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9 Daniel Stenberg (2 Mar 2010)
10 - Made the pingpong timeout code properly deal with the response timeout AND
11 the global timeout if set. Also, as was reported in the bug report #2956437
12 by Ryan Chan, the time stamp to use as basis for the per command timeout was
13 not set properly in the DONE phase for FTP (and not for SMTP) so I fixed
14 that just now. This was a regression compared to 7.19.7 due to the
15 conversion of FTP code over to the generic pingpong concepts.
17 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2956437
19 Daniel Stenberg (1 Mar 2010)
20 - Ben Greear provided an update for TFTP that fixes upload.
22 - Wesley Miaw reported bug #2958179 which identified a case of looping during
23 OpenSSL based SSL handshaking even though the multi interface was used and
24 there was no good reason for it.
26 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2958179
28 Daniel Stenberg (26 Feb 2010)
29 - Pat Ray in bug #2958474 pointed out an off-by-one case when receiving a
30 chunked-encoding trailer.
32 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2958474
34 Daniel Fandrich (25 Feb 2010)
35 - Fixed a couple of out of memory leaks and a segfault in the SMTP & IMAP code.
37 Yang Tse (25 Feb 2010)
38 - I fixed bug report #2958074 indicating
39 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2958074) that curl on Windows with
40 option --trace-time did not use local time when timestamping trace lines.
41 This could also happen on other systems depending on time souurce.
43 Patrick Monnerat (22 Feb 2010)
44 - Proper handling of STARTTLS on SMTP, taking CURLUSESSL_TRY into account.
45 - SMTP falls back to RFC821 HELO when EHLO fails (and SSL is not required).
46 - Use of true local host name (i.e.: via gethostname()) when available, as
47 default argument to SMTP HELO/EHLO.
48 - Test case 804 for HELO fallback.
50 Daniel Stenberg (20 Feb 2010)
51 - Fixed the SMTP compliance by making sure RCPT TO addresses are specified
52 properly in angle brackets. Recipients provided with CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT now
53 get angle bracket wrapping automatically by libcurl unless the recipient
54 starts with an angle bracket as then the app is assumed to deal with that
57 - I made the SMTP code expect a 250 response back from the server after the
58 full DATA has been sent, and I modified the test SMTP server to also send
59 that response. As usual, the DONE operation that is made after a completed
60 transfer is still not doable in a non-blocking way so this waiting for 250
61 is unfortunately made blockingly.
63 Yang Tse (14 Feb 2010)
64 - Overhauled test suite getpart() function. Fixing potential out of bounds
65 stack and memory overwrites triggered with huge test case definitions.
67 Daniel Stenberg (13 Feb 2010)
68 - Martin Hager reported and fixed a problem with a missing quote in libcurl.m4
70 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2951319)
72 - Tom Donovan fixed the CURL_FORMAT_* defines when building with cmake.
74 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2951269)
76 Daniel Stenberg (12 Feb 2010)
77 - Jack Zhang reported a problem with SMTP: we wrongly used multiple addresses
78 in the same RCPT TO line, when they should be sent in separate single
79 commands. I updated test case 802 to verify this.
81 - I also fixed a bad use of my_setopt_str() of CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT in the curl
82 tool which made it try to output it as string for the --libcurl feature
83 which could lead to crashes.
85 Yang Tse (11 Feb 2010)
86 - Steven M. Schweda fixed VMS builder bad behavior when used in a batch job,
87 removed obsolete batch_compile.com and defines.com and updated VMS readme.
89 Version 7.20.0 (9 February 2010)
91 Daniel Stenberg (9 Feb 2010)
92 - When downloading compressed content over HTTP and the app asked libcurl to
93 automatically uncompress it with the CURLOPT_ENCODING option, libcurl could
94 wrongly provide the callback with more data than the maximum documented
95 amount. An application could thus get tricked into badness if the maximum
96 limit was trusted to be enforced by libcurl itself (as it is documented).
98 This is further detailed and explained in the libcurl security advisory
101 http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20100209.html
103 Daniel Fandrich (3 Feb 2010)
104 - Changed the Watcom makefiles to make them easier to keep in sync with
105 Makefile.inc since that can't be included directly.
107 Yang Tse (2 Feb 2010)
108 - Symbol CURL_FORMAT_OFF_T now obsoleted, will be removed in a future release,
109 symbol will not be available when building with CURL_NO_OLDIES defined. Use
110 of CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T is preferred since 7.19.0
112 Daniel Stenberg (1 Feb 2010)
113 - Using the multi_socket API, it turns out at times it seemed to "forget"
114 connections (which caused a hang). It turned out to be an existing (7.19.7)
115 bug in libcurl (that's been around for a long time) and it happened like
118 The app calls curl_multi_add_handle() to add a new easy handle, libcurl will
119 then set it to timeout in 1 millisecond so libcurl will tell the app about
122 The app's timeout fires off that there's a timeout, the app calls libcurl as
123 we so often document it:
126 res = curl_multi_socket_action(... TIMEOUT ...);
127 } while(CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM == res);
129 And this is the problem number one:
131 When curl_multi_socket_action() is called with no specific handle, but only
132 a timeout-action, it will *only* perform actions within libcurl that are
133 marked to run at this time. In this case, the request would go from INIT to
134 CONNECT and return CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM. When the app then calls libcurl
135 again, there's no timer set for this handle so it remains in the CONNECT
136 state. The CONNECT state is a transitional state in libcurl so it reports no
137 sockets there, and thus libcurl never tells the app anything more about that
138 easy handle/connection.
140 libcurl _does_ set a 1ms timeout for the handle at the end of
141 multi_runsingle() if it returns CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM, but since the loop
142 is instant the new job is not ready to run at that point (and there's no
143 code that makes libcurl call the app to update the timout for this new
144 timeout). It will simply rely on that some other timeout will trigger later
145 on or that something else will update the timeout callback. This makes the
146 bug fairly hard to repeat.
148 The fix made to adress this issue:
150 We introduce a loop in lib/multi.c around all calls to multi_runsingle() and
151 simply check for CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM internally. This has the added
152 benefit that this goes in line with my long-term wishes to get rid of the
153 CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM all together from the public API.
155 The downside of this fix, is that the counter we return in 'running_handles'
156 in several of our public functions then gets a slightly new and possibly
157 confusing behavior during times:
159 If an app adds a handle that fails to connect (very quickly) it may just
160 as well never appear as a 'running_handle' with this fix. Previously it
161 would first bump the counter only to get it decreased again at next call.
162 Even I have used that change in handle counter to signal "end of a
163 transfer". The only *good* way to find the end of a individual transfer
164 is calling curl_multi_info_read() to see if it returns one.
166 Of course, if the app previously did the looping before it checked the
167 counter, it really shouldn't be any new effect.
169 Yang Tse (26 Jan 2010)
170 - Constantine Sapuntzakis' and Joshua Kwan's work done in the last four months
171 relative to the asynchronous DNS lookups, along with with some integration
172 adjustments I have done are finally committed to CVS.
174 Currently these enhancements will benefit builds done using c-ares on any
175 platform as well as Windows builds using the default threaded resolver.
177 This release does not make generally available POSIX threaded DNS lookups
178 yet. There is no configure option to enable this feature yet. It is possible
179 to experimantally try this feature running configure with compiler flags that
180 make simultaneous definition of preprocessor symbols USE_THREADS_POSIX and
181 HAVE_PTHREAD_H, as well as whatever reentrancy compiler flags and linker ones
182 are required to link and properly use pthread_* functions on each platform.
184 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jan 2010)
185 - Mike Crowe made libcurl return CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY when it is the
186 proxy that cannot be resolved when using c-ares. This matches the behaviour
187 when not using c-ares.
189 Björn Stenberg (23 Jan 2010)
190 - Added a new flag: -J/--remote-header-name. This option tells the
191 -O/--remote-name option to use the server-specified Content-Disposition
192 filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL.
194 Daniel Stenberg (21 Jan 2010)
195 - Chris Conroy brought support for RTSP transfers, and with it comes 8(!) new
196 libcurl options for controlling what to get and how to receive posssibly
197 interleaved RTP data.
199 Daniel Stenberg (20 Jan 2010)
200 - As was pointed out on the http-state mailing list, the order of cookies in a
201 HTTP Cookie: header _needs_ to be sorted on the path length in the cases
202 where two cookies using the same name are set more than once using
203 (overlapping) paths. Realizing this, identically named cookies must be
204 sorted correctly. But detecting only identically named cookies and take care
205 of them individually is harder than just to blindly and unconditionally sort
206 all cookies based on their path lengths. All major browsers also already do
207 this, so this makes our behavior one step closer to them in the cookie area.
209 Test case 8 was the only one that broke due to this change and I updated it
212 Daniel Stenberg (19 Jan 2010)
213 - David McCreedy brought a fix and a new test case (129) to make libcurl work
214 again when downloading files over FTP using ASCII and it turns out that the
215 final size of the file is not the same as the initial size the server
216 reported. This is very common since servers don't take the newline
217 conversions into account.
219 Kamil Dudka (14 Jan 2010)
220 - Suppressed side effect of OpenSSL configure checks, which prevented NSS from
221 being properly detected under certain circumstances. It had been caused by
222 strange behavior of pkg-config when handling PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. pkg-config
223 distinguishes among empty and non-existent environment variable in that case.
225 Daniel Stenberg (12 Jan 2010)
226 - Gil Weber reported a peculiar flaw with the multi interface when doing SFTP
227 transfers: curl_multi_fdset() would return -1 and not set and file
228 descriptors several times during a transfer of a single file. It turned out
229 to be due to two different flaws now fixed. Gil's excellent recipe helped me
232 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 2010)
233 - Made sure that the progress callback is repeatedly called at a regular
234 interval even during very slow connects.
236 - The tests/runtests.pl script now checks to see if the test case that runs is
237 present in the tests/data/Makefile.am and outputs a notice message on the
238 screen if not. Each test file has to be included in that Makefile.am to get
239 included in release archives and forgetting to add files there is a common
240 mistake. This is an attempt to make it harder to forget.
242 Daniel Stenberg (9 Jan 2010)
243 - Johan van Selst found and fixed a OpenSSL session ref count leak:
245 ossl_connect_step3() increments an SSL session handle reference counter on
246 each call. When sessions are re-used this reference counter may be
247 incremented many times, but it will be decremented only once when done (by
248 Curl_ossl_session_free()); and the internal OpenSSL data will not be freed
249 if this reference count remains positive. When a session is re-used the
250 reference counter should be corrected by explicitly calling
251 SSL_SESSION_free() after each consecutive SSL_get1_session() to avoid
252 introducing a memory leak.
254 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2926284)
256 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 2010)
257 - Make sure the progress callback is called repeatedly even during very slow
258 name resolves when c-ares is used for resolving.
