out that the Content-Type extraction was done wrongly
502 as the full string was not fetched. Added test case 57 to verify that curl
506 - Jamie Wilkinson provided a patch that now makes curl attempt to clear out
507 "sensitive" command line arguments so that they don't appear in ps outputs
508 (only on platforms that allow writing to argv[]).
510 - John McGowan found out that the DEBUGFUNCTION could be called with bad
511 arguments and thus cause the --trace outputs to go wrong.
513 - Removed all the emacs local variables from all files. Mats Lidell provided
514 the new sample.emacs file (for a sample of what to include in your .emacs)
515 and the curl-style.el that sets a better c-style for editing curl sources.
517 - Dave Halbakken found a problem with FTP downloads that could accidently
518 return CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE when curl_easy_perform() was called with NOBODY
522 - The fopen.c example was flawed as Nick Humfrey noticed, and I fixed it to
526 - Bertrand Demiddelaer found and fixed a memory leak (the content-type string)
527 when following locations.
530 - Ian Wilkes and Legoff Vincent both independently provided fixes for making
531 curl/multi.h work properly when compiled with a C++ compiler.
534 - Fixed 'buildconf' to check version number of the required tools before
535 they're actually used.
537 - Wrote 'testcurl.sh', a script targeted for automatic and distributed curl
538 tests on various platforms.
540 - David Thiel pointed out that the .netrc file was not being dealt with
541 properly anymore. I broke this in the password prompting "fix".
543 - Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer patched libcurl to allocate the scratch buffer only
544 on demand and thus we save 32KB in each curl handle that don't use that
545 buffer. This need appeared when some people started using thousands of
546 simultaneous curl handles... :-)
549 - Markus Oberhumer fixed curl-config --cflags when the includedir was not
552 - Markus Oberhumer fixed CURLINFO_PRIVATE to properly return NULL if it was
555 Version 7.10.3 (14 Jan 2003)
558 - Steve Oliphant pointed out that test case 105 did not work anymore and this
559 was due to a missing fix for the password prompting.
561 Version 7.10.3-pre6 (10 Jan 2003)
564 - Bryan Kemp pointed out that curl -u could not provide a blank password
565 without prompting the user. It can now. -u username: makes the password
566 empty, while -u username makes curl prompt the user for a password.
568 - Kjetil Jacobsen found a remaining connect problem in the multi interface on
569 ipv4 systems (Linux only?), that I fixed and Kjetil verified that it fixed
572 - memanalyze.pl now reads a file name from the command line, and no longer
573 takes the data on stdin as before.
575 Version 7.10.3-pre5 (9 Jan 2003)
578 - Fixed tests/memanalyze.pl to work with file names that contain colons (as on
581 - Kjetil Jacobsen quickly pointed out that lib/share.h was missing...
583 Version 7.10.3-pre4 (9 Jan 2003)
586 - Updated lib/share.c quite a bit to match the design document at
587 http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sharing.txt a lot more.
589 I'll try to update the document soonish. share.c is still not actually used
590 by libcurl, but the API is slowly getting there and we can start
591 implementing code that takes advantage of this system.
594 - Updated share stuff in curl/curl.h, including data types, structs and
595 function prototypes. The corresponding files in lib/ were also modified
596 of course to remain compilable. Based on input from Jean-Philippe and also
597 to make it more in line with the design document.
599 - Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre patched a very trivial memory leak in
600 curl_escape() that would happen when realloc() returns NULL...
602 - Matthew Blain provided feedback to make the --create-dirs stuff build
605 - Fixed the #include in tests/libtest/first.c as Legoff Vincent pointed out.
608 - Philippe Raoult provided a patch that now makes libcurl properly support
609 wildcard checks for certificate names.
611 - Simon Liu added CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES, to let an application set other
612 strings recognized as "HTTP 200" to allow http-like protocols to get
613 downloaded fine by curl.
615 - Now using autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2
617 - Doing "curl -I ftp://domain/non-existing-file" still outputed a date!
618 Wayne Haigh reported.
620 - The error message is now written properly with a newline in the --trace
624 - Sterling Hughes fixed a possible bug: previously, if you called
625 curl_easy_perform and then set the global dns cache, the global cache
626 wouldn't be used. Pointed out by Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre.
628 - Matthew Blain's fixed the VC6 libcurl makefile to include better debug data
632 - Philippe Raoult reported a bug with HTTPS connections which I evidently
633 added in my 19 dec fix. I corrected it.
636 - Idea from the Debian latest patch: use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in the configure
637 script to make the default makefile less confusing "to the casual
640 Version 7.10.3-pre3 (20 Dec)
643 - Matthew Blain patched the Curl_base64_decode() function.
645 - Evan Jordan reported in bug report #653022 that the SSL_read() usage was
646 wrong, and it certainly was. It could lead to curl using too much CPU due to
650 - As suggested by Margus Freudenthal, CURLE_HTTP_NOT_FOUND was renamed to
651 CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR since it is returned on any >= 400 code when
652 CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is set.
655 - Bug reported #651464, reported by Christopher Palmer, provided an example
656 source code using the multi interface that hang when trying to connect to a
657 proxy on a localhost port where no proxy was listening. This bug was not
658 repeatable on libcurls that were IPv6-enabled.
661 - Christopher Palmer also noticed what Vojtech Janota already was
662 experiencing: The attempted name resolve fix for glibc 2.2.93 caused libcurl
663 to crash when used on some older glibc versions. The problem is of course
664 the silliness of the 2.2.93. I committed a fix that hopefully should make
665 the binary run fine on either one of the versions, even though the solution
666 is not as nice as I'd like it to be.
669 - Bug report #651460 by Christopher R. Palmer showed that when using libcurl
670 to for example go over a proxy on localhost, it would attempt to connect
671 through the proxy TWICE.
673 I added test case 503 with which I managed to repeat this problem and I
674 fixed the code to not re-attempt any connects (which also made it a nicer
675 fix for the #650941 bug mentioned below).
677 The sws server was extended to deal with CONNECT in order to make test
680 - Evan Jordan posted bug report #650989 about a memory leak in the public key
681 retrieving code. He provided a suggested fix and I merely applied it!
683 - Bug report #650941, posted by Christopher R. Palmer identified a problem
684 with the multi interface and getting file:// URLs. This was now fixed and
685 test case 502 was added to verify this.
688 - Test case 500 and 501 are the first ever libcurl test cases that run.
690 - Made "configure --enable-debug" cut off all -O* options to the compiler
692 - Finally fixed the test suite's ftp server so that test case 402 doesn't
693 cause the following test case to fail anymore!
696 - CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is now decreased to 16KB since it makes the Windows
697 version perform uploads much faster!!! RBramante did lots of research on
700 - Fixed the #include in curl/curl.h to include the other files outside the
704 - Moved around and added more logic:
706 First, POST data is never sent as part of the request headers in the http.c
707 code. It is always sent the "normal" read callback then send() way. This now
708 enables a plain HTTP POST to be sent chunked if we want to. This also
709 reduces the risk of having very big POSTs causing problems.
711 Further, sending off the initial HTTP request is not done using a loop
712 anymore. If it wasn't all sent off in the first send(), the rest of the
713 request is sent off in the normal transfer select() loop. This makes several
714 things possible, but mainly it makes libcurl block less when used from the
715 multi interface and it also reduces the risk of problems with issuing very
719 - Moved the read callback pointer and data within the structs to a more
720 suitable place. This in preparation for a better HTTP-request sending code
721 without (a silly) loop.
723 - The Dodds fix seems not to work.
725 - Vojtech Janota tests proved that the resolve fix from oct 21st is not good
726 enough since obviously older glibcs might return EAGAIN without this meaning
727 that the buffer was too small.
