1 Daniel (30 December 2000)
2 - Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
3 as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
6 Daniel (19 December 2000)
7 - Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system
8 and thus I found and removed a file descriptor leakage in the ftp parts
9 that happened when you did PORTed downloads.
11 - Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *.
13 Daniel (12 December 2000)
14 - Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or
15 hope, or at least I've tried... :-O
17 - Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem
21 Daniel (11 December 2000)
22 - Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin
23 P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found
24 different newline conventions within the same file.
26 - Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for
29 Daniel (6 December 2000)
30 - Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when
31 doing SSL connections.
33 - James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with
34 -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it
37 Daniel (5 December 2000)
38 - Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland
39 compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with
42 - Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL
43 variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need
44 perl in the path for the test suite to run ok.
46 - Rich Gray found numerous portability problems:
47 * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h
48 since the curl one differed from the SCO one
49 * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction
50 stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need).
51 * A few more problems remain to be researched.
53 - Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet.
55 Daniel (4 December 2000)
56 - Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O.
60 Daniel (1 December 2000)
61 - Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should
62 build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too.
64 - Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when
65 releasing new shared library interfaces.
67 Daniel (30 November 2000)
68 - Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document
71 Daniel (29 November 2000)
72 - I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things
73 harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS.
77 Daniel (28 November 2000)
78 - I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been
81 - James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
82 libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the
83 set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops.
85 Daniel (27 November 2000)
86 - Added two test cases for file://.
88 Daniel (22 November 2000)
89 - Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the
90 modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it
91 involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command
92 which is not in the RFC959)
94 curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time
95 after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if
96 the time wasn't possible to get.
98 --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header
99 if curl could get the time of the specified file.
101 - Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM
102 file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS
103 connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but
104 others have asked for it before as well.
106 Daniel (21 November 2000)
107 - Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight:
109 * curl_unescape() could return a too long string
110 * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks
111 * ftp CWD could use bad directory names
112 * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability
113 * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers
115 - Added a bunch of test cases for FTP.
117 - General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic.
119 - I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp
120 operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now
121 all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl
122 script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run.
124 Daniel (20 November 2000)
125 - Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of
126 4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make
127 life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying
128 but that can be circumvented by using a config file.
130 NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location:
133 - Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages.
135 - Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It
136 turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names
137 where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the
138 lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase
141 Daniel (17 November 2000)
142 - curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the
143 test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on
144 memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the
145 cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar
146 things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these
147 problems have been removed.
149 - Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and
150 weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now,
151 although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main
152 difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must
153 both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also
154 specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and
155 parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like:
157 user-agent = "foobar and something"
159 Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're
160 expected to be a single non-space word.
162 Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work.
164 - Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes
165 way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config
166 file doesn't work anymore.
168 Daniel (15 November 2000)
169 - Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication
170 failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters,
171 and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused
172 passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail.
176 Daniel (15 November 2000)
177 - 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used.
179 Daniel (14 November 2000)
180 - I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled
181 "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE
182 could be assumed to work.
184 - Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a
185 file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and
186 curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start
187 uploading from the beginning as a normal upload?
189 Daniel (13 November 2000)
190 - Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter.
192 - While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation
193 that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this
194 immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl.
196 - Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c
198 - I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite.
202 Daniel (10 November 2000)
203 - I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new
204 tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and
205 most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script.
207 I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work.
209 - Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks
210 for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes
211 depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used!
213 - Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was
214 already uploaded, curl would hang.
216 - Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the
217 getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have.
219 - Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected
220 it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com),
221 the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between
222 the set domain length and the current host name.
224 Daniel (9 November 2000)
225 - Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need
226 it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found
227 but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no
228 system that requires those libs to build.
232 Daniel (7 November 2000)
233 - Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a
234 slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed.
236 Daniel (6 November 2000)
237 - Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in.
238 They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are
239 CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA.
241 - Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong
242 times when location: headers were followed.
244 - Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in
245 the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem
246 with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now.
248 Daniel (2 November 2000)
249 - When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was
250 inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got
251 increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous
252 numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end.
254 Daniel (1 November 2000)
255 - Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction()
256 isn't present, we can use signal() instead.
258 - I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again
259 GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards
260 making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all...
262 Daniel (31 October 2000)
263 - Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and
264 templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms.
