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9 Daniel Stenberg (12 May 2010)
10 - Howard Chu brought support for RTMP. This is powered by the underlying
11 librtmp library. It supports a range of variations and "sub-protocols"
12 within the RTMP family.
14 - Pavel Raiskup brought support for FTP directory wildcard matching to allow
15 selective downloading. To provide that, a set of new options were added:
18 CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION
19 CURLOPT_CHUNK_END_FUNCTION
21 CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION
23 There were also a set of new tests added (574 - 577) to verify this.
25 Kamil Dudka (11 May 2010)
26 - CRL support in libcurl-NSS has been completely broken. Now it works. Original
27 bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/581926
29 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2010)
30 - Dirk Manske reported a regression. When connecting with the multi interface,
31 there were situations where libcurl wouldn't store connect time correctly as
32 it used to (and is documented to) do.
34 Using his fine sample program we could repeat it, and I wrote up test case
35 573 using that code. The problem does not easily show itself using the local
38 The fix, also as suggested by Dirk, is a bit on the ugly side as it adds yet
39 another call to Curl_verboseconnect() and setting the TIMER_CONNECT time.
40 That situation is subject for some closer inspection in the future.
42 - Howard Chu split the I/O handling functions into private handlers.
44 Howard Chu brought the bulk work of this patch that properly moves out the
45 sending and recving of data to the parts of the code that are properly
46 responsible for the various ways of doing so.
48 Daniel Stenberg assisted with polishing a few bits and fixed some minor
49 flaws in the original patch.
51 Another upside of this patch is that we now abuse CURLcodes less with the
52 "magic" -1 return codes and instead use CURLE_AGAIN more consistently.
54 Daniel Stenberg (5 May 2010)
55 - Hoi-Ho Chan introduced support for using the PolarSSL library. You control
56 this with the new configure option --with-polarssl.
58 Daniel Stenberg (29 Apr 2010)
59 - Ben Greear made telnet a lot better/easier to use by an application:
61 The main change is to allow input from user-specified methods, when they are
62 specified with CURLOPT_READFUNCTION. All calls to fflush(stdout) in
63 telnet.c were removed, which makes using 'curl telnet://foo.com' painful
64 since prompts and other data are not always returned to the user promptly.
65 Use 'curl --no-buffer telnet://foo.com' instead. In general, the user
66 should have their CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION do a fflush for interactive use.
68 Also fix assumption that reading from stdin never returns < 0.
69 Old code could crash in that case.
71 Call progress functions in telnet main loop.
73 Daniel Stenberg (26 Apr 2010)
74 - Make use of the libssh2_init/exit functions that libssh2 added in version
75 1.2.5. Using them will improve how libcurl works in threaded situations when
76 SCP and SFTP are transfered.
78 Daniel Stenberg (25 Apr 2010)
79 - Based on work by Kamil Dudka, I've introduced the new configure option
80 --enable-threaded-resolver. When used, the configure script will check for
81 pthreads and if around, it will build libcurl to use pthreads to do name
82 resolving in a threaded manner. Note that this is just a fix to offer an
83 option that can enable the code that already included. The threader resolver
84 code was mostly added on Jan 26 2010.
86 Daniel Stenberg (24 Apr 2010)
87 - Alex Bligh introduced the --proto and -proto-redir options that limit what
88 protocols curl accepts for the requests and when following redirects.
90 Kamil Dudka (24 Apr 2010)
91 - Fixed test536 in order to not fail with threaded DNS resolver and tweaked
92 comments in certain examples using curl_multi_fdset().
94 - Fixed SSL handshake timeout underflow in libcurl-NSS, which caused test405
95 to hang on a slow machine.
97 Daniel Stenberg (21 Apr 2010)
98 - The -O option caused curl to crash on windows and DOS due to the tool
99 writing out of boundary memory.
101 Yang Tse (20 Apr 2010)
102 - Ruslan Gazizov detected that MSVC makefiles were using wsock32.lib instead
103 of ws2_32.lib, this generated linking issues on MSVC IPv6 enabled builds
104 that were done using those makefiles.
106 Daniel Stenberg (19 Apr 2010)
107 - -J/--remote-header-name didn't strip trailing carriage returns or linefeeds
108 properly, so they could be used in the file name.
110 Daniel Stenberg (16 Apr 2010)
111 - Jerome Vouillon made the GnuTLS SSL handshake phase non-blocking.
113 - The recent overhaul of the SSL recv function made the GnuTLS specific code
114 treat a zero returned from gnutls_record_recv() as an error, and this caused
115 our HTTPS test cases to fail. We leave it to upper layer code to detect if
116 an EOF is a problem or not.
118 - I reverted the resolver fix from yesterday and instead removed all uses of
119 AI_CANONNAME all over libcurl and made the only user of that info (krb5.c)
120 use the host name from the URL instead. No reverse resolving is a good
123 - Paul Howarth made configure properly detect GSS "on ancient Linux distros"
124 by editing in which order we use headers to detect GSS.
126 Daniel Stenberg (15 Apr 2010)
127 - Rainer Canavan filed bug report #2987196 that identified libcurl doing
128 unnecesary reverse name lookups in many cases when built to use IPv4 and
129 getaddrinfo(). The logic for ipv6 is now used for ipv4 too.
131 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2963679)
133 Version 7.20.1 (14 April 2010)
135 Daniel Stenberg (9 Apr 2010)
136 - Prefixing the FTP quote commands with an asterisk really only worked for the
137 postquote actions. This is now fixed and test case 227 has been extended to
140 Kamil Dudka (4 Apr 2010)
141 - Eliminated a race condition in Curl_resolv_timeout().
143 - Refactorized interface of Curl_ssl_recv()/Curl_ssl_send().
145 - libcurl-NSS now provides more accurate messages and error codes in case of
146 client certificate problem. Either during connection, or transfer phase.
148 Daniel Stenberg (1 Apr 2010)
149 - Matt Wixson found and fixed a bug in the SCP/SFTP area where the code
150 treated a 0 return code from libssh2 to be the same as EAGAIN while in
151 reality it isn't. The problem caused a hang in SFTP transfers from a
154 Daniel Stenberg (28 Mar 2010)
155 - Ben Greear: If you pass a URL to pop3 that does not contain a message ID as
156 part of the URL, it would previously ask for 'INBOX' which just causes the
157 pop3 server to return an error.
159 Now libcurl treats en empty message ID as a request for LIST (list of pop3
160 message IDs). User's code could then parse this and download individual
163 Daniel Stenberg (27 Mar 2010)
164 - Ben Greear brought a patch that from now on allows all protocols to specify
165 name and user within the URL, in the same manner HTTP and FTP have been
166 allowed to in the past - although far from all of the libcurl supported
167 protocls actually have that feature in their URL definition spec.
169 Daniel Stenberg (26 Mar 2010)
170 - Ben Greear brought code that makes the rate limiting code for the easy
171 interface a bit smoother as it introduces sub-second sleeps during it and it
172 also takes the buffer sizes into account.
174 Daniel Stenberg (24 Mar 2010)
175 - Bob Richmond: There's an annoying situation where libcurl will read new HTTP
176 response data from a socket, then check if it's a timeout if one is set. If
177 the last packet received constitutes the end of the response body, libcurl
178 still treats it as a timeout condition and reports a message like:
180 "Operation timed out after 3000 milliseconds with 876 out of 876 bytes
183 It should only a timeout if the timer lapsed and we DIDN'T receive the end
184 of the response body yet.
186 - Christopher Conroy fixed a problem with RTSP and GET_PARAMETER reported
187 to us by Massimo Callegari. There's a new test case 572 that verifies this
190 - The 'ares' subtree has been removed from the source repository. It was
191 always a separate project that sort of piggybacked on the curl project since
192 the dawn of times and now the time has come for it to go stand on its own
193 legs and continue living its own life. All details on c-ares and its new
194 source code repository is found at http://c-ares.haxx.se/
196 Daniel Stenberg (23 Mar 2010)
197 - Kenny To filed the bug report #2963679 with patch to fix a problem he
198 experienced with doing multi interface HTTP POST over a proxy using
199 PROXYTUNNEL. He found a case where it would connect fine but bits.tcpconnect
200 was not set correct so libcurl didn't work properly.
202 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2963679)
204 - Akos Pasztory filed debian bug report #572276
205 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572276 mentioning a problem
206 with a resource that returns chunked-encoded _and_ with a Content-Length
207 and libcurl failed to properly ignore the latter information.
209 - Hauke Duden provided an example program that made the multi interface crash.
210 His example simply used the multi interface and did first one FTP transfer
211 and after completion it used a second easy handle and did another FTP
212 transfer on the same FTP server.
214 This triggered a bug in the "delayed easy handle kill" system that curl
215 uses: when an FTP connection is left alive it must keep an easy handle
216 around internally - only for the purpose of having an easy handle when it
217 later disconnects it. The code assumed that when the easy handle was removed
218 and an internal reference was made, that version could be killed later on
219 when a new easy handle came using the same connection. This was wrong as
220 Hauke's example showed that the removed handle wasn't killed for real until
221 later. This caused a double close attempt => segfault.
223 Daniel Stenberg (22 Mar 2010)
224 - Thomas Lopatic fixed the alarm()-based DNS timeout:
226 Looking at the code of Curl_resolv_timeout() in hostip.c, I think that in
227 case of a timeout, the signal handler for SIGALRM never gets removed. I
228 think that in my case it gets executed at some point later on when execution
229 has long left Curl_resolv_timeout() or even the cURL library.
231 The code that is jumped to with siglongjmp() simply sets the error message
232 to "name lookup timed out" and then returns with CURLRESOLV_ERROR. I guess
233 that instead of simply returning without cleaning up, the code should have a
234 goto that jumps to the spot right after the call to Curl_resolv().
236 Kamil Dudka (22 Mar 2010)
237 - Douglas Steinwand contributed a patch fixing insufficient initialization in
238 Curl_clone_ssl_config()
240 Daniel Stenberg (21 Mar 2010)
241 - Ben Greear improved TFTP: the error code returning and the treatment
242 of TSIZE == 0 when uploading.
244 - We've switched from CVS to git. See http://curl.haxx.se/source.html
246 Kamil Dudka (19 Mar 2010)
247 - Improved Curl_read() to not ignore the error returned from Curl_ssl_recv().
249 Daniel Stenberg (15 Mar 2010)
250 - Constantine Sapuntzakis brought a patch:
252 The problem mentioned on Dec 10 2009
253 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2905220) was only partially fixed.
254 Partially because an easy handle can be associated with many connections in
255 the cache (e.g. if there is a redirect during the lifetime of the easy
256 handle). The previous patch only cleaned up the first one. The new fix now
257 removes the easy handle from all connections, not just the first one.
259 Daniel Stenberg (6 Mar 2010)
260 - Ben Greear brought a patch that fixed the rate limiting logic for TFTP when
261 the easy interface was used.
263 Daniel Stenberg (5 Mar 2010)
264 - Daniel Johnson provided fixes for building curl with the clang compiler.
266 Yang Tse (5 Mar 2010)
267 - Constantine Sapuntzakis detected and fixed a double free in builds done
268 with threaded resolver enabled (Windows default configuration) that would
269 get triggered when a curl handle is closed while doing DNS resolution.
271 Daniel Stenberg (2 Mar 2010)
272 - [Daniel Johnson] I've been trying to build libcurl with clang on Darwin and
273 ran into some issues with the GSSAPI tests in configure.ac. The tests first
274 try to determine the include dirs and libs and set CPPFLAGS and LIBS
275 accordingly. It then checks for the headers and finally sets LIBS a second
276 time, causing the libs to be included twice. The first setting of LIBS seems
277 redundant and should be left out, since the first part is otherwise just
278 about finding headers.
280 My second issue is that 'krb5-config --libs gssapi' on Darwin is less than
281 useless and returns junk that, while it happens to work with gcc, causes
282 clang to choke. For example, --libs returns $CFLAGS along with the libs,
283 which is really retarded. Simply setting 'LIBS="$LIBS -lgssapi_krb5
284 -lresolv"' on Darwin is sufficient.
286 - Based on patch provided by Jacob Moshenko, the transfer logic now properly
287 makes sure that when using sub-second timeouts, there's no final bad 1000ms
288 wait. Previously, a sub-second timeout would often make the elapsed time end
289 up the time rounded up to the nearest second (e.g. 1s for 200ms timeout)
291 - Andrei Benea filed bug report #2956698 and pointed out that the
292 CURLOPT_CERTINFO feature leaked memory due to a missing OpenSSL function
293 call. He provided the patch to fix it too.