260 Claes Jakobsson (6 Jan 2010)
261 - Julien Chaffraix fixed so that the fragment part in an URL is not sent
262 to the server anymore.
264 Kamil Dudka (3 Jan 2010)
265 - Julien Chaffraix eliminated a duplicated initialization in singlesocket().
267 Daniel Stenberg (2 Jan 2010)
268 - Make curl support --ssl and --ssl-reqd instead of the previous FTP-specific
269 versions --ftp-ssl and --ftp-ssl-reqd as these options are now used to
270 control SSL/TLS for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP as well in addition to FTP. The old
271 option names are still working but the new ones are the ones listed and
274 Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2010)
275 - Ingmar Runge enhanced libcurl's FTP engine to support the PRET command. This
276 command is a special "hack" used by the drftpd server, but even though it is
277 a custom extension I've deemed it fine to add to libcurl since this server
278 seems to survive and people keep using it and want libcurl to support
279 it. The new libcurl option is named CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, and it is also
280 usable from the curl tool with --ftp-pret. Using this option on a server
281 that doesn't support this command will make libcurl fail.
283 I added test cases 1107 and 1108 to verify the functionality.
285 The PRET command is documented at
286 http://www.drftpd.org/index.php/Distributed_PASV
288 Yang Tse (30 Dec 2009)
289 - Steven M. Schweda improved VMS build system, and Craig A. Berry helped
290 with the patch and testing.
292 Daniel Stenberg (26 Dec 2009)
293 - Renato Botelho and Peter Pentchev brought a patch that makes the libcurl
294 headers work correctly even on FreeBSD systems before v8.
296 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2916915)
298 Daniel Stenberg (17 Dec 2009)
299 - David Byron fixed Curl_ossl_cleanup to actually call ENGINE_cleanup when
302 - Follow-up fix for the proxy fix I did for Jon Nelson's bug. It turned out I
303 was a bit too quick and broke test case 1101 with that change. The order of
304 some of the setups is sensitive. I now changed it slightly again to make
305 sure we do them in this order:
307 1 - parse URL and figure out what protocol is used in the URL
308 2 - prepend protocol:// to URL if missing
309 3 - parse name+password off URL, which needs to know what protocol is used
310 (since only some allows for name+password in the URL)
311 4 - figure out if a proxy should be used set by an option
312 5 - if no proxy option, check proxy environment variables
313 6 - run the protocol-specific setup function, which needs to have the proxy
316 Daniel Stenberg (15 Dec 2009)
317 - Jon Nelson found a regression that turned out to be a flaw in how libcurl
318 detects and uses proxies based on the environment variables. If the proxy
319 was given as an explicit option it worked, but due to the setup order
320 mistake proxies would not be used fine for a few protocols when picked up
321 from '[protocol]_proxy'. Obviously this broke after 7.19.4. I now also added
322 test case 1106 that verifies this functionality.
324 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2913886)
326 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2009)
327 - IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support and their TLS versions (including IMAPS, POP3S
328 and SMTPS) are now supported. The current state may not yet be solid, but
329 the foundation is in place and the test suite has some initial support for
330 these protocols. Work will now persue to make them nice libcurl citizens
333 The work with supporting these new protocols was sponsored by
334 networking4all.com - thanks!
336 Daniel Stenberg (10 Dec 2009)
337 - Siegfried Gyuricsko found out that the curl manual said --retry would retry
338 on FTP errors in the transient 5xx range. Transient FTP errors are in the
339 4xx range. The code itself only tried on 5xx errors that occured _at login_.
340 Now the retry code retries on all FTP transfer failures that ended with a
343 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2911279)
345 - Constantine Sapuntzakis figured out a case which would lead to libcurl
346 accessing alredy freed memory and thus crash when using HTTPS (with
347 OpenSSL), multi interface and the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and a certain order
348 of cleaning things up. I fixed it.
350 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2905220)
352 Daniel Stenberg (7 Dec 2009)
353 - Martin Storsjo made libcurl use the Expect: 100-continue header for posts
354 with unknown size. Previously it was only used for posts with a known size
355 larger than 1024 bytes.
357 Daniel Stenberg (1 Dec 2009)
358 - If the Expect: 100-continue header has been set by the application through
359 curl_easy_setopt with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, the library should set
360 data->state.expect100header accordingly - the current code (in 7.19.7 at
361 least) doesn't handle this properly. Martin Storsjo provided the fix!
363 Yang Tse (28 Nov 2009)
364 - Added Diffie-Hellman parameters to several test harness certificate files in
365 PEM format. Required by several stunnel versions used by our test harness.
367 Daniel Stenberg (28 Nov 2009)
368 - Markus Koetter provided a polished and updated version of Chad Monroe's TFTP
369 rework patch that now integrates TFTP properly into libcurl so that it can
370 be used non-blocking with the multi interface and more. BLKSIZE also works.
372 The --tftp-blksize option was added to allow setting the TFTP BLKSIZE from
375 Daniel Stenberg (26 Nov 2009)
376 - Extended and fixed the change I did on Dec 11 for the the progress
377 meter/callback during FTP command/response sequences. It turned out it was
378 really lame before and now the progress meter SHOULD get called at least
381 Daniel Stenberg (23 Nov 2009)
382 - Bjorn Augustsson reported a bug which made curl not report any problems even
383 though it failed to write a very small download to disk (done in a single
384 fwrite call). It turned out to be because fwrite() returned success, but
385 there was insufficient error-checking for the fclose() call which tricked
386 curl to believe things were fine.
388 Yang Tse (23 Nov 2009)
389 - David Byron modified Makefile.dist vc8 and vc9 targets in order to allow
390 finer granularity control when generating src and lib makefiles.
392 Yang Tse (22 Nov 2009)
393 - I modified configure to force removal of the curlbuild.h file included in
394 distribution tarballs for use by non-configure systems. As intended, this
395 would get overwriten when doing in-tree builds. But VPATH builds would end
396 having two curlbuild.h files, one in the source tree and another in the
397 build tree. With the modification I introduced 5 Nov 2009 this could become
398 an issue when running libcurl's test suite.
400 Daniel Stenberg (20 Nov 2009)
401 - Constantine Sapuntzakis identified a write after close, as the sockets were
402 closed by libcurl before the SSL lib were shutdown and they may write to its
403 socket. Detected to at least happen with OpenSSL builds.
405 - Jad Chamcham pointed out a bug with connection re-use. If a connection had
406 CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL enabled over a proxy, a subsequent request using the
407 same proxy with the tunnel option disabled would still wrongly re-use that
408 previous connection and the outcome would only be badness.
410 Yang Tse (18 Nov 2009)
411 - I modified the memory tracking system to make it intolerant with zero sized
412 malloc(), calloc() and realloc() function calls.
414 Daniel Stenberg (17 Nov 2009)
415 - Constantine Sapuntzakis provided another fix for the DNS cache that could
416 end up with entries that wouldn't time-out:
418 1. Set up a first web server that redirects (307) to a http://server:port
420 2. Have curl connect to the first web server using curl multi
422 After the curl_easy_cleanup call, there will be curl dns entries hanging
423 around with in_use != 0.
425 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2891591)
427 - Marc Kleine-Budde fixed: curl saved the LDFLAGS set during configure into
428 its pkg-config file. So -Wl stuff ended up in the .pc file, which is really
429 bad, and breaks if there are multiple -Wl in our LDFLAGS (which are in
430 PTXdist). bug #2893592 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2893592)
432 Kamil Dudka (15 Nov 2009)
433 - David Byron improved the configure script to use pkg-config to find OpenSSL
434 (and in particular the list of required libraries) even if a path is given
435 as argument to --with-ssl
437 Yang Tse (15 Nov 2009)
438 - I removed enable-thread / disable-thread configure option. These were only
439 placebo options. The library is always built as thread safe as possible on
442 Claes Jakobsson (14 Nov 2009)
443 - curl-config now accepts '--configure' to see what arguments was
444 passed to the configure script when building curl.
446 Daniel Stenberg (14 Nov 2009)
447 - Claes Jakobsson restored the configure functionality to detect NSS when
448 --with-nss is set but not "yes".
450 I think we can still improve that to check for pkg-config in that path etc,
451 but at least this patch brings back the same functionality we had before.
453 - Camille Moncelier added support for the file type SSL_FILETYPE_ENGINE for
454 the client certificate. It also disable the key name test as some engines
455 can select a private key/cert automatically (When there is only one key
456 and/or certificate on the hardware device used by the engine)
458 Yang Tse (14 Nov 2009)
459 - Constantine Sapuntzakis provided the fix that ensures that an SSL connection
460 won't be reused unless protection level for peer and host verification match.
462 I refactored how preprocessor symbol _THREAD_SAFE definition is done.
464 Kamil Dudka (12 Nov 2009)
465 - Kevin Baughman provided a fix preventing libcurl-NSS from crash on doubly
466 closed NSPR descriptor. The issue was hard to find, reported several times
467 before and always closed unresolved. More info at the RH bug:
468 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/534176
470 - libcurl-NSS now tries to reconnect with TLS disabled in case it detects
471 a broken TLS server. However it does not happen if SSL version is selected
472 manually. The approach was originally taken from PSM. Kaspar Brand helped me
473 to complete the patch. Original bug reports:
474 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/525496
475 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/527771
477 Yang Tse (12 Nov 2009)
478 - I modified configure script to make the getaddrinfo function check also
479 verify if the function is thread safe.
481 Yang Tse (11 Nov 2009)
482 - Marco Maggi reported that compilation failed when configured --with-gssapi
483 and GNU GSS installed due to a missing mutual exclusion of header files in
484 the Kerberos 5 code path. He also verified that my patch worked for him.
486 Daniel Stenberg (11 Nov 2009)
487 - Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug #2891595
488 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2891595) which identified how an entry
489 in the DNS cache would linger too long if the request that added it was in
490 use that long. He also provided the patch that now makes libcurl capable of
491 still doing a request while the DNS hash entry may get timed out.
493 - Christian Schmitz noticed that the progress meter/callback was not properly
494 used during the FTP connection phase (after the actual TCP connect), while
495 it of course should be. I also made the speed check get called correctly so
496 that really slow servers will trigger that properly too.
498 Kamil Dudka (5 Nov 2009)
499 - Dropped misleading timeouts in libcurl-NSS and made sure the SSL socket works
500 in non-blocking mode.