265 I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root.
267 Daniel (30 October 2000)
268 - T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to
269 curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer
270 certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option
271 and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote
272 peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the
273 *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about
274 whether the verification succeeded or not.
276 Daniel (27 October 2000)
277 - Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing
278 annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes
279 (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and
280 of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually
281 have the sigaction() function).
283 Daniel (26 October 2000)
284 - Björn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth
285 that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The
286 getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any
287 static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass()
288 function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe.
290 - Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the
291 url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote
292 it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now.
294 - Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was
295 just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't
296 support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d
297 chunk. This enables constructs like the following:
299 curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com
301 Daniel (24 October 2000)
302 - I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other
303 systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the
304 memory debugging system.
306 Daniel (23 October 2000)
307 - I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script
308 will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and
309 then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build
312 - Björn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly
313 enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the
314 -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also
315 suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL
316 so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there...
318 Daniel (20 October 2000)
319 - Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port
320 number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it
321 isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to
322 run one of those nasty servers.
324 - The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been
325 corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this)
327 Daniel (17 October 2000)
328 - Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They
329 didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test
332 - I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https://
333 URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this
335 "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!"
337 I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual
342 Daniel (16 October 2000)
343 - I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in
344 the release archive (of course).
348 Daniel (16 October 2000)
349 - The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th.
351 Daniel (12 October 2000)
352 - Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used
353 by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a
354 few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well.
356 Daniel (11 October 2000)
357 - Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out
362 Daniel (9 October 2000)
363 - Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include
364 file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the
365 public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file.
367 - Jörg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It
368 didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway.
370 - Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our
371 libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all
372 platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a
375 - I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header
376 generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more
377 PHP-friendly multi-part posts.
381 Daniel (9 October 2000)
382 - Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when
383 using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably
384 introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7.
386 - Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl.
387 I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log
388 all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze
389 the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak
390 Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup()
391 didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in
392 the CVS respository, not in the release archive.
394 Daniel (8 October 2000)
395 - Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the
396 pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best
401 Daniel (6 October 2000)
402 - Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the
403 mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP
404 receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this.
406 - Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working
407 anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for
408 7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now...
410 - Jörn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL
411 stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with
412 -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid!
414 - Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used
415 a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes.
419 Daniel (4 October 2000)
420 - More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate,
421 as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to
422 get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP
423 request. T. Bharath requested them.
425 Daniel (3 October 2000)
426 - Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-)
430 Daniel (3 October 2000)
431 - Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP
432 requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do
433 this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it
434 this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with
435 curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to
436 fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer
437 to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults
440 Daniel (2 October 2000)
441 - Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the
442 progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer
443 size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter
444 and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to
447 I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to
448 start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes
449 per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It
450 should make the progress meter work better.
454 Daniel (29 September 2000)
455 - Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets
456 all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo()
459 - brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and
460 removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get.
462 Daniel (28 September 2000)
463 - Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct
464 the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just
465 released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error
466 is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix
467 release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be
468 available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway.
472 Daniel (28 September 2000)
473 - Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former
476 Daniel (26 September 2000)
479 - I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted
480 patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones.
484 Daniel (25 September 2000)
485 - Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and
486 showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly
489 - Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative
490 approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie
491 header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed.
493 - I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell
494 you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for
495 nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl
496 tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected.
498 Daniel (23 September 2000)
499 - Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload
502 Daniel (21 September 2000)
503 - The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals
504 that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first!
506 Daniel (20 September 2000)
507 - Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this
508 opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer
509 sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use
510 malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a
511 large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like
512 that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness.
514 - Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went
515 as smooth as it could.
517 - Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how
518 to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples
521 - Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the
522 config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word
523 "reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease.
525 - Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4.
527 - Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that
528 I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding
533 Daniel (19 September 2000)
534 - The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original
535 krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global
536 variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to
537 clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use
538 connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't
539 destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects
540 krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty.
544 Daniel (18 September 2000)
545 - Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to
546 curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did
547 not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere
548 thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours!
550 - Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to
551 the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an
552 outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all
553 platforms. This needs testing.
555 - Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the
556 name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not
557 returning an error even though it failed on some platforms!
559 Daniel (15 September 2000)
560 - Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support.