729 - [the other day] Made libcurl loop on recv() and send() now until done, and
730 then get back to select(). Previously it went back to select() more often
731 which really was a slight overhead. This was due to the reported performance
732 problems on HTTP PUT on Windows. I couldn't see any notable difference on
735 Version 7.10.3-pre2 (4 Dec 2002)
738 - Lots of work with Malcolm Dodds made me add a temporary code fix that now
739 shortens the timeout waiting for the 226 or 250 line after a completed
742 If no data is received within 60 seconds, this is taken as a sign of a dead
743 control connection and we bail out.
746 - Ralph's bug report #644841 identified a problem in which curl returned a
747 timeout error code when in fact the problem was not a timeout. The proper
748 error should now be propagated better when they're detected in the FTP
749 response reading function.
751 - Updated the Borland Makefiles.
754 - Nicolas Berloquin provided a patch that introduced --create-dirs to the
755 command line tool. When used in combination with -o, it lets curl create
756 [non-existing] directories used in -o, suitably used with #-combinations
759 curl "www.images.com/{flowers,cities,parks,mountains}/pic_[1-100].jpg \
760 -o "dir_#1/pic#2.jpg" --create-dirs
765 - I visited Lars Nordgren and had a go with his problem, which lead me to
766 implement this fix. If libcurl detects the added custom header
767 "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", it will now enable a chunked transfer.
769 Also, chunked transfer didn't quite work before but seems to do so now.
771 - Kjetil Jacobsen pointed out that ./configure --disable-ipv6 --without-zlib
772 didn't work on any platform...
775 - Fixed a bad addrinfo free in the hostip.c code, hardly exposed anywhere
777 - Dan Becker found and fixed a minor memory leak on persistent connnections
778 using CURLOPT_USERPWD.
781 - Based on Ralph Mitchell's excellent analysis I found a bug in the test suite
782 web server (sws) which now lets test case 306 run fine even in combination
783 with the other test cases.
785 - Juan Ignacio Hervás found a crash in the verbose connect message that is
786 used on persistent connections. This bug was added in 7.10.2 due to the
787 rearranged name resolve code.
790 - Kjetil Jacobsen provided a patch that introduces:
792 CURLOPT_PRIVATE stores a private pointer in the curl handle.
794 CURLINFO_PRIVATE retrieves the private pointer from the curl handle.
796 - Karol Pietrzak pointed out how curl-config --cflags didn't output a good
797 include dir so I've removed that for now.
799 Version 7.10.2 (18 Nov 2002)
802 - Dave Halbakken added curl_version_info to lib/libcurl.def to make libcurl
803 properly build with MSVC on Windows.
806 - Doing HTTP PUT without a specified file size now makes libcurl use
807 Transfer-Encoding: chunked.
810 - Bug report #634625 identified how curl returned timeout immediately when
811 CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT was used and provided a fix.
813 Version 7.10.2-pre4 (6 Nov 2002)
816 - Lehel Bernadt found out and fixed. libcurl sent error message to the debug
817 output when it stored the error message.
819 - Avery Fay found some problems with the DNS cache (when the cache time was
820 set to 0 we got a memory leak, but when the leak was fixed he got a crash
821 when he used the CURLOPT_INTERFACE with that) that had me do some real
822 restructuring so that we now have a reference counter in the dns cache
823 entries to prevent an entry to get flushed while still actually in use.
825 I also detected that we previously didn't update the time stamp when we
826 extracted an entry from the cache so that must've been a reason for some
827 very weird dns cache bugs.
832 - Downgraded automake to 1.6.3 in an attempt to fix cygwin problems. (It
833 turned out this didn't help though.)
835 - Disable the DNS cache (by setting the timeout to 0) made libcurl leak
836 memory. Avery Fay brought the example code that proved this.
841 - Upgraded to autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7 on the release-build host.
843 - Kevin Roth made the command line tool check for a CURL_CA_BUNDLE environment
844 variable (if --cacert isn't used) and if not set, the Windows version will
845 check for a file named "curl-ca-bundle.crt" in the current directory or the
846 directory where curl is located. That file is then used as CA root cert
849 - Avery Fay pointed out that curl's configure scrip didn't get right if you
850 used autoconf newer than 2.52. This was due to some badly quoted code.
855 - Emiliano Ida confirmed that we now build properly with the Borland C++
856 compiler too. We needed yet another fix for the ISO cpp check in the curl.h
859 - Yet another fix was needed to get the HTTP download without headers to work.
860 This time it was needed if the first "believed header" was read all in the
861 first read. Test 306 has not run properly since the 11th october fix.
864 - Zvi Har'El pointed out a problem with curl's name resolving on Redhat 8
865 machines (running IPv6 disabled). Mats Lidell let me use an account on his
866 machine and I could verify that gethostbyname_r() has been changed to return
867 EAGAIN instead of ERANGE when the given buffer size is too small. This is
870 - Albert Chin helped me get the -no-undefined option corrected in
871 lib/Makefile.am since Cygwin builds want it there while Solaris builds don't
872 want it present. Kevin Roth helped me try it out on cygwin.
874 - Nikita Schmidt provided a bug fix for a FOLLOWLOCATION bug introduced when
875 the ../ support got in (7.10.1).
878 - Fabrizio Ammollo pointed out a remaining problem with FOLLOWLOCATION in
882 - Richard Cooper's experimenting proved that -j (CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION) didn't
883 work quite as supposed. You needed to set it *before* you use
884 CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, and we dont' want that kind of dependencies.
887 - Andrés García provided corrections for erratas in four libcurl man pages.
890 - Starting now, we generate and include PDF versions of all the docs in the
894 - Trying to connect to a host on a bad port number caused the multi interface
895 to never return failure and it appeared to keep on trying forever (it just
899 - Downloading HTTP without headers didn't work 100%, some of the initial data
900 got written twice. Kevin Roth reported.
902 - Kevin Roth found out the "config file" parser in the client code could
903 segfault, like if DOS newlines were used.
905 Version 7.10.1 (11 Oct 2002)
908 - Jeff Lawson fixed a few problems with connection re-use that remained when
909 you set CURLOPT_PROXY to "".
912 - Craig Davison found a terrible flaw and Cris Bailiff helped out in the
913 search. Getting HTTP data from servers when the headers are split up in
914 multiple reads, could cause junk data to get inserted among the saved
915 headers. This only concerns HTTP(S) headers.
918 - Vincent Penquerc'h gave us the good suggestion that when the ERRRORBUFFER
919 is set internally, the error text is sent to the debug function as well.
921 - I fixed the telnet code to timeout properly as the option tells it to. On
922 non-windows platforms.
925 - John Crow pointed out that libcurl-the-guide wasn't included in the release
928 - Kevin Roth pointed out that make install didn't do right if build outside
929 the source tree (ca-bundle wise).
931 - FOLLOWLOCATION bugfix for the multi interface
934 - Kevin Roth got problems with his cygwin build with -no-undefined was not
935 present in lib/Makefile.am so I put it back in there again. The poor one who
936 needs to remove it again must write a configure script to detect that need.
938 - Ralph Mitchell pointed out that curl was a bit naive and didn't deal with ./
939 or ../ stuff in the string passed back in a Location: header when following
942 - Albert Chin helped me to work out a better configure.in check for zlib, and
943 both --without-zlib and -with-zlib seem to work rather well right now.
945 - Zvi Har'El improvied the OpenSSL ENGINE check in the configure script to
946 become more accurate.
949 - Detlef Schmier pointed out the lack of a --without-libz option to configure,
952 Version 7.10 (1 Oct 2002)
955 - Modified the curl_version_info() proto and returned struct once again, and
956 updated the man page accordingly.