502 Yang Tse (5 Nov 2009)
503 - I removed leading 'curl' path on the 'curlbuild.h' include statement in
504 curl.h, adjusting auto-makefiles include path, to enhance portability to
505 OS's without an orthogonal directory tree structure such as OS/400.
507 Daniel Stenberg (4 Nov 2009)
508 - I fixed several problems with the transfer progress meter. It showed the
509 wrong percentage for small files, most notable for <1000 bytes and could
510 easily end up showing more than 100% at the end. It also didn't show any
511 percentage, transfer size or estimated transfer times when transferring
514 Version 7.19.7 (4 November 2009)
516 Daniel Stenberg (2 Nov 2009)
517 - As reported independent by both Stan van de Burgt and Didier Brisebourg,
518 CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD (the -w variable size_download) didn't work when
519 getting data from ldap!
521 Daniel Stenberg (31 Oct 2009)
522 - Gabriel Kuri reported a problem with CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD if the
523 download was 0 bytes, as libcurl would then return the size as unknown (-1)
524 and not 0. I wrote a fix and test case 566 to verify it.
526 Daniel Stenberg (30 Oct 2009)
527 - Liza Alenchery mentioned a problem with re-used SCP connection when a bad
528 auth is used, as it caused a crash. I failed to repeat the issue, but still
529 made a change that now forces the TCP connection used for a freed SCP
530 session to get closed and not be re-used.
532 - "Tom" posted a bug report that mentioned how libcurl did wrong when doing a
533 POST using a read callback, with Digest authentication and
534 "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" enforced. I would then cause the first request
535 to be wrongly sent and then basically hang until the server closed the
536 connection. I fixed the problem and added test case 565 to verify it.
538 Daniel Stenberg (25 Oct 2009)
539 - Dima Barsky made the curl cookie parser accept cookies even with blank or
540 unparsable expiry dates and then treat them as session cookies - previously
541 libcurl would reject cookies with a date format it couldn't parse. Research
542 shows that the major browser treat such cookies as session cookies. I
543 modified test 8 and 31 to verify this.
545 Daniel Stenberg (21 Oct 2009)
546 - Attempt to use pkg-config for finding out libssh2 installation details
549 - A patch in bug report #2883177 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2883177)
550 by Johan van Selst introduced the --crlfile option to curl, which makes curl
551 tell libcurl about a file with CRL (certificate revocation list) data to
554 Daniel Stenberg (18 Oct 2009)
555 - Ray Dassen provided a patch in Debian's bug tracker (bug number #551461)
556 that now makes curl_getdate(3) actually handles RFC 822 formatted dates that
557 use the "single letter military timezones".
558 http://www.rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/822/chapter5.html has the details.
560 - Fixed memory leak in the SCP/SFTP code as it never freed the knownhosts
563 - John Dennis filed bug report #2873666
564 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2873666) which identified a problem
565 which made libcurl loop infinitely when given incorrect credentials when
566 using HTTP GSS negotiate authentication. He also provided a small and simple
569 - Kevin Baughman found a double close() problem with libcurl-NSS, as when
570 libcurl called NSS to close the SSL "session" it also closed the actual
573 Yang Tse (17 Oct 2009)
574 - Bug report #2866724 indicated
575 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2866724) that curl on Windows failed
576 when writing files whose file names originally contained characters which
577 are not valid for file names on Windows. Dan Fandrich provided an initial
578 patch and another revised one to fix this issue.
580 Daniel Stenberg (1 Oct 2009)
581 - Tom Mueller correctly reported in bug report #2870221
582 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2870221) that libcurl returned an
583 incorrect return code from the internal trynextip() function which caused
584 him grief. This is a regression that was introduced in 7.19.1 and I find it
585 strange it hasn't hit us harder, but I won't persue into figuring out
588 - Constantine Sapuntzakis: The current implementation will always set
589 SO_SNDBUF to CURL_WRITE_SIZE even if the SO_SNDBUF starts out larger. The
590 patch doesn't do a setsockopt if SO_SNDBUF is already greater than
591 CURL_WRITE_SIZE. This should help folks who have set up their computer with
594 Daniel Stenberg (27 Sep 2009)
595 - I introduced a maximum limit for received HTTP headers. It is controlled by
596 the define CURL_MAX_HTTP_HEADER which is even exposed in the public header
597 file to allow for users to fairly easy rebuild libcurl with a modified
598 limit. The rationale for a fixed limit is that libcurl is realloc()ing a
599 buffer to be able to put a full header into it, so that it can call the
600 header callback with the entire header, but that also risk getting it into
601 trouble if a server by mistake or willingly sends a header that is more or
602 less without an end. The limit is set to 100K.
604 Daniel Stenberg (26 Sep 2009)
605 - John P. McCaskey posted a bug report that showed how libcurl did wrong when
606 saving received cookies with no given path, if the path in the request had a
607 query part. That is means a question mark (?) and characters on the right
608 side of that. I wrote test case 1105 and fixed this problem.
610 Kamil Dudka (26 Sep 2009)
611 - Implemented a protocol independent way to specify blocking direction, used by
612 transfer.c for blocking. It is currently used only by SCP and SFTP protocols.
613 This enhancement resolves an issue with 100% CPU usage during SFTP upload,
616 Daniel Stenberg (25 Sep 2009)
617 - Chris Mumford filed bug report #2861587
618 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2861587) identifying that libcurl used
619 the OpenSSL function X509_load_crl_file() wrongly and failed if it would
620 load a CRL file with more than one certificate within. This is now fixed.
622 Daniel Stenberg (16 Sep 2009)
623 - Sven Anders reported that we introduced a cert verfication flaw for OpenSSL-
624 powered libcurl in 7.19.6. If there was a X509v3 Subject Alternative Name
625 field in the certficate it had to match and so even if non-DNS and non-IP
626 entry was present it caused the verification to fail.
628 Daniel Fandrich (15 Sep 2009)
629 - Moved the libssh2 checks after the SSL library checks. This helps when
630 statically linking since libssh2 needs the SSL library link flags to be
631 set up already to satisfy its dependencies. This wouldn't be necessary if
632 the libssh2 configure check was changed to use pkg-config since the
633 --static flag would add the dependencies automatically.
635 Yang Tse (14 Sep 2009)
636 - Revert Joshua Kwan's patch committed 11 Sep 2009.
638 Some systems poll function sets POLLHUP in revents without setting
639 POLLIN, and sets POLLERR without setting POLLIN and POLLOUT. In some
640 libcurl code execution paths this could trigger busy wait loops with
641 high CPU usage until a timeout condition aborted the loop.
643 The reverted patch addressed the above issue for a very specific case,
644 when awaiting c-ares to resolve. A libcurl-wide fix for Curl_poll now
647 Guenter Knauf (11 Sep 2009)
648 - Joshua Kwan provided a patch to pass POLLERR / POLLHUP back to c-ares.
649 This fixes a loop problem with high CPU usage.
651 Daniel Stenberg (10 Sep 2009)
652 - Claes Jakobsson fixed a problem with cookie expiry dates at exctly the epoch
653 start second "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970" as the date parser then returns 0
654 which internally then is treated as a session cookie. That particular date
655 is now made to get the value of 1.
657 Daniel Stenberg (2 Sep 2009)
658 - Daniel Johnson found a flaw in the code converting sftp-errors to libcurl
661 Daniel Stenberg (1 Sep 2009)
662 - Peter Sylvester made a debug feature for Curl_resolv() that now will force
663 libcurl to resolve 'localhost' whatever name you use in the URL *if* you set
664 the --interface option to (exactly) "LocalHost". This will enable us to
665 write tests for custom hosts names but still use a local host server.
667 - configure now tries to use pkg-config for a number of sub-dependencies even
668 when cross-compiling. The key to success is then you properly setup
669 PKG_CONFIG_PATH before invoking configure.
671 I also improved how NSS is detected by trying nss-config if pkg-config isn't
672 present, and as a last resort just use the lib name and force the user to
673 setup the LIBS/LDFLAGS/CFLAGS etc properly. The previous last resort would
674 add a range of various libs that would almost never be quite correct.
676 Daniel Stenberg (31 Aug 2009)
677 - When using the multi interface with FTP and you asked for NOBODY, you did no
678 QUOTE commands and the request used the same path as the connection had
679 already changed to, it would decide that no commands would be necessary for
680 the "DO" action and that was not handled properly but libcurl would instead
683 Kamil Dudka (28 Aug 2009)
684 - Improved error message for not matching certificate subject name in
685 libcurl-NSS. Originally reported at:
686 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516056#c9
688 Patrick Monnerat (24 Aug 2009)
689 - Introduced a SYST-based test to properly set-up name format when dealing
690 with the OS/400 FTP server.
692 - Fixed an ftp_readresp() bug preventing detection of failing control socket
693 and causing FTP client to loop forever.
695 Daniel Stenberg (24 Aug 2009)
696 - Marc de Bruin pointed out that configure --with-gnutls=PATH didn't work
697 properly and provided a fix. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2843008
699 - Eric Wong introduced support for the new option -T. (dot) that makes curl
700 read stdin in a non-blocking fashion. This also brings back -T- (minus) to
701 the previous blocking behavior since it could break stuff for people at
704 Michal Marek (21 Aug 2009)
705 - With CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE, avoid sending invalid URLs like
706 ftp://example.com;type=i if the user specified ftp://example.com without the
709 Daniel Stenberg (21 Aug 2009)
710 - Andre Guibert de Bruet pointed out a missing return code check for a
711 strdup() that could lead to segfault if it returned NULL. I extended his
712 suggest patch to now have Curl_retry_request() return a regular return code
713 and better check that.
715 - Lots of good work by Krister Johansen, mostly related to pipelining:
717 Fix SIGSEGV on free'd easy_conn when pipe unexpectedly breaks
718 Fix data corruption issue with re-connected transfers
719 Fix use after free if we're completed but easy_conn not NULL
721 Kamil Dudka (13 Aug 2009)
722 - Changed NSS code to not ignore the value of ssl.verifyhost and produce more
723 verbose error messages. Originally reported at:
724 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516056
726 Daniel Stenberg (12 Aug 2009)
727 - Karl Moerder fixed the Makefile.vc* makefiles to include the new file
728 nonblock.c so that they work fine again
730 - I expanded test 517 with a bunch of more dates that originate from the
731 Chrome browser test suite. It turns out most of them get parsed the same
734 Version 7.19.6 (12 August 2009)
736 Daniel Stenberg (12 Aug 2009)
737 - Carsten Lange reported a bug and provided a patch for TFTP upload and the
738 sending of the TSIZE option. I don't like fixing bugs just hours before
739 a release, but since it was broken and the patch fixes this for him I decided
742 Daniel Stenberg (11 Aug 2009)
743 - Peter Sylvester made the HTTPS test server use specific certificates for
744 each test, so that the test suite can now be used to actually test the
745 verification of cert names etc. This made an error show up in the OpenSSL-
746 specific code where it would attempt to match the CN field even if a
747 subjectAltName exists that doesn't match. This is now fixed and verified
750 - Benbuck Nason posted the bug report #2835196
751 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2835196), fixing a few compiler
752 warnings when mixing ints and bools.