564 Daniel (15 September 2000)
565 - Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp.
566 Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the
567 pasv message when doing the second connect.
571 Daniel (15 September 2000)
572 - libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The
573 second connection on ftp needed that.
575 - TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really
578 Daniel (14 September 2000)
579 - -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new
580 CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel
581 through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp.
583 Daniel (13 September 2000)
584 - Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this
585 and mailed the patch to the mailing list.
587 Daniel (7 September 2000)
588 - I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really
589 a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that
590 define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the
593 - I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage
594 in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to
599 Daniel (31 August 2000)
600 - Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to
601 detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?)
603 - Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the
604 letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and
605 the reason was my lame URL decoder.
607 - I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected
612 Daniel (30 August 2000)
613 - Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they
614 solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the
615 AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this
616 article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a
617 libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking
620 So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that
621 fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want
622 to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the
623 following three include files before that one:
625 #include <net/if_dl.h>
626 #include <sys/mbuf.h>
627 #include <netinet/if_ether.h>
629 Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all
630 the source files that include it?
632 Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX
633 login to try everything on.
635 Daniel (24 August 2000)
636 - Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one
637 was not up to date but lacked several object files.
639 - More work on the naming.
641 - Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as
642 some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position
643 for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir...
645 - As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary
646 option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to
647 work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday.
649 Daniel (23 August 2000)
650 - Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added
651 when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with
652 it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think
653 I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the
654 file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new
655 *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since
656 libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases.
658 - Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name
659 resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms
660 that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of
663 - The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to
666 Daniel (21 August 2000)
667 - Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to
668 keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting...
669 This needs to be addressed.
673 Daniel (21 August 2000)
674 - Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent
675 me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests
676 which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of
677 the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a
678 function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function
679 will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad
680 manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I
681 should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on
682 a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at
683 http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the
686 Daniel (18 August 2000)
687 - I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't
688 think this is the reason for the continued trouble though.
690 Daniel (17 August 2000)
691 - Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It
692 should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems.
694 Daniel (15 August 2000)
695 - Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well
696 as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before?
698 - Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when
699 used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got
702 Daniel (11 August 2000)
703 - Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version
704 of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that
705 information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of
706 not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my
707 Linux Redhat installation...
709 Daniel (10 August 2000)
710 - Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace
711 the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added
712 the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts
713 using custom Content-Types.
715 Daniel (8 August 2000)
716 - Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no
717 user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.
721 Daniel (7 August 2000)
722 - My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker.
724 - I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort
725 of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl.
727 Daniel (4 August 2000)
728 - Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms.
729 My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to
730 move an include file before another, as is now described in the source.
732 AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r()
733 functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile
734 broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the
735 configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My
736 implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may
737 get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to
738 any system using that.
740 For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread
741 to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few
742 functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work
743 although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use
744 libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a
747 - Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl.
749 Daniel (1 August 2000)
750 - Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal()
751 that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true
752 function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string
753 comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the
754 now obsolete #define.
756 - Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's
757 JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range
760 - The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use
761 libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young
766 Daniel (1 August 2000)
767 - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create
768 the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as
769 it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories
770 without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in
771 both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level
772 makefile that succeeds in install everything properly!
774 - Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major
777 Daniel (31 July 2000)
778 - Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one
779 of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank
780 ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a
781 little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new
782 one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any
783 blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header.
785 Daniel (29 July 2000)
786 - It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now
787 I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it.
789 - I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left
790 names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug
791 reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email
792 addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me
795 Daniel (27 July 2000)
796 - Jörn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an
797 environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I
798 corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra
799 beta release just for this.
803 Daniel (27 July 2000)
804 - So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add
805 the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as
806 symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed
811 Daniel (25 July 2000)
812 - Kristian Köhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl
813 libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the
814 recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some
817 - In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a
818 page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another
819 server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that
822 Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect
823 and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several
824 fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at
825 least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which
826 means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl
827 to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards
828 curl back to server A again, the password will be used again.
830 This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use
831 the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think
832 that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole".
834 As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and
835 will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that.
837 - As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading
838 function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!)
839 if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a
840 default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I
841 don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to
844 - Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for
845 the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to
846 suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from
847 'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded
848 contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or
849 textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used
850 %s or similar in a -F file name.