958 - Cris Bailiff found out that the pre-releases crashed on name lookups on
959 names such as "a:" or "baz:" (on Linux versions not being ipv6-enabled) due
960 to some weird return codes from gethostbyname_r(). I'll blame the complete
961 lack of docs in that department. Cris provided a fix, which I modified only
965 - After a suggestion from Christian Kurz to Debian curl package maintainer
966 Domenico Andreoli, I made it possible to override the proxy environment
967 variables better. Now, by setting -x "" you can explicitly tell libcurl to
968 not use a proxy, no matter whan the environment variables say.
973 - Extended curl_version_info() more and wrote a man page for it.
976 - libcurl could leak memory when downloading multiple files using http ranges,
977 reported and fixed by Jean-Luc Guevel.
979 - Walter J. Mack provided code and docs for the new curl_free() function that
980 shall be used to free memory that is allocated by libcurl and returned back
981 to the application, as curl_escape() and curl_unescape() do.
983 - Yarram Sunil pointed out a flaw in the multi interface where a failed
984 connection didn't close down properly and thus a second transfer using the
987 - Andrés García fixed a flaw that made (among other things) dict-fetches
988 return a random value.
991 - Wez Furlong brought his initial patch that introduced curl_version_info().
992 We might need to tweak it somewhat before release.
995 - Craig Markwardt fixed another Tru64 IP resolve problem.
998 - Dolbneff A.V and Spiridonoff A.V made the file:// code work with resumes
999 in the same style other code does.
1001 - Ilguiz Latypov fixed a flaw in the client code when fetching multiple URLs
1002 and -C - was used. The first file's resume position was then accidentally
1003 reused on all the other files too.
1005 Daniel (18 Sep 2002)
1006 - The curl_easy_setopt.3 man page was greatly modified and the options have
1007 now been grouped in logical groups so that it should be somewhat easier to
1008 read it and find things you search for.
1010 Daniel (13 Sep 2002)
1011 - Kevin Roth pinpointed a scary flaw in libcurl, when the HTTP server doesn't
1012 send any headers back, only raw content. Right, that is a violation of the
1013 standard but still happens at times and we need to deal with it. Test case
1014 306 was added to verify that we do right now.
1018 Daniel (11 Sep 2002)
1019 - Lukasz Czekierda found out that curl didn't send a correct HTTP Host: header
1020 when you specified the URL with an IPv6 IP-address.
1023 - Sven Neuhaus made --silent being acknowledged even when multiple URLs
1024 were used. It used to output "[1/2]: http://host/a.html.de --> a.html.d" etc
1025 even when told to shut up.
1028 - Updated all source code headers to use MIT-license references only, and
1029 point to the COPYING file and the http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html
1030 URL. I've cut out all references to MPL that I could find.
1032 - Corected the makefiles to not always use -lz when linking
1037 - James Gallagher added Content-Encoding support to libcurl so now curl and
1038 libcurl-using apps can request compressed contents using the 'deflate'
1039 method. See the special file lib/README.encoding for details.
1041 curl --compressed is now used to request compressed contents.
1043 curl-config --feature will include 'libz' if this feature was around when
1044 the library was built.
1046 Daniel (30 Aug 2002)
1047 - Applied an anonymous SOCKS5-proxy patch. Not properly working in all
1048 situations though, as all getaddrinfo()-using libcurls will fail on this.
1049 This is because of the somewhat naive way the current code tries to extract
1050 the IP address of the proxy.
1052 - Fixed up the SSL cert fixes from the other day even more after more inputs
1053 from Cris. Added three new SSL error codes to make the
1054 CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR slightly less overloaded.
1056 Daniel (27 Aug 2002)
1057 - After lots of talk with Tom Zerucha, Nick Gimbrone and Cris Bailiff I
1058 decided to talk the bold path and I now made libcurl do CA certificate
1059 verification by default. Thus library users need to explicitly turn this off
1060 if you want to connect to sites without proper checking. We also install a
1061 CA cert bundle on 'make install' now.
1063 The curl tool now requires the -k/--insecure option in order to allow
1064 connections and operations on SSL sites that aren't properly verified with
1065 -cafile or --capath.
1067 curl-config --ca displays the built-in path to the CA cert bundle.
1069 Daniel (26 Aug 2002)
1070 - Andrew Francis cleaned up some code that now compiles fine without the need
1071 for ugly MSVC pragmas.
1073 - Keith MacDonald found a minor bug in src/main.c that made it close stdin
1074 instead of the actual file handle. It shouldn't have resulted in much
1075 trouble as most operating systems close all file handles on process exit
1078 Daniel (22 Aug 2002)
1079 - Markus Oberhumer provided some documentation for his previously provided
1080 CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL fix.
1082 - Patched the lib/Makefile.am to hopefully no longer complain on undefined
1083 symbols that seemed to occur on builds with shared OpenSSL libraries on
1086 Daniel (20 Aug 2002)
1087 - Fixed compiler warnings on MSCV++ compiles. We're looking for help here:
1088 remove the pragmas from lib/config-win32.h and adjust the sources where
1089 the warnings occur. Hiding them with pragmas like this is not the correct
1090 way of dealing with compiler warnings.
1092 Daniel (13 Aug 2002)
1093 - Ulrich Zadow made the global include files in curl/* include themselves
1094 using "curl.h" instead of <curl/curl.h> which thus allows people to more
1095 freely decide how to include curl and how to setup their include paths.
1097 - Sterling Hughes added the curl_share* interface, somewhat as discussed
1100 - Jörn Hartroth pointed out that poll() was used in the pre1 source code and
1101 it isn't very portable, so now I check for it in the configure script and
1106 Daniel (12 Aug 2002)
1107 - Applied my initial take on making the multi stuff more asynchronous. Connects
1108 should now return back without "hanging" until it has connected for real.
1109 This should also be the case for FTP-PASV connects.
1112 - Applied Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer's patch that introduces CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL,
1113 which effectively prevents libcurl from doing anything that may cause
1114 signals to get sent. This is basicly for multi-threaded applications that
1115 now can use timeouts properly, without risking any signals to burst in and
1119 - Lukasz Czekierda reported that RFC2732-style literal IPv6 addresses didn't
1120 work. When did that code vanish? Anyway, it's back again now and seems to
1123 - Jonatan Lander found out that POSTing an empty string didn't work with the
1127 - Jörn Hartroth fixed the libcurl.def file to build the windows DLL with
1128 the multi interface enabled.
1131 - The ftp PORT command now uses a better default IP address, as it will
1132 extract and use the local IP address used by the control connection.
1134 - Modified the #include lines in curl/multi.h to work better on more
1137 Daniel (31 Jul 2002)
1138 - Attempted a fix for Ray DeGennaro's reported HP-UX host name resolve
1141 Daniel (30 Jul 2002)
1142 - Priya Ramakrishnan and Ryan Jones compiles curl/curl.h with a C++ compiler
1143 and don't get __STDC__ defined, which required us to extend the preprocessor
1144 check for the ## operator usage.
1146 - Correct the description for CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION, if set to NULL the
1147 internal default function will be put back.
1149 - danfuzz at milk.com found out that libcurl badly assumed a space after
1150 'Set-Cookie:' so if it wasn't present, it caused the first letter of the
1151 cookie name to fall off!
1153 Daniel (29 Jul 2002)
1154 - The password prompt asking for user password used stdout and now uses
1155 stderr instead to better allow redirecting. It also leaked a fopen() file
1156 handle that is now fixed.
1158 Daniel (28 Jul 2002)
1159 - HAVE_SETVBUF was left out from src/main.c which made -N not work. Found out
1162 Daniel (26 Jun 2002)
1163 - Glen Nakamura solved a crash in the name resolving function for IP-only
1164 addresses on Alpha Linux (at least).