754 Daniel Fandrich (10 Aug 2009)
755 - Fixed a memory leak in the FTP code and an off-by-one heap buffer overflow.
757 Daniel Fandrich (9 Aug 2009)
758 - Fixed some memory leaks in the command-line tool that caused most of the
759 torture tests to fail.
761 Daniel Stenberg (2 Aug 2009)
762 - Curt Bogmine reported a problem with SNI enabled on a particular server. We
763 should introduce an option to disable SNI, but as we're in feature freeze
764 now I've addressed the obvious bug here (pointed out by Peter Sylvester): we
765 shouldn't try to enable SNI when SSLv2 or SSLv3 is explicitly selected.
766 Code for OpenSSL and GnuTLS was fixed. NSS doesn't seem to have a particular
767 option for SNI, or are we simply not using it?
769 Daniel Stenberg (1 Aug 2009)
770 - Scott Cantor posted the bug report #2829955
771 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2829955) mentioning the recent SSL cert
772 verification flaw found and exploited by Moxie Marlinspike. The presentation
773 he did at Black Hat is available here:
774 https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-09/bh-usa-09-archives.html#Marlinspike
776 Apparently at least one CA allowed a subjectAltName or CN that contain a
777 zero byte, and thus clients that assumed they would never have zero bytes
778 were exploited to OK a certificate that didn't actually match the site. Like
779 if the name in the cert was "example.com\0theatualsite.com", libcurl would
780 happily verify that cert for example.com.
782 libcurl now better uses the length of the extracted name, not using the zero
783 termination for getting the string length.
785 This fixing only made and needed in OpenSSL interfacing code.
787 - Tanguy Fautre pointed out that OpenSSL's function RAND_screen() (present
788 only in some OpenSSL installs - like on Windows) isn't thread-safe and we
789 agreed that moving it to the global_init() function is a decent way to deal
792 - Alexander Beedie provided the patch for a noproxy problem: If I have set
793 CURLOPT_NOPROXY to "*", or to a host that should not use a proxy, I actually
794 could still end up using a proxy if a proxy environment variable was set.
796 Daniel Stenberg (27 Jul 2009)
797 - All the quote options (CURLOPT_QUOTE, CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE and
798 CURLOPT_PREQUOTE) now accept a preceeding asterisk before the command to
799 send when using FTP, as a sign that libcurl shall simply ignore the response
800 from the server instead of treating it as an error. Not treating a 400+ FTP
801 response code as an error means that failed commands will not abort the
802 chain of commands, nor will they cause the connection to get disconnected.
804 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jul 2009)
805 - Johan van Selst posted bug report #2825989
806 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2825989) pointing out that
807 OpenSSL-powered libcurl didn't support the SHA-2 digest algorithm, and
808 provided the solution too: to use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in addition
809 to the older SSLeay_* alternative. OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms was added in
812 Daniel Stenberg (23 Jul 2009)
813 - Added CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYDATA.
814 They introduce known_host support for SSH keys to libcurl. See docs for
815 details. Note that this feature depends on a new enough libssh2 version, to
816 be supported in libssh2 1.2 and later (or current git repo at this time).
818 Michal Marek (22 Jul 2009)
819 - David Binderman found a memory and fd leak in lib/gtls.c:load_file()
820 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/523919). When looking at the code, I found that
821 also the ptr pointer can leak.
823 Kamil Dudka (20 Jul 2009)
824 - Claes Jakobsson improved the support for client certificates handling in
825 NSS-powered libcurl. Now the client certificates can be selected
826 automatically by a NSS built-in hook. Additionally pre-login to all PKCS11
827 slots is no more performed. It used to cause problems with HW tokens.
829 - Fixed reference counting for NSS client certificates. Now the PEM reader
830 module should be always properly unloaded on Curl_nss_cleanup(). If the
831 unload fails though, libcurl will try to reuse the already loaded instance.
833 Daniel Fandrich (15 Jul 2009)
834 - Added nonblock.c to the non-automake makefiles (note that the dependencies
835 in the Watcom makefiles aren't quite correct).
837 Michal Marek (15 Jul 2009)
838 - Changed the description of CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to make it clear that the
839 errno is not reset on success.
841 Guenter Knauf (14 Jul 2009)
842 - renamed generated config.h to curl_config.h to avoid any future clashes
843 with config.h from other projects.
845 Daniel Stenberg (9 Jul 2009)
846 - Eric Wong introduced curlx_nonblock() that the curl tool now (re-)uses for
847 setting a file descriptor non-blocking. Used by the functionality Eric
848 himself brough on June 15th.
850 Daniel Stenberg (8 Jul 2009)
851 - Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug report #2813123
852 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2813123) and an a patch that fixes the
855 Url A is accessed using auth. Url A redirects to Url B (on a different
856 server0. Url B reuses a persistent connection. Url B has auth, even though
857 it's on a different server.
859 Note: if Url B does not reuse a persistent connection, auth is not sent.
863 data->state.first_host is not initialized becuase Curl_http_connect is not
864 called when a connection is reused.
868 move initialization of data->state.first_host to Curl_http. No code before
869 Curl_http uses data->state.first_host anyway.
871 Guenter Knauf (4 Jul 2009)
872 - Markus Koetter provided a patch to avoid getnameinfo() usage which broke a
873 couple of both IPv4 and IPv6 autobuilds.
875 Daniel Stenberg (29 Jun 2009)
876 - Markus Koetter made CURLOPT_FTPPORT (and curl's -P/--ftpport) support a port
877 range if given colon-separated after the host name/address part. Like
878 "192.168.0.1:2000-10000"
880 - Modified the separators used for CURLOPT_CERTINFO in multi-part outputs. I
881 don't know how they got wrong in the first place, but using this output
882 format makes it possible to quite easily separate the string into an array
885 Daniel Fandrich (16 June 2009)
886 - Added a few more compiler warning options for gcc.
888 Daniel Stenberg (16 Jun 2009)
889 - Reuven Wachtfogel made curl -o - properly produce a binary output on windows
890 (no newline translations). Use -B/--use-ascii if you rather get the ascii
893 Michal Marek (16 Jun 2009)
894 - When doing non-anonymous ftp via http proxies and the password is not
895 provided in the url, add it there (squid needs this).
897 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jun 2009)
900 This allows curl(1) to be used as a client-side tunnel for arbitrary stream
901 protocols by abusing chunked transfer encoding in both the HTTP request and
902 HTTP response. This requires server support for sending a response while a
903 request is still being read, of course.
905 If attempting to read from stdin returns EAGAIN, then we pause our sender.
906 This leaves curl to attempt to read from the socket while reading from stdin
907 (and thus sending) is paused.
909 This change was needed to allow successfully tunneling the git protocol over
910 HTTP (--no-buffer is needed, as well).
912 Patrick Monnerat (15 Jun 2009)
913 - Replaced use of standard C library rand()/srand() by our own pseudo-random
916 Yang Tse (11 Jun 2009)
917 - I adapted testcurl script to allow building test harness programs when
918 cross-compiling for a *-*-mingw* host.
920 Daniel Stenberg (10 Jun 2009)
921 - Fabian Keil ran clang on the (lib)curl code, found a bunch of warnings and
922 contributed a range of patches to fix them.
924 Yang Tse (10 Jun 2009)
925 - I introduced configure script option --enable-curldebug which now allows
926 the decoupled enabling or disabling of the curl debug memory tracking
927 feature from the --enable-debug option which no longer controls this.
929 curl --version will list 'Debug' feature for debug enabled builds, and
930 will list 'TrackMemory' feature for curl debug memory tracking capable
931 builds. These features are independent and can be controlled when running
932 the configure script. When --enable-debug is given both features will be
933 enabled, unless some restriction prevents memory tracking from being used.
935 Internally, definition of preprocessor symbol DEBUGBUILD restricts code
936 which is only compiled for debug enabled builds. And symbol CURLDEBUG is
937 used to differentiate code which is _only_ used for memory tracking.
939 Yang Tse (9 Jun 2009)
940 - Daniel Steinberg pointed out that Curl_FormInit() in formdata.c was not
941 initializing the fread callback pointer and this triggered a compiler
942 warning, also provided a friendly suggestion on how to fix it.
944 Daniel Stenberg (8 Jun 2009)
945 - Claes Jakobsson provided a patch for libcurl-NSS that fixed a bad refcount
946 issue with client certs that caused issues like segfaults.
947 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0316.html
949 - Triggered by bug report #2798852 and the patch in there, I fixed configure
950 to detect gnutls build options with pkg-config only and not libgnutls-config
951 anymore since GnuTLS has stopped distributing that tool. If an explicit path
952 is given to configure, we will instead guess on how to link and use that
953 lib. I did not use the patch from the bug report.
955 Yang Tse (8 Jun 2009)
956 - Igor Novoseltsev adjusted Makefile.vxworks to get sources and headers
957 included from Makefile.inc, and provided docs\INSTALL VxWorks section.
959 - I removed buildconf.bat from release and daily snapshot archives. This
960 file is only for CVS tree checkout builds.
962 Daniel Stenberg (8 Jun 2009)
963 - Eric Wong fixed --no-buffer to actually switch off output buffering. Been
966 Bill Hoffman (6 Jun 2009)
967 - Added some cmake docs and fixed socklen_t in the build.
969 Yang Tse (5 Jun 2009)
970 - John E. Malmberg provided VMS specific patch: "This fixes an existing bug
971 in urlglob.c where it was not converting the Curl Unix exit code to a VMS
972 DCL compatible exit code. This fix required the enhancement described next.
973 This also adds an enhancement to main.c so that when curl is run under a
974 Unix shell like Bash on VMS, it will return the standard Unix exit codes
975 and messages." And another patch for docs/examples.
977 I introduced os-specific.c and os-specific.h for use in curl tool code
978 and adjusted John E. Malmberg's patch placement to use these new files
979 as an effort to prevent main.c from growing ad infinitum. Code already
980 existing in main.c which is OS specific should be moved into these files.
982 Daniel Stenberg (4 June 2009)
983 - Setting the Content-Length: header from your app when you do a POST or PUT
984 is almost always a VERY BAD IDEA. Yet there are still apps out there doing
985 this, and now recently it triggered a bug/side-effect in libcurl as when
986 libcurl sends a POST or PUT with NTLM, it sends an empty post first when it
987 knows it will just get a 401/407 back. If the app then replaced the
988 Content-Length header, it caused the server to wait for input that libcurl
989 wouldn't send. Aaron Oneal reported this problem in bug report #2799008
990 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2799008) and helped us verify the fix.
992 Yang Tse (4 Jun 2009)
993 - Igor Novoseltsev provided patches and information, that after some
994 adjustments to better fit curl's way of doing things, have resulted
995 in the posibility of building libcurl for VxWorks.