295 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2956698
297 - Markus Duft pointed out in bug #2961796 that even though Interix has a
298 poll() function it doesn't quite work the way we want it so we must disable
299 it, and he also provided a patch for it.
301 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2961796
303 - Made the pingpong timeout code properly deal with the response timeout AND
304 the global timeout if set. Also, as was reported in the bug report #2956437
305 by Ryan Chan, the time stamp to use as basis for the per command timeout was
306 not set properly in the DONE phase for FTP (and not for SMTP) so I fixed
307 that just now. This was a regression compared to 7.19.7 due to the
308 conversion of FTP code over to the generic pingpong concepts.
310 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2956437
312 Daniel Stenberg (1 Mar 2010)
313 - Ben Greear provided an update for TFTP that fixes upload.
315 - Wesley Miaw reported bug #2958179 which identified a case of looping during
316 OpenSSL based SSL handshaking even though the multi interface was used and
317 there was no good reason for it.
319 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2958179
321 Daniel Stenberg (26 Feb 2010)
322 - Pat Ray in bug #2958474 pointed out an off-by-one case when receiving a
323 chunked-encoding trailer.
325 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2958474
327 Daniel Fandrich (25 Feb 2010)
328 - Fixed a couple of out of memory leaks and a segfault in the SMTP & IMAP code.
330 Yang Tse (25 Feb 2010)
331 - I fixed bug report #2958074 indicating
332 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2958074) that curl on Windows with
333 option --trace-time did not use local time when timestamping trace lines.
334 This could also happen on other systems depending on time souurce.
336 Patrick Monnerat (22 Feb 2010)
337 - Proper handling of STARTTLS on SMTP, taking CURLUSESSL_TRY into account.
338 - SMTP falls back to RFC821 HELO when EHLO fails (and SSL is not required).
339 - Use of true local host name (i.e.: via gethostname()) when available, as
340 default argument to SMTP HELO/EHLO.
341 - Test case 804 for HELO fallback.
343 Daniel Stenberg (20 Feb 2010)
344 - Fixed the SMTP compliance by making sure RCPT TO addresses are specified
345 properly in angle brackets. Recipients provided with CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT now
346 get angle bracket wrapping automatically by libcurl unless the recipient
347 starts with an angle bracket as then the app is assumed to deal with that
350 - I made the SMTP code expect a 250 response back from the server after the
351 full DATA has been sent, and I modified the test SMTP server to also send
352 that response. As usual, the DONE operation that is made after a completed
353 transfer is still not doable in a non-blocking way so this waiting for 250
354 is unfortunately made blockingly.
356 Yang Tse (14 Feb 2010)
357 - Overhauled test suite getpart() function. Fixing potential out of bounds
358 stack and memory overwrites triggered with huge test case definitions.
360 Daniel Stenberg (13 Feb 2010)
361 - Martin Hager reported and fixed a problem with a missing quote in libcurl.m4
363 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2951319)
365 - Tom Donovan fixed the CURL_FORMAT_* defines when building with cmake.
367 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2951269)
369 Daniel Stenberg (12 Feb 2010)
370 - Jack Zhang reported a problem with SMTP: we wrongly used multiple addresses
371 in the same RCPT TO line, when they should be sent in separate single
372 commands. I updated test case 802 to verify this.
374 - I also fixed a bad use of my_setopt_str() of CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT in the curl
375 tool which made it try to output it as string for the --libcurl feature
376 which could lead to crashes.
378 Yang Tse (11 Feb 2010)
379 - Steven M. Schweda fixed VMS builder bad behavior when used in a batch job,
380 removed obsolete batch_compile.com and defines.com and updated VMS readme.
382 Version 7.20.0 (9 February 2010)
384 Daniel Stenberg (9 Feb 2010)
385 - When downloading compressed content over HTTP and the app asked libcurl to
386 automatically uncompress it with the CURLOPT_ENCODING option, libcurl could
387 wrongly provide the callback with more data than the maximum documented
388 amount. An application could thus get tricked into badness if the maximum
389 limit was trusted to be enforced by libcurl itself (as it is documented).
391 This is further detailed and explained in the libcurl security advisory
394 http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20100209.html
396 Daniel Fandrich (3 Feb 2010)
397 - Changed the Watcom makefiles to make them easier to keep in sync with
398 Makefile.inc since that can't be included directly.
400 Yang Tse (2 Feb 2010)
401 - Symbol CURL_FORMAT_OFF_T now obsoleted, will be removed in a future release,
402 symbol will not be available when building with CURL_NO_OLDIES defined. Use
403 of CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T is preferred since 7.19.0
405 Daniel Stenberg (1 Feb 2010)
406 - Using the multi_socket API, it turns out at times it seemed to "forget"
407 connections (which caused a hang). It turned out to be an existing (7.19.7)
408 bug in libcurl (that's been around for a long time) and it happened like
411 The app calls curl_multi_add_handle() to add a new easy handle, libcurl will
412 then set it to timeout in 1 millisecond so libcurl will tell the app about
415 The app's timeout fires off that there's a timeout, the app calls libcurl as
416 we so often document it:
419 res = curl_multi_socket_action(... TIMEOUT ...);
420 } while(CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM == res);
422 And this is the problem number one:
424 When curl_multi_socket_action() is called with no specific handle, but only
425 a timeout-action, it will *only* perform actions within libcurl that are
426 marked to run at this time. In this case, the request would go from INIT to
427 CONNECT and return CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM. When the app then calls libcurl
428 again, there's no timer set for this handle so it remains in the CONNECT
429 state. The CONNECT state is a transitional state in libcurl so it reports no
430 sockets there, and thus libcurl never tells the app anything more about that
431 easy handle/connection.
433 libcurl _does_ set a 1ms timeout for the handle at the end of
434 multi_runsingle() if it returns CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM, but since the loop
435 is instant the new job is not ready to run at that point (and there's no
436 code that makes libcurl call the app to update the timout for this new
437 timeout). It will simply rely on that some other timeout will trigger later
438 on or that something else will update the timeout callback. This makes the
439 bug fairly hard to repeat.
441 The fix made to adress this issue:
443 We introduce a loop in lib/multi.c around all calls to multi_runsingle() and
444 simply check for CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM internally. This has the added
445 benefit that this goes in line with my long-term wishes to get rid of the
446 CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM all together from the public API.
448 The downside of this fix, is that the counter we return in 'running_handles'
449 in several of our public functions then gets a slightly new and possibly
450 confusing behavior during times:
452 If an app adds a handle that fails to connect (very quickly) it may just
453 as well never appear as a 'running_handle' with this fix. Previously it
454 would first bump the counter only to get it decreased again at next call.
455 Even I have used that change in handle counter to signal "end of a
456 transfer". The only *good* way to find the end of a individual transfer
457 is calling curl_multi_info_read() to see if it returns one.
459 Of course, if the app previously did the looping before it checked the
460 counter, it really shouldn't be any new effect.
462 Yang Tse (26 Jan 2010)
463 - Constantine Sapuntzakis' and Joshua Kwan's work done in the last four months
464 relative to the asynchronous DNS lookups, along with with some integration
465 adjustments I have done are finally committed to CVS.
467 Currently these enhancements will benefit builds done using c-ares on any
468 platform as well as Windows builds using the default threaded resolver.
470 This release does not make generally available POSIX threaded DNS lookups
471 yet. There is no configure option to enable this feature yet. It is possible
472 to experimantally try this feature running configure with compiler flags that
473 make simultaneous definition of preprocessor symbols USE_THREADS_POSIX and
474 HAVE_PTHREAD_H, as well as whatever reentrancy compiler flags and linker ones
475 are required to link and properly use pthread_* functions on each platform.
477 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jan 2010)
478 - Mike Crowe made libcurl return CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY when it is the
479 proxy that cannot be resolved when using c-ares. This matches the behaviour
480 when not using c-ares.
482 Björn Stenberg (23 Jan 2010)
483 - Added a new flag: -J/--remote-header-name. This option tells the
484 -O/--remote-name option to use the server-specified Content-Disposition
485 filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL.
487 Daniel Stenberg (21 Jan 2010)
488 - Chris Conroy brought support for RTSP transfers, and with it comes 8(!) new
489 libcurl options for controlling what to get and how to receive posssibly
490 interleaved RTP data.
492 Daniel Stenberg (20 Jan 2010)
493 - As was pointed out on the http-state mailing list, the order of cookies in a
494 HTTP Cookie: header _needs_ to be sorted on the path length in the cases
495 where two cookies using the same name are set more than once using
496 (overlapping) paths. Realizing this, identically named cookies must be
497 sorted correctly. But detecting only identically named cookies and take care
498 of them individually is harder than just to blindly and unconditionally sort
499 all cookies based on their path lengths. All major browsers also already do
500 this, so this makes our behavior one step closer to them in the cookie area.
502 Test case 8 was the only one that broke due to this change and I updated it
505 Daniel Stenberg (19 Jan 2010)
506 - David McCreedy brought a fix and a new test case (129) to make libcurl work
507 again when downloading files over FTP using ASCII and it turns out that the
508 final size of the file is not the same as the initial size the server
509 reported. This is very common since servers don't take the newline
510 conversions into account.
512 Kamil Dudka (14 Jan 2010)
513 - Suppressed side effect of OpenSSL configure checks, which prevented NSS from
514 being properly detected under certain circumstances. It had been caused by
515 strange behavior of pkg-config when handling PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. pkg-config
516 distinguishes among empty and non-existent environment variable in that case.
518 Daniel Stenberg (12 Jan 2010)
519 - Gil Weber reported a peculiar flaw with the multi interface when doing SFTP
520 transfers: curl_multi_fdset() would return -1 and not set and file
521 descriptors several times during a transfer of a single file. It turned out
522 to be due to two different flaws now fixed. Gil's excellent recipe helped me
525 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 2010)
526 - Made sure that the progress callback is repeatedly called at a regular
527 interval even during very slow connects.
529 - The tests/runtests.pl script now checks to see if the test case that runs is
530 present in the tests/data/Makefile.am and outputs a notice message on the
531 screen if not. Each test file has to be included in that Makefile.am to get
532 included in release archives and forgetting to add files there is a common
533 mistake. This is an attempt to make it harder to forget.
535 Daniel Stenberg (9 Jan 2010)
536 - Johan van Selst found and fixed a OpenSSL session ref count leak:
538 ossl_connect_step3() increments an SSL session handle reference counter on
539 each call. When sessions are re-used this reference counter may be
540 incremented many times, but it will be decremented only once when done (by
541 Curl_ossl_session_free()); and the internal OpenSSL data will not be freed
542 if this reference count remains positive. When a session is re-used the
543 reference counter should be corrected by explicitly calling
544 SSL_SESSION_free() after each consecutive SSL_get1_session() to avoid
545 introducing a memory leak.
547 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2926284)
549 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 2010)
550 - Make sure the progress callback is called repeatedly even during very slow
551 name resolves when c-ares is used for resolving.
553 Claes Jakobsson (6 Jan 2010)
554 - Julien Chaffraix fixed so that the fragment part in an URL is not sent
555 to the server anymore.
557 Kamil Dudka (3 Jan 2010)
558 - Julien Chaffraix eliminated a duplicated initialization in singlesocket().
560 Daniel Stenberg (2 Jan 2010)
561 - Make curl support --ssl and --ssl-reqd instead of the previous FTP-specific
562 versions --ftp-ssl and --ftp-ssl-reqd as these options are now used to
563 control SSL/TLS for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP as well in addition to FTP. The old
564 option names are still working but the new ones are the ones listed and
567 Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2010)
568 - Ingmar Runge enhanced libcurl's FTP engine to support the PRET command. This
569 command is a special "hack" used by the drftpd server, but even though it is
570 a custom extension I've deemed it fine to add to libcurl since this server
571 seems to survive and people keep using it and want libcurl to support
572 it. The new libcurl option is named CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, and it is also
573 usable from the curl tool with --ftp-pret. Using this option on a server
574 that doesn't support this command will make libcurl fail.
576 I added test cases 1107 and 1108 to verify the functionality.
578 The PRET command is documented at
579 http://www.drftpd.org/index.php/Distributed_PASV
581 Yang Tse (30 Dec 2009)
582 - Steven M. Schweda improved VMS build system, and Craig A. Berry helped
583 with the patch and testing.