1166 - T. Bharath corrected the high resolution timer introduced in 7.9.8.
1168 Daniel (22 Jun 2002)
1169 - Andrés García pointed out man page errors in curl_formadd.3. I fixed.
1171 Daniel (19 Jun 2002)
1172 - Chris Combes pointed out a flaw in curl_escape(). I fixed. We no longer
1173 tries to generate nor parse '+' in URLs. Spaces become %20, and only %-codes
1174 are translated by curl_unescape().
1176 Daniel (15 Jun 2002)
1177 - Added --limit-rate to the curl tool. Allows the user to set a maxmimum
1178 upper limit to how much bandwidth to use for transfers.
1180 - CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE was added to libcurl. This sets a prefered size for the
1181 receive buffer in libcurl. The main point of this would be that the write
1182 callback gets called more often and with smaller chunks.
1184 Daniel (14 Jun 2002)
1185 - Yarram Sunil found out that the SocketIsDead() function performed a lot
1186 faster on Windows when removing the 1 microsecond timeout.
1188 - Hanno L. Kranzhoff fixed the VC++ project files.
1190 - Tom Mattison found out that ftp transfers closed the connection a little
1193 - Miklos Nemeth posted a VC++ makefile fix and some INSTALL comments on how
1194 to disable specific protocols when building for Windows.
1198 Daniel (13 Jun 2002)
1199 - Time to let this baby go.
1201 Daniel (12 Jun 2002)
1202 - Chris Combes added three new options for curl_formadd(): CURLFORM_BUFFER,
1203 CURLFORM_BUFFERPTR, CURLFORM_BUFFERLENGTH. They are used to create a
1204 multipart that appears as a regular file upload, but the data is provided
1205 with a pointer and length.
1207 - Nico Baggus made the VMS version use sigsetjmp() too.
1209 - Jörn Hartroth fixed the mingw32 build using the mm lib.
1211 - Applied patches by Kris Kennaway that correct format string problems in
1212 lib/ftp.c and lib/ldap.c.
1216 Daniel (11 Jun 2002)
1217 - James Cone brought the idea of using sigsetjmp() in the signal handler to
1218 make the time-out of name lookups to work, even when the underlying name
1219 resolver library traps EINTR. The use of sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() for
1220 this may be a bit drastic, and also not likely to exist on all platforms. I
1221 added careful checking for this in the configure script, even checks for it
1222 being a macro (which seems to be the case in for example Linux).
1224 sigsetjmp() seems to be mentioned in the Single Unix specification.
1226 - Miklos Nemeth brought a patch that allows libcurl to get built with specific
1227 protocols disabled. This is done by running ./configure
1228 --disable-[protocol].
1230 - FTP range downloads could make CURLE_FTP_WRITE_ERROR get returned. We now
1231 make precautions to not return this for range downloads.
1233 Added test case 135 that makes an ftp range download. Had to tweak the
1234 runtests.pl script a bit too.
1236 - Bug report #566835 identified a strlen() on a NULL pointer. Added additional
1237 check to prevent this.
1239 Daniel (10 Jun 2002)
1240 - Found and corrected a connect failure problem that didn't create a human
1243 - Added code to compile with OpenSSL 0.9.7. Based on patch from Jacob Meuser
1244 and comments from Götz Babin-Ebell.
1246 - Gautam Mani found a socket descriptor leak that happened when FTP transfers
1247 failed and you reinvoked curl_easy_perform().
1250 - Gustaf Hui corrected curl_multi_remove_handle() so that it won't crash no
1251 matter when you decide to remove the CURL handle.
1253 - HAVE_RAND_STATUS was added to lib/config-win32.h by Andreas Olsson, as it
1254 makes windows builds stop complaining about "weak seeding" when it in fact
1257 - Another 64bit architecture crash that was introduced in 7.9.7 was now
1258 removed, as bug report #564585 clarified. This happened due to our attempts
1259 to only allocate only as much memory as is actually needed for name
1260 resolving (using realloc) which called for a function that could 'move' a
1261 hostent struct in memory.
1266 - T. Bharath fixed the CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME to return a correct time and
1267 made the CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE return the correct total request size. He
1268 also made the win32 timers use higher resolution than before.
1270 Daniel (29 May 2002)
1271 - Renaud Chaillat made me aware of the fact that libcurl returned an error if
1272 you tried to get an empty FTP file. This seemed like a wrong thing to do, so
1273 now it no longer does that! I just hope that no one built anything fancy
1274 upon this unexpected behavior...
1276 Daniel (28 May 2002)
1277 - Cris Bailiff brought CURLOPT_CAPATH that works like CURLOPT_CAINFO but
1278 specifies a path to a directory with certificates rather than a single file
1279 with them all concatenated. --capath was added to the command line tool
1280 for the same function.
1282 Windows users need to pay attention that the directory should be setup with
1283 the c_rehash tool of the OpenSSL package, and that creates symlinks by
1284 default that need to be replaced with actual copies to work on Windows.
1286 - Gustaf Hui provided new code that changes how curl_multi_info_read()
1287 messages are stored, so that they don't have to be kept around for the multi
1288 handle's entire life time. He also made it return failure codes properly
1289 which it didn't do before.
1291 Daniel (27 May 2002)
1292 - Gustaf Hui pointed out that running curl_multi_perform() without doing
1293 curl_multi_fdset() first was not really a working combo. I added an internal
1294 check for this and have some extra select() code without timeout to make the
1295 library internals work identically nevertheless. We might need to somehow
1296 either document that once you've used the *_fdset() you should remain using
1297 them in select() or you should blank them somehow so that libcurl won't go
1302 Daniel (22 May 2002)
1303 - James Cone brought an excellent patch, including several tests and docs!
1304 CURLOPT_NETRC now takes an enum as argument instead of the previous boolean.
1305 --netrc-optional was introduced as an addition to --netrc to allow the
1306 command line client to take use of all that new netrc stuff.
1308 - Bug report #558888 showed a case where libcurl re-used the previous host
1309 name when a connection over a proxy was re-used but to a different target
1312 Daniel (21 May 2002)
1313 - Edin Kadribasic helped me sort out a problem to made libcurl crash when
1314 trying to HTTP POST an empty string.
1316 - Clarified that Juergen Wilke donated the original tests/server/sws.c code.
1318 - Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre made curl_formadd() return a typedef named
1319 CURLFORMcode instead of the previous 'int', and the various return codes are
1320 now globally exported. It allows applications to better figure out what goes
1321 wrong when curl_formadd() returns errors.
1323 Daniel (20 May 2002)
1324 - Roland Zimmermann pointed out that SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file()
1325 is prefered to SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file().
1327 Daniel (17 May 2002)
1328 - Bug report #556869 pointed out that src/writeout.c didn't compile on freebsd
1329 after my AIX fixes the other week.
1331 - Bug report #556930 pointed out a FreeBSD core dump introduced in 7.9.7 in
1332 the DNS struct realloc stuff. Actually, this crash could happen on all
1333 systems that made the pack_hostent() function get invoked.
1335 - I removed several compiler warnings in the test suite's HTTP server.
1339 Daniel (10 May 2002)
1340 - Kevin Roth adjusted the --trace-ascii output slightly.
1342 - Paul Harrington found out that src/writeout.c needed an additional header
1343 file included for AIX builds
1348 - Updated the man page with --trace-ascii and -j/--junk-session-cookies.
1350 - Made --trace-ascii do pretty much the same as --trace but without the hex
1353 - Added CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION that when enabled makes libcurl ignore session
1354 cookies read from a file. This option is enforced by the curl command line
1355 tool using the new -j/--junk-session-cookies option. After discussions with
1356 Kevin Roth. This makes it easier to use curl to fully emulate a browser's
1357 behavior, even when it comes to "session cookies". Session cookies are
1358 cookies that a normal browser discards when the browser is shut
1359 down. They're identified by not having any expire date/time.
