History of Changes
+Daniel (4 January 2001)
+- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command
+ line option and what happens when you specify that option more than
+ once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before.
+
+- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For
+ odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with
+ curl's dependencies on libcurl...
+
+Daniel (3 January 2001)
+- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL
+
+- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of
+ curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
+ accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
+ release archive.
+
Daniel (30 December 2000)
- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!
-Daniel (28 December 1999):
- - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl
- doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
- problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
- that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
- the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
- translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
- the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.
-
-Daniel (27 December 1999):
- - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
- data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
- in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington.
-
-Daniel (13 December 1999):
- - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
- added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
- both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.
-
-Daniel (3 December 1999):
- - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen...
-
- - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
- well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
- only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).
-
-Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999):
- - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!
-
- - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
- different directories than the sources.
-
-Version 6.3.1
-
-Daniel (23 November 1999):
- - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
- along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
- things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
- server!
-
- - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling
- that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
- was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...
-
- - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
- download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
- entire download was completed. It does now.
-
-Daniel (19 November 1999):
- - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of
- return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
- occurrences and corrected this.
-
-Daniel (17 November 1999):
- - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
- doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
- any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
- when the timeout is reached.
-
- - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
- why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.
-
- Daniel (12 November 1999):
- - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
- a plain http header file as input...
-
-Version 6.3
-
- Daniel (10 November 1999):
- - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
- respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
- again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
- section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
- my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
- is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).
-
- - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page
- to better describe how the -F works.
-
- - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in
- China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/
-
- - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file
-
- - I did add more explanations to the man page
-
- Daniel (8 November 1999):
- - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
- files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
- transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
-
- Daniel (29 October 1999):
- - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
- but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
- FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
- it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
- be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
- --range switch (previously HTTP-only).
-
- - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be
- able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
- idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
- this manner:
- Content-Length: XXXX
- As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
- info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
- makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
- file size the same way.
-
- I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
- just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
- quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
-
- - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
- the man page.
-
- - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
- some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
- the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti.
-
- - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
- man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
- reported and brought the suggestion.
-
- - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came
- up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
- internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
- that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
- obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
- the one curl would set.
-
- Daniel (27 October 1999):
- - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following
- a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to
- get the core.
-
-Version 6.2
-
- Daniel (21 October 1999):
- - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
- before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
- - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
- having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
- when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
- URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
- such as curl has.)
- - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
- with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
- that occurred after the download was done and completed.
- - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
- to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
- the multiple URL support.
- - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't
- honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are
- case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan
- also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty
- of editing slightly.
- - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
- the Mac OS X
- - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
- to fail on OS X.
-
- Daniel (19 October 1999):
- - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a
- crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added
- --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a
- file or stdout.
-
- Daniel (18 October 1999):
- - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
- totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
- the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
- been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.
-
-Version 6.1
-
- Daniel (17 October 1999):
- - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
- script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
- thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
- uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
- more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
- until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
- adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a
- short a summary is suitable:
- - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
- decompression methods.
- - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
- although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
- want it.
- - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
- a file descriptor if that is a socket
-
- Daniel (14 October 1999):
- - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
- curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
- better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.
-
- Daniel (12 October 1999):
- - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
- archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
- hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.
-
- Daniel (11 October 1999):
- - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
- some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
- the man page.
-
-Version 6.1beta
-
- Daniel (6 October 1999):
- - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I
- just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named
- file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a
- given file:
-
- curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com
-
- or let curl read it out from stdin:
-
- curl -d @- www.postit.com
-
- Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
- - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
- separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
- used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".
-
- Daniel
- - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.
-
- Daniel (30 September 1999):
- - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work
- out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default
- dirs.
-
- Daniel (28 September 1999)
- - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
- or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
- it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
- download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
- documents so that I can test this out properly.
-
- - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
- a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.
-
- Daniel (17 September 1999)
- - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
- of file name, the data will be read from stdin.
-
-Version 6.0
-
- Daniel (13 September 1999)
- - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
- Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
- should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.
-
- - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.
-
- Daniel (10 September 1999)
- - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP
- servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It
- took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as
- OK.