852 - As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring
853 files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be
854 the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very
855 well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size
856 may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing
857 ASCII transfers in FTP.
859 Daniel (24 July 2000)
860 - Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy
861 port number to be set separately from the proxy host name.
863 - Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug.
865 - The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously
866 accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at
867 evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out.
869 - The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in
870 when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was
871 discovered by Rich Gray.
873 - Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in
874 curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory.
876 - Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not
877 properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should
880 - HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing
881 problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash.
882 Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering
883 and suggesting a fix...
885 Daniel (21 June 2000)
886 - After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a
887 HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some
888 checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request
889 command, no matter what the user wants! ;-)
893 Daniel (20 June 2000)
894 - I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se
895 instead of the previous one.
897 - As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer
898 makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has
899 been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only
900 interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time.
902 While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto
903 referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or
904 only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the
905 previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding
908 - My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only
909 when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It
910 turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that
911 didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as
912 it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O
916 Daniel (16 June 2000)
917 - I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar
918 stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the
919 recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like
920 before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at
921 the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This
922 code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour!
923 ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed
924 this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE
925 from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it
926 will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also
927 will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of
928 getting the writeout data and move that too to the client).
930 - I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I
931 found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well.
933 Daniel (15 June 2000)
934 - I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of
935 course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover
936 corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used
937 this feature with v7?
939 - Björn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in
942 Daniel (14 June 2000)
943 - Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it
944 should. I corrected this.
948 Daniel (14 June 2000)
949 - Björn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling):
950 lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32)
951 src/main.c had several minor problems
952 lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice
953 src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define
954 both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the
955 define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32
960 Daniel (14 June 2000)
961 - Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems.
963 - Applied Björn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to
964 binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option
965 is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was
966 already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The
967 libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now
968 obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32
971 Daniel (13 June 2000)
972 - Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup()
973 since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected.
976 - Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file.
979 - So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it
980 should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it
982 - Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just
983 in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers.
984 - Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly.
989 - I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all
990 but the first request.
991 - Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic
993 - Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c
998 - So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to
999 compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to
1000 feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add
1001 a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly.
1005 Daniel (29 May 2000)
1006 - Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only
1007 toggles one of those bits.
1009 - Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add
1010 usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around,
1011 since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as
1012 solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script.
1014 I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my
1015 Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now.
1017 Daniel (22 May 2000)
1018 - Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as
1019 well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems
1020 to be reserved in some gcc versions!
1022 - Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX
1023 needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined.
1024 More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work.
1028 Daniel (21 May 2000)
1029 - Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No
1030 more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl-
1031 prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former
1032 curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate
1033 setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is
1036 - Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan
1037 to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name
1042 Daniel (18 May 2000)
1043 - Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow
1044 source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to
1045 a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and
1046 patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also
1047 makes a larger number a newer version.
1049 Daniel (17 May 2000)
1050 - Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range
1051 option. I corrected them.
1052 - Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file
1053 in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for
1054 multithreaded purposes.
1056 Daniel (16 May 2000)
1057 - Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7.
1058 There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken.
1059 <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use.
1061 Daniel (14 May 2000)
1062 - FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738.
1063 - FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change
1064 directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with
1065 Rich Gray made me notice these problems.
1066 - Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the
1068 - I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string
1069 compares on all platforms.
1071 Daniel (8 May 2000):
1072 - Been working lots on the new lib.
1073 - Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work
1074 better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix.
1076 Daniel (2 May 2000):
1077 - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in
1078 configure.in that didn't do any good.
1080 Daniel (24 April 2000):
1081 - Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't
1082 find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison
1084 Daniel (12 April 2000):
1085 - Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a
1088 Daniel (8 April 2000):
1089 - Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes
1090 and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM.
1091 - I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user
1092 agent string. It does now.
1093 - Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs
1094 on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves
1095 the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to
1096 build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm
1097 package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build
1098 a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM?
1099 - Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l
1100 on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native
1101 cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been
1102 reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It
1103 is a pity there's no newer release around...
1105 Daniel (4 April 2000):
1106 - Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that
1107 appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs.
1109 Daniel (2 April 2000):
1110 - Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then
1111 followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved.
1113 Daniel (27 March 2000):
1114 - H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly
1115 messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy,
1116 which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings.