585 Daniel Stenberg (26 Dec 2009)
586 - Renato Botelho and Peter Pentchev brought a patch that makes the libcurl
587 headers work correctly even on FreeBSD systems before v8.
589 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2916915)
591 Daniel Stenberg (17 Dec 2009)
592 - David Byron fixed Curl_ossl_cleanup to actually call ENGINE_cleanup when
595 - Follow-up fix for the proxy fix I did for Jon Nelson's bug. It turned out I
596 was a bit too quick and broke test case 1101 with that change. The order of
597 some of the setups is sensitive. I now changed it slightly again to make
598 sure we do them in this order:
600 1 - parse URL and figure out what protocol is used in the URL
601 2 - prepend protocol:// to URL if missing
602 3 - parse name+password off URL, which needs to know what protocol is used
603 (since only some allows for name+password in the URL)
604 4 - figure out if a proxy should be used set by an option
605 5 - if no proxy option, check proxy environment variables
606 6 - run the protocol-specific setup function, which needs to have the proxy
609 Daniel Stenberg (15 Dec 2009)
610 - Jon Nelson found a regression that turned out to be a flaw in how libcurl
611 detects and uses proxies based on the environment variables. If the proxy
612 was given as an explicit option it worked, but due to the setup order
613 mistake proxies would not be used fine for a few protocols when picked up
614 from '[protocol]_proxy'. Obviously this broke after 7.19.4. I now also added
615 test case 1106 that verifies this functionality.
617 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2913886)
619 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2009)
620 - IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support and their TLS versions (including IMAPS, POP3S
621 and SMTPS) are now supported. The current state may not yet be solid, but
622 the foundation is in place and the test suite has some initial support for
623 these protocols. Work will now persue to make them nice libcurl citizens
626 The work with supporting these new protocols was sponsored by
627 networking4all.com - thanks!
629 Daniel Stenberg (10 Dec 2009)
630 - Siegfried Gyuricsko found out that the curl manual said --retry would retry
631 on FTP errors in the transient 5xx range. Transient FTP errors are in the
632 4xx range. The code itself only tried on 5xx errors that occured _at login_.
633 Now the retry code retries on all FTP transfer failures that ended with a
636 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2911279)
638 - Constantine Sapuntzakis figured out a case which would lead to libcurl
639 accessing alredy freed memory and thus crash when using HTTPS (with
640 OpenSSL), multi interface and the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and a certain order
641 of cleaning things up. I fixed it.
643 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2905220)
645 Daniel Stenberg (7 Dec 2009)
646 - Martin Storsjo made libcurl use the Expect: 100-continue header for posts
647 with unknown size. Previously it was only used for posts with a known size
648 larger than 1024 bytes.
650 Daniel Stenberg (1 Dec 2009)
651 - If the Expect: 100-continue header has been set by the application through
652 curl_easy_setopt with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, the library should set
653 data->state.expect100header accordingly - the current code (in 7.19.7 at
654 least) doesn't handle this properly. Martin Storsjo provided the fix!
656 Yang Tse (28 Nov 2009)
657 - Added Diffie-Hellman parameters to several test harness certificate files in
658 PEM format. Required by several stunnel versions used by our test harness.
660 Daniel Stenberg (28 Nov 2009)
661 - Markus Koetter provided a polished and updated version of Chad Monroe's TFTP
662 rework patch that now integrates TFTP properly into libcurl so that it can
663 be used non-blocking with the multi interface and more. BLKSIZE also works.
665 The --tftp-blksize option was added to allow setting the TFTP BLKSIZE from
668 Daniel Stenberg (26 Nov 2009)
669 - Extended and fixed the change I did on Dec 11 for the the progress
670 meter/callback during FTP command/response sequences. It turned out it was
671 really lame before and now the progress meter SHOULD get called at least
674 Daniel Stenberg (23 Nov 2009)
675 - Bjorn Augustsson reported a bug which made curl not report any problems even
676 though it failed to write a very small download to disk (done in a single
677 fwrite call). It turned out to be because fwrite() returned success, but
678 there was insufficient error-checking for the fclose() call which tricked
679 curl to believe things were fine.
681 Yang Tse (23 Nov 2009)
682 - David Byron modified Makefile.dist vc8 and vc9 targets in order to allow
683 finer granularity control when generating src and lib makefiles.
685 Yang Tse (22 Nov 2009)
686 - I modified configure to force removal of the curlbuild.h file included in
687 distribution tarballs for use by non-configure systems. As intended, this
688 would get overwriten when doing in-tree builds. But VPATH builds would end
689 having two curlbuild.h files, one in the source tree and another in the
690 build tree. With the modification I introduced 5 Nov 2009 this could become
691 an issue when running libcurl's test suite.
693 Daniel Stenberg (20 Nov 2009)
694 - Constantine Sapuntzakis identified a write after close, as the sockets were
695 closed by libcurl before the SSL lib were shutdown and they may write to its
696 socket. Detected to at least happen with OpenSSL builds.
698 - Jad Chamcham pointed out a bug with connection re-use. If a connection had
699 CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL enabled over a proxy, a subsequent request using the
700 same proxy with the tunnel option disabled would still wrongly re-use that
701 previous connection and the outcome would only be badness.
703 Yang Tse (18 Nov 2009)
704 - I modified the memory tracking system to make it intolerant with zero sized
705 malloc(), calloc() and realloc() function calls.
707 Daniel Stenberg (17 Nov 2009)
708 - Constantine Sapuntzakis provided another fix for the DNS cache that could
709 end up with entries that wouldn't time-out:
711 1. Set up a first web server that redirects (307) to a http://server:port
713 2. Have curl connect to the first web server using curl multi
715 After the curl_easy_cleanup call, there will be curl dns entries hanging
716 around with in_use != 0.
718 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2891591)
720 - Marc Kleine-Budde fixed: curl saved the LDFLAGS set during configure into
721 its pkg-config file. So -Wl stuff ended up in the .pc file, which is really
722 bad, and breaks if there are multiple -Wl in our LDFLAGS (which are in
723 PTXdist). bug #2893592 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2893592)
725 Kamil Dudka (15 Nov 2009)
726 - David Byron improved the configure script to use pkg-config to find OpenSSL
727 (and in particular the list of required libraries) even if a path is given
728 as argument to --with-ssl
730 Yang Tse (15 Nov 2009)
731 - I removed enable-thread / disable-thread configure option. These were only
732 placebo options. The library is always built as thread safe as possible on
735 Claes Jakobsson (14 Nov 2009)
736 - curl-config now accepts '--configure' to see what arguments was
737 passed to the configure script when building curl.
739 Daniel Stenberg (14 Nov 2009)
740 - Claes Jakobsson restored the configure functionality to detect NSS when
741 --with-nss is set but not "yes".
743 I think we can still improve that to check for pkg-config in that path etc,
744 but at least this patch brings back the same functionality we had before.
746 - Camille Moncelier added support for the file type SSL_FILETYPE_ENGINE for
747 the client certificate. It also disable the key name test as some engines
748 can select a private key/cert automatically (When there is only one key
749 and/or certificate on the hardware device used by the engine)
751 Yang Tse (14 Nov 2009)
752 - Constantine Sapuntzakis provided the fix that ensures that an SSL connection
753 won't be reused unless protection level for peer and host verification match.
755 I refactored how preprocessor symbol _THREAD_SAFE definition is done.
757 Kamil Dudka (12 Nov 2009)
758 - Kevin Baughman provided a fix preventing libcurl-NSS from crash on doubly
759 closed NSPR descriptor. The issue was hard to find, reported several times
760 before and always closed unresolved. More info at the RH bug:
761 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/534176
763 - libcurl-NSS now tries to reconnect with TLS disabled in case it detects
764 a broken TLS server. However it does not happen if SSL version is selected
765 manually. The approach was originally taken from PSM. Kaspar Brand helped me
766 to complete the patch. Original bug reports:
767 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/525496
768 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/527771
770 Yang Tse (12 Nov 2009)
771 - I modified configure script to make the getaddrinfo function check also
772 verify if the function is thread safe.
774 Yang Tse (11 Nov 2009)
775 - Marco Maggi reported that compilation failed when configured --with-gssapi
776 and GNU GSS installed due to a missing mutual exclusion of header files in
777 the Kerberos 5 code path. He also verified that my patch worked for him.
779 Daniel Stenberg (11 Nov 2009)
780 - Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug #2891595
781 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2891595) which identified how an entry
782 in the DNS cache would linger too long if the request that added it was in
783 use that long. He also provided the patch that now makes libcurl capable of
784 still doing a request while the DNS hash entry may get timed out.
786 - Christian Schmitz noticed that the progress meter/callback was not properly
787 used during the FTP connection phase (after the actual TCP connect), while
788 it of course should be. I also made the speed check get called correctly so
789 that really slow servers will trigger that properly too.
791 Kamil Dudka (5 Nov 2009)
792 - Dropped misleading timeouts in libcurl-NSS and made sure the SSL socket works
793 in non-blocking mode.
795 Yang Tse (5 Nov 2009)
796 - I removed leading 'curl' path on the 'curlbuild.h' include statement in
797 curl.h, adjusting auto-makefiles include path, to enhance portability to
798 OS's without an orthogonal directory tree structure such as OS/400.
800 Daniel Stenberg (4 Nov 2009)
801 - I fixed several problems with the transfer progress meter. It showed the
802 wrong percentage for small files, most notable for <1000 bytes and could
803 easily end up showing more than 100% at the end. It also didn't show any
804 percentage, transfer size or estimated transfer times when transferring
807 Version 7.19.7 (4 November 2009)
809 Daniel Stenberg (2 Nov 2009)
810 - As reported independent by both Stan van de Burgt and Didier Brisebourg,
811 CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD (the -w variable size_download) didn't work when
812 getting data from ldap!
814 Daniel Stenberg (31 Oct 2009)
815 - Gabriel Kuri reported a problem with CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD if the
816 download was 0 bytes, as libcurl would then return the size as unknown (-1)
817 and not 0. I wrote a fix and test case 566 to verify it.
819 Daniel Stenberg (30 Oct 2009)
820 - Liza Alenchery mentioned a problem with re-used SCP connection when a bad
821 auth is used, as it caused a crash. I failed to repeat the issue, but still
822 made a change that now forces the TCP connection used for a freed SCP
823 session to get closed and not be re-used.
825 - "Tom" posted a bug report that mentioned how libcurl did wrong when doing a
826 POST using a read callback, with Digest authentication and
827 "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" enforced. I would then cause the first request
828 to be wrongly sent and then basically hang until the server closed the
829 connection. I fixed the problem and added test case 565 to verify it.
831 Daniel Stenberg (25 Oct 2009)
832 - Dima Barsky made the curl cookie parser accept cookies even with blank or
833 unparsable expiry dates and then treat them as session cookies - previously
834 libcurl would reject cookies with a date format it couldn't parse. Research
835 shows that the major browser treat such cookies as session cookies. I
836 modified test 8 and 31 to verify this.
838 Daniel Stenberg (21 Oct 2009)
839 - Attempt to use pkg-config for finding out libssh2 installation details
842 - A patch in bug report #2883177 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2883177)
843 by Johan van Selst introduced the --crlfile option to curl, which makes curl
844 tell libcurl about a file with CRL (certificate revocation list) data to
847 Daniel Stenberg (18 Oct 2009)
848 - Ray Dassen provided a patch in Debian's bug tracker (bug number #551461)
849 that now makes curl_getdate(3) actually handles RFC 822 formatted dates that
850 use the "single letter military timezones".
851 http://www.rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/822/chapter5.html has the details.
853 - Fixed memory leak in the SCP/SFTP code as it never freed the knownhosts
856 - John Dennis filed bug report #2873666
857 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2873666) which identified a problem
858 which made libcurl loop infinitely when given incorrect credentials when
859 using HTTP GSS negotiate authentication. He also provided a small and simple
862 - Kevin Baughman found a double close() problem with libcurl-NSS, as when
863 libcurl called NSS to close the SSL "session" it also closed the actual
866 Yang Tse (17 Oct 2009)
867 - Bug report #2866724 indicated
868 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2866724) that curl on Windows failed
869 when writing files whose file names originally contained characters which
870 are not valid for file names on Windows. Dan Fandrich provided an initial
871 patch and another revised one to fix this issue.