-
- - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
- turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
- cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
- doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).
-
- Daniel (8 September 1999)
- - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.
-
- Daniel (7 September 1999)
- - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
- Stefan Kanthak.
-
- - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.
-
- Daniel (3 September 1999)
- - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.
-
- Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999)
- - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
- library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
- directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
- ldap:// URL.
-
- Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999)
- - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
- - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
- performance reasons.
-
- Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999)
- - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.
-
- Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999)
- - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
- root dir of the openssl installation, as in
-
- ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here
-
- - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.
-
- Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999)
- - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
- compiles.
-
-Version 5.11
-
- Daniel (25 August 1999)
- - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line
- realloc() system in download.c.
-
- - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
- probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
- as a start.
-
- - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
- used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
- changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
- first.
-
- Daniel (17 August 1999)
- - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
- original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
- again.
-
- - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
- them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
- not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas
- E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this.
-
- Daniel (16 August 1999)
- - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
- page. Nusu's page showed this too.
-
- - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
- used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
- should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
- painfully visible...
-
- Troy (15 August 1999)
- - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
- configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
- files are in /usr/include/openssl
-
-Version 5.10
-
- Daniel (13 August 1999)
- - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
- OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
- modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
- a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
- to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
-
- - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
-
- Troy (12 August 1999)
- - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
- a bit rearranged.
-
- Daniel (12 August 1999)
- - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
- tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
- allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.
-
- - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
- -Wall -pedantic was used.
-
- - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
- will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
- The old one still works and shows the same info.
-
- Daniel (11 August 1999)
- - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
- configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.
-
- Daniel (10 August 1999)
- - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as
- some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under
- HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate
- yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new,
- we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it
- still compiles there.
-
- Daniel (5 August 1999)
- - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
- around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
- brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
- about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.
-
- To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
- <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
- libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl
- talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
- started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
- www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.
-
- - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure
- script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under
- Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!
-
- - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present
- in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...
-
- - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet
- support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on
- the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and
- run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little
- weird output.
-
- This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
- feed-back and input in how this is best done.
-
- WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
- lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.
-
- - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be
- defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the
- configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it.
-
- Daniel (4 August 1999)
- - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
- which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
- servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
- some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
- hope you report if you have problems with this!
-
- - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.
-
- Daniel (2 August 1999)
- - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers
- a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar.
-
- T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
- - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
- username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
- another location (option '-L').
-
- There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
- tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
- argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
- CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
- checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
- redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.
-
-Version 5.9.1
-
- Daniel (30 July 1999)
- - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata
- functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to
- correct this flaw.
-
- - Mark Wotton reported:
- 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by
- correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
- 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
- don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.
-
- - Marcus Klein:
- Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
- I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.
-
- Daniel (29 July 1999)
- - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location:
- and I could only agree and fix it!
-
- - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out
- that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter
- when supposed to.
-
- - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If
- you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a
- standard port number, curl still used that first port number.
-
- - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION
- and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on
- the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any
- html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if
- CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.
-
- - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
- Beckmann).
-
- - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the
- latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now
- in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
- option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
- leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.
-
- Daniel (9 June 1999)
- - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
- I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.
-
- Daniel (4 June 1999)
- - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
- with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
- something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
- and Mark Butler brought a solution for it.
-
- Daniel (26 May 1999)
- - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
- README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann.
-
- - I also updated the INSTALL text.
-
- Daniel (25 May 1999)
- - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal
- with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl
- -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed.
-
-Version 5.9
-
- Daniel (22 May 1999)
- - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some
- problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug
- report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms
- when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
- and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...
-
- Daniel (20 May 1999)
- - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.
-
- Daniel (19 May 1999)
- - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread()
- function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel
- helped me out isolating it.
-
- Daniel (16 May 1999)
- - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't
- work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.
-
- - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl
- to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was
- used.
-
- Daniel (10 May 1999)
- - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
- files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
- layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
- future!
-
- - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl
- archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a
- debian package that I've made available for download at the web page
-
- Daniel (9 May 1999)
- - Made it compile on cygwin too.