1118 Daniel (23 March 2000):
1119 - Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he
1120 actually already told me about!
1122 - H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl
1123 ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
1124 happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...
1126 Daniel (22 March 2000):
1127 - Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME
1128 was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been.
1129 The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6
1130 makefile for MS VC++.
1132 Daniel (21 March 2000):
1133 - I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that
1134 one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne
1135 Johansson made me aware of this.
1139 Daniel (21 March 2000):
1140 - Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
1141 crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
1142 the -D adjustments in src/main.c.
1146 Daniel (20 March 2000):
1147 - An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
1148 overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
1149 problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
1150 single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
1153 Daniel (19 March 2000):
1154 - Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches
1155 that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in
1156 the INSTALL file. Very nice job!
1158 Daniel (17 March 2000):
1159 - Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
1160 file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
1161 VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
1164 Daniel (15 March 2000):
1165 - I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
1166 to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D
1167 on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies
1168 in that one single file.
1170 - Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff.
1171 Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32
1172 stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now).
1174 - Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
1175 Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
1177 Daniel (14 March 2000):
1178 - Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
1179 was never written. I fixed it now.
1181 - Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does
1182 when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included
1183 instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in
1184 the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h.
1188 Daniel (13 March 2000):
1189 - <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a
1190 single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what
1191 the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to
1192 perhaps make them work better.
1194 - Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl
1197 - Made some beautifications in the curl man page.
1199 Daniel (3 March 2000):
1200 - Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and
1203 Daniel (3 March 2000):
1204 - Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
1206 Daniel (2 March 2000):
1207 - Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people
1208 happy and I'll still keep them available on the web.
1210 - Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter
1211 display in README.curl.
1213 - Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf
1214 Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
1215 fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
1216 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
1219 - Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
1220 Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
1221 every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net>
1224 - Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix.
1226 Daniel (24 February 2000):
1227 - Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32.
1229 I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using
1230 the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %-
1231 letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should
1232 use another letter instead!
1234 - Added more variables to -w:
1242 - Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from
1243 stdin in the good old "standard" curl way.
1245 Daniel (22 February 2000):
1246 - Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback.
1248 Daniel (21 February 2000):
1250 - I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
1251 single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
1252 completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
1253 they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
1254 exist as of this moment are:
1256 total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
1257 size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes
1258 size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes
1259 speed_download - the average speed of the entire download
1260 speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload
1262 I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others.
1264 - It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new
1265 progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re-
1268 Daniel (16 February 2000):
1269 - Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued
1270 working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download
1271 and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good.
1273 - Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface.
1275 - Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next.
1277 Daniel (15 February 2000):
1278 - The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it
1279 is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly!
1281 Daniel (11 February 2000):
1282 - Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to
1283 deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.
1285 - Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
1286 is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
1287 similarly reads the cookies from stdin.
1289 - Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
1290 -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
1292 - Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
1294 - Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the
1295 cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
1298 Daniel (8 February 2000):
1299 - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that
1300 prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do
1301 with the difference in sprintf() return code types.
1303 - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's
1304 do some progress meter fixes later this week.
1306 Daniel (31 January 2000):
1307 - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie
1308 parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
1309 that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
1310 what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.
1312 RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
1313 compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...
1315 - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form
1316 to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
1317 since the socket "pipe" becomes full.
1319 It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
1320 single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
1321 of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
1322 and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
1324 - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
1325 although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
1326 with fixing anything.
1328 - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume
1329 support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
1332 Daniel (25 January 2000):
1333 - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was
1336 - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile
1337 curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
1338 by Jörn's recent #include modifications!
1340 Daniel (19 January 2000):
1341 - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem
1342 in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
1343 different protocol to fail.
1345 At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
1346 could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
1347 again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
1348 on server not running on default ports.)
1350 - Jörn Hartroth brought a fix that once again
1351 made it possible to select progress bar.
1353 - Jörn also fixed a few include problems.
1357 Daniel (17 January 2000):
1358 - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the
1359 progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
1360 the time spent on the download so far.
1361 - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
1362 browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.
1364 Daniel (10 January 2000):
1365 - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
1366 - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
1368 - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
1369 that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
1370 course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
1371 downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
1372 - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
1373 install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
1374 on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
1375 better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
1376 - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
1377 - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
1378 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
1379 flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
1380 and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
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