1361 - When CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA was set, it ruined the CURLOPT_STDERR setting and
1362 this was discovered when --trace was made to crash.
1364 - Using -v and --trace at the same time confused matters. -v is now pretty
1365 much ignored when --trace or --trace-ascii is used.
1367 - Made --trace (and --trace-ascii) support - as file name to pass output to
1368 stdout instead. It makes it consistent with how other options work.
1373 - Added multi-post.c to the examples directory. I got the basic source for
1374 this from Gustaf Hui.
1377 - CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is now an exported #define in the curl/curl.h header and
1378 can be used to figure out the maximum buffer size your write callback can
1381 - CURLOPT_READDATA is now an alias for CURLOPT_INFILE and CURLOPT_WRITEDATE is
1382 an alias for CURLOPT_FILE. These two were added for conformity. Most other
1383 callback function's userdata are provided with options using a similar name-
1386 - Added "--trace [file]" to the command line tool. It makes a very detailed
1387 trace dump get stored, with a full protocol dump that includes all received
1388 and transmitted data. This could be a very effective tool for debugging what
1389 goes wrong. This dump includes every byte the way it is sent to/received
1390 from the server. The dump is the plain-text version, so SSL transfers will
1393 - I found out that the DEBUGFUNCTION was not called properly everywhere as we
1394 wanted it to. I fixed it.
1396 - -D now stores all headers to the same file if multiple URLs are given on the
1397 command line! Kevin Roth made me aware of that it didn't already do this!
1399 - Gustaf Hui wrote an excellent formpost example that used the multi
1400 interface. Unfortunately, it didn't work due to several bugs in how
1401 transfers were made when the multi interface was used.
1404 - Hanno Kranzhoff found out that when doing multiple transfers on the same
1405 easy handle, the progress meter would show a bad "currently downloaded
1406 value" when the transfer starts.
1409 - Applied another patch by Jacky Lam to make the name resolve info realloc()
1410 stuff work properly.
1412 Daniel (28 April 2002)
1413 - curl_multi_info_read() is now implemented!
1415 Daniel (27 April 2002)
1416 - Updated BUGS, TODO, FAQ, INSTALL and added BINDINGS.
1418 - I think I fixed the DNS cache prune crach Jacky Lam found and reported.
1420 - I cleaned up the name prefix stuff in the hash and llist modules.
1422 - FTP responses should now be better on timing out properly. The timeout value
1423 is maximum timeout for the entire request operation, but before this, the
1424 timeout was used as a maximum allowed time between two reads...
1426 Daniel (26 April 2002)
1427 - Fixed the test suite http server to not use snprintf() anymore due to better
1430 Daniel (25 April 2002)
1431 - With Sterling Hughes' new DNS pruning, Jacky Lam asked if this wouldn't
1432 cause problems since the pruning is only checking the entry time, and it
1433 sure could cause problems. Therefor, I've now added and changed code so that
1434 this should not be a problem. Nowhere in the code will be store name
1435 resolved information around so that a sunsequent DNS cache prune should
1436 cause a problem. This of course called for some mild internal changes.
1438 Daniel (23 April 2002)
1439 - Improved the 'no_proxy' check, as using port numbers in the URL confused it
1440 previously. Reported by Erwan Legrand in bug report #547484.
1442 - The --interface option now works even on IPv6 enabled builds. Reported by
1445 Daniel (22 April 2002)
1446 - The #defines names starting with TIMECOND now has CURL_ prefixes. (The old
1447 names are still #defined too.) Pointed out by Robert Olson.
1449 - Jacky Lam brought code that lets the name resolve function only use as much
1450 memory as it actually needs. This only works on certain operating systems,
1451 but is totally transparant to all users.
1453 Daniel (19 April 2002)
1454 - Bjorn Reese fixed pack_hostent to work properly with 64 bit pointers.
1456 Daniel (18 April 2002)
1457 - Sterling Hughes added code to prune old DNS cache entries, since Jacky Lam
1458 experienced very big caches.
1460 Daniel (17 April 2002)
1461 - Dirk Manske patched the 301 response to work against the RFC but more like
1462 common browsers do. If a POST get a 301 back, it'll switch to GET in the
1463 next request (if location-following is enabled).
1465 Daniel (16 April 2002)
1466 - Dirk Manske posted a patch originally written by Ingo Wilken that introduced
1467 two new CURLINFO_* values: CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME and
1468 CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT.
1470 Daniel (15 April 2002)
1471 - Jonatan Lander patched the verbose text 'Disables POST, goes with GET' to
1472 reflect reality better, like when the first request isn't POST and when
1473 the second isn't GET... :-)
1475 - Craig Davison pointed out that when curl_formadd()ing a file that doesn't
1476 exist, libcurl doesn't return error. Now, curl_easy_perform() will return
1477 CURLE_READ_ERROR if that is the case. Test 41 was added to verify this.
1481 Daniel (14 April 2002)
1482 - Dirk Manske brought a fix that makes libcurl strip off white spaces from the
1483 beginning of cookie contents.
1485 - Had to patch include/curl/curl.h since MSVC doesn't set the __STDC__ define.
1486 Moonesamy pointed out the problem, Bjorn Reese the solution.
1490 Daniel (12 April 2002)
1491 - Fixed the TIMER_CONNECT to be more accurate for FTP transfers. Previously
1492 FTP transfers got the "connect done" time set after the initial FTP commands
1493 and not directly after the TCP/IP connect as it should.
1495 I also made the time stamp get set even if the connect itself fails, which
1496 it didn't do previously.
1498 - Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre provided his patch that introduces
1499 CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA. They allow a program to a set a
1500 callback to receive debug/information data. That includes headers and data
1501 that is received and sent. CURLOPT_VERBOSE still controls it.
1503 By default, there is an internal debugfunction that will make things look
1504 and work as before if not changed.
1506 Daniel (10 April 2002)
1507 - Sebastien Willemijns found out that -x didn't use the default port number as
1508 is documented. It does now.
1510 - libcurl-errors.3 is a new man page attempting to document all libcurl error
1513 - Added two new error codes and changed the behaviour of two old ones
1517 This error was returned *both* for errors that occured when writing
1518 received data to a local file, as well as when we get problems writing data
1519 to a remote server. CURLE_SEND_ERROR has now been added for the latter
1523 This error was similarly returned *both* for errors when reading a local
1524 file, as well as when getting problems when reading network data.
1525 CURLE_RECV_ERROR has now been added for the latter error.
1527 (Two test cases were adjusted accordingly.)
1529 Daniel (9 April 2002)
1530 - runtests.pl now sets the HOME variable before running curl, to prevent any
1531 actual ~/.curlrc file to fool the tests!
1535 Daniel (8 April 2002)
1536 - Michael Curtis provided new functionality for curl on some platforms. Using
1537 the --environment option, curl will *set* a bunch of environment variables
1538 to values. The names are the same ones as for the -w/--writeout option.
1540 For now, this only works on the RISC OS version, as this feature relies on
1541 both OS support and that it matches OS paradigms.
1543 - Jacky Lam provided a fix for getting headers-only when the reply is HTTP/1.0
1544 and 304, I edited it slightly.
1546 Daniel (5 April 2002)
1547 - As requested by Jay Graves, the '.curlrc' file (or _curlrc as it is called
1548 when used in windows), is now loaded from the current directory if the HOME
1549 environment variable isn't set (or if it is too long). I also enlarged the
1550 array used to store the full file path in, to 512 bytes.