-
- Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
- - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
- again!
-
- Daniel (6 May 1999)
- - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
- will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
- can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
- too.
-
-Version 5.8
-
- Daniel (5 May 1999)
- - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
- for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
- there are problems all over.
-
- I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
- week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at
- hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this.
-
- Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
- generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
- can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
- before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
- a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!
-
- Daniel (4 May 1999)
- - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
- the regexes.
-
- - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
- I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
- curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
- in:
-
- curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html
-
- This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
- I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
- there may depend on that the file is always touched...
-
- - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.
-
- - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send
- "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it
- right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date
- expression or a file name to get the date from!
-
- Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999)
- - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
- isn't set and causes the make to fail.
-
- Daniel (26 April 1999)
- - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version
- number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug
- in my maketgz script!
-
- David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999)
- - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.
-
-Version 5.7.1
-
- Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999)
- - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
- below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h
-
- - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
- INSTALL file.
-
- Daniel
- - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
- README file
-
- Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999)
- - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
- It needs an #include <sys/types.h>
-
-Version 5.7
-
- Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
- - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!
-
- - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
- simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!
-
- - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
- start.
-
- Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999)
- - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.
-
-Version 5.6.3beta
-
- Daniel (Apr 12 1999)
-
- - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
- in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
- try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?
-
- - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!
-
- - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
- much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
- should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
- talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
- start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
- use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
- want such a crippled solution.
-
- - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the
- "Curr.Speed" progress meter.
-
- - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from
- stdin.
-
- - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!
-
- Daniel (Apr 9 1999)
- - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at
- all! ;-O
-
- Daniel (Apr 6 1999)
- - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.
-
- - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
- previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
- some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
- best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!
-
-Version 5.6.2beta
-
- Daniel (Apr 4 1999)
- - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
- it works.
- To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
- format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
- -b flag like:
-
- curl -b file http://site/foo.html
-
- Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
- a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
- following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".
-
- To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
- sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
- to start with no existing cookies), like:
-
- curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html
-
- - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
- reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.
-
- - Better "Location:" following.
-
- Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
- - A subsecond display patch.
-
- Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
- - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
- things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
- 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
- set for libcurl.
-
- - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
- that.
-
- - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
- win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
- Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
- INSTALL for details.
-
- - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
- server while remaining connected.
-
-Version 5.6beta
-
- Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
- - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the
- suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing
- HTTP headers separately in the specified file.
-
- - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.
-
- - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
- in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...
-
- Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
- - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
- and smaller size.
-
- Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
- - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
- curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
- the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
- before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.
-
- libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
- the lib functions though.
-
- The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
- about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)
-
-
- Daniel (Mar 1 1999)
- - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the
- info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the
- README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.
-
- Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
- - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
- in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...
-
- Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
- - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
- the most recent.
-
- Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999)
- - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
- RPM automatically...
-
-Version 5.5.1
-
- Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999)
- - Corrected problems in Download().
-
- Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
- - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from
- compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.
-
-Version 5.5
-
- Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
- - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.
-
- Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
- - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
- ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
- buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!
-
- Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999)
- - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
- It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
- formatted.
-
- To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
- the RFC)
-
- dict://dict.org/m:hello
- dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex
-
-
- Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999)
- - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.
-
- Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
- - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.
-
-Version 5.4
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- (7 Jan 1999)
- - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress
- reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on
- again. This is now corrected!
-
- (4 Jan 1999)
- - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If
- you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file
- upload.
-
- I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
- that.
-
- (4 Jan 1999)
- - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it
- now.
-
- (4 Jan 1999)
- - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It
- should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes.
-
- - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
- I redid that now.
-
-Version 5.3a (win32 only)
-
- Troy Engel
- - Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part.
-
-Version 5.3
-
- Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998)
- - I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to
- send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote
- command-line arguments.
-
- You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in
- order. This is what I use for my MVS upload:
-
- curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test
-
- Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order.
-
- - Made it compile smoothly on AIX.
-
- Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (18 Dec 1998)
- - Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server.
-
- Troy Engel (17 Dec 1998)
- - Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug.