873 Daniel Stenberg (1 Oct 2009)
874 - Tom Mueller correctly reported in bug report #2870221
875 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2870221) that libcurl returned an
876 incorrect return code from the internal trynextip() function which caused
877 him grief. This is a regression that was introduced in 7.19.1 and I find it
878 strange it hasn't hit us harder, but I won't persue into figuring out
881 - Constantine Sapuntzakis: The current implementation will always set
882 SO_SNDBUF to CURL_WRITE_SIZE even if the SO_SNDBUF starts out larger. The
883 patch doesn't do a setsockopt if SO_SNDBUF is already greater than
884 CURL_WRITE_SIZE. This should help folks who have set up their computer with
887 Daniel Stenberg (27 Sep 2009)
888 - I introduced a maximum limit for received HTTP headers. It is controlled by
889 the define CURL_MAX_HTTP_HEADER which is even exposed in the public header
890 file to allow for users to fairly easy rebuild libcurl with a modified
891 limit. The rationale for a fixed limit is that libcurl is realloc()ing a
892 buffer to be able to put a full header into it, so that it can call the
893 header callback with the entire header, but that also risk getting it into
894 trouble if a server by mistake or willingly sends a header that is more or
895 less without an end. The limit is set to 100K.
897 Daniel Stenberg (26 Sep 2009)
898 - John P. McCaskey posted a bug report that showed how libcurl did wrong when
899 saving received cookies with no given path, if the path in the request had a
900 query part. That is means a question mark (?) and characters on the right
901 side of that. I wrote test case 1105 and fixed this problem.
903 Kamil Dudka (26 Sep 2009)
904 - Implemented a protocol independent way to specify blocking direction, used by
905 transfer.c for blocking. It is currently used only by SCP and SFTP protocols.
906 This enhancement resolves an issue with 100% CPU usage during SFTP upload,
909 Daniel Stenberg (25 Sep 2009)
910 - Chris Mumford filed bug report #2861587
911 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2861587) identifying that libcurl used
912 the OpenSSL function X509_load_crl_file() wrongly and failed if it would
913 load a CRL file with more than one certificate within. This is now fixed.
915 Daniel Stenberg (16 Sep 2009)
916 - Sven Anders reported that we introduced a cert verfication flaw for OpenSSL-
917 powered libcurl in 7.19.6. If there was a X509v3 Subject Alternative Name
918 field in the certficate it had to match and so even if non-DNS and non-IP
919 entry was present it caused the verification to fail.
921 Daniel Fandrich (15 Sep 2009)
922 - Moved the libssh2 checks after the SSL library checks. This helps when
923 statically linking since libssh2 needs the SSL library link flags to be
924 set up already to satisfy its dependencies. This wouldn't be necessary if
925 the libssh2 configure check was changed to use pkg-config since the
926 --static flag would add the dependencies automatically.
928 Yang Tse (14 Sep 2009)
929 - Revert Joshua Kwan's patch committed 11 Sep 2009.
931 Some systems poll function sets POLLHUP in revents without setting
932 POLLIN, and sets POLLERR without setting POLLIN and POLLOUT. In some
933 libcurl code execution paths this could trigger busy wait loops with
934 high CPU usage until a timeout condition aborted the loop.
936 The reverted patch addressed the above issue for a very specific case,
937 when awaiting c-ares to resolve. A libcurl-wide fix for Curl_poll now
940 Guenter Knauf (11 Sep 2009)
941 - Joshua Kwan provided a patch to pass POLLERR / POLLHUP back to c-ares.
942 This fixes a loop problem with high CPU usage.
944 Daniel Stenberg (10 Sep 2009)
945 - Claes Jakobsson fixed a problem with cookie expiry dates at exctly the epoch
946 start second "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970" as the date parser then returns 0
947 which internally then is treated as a session cookie. That particular date
948 is now made to get the value of 1.
950 Daniel Stenberg (2 Sep 2009)
951 - Daniel Johnson found a flaw in the code converting sftp-errors to libcurl
954 Daniel Stenberg (1 Sep 2009)
955 - Peter Sylvester made a debug feature for Curl_resolv() that now will force
956 libcurl to resolve 'localhost' whatever name you use in the URL *if* you set
957 the --interface option to (exactly) "LocalHost". This will enable us to
958 write tests for custom hosts names but still use a local host server.
960 - configure now tries to use pkg-config for a number of sub-dependencies even
961 when cross-compiling. The key to success is then you properly setup
962 PKG_CONFIG_PATH before invoking configure.
964 I also improved how NSS is detected by trying nss-config if pkg-config isn't
965 present, and as a last resort just use the lib name and force the user to
966 setup the LIBS/LDFLAGS/CFLAGS etc properly. The previous last resort would
967 add a range of various libs that would almost never be quite correct.
969 Daniel Stenberg (31 Aug 2009)
970 - When using the multi interface with FTP and you asked for NOBODY, you did no
971 QUOTE commands and the request used the same path as the connection had
972 already changed to, it would decide that no commands would be necessary for
973 the "DO" action and that was not handled properly but libcurl would instead
976 Kamil Dudka (28 Aug 2009)
977 - Improved error message for not matching certificate subject name in
978 libcurl-NSS. Originally reported at:
979 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516056#c9
981 Patrick Monnerat (24 Aug 2009)
982 - Introduced a SYST-based test to properly set-up name format when dealing
983 with the OS/400 FTP server.
985 - Fixed an ftp_readresp() bug preventing detection of failing control socket
986 and causing FTP client to loop forever.
988 Daniel Stenberg (24 Aug 2009)
989 - Marc de Bruin pointed out that configure --with-gnutls=PATH didn't work
990 properly and provided a fix. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2843008
992 - Eric Wong introduced support for the new option -T. (dot) that makes curl
993 read stdin in a non-blocking fashion. This also brings back -T- (minus) to
994 the previous blocking behavior since it could break stuff for people at
997 Michal Marek (21 Aug 2009)
998 - With CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE, avoid sending invalid URLs like
999 ftp://example.com;type=i if the user specified ftp://example.com without the
1002 Daniel Stenberg (21 Aug 2009)
1003 - Andre Guibert de Bruet pointed out a missing return code check for a
1004 strdup() that could lead to segfault if it returned NULL. I extended his
1005 suggest patch to now have Curl_retry_request() return a regular return code
1006 and better check that.
1008 - Lots of good work by Krister Johansen, mostly related to pipelining:
1010 Fix SIGSEGV on free'd easy_conn when pipe unexpectedly breaks
1011 Fix data corruption issue with re-connected transfers
1012 Fix use after free if we're completed but easy_conn not NULL
1014 Kamil Dudka (13 Aug 2009)
1015 - Changed NSS code to not ignore the value of ssl.verifyhost and produce more
1016 verbose error messages. Originally reported at:
1017 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516056
1019 Daniel Stenberg (12 Aug 2009)
1020 - Karl Moerder fixed the Makefile.vc* makefiles to include the new file
1021 nonblock.c so that they work fine again
1023 - I expanded test 517 with a bunch of more dates that originate from the
1024 Chrome browser test suite. It turns out most of them get parsed the same
1027 Version 7.19.6 (12 August 2009)
1029 Daniel Stenberg (12 Aug 2009)
1030 - Carsten Lange reported a bug and provided a patch for TFTP upload and the
1031 sending of the TSIZE option. I don't like fixing bugs just hours before
1032 a release, but since it was broken and the patch fixes this for him I decided
1033 to get it in anyway.
1035 Daniel Stenberg (11 Aug 2009)
1036 - Peter Sylvester made the HTTPS test server use specific certificates for
1037 each test, so that the test suite can now be used to actually test the
1038 verification of cert names etc. This made an error show up in the OpenSSL-
1039 specific code where it would attempt to match the CN field even if a
1040 subjectAltName exists that doesn't match. This is now fixed and verified
1043 - Benbuck Nason posted the bug report #2835196
1044 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2835196), fixing a few compiler
1045 warnings when mixing ints and bools.
1047 Daniel Fandrich (10 Aug 2009)
1048 - Fixed a memory leak in the FTP code and an off-by-one heap buffer overflow.
1050 Daniel Fandrich (9 Aug 2009)
1051 - Fixed some memory leaks in the command-line tool that caused most of the
1052 torture tests to fail.
1054 Daniel Stenberg (2 Aug 2009)
1055 - Curt Bogmine reported a problem with SNI enabled on a particular server. We
1056 should introduce an option to disable SNI, but as we're in feature freeze
1057 now I've addressed the obvious bug here (pointed out by Peter Sylvester): we
1058 shouldn't try to enable SNI when SSLv2 or SSLv3 is explicitly selected.
1059 Code for OpenSSL and GnuTLS was fixed. NSS doesn't seem to have a particular
1060 option for SNI, or are we simply not using it?
1062 Daniel Stenberg (1 Aug 2009)
1063 - Scott Cantor posted the bug report #2829955
1064 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2829955) mentioning the recent SSL cert
1065 verification flaw found and exploited by Moxie Marlinspike. The presentation
1066 he did at Black Hat is available here:
1067 https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-09/bh-usa-09-archives.html#Marlinspike
1069 Apparently at least one CA allowed a subjectAltName or CN that contain a
1070 zero byte, and thus clients that assumed they would never have zero bytes
1071 were exploited to OK a certificate that didn't actually match the site. Like
1072 if the name in the cert was "example.com\0theatualsite.com", libcurl would
1073 happily verify that cert for example.com.
1075 libcurl now better uses the length of the extracted name, not using the zero
1076 termination for getting the string length.
1078 This fixing only made and needed in OpenSSL interfacing code.
1080 - Tanguy Fautre pointed out that OpenSSL's function RAND_screen() (present
1081 only in some OpenSSL installs - like on Windows) isn't thread-safe and we
1082 agreed that moving it to the global_init() function is a decent way to deal
1083 with this situation.
1085 - Alexander Beedie provided the patch for a noproxy problem: If I have set
1086 CURLOPT_NOPROXY to "*", or to a host that should not use a proxy, I actually
1087 could still end up using a proxy if a proxy environment variable was set.
1089 Daniel Stenberg (27 Jul 2009)
1090 - All the quote options (CURLOPT_QUOTE, CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE and
1091 CURLOPT_PREQUOTE) now accept a preceeding asterisk before the command to
1092 send when using FTP, as a sign that libcurl shall simply ignore the response
1093 from the server instead of treating it as an error. Not treating a 400+ FTP
1094 response code as an error means that failed commands will not abort the
1095 chain of commands, nor will they cause the connection to get disconnected.
1097 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jul 2009)
1098 - Johan van Selst posted bug report #2825989
1099 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2825989) pointing out that
1100 OpenSSL-powered libcurl didn't support the SHA-2 digest algorithm, and
1101 provided the solution too: to use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in addition
1102 to the older SSLeay_* alternative. OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms was added in
1105 Daniel Stenberg (23 Jul 2009)
1106 - Added CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYDATA.
1107 They introduce known_host support for SSH keys to libcurl. See docs for
1108 details. Note that this feature depends on a new enough libssh2 version, to
1109 be supported in libssh2 1.2 and later (or current git repo at this time).
1111 Michal Marek (22 Jul 2009)
1112 - David Binderman found a memory and fd leak in lib/gtls.c:load_file()
1113 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/523919). When looking at the code, I found that
1114 also the ptr pointer can leak.
1116 Kamil Dudka (20 Jul 2009)
1117 - Claes Jakobsson improved the support for client certificates handling in
1118 NSS-powered libcurl. Now the client certificates can be selected
1119 automatically by a NSS built-in hook. Additionally pre-login to all PKCS11
1120 slots is no more performed. It used to cause problems with HW tokens.
1122 - Fixed reference counting for NSS client certificates. Now the PEM reader
1123 module should be always properly unloaded on Curl_nss_cleanup(). If the
1124 unload fails though, libcurl will try to reuse the already loaded instance.
1126 Daniel Fandrich (15 Jul 2009)
1127 - Added nonblock.c to the non-automake makefiles (note that the dependencies
1128 in the Watcom makefiles aren't quite correct).
1130 Michal Marek (15 Jul 2009)
1131 - Changed the description of CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to make it clear that the
1132 errno is not reset on success.
1134 Guenter Knauf (14 Jul 2009)
1135 - renamed generated config.h to curl_config.h to avoid any future clashes
1136 with config.h from other projects.
1138 Daniel Stenberg (9 Jul 2009)
1139 - Eric Wong introduced curlx_nonblock() that the curl tool now (re-)uses for
1140 setting a file descriptor non-blocking. Used by the functionality Eric
1141 himself brough on June 15th.