997 Daniel Fandrich (2 June 2009)
998 - Checked in a Google Android make file. To use it, you must first
999 create a config.h file by running configure in the Android environment,
1000 which doesn't seem to be easy to do. If no easy way can be found, a
1001 static config-android.h may need to be created and checked in to the
1002 libcurl source tree.
1004 Daniel Stenberg (1 June 2009)
1005 - Claes Jakobsson fixed the configure script to better find and use NSS
1008 Yang Tse (1 Jun 2009)
1009 - John E. Malmberg provided a VMS specific clean-up for curl.h, and pointed
1010 out that the configure script was failing to detect the timeval struct on
1011 VMS when building with _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED undefined due to definition
1012 taking place in socket.h instead of time.h. I have adjusted configure
1013 script to also include this header when checking struct timeval.
1015 Daniel Stenberg (27 May 2009)
1016 - Frank McGeough provided a small OpenSSL #include fix to make libcurl compile
1017 fine with Nokia 5th edition 1.0 SDK for Symbian.
1019 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found a call to a OpenSSL function that didn't check
1020 for a failure properly.
1022 - Mike Crowe pointed out that setting CURLOPT_USERPWD to NULL used to clear
1023 the auth credentials back in 7.19.0 and earlier while now you have to set ""
1024 to get the same effect. His patch brings back the ability to use NULL.
1026 - Claes Jakobsson fixed libcurl-NSS to build fine even without the
1027 PK11_CreateGenericObject() function.
1029 Daniel Stenberg (25 May 2009)
1030 - bug report #2796358 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2796358) pointed
1031 out that the cookie parser would leak memory when it parses cookies that are
1032 received with domain, path etc set multiple times in the same header. While
1033 such a cookie is questionable, they occur in the wild and libcurl no longer
1034 leaks memory for them. I added such a header to test case 8.
1036 Daniel Fandrich (22 May 2009)
1037 - Removed some obsolete digest code that caused a valgrind error in test 551.
1039 Daniel Fandrich (20 May 2009)
1040 - Added "non-existing host" test keywords to make it easy to skip those
1041 tests on machines that have broken DNS configurations (such as
1042 those configured to use OpenDNS).
1044 Daniel Stenberg (19 May 2009)
1045 - Kamil Dudka brought the patch from the Redhat bug entry
1046 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427966 which was libcurl closing
1047 a bad file descriptor when closing down the FTP data connection. Caolan
1048 McNamara seems to be the original author of it.
1050 Version 7.19.5 (18 May 2009)
1052 Daniel Stenberg (17 May 2009)
1053 - James Bursa posted a patch to the mailing list that fixed a problem with
1054 no_proxy which made it not skip the proxy if the URL entered contained a
1055 user name. I added test case 1101 to verify.
1057 Daniel Stenberg (11 May 2009)
1058 - Balint Szilakszi reported a memory leak when libcurl did gzip decompression
1059 of streams that had some parts (legitimately) missing. We now provide and use
1060 a proper cleanup function for the content encoding submodule.
1061 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0092.html
1063 - Kamil Dudka provided a fix for libcurl-NSS reported by Michael Cronenworth
1064 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612#c12
1066 If an incorrect password is given while loading a private key, libcurl ends
1067 up in an infinite loop consuming memory. The bug is critical.
1069 - I fixed the problem with doing NTLM, POST and then following a 302 redirect,
1070 as reported by Ebenezer Ikonne (on curl-users) and Laurent Rabret (on
1071 curl-library). The transfer was mistakenly marked to get more data to send
1072 but since it didn't actually have that, it just hung there...
1074 Daniel Stenberg (10 May 2009)
1075 - Andre Guibert de Bruet correctly pointed out an over-alloc with one wasted
1076 byte in the digest code.
1078 Yang Tse (9 May 2009)
1079 - Removed DOS and TPF package's subdirectory Makefile.am, it was only used
1080 to include some files in the distribution tarball serving no other purpose.
1081 Files from the DOS and TPF subdirectories are now included in the EXTRA_DIST
1082 of the Makefile in the parent subdirectory.
1084 Yang Tse (8 May 2009)
1085 - Changed host name literal in several tests to one under the haxx.se domain.
1087 - Renamed vc6 workspace and project files to avoid filename clash when used
1088 for conversion to later VS versions.
1090 Daniel Stenberg (8 May 2009)
1091 - Constantine Sapuntzakis fixed bug report #2784055
1092 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2784055) identifying a problem to
1093 connect to SOCKS proxies when using the multi interface. It turned out to
1094 almost not work at all previously. We need to wait for the TCP connect to
1095 be properly verified before doing the SOCKS magic.
1097 There's still a flaw in the FTP code for this.
1099 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
1100 - Made the SO_SNDBUF setting for the data connection socket for ftp uploads as
1101 well. See change 28 Apr 2009.
1103 Yang Tse (7 May 2009)
1104 - Fixed an issue affecting FTP transfers, introduced with the transfer.c
1105 patch committed May 4.
1107 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
1108 - Man page *roff problems fixed thanks to input from Colin Watson. Problems
1109 reported in the Debian package.
1111 - Vijay G filed bug report #2723236
1112 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723236) identifying a problem with
1113 libcurl's TFTP code and its lack of dealing with the OACK packet.
1115 Yang Tse (5 May 2009)
1116 - Fixed the --ftp-port address of test #251 to the CLIENTIP address, and
1117 reverted the change affecting test suite harness committed 4 May.
1119 Daniel Stenberg (5 May 2009)
1120 - Inspired by Michael Smith's session id fix for OpenSSL, I did the
1121 corresponding fix in the GnuTLS code: make sure to store the new session id
1122 in case the previous re-used one is rejected.
1124 Daniel Stenberg (4 May 2009)
1125 - Michael Smith posted bug report #2786255
1126 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2786255) with a patch, identifying how
1127 libcurl did not deal with SSL session ids properly if the server rejected a
1128 re-use of one. Starting now, it will forget the rejected one and remember
1129 the new. This change was for OpenSSL only, it is likely that other SSL lib
1130 code needs similar fixes.
1132 Yang Tse (4 May 2009)
1133 - Applied David McCreedy's "transfer.c fixes for CURL_DO_LINEEND_CONV and
1134 non-ASCII platform HTTP requests" patch addressing two HTTP PUT problems:
1135 1) On non-ASCII platforms not all of the protocol portions of the PUT are
1136 being translated to ASCII. 2) On all platforms the line endings of part of
1137 the protocol portions are mangled from CRLF to CRCRLF if data->set.crlf or
1138 data->set.prefer_ascii are set (depending on CURL_DO_LINEEND_CONV).
1140 - Applied David McCreedy's patch to fix test suite harness to allow test FTP
1141 server and client on different machines, providing FTP client address when
1142 running the FTP test server.
1144 Daniel Fandrich (3 May 2009)
1145 - Added and disabled test case 563 which shows KNOWN_BUGS #59. The bug
1146 report failed to mention that a proxy must be used to reproduce it.
1148 Yang Tse (2 May 2009)
1149 - Use a build-time configured curl_socklen_t data type instead of socklen_t.
1151 Yang Tse (1 May 2009)
1152 - Applied David McCreedy's patches "TPF-platform specific changes to various
1153 files" and "http.c fix to Curl_proxyCONNECT for non-ASCII platforms", the
1154 former with minor edits.
1156 Daniel Stenberg (30 Apr 2009)
1157 - I was going to fix issue #59 in KNOWN_BUGS
1159 If the CURLOPT_PORT option is used on an FTP URL like
1160 "ftp://example.com/file;type=A" the ";type=A" is stripped off.
1162 I added test case 562 to verify, only to find out that I couldn't repeat
1163 this bug so I hereby consider it not a bug anymore!
1165 Daniel Stenberg (29 Apr 2009)
1166 - Based on bug report #2723219 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723219)
1167 I've now made TFTP "connections" not being kept for re-use within libcurl.
1168 TFTP is UDP-based so the benefit was really low (if even existing) to begin
1169 with so instead of tracking down to fix this problem we instead removed the
1170 re-use. I also enabled test case 1099 that I wrote a few days ago to verify
1171 that this change fixes the reported problem.
1173 Daniel Stenberg (28 Apr 2009)
1174 - Constantine Sapuntzakis filed bug report #2783090
1175 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2783090) pointing out that on windows
1176 we need to grow the SO_SNDBUF buffer somewhat to get really good upload
1177 speeds. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823764 has the details. Friends
1178 confirmed that simply adding 32 to CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is enough.
1180 - Bug report #2709004 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2709004) by Tim
1181 Chen pointed out how curl couldn't upload with resume when reading from a
1184 This ended up with the introduction of a new return code for the
1185 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION callback that basically says that the seek failed but
1186 that libcurl may try to resolve the situation anyway. In our case this means
1187 libcurl will attempt to instead read that much data from the stream instead
1188 of seeking and that way curl can now upload with resume when data is read
1191 Daniel Stenberg (26 Apr 2009)
1192 - Bug report #2779733 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779733) by Sven
1193 Wegener pointed out that CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME didn't work with the multi
1194 interface and provided a patch that fixed the problem!
1196 Daniel Stenberg (24 Apr 2009)
1197 - Kamil Dudka fixed another NSS-related leak when client certs were used.
1199 - Bug report #2779245 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779245) by Rainer
1200 Koenig pointed out that the man page didn't tell that the *_proxy
1201 environment variables can be specified lower case or UPPER CASE and the
1202 lower case takes precedence,
1204 Daniel Fandrich (21 Apr 2009)
1205 - Added new libcurl source files to Amiga, RiscOS and VC6 build files.
1207 Yang Tse (21 Apr 2009)
1208 - Moved potential inclusion of system's malloc.h and memory.h header files to
1209 setup_once.h. Inclusion of each header file is based on the definition of
1210 NEED_MALLOC_H and NEED_MEMORY_H respectively.
1212 Renamed libcurl's memory.h to curl_memory.h
1214 Daniel Stenberg (20 Apr 2009)
1215 - Leanic Lefever reported a crash and did some detailed research on why and
1216 how it occurs (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-04/0289.html). The
1217 conclusion was that if an error is detected and Curl_done() is called for
1218 the connection, ftp_done() could at times return another error code that
1219 then would take precedence and that new code confused existing logic that
1220 works for the first error code (CURLE_SEND_ERROR) only.
1222 - Gisle Vanem noticed that --libtool would produce bogus strings at times for
1223 OBJECTPOINT options. Now we've introduced a new function - my_setopt_str -
1224 within the app for setting plain string options to avoid the risk of this
1227 Daniel Stenberg (17 Apr 2009)
1228 - Pramod Sharma reported and tracked down a bug when doing FTP over a HTTP
1229 proxy. libcurl would then wrongly close the connection after each
1230 request. In his case it had the weird side-effect that it killed NTLM auth
1231 for the proxy causing an inifinite loop!