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung, caused curl to crash on the -A
- flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems should've!
-
- - Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _
- instead of . and \ instead of / in win32).
-
- - steve <fisk at polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the
- ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size)
- info. I hope it works better now!
-
-Version 5.2.1
-
- Steven G. Johnson (Dec 14, 1998)
- - Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the
- environment variables.
-
-Version 5.2
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998)
- - Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the
- hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using
- both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man
- page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c
- file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times
- anyway.
-
- - gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char'
- if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to
- int. So I did to compile warning free with that too.
-
- - Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I
- need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long
- comforming systems!
-
-Version 5.1 (not publicly released)
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998)
- - I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone?
-
- - Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl
- now reads and understands the following environment variables:
-
- HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY
-
- They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be
- set with
-
- ALL_PROXY
-
- And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any
- proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts).
-
- NO_PROXY
-
- The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.
-
- - Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix.
-
- - Wrote the curl.1 man page.
-
- - Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is
- based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully,
- there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now.
-
- - Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under
- solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok.
-
- Oren Tirosh (Dec 3, 1998)
- - Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM
- packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec.
-
- Troy Engel
- - Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32.
-
-Version 5.0
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998)
- - Not a single bug report in ages.
- - Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the
- Win32 VC++ crap.
-
-Version 5.0 beta 24
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998)
-
- HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE:
-
- * Pre-requisite software:
- What To build what Reads data from
- ==== ============= ===============
- GNU automake Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 configure.in
- GNU make(1) - " -
- GNU gcc(1) - " -
- GNU autoconf configure configure.in
- GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in configure.in, acconfig.h
-
- * Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES.
-
- * Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive.
-
- maketgz does:
-
- - Enters the newly created version number in url.h.
- - (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless
- you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.)
- If you have it, it'll run it.
- - If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly
- created version number and autoconf will be run.
- - Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base
- name of the current directory up to the first '-'.)
- - Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving
- permissions and directory structure.
- - Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz
- - gzips the archive
- - Removes the new directory and all its contents.
-
- * When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named
- curl-<version>.tar.gz.
-
- Done!
-
- (1) They're required to make automake run properly.
- (2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive.
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998)
- - I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in
- another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this
- new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different
- variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves
- to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler!
- - Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now.
- - Brian Chaplin reported yet another problem in
- multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new
- version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback!
- - Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes
- an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one.
- - Mailing list opened (see README).
- - Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells
- host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section
- about PORT vs PASV in the README.
-
-Version 5.0 beta 21
-
- Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998)
- - Introduced automake stuff.
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998)
- - Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own
- private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM
- format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by
- downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site
- at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can
- convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format. Use
- it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'. If this isn't a
- cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-)
- - Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out.
- (curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do
- have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must
- be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to
- get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n.
-
- Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998)
- - Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser.
- - Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that
- source file).
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998)
- - We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX.
- Thanks again to Bjorn Reese and Martin Staael.
- - Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out
- how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get
- really good.
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998)
- - Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line.
- Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I
- downloaded a gopher page with it)!
- - Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I
- had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will
- be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used.
- - stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my
- changes don't make other versions go nuts instead.
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998)
- - Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX
- warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent
- me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead
- of strequal()...
- - I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little.
- - Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be
- sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything
- after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird
- name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'.
- - Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command
- line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid.
- - Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I
- believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now.
-
- Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998)
- - Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license
- - Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag
- - Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998)
- - Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation
- I build a release archive!
- - I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to
- be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in
- curl -lsv ftp.site.com
- Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters
- that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the
- last in a merged sequence:
- curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com
- is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause
- unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped).
- - I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL
- license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming.
- - Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now
- setup.h.
- - The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive.
-
- Angus Mackay (Nov 5, 1998)
- - Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff
-
- Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998)
- - Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own
- specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use
- a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once
- for every custom header you want to add.
- - Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files.
- - Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy
- usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to
- write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the
- .curlrc file anyway.
- - Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data
- which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST.
- Shiraz Kanga asked for the feature and my brother,
- Björn Stenberg helped me design the user
- interface for this beast. This feature requires quite some docs,
- since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-)
- - A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to
- 0.8 will *not* work with curl!