1552 - Kevin Roth pointed out to me why the "19 March" change regarding -G and -I
1553 was stupid and the change was reverted. Added test case 48 to verify the
1558 Daniel (4 April 2002)
1559 - Jonatan Lander brought a patch that makes curl/curl.h compile nicely on
1560 pre-ISO compilers, like when using gcc -traditional.
1562 Daniel (3 April 2002)
1563 - Jacky Lam identified a glitch when getting headers-only, where libcurl would
1564 "hang" 1 second in vain in the select() loop before returning back.
1566 - Tor Arntsen brought a patch for multipart formposts. It turned out that the
1567 "CGI_Lite Perl package" makes some bad assumptions on what letters that may
1568 be used in boundary strings and thus curl could confuse it by including '+'
1569 and '/'. While this is standards-compliant, we change the behavior to work
1570 smoothly with existing software based on that package.
1572 Daniel (2 April 2002)
1573 - Gerhard Herre filed bug report #536238 where he pointed out a crash in
1574 verbose FTP passive transfers for AIX.
1576 - Clarence Gardner pointed out a minor flaw in how libcurl didn't properly
1577 take care of all errors that SSL_read() could return.
1579 - Jacky Lam fixed a MALLOCDEBUG problem in lib/getinfo.c
1581 Daniel (27 March 2002)
1582 - T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the connection re-use function that didn't
1583 check proxy connections properly for "deadness" before they were re-used.
1585 - Pedro Neves found out that HTTP POSTing with --data-binary did not properly
1586 work under Windows as the file specified wasn't read fully binary!
1588 Daniel (25 March 2002)
1589 - Jacky Lam brought a fix that improves treatment of cookies using identical
1590 domains but with leading dots properly.
1592 Daniel (22 March 2002)
1593 - Miklos Nemeth updated the windows section of the docs/INSTALL file and the
1596 - Jon Dillon provided us with several good-looking curl images for
1597 promotion. View them here http://curl.haxx.se/icons.html
1599 Daniel (20 March 2002)
1600 - Peter Verhas found out that CRLF replacement in uploads was not working. I
1601 fixed it, and added test case 128 that verifies the functionality.
1603 - The list formerly known as curl-main is now named curl-users and is hosted
1604 by sourceforge. Susbcribe to the new list, get off the old one.
1608 Daniel (19 March 2002)
1609 - Made -G and -I on the same command line cause an error.
1611 - Moved the multi.h file to the "public" include directory and made it get
1612 included by curl.h so that no extra include files will be necessary to use
1615 Added docs and man pages for the multi interface to the release archive.
1616 Added the three example source codes too.
1618 Necessary steps in my campaign to sneak in the multi interface... ;-)
1620 - Updated the year in all copyright notices in all C and H files.
1622 Daniel (18 March 2002)
1623 - Tomas Szepe found out that -d and -G didn't mix as they should. I broke this
1624 in 7.9.5... Added test case 32 for this.
1628 Daniel (16 March 2002)
1629 - Peter Verhas pointed out that the curl_escape and curl_unscape man pages
1630 contained factual errors.
1632 - Albert Choy found and corrected a problem with the verbose output when doing
1633 PASV ftp transfers. It could make libcurl crash.
1635 Details in bug report #530562:
1636 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=530562&group_id=976
1638 Daniel (15 March 2002)
1639 - Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino filed bug report #530204 that clearly pointed out
1640 the PF_INET fix from February 19 as a not-very-good fix as it broke IPv6
1641 capability! That patch is now reverted.
1643 The problem with slow name lookups with getaddrinfo() on non-IPv6 enabled
1644 hosts are instead made by first checking if the stack is IPv6-enabled and if
1645 not, the PF_INET is used and otherwise we go with the full PF_UNSPEC.
1647 - T. Bharath pointed out that when we return an "error" from a WRITEFUNCTION
1648 as described in the man page, libcurl did not return the documented error
1649 code (CURLE_WRITE_ERROR) but would instead return CURLE_READ_ERROR. This is
1652 Daniel (14 March 2002)
1653 - Setting CURLOPT_POST without setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS now read the POST-
1654 data from the callback.
1656 - The GOPHER support seems to be broken. I don't think I'll even start fixing
1657 it until someone else finds out... :-)
1659 Daniel (13 March 2002)
1660 - Trying 'curl -I ftp.sunet.se' or similar did a SIZE on a silly "(nil)"
1661 string. If such a file would be present, curl returned the size of it! Now
1664 - Curl_sendf() was fixed to deal with situation where Curl_write() would've
1665 blocked and thus return -1.
1667 - Setting CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION to NULL now restores the internal function.
1669 - All CURLFORM_* options can now be used in a CURLFORM_ARRAY except the
1670 CURLFORM_ARRAY itself. This was necessary since we couldn't expand the
1671 CURLFORM_* list proprely and unrestricted until this was the case. It was
1672 also a bit peculiar to users why some options could be used in an array
1673 while others couldn't.
1675 - Removed some silly CRLF lines that had accidentally slipped into src/main.c
1676 Nico Baggus pointed them out to me.
1678 Daniel (11 March 2002)
1679 - CURLFORM_FILENAME was added. This can be set when creating a file upload
1680 part, to set the 'filename' field to a custom value. If this isn't used,
1681 the actually used filename will be included instead (as libcurl always has
1682 done). curl was adjusted accordingly, and now -F accepts a 'filename=' field
1683 too, and allows constructs such as:
1685 -F 'name=@filename;filename=/dev/null'
1687 and this can be combined with type= too, in a manner similar to:
1689 -F "file=@log/test39.txt;filename=fakerfile;type=moo/foobar"
1691 Test case 39 was added to verify this functionality.
1693 - The struct formerly known as HttpPost is now named curl_httppost to properly
1694 use the curl name space. I added a #define for the old name to make existing
1695 programs compile even when this new include file is used.
1697 Daniel (8 March 2002)
1698 - Clifford also discovered that if the client code failed early, as when doing
1699 "curl -O" only, it would do fclose(NULL) which caused a segmentation fault
1702 - Clifford Wolf provided a patch that made --progress-bar work again.
1704 - I closed bug report #527032 by making sure that we add a newline after a
1705 transfer when --progress-bar has been used. Before, without the newline, it
1706 made the subsequent text come out wrong.
1710 Daniel (7 March 2002)
1711 - Added docs/KNOWN_BUGS to the release archive.
1713 Daniel (6 March 2002)
1714 - Kevin Roth corrected a flaw in the curl client globbing code that made it
1715 mess up backslashes. This was most notable on windows (cygwin) machines when
1718 - Brad provided another fix for building outside the source-tree.
1720 - Ralph Mitchell patched away a few compiler warnings in tests/server/sws.c
1722 Daniel (5 March 2002)
1723 - I noticed that the typedef in curl.h for the progress callback prototype was
1724 wrong and thus applications that used it would not get the proper input
1725 data. It used size_t where the implementation actually uses doubles!
1727 I wish I could blame someone else, but this was my fault. Again.
1731 Daniel (4 March 2002)
1732 - Cut off the changes done during 2001 from this changelog file and put them
1733 in a separate file (CHANGES.2001), available from CVS of course.
1735 - I removed the multi directory. The example sources were moved to the
1736 docs/examples directory where they belong.
1738 - Wrote 7 new man pages for the current functions in the new multi interface.
1739 They're all still pretty basic, but we can use them as a start and add more
1740 contents to them when we figure out what to write. The large amount of man
1741 pages for libcurl now present made me decide to put them in a new separate
1742 subdirectory in the docs directory. Named libcurl.
1744 - Giuseppe Corbelli provided a template file for the EPM package manager, it
1745 gets generated nicely by the configure script now.