1233 I added test case 1098 to verify this fix. The test case does however not
1234 properly verify that the transfers are done persistently - as I couldn't
1235 think of a clever way to achieve it right now - but you need to read the
1236 stderr output after a test run to see that it truly did the right thing.
1238 Daniel Stenberg (13 Apr 2009)
1239 - bug report #2727981 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2727981) by Martin
1240 Storsjö pointed out how setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to 0 could be downright
1241 confusing as it set the method to either GET or HEAD. The example he showed
1244 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
1245 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
1247 The new way doesn't alter the method until the request is about to start. If
1248 CURLOPT_NOBODY is then 1 the HTTP request will be HEAD. If CURLOPT_NOBODY is
1249 0 and the request happens to have been set to HEAD, it will then instead be
1250 set to GET. I believe this will be less surprising to users, and hopefully
1251 not hit any existing users badly.
1253 - Toshio Kuratomi reported a memory leak problem with libcurl+NSS that turned
1254 out to be leaking cacerts. Kamil Dudka helped me complete the fix. The issue
1255 is found in Redhat's bug tracker:
1256 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612
1258 There are still memory leaks present, but they seem to have other reasons.
1260 Daniel Fandrich (11 Apr 2009)
1261 - Added new libcurl source files to Symbian OS build files.
1262 - Improved Symbian support for SSL.
1264 Yang Tse (10 Apr 2009)
1265 - Daniel Johnson improved the MacOSX-Framework shell script to now perform all
1266 the steps required to build a Mac OS X four way fat ppc/i386/ppc64/x86_64
1267 libcurl.framework. Four way fat framework requires OS X 10.5 SDK or later.
1269 Yang Tse (8 Apr 2009)
1270 - Removed Sun compilers preprocessor block from curlbuild.h.dist, this also
1271 removes it from the curlbuild.h file originally distributed by the cURL
1272 project as this file is intended for systems not capable of running the
1273 configure script. For those who have been building curl out of the source
1274 code curl distribution tarball provided by curl.haxx.se the change implies
1275 nothing. Previous change in this area committed 2 Apr becomes irrelevant.
1277 Daniel Stenberg (6 Apr 2009)
1278 - I clarified in the docs that CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION should return 0 on success
1279 and 1 on fatal errors. Previously it only mentioned non-zero on fatal
1280 errors. This is a slight change in meaning, but it follows what we've done
1281 elsewhere before and it opens up for LOTS of more useful return codes
1282 whenever we can think of them...
1284 Yang Tse (2 Apr 2009)
1285 - Fix curl_off_t definition for builds done using Sun compilers and a
1286 non-configured libcurl. In this case curl_off_t data type was gated
1287 to the off_t data type which depends on the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. This
1288 configuration is exactly the unwanted configuration for our curl_off_t
1289 data type which must not depend on such setting. This breaks ABI for
1290 libcurl libraries built with Sun compilers which were built without
1291 having run the configure script with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS different than
1292 64 and using the ILP32 data model.
1294 Daniel Stenberg (1 Apr 2009)
1295 - Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed a NULL pointer use in an infof() call if a
1296 strdup() call failed.
1298 Daniel Fandrich (31 Mar 2009)
1299 - Properly return an error code in curl_easy_recv (reported by Jim Freeman).
1301 Daniel Stenberg (18 Mar 2009)
1302 - Kamil Dudka brought a patch that enables 6 additional crypto algorithms when
1303 NSS is used. These ciphers were added in NSS 3.4 and require to be enabled
1306 Daniel Stenberg (13 Mar 2009)
1307 - Use libssh2_version() to present the libssh2 version in case the libssh2
1308 library is found to support it.
1310 Yang Tse (12 Mar 2009)
1311 - Added missing Curl_read() return code checking in TELNET transfers.
1313 - Pierre Brico found and fixed TELNET transfers not being aborted upon
1314 a write callback failure.
1316 Daniel Stenberg (11 Mar 2009)
1317 - Kamil Dudka made the curl tool properly call curl_global_init() before any
1318 other libcurl function.
1320 Yang Tse (11 Mar 2009)
1321 - Added missing TELNET timeout support for Windows builds. This issue was
1322 reported by Pierre Brico.
1324 Daniel Stenberg (9 Mar 2009)
1325 - Frank Hempel found out a bug and provided the fix:
1327 curl_easy_duphandle did not necessarily duplicate the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
1328 option. It only enabled the cookie engine in the destination handle if
1329 data->cookies is not NULL (where data is the source handle). In case of a
1330 newly initialized handle which just had the cookie support enabled by a
1331 curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURL_COOKIEFILE, "")-call, handle->cookies was
1332 still NULL because the setopt-call only appends the value to
1333 data->change.cookielist, hence duplicating this handle would not have the
1334 cookie engine switched on.
1336 We also concluded that the slist-functionality would be suitable for being
1337 put in its own module rather than simply hanging out in lib/sendf.c so I
1338 created lib/slist.[ch] for them.
1340 - Andreas Farber made the 'buildconf' script check for the presence of m4
1341 scripts to make it detect a bad checkout earlier. People with older
1342 checkouts who don't do cvs update with the -d option won't get the new dirs
1343 and then will get funny outputs that can be a bit hard to understand and
1346 Daniel Stenberg (8 Mar 2009)
1347 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a code segment in ssluse.c where the
1348 allocation of the memory BIO was not being properly checked.
1350 - Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed the gnutls-using code: There are a few places
1351 in the gnutls code where we were checking for negative values for errors,
1352 when the man pages state that GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS is returned on success and
1353 other values indicate error conditions.
1355 - Bill Egert pointed out (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2671602) that
1356 curl didn't use sprintf() in a way that is documented to work in POSIX but
1357 since we use our own printf() code (from libcurl) that shouldn't be a
1358 problem. Nonetheless I modified the code to not rely on such particular
1359 features and to not cause further raised eyebrowse with no good reason.
1361 Daniel Fandrich (5 Mar 2009)
1362 - Expanded the security section of the libcurl-tutorial man page to cover
1363 more issues for authors to consider when writing robust libcurl-using
1366 Yang Tse (5 Mar 2009)
1367 - Fixed NTLM authentication memory leak on SSPI enabled Windows builds. This
1368 issue was noticed by Chris Deidun.
1370 Daniel Fandrich (4 Mar 2009)
1371 - Fixed a problem with m4 quoting in the OpenSSL configure check reported
1374 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
1375 - David James brought a patch that make libcurl close (all) dead connections
1376 whenever you attempt to open a new connection.
1378 1. After cleaning up a dead connection, "continue" instead of
1379 returning FALSE. This ensures that we clean up all dead connections,
1380 rather than just cleaning up the first dead connection.
1381 2. Move up the cleanup for dead connections so that it occurs for
1382 all connections, rather than just the connections which have the same
1383 preferences as our current new connection.
1385 Version 7.19.4 (3 March 2009)
1387 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
1388 - David Kierznowski notified us about a security flaw
1389 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090303.html also known as CVE-2009-0037) in
1390 which previous libcurl versions (by design) can be tricked to access an
1391 arbitrary local/different file instead of a remote one when
1392 CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. This flaw is now fixed in this release
1393 together this the addition of two new setopt options for controlling this
1396 o CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS controls what protocols libcurl is allowed to
1397 follow to when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. By default, this option
1398 excludes the FILE and SCP protocols and thus you nee to explicitly allow
1399 them in your app if you really want that behavior.
1401 o CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS controls what protocol(s) libcurl is allowed to fetch
1402 using the primary URL option. This is useful if you want to allow a user or
1403 other outsiders control what URL to pass to libcurl and yet not allow all
1404 protocols libcurl may have been built to support.
1406 Daniel Stenberg (27 Feb 2009)
1407 - Senthil Raja Velu reported a problem when CURLOPT_INTERFACE and
1408 CURLOPT_LOCALPORT were used together (the local port bind failed), and
1409 Markus Koetter provided the fix!
1411 Daniel Stenberg (25 Feb 2009)
1412 - As Daniel Fandrich figured out, we must do the GnuTLS initing in the
1413 curl_global_init() function to properly maintain the performing functions
1414 thread-safe. We've previously (28 April 2007) moved the init to a later time
1415 just to avoid it to fail very early when libgcrypt dislikes the situation,
1416 but that move was bad and the fix should rather be in libgcrypt or
1419 Daniel Stenberg (24 Feb 2009)
1420 - Brian J. Murrell found out that Negotiate proxy authentication didn't work.
1421 It happened because the code used the struct for server-based auth all the
1422 time for both proxy and server auth which of course was wrong.
1424 Daniel Stenberg (23 Feb 2009)
1425 - After a bug reported by James Cheng I've made curl_easy_getinfo() for
1426 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD return
1427 -1 if the sizes aren't know. Previously these returned 0, make it impossible
1428 to detect the difference between actually zero and unknown.
1430 Yang Tse (23 Feb 2009)
1431 - Daniel Johnson provided a shell script that will perform all the steps needed
1432 to build a Mac OS X fat ppc/i386 or ppc64/x86_64 libcurl.framework
1434 Daniel Stenberg (23 Feb 2009)
1435 - I renamed everything in the windows builds files that used the name 'curllib'
1436 to the proper 'libcurl' as clearly this caused confusion.
1438 Yang Tse (20 Feb 2009)
1439 - Do not halt compilation when using VS2008 to build a Windows 2000 target.
1441 Daniel Stenberg (20 Feb 2009)
1442 - Linus Nielsen Feltzing reported and helped me repeat and fix a problem with
1443 FTP with the multi interface: when a transfer fails, like when aborted by a
1444 write callback, the control connection was wrongly closed and thus not
1447 This change is also an attempt to cleanup the code somewhat in this area, as
1448 now the FTP code attempts to keep (better) track on pending responses
1449 necessary to get read in ftp_done().
1451 Daniel Stenberg (19 Feb 2009)
1452 - Patrik Thunstrom reported a problem and helped me repeat it. It turned out
1453 libcurl did a superfluous 1000ms wait when doing SFTP downloads!
1455 We read data with libssh2 while doing the "DO" operation for SFTP and then
1456 when we were about to start getting data for the actual file part, the
1457 "TRANSFER" part, we waited for socket action (in 1000ms) before doing a
1458 libssh2-read. But in this case libssh2 had already read and buffered the
1459 data so we ended up always just waiting 1000ms before we get working on the
1462 Patrick Monnerat (18 Feb 2009)
1463 - FTP downloads (i.e.: RETR) ending with code 550 now return error
1464 CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_NOT_FOUND instead of CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE.
