Things to do in project cURL. Please tell us what you think, contribute and
send us patches that improve things!
+ Be aware that these are things that we could do, or have once been considered
+ things we could do. If you want to work on any of these areas, please
+ consider bringing it up for discussions first on the mailing list so that we
+ all agree it is still a good idea for the project!
+
All bugs documented in the KNOWN_BUGS document are subject for fixing!
1. libcurl
1.7 Detect when called from within callbacks
1.8 Allow SSL (HTTPS) to proxy
1.9 Cache negative name resolves
+ 1.10 Support IDNA2008
+ 1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamicly loaded modules
+ 1.12 have form functions use CURL handle argument
+ 1.13 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
+ 1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
+ 1.15 TCP Fast Open
+ 1.16 Try to URL encode given URL
2. libcurl - multi interface
2.1 More non-blocking
- 2.2 Fix HTTP Pipelining for PUT
- 2.3 Better support for same name resolves
+ 2.2 Better support for same name resolves
+ 2.3 Non-blocking curl_multi_remove_handle()
+ 2.4 Split connect and authentication process
3. Documentation
3.1 Update date and version in man pages
5.3 Rearrange request header order
5.4 SPDY
5.5 auth= in URLs
+ 5.6 Refuse "downgrade" redirects
+ 5.7 More compressions
6. TELNET
6.1 ditch stdin
7. SMTP
7.1 Pipelining
7.2 Enhanced capability support
-
+
8. POP3
8.1 Pipelining
8.2 Enhanced capability support
-
+
9. IMAP
9.1 Enhanced capability support
-
+
10. LDAP
10.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms
-
- 11. New protocols
- 11.1 RSYNC
-
- 12. SSL
- 12.1 Disable specific versions
- 12.2 Provide mutex locking API
- 12.3 Evaluate SSL patches
- 12.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
- 12.5 Export session ids
- 12.6 Provide callback for cert verification
- 12.7 improve configure --with-ssl
- 12.8 Support DANE
-
- 13. GnuTLS
- 13.1 SSL engine stuff
- 13.2 check connection
-
- 14. SASL
- 14.1 Other authentication mechanisms
- 14.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
-
- 15. Client
- 15.1 sync
- 15.2 glob posts
- 15.3 prevent file overwriting
- 15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
- 15.5 provide formpost headers
- 15.6 warning when setting an option
-
- 16. Build
- 16.1 roffit
-
- 17. Test suite
- 17.1 SSL tunnel
- 17.2 nicer lacking perl message
- 17.3 more protocols supported
- 17.4 more platforms supported
- 17.5 Add support for concurrent connections
-
- 18. Next SONAME bump
- 18.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
- 18.2 combine error codes
- 18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
-
- 19. Next major release
- 19.1 cleanup return codes
- 19.2 remove obsolete defines
- 19.3 size_t
- 19.4 remove several functions
- 19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
- 19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
- 19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
- 19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
- 19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
- 19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
+
+ 11. SMB
+ 11.1 File listing support
+ 11.2 Honor file timestamps
+ 11.3 Use NTLMv2
+ 11.4 Create remote directories
+
+ 12. New protocols
+ 12.1 RSYNC
+
+ 13. SSL
+ 13.1 Disable specific versions
+ 13.2 Provide mutex locking API
+ 13.3 Evaluate SSL patches
+ 13.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
+ 13.5 Export session ids
+ 13.6 Provide callback for cert verification
+ 13.7 improve configure --with-ssl
+ 13.8 Support DANE
+
+ 14. GnuTLS
+ 14.1 SSL engine stuff
+ 14.2 check connection
+
+ 15. WinSSL/SChannel
+ 15.1 Add support for client certificate authentication
+ 15.2 Add support for custom server certificate validation
+ 15.3 Add support for the --ciphers option
+
+ 16. SASL
+ 16.1 Other authentication mechanisms
+ 16.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
+
+ 17. Command line tool
+ 17.1 sync
+ 17.2 glob posts
+ 17.3 prevent file overwriting
+ 17.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
+ 17.5 provide formpost headers
+ 17.6 warning when setting an option
+ 17.7 warning when sending binary output to terminal
+ 17.8 offer color-coded HTTP header output
+ 17.9 Choose the name of file in braces for complex URLs
+ 17.10 improve how curl works in a windows console window
+ 17.11 -w output to stderr
+ 17.12 keep running, read instructions from pipe/socket
+
+ 18. Build
+ 18.1 roffit
+
+ 19. Test suite
+ 19.1 SSL tunnel
+ 19.2 nicer lacking perl message
+ 19.3 more protocols supported
+ 19.4 more platforms supported
+ 19.5 Add support for concurrent connections
+ 19.6 Use the RFC6265 test suite
+
+ 20. Next SONAME bump
+ 20.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
+ 20.2 combine error codes
+ 20.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
+
+ 21. Next major release
+ 21.1 cleanup return codes
+ 21.2 remove obsolete defines
+ 21.3 size_t
+ 21.4 remove several functions
+ 21.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
+ 21.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
+ 21.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
+ 21.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
==============================================================================
signal handler back into the library with a sigsetjmp, which effectively
causes libcurl to continue running within the signal handler. This is
non-portable and could cause problems on some platforms. A discussion on the
- problem is available at http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-09/0197.html
+ problem is available at https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-09/0197.html
Also, alarm() provides timeout resolution only to the nearest second. alarm
ought to be replaced by setitimer on systems that support it.