1749 Daniel (1 March 2002)
1750 - Moved the memanalyze.pl script into the tests/ dir and added it to the
1751 release archives. It was previously only present in the CVS tree.
1753 - Modified the February 17th Host: fix, as bug report #523718 pointed out that
1756 - Nico Baggus added more error codes to the VMS stuff.
1758 - Wesley Laxton brought the code that introduced the new CURLOPT_PREQUOTE
1759 option. It is just another FTP quote option that allows the user to specify
1760 a list of FTP commands to issue *just before* the transfer command (RETR or
1761 STOR etc). It has turned up a few systems that really need this.
1763 The curl command line tool can also take advantage of this by prefixing the
1764 quote commands with a plus (+) in similar style that post transfer quote
1765 commands are specified.
1767 This is not yet documented. There is no test case for this yet.
1769 Daniel (28 February 2002)
1770 - Ralph Mitchell made some serious efforts and put a lot of sweat in setting
1771 up scripts and things for me to be able to repeat his problems, and I
1772 finally could. I found a problem with the header byte counter that wasn't
1773 increased properly and thus we could return CURLE_GOT_NOTHING when we in
1774 fact had received data.
1776 Daniel (27 February 2002)
1777 - I had to revert the non-space parsing cookie fix I posted to the mailing
1778 list. Expire dates do have spaces and still need to get parsed properly!
1779 Instead we just ignore trailing white space and it seems to work...
1781 Daniel (26 February 2002)
1782 - Made the cookie property 'Max-Age' work, just since we already tried to
1783 support it, it is better to do it right. No one uses this anyway.
1785 - The cookie parser could crash if a really weird (illegal) cookie line was
1786 received. I also made it better discard really oddly formatted lines better.
1788 Made the cookie jar store the second field from the left using the syntax
1789 that Netscape and Mozilla probably like. Curl itself ignores it.
1791 Added test case 31 for these cases.
1793 Clay Loveless' email regarding some cookie issues started my cleanup.
1795 - Kevin Roth pointed out that my automake fiddles broke the ability to build
1796 outside the source-tree and I posted a patch to the mailing list that brings
1801 Daniel (25 February 2002)
1802 - Fiddled with the automake files to make all source files in the lib
1803 directory not have ../src in the include path, and the src sources shouldn't
1806 - All 79 test cases ran OK under Linux and Solaris using the new HTTP server
1807 in the test suite. The new HTTP server was first donated by Georg Horn and
1808 subsequently modified to work with the test suite. It is currently still not
1809 portable enough to run on "all over" but this is a start and I can run all
1810 curl tests on my machines. This is an important requirement for the upcoming
1813 - Using -d and -I on the same command line now reports an error, as it implies
1814 two different HTTP requests that can't be mixed.
1816 - Jeffrey Pohlmeyer provided a patch that made the -w/--write-out option
1817 support %{content_type} to get the content type of the recent download.
1819 - Kevin Roth reported that pre2 and pre3 didn't compile properly on cygwin,
1820 and this was because I used #ifdef HAVE_WINSOCK_H in lib/multi.h to figure
1821 out if we could include winsock.h which turns out not to be a wise choice to
1822 do on cygwin since it has the file but can't include it!
1824 Daniel (22 February 2002)
1825 - Added src/config-vms.h to the release archive.
1827 - Fixed the connection timeout value again, the change from February 18 wasn't
1832 Daniel (21 February 2002)
1833 - Kevin Roth and Andrés García both found out that lib/config.h.in was missing
1834 in the pre-release archive and thus the configure script failed.
1838 Daniel (20 February 2002)
1839 - Andrés García provided a solution to bug report #515228. the total time
1840 counter was not set correctly when -I was used during some conditions (all
1841 headers were read in one single read).
1843 - Nico Baggus provided a huge patch with minor tweaks all over to make curl
1844 compile nicely on VMS.
1846 Daniel (19 February 2002)
1847 - Rick Richardson found out that by replacing PF_UNSPEC with PF_INET in the
1848 getaddrinfo() calls, he could speed up some name resolving calls with an
1849 order of magnitudes on his Redhat Linux 7.2.
1851 - Philip Gladstone found a second INADDR_NONE problem where we used long
1852 intead of in_addr_t which caused 64bit problemos. We really shouldn't define
1853 that on two different places.
1855 Daniel (18 February 2002)
1856 - Philip Gladstone found a problem in how HTTP requests were sent if the
1857 request couldn't be sent all at once.
1859 - Emil found and corrected a bad connection timeout comparison that made curl
1860 use the longest of connect-timeout and timout as a timeout value, instead of
1861 the shortest as it was supposed to!
1863 - Aron Roberts provided updated information about LDAP URL syntax to go into
1864 the manual as a replacement for the old references.
1866 Daniel (17 February 2002)
1867 - Philip Gladstone pointed out two missing include files that made curl core
1868 dump on 64bit architectures. We need to pay more attention on these details.
1869 It is *lethal* to for example forget the malloc() prototype, as 'int' is
1870 32bit and malloc() must return a 64bit pointer on these platforms.
1872 - Giaslas Georgios fixed a problem with Host: headers on repeated requests on
1873 the same handle using a proxy.
1875 Daniel (8 February 2002)
1876 - Hanno L. Kranzhoff accurately found out that disabling the Expect: header
1877 when doing multipart formposts didn't work very well. It disabled other
1878 parts of the request header too, resulting in a broken header. When I fixed
1879 this, I also noticed that the Content-Type wasn't possible to disable. It is
1880 now, even though it probably is really stupid to try to do this (because of
1881 the boundary string that is included in the internally generated header,
1882 used as form part separator.)
1884 Daniel (7 February 2002)
1885 - I moved the config*.h files from the root directory to the lib/ directory.
1887 - I've added the new test suite HTTP server to the CVS repository, It seems to
1888 work pretty good now, but we must make it get used by the test scripts
1889 properly and then we need to make sure that it compiles, builds and runs on
1890 most operating systems.
1894 Daniel (6 February 2002)
1895 - Miklos Nemeth provided updated windows makefiles and INSTALL docs.
1897 - Mr Larry Fahnoe found a problem with formposts and I managed to track down
1898 and patch this bug. This was actually two bugs, as the posted size was also
1899 said to be two bytes too large.
1901 - Brent Beardsley found out and brought a correction for the
1902 CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE parser that was off one byte. This was my fault, I
1903 accidentaly broke Giaslas Georgios' patch.
1905 Daniel (5 February 2002)
1906 - Kevin Roth found yet another SSL download problem.
1910 - no changes since pre-release
1914 Daniel (3 February 2002)
1915 - Eric Melville provided a few spelling corrections in the curl man page.
1917 Daniel (1 February 2002)
1918 - Andreas Damm corrected the unconditional use of gmtime() in getdate, it now
1919 uses gmtime_r() on all hosts that have it.
1921 Daniel (31 January 2002)
1922 - An anonymous bug report identified a problem in the DNS caching which made it
1923 sometimes allocate one byte too little to store the cache entry in. This
1924 happened when the port number started with 1!
1926 - Albert Chin provided a patch that improves the gethostbyname_r() configure
1927 check on HP-UX 11.00.
1931 Daniel (30 January 2002)
1932 - Georg Horn found another way the SSL reading failed due to the non-blocking
1933 state of the sockets! I fixed.
1935 Daniel (29 January 2002)
1936 - Multipart formposts now send the full request properly, including the CRLF.
1937 They were previously treated as part of the post data.
1939 - The upload byte counter bugged.
1941 - T. Bharath pointed out that we seed SSL on every connect, which is a time-
1942 consuming operation that should only be needed to do once. We patched
1943 libcurl to now only seed on the first connect when unseeded. The seeded
1944 status is global so it'll now only happen once during a program's life time.