- - Wil Langford reported a bug that occurred since curl
- did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it.
- - Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read
- first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as
- additional config items.
- - Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read.
- - You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file
- specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through
- that.
- - I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports
- could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name
- instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names.
- - Martin Staael reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT
- (test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this
- version anymore.
- - Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file
- using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other
- available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary
- transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though!
- :-)
- - Troy Engel pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME")
- usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with
- this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that...
- - A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built
- with SSL support...
- - Ryan Nelson sent me comments about building curl
- with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure
- script, it should work better and automatically now...
- - Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses
- proxy port number separate from normal port number.
- - 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on:
- Host SSL Compiler
- SunOS 5.5 no gcc
- SunOS 5.5.1 yes gcc
- SunOS 5.6 no cc (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem)
- SunOS 4.1.3 no gcc (without ANSI C headers)
- SunOS 4.1.2 no gcc (native compiler failed)
- Linux 2.0.18 no gcc
- Linux 2.0.32 yes gcc
- Linux 2.0.35 no gcc (with glibc)
- IRIX 6.2 no gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings)
- IRIX 6.4 no cc (generated warnings though)
- Win32 no Borland
- OSF4.0 no ?
-
- - Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't
- set.
- - When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases
- like:
- curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com
- Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so
- if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol
- string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used
- without proxy.
- - Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different
- https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number
- correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the
- proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL.
- - Bjorn Reese helped me work around one of the compiler
- warnings on IRIX native cc compiles.
-
-Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998)
- Daniel Stenberg
- - John A. Bristor suggested a config file switch,
- and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long
- time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce
- the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to
- load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the
- config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl
- -h' or the README.
- - I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would
- want to enable with curl anyway.
- - Martin Staael helped me add the 'irix' target. Now
- "make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines.
- - Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second
- will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that
- you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc.
-
-Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998)
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Martin Staael suggested curl would support cookies.
- I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's
- also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text.
- - dmh <dmh at jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could
- manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work
- for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway).
- - Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script
- that checks all links of a web page by using curl.
- - Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the
- src/ dir from now on!
- - Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license.
- I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the
- Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You
- must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute
- curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need
- to offer the world the source to that too.
- - Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET
- request. It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do
- that anyway. Thanks to Gordon Beaton for the report!
- - -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael. This makes
- curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location: redirect if one is present in the HTTP
- headers. If -i or -I is used with this flag, you will see headers from all
- sites the Location: points to. Do note that the first server can point to a
- second that points to a third etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said
- to be an AbsoluteURI in RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've
- made curl ATTEMPT to do the best it can to deal with the reality.
- - Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads
- files that a web page links to.
-
-Version 4.8.4
- Daniel Stenberg
- - As Julian Romero Nieto reported, curl reported wrong version number.
- - As Teemu Yli-Elsila pointed out, the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all
- other versions for win32) didn't work with binary files since I'm too used
- to the UNIX style fopen() where binary and text don't differ...
- - Ralph Beckmann brought me some changes that lets curl compile error and
- warning free with -Wall -pedantic with g++. I also took the opportunity to
- clean off some unused variables and similar.
- - Ralph Beckmann made me aware of a really odd bug now corrected. When curl
- read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided into more than one read
- and the first read showed a full line *exactly* (i.e ending with a
- newline), curl did not behave well.
-
-Version 4.8.3
- Daniel Stenberg
- - I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the
- changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't
- upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain
- corrected. Reported by Julian Romero Nieto.
-
-Version 4.8.2
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Bernhard Iselborn reported two FTP protocol errors curl did. They're now
- corrected. Both appeared when getting files from a MS FTP server! :-)
-
-Version 4.8.1
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The
- final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered
- which made it sometimes look odd.
- - Thanks to David Long I got rid of a silly bug that happened if a HTTP-page
- had nothing but header. Appearantly Solaris deals with negative sizes in
- fwrite() calls a lot better than Linux does... =B-]
-
-Version 4.8
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to
- specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a
- download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server
- since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of
- the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to
- use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing
- the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get
- the end of a file.
- - recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument.
-
-Version 4.7
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount
- (speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time.
- - Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a
- whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be
- used. I agree it isn't the wisest thing to do to make a separate new
- connection for each file and directory for this.
-
-Version 4.6
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user
- and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is
- the new switch.
- - Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string.
- - Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the
- verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it.
- - Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name
- resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first
- sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen reported.
- - Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-)
- - Added bug report email address in the README.
- - Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average
- speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of
- the entire transfer so far.
-
-Version 4.5.1
- Linas Vepstas
- - SSL through proxy fix
- - Added -A to allow User-Agent: changes
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Made the -A work when SSL-through-proxy.
-
-Version 4.5
- Linas Vepstas
- - More SSL corrections
- - I've added a port to AIX.
- - running SSL through a proxy causes a chunk of code to be executred twice.
- one of those blocks needs to be deleted.
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Made -i and -I work again
-
-Version 4.4
- Linas Vepstas
- - -x can now also specify proxyport when used as in 'proxyhost:proxyport'
- - SSL fixes
-
-Version 4.3
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Adjusted to compile under win32 (VisualC++ 5). The -P switch does not
- support network interface names in win32. I couldn't figure out how!
-
-Version 4.2
- Linas Vepstas / Sampo Kellomaki
- - Added SSL / SSLeay support (https://)
- - Added the -T usage for HTTP POST.
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Bugfixed the SSL implementation.
- - Made -P a lot better to use other IP addresses. It now accepts a following
- parameter that can be either
- interface - i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you
- want to use
- IP address - i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number
- host name - i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
- "-" - (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's
- default
- - The Makefile is now ready to compile for solaris, sunos4 and linux right
- out of the box.
- - Better generated version string seen with 'curl -V'
-
-Version 4.1
- Daniel Stenberg
- - The IP number returned by the ftp server as a reply to PASV does no longer
- have to DNS resolve. In fact, no IP-number-only addresses have to anymore.
- - Binds better to available port when -P is used.
- - Now LISTs ./ instead of / when used as in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. The reason
- for this is that exactly that site, ftp.funet.fi, does not allow LIST /
- while LIST ./ is fine. Any objections?
-
-Version 4 (1998-03-20)
- Daniel Stenberg
- - I took another huge step and changed both version number and project name!
- The reason for the new name is that there are just one too many programs
- named urlget already and this program already can a lot more than merely
- getting URLs, and the reason for the version number is that I did add the
- pretty big change in -P and since I changed name I wanted to start with
- something fresh!
- - The --style flags are working better now.
- - Listing directories with FTP often reported that the file transfer was
- incomplete. Wrong assumptions were too common for directories, why no
- size will be attempted to get compared on them from now on.
- - Implemented the -P flag that let's the ftp control issue a PORT command
- instead of the standard PASV.
- - -a for appending FTP uploads works.
-
-***************************************************************************
-
-Version 3.12 (14 March 1998)
- Daniel Stenberg
- - End-of-header tracking still lacked support for \r\n or just \n at the
- end of the last header line.
- Sergio Barresi
- - Added PROXY authentication.
- Rafael Sagula
- - Fixed some little bugs.
-
-Version 3.11
- Daniel Stenberg
- - The header parsing was still not correct since the 3.2 modification...
-
-Version 3.10
- Daniel Stenberg
- - 3.7 and 3.9 were simultaneously developed and merged into this version.
- - FTP upload did not work correctly since 3.2.
-
-Version 3.9
- Rafael Sagula
- - Added the "-e <url> / --referer <url>" option where we can specify
- the referer page. Obviously, this is necessary only to fool the
- server, but...
-
-Version 3.7
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Now checks the last error code sent from the ftp server after a file has
- been received or uploaded. Wasn't done previously.
- - When 'urlget <host>' is used without a 'protocol://' first in the host part,
- it now checks for host names starting with ftp or gopher and if it does,
- it uses that protocol by default instead of http.
-
-Version 3.6
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Silly mistake made the POST bug. This has now also been tested to work with
- proxy.
-
-Version 3.5
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Highly inspired by Rafael Sagula's changes to the 3.1 that added an almost
- functional POST, I applied his changes into this version and made them work.