To prevent local users from snooping on your traffic to the proxy. Supported
by Chrome already:
- http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/secure-web-proxy
+ https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/secure-web-proxy
...and by Firefox soon:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378637
A name resolve that has failed is likely to fail when made again within a
short period of time. Currently we only cache positive responses.
+1.10 Support IDNA2008
+
+ International Domain Names are supported in libcurl since years back, powered
+ by libidn. libidn implements IDNA2003 which has been superseded by IDNA2008.
+ libidn2 is an existing library offering support for IDNA2008.
+
+1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamicly loaded modules
+
+ We can create a system with loadable modules/plug-ins, where these modules
+ would be the ones that link to 3rd party libs. That would allow us to avoid
+ having to load ALL dependencies since only the necessary ones for this
+ app/invoke/used protocols would be necessary to load. See
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/349
+
+1.12 have form functions use CURL handle argument
+
+ curl_formadd() and curl_formget() both currently have no CURL handle
+ argument, but both can use a callback that is set in the easy handle, and
+ thus curl_formget() with callback cannot function without first having
+ curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design
+ mistake.
+
+ The curl_formadd() design can probably also be reconsidered to make it easier
+ to use and less error-prone. Probably easiest by splitting it into several
+ function calls.
+
+1.13 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
+
+ Rather than use the URL to specify the mail client string to present in the
+ HELO and EHLO commands, libcurl should support a new CURLOPT specifically for
+ specifying this data as the URL is non-standard and to be honest a bit of a
+ hack ;-)
+
+ Please see the following thread for more information:
+ https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-05/0178.html
+
+1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
+
+ One of the most common problems in libcurl using applications is the lack of
+ type checks for curl_easy_setopt() which happens because it accepts varargs
+ and thus can take any type.
+
+ One possible solution to this is to introduce a few different versions of the
+ setopt version for the different kinds of data you can set.
+
+ curl_easy_set_num() - sets a long value
+
+ curl_easy_set_large() - sets a curl_off_t value
+
+ curl_easy_set_ptr() - sets a pointer
+
+ curl_easy_set_cb() - sets a callback PLUS its callback data
+
+1.15 TCP Fast Open
+
+ RFC 7413 defines how to include data already in the TCP SYN handshake to
+ reduce latency.
+
+1.16 Try to URL encode given URL
+
+ Given a URL that for example contains spaces, libcurl could have an option
+ that would try somewhat harder than it does now and convert spaces to %20 and
+ perhaps URL encoded byte values over 128 etc (basically do what the redirect
+ following code already does).
+
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/514
2. libcurl - multi interface
- The "DONE" operation (post transfer protocol-specific actions) for the
protocols SFTP, SMTP, FTP. Fixing Curl_done() for this is a worthy task.
-2.2 Fix HTTP Pipelining for PUT
-
- HTTP Pipelining can be a way to greatly enhance performance for multiple
- serial requests and currently libcurl only supports that for HEAD and GET
- requests but it should also be possible for PUT.
-
-2.3 Better support for same name resolves
+2.2 Better support for same name resolves
If a name resolve has been initiated for name NN and a second easy handle
wants to resolve that name as well, make it wait for the first resolve to end
especially needed when adding many simultaneous handles using the same host
name when the DNS resolver can get flooded.
