curl the next few years - perhaps
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Roadmap of things Daniel Stenberg and Steve Holme want to work on next. It is
intended to serve as a guideline for others for information, feedback and
possible participation.
New stuff - libcurl
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1. http2 test suite
5. HTTPS to proxy
-6. make sure there's an easy handle passed in to `curl_formadd()`,
- `curl_formget()` and `curl_formfree()` by adding replacement functions and
+6. make sure there's an easy handle passed in to curl_formadd(),
+ curl_formget() and curl_formfree() by adding replacement functions and
deprecating the old ones to allow custom mallocs and more
-7. add support for third-party SASL libraries such as Cyrus SASL - may need to
+7. HTTP Digest authentication via Windows SSPI
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+8. GSSAPI authentication in the email protocols
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+9. add support for third-party SASL libraries such as Cyrus SASL - may need to
move existing native and SSPI based authentication into vsasl folder after
reworking HTTP and SASL code
-8. SASL authentication in LDAP
+10. SASL authentication in LDAP
-9. Simplify the SMTP email interface so that programmers don't have to
- construct the body of an email that contains all the headers, alternative
- content, images and attachments - maintain raw interface so that
- programmers that want to do this can
+11. Simplify the SMTP email interface so that programmers don't have to
+ construct the body of an email that contains all the headers, alternative
+ content, images and attachments - maintain raw interface so that
+ programmers that want to do this can
-10. Allow the email protocols to return the capabilities before
+12. Allow the email protocols to return the capabilities before
authenticating. This will allow an application to decide on the best
authentication mechanism
-11. Allow Windows threading model to be replaced by Win32 pthreads port
+13. Allow Windows threading model to be replaced by Win32 pthreads port
-12. Implement a dynamic buffer size to allow SFTP to use much larger buffers
+14. Implement a dynamic buffer size to allow SFTP to use much larger buffers
and possibly allow the size to be customizable by applications. Use less
memory when handles are not in use?
New stuff - curl
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1. Embed a language interpreter (lua?). For that middle ground where curl
isn’t enough and a libcurl binding feels “too much”. Build-time conditional
don't have to be constructed before calling curl
Improve
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1. build for windows (considered hard by many users)
features/options in the future too
4. docs (considered "bad" by users but how do we make it better?)
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- - split up `curl_easy_setopt.3`
- - split up curl.1
+ A - split up curl_easy_setopt.3
+ B - split up curl.1
5. authentication framework (consider merging HTTP and SASL authentication to
give one API for protocols to call)
ago
Remove
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1. cmake support (nobody maintains it)