Wez Furlong's ideas and some cleaning up/clarifying

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@@ -6,14 +6,16 @@
 
 TODO
 
- Things to do in project cURL. Please tell me what you think, contribute and
- send me patches that improve things! Also check the http://curl.haxx.se/dev
- web section for various development notes.
+ Things to do in project cURL. Please tell us what you think, contribute and
+ send us patches that improve things! Also check the http://curl.haxx.se/dev
+ web section for various technical development notes.
 
  LIBCURL
 
- * Consider an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to
-   know what cookies that are sent back in the response headers.
+ * Introduce an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to
+   know what cookies that are received. Pushing interface that calls a
+   callback on each received cookie? Querying interface that asks about
+   existing cookies? We probably need both.
 
  * Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system.
 
@@ -21,6 +23,13 @@ TODO
    less copy of data and thus a faster operation.
    [http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt]
 
+ * Run-time querying about library characterics. What protocols do this
+   running libcurl support? What is the version number of the running libcurl
+   (returning the well-defined version-#define). This could possibly be made
+   by allowing curl_easy_getinfo() work with a NULL pointer for global info,
+   but perhaps better would be to introduce a new curl_getinfo() (or similar)
+   function for global info reading.
+
  * Add asynchronous name resolving (http://daniel.haxx.se/resolver/). This
    should be made to work on most of the supported platforms, or otherwise it
    isn't really interesting.
@@ -35,10 +44,6 @@ TODO
    implement, libcurl will merely call 'getmutex' and 'leavemutex' callbacks.
    Part of the sharing suggestion at: http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sharing.txt
 
- * No-faster-then-this transfers. Many people have limited bandwidth and they
-   want the ability to make sure their transfers never use more bandwith than
-   they think is good.
-
  * Set the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option to make libcurl notice and disconnect
    very long time idle connections.
 
@@ -55,7 +60,8 @@ TODO
 
  * CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE. Prevent downloads that are larger than the specified
    size. CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED would then be returned. Gautam Mani
-   requested.
+   requested. That is, the download should even begin but be aborted
+   immediately.
 
  DOCUMENTATION