+2.3 Non-blocking curl_multi_remove_handle()
+
+ The multi interface has a few API calls that assume a blocking behavior, like
+ add_handle() and remove_handle() which limits what we can do internally. The
+ multi API need to be moved even more into a single function that "drives"
+ everything in a non-blocking manner and signals when something is done. A
+ remove or add would then only ask for the action to get started and then
+ multi_perform() etc still be called until the add/remove is completed.
+
+2.4 Split connect and authentication process
+
+ The multi interface treats the authentication process as part of the connect
+ phase. As such any failures during authentication won't trigger the relevant
+ QUIT or LOGOFF for protocols such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
3. Documentation
HOST is a command for a client to tell which host name to use, to offer FTP
servers named-based virtual hosting:
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7151
+ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7151
4.2 Alter passive/active on failure and retry
When trying to connect passively to a server which only supports active
connections, libcurl returns CURLE_FTP_WEIRD_PASV_REPLY and closes the
connection. There could be a way to fallback to an active connection (and
- vice versa). http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1754793
+ vice versa). https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1754793
4.3 Earlier bad letter detection
5.1 Better persistency for HTTP 1.0
"Better" support for persistent connections over HTTP 1.0
- http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1089001
+ https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1089001
5.2 support FF3 sqlite cookie files
Firefox 3 is changing from its former format to a a sqlite database instead.
We should consider how (lib)curl can/should support this.
- http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1871388
+ https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1871388
5.3 Rearrange request header order
For example:
http://test:pass;auth=NTLM@example.com would be equivalent to specifying --user
- test:pass;auth=NTLM or --user test:pass --ntlm from the command line.
+ test:pass;auth=NTLM or --user test:pass --ntlm from the command line.
Additionally this should be implemented for proxy base URLs as well.
+5.6 Refuse "downgrade" redirects
+
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/226
+
+ Consider a way to tell curl to refuse to "downgrade" protocol with a redirect
+ and/or possibly a bit that refuses redirect to change protocol completely.
+
+5.7 More compressions
+
+ Compression algorithms that perform better than gzip are being considered for
+ use and inclusion in existing browsers. For example 'brotli'. If servers
+ follow along it is a good reason for us to also allow users to take advantage
+ of this. The algorithm: https://github.com/google/brotli The Firefox bug:
+ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559
+
+
6. TELNET
6.1 ditch stdin
be possible to use ldap_bind_s() instead specifying the security context
information ourselves.
-11. New protocols
+11. SMB
+
+11.1 File listing support
+
+Add support for listing the contents of a SMB share. The output should probably
+be the same as/similar to FTP.
+
+11.2 Honor file timestamps
-11.1 RSYNC
+The timestamp of the transferred file should reflect that of the original file.
+
+11.3 Use NTLMv2
+
+Currently the SMB authentication uses NTLMv1.
+
+11.4 Create remote directories
+
+Support for creating remote directories when uploading a file to a directory
+that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs.
+
+12. New protocols
+
+12.1 RSYNC
There's no RFC for the protocol or an URI/URL format. An implementation
should most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync.
-12. SSL
+13. SSL
-12.1 Disable specific versions
+13.1 Disable specific versions
Provide an option that allows for disabling specific SSL versions, such as
- SSLv2 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1767276
+ SSLv2 https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1767276
-12.2 Provide mutex locking API
+13.2 Provide mutex locking API
Provide a libcurl API for setting mutex callbacks in the underlying SSL
library, so that the same application code can use mutex-locking
independently of OpenSSL or GnutTLS being used.
-12.3 Evaluate SSL patches
+13.3 Evaluate SSL patches
Evaluate/apply Gertjan van Wingerde's SSL patches:
- http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-03/0087.html
+ https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-03/0087.html
-12.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
+13.4 Cache OpenSSL contexts
"Look at SSL cafile - quick traces look to me like these are done on every
request as well, when they should only be necessary once per SSL context (or
style connections are re-used. It will make us use slightly more memory but
it will libcurl do less creations and deletions of SSL contexts.
-12.5 Export session ids
+13.5 Export session ids
Add an interface to libcurl that enables "session IDs" to get
exported/imported. Cris Bailiff said: "OpenSSL has functions which can
the state from such a buffer at a later date - this is used by mod_ssl for
apache to implement and SSL session ID cache".