- (It seems POST requires the Content-Type and Content-Length headers.) It is
- now usable with the -d switch.
-
-Version 3.3 - 3.4
- Passed to avoid confusions
-
-Version 3.2
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Major rewrite of two crucial parts of this code: upload and download.
- They are both now using a select() switch, that allows much better
- progress meter and time control.
- - alarm() usage removed completely
- - FTP get can now list directory contents if the path ends with a slash '/'.
- Urlget on a ftp-path that doesn't end with a slash means urlget will
- attempt getting it as a file name.
- - FTP directory view supports -l for "list-only" which lists the file names
- only.
- - All operations support -m for max time usage in seconds allowed.
- - FTP upload now allows the size of the uploaded file to be provided, and
- thus it can better check it actually uploaded the whole file. It also
- makes the progress meter for uploads much better!
- - Made the parameter parsing fail in cases like 'urlget -r 900' which
- previously tried to connect to the host named '900'.
-
-Version 3.1
- Kjell Ericson
- - Pointed out how to correct the 3 warnings in win32-compiles.
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Removed all calls to exit().
- - Made the short help text get written to stdout instead of stderr.
- - Made this file instead of keeping these comments in the source.
- - Made two callback hooks, that enable external programs to use urlget()
- easier and to grab the output/offer the input easier.
- - It is evident that Win32-compiles are painful. I watched the output from
- the Borland C++ v5 and it was awful. Just ignore all those warnings.
-
-Version 3.0
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Added FTP upload capabilities. The name urlget gets a bit silly now
- when we can put too... =)
- - Restructured the source quite a lot.
- Changed the urlget() interface. This way, we will survive changes much
- better. New features can come and old can be removed without us needing
- to change the interface. I've written a small explanation in urlget.h
- that explains it.
- - New flags include -t, -T, -O and -h. The -h text is generated by the new
- mkhelp script.
-
-Version 2.9
- Remco van Hooff
- - Added a fix to make it compile smoothly on Amiga using the SAS/C
- compiler.
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Believe it or not, but the STUPID Novell web server seems to require
- that the Host: keyword is used, so well I use it and I (re-introduce) the
- urlget User-Agent:. I still have to check that this Host: usage works with
- proxies... 'Host:' is required for HTTP/1.1 GET according to RFC2068.
-
-Version 2.8
- Rafael Sagula
- - some little modifications
-
-Version 2.7
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Removed the -l option and introduced the -f option instead. Now I'll
- rewrite the former -l kludge in an external script that'll use urlget to
- fetch multipart files like that.
- - '-f' is introduced, it means Fail without output in case of HTTP server
- errors (return code >=300).
- - Added support for -r, ranges. Specify which part of a document you
- want, and only that part is returned. Only with HTTP/1.1-servers.
- - Split up the source in 3 parts. Now all pure URL functions are in
- urlget.c and stuff that deals with the stand-alone program is in main.c.
- - I took a few minutes and wrote an embryo of a README file to explain
- a few things.
-
-Version 2.6
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Made the -l (loop) thing use the new CONF_FAILONERROR which makes
- urlget() return error code if non-successful. It also won't output anything
- then. Now finally removed the HTTP 1.0 and error 404 dependencies.
- - Added -I which uses the HEAD request to get the header only from a
- http-server.
-
-Version 2.5
- Rafael Sagula
- - Made the progress meter use HHH:MM:SS instead of only seconds.
-
-Version 2.4
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and
- mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from
- really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the
- download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which
- makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty,
- the progress meter is shut off.
- - Increased buffer size used for reading.
- - Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing.
- - Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64
- encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in
- RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one. To get a
- http document from a place that requires user and password, use an URL
- like:
-
- http://user:passwd@www.site.to.leach/doc.html
-
- I also added the -u flag, since WHEN USING A PROXY YOU CAN'T SPECIFY THE
- USER AND PASSWORD WITH HTTP LIKE THAT. The -u flag works for ftp too, but
- not if used with proxy. To do the same as the above one, you can invoke:
-
- urlget -u user:passwd http://www.site.to.leach/doc.html
-
-Version 2.3
- Rafael Sagula
- - Added "-o" option (output file)
- - Added URG_HTTP_NOT_FOUND return code.