1466 Daniel Stenberg (17 Feb 2009)
1467 - Kamil Dudka made NSS-powered builds compile and run again!
1469 - A second follow-up change by Andre Guibert de Bruet to fix a related memory
1470 leak like that fixed on the 14th. When zlib returns failure, we need to
1471 cleanup properly before returning error.
1473 - CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS can now be set to 2 in addition to 1 for
1474 plain FTP connections, and it will then allow MKD to fail once and retry the
1475 CWD afterwards. This is especially useful if you're doing many simultanoes
1476 connections against the same server and they all have this option enabled,
1477 as then CWD may first fail but then another connection does MKD before this
1478 connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works! The numbers can
1479 (should?) now be set with the convenience enums now called
1480 CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR and CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY.
1482 Tests has proven that if you're making an application that uploads a set of
1483 files to an ftp server, you will get a noticable gain in speed if you're
1484 using multiple connections and this option will be then be very useful.
1486 Daniel Stenberg (14 Feb 2009)
1487 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a memory leak in the content encoding
1488 code, which could happen on libz errors.
1490 Daniel Fandrich (12 Feb 2009)
1491 - Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication using GnuTLS.
1493 Daniel Stenberg (11 Feb 2009)
1494 - CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET was added to allow an application to get to know if
1495 the condition in the previous request was unmet. This is typically a time
1496 condition set with CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION and was previously not possible to
1497 reliably figure out. From bug report #2565128
1498 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2565128) filed by Jocelyn Jaubert.
1500 Daniel Fandrich (4 Feb 2009)
1501 - Don't add the standard /usr/lib or /usr/include paths to LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
1502 (respectively) when --with-ssl=/usr is used (patch based on FreeBSD).
1504 - Added an explicit buffer limit check in msdosify() (patch based on FreeBSD).
1505 This couldn't ever overflow in curl, but might if the code were used
1506 elsewhere or under different conditions.
1508 Daniel Stenberg (3 Feb 2009)
1509 - Hidemoto Nakada provided a small fix that makes it possible to get the
1510 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD size from file:// "transfers" with
1511 CURLOPT_NOBODY set true.
1513 Daniel Stenberg (2 Feb 2009)
1514 - Patrick Scott found a rather large memory leak when using the multi
1515 interface and setting CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS to something less than the number
1516 of handles you add to the multi handle. All the connections that didn't fit
1517 in the cache would not be properly disconnected nor freed!
1519 - Craig A West brought us: libcurl now defaults to do CONNECT with HTTP
1520 version 1.1 instead of 1.0 like before. This change also introduces the new
1521 proxy type for libcurl called 'CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0' that then allows apps to
1522 switch (back) to CONNECT 1.0 requests. The curl tool also got a --proxy1.0
1523 option that works exactly like --proxy but sets CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0.
1525 I updated all test cases cases that use CONNECT and I tried to do some using
1526 --proxy1.0 and some updated to do CONNECT 1.1 to get both versions run.
1528 Daniel Stenberg (31 Jan 2009)
1529 - When building with c-ares 1.6.1 (not yet released) or later and IPv6 support
1530 enabled, we can now take advantage of its brand new AF_UNSPEC support in
1531 ares_gethostbyname(). This makes test case 241 finally run fine for me with
1532 this setup since it now parses the "::1 ip6-localhost" line fine in my
1535 Daniel Stenberg (30 Jan 2009)
1536 - Scott Cantor filed bug report #2550061
1537 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2550061) mentioning that I failed to
1538 properly make sure that the VC9 makefiles got included in the latest
1539 release. I've now fixed the release script and verified it so next release
1540 will hopefully include them properly!
1542 Daniel Fandrich (30 Jan 2009)
1543 - Fixed --disable-proxy for FTP and SOCKS. Thanks to Daniel Egger for
1546 Yang Tse (29 Jan 2009)
1547 - Introduced curl_sspi.c and curl_sspi.h for the implementation of functions
1548 Curl_sspi_global_init() and Curl_sspi_global_cleanup() which previously were
1549 named Curl_ntlm_global_init() and Curl_ntlm_global_cleanup() in http_ntlm.c
1550 Also adjusted socks_sspi.c to remove the link-time dependency on the Windows
1551 SSPI library using it now in the same way as it was done in http_ntlm.c.
1553 Daniel Stenberg (28 Jan 2009)
1554 - Markus Moeller introduced two new options to libcurl:
1555 CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE and CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC to allow libcurl
1556 to do GSS-style authentication with SOCKS5 proxies. The curl tool got the
1557 options called --socks5-gssapi-service and --socks5-gssapi-nec to enable
1560 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jan 2009)
1561 - Chad Monroe provided the new CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE option that allows an app
1562 to set desired block size to use for TFTP transfers instead of the default
1565 - The "-no_ticket" option was introduced in Openssl0.9.8j. It's a flag to
1566 disable "rfc4507bis session ticket support". rfc4507bis was later turned
1567 into the proper RFC5077 it seems: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077
1569 The enabled extension concerns the session management. I wonder how often
1570 libcurl stops a connection and then resumes a TLS session. also, sending the
1571 session data is some overhead. .I suggest that you just use your proposed
1572 patch (which explicitly disables TICKET).
1574 If someone writes an application with libcurl and openssl who wants to
1575 enable the feature, one can do this in the SSL callback.
1577 Sharad Gupta brought this to my attention. Peter Sylvester helped me decide
1578 on the proper action.
1580 - Alexey Borzov filed bug report #2535504
1581 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2535504) pointing out that realms with
1582 quoted quotation marks in HTTP Digest headers didn't work. I've now added
1583 test case 1095 that verifies my fix.
1585 - Craig A West brought CURLOPT_NOPROXY and the corresponding --noproxy option.
1586 They basically offer the same thing the NO_PROXY environment variable only
1587 offered previously: list a set of host names that shall not use the proxy
1588 even if one is specified.
1590 Daniel Fandrich (20 Jan 2009)
1591 - Call setlocale() for libtest tests to test the effects of locale-induced
1592 libc changes on libcurl.
1594 - Fixed a couple more locale-dependent toupper conversions, mainly for
1595 clarity. This does fix one problem that causes ;type=i FTP URLs
1596 to fail in the Turkish locale when CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE is
1597 used (test case 561)
1599 - Added tests 561 and 1091 through 1094 to test various combinations
1600 of ;type= and ;mode= URLs that could potentially fail in the Turkish
1603 Daniel Stenberg (20 Jan 2009)
1604 - Lisa Xu pointed out that the ssh.obj file was missing from the
1605 lib/Makefile.vc6 file (and thus from the vc8 and vc9 ones too).
1607 Version 7.19.3 (19 January 2009)
1609 Daniel Stenberg (16 Jan 2009)
1610 - Andrew de los Reyes fixed curlbuild.h for "generic" gcc builds on PPC, both
1613 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 2009)
1614 - Tim Ansell fixed a compiler warning in lib/cookie.c
1616 Daniel Stenberg (14 Jan 2009)
1617 - Grant Erickson fixed timeouts for TFTP such that specifying a
1618 connect-timeout, a max-time or both options work correctly and as expected
1619 by passing the correct boolean value to Curl_timeleft via the
1620 'duringconnect' parameter.
1622 With this small change, curl TFTP now behaves as expected (and likely as
1623 originally-designed):
1625 1) For non-existent or unreachable dotted IP addresses:
1627 a) With no options, follows the default curl 300s timeout...
1628 b) With --connect-timeout only, follows that value...
1629 c) With --max-time only, follows that value...
1630 d) With both --connect-timeout and --max-time, follows the smaller value...
1632 and times out with a "curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server" error.
1634 2) For transfers to/from a valid host:
1636 a) With no options, follows default curl 300s timeout for the
1637 first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the default TFTP 3600s
1638 timeout for the remainder of the transfer...
1640 b) With --connect-time only, follows that value for the
1641 first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the default TFTP 3600s
1642 timeout for the remainder of the transfer...
1644 c) With --max-time only, follows that value for the first
1645 XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and for the remainder of the
1648 d) With both --connect-timeout and --max-time, follows the former
1649 for the first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the latter for the
1650 remainder of the transfer...
1652 and times out with a "curl: (28) Timeout was reached" error as
1655 Daniel Stenberg (13 Jan 2009)
1656 - Michael Wallner fixed a NULL pointer deref when calling
1657 curl_easy_setup(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, "SESS") on a CURL handle with no
1660 - Stefan Teleman brought a patch to fix the default curlbuild.h file for the
1663 Daniel Stenberg (12 Jan 2009)
1664 - Based on bug report #2498665 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2498665)
1665 by Daniel Black, I've now added magic to the configure script that makes it
1666 use pkg-config to detect gnutls details as well if the existing method
1667 (using libgnutls-config) fails. While doing this, I cleaned up and unified
1668 the pkg-config usage when detecting openssl and nss as well.
1670 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 2009)
1671 - Karl Moerder brought the patch that creates vc9 Makefiles, and I made
1672 'maketgz' now use the actual makefile targets to do the VC8 and VC9
1675 Daniel Stenberg (10 Jan 2009)
1676 - Emil Romanus fixed:
1678 When using the multi interface over HTTP and the server returns a Location
1679 header, the running easy handle will get stuck in the CURLM_STATE_PERFORM
1680 state, leaving the external event loop stuck waiting for data from the
1681 ingoing socket (when using the curl_multi_socket_action stuff). While this
1682 bug was pretty hard to find, it seems to require only a one-line fix. The
1683 break statement on line 1374 in multi.c caused the function to skip the call
1686 How to reproduce this bug? Well, that's another question. evhiperfifo.c in
1687 the examples directory chokes on this bug only _sometimes_, probably
1688 depending on how fast the URLs are added. One way of testing the bug out is
1689 writing to hiper.fifo from more than one source at the same time.
1691 Daniel Fandrich (7 Jan 2009)
1692 - Unified much of the SessionHandle initialization done in Curl_open() and
1693 curl_easy_reset() by creating Curl_init_userdefined(). This had the side
1694 effect of fixing curl_easy_reset() so it now also resets
1695 CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD and CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE
1697 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 2009)
1698 - Rob Crittenden did once again provide an NSS update:
1700 I have to jump through a few hoops now with the NSS library initialization
1701 since another part of an application may have already initialized NSS by the
1702 time Curl gets invoked. This patch is more careful to only shutdown the NSS
1703 library if Curl did the initialization.
1705 It also adds in a bit of code to set the default ciphers if the app that
1706 call NSS_Init* did not call NSS_SetDomesticPolicy() or set specific
1707 ciphers. One might argue that this lets other application developers get
1708 lazy and/or they aren't using the NSS API correctly, and you'd be right.