-12.6 Provide callback for cert verification
+13.6 Provide callback for cert verification
OpenSSL supports a callback for customised verification of the peer
certificate, but this doesn't seem to be exposed in the libcurl APIs. Could
it be? There's so much that could be done if it were!
-12.7 improve configure --with-ssl
+13.7 improve configure --with-ssl
make the configure --with-ssl option first check for OpenSSL, then GnuTLS,
then NSS...
-12.8 Support DANE
+13.8 Support DANE
DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a way to provide SSL
keys and certs over DNS using DNSSEC as an alternative to the CA model.
- http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6698.txt
+ https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6698.txt
An initial patch was posted by Suresh Krishnaswamy on March 7th 2013
- (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0075.html) but it was a too simple
+ (https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0075.html) but it was a too simple
approach. See Daniel's comments:
- http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0103.html . libunbound may be the
+ https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-03/0103.html . libunbound may be the
correct library to base this development on.
-13. GnuTLS
+14. GnuTLS
-13.1 SSL engine stuff
+14.1 SSL engine stuff
Is this even possible?
-13.2 check connection
+14.2 check connection
Add a way to check if the connection seems to be alive, to correspond to the
SSL_peak() way we use with OpenSSL.
-14. SASL
+15. WinSSL/SChannel
+
+15.1 Add support for client certificate authentication
+
+ WinSSL/SChannel currently makes use of the OS-level system and user
+ certificate and private key stores. This does not allow the application
+ or the user to supply a custom client certificate using curl or libcurl.
+
+ Therefore support for the existing -E/--cert and --key options should be
+ implemented by supplying a custom certificate to the SChannel APIs, see:
+ - Getting a Certificate for Schannel
+ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375447.aspx
+
+15.2 Add support for custom server certificate validation
+
+ WinSSL/SChannel currently makes use of the OS-level system and user
+ certificate trust store. This does not allow the application or user to
+ customize the server certificate validation process using curl or libcurl.
+
+ Therefore support for the existing --cacert or --capath options should be
+ implemented by supplying a custom certificate to the SChannel APIs, see:
+ - Getting a Certificate for Schannel
+ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375447.aspx
+
+15.3 Add support for the --ciphers option
-14.1 Other authentication mechanisms
+ The cipher suites used by WinSSL/SChannel are configured on an OS-level
+ instead of an application-level. This does not allow the application or
+ the user to customize the configured cipher suites using curl or libcurl.
- Add support for other authentication mechanisms such as EXTERNAL, OLP,
+ Therefore support for the existing --ciphers option should be implemented
+ by mapping the OpenSSL/GnuTLS cipher suites to the SChannel APIs, see
+ - Specifying Schannel Ciphers and Cipher Strengths
+ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380161.aspx
+
+16. SASL
+
+16.1 Other authentication mechanisms
+
+ Add support for other authentication mechanisms such as OLP,
GSS-SPNEGO and others.
-
-14.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
+
+16.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
Currently the GSSAPI authentication only supports the default QOP of auth
(Authentication), whilst Kerberos V5 supports both auth-int (Authentication
with integrity protection) and auth-conf (Authentication with integrity and
privacy protection).
-15. Client
+17. Command line tool
-15.1 sync
+17.1 sync
"curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or
"curl --sync http://example.net/{index,calendar,history}.html"
remote file is newer than the local file. A Last-Modified HTTP date header
should also be used to set the mod date on the downloaded file.
-15.2 glob posts
+17.2 glob posts
Globbing support for -d and -F, as in 'curl -d "name=foo[0-9]" URL'.
This is easily scripted though.
-15.3 prevent file overwriting
+17.3 prevent file overwriting
Add an option that prevents cURL from overwriting existing local files. When
used, and there already is an existing file with the target file name
existing). So that index.html becomes first index.html.1 and then
index.html.2 etc.
-15.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
+17.4 simultaneous parallel transfers
The client could be told to use maximum N simultaneous parallel transfers and
then just make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one
connection to the same remote host. This would require the client to use the
- multi interface. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595
+ multi interface. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595
-15.5 provide formpost headers
+17.5 provide formpost headers
Extending the capabilities of the multipart formposting. How about leaving
the ';type=foo' syntax as it is and adding an extra tag (headers) which
which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text,
8bit...)
-15.6 warning when setting an option
+17.6 warning when setting an option
+
+ Display a warning when libcurl returns an error when setting an option.
+ This can be useful to tell when support for a particular feature hasn't been
+ compiled into the library.