1143 Daniel Stenberg (8 Jul 2009)
1144 - Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug report #2813123
1145 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2813123) and an a patch that fixes the
1148 Url A is accessed using auth. Url A redirects to Url B (on a different
1149 server0. Url B reuses a persistent connection. Url B has auth, even though
1150 it's on a different server.
1152 Note: if Url B does not reuse a persistent connection, auth is not sent.
1156 data->state.first_host is not initialized becuase Curl_http_connect is not
1157 called when a connection is reused.
1161 move initialization of data->state.first_host to Curl_http. No code before
1162 Curl_http uses data->state.first_host anyway.
1164 Guenter Knauf (4 Jul 2009)
1165 - Markus Koetter provided a patch to avoid getnameinfo() usage which broke a
1166 couple of both IPv4 and IPv6 autobuilds.
1168 Daniel Stenberg (29 Jun 2009)
1169 - Markus Koetter made CURLOPT_FTPPORT (and curl's -P/--ftpport) support a port
1170 range if given colon-separated after the host name/address part. Like
1171 "192.168.0.1:2000-10000"
1173 - Modified the separators used for CURLOPT_CERTINFO in multi-part outputs. I
1174 don't know how they got wrong in the first place, but using this output
1175 format makes it possible to quite easily separate the string into an array
1178 Daniel Fandrich (16 June 2009)
1179 - Added a few more compiler warning options for gcc.
1181 Daniel Stenberg (16 Jun 2009)
1182 - Reuven Wachtfogel made curl -o - properly produce a binary output on windows
1183 (no newline translations). Use -B/--use-ascii if you rather get the ascii
1186 Michal Marek (16 Jun 2009)
1187 - When doing non-anonymous ftp via http proxies and the password is not
1188 provided in the url, add it there (squid needs this).
1190 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jun 2009)
1191 - Eric Wong's patch:
1193 This allows curl(1) to be used as a client-side tunnel for arbitrary stream
1194 protocols by abusing chunked transfer encoding in both the HTTP request and
1195 HTTP response. This requires server support for sending a response while a
1196 request is still being read, of course.
1198 If attempting to read from stdin returns EAGAIN, then we pause our sender.
1199 This leaves curl to attempt to read from the socket while reading from stdin
1200 (and thus sending) is paused.
1202 This change was needed to allow successfully tunneling the git protocol over
1203 HTTP (--no-buffer is needed, as well).
1205 Patrick Monnerat (15 Jun 2009)
1206 - Replaced use of standard C library rand()/srand() by our own pseudo-random
1209 Yang Tse (11 Jun 2009)
1210 - I adapted testcurl script to allow building test harness programs when
1211 cross-compiling for a *-*-mingw* host.
1213 Daniel Stenberg (10 Jun 2009)
1214 - Fabian Keil ran clang on the (lib)curl code, found a bunch of warnings and
1215 contributed a range of patches to fix them.
1217 Yang Tse (10 Jun 2009)
1218 - I introduced configure script option --enable-curldebug which now allows
1219 the decoupled enabling or disabling of the curl debug memory tracking
1220 feature from the --enable-debug option which no longer controls this.
1222 curl --version will list 'Debug' feature for debug enabled builds, and
1223 will list 'TrackMemory' feature for curl debug memory tracking capable
1224 builds. These features are independent and can be controlled when running
1225 the configure script. When --enable-debug is given both features will be
1226 enabled, unless some restriction prevents memory tracking from being used.
1228 Internally, definition of preprocessor symbol DEBUGBUILD restricts code
1229 which is only compiled for debug enabled builds. And symbol CURLDEBUG is
1230 used to differentiate code which is _only_ used for memory tracking.
1232 Yang Tse (9 Jun 2009)
1233 - Daniel Steinberg pointed out that Curl_FormInit() in formdata.c was not
1234 initializing the fread callback pointer and this triggered a compiler
1235 warning, also provided a friendly suggestion on how to fix it.
1237 Daniel Stenberg (8 Jun 2009)
1238 - Claes Jakobsson provided a patch for libcurl-NSS that fixed a bad refcount
1239 issue with client certs that caused issues like segfaults.
1240 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0316.html
1242 - Triggered by bug report #2798852 and the patch in there, I fixed configure
1243 to detect gnutls build options with pkg-config only and not libgnutls-config
1244 anymore since GnuTLS has stopped distributing that tool. If an explicit path
1245 is given to configure, we will instead guess on how to link and use that
1246 lib. I did not use the patch from the bug report.
1248 Yang Tse (8 Jun 2009)
1249 - Igor Novoseltsev adjusted Makefile.vxworks to get sources and headers
1250 included from Makefile.inc, and provided docs\INSTALL VxWorks section.
1252 - I removed buildconf.bat from release and daily snapshot archives. This
1253 file is only for CVS tree checkout builds.
1255 Daniel Stenberg (8 Jun 2009)
1256 - Eric Wong fixed --no-buffer to actually switch off output buffering. Been
1259 Bill Hoffman (6 Jun 2009)
1260 - Added some cmake docs and fixed socklen_t in the build.
1262 Yang Tse (5 Jun 2009)
1263 - John E. Malmberg provided VMS specific patch: "This fixes an existing bug
1264 in urlglob.c where it was not converting the Curl Unix exit code to a VMS
1265 DCL compatible exit code. This fix required the enhancement described next.
1266 This also adds an enhancement to main.c so that when curl is run under a
1267 Unix shell like Bash on VMS, it will return the standard Unix exit codes
1268 and messages." And another patch for docs/examples.
1270 I introduced os-specific.c and os-specific.h for use in curl tool code
1271 and adjusted John E. Malmberg's patch placement to use these new files
1272 as an effort to prevent main.c from growing ad infinitum. Code already
1273 existing in main.c which is OS specific should be moved into these files.
1275 Daniel Stenberg (4 June 2009)
1276 - Setting the Content-Length: header from your app when you do a POST or PUT
1277 is almost always a VERY BAD IDEA. Yet there are still apps out there doing
1278 this, and now recently it triggered a bug/side-effect in libcurl as when
1279 libcurl sends a POST or PUT with NTLM, it sends an empty post first when it
1280 knows it will just get a 401/407 back. If the app then replaced the
1281 Content-Length header, it caused the server to wait for input that libcurl
1282 wouldn't send. Aaron Oneal reported this problem in bug report #2799008
1283 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2799008) and helped us verify the fix.
1285 Yang Tse (4 Jun 2009)
1286 - Igor Novoseltsev provided patches and information, that after some
1287 adjustments to better fit curl's way of doing things, have resulted
1288 in the posibility of building libcurl for VxWorks.
1290 Daniel Fandrich (2 June 2009)
1291 - Checked in a Google Android make file. To use it, you must first
1292 create a config.h file by running configure in the Android environment,
1293 which doesn't seem to be easy to do. If no easy way can be found, a
1294 static config-android.h may need to be created and checked in to the
1295 libcurl source tree.
1297 Daniel Stenberg (1 June 2009)
1298 - Claes Jakobsson fixed the configure script to better find and use NSS
1301 Yang Tse (1 Jun 2009)
1302 - John E. Malmberg provided a VMS specific clean-up for curl.h, and pointed
1303 out that the configure script was failing to detect the timeval struct on
1304 VMS when building with _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED undefined due to definition
1305 taking place in socket.h instead of time.h. I have adjusted configure
1306 script to also include this header when checking struct timeval.
1308 Daniel Stenberg (27 May 2009)
1309 - Frank McGeough provided a small OpenSSL #include fix to make libcurl compile
1310 fine with Nokia 5th edition 1.0 SDK for Symbian.
1312 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found a call to a OpenSSL function that didn't check
1313 for a failure properly.
1315 - Mike Crowe pointed out that setting CURLOPT_USERPWD to NULL used to clear
1316 the auth credentials back in 7.19.0 and earlier while now you have to set ""
1317 to get the same effect. His patch brings back the ability to use NULL.
1319 - Claes Jakobsson fixed libcurl-NSS to build fine even without the
1320 PK11_CreateGenericObject() function.
1322 Daniel Stenberg (25 May 2009)
1323 - bug report #2796358 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2796358) pointed
1324 out that the cookie parser would leak memory when it parses cookies that are
1325 received with domain, path etc set multiple times in the same header. While
1326 such a cookie is questionable, they occur in the wild and libcurl no longer
1327 leaks memory for them. I added such a header to test case 8.
1329 Daniel Fandrich (22 May 2009)
1330 - Removed some obsolete digest code that caused a valgrind error in test 551.
1332 Daniel Fandrich (20 May 2009)
1333 - Added "non-existing host" test keywords to make it easy to skip those
1334 tests on machines that have broken DNS configurations (such as
1335 those configured to use OpenDNS).
1337 Daniel Stenberg (19 May 2009)
1338 - Kamil Dudka brought the patch from the Redhat bug entry
1339 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427966 which was libcurl closing
1340 a bad file descriptor when closing down the FTP data connection. Caolan
1341 McNamara seems to be the original author of it.
1343 Version 7.19.5 (18 May 2009)
1345 Daniel Stenberg (17 May 2009)
1346 - James Bursa posted a patch to the mailing list that fixed a problem with
1347 no_proxy which made it not skip the proxy if the URL entered contained a
1348 user name. I added test case 1101 to verify.
1350 Daniel Stenberg (11 May 2009)
1351 - Balint Szilakszi reported a memory leak when libcurl did gzip decompression
1352 of streams that had some parts (legitimately) missing. We now provide and use
1353 a proper cleanup function for the content encoding submodule.
1354 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0092.html
1356 - Kamil Dudka provided a fix for libcurl-NSS reported by Michael Cronenworth
1357 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612#c12
1359 If an incorrect password is given while loading a private key, libcurl ends
1360 up in an infinite loop consuming memory. The bug is critical.
1362 - I fixed the problem with doing NTLM, POST and then following a 302 redirect,
1363 as reported by Ebenezer Ikonne (on curl-users) and Laurent Rabret (on
1364 curl-library). The transfer was mistakenly marked to get more data to send
1365 but since it didn't actually have that, it just hung there...
1367 Daniel Stenberg (10 May 2009)
1368 - Andre Guibert de Bruet correctly pointed out an over-alloc with one wasted
1369 byte in the digest code.
1371 Yang Tse (9 May 2009)
1372 - Removed DOS and TPF package's subdirectory Makefile.am, it was only used
1373 to include some files in the distribution tarball serving no other purpose.
1374 Files from the DOS and TPF subdirectories are now included in the EXTRA_DIST
1375 of the Makefile in the parent subdirectory.
1377 Yang Tse (8 May 2009)
1378 - Changed host name literal in several tests to one under the haxx.se domain.
1380 - Renamed vc6 workspace and project files to avoid filename clash when used
1381 for conversion to later VS versions.
1383 Daniel Stenberg (8 May 2009)
1384 - Constantine Sapuntzakis fixed bug report #2784055
1385 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2784055) identifying a problem to
1386 connect to SOCKS proxies when using the multi interface. It turned out to
1387 almost not work at all previously. We need to wait for the TCP connect to
1388 be properly verified before doing the SOCKS magic.
1390 There's still a flaw in the FTP code for this.
1392 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
1393 - Made the SO_SNDBUF setting for the data connection socket for ftp uploads as
1394 well. See change 28 Apr 2009.
1396 Yang Tse (7 May 2009)
1397 - Fixed an issue affecting FTP transfers, introduced with the transfer.c
1398 patch committed May 4.
1400 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
1401 - Man page *roff problems fixed thanks to input from Colin Watson. Problems
1402 reported in the Debian package.
1404 - Vijay G filed bug report #2723236
1405 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723236) identifying a problem with
1406 libcurl's TFTP code and its lack of dealing with the OACK packet.
1408 Yang Tse (5 May 2009)
1409 - Fixed the --ftp-port address of test #251 to the CLIENTIP address, and
1410 reverted the change affecting test suite harness committed 4 May.
1412 Daniel Stenberg (5 May 2009)
1413 - Inspired by Michael Smith's session id fix for OpenSSL, I did the
1414 corresponding fix in the GnuTLS code: make sure to store the new session id
1415 in case the previous re-used one is rejected.