1946 If the random_file or egdsocket is set, the seed will be re-made though.
1948 - Giaslas Georgios introduced CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE that lets
1949 curl_easy_getinfo() read the content-type from the previous request.
1951 Daniel (28 January 2002)
1952 - Kjetil Jacobsen found a way to crash curl and after much debugging, it
1953 turned out it was a IPv4-linux only problem introduced in 7.9.3 related to
1956 - Andreas Damm posted a huge patch that made the curl_getdate() function fully
1959 - Steve Marx pointed out that you couldn't mix CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST with
1960 CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. You can now!
1962 Daniel (25 January 2002)
1963 - Krishnendu Majumdar pointed out that the header length counter was not reset
1964 between multiple requests on the same handle.
1966 - Pedro Neves rightfully questioned why curl always append \r\n to the data
1967 that is sent in HTTP POST requests. Unfortunately, this broke the test suite
1968 as the test HTTP server is lame enough not to deal with this... :-O
1970 - Following Location: headers when the connection didn't close didn't work as
1971 libcurl didn't properly stop reading. This problem was added in 7.9.3 due to
1972 the restructured internals. 'Frank' posted a bug report about this.
1974 Daniel (24 January 2002)
1975 - Kevin Roth very quickly spotted that we wrongly installed the example
1976 programs that were built in the multi directory, when 'make install' was
1981 Daniel (23 January 2002)
1982 - Andrés García found a persistancy problem when doing HTTP HEAD, that made
1983 curl "hang" until the connection was closed by the server. This problem has
1984 been introduced in 7.9.3 due to internal rewrites, this was not present in
1989 Daniel (19 January 2002)
1990 - Antonio filed bug report #505514 and provided a fix! When doing multipart
1991 formposts, libcurl would include an error text in the actual post if a
1992 specified file wasn't found. This is not libcurl's job. Instead we add an
1995 Daniel (18 January 2002)
1996 - Played around with stricter compiler warnings for gcc (when ./configure
1997 --enable-debug is used) and changed some minor things to stop the warnings.
1999 - Commented out the 'long long' and 'long double' checks in configure.in, as
2000 we don't currently use them anyway and the code in lib/mprintf.c that use
2001 them causes warnings.
2003 - Saul Good and jonatan pointed out Mac OS X build problems with pre3 and how
2004 to correct them. Two compiler warnings were removed as well.
2006 - Andrés García fixed two minor mingw32 building problems.
2010 Daniel (17 January 2002)
2011 - docs/libcurl-the-guide is a new tutorial for our libcurl programming
2014 - Richard Archer brought back the ability to compile and build with OpenSSL
2015 versions before 0.9.5.
2016 [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=504163&group_id=976]
2018 - The DNS cache code didn't take the port number into account, which made it
2019 work rather bad on IPv6-enabled hosts (especially when doing passive
2020 FTP). Sterling fixed it.
2022 Daniel (16 January 2002)
2023 - Georg Horn could make a transfer time-out without error text. I found it and
2026 - SSL writes didn't work, they return an uninitialized value that caused
2027 havoc all over. Georg Horn experienced this.
2029 - Kevin Roth patched the curl_version() function to use the proper OpenSSL
2030 function for version information. This way, curl will report the version of
2031 the SSL library actually running right now, not the one that had its headers
2032 installed when libcurl was built. Mainly intersting when running with shared
2037 Daniel (16 January 2002)
2038 - Mofied the main transfer loop and related stuff to deal with non-blocking
2039 sockets in the upload section. While doing this, I've now separated the
2040 connection oriented buffers to have one for downloads and one for uploads
2041 (as two can happen simultaneously). I also shrunk the buffers to 20K
2042 each. As we have a scratch buffer twice the size of the upload buffer, we
2043 arrived at 80K for buffers compared with the previous 150K.
2045 - Added the --cc option to curl-config command as it enables so very cool
2046 one-liners. Have a go a this one, building the simple.c example:
2048 $ `curl-config --cc --cflags --libs` -o example simple.c
2050 Daniel (14 January 2002)
2051 - I made all socket reads (recv) handle EWOULDBLOCK. I hope nicely. Now we
2052 only need to address all writes (send) too and then I'm ready for another
2055 - Stoned Elipot patched the in_addr_t configure test to make it work better on
2058 Daniel (9 January 2002)
2059 - Cris Bailiff found out that filling up curl's SSL session cache caused a
2062 - Posted the curl questionnaire on the web site. If you haven't posted your
2063 opinions there yet, go there and do it now while it is still there:
2065 http://curl.haxx.se/q/
2067 - Georg Horn quickly found out that the SSL reading no longer worked as
2068 supposed since the switch to non-blocking sockets. I've made a quick patch
2069 (for reading only) but we should improve it even further.
2073 Daniel (7 January 2002)
2074 - I made the 'bool' typedef use an "unsigned char". It makes it the same on
2075 all platforms, no matter what the platform thinks the default format for
2076 char is. This was noticed since we made a silly comparison involving such a
2077 bool variable, and only one compiler/platform combination (on Debian Linux)
2078 complained about it (that happened to have its char unsigned by default).
2080 - Bug report #495290 identified a cookie parsing problem that was corrected.
2081 When a Set-Cookie: line is received without a trailing semicolon, libcurl
2082 didn't read the last "name=value" pair of the line, leading to confusions...
2084 - Sterling committed his updated DNS cache code.
2086 - I worked with Georg Horn and comments from Götz Babin-Ebell and switched
2087 curl's socket operations completely over to non-blocking for the entire
2088 operation (previously we used non-blocking only for the connection phase).
2089 We had to do this to make the SSL connection phase timeout properly without
2090 the use of signals. A little extra code to deal with this was added.
2092 - T. Bharath pointed out a slightly obscure cookie engine flaw.
2094 - Pete Su pointed out that libcurl didn't treat HTTP code 204 as it should.
2095 204-replies never provides a response-body. This resulted in bad persistant
2096 behavior when 204 was received.
2098 Daniel (5 January 2002)
2099 - SM updated the VC++ library Makefiles for the new source files.
2101 Daniel (4 January 2002)
2102 - I discovered that we wrongly used inet_ntoa() (instead of inet_ntoa_r() in
2103 two places in the source code). One happened with VERBOSE set on connects,
2104 and the other when VERBOSE was on and krb4 over nat was used... I honestly
2105 don't think anyone has suffered from these mistakes.
2107 - I replaced a lot of silly occurances of printf() to instead use the more
2108 appropriate Curl_infof() or Curl_failf(). The krb4 and telnet code were
2111 - Philip Gladstone found a few more problems with 64-bit archs (the 64-bit
2112 sparc on solaris 8).
2114 - After discussions on the libcurl list with Raoul Cridlig, I just made FTP
2115 response lines get passed to the header callback if such a one is
2116 registered. It'll make it possible for any application to get all the
2117 responses an FTP server sends to libcurl.
2119 Daniel (3 January 2002)
2120 - Sterling Hughes brought a few buckets of code. Now, libcurl will
2121 automatically cache DNS lookups and re-use the previous results first if any
2122 such is available. It greatly improves speed when doing many repeated
2123 operations to the same host.
2125 - As the test case uses --include and then --head, I had to modify src/main.c
2126 to deal with this situation slightly better than previously. When done, we
2127 have 100% good tests again in the main branch.
2129 Daniel (2 January 2002)
2130 - Made test case 25 run again in the multi-dev branch. But it seems that the
2131 changes done on dec-20 made test case 104 cease to work (in both branches).
2133 - Philip Gladstone pointed out a few portability problems in the source code
2134 that didn't compile on 64-bit sparcs using Sun's native compiler.