- (Daniel's note:)
- Perhaps we should detect all kinds of errors and instead of writing that
- custom string for the particular 404-error, use the error text we actually
- get from the server. See further details in RFC2068 (HTTP 1.1
- definition). The current way also relies on a HTTP/1.0 reply, which newer
- servers might not do.
- - Looping mode ("-l" option). It's easier to get various split files.
- (Daniel's note:)
- Use it like 'urlget -l 1 http://from.this.site/file%d.html', which will
- make urlget to attempt to fetch all files named file1.html, file2.html etc
- until no more files are found. This is only a modification of the
- STAND_ALONE part, nothing in the urlget() function was modfified for this.
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Changed the -h to be -i instead. -h should be preserved to help use.
- - Bjorn Reese indicated that Borland _might_ use '_WIN32' instead of the
- VC++ WIN32 define and therefore I added a little fix for that.
-
-Version 2.2
- Johan Andersson
- - The urlget function didn't set the path to url when using proxy.
- - Fixed bug with IMC proxy. Now using (almost) complete GET command.
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Made it compile on Solaris. Had to reorganize the includes a bit.
- (so Win32, Linux, SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 compile fine.)
- - Made Johan's keepalive keyword optional with the -k flag (since it
- makes a lot of urlgets take a lot longer time).
- - Made a '-h' switch in case you want the HTTP-header in the output.
-
-Version 2.1
- Daniel Stenberg and Kjell Ericson
- - Win32-compilable
- - No more global variables
- - Mute option (no output at all to stderr)
- - Full range of return codes from urlget(), which is now written to be a
- function for easy-to-use in [other] programs.
- - Define STAND_ALONE to compile the stand alone urlget program
- - Now compiles with gcc options -ansi -Wall -pedantic ;)
-
-Version 2.0
- - Introducing ftp GET support. The FTP URL type is recognized and used.
- - Renamed the project to 'urlget'.
- - Supports the user+passwd in the FTP URL (otherwise it tries anonymous
- login with a weird email address as password).
-
-Version 1.5
- Daniel Stenberg
- - The skip_header() crap messed it up big-time. By simply removing that
- one we can all of a sudden download anything ;)
- - No longer requires a trailing slash on the URLs.
- - If the given URL isn't prefixed with 'http://', HTTP is assumed and
- given a try!
- - 'void main()' is history.
-
-Version 1.4
- Daniel Stenberg
- - The gopher source used the ppath variable instead of path which could
- lead to disaster.
-
-Version 1.3
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Well, I added a lame text about the time it took to get the data. I also
- fought against Johan to prevent his -f option (to specify a file name
- that should be written instead of stdout)! =)
- - Made it write 'connection refused' for that particular connect()
- problem.
- - Renumbered the version. Let's not make silly 1.0.X versions, this is
- a plain 1.3 instead.
-
-Version 1.2
- Johan Andersson
- - Discovered and fixed the problem with getting binary files. puts() is
- now replaced with fwrite(). (Daniel's note: this also fixed the buffer
- overwrite problem I found in the previous version.)
-
- Rafael Sagula
- - Let "-p" before "-x".
-
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Bugfixed the proxy usage. It should *NOT* use nor strip the port number
- from the URL but simply pass that information to the proxy. This also
- made the user/password fields possible to use in proxy [ftp-] URLs.
- (like in ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README)
-
- Johan Andersson
- - Implemented HTTP proxy support.
- - Receive byte counter added.
-
- Bjorn Reese
- - Implemented URLs (and skipped the old syntax).
- - Output is written to stdout, so to achieve the above example, do:
- httpget http://143.54.10.6/info_logo.gif > test.gif
-
-Version 1.1
- Daniel Stenberg
- - Adjusted it slightly to accept named hosts on the command line. We
- wouldn't wanna use IP numbers for the rest of our lifes, would we?
-
-Version 1.0
- Rafael Sagula
- - Wrote the initial httpget, which started all this!
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