1417 Daniel Stenberg (4 May 2009)
1418 - Michael Smith posted bug report #2786255
1419 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2786255) with a patch, identifying how
1420 libcurl did not deal with SSL session ids properly if the server rejected a
1421 re-use of one. Starting now, it will forget the rejected one and remember
1422 the new. This change was for OpenSSL only, it is likely that other SSL lib
1423 code needs similar fixes.
1425 Yang Tse (4 May 2009)
1426 - Applied David McCreedy's "transfer.c fixes for CURL_DO_LINEEND_CONV and
1427 non-ASCII platform HTTP requests" patch addressing two HTTP PUT problems:
1428 1) On non-ASCII platforms not all of the protocol portions of the PUT are
1429 being translated to ASCII. 2) On all platforms the line endings of part of
1430 the protocol portions are mangled from CRLF to CRCRLF if data->set.crlf or
1431 data->set.prefer_ascii are set (depending on CURL_DO_LINEEND_CONV).
1433 - Applied David McCreedy's patch to fix test suite harness to allow test FTP
1434 server and client on different machines, providing FTP client address when
1435 running the FTP test server.
1437 Daniel Fandrich (3 May 2009)
1438 - Added and disabled test case 563 which shows KNOWN_BUGS #59. The bug
1439 report failed to mention that a proxy must be used to reproduce it.
1441 Yang Tse (2 May 2009)
1442 - Use a build-time configured curl_socklen_t data type instead of socklen_t.
1444 Yang Tse (1 May 2009)
1445 - Applied David McCreedy's patches "TPF-platform specific changes to various
1446 files" and "http.c fix to Curl_proxyCONNECT for non-ASCII platforms", the
1447 former with minor edits.
1449 Daniel Stenberg (30 Apr 2009)
1450 - I was going to fix issue #59 in KNOWN_BUGS
1452 If the CURLOPT_PORT option is used on an FTP URL like
1453 "ftp://example.com/file;type=A" the ";type=A" is stripped off.
1455 I added test case 562 to verify, only to find out that I couldn't repeat
1456 this bug so I hereby consider it not a bug anymore!
1458 Daniel Stenberg (29 Apr 2009)
1459 - Based on bug report #2723219 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723219)
1460 I've now made TFTP "connections" not being kept for re-use within libcurl.
1461 TFTP is UDP-based so the benefit was really low (if even existing) to begin
1462 with so instead of tracking down to fix this problem we instead removed the
1463 re-use. I also enabled test case 1099 that I wrote a few days ago to verify
1464 that this change fixes the reported problem.
1466 Daniel Stenberg (28 Apr 2009)
1467 - Constantine Sapuntzakis filed bug report #2783090
1468 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2783090) pointing out that on windows
1469 we need to grow the SO_SNDBUF buffer somewhat to get really good upload
1470 speeds. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823764 has the details. Friends
1471 confirmed that simply adding 32 to CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is enough.
1473 - Bug report #2709004 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2709004) by Tim
1474 Chen pointed out how curl couldn't upload with resume when reading from a
1477 This ended up with the introduction of a new return code for the
1478 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION callback that basically says that the seek failed but
1479 that libcurl may try to resolve the situation anyway. In our case this means
1480 libcurl will attempt to instead read that much data from the stream instead
1481 of seeking and that way curl can now upload with resume when data is read
1484 Daniel Stenberg (26 Apr 2009)
1485 - Bug report #2779733 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779733) by Sven
1486 Wegener pointed out that CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME didn't work with the multi
1487 interface and provided a patch that fixed the problem!
1489 Daniel Stenberg (24 Apr 2009)
1490 - Kamil Dudka fixed another NSS-related leak when client certs were used.
1492 - Bug report #2779245 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779245) by Rainer
1493 Koenig pointed out that the man page didn't tell that the *_proxy
1494 environment variables can be specified lower case or UPPER CASE and the
1495 lower case takes precedence,
1497 Daniel Fandrich (21 Apr 2009)
1498 - Added new libcurl source files to Amiga, RiscOS and VC6 build files.
1500 Yang Tse (21 Apr 2009)
1501 - Moved potential inclusion of system's malloc.h and memory.h header files to
1502 setup_once.h. Inclusion of each header file is based on the definition of
1503 NEED_MALLOC_H and NEED_MEMORY_H respectively.
1505 Renamed libcurl's memory.h to curl_memory.h
1507 Daniel Stenberg (20 Apr 2009)
1508 - Leanic Lefever reported a crash and did some detailed research on why and
1509 how it occurs (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-04/0289.html). The
1510 conclusion was that if an error is detected and Curl_done() is called for
1511 the connection, ftp_done() could at times return another error code that
1512 then would take precedence and that new code confused existing logic that
1513 works for the first error code (CURLE_SEND_ERROR) only.
1515 - Gisle Vanem noticed that --libtool would produce bogus strings at times for
1516 OBJECTPOINT options. Now we've introduced a new function - my_setopt_str -
1517 within the app for setting plain string options to avoid the risk of this
1520 Daniel Stenberg (17 Apr 2009)
1521 - Pramod Sharma reported and tracked down a bug when doing FTP over a HTTP
1522 proxy. libcurl would then wrongly close the connection after each
1523 request. In his case it had the weird side-effect that it killed NTLM auth
1524 for the proxy causing an inifinite loop!
1526 I added test case 1098 to verify this fix. The test case does however not
1527 properly verify that the transfers are done persistently - as I couldn't
1528 think of a clever way to achieve it right now - but you need to read the
1529 stderr output after a test run to see that it truly did the right thing.
1531 Daniel Stenberg (13 Apr 2009)
1532 - bug report #2727981 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2727981) by Martin
1533 Storsjö pointed out how setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to 0 could be downright
1534 confusing as it set the method to either GET or HEAD. The example he showed
1537 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
1538 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
1540 The new way doesn't alter the method until the request is about to start. If
1541 CURLOPT_NOBODY is then 1 the HTTP request will be HEAD. If CURLOPT_NOBODY is
1542 0 and the request happens to have been set to HEAD, it will then instead be
1543 set to GET. I believe this will be less surprising to users, and hopefully
1544 not hit any existing users badly.
1546 - Toshio Kuratomi reported a memory leak problem with libcurl+NSS that turned
1547 out to be leaking cacerts. Kamil Dudka helped me complete the fix. The issue
1548 is found in Redhat's bug tracker:
1549 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612
1551 There are still memory leaks present, but they seem to have other reasons.
1553 Daniel Fandrich (11 Apr 2009)
1554 - Added new libcurl source files to Symbian OS build files.
1555 - Improved Symbian support for SSL.
1557 Yang Tse (10 Apr 2009)
1558 - Daniel Johnson improved the MacOSX-Framework shell script to now perform all
1559 the steps required to build a Mac OS X four way fat ppc/i386/ppc64/x86_64
1560 libcurl.framework. Four way fat framework requires OS X 10.5 SDK or later.
1562 Yang Tse (8 Apr 2009)
1563 - Removed Sun compilers preprocessor block from curlbuild.h.dist, this also
1564 removes it from the curlbuild.h file originally distributed by the cURL
1565 project as this file is intended for systems not capable of running the
1566 configure script. For those who have been building curl out of the source
1567 code curl distribution tarball provided by curl.haxx.se the change implies
1568 nothing. Previous change in this area committed 2 Apr becomes irrelevant.
1570 Daniel Stenberg (6 Apr 2009)
1571 - I clarified in the docs that CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION should return 0 on success
1572 and 1 on fatal errors. Previously it only mentioned non-zero on fatal
1573 errors. This is a slight change in meaning, but it follows what we've done
1574 elsewhere before and it opens up for LOTS of more useful return codes
1575 whenever we can think of them...
1577 Yang Tse (2 Apr 2009)
1578 - Fix curl_off_t definition for builds done using Sun compilers and a
1579 non-configured libcurl. In this case curl_off_t data type was gated
1580 to the off_t data type which depends on the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. This
1581 configuration is exactly the unwanted configuration for our curl_off_t
1582 data type which must not depend on such setting. This breaks ABI for
1583 libcurl libraries built with Sun compilers which were built without
1584 having run the configure script with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS different than
1585 64 and using the ILP32 data model.
1587 Daniel Stenberg (1 Apr 2009)
1588 - Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed a NULL pointer use in an infof() call if a
1589 strdup() call failed.
1591 Daniel Fandrich (31 Mar 2009)
1592 - Properly return an error code in curl_easy_recv (reported by Jim Freeman).
1594 Daniel Stenberg (18 Mar 2009)
1595 - Kamil Dudka brought a patch that enables 6 additional crypto algorithms when
1596 NSS is used. These ciphers were added in NSS 3.4 and require to be enabled
1599 Daniel Stenberg (13 Mar 2009)
1600 - Use libssh2_version() to present the libssh2 version in case the libssh2
1601 library is found to support it.
1603 Yang Tse (12 Mar 2009)
1604 - Added missing Curl_read() return code checking in TELNET transfers.
1606 - Pierre Brico found and fixed TELNET transfers not being aborted upon
1607 a write callback failure.
1609 Daniel Stenberg (11 Mar 2009)
1610 - Kamil Dudka made the curl tool properly call curl_global_init() before any
1611 other libcurl function.
1613 Yang Tse (11 Mar 2009)
1614 - Added missing TELNET timeout support for Windows builds. This issue was
1615 reported by Pierre Brico.
1617 Daniel Stenberg (9 Mar 2009)
1618 - Frank Hempel found out a bug and provided the fix:
1620 curl_easy_duphandle did not necessarily duplicate the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
1621 option. It only enabled the cookie engine in the destination handle if
1622 data->cookies is not NULL (where data is the source handle). In case of a
1623 newly initialized handle which just had the cookie support enabled by a
1624 curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURL_COOKIEFILE, "")-call, handle->cookies was
1625 still NULL because the setopt-call only appends the value to
1626 data->change.cookielist, hence duplicating this handle would not have the
1627 cookie engine switched on.
1629 We also concluded that the slist-functionality would be suitable for being
1630 put in its own module rather than simply hanging out in lib/sendf.c so I
1631 created lib/slist.[ch] for them.
1633 - Andreas Farber made the 'buildconf' script check for the presence of m4
1634 scripts to make it detect a bad checkout earlier. People with older
1635 checkouts who don't do cvs update with the -d option won't get the new dirs
1636 and then will get funny outputs that can be a bit hard to understand and
1639 Daniel Stenberg (8 Mar 2009)
1640 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a code segment in ssluse.c where the
1641 allocation of the memory BIO was not being properly checked.
1643 - Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed the gnutls-using code: There are a few places
1644 in the gnutls code where we were checking for negative values for errors,
1645 when the man pages state that GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS is returned on success and
1646 other values indicate error conditions.
1648 - Bill Egert pointed out (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2671602) that
1649 curl didn't use sprintf() in a way that is documented to work in POSIX but
1650 since we use our own printf() code (from libcurl) that shouldn't be a
1651 problem. Nonetheless I modified the code to not rely on such particular
1652 features and to not cause further raised eyebrowse with no good reason.
1654 Daniel Fandrich (5 Mar 2009)
1655 - Expanded the security section of the libcurl-tutorial man page to cover
1656 more issues for authors to consider when writing robust libcurl-using
1659 Yang Tse (5 Mar 2009)
1660 - Fixed NTLM authentication memory leak on SSPI enabled Windows builds. This
1661 issue was noticed by Chris Deidun.
1663 Daniel Fandrich (4 Mar 2009)
1664 - Fixed a problem with m4 quoting in the OpenSSL configure check reported
1667 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
1668 - David James brought a patch that make libcurl close (all) dead connections
1669 whenever you attempt to open a new connection.
1671 1. After cleaning up a dead connection, "continue" instead of
1672 returning FALSE. This ensures that we clean up all dead connections,
1673 rather than just cleaning up the first dead connection.
1674 2. Move up the cleanup for dead connections so that it occurs for
1675 all connections, rather than just the connections which have the same
1676 preferences as our current new connection.
1678 Version 7.19.4 (3 March 2009)
1680 Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
1681 - David Kierznowski notified us about a security flaw
1682 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090303.html also known as CVE-2009-0037) in
1683 which previous libcurl versions (by design) can be tricked to access an
1684 arbitrary local/different file instead of a remote one when
1685 CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. This flaw is now fixed in this release
1686 together this the addition of two new setopt options for controlling this
1689 o CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS controls what protocols libcurl is allowed to
1690 follow to when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. By default, this option
1691 excludes the FILE and SCP protocols and thus you nee to explicitly allow
1692 them in your app if you really want that behavior.