1709 But still, this will avoid terribly difficult-to-trace crashes and is
1712 Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2009)
1713 - 'reconf' is removed since we rather have users use 'buildconf'
1715 Daniel Stenberg (31 Dec 2008)
1716 - Bas Mevissen reported http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2479030 pointing
1717 out that 'reconf' didn't properly point out the m4 subdirectory when running
1720 Daniel Stenberg (29 Dec 2008)
1721 - Phil Lisiecki filed bug report #2413067
1722 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2413067) that identified a problem that
1723 would cause libcurl to mark a DNS cache entry "in use" eternally if the
1724 subsequence TCP connect failed. It would thus never get pruned and refreshed
1725 as it should've been.
1727 Phil provided his own patch to this problem that while it seemed to work
1728 wasn't complete and thus I wrote my own fix to the problem.
1730 Daniel Stenberg (28 Dec 2008)
1731 - Peter Korsgaard fixed building libcurl with "configure --with-ssl
1734 - Anthony Bryan fixed more language and spelling flaws in man pages.
1736 Daniel Stenberg (22 Dec 2008)
1737 - Given a recent enough libssh2, libcurl can now seek/resume with SFTP even
1738 on file indexes beyond 2 or 4GB.
1740 - Anthony Bryan provided a set of patches that cleaned up manual language,
1741 corrected spellings and more.
1743 Daniel Stenberg (20 Dec 2008)
1744 - Igor Novoseltsev fixed a bad situation for the multi_socket() API when doing
1745 pipelining, as libcurl could then easily get confused and A) work on the
1746 handle that was not "first in queue" on a pipeline, or even B) tell the app
1747 to REMOVE a socket while it was in use by a second handle in a pipeline. Both
1748 errors caused hanging or stalling applications.
1750 Daniel Stenberg (19 Dec 2008)
1751 - curl_multi_timeout() could return a timeout value of 0 even though nothing
1752 was actually ready to get done, as the internal time resolution is higher
1753 than the returned millisecond timer. Therefore it could cause applications
1754 running on fast processors to do short bursts of busy-loops.
1755 curl_multi_timeout() will now only return 0 if the timeout is actually
1758 - Using the libssh2 0.19 function libssh2_session_block_directions(), libcurl
1759 now has an improved ability to do right when the multi interface (both
1760 "regular" and multi_socket) is used for SCP and SFTP transfers. This should
1761 result in (much) less busy-loop situations and thus less CPU usage with no
1764 Daniel Stenberg (17 Dec 2008)
1765 - SCP and SFTP with the multi interface had the same flaw: the 'DONE'
1766 operation didn't complete properly if the EAGAIN equivalent was returned but
1767 libcurl would simply continue with a half-completed close operation
1768 performed. This ruined persistent connection re-use and cause some
1769 SSH-protocol errors in general. The correction is unfortunately adding a
1770 blocking function - doing it entirely non-blocking should be considered for
1773 Gisle Vanem (16 Dec 2008)
1774 - Added the possibility to use the Watt-32 tcp/ip stack under Windows.
1775 The change simply involved adding a USE_WATT32 section in the
1776 config-win32.h files (under ./lib and ./src). This section disables
1777 the use of any Winsock headers.
1779 Daniel Stenberg (16 Dec 2008)
1780 - libssh2_sftp_last_error() was wrongly used at some places in libcurl which
1781 made libcurl sometimes not properly abort problematic SFTP transfers.
1783 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2008)
1784 - More work with Igor Novoseltsev to first fix the remaining stuff for
1785 removing easy handles from multi handles when the easy handle is/was within
1786 a HTTP pipeline. His bug report #2351653
1787 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2351653) was also related and was
1788 eventually fixed by a patch by Igor himself.
1790 Yang Tse (12 Dec 2008)
1791 - Patrick Monnerat fixed a build regression, introduced in 7.19.2, affecting
1792 OS/400 compilations with IPv6 enabled.
1794 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2008)
1795 - Mark Karpeles filed bug report #2416182 titled "crash in ConnectionExists
1796 when using duphandle+curl_mutli"
1797 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2416182) which showed that
1798 curl_easy_duphandle() wrongly also copied the pointer to the connection
1799 cache, which was plain wrong and caused a segfault if the handle would be
1800 used in a different multi handle than the handle it was duplicated from.
1802 Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
1803 - Keshav Krity found out that libcurl failed to deal with dotted IPv6
1804 addresses if they were very long (>39 letters) due to a too strict address
1805 validity parser. It now accepts addresses up to 45 bytes long.
1807 Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
1808 - Internet Explorer had a broken HTTP digest authentication before v7 and
1809 there are servers "out there" that relies on the client doing this broken
1810 Digest authentication. Apache even comes with an option to work with such
1813 The difference is only for URLs that contain a query-part (a '?'-letter and
1814 text to the right of it).
1816 libcurl now supports this quirk, and you enable it by setting the
1817 CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit in the bitmask you pass to the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH or
1818 CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH options. They are thus individually controlled to server
1821 (note that there's no way to activate this with the curl tool yet)
1823 Daniel Fandrich (9 Dec 2008)
1824 - Added test cases 1089 and 1090 to test --write-out after a redirect to
1825 test a report that the size didn't work, but these test cases pass.
1827 - Documented CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY as being useful only on HTTP URLs.
1829 Daniel Stenberg (9 Dec 2008)
1830 - Ken Hirsch simplified how libcurl does FTPS: now it doesn't assume any
1831 particular state for the control connection like it did before for implicit
1832 FTPS (libcurl assumed such control connections to be encrypted while some
1833 FTPS servers such as FileZilla assumes such connections to be clear
1834 mode). Use the CURLOPT_USE_SSL option to set your desired level.
1836 Daniel Stenberg (8 Dec 2008)
1837 - Fred Machado posted about a weird FTP problem on the curl-users list and when
1838 researching it, it turned out he got a 550 response back from a SIZE command
1839 and then I fell over the text in RFC3659 that says:
1841 The presence of the 550 error response to a SIZE command MUST NOT be taken
1842 by the client as an indication that the file cannot be transferred in the
1843 current MODE and TYPE.
1845 In other words: the change I did on September 30th 2008 and that has been
1846 included in the last two releases were a regression and a bad idea. We MUST
1847 NOT take a 550 response from SIZE as a hint that the file doesn't exist.
1849 - Christian Krause filed bug #2221237
1850 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2221237) that identified an infinite
1851 loop during GSS authentication given some specific conditions. With his
1852 patience and great feedback I managed to narrow down the problem and
1853 eventually fix it although I can't test any of this myself!
1855 Daniel Fandrich (3 Dec 2008)
1856 - Fixed the getifaddrs version of Curl_if2ip to work on systems without IPv6
1857 support (e.g. Minix)
1859 Daniel Stenberg (3 Dec 2008)
1860 - Igor Novoseltsev filed bug #2351645
1861 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2351645) that identified a problem with
1862 the multi interface that occured if you removed an easy handle while in
1863 progress and the handle was used in a HTTP pipeline.
1865 - Pawel Kierski pointed out a mistake in the cookie code that could lead to a
1866 bad fclose() after a fatal error had occured.
1867 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2382219)
1869 Daniel Fandrich (25 Nov 2008)
1870 - If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, the HTTP test
1871 server adds 1 to num to get the data section to return. This allows
1872 testing authentication negotiations using the Basic authentication
1875 - Added tests 1087 and 1088 to test Basic authentication on a redirect
1876 with and without --location-trusted
1878 Daniel Stenberg (24 Nov 2008)
1879 - Based on a patch by Vlad Grachov, libcurl now uses a new libssh2 0.19
1880 function when built to support SCP and SFTP that helps the library to know
1881 in which direction a particular libssh2 operation would return EAGAIN so
1882 that libcurl knows what socket conditions to wait for before trying the
1883 function call again. Previously (and still when using libssh2 0.18 or
1884 earlier), libcurl will busy-loop in this situation when the easy interface
1887 Daniel Fandrich (20 Nov 2008)
1888 - Automatically detect OpenBSD's CA cert bundle.
1890 Daniel Stenberg (19 Nov 2008)
1891 - I removed the default use of "Pragma: no-cache" from libcurl when a proxy is
1892 used. It has been used since forever but it was never a good idea to use
1893 unless explicitly asked for.
1895 - Josef Wolf's extension that allows a $TESTDIR/gdbinit$testnum file that when
1896 you use runtests.pl -g, will be sourced by gdb to allow additional fancy or
1897 whatever you see fit
1899 - Christian Krause reported and fixed a memory leak that would occur with HTTP
1900 GSS/kerberos authentication (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2284386)
1902 - Andreas Wurf and Markus Koetter helped me analyze a problem that Andreas got
1903 when uploading files to a single FTP server using multiple easy handle
1904 handles with the multi interface. Occasionally a handle would stall in
1907 The problem turned out to be a side-effect of the ConnectionExists()
1908 function's eagerness to re-use a handle for HTTP pipelining so it would
1909 select it even if already being in use, due to an inadequate check for its
1910 chances of being used for pipelnining.
1912 Daniel Fandrich (17 Nov 2008)
1913 - Added more compiler warning options for gcc 4.3
1915 Yang Tse (17 Nov 2008)
1916 - Fix a remaining problem in the inet_pton() runtime configure check. And
1917 fix internal Curl_inet_pton() failures to reject certain malformed literals.
1919 - Make configure script check if ioctl with the SIOCGIFADDR command can be
1920 used, and define HAVE_IOCTL_SIOCGIFADDR if appropriate.
1922 Daniel Stenberg (16 Nov 2008)
1923 - Christian Krause fixed a build failure when building with gss support
1924 enabled and FTP disabled.
1926 - Added check for NULL returns from strdup() in src/main.c and lib/formdata.c
1927 - reported by Jim Meyering also prevent buffer overflow on MSDOS when you do
1928 for example -O on a url with a file name part longer than PATH_MAX letters
1930 - lib/nss.c fixes based on the report by Jim Meyering: I went over and added
1931 checks for return codes for all calls to malloc and strdup that were
1932 missing. I also changed a few malloc(13) to use arrays on the stack and a
1933 few malloc(PATH_MAX) to instead use aprintf() to lower memory use.
1935 - I fixed a memory leak in Curl_nss_connect() when CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT is
1938 Daniel Fandrich (14 Nov 2008)
1939 - Added .xml as one of the few common file extensions known by the multipart
1942 - Added some #ifdefs around header files and change the EAGAIN test to
1943 fix compilation on Cell (reported by Jeff Curley).
1945 Yang Tse (14 Nov 2008)
1946 - Fixed several configure script issues affecting checks for inet_ntoa_r(),
1947 inet_ntop(), inet_pton(), getifaddrs(), fcntl() and getaddrinfo().
1949 Yang Tse (13 Nov 2008)
1950 - Refactored configure script detection of functions used to set sockets into
1951 non-blocking mode, and decouple function detection from function capability.