1694 o CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS controls what protocol(s) libcurl is allowed to fetch
1695 using the primary URL option. This is useful if you want to allow a user or
1696 other outsiders control what URL to pass to libcurl and yet not allow all
1697 protocols libcurl may have been built to support.
1699 Daniel Stenberg (27 Feb 2009)
1700 - Senthil Raja Velu reported a problem when CURLOPT_INTERFACE and
1701 CURLOPT_LOCALPORT were used together (the local port bind failed), and
1702 Markus Koetter provided the fix!
1704 Daniel Stenberg (25 Feb 2009)
1705 - As Daniel Fandrich figured out, we must do the GnuTLS initing in the
1706 curl_global_init() function to properly maintain the performing functions
1707 thread-safe. We've previously (28 April 2007) moved the init to a later time
1708 just to avoid it to fail very early when libgcrypt dislikes the situation,
1709 but that move was bad and the fix should rather be in libgcrypt or
1712 Daniel Stenberg (24 Feb 2009)
1713 - Brian J. Murrell found out that Negotiate proxy authentication didn't work.
1714 It happened because the code used the struct for server-based auth all the
1715 time for both proxy and server auth which of course was wrong.
1717 Daniel Stenberg (23 Feb 2009)
1718 - After a bug reported by James Cheng I've made curl_easy_getinfo() for
1719 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD return
1720 -1 if the sizes aren't know. Previously these returned 0, make it impossible
1721 to detect the difference between actually zero and unknown.
1723 Yang Tse (23 Feb 2009)
1724 - Daniel Johnson provided a shell script that will perform all the steps needed
1725 to build a Mac OS X fat ppc/i386 or ppc64/x86_64 libcurl.framework
1727 Daniel Stenberg (23 Feb 2009)
1728 - I renamed everything in the windows builds files that used the name 'curllib'
1729 to the proper 'libcurl' as clearly this caused confusion.
1731 Yang Tse (20 Feb 2009)
1732 - Do not halt compilation when using VS2008 to build a Windows 2000 target.
1734 Daniel Stenberg (20 Feb 2009)
1735 - Linus Nielsen Feltzing reported and helped me repeat and fix a problem with
1736 FTP with the multi interface: when a transfer fails, like when aborted by a
1737 write callback, the control connection was wrongly closed and thus not
1740 This change is also an attempt to cleanup the code somewhat in this area, as
1741 now the FTP code attempts to keep (better) track on pending responses
1742 necessary to get read in ftp_done().
1744 Daniel Stenberg (19 Feb 2009)
1745 - Patrik Thunstrom reported a problem and helped me repeat it. It turned out
1746 libcurl did a superfluous 1000ms wait when doing SFTP downloads!
1748 We read data with libssh2 while doing the "DO" operation for SFTP and then
1749 when we were about to start getting data for the actual file part, the
1750 "TRANSFER" part, we waited for socket action (in 1000ms) before doing a
1751 libssh2-read. But in this case libssh2 had already read and buffered the
1752 data so we ended up always just waiting 1000ms before we get working on the
1755 Patrick Monnerat (18 Feb 2009)
1756 - FTP downloads (i.e.: RETR) ending with code 550 now return error
1757 CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_NOT_FOUND instead of CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE.
1759 Daniel Stenberg (17 Feb 2009)
1760 - Kamil Dudka made NSS-powered builds compile and run again!
1762 - A second follow-up change by Andre Guibert de Bruet to fix a related memory
1763 leak like that fixed on the 14th. When zlib returns failure, we need to
1764 cleanup properly before returning error.
1766 - CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS can now be set to 2 in addition to 1 for
1767 plain FTP connections, and it will then allow MKD to fail once and retry the
1768 CWD afterwards. This is especially useful if you're doing many simultanoes
1769 connections against the same server and they all have this option enabled,
1770 as then CWD may first fail but then another connection does MKD before this
1771 connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works! The numbers can
1772 (should?) now be set with the convenience enums now called
1773 CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR and CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY.
1775 Tests has proven that if you're making an application that uploads a set of
1776 files to an ftp server, you will get a noticable gain in speed if you're
1777 using multiple connections and this option will be then be very useful.
1779 Daniel Stenberg (14 Feb 2009)
1780 - Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a memory leak in the content encoding
1781 code, which could happen on libz errors.
1783 Daniel Fandrich (12 Feb 2009)
1784 - Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication using GnuTLS.
1786 Daniel Stenberg (11 Feb 2009)
1787 - CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET was added to allow an application to get to know if
1788 the condition in the previous request was unmet. This is typically a time
1789 condition set with CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION and was previously not possible to
1790 reliably figure out. From bug report #2565128
1791 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2565128) filed by Jocelyn Jaubert.
1793 Daniel Fandrich (4 Feb 2009)
1794 - Don't add the standard /usr/lib or /usr/include paths to LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
1795 (respectively) when --with-ssl=/usr is used (patch based on FreeBSD).
1797 - Added an explicit buffer limit check in msdosify() (patch based on FreeBSD).
1798 This couldn't ever overflow in curl, but might if the code were used
1799 elsewhere or under different conditions.
1801 Daniel Stenberg (3 Feb 2009)
1802 - Hidemoto Nakada provided a small fix that makes it possible to get the
1803 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD size from file:// "transfers" with
1804 CURLOPT_NOBODY set true.
1806 Daniel Stenberg (2 Feb 2009)
1807 - Patrick Scott found a rather large memory leak when using the multi
1808 interface and setting CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS to something less than the number
1809 of handles you add to the multi handle. All the connections that didn't fit
1810 in the cache would not be properly disconnected nor freed!
1812 - Craig A West brought us: libcurl now defaults to do CONNECT with HTTP
1813 version 1.1 instead of 1.0 like before. This change also introduces the new
1814 proxy type for libcurl called 'CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0' that then allows apps to
1815 switch (back) to CONNECT 1.0 requests. The curl tool also got a --proxy1.0
1816 option that works exactly like --proxy but sets CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0.
1818 I updated all test cases cases that use CONNECT and I tried to do some using
1819 --proxy1.0 and some updated to do CONNECT 1.1 to get both versions run.
1821 Daniel Stenberg (31 Jan 2009)
1822 - When building with c-ares 1.6.1 (not yet released) or later and IPv6 support
1823 enabled, we can now take advantage of its brand new AF_UNSPEC support in
1824 ares_gethostbyname(). This makes test case 241 finally run fine for me with
1825 this setup since it now parses the "::1 ip6-localhost" line fine in my
1828 Daniel Stenberg (30 Jan 2009)
1829 - Scott Cantor filed bug report #2550061
1830 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2550061) mentioning that I failed to
1831 properly make sure that the VC9 makefiles got included in the latest
1832 release. I've now fixed the release script and verified it so next release
1833 will hopefully include them properly!
1835 Daniel Fandrich (30 Jan 2009)
1836 - Fixed --disable-proxy for FTP and SOCKS. Thanks to Daniel Egger for
1839 Yang Tse (29 Jan 2009)
1840 - Introduced curl_sspi.c and curl_sspi.h for the implementation of functions
1841 Curl_sspi_global_init() and Curl_sspi_global_cleanup() which previously were
1842 named Curl_ntlm_global_init() and Curl_ntlm_global_cleanup() in http_ntlm.c
1843 Also adjusted socks_sspi.c to remove the link-time dependency on the Windows
1844 SSPI library using it now in the same way as it was done in http_ntlm.c.
1846 Daniel Stenberg (28 Jan 2009)
1847 - Markus Moeller introduced two new options to libcurl:
1848 CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE and CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC to allow libcurl
1849 to do GSS-style authentication with SOCKS5 proxies. The curl tool got the
1850 options called --socks5-gssapi-service and --socks5-gssapi-nec to enable
1853 Daniel Stenberg (26 Jan 2009)
1854 - Chad Monroe provided the new CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE option that allows an app
1855 to set desired block size to use for TFTP transfers instead of the default
1858 - The "-no_ticket" option was introduced in Openssl0.9.8j. It's a flag to
1859 disable "rfc4507bis session ticket support". rfc4507bis was later turned
1860 into the proper RFC5077 it seems: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077
1862 The enabled extension concerns the session management. I wonder how often
1863 libcurl stops a connection and then resumes a TLS session. also, sending the
1864 session data is some overhead. .I suggest that you just use your proposed
1865 patch (which explicitly disables TICKET).
1867 If someone writes an application with libcurl and openssl who wants to
1868 enable the feature, one can do this in the SSL callback.
1870 Sharad Gupta brought this to my attention. Peter Sylvester helped me decide
1871 on the proper action.
1873 - Alexey Borzov filed bug report #2535504
1874 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2535504) pointing out that realms with
1875 quoted quotation marks in HTTP Digest headers didn't work. I've now added
1876 test case 1095 that verifies my fix.
1878 - Craig A West brought CURLOPT_NOPROXY and the corresponding --noproxy option.
1879 They basically offer the same thing the NO_PROXY environment variable only
1880 offered previously: list a set of host names that shall not use the proxy
1881 even if one is specified.
1883 Daniel Fandrich (20 Jan 2009)
1884 - Call setlocale() for libtest tests to test the effects of locale-induced
1885 libc changes on libcurl.
1887 - Fixed a couple more locale-dependent toupper conversions, mainly for
1888 clarity. This does fix one problem that causes ;type=i FTP URLs
1889 to fail in the Turkish locale when CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE is
1890 used (test case 561)
1892 - Added tests 561 and 1091 through 1094 to test various combinations
1893 of ;type= and ;mode= URLs that could potentially fail in the Turkish
1896 Daniel Stenberg (20 Jan 2009)
1897 - Lisa Xu pointed out that the ssh.obj file was missing from the
1898 lib/Makefile.vc6 file (and thus from the vc8 and vc9 ones too).
1900 Version 7.19.3 (19 January 2009)
1902 Daniel Stenberg (16 Jan 2009)
1903 - Andrew de los Reyes fixed curlbuild.h for "generic" gcc builds on PPC, both
1906 Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 2009)
1907 - Tim Ansell fixed a compiler warning in lib/cookie.c
1909 Daniel Stenberg (14 Jan 2009)
1910 - Grant Erickson fixed timeouts for TFTP such that specifying a
1911 connect-timeout, a max-time or both options work correctly and as expected
1912 by passing the correct boolean value to Curl_timeleft via the
1913 'duringconnect' parameter.
1915 With this small change, curl TFTP now behaves as expected (and likely as
1916 originally-designed):
1918 1) For non-existent or unreachable dotted IP addresses:
1920 a) With no options, follows the default curl 300s timeout...
1921 b) With --connect-timeout only, follows that value...
1922 c) With --max-time only, follows that value...
1923 d) With both --connect-timeout and --max-time, follows the smaller value...
1925 and times out with a "curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server" error.
1927 2) For transfers to/from a valid host:
1929 a) With no options, follows default curl 300s timeout for the
1930 first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the default TFTP 3600s
1931 timeout for the remainder of the transfer...
1933 b) With --connect-time only, follows that value for the
1934 first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the default TFTP 3600s
1935 timeout for the remainder of the transfer...
1937 c) With --max-time only, follows that value for the first
1938 XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and for the remainder of the
1941 d) With both --connect-timeout and --max-time, follows the former
1942 for the first XRQ/DATA/ACK transaction and the latter for the
1943 remainder of the transfer...
1945 and times out with a "curl: (28) Timeout was reached" error as
1948 Daniel Stenberg (13 Jan 2009)
1949 - Michael Wallner fixed a NULL pointer deref when calling
1950 curl_easy_setup(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, "SESS") on a CURL handle with no
1953 - Stefan Teleman brought a patch to fix the default curlbuild.h file for the
1956 Daniel Stenberg (12 Jan 2009)
1957 - Based on bug report #2498665 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2498665)
1958 by Daniel Black, I've now added magic to the configure script that makes it
1959 use pkg-config to detect gnutls details as well if the existing method
1960 (using libgnutls-config) fails. While doing this, I cleaned up and unified
1961 the pkg-config usage when detecting openssl and nss as well.
1963 Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 2009)
1964 - Karl Moerder brought the patch that creates vc9 Makefiles, and I made
1965 'maketgz' now use the actual makefile targets to do the VC8 and VC9
1968 Daniel Stenberg (10 Jan 2009)
1969 - Emil Romanus fixed:
1971 When using the multi interface over HTTP and the server returns a Location
1972 header, the running easy handle will get stuck in the CURLM_STATE_PERFORM
1973 state, leaving the external event loop stuck waiting for data from the
1974 ingoing socket (when using the curl_multi_socket_action stuff). While this
1975 bug was pretty hard to find, it seems to require only a one-line fix. The
1976 break statement on line 1374 in multi.c caused the function to skip the call
1979 How to reproduce this bug? Well, that's another question. evhiperfifo.c in
1980 the examples directory chokes on this bug only _sometimes_, probably
1981 depending on how fast the URLs are added. One way of testing the bug out is
1982 writing to hiper.fifo from more than one source at the same time.
1984 Daniel Fandrich (7 Jan 2009)
1985 - Unified much of the SessionHandle initialization done in Curl_open() and
1986 curl_easy_reset() by creating Curl_init_userdefined(). This had the side
1987 effect of fixing curl_easy_reset() so it now also resets
1988 CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD and CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE
1990 Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 2009)
1991 - Rob Crittenden did once again provide an NSS update:
1993 I have to jump through a few hoops now with the NSS library initialization
1994 since another part of an application may have already initialized NSS by the
1995 time Curl gets invoked. This patch is more careful to only shutdown the NSS
1996 library if Curl did the initialization.
1998 It also adds in a bit of code to set the default ciphers if the app that
1999 call NSS_Init* did not call NSS_SetDomesticPolicy() or set specific
2000 ciphers. One might argue that this lets other application developers get
2001 lazy and/or they aren't using the NSS API correctly, and you'd be right.
2002 But still, this will avoid terribly difficult-to-trace crashes and is
2005 Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2009)
2006 - 'reconf' is removed since we rather have users use 'buildconf'
2008 Daniel Stenberg (31 Dec 2008)
2009 - Bas Mevissen reported http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2479030 pointing
2010 out that 'reconf' didn't properly point out the m4 subdirectory when running
2013 Daniel Stenberg (29 Dec 2008)
2014 - Phil Lisiecki filed bug report #2413067
2015 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2413067) that identified a problem that
2016 would cause libcurl to mark a DNS cache entry "in use" eternally if the
2017 subsequence TCP connect failed. It would thus never get pruned and refreshed
2018 as it should've been.
2020 Phil provided his own patch to this problem that while it seemed to work
2021 wasn't complete and thus I wrote my own fix to the problem.
2023 Daniel Stenberg (28 Dec 2008)
2024 - Peter Korsgaard fixed building libcurl with "configure --with-ssl
2027 - Anthony Bryan fixed more language and spelling flaws in man pages.
2029 Daniel Stenberg (22 Dec 2008)
2030 - Given a recent enough libssh2, libcurl can now seek/resume with SFTP even
2031 on file indexes beyond 2 or 4GB.
2033 - Anthony Bryan provided a set of patches that cleaned up manual language,
2034 corrected spellings and more.
2036 Daniel Stenberg (20 Dec 2008)
2037 - Igor Novoseltsev fixed a bad situation for the multi_socket() API when doing
2038 pipelining, as libcurl could then easily get confused and A) work on the
2039 handle that was not "first in queue" on a pipeline, or even B) tell the app
2040 to REMOVE a socket while it was in use by a second handle in a pipeline. Both
2041 errors caused hanging or stalling applications.
2043 Daniel Stenberg (19 Dec 2008)
2044 - curl_multi_timeout() could return a timeout value of 0 even though nothing
2045 was actually ready to get done, as the internal time resolution is higher
2046 than the returned millisecond timer. Therefore it could cause applications
2047 running on fast processors to do short bursts of busy-loops.
2048 curl_multi_timeout() will now only return 0 if the timeout is actually
2051 - Using the libssh2 0.19 function libssh2_session_block_directions(), libcurl
2052 now has an improved ability to do right when the multi interface (both
2053 "regular" and multi_socket) is used for SCP and SFTP transfers. This should
2054 result in (much) less busy-loop situations and thus less CPU usage with no
2057 Daniel Stenberg (17 Dec 2008)
2058 - SCP and SFTP with the multi interface had the same flaw: the 'DONE'
2059 operation didn't complete properly if the EAGAIN equivalent was returned but
2060 libcurl would simply continue with a half-completed close operation
2061 performed. This ruined persistent connection re-use and cause some
2062 SSH-protocol errors in general. The correction is unfortunately adding a
2063 blocking function - doing it entirely non-blocking should be considered for
2066 Gisle Vanem (16 Dec 2008)
2067 - Added the possibility to use the Watt-32 tcp/ip stack under Windows.
2068 The change simply involved adding a USE_WATT32 section in the
2069 config-win32.h files (under ./lib and ./src). This section disables
2070 the use of any Winsock headers.
2072 Daniel Stenberg (16 Dec 2008)
2073 - libssh2_sftp_last_error() was wrongly used at some places in libcurl which
2074 made libcurl sometimes not properly abort problematic SFTP transfers.
2076 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2008)
2077 - More work with Igor Novoseltsev to first fix the remaining stuff for
2078 removing easy handles from multi handles when the easy handle is/was within
2079 a HTTP pipeline. His bug report #2351653
2080 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2351653) was also related and was
2081 eventually fixed by a patch by Igor himself.
2083 Yang Tse (12 Dec 2008)
2084 - Patrick Monnerat fixed a build regression, introduced in 7.19.2, affecting
2085 OS/400 compilations with IPv6 enabled.
2087 Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2008)
2088 - Mark Karpeles filed bug report #2416182 titled "crash in ConnectionExists
2089 when using duphandle+curl_mutli"
2090 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2416182) which showed that
2091 curl_easy_duphandle() wrongly also copied the pointer to the connection
2092 cache, which was plain wrong and caused a segfault if the handle would be
2093 used in a different multi handle than the handle it was duplicated from.
2095 Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
2096 - Keshav Krity found out that libcurl failed to deal with dotted IPv6
2097 addresses if they were very long (>39 letters) due to a too strict address
2098 validity parser. It now accepts addresses up to 45 bytes long.
2100 Daniel Stenberg (11 Dec 2008)
2101 - Internet Explorer had a broken HTTP digest authentication before v7 and
2102 there are servers "out there" that relies on the client doing this broken
2103 Digest authentication. Apache even comes with an option to work with such
2106 The difference is only for URLs that contain a query-part (a '?'-letter and
2107 text to the right of it).
2109 libcurl now supports this quirk, and you enable it by setting the
2110 CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE bit in the bitmask you pass to the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH or
2111 CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH options. They are thus individually controlled to server
2114 (note that there's no way to activate this with the curl tool yet)
2116 Daniel Fandrich (9 Dec 2008)
2117 - Added test cases 1089 and 1090 to test --write-out after a redirect to
2118 test a report that the size didn't work, but these test cases pass.
2120 - Documented CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY as being useful only on HTTP URLs.
2122 Daniel Stenberg (9 Dec 2008)
2123 - Ken Hirsch simplified how libcurl does FTPS: now it doesn't assume any
2124 particular state for the control connection like it did before for implicit
2125 FTPS (libcurl assumed such control connections to be encrypted while some
2126 FTPS servers such as FileZilla assumes such connections to be clear
2127 mode). Use the CURLOPT_USE_SSL option to set your desired level.
2129 Daniel Stenberg (8 Dec 2008)
2130 - Fred Machado posted about a weird FTP problem on the curl-users list and when
2131 researching it, it turned out he got a 550 response back from a SIZE command
2132 and then I fell over the text in RFC3659 that says:
2134 The presence of the 550 error response to a SIZE command MUST NOT be taken
2135 by the client as an indication that the file cannot be transferred in the
2136 current MODE and TYPE.
2138 In other words: the change I did on September 30th 2008 and that has been
2139 included in the last two releases were a regression and a bad idea. We MUST
2140 NOT take a 550 response from SIZE as a hint that the file doesn't exist.
2142 - Christian Krause filed bug #2221237
2143 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2221237) that identified an infinite
2144 loop during GSS authentication given some specific conditions. With his
2145 patience and great feedback I managed to narrow down the problem and
2146 eventually fix it although I can't test any of this myself!
2148 Daniel Fandrich (3 Dec 2008)
2149 - Fixed the getifaddrs version of Curl_if2ip to work on systems without IPv6
2150 support (e.g. Minix)
2152 Daniel Stenberg (3 Dec 2008)
2153 - Igor Novoseltsev filed bug #2351645
2154 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2351645) that identified a problem with
2155 the multi interface that occured if you removed an easy handle while in
2156 progress and the handle was used in a HTTP pipeline.
2158 - Pawel Kierski pointed out a mistake in the cookie code that could lead to a
2159 bad fclose() after a fatal error had occured.
2160 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2382219)
2162 Daniel Fandrich (25 Nov 2008)
2163 - If a HTTP request is Basic and num is already >=1000, the HTTP test
2164 server adds 1 to num to get the data section to return. This allows
2165 testing authentication negotiations using the Basic authentication
2168 - Added tests 1087 and 1088 to test Basic authentication on a redirect
2169 with and without --location-trusted
2171 Daniel Stenberg (24 Nov 2008)
2172 - Based on a patch by Vlad Grachov, libcurl now uses a new libssh2 0.19
2173 function when built to support SCP and SFTP that helps the library to know
2174 in which direction a particular libssh2 operation would return EAGAIN so
2175 that libcurl knows what socket conditions to wait for before trying the
2176 function call again. Previously (and still when using libssh2 0.18 or
2177 earlier), libcurl will busy-loop in this situation when the easy interface
2180 Daniel Fandrich (20 Nov 2008)
2181 - Automatically detect OpenBSD's CA cert bundle.
2183 Daniel Stenberg (19 Nov 2008)
2184 - I removed the default use of "Pragma: no-cache" from libcurl when a proxy is
2185 used. It has been used since forever but it was never a good idea to use
2186 unless explicitly asked for.
2188 - Josef Wolf's extension that allows a $TESTDIR/gdbinit$testnum file that when
2189 you use runtests.pl -g, will be sourced by gdb to allow additional fancy or
2190 whatever you see fit
2192 - Christian Krause reported and fixed a memory leak that would occur with HTTP
2193 GSS/kerberos authentication (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2284386)
2195 - Andreas Wurf and Markus Koetter helped me analyze a problem that Andreas got
2196 when uploading files to a single FTP server using multiple easy handle
2197 handles with the multi interface. Occasionally a handle would stall in
2200 The problem turned out to be a side-effect of the ConnectionExists()
2201 function's eagerness to re-use a handle for HTTP pipelining so it would
2202 select it even if already being in use, due to an inadequate check for its
2203 chances of being used for pipelnining.
2205 Daniel Fandrich (17 Nov 2008)
2206 - Added more compiler warning options for gcc 4.3
2208 Yang Tse (17 Nov 2008)
2209 - Fix a remaining problem in the inet_pton() runtime configure check. And
2210 fix internal Curl_inet_pton() failures to reject certain malformed literals.
2212 - Make configure script check if ioctl with the SIOCGIFADDR command can be
2213 used, and define HAVE_IOCTL_SIOCGIFADDR if appropriate.
2215 Daniel Stenberg (16 Nov 2008)
2216 - Christian Krause fixed a build failure when building with gss support
2217 enabled and FTP disabled.
2219 - Added check for NULL returns from strdup() in src/main.c and lib/formdata.c
2220 - reported by Jim Meyering also prevent buffer overflow on MSDOS when you do
2221 for example -O on a url with a file name part longer than PATH_MAX letters
2223 - lib/nss.c fixes based on the report by Jim Meyering: I went over and added
2224 checks for return codes for all calls to malloc and strdup that were
2225 missing. I also changed a few malloc(13) to use arrays on the stack and a
2226 few malloc(PATH_MAX) to instead use aprintf() to lower memory use.
2228 - I fixed a memory leak in Curl_nss_connect() when CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT is
2231 Daniel Fandrich (14 Nov 2008)
2232 - Added .xml as one of the few common file extensions known by the multipart
2235 - Added some #ifdefs around header files and change the EAGAIN test to
2236 fix compilation on Cell (reported by Jeff Curley).
2238 Yang Tse (14 Nov 2008)
2239 - Fixed several configure script issues affecting checks for inet_ntoa_r(),
2240 inet_ntop(), inet_pton(), getifaddrs(), fcntl() and getaddrinfo().
2242 Yang Tse (13 Nov 2008)
2243 - Refactored configure script detection of functions used to set sockets into
2244 non-blocking mode, and decouple function detection from function capability.