+
+17.7 warning when sending binary output to terminal
+
+ Provide a way that prompts the user for confirmation before binary data is
+ sent to the terminal, much in the style 'less' does it.
+
+17.8 offer color-coded HTTP header output
+
+ By offering different color output on the header name and the header
+ contents, they could be made more readable and thus help users working on
+ HTTP services.
+
+17.9 Choose the name of file in braces for complex URLs
+
+ When using braces to download a list of URLs and you use complicated names
+ in the list of alternatives, it could be handy to allow curl to use other
+ names when saving.
+
+ Consider a way to offer that. Possibly like
+ {partURL1:name1,partURL2:name2,partURL3:name3} where the name following the
+ colon is the output name.
- Display a warning when libcurl returns an error when setting an option.
- This can be useful to tell when support for a particular feature hasn't been
- compiled into the library.
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/221
-16. Build
+17.10 improve how curl works in a windows console window
-16.1 roffit
+ If you pull the scrollbar when transferring with curl in a Windows console
+ window, the transfer is interrupted and can get disconnected. This can
+ probably be improved. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/322
+
+17.11 -w output to stderr
+
+ -w is quite useful, but not to those of us who use curl without -o or -O
+ (such as for scripting through a higher level language). It would be nice to
+ have an option that is exactly like -w but sends it to stderr
+ instead. Proposed name: --write-stderr. See
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/613
+
+17.12 keep running, read instructions from pipe/socket
+
+ Provide an option that makes curl not exit after the last URL (or even work
+ without a given URL), and then make it read instructions passed on a pipe or
+ over a socket to make further instructions so that a second subsequent curl
+ invoke can talk to the still running instance and ask for transfers to get
+ done, and thus maintain its connection pool, DNS cache and more.
+
+18. Build
+
+18.1 roffit
Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that
instead of (g)nroff when building src/tool_hugehelp.c
-17. Test suite
+19. Test suite
-17.1 SSL tunnel
+19.1 SSL tunnel
Make our own version of stunnel for simple port forwarding to enable HTTPS
and FTP-SSL tests without the stunnel dependency, and it could allow us to
provide test tools built with either OpenSSL or GnuTLS
-17.2 nicer lacking perl message
+19.2 nicer lacking perl message
If perl wasn't found by the configure script, don't attempt to run the tests
but explain something nice why it doesn't.
-17.3 more protocols supported
+19.3 more protocols supported
Extend the test suite to include more protocols. The telnet could just do FTP
or http operations (for which we have test servers).
-17.4 more platforms supported
+19.4 more platforms supported
Make the test suite work on more platforms. OpenBSD and Mac OS. Remove
fork()s and it should become even more portable.
-17.5 Add support for concurrent connections
+19.5 Add support for concurrent connections
Tests 836, 882 and 938 were designed to verify that separate connections aren't
used when using different login credentials in protocols that shouldn't re-use
and thus the wait for connections loop is never entered to receive the second
connection.
-18. Next SONAME bump
+19.6 Use the RFC6265 test suite
+
+ A test suite made for HTTP cookies (RFC 6265) by Adam Barth is available at
+ https://github.com/abarth/http-state/tree/master/tests
-18.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
+ It'd be really awesome if someone would write a script/setup that would run
+ curl with that test suite and detect deviances. Ideally, that would even be
+ incorporated into our regular test suite.
+
+
+20. Next SONAME bump
+
+20.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP
#undef CURL_FTP_HTTPSTYLE_HEAD in lib/ftp.c to remove the HTTP-style headers
from being output in NOBODY requests over FTP
-18.2 combine error codes
+20.2 combine error codes
Combine some of the error codes to remove duplicates. The original
numbering should not be changed, and the old identifiers would be
CURLE_TFTP_PERM => CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED
-18.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
+20.3 extend CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION prototype
The current prototype only provides 'purpose' that tells what the
connection/socket is for, but not any protocol or similar. It makes it hard
for applications to differentiate on TCP vs UDP and even HTTP vs FTP and
similar.
-19. Next major release
+21. Next major release
-19.1 cleanup return codes
+21.1 cleanup return codes
curl_easy_cleanup() returns void, but curl_multi_cleanup() returns a
CURLMcode. These should be changed to be the same.
-19.2 remove obsolete defines
+21.2 remove obsolete defines
remove obsolete defines from curl/curl.h
-19.3 size_t
+21.3 size_t
make several functions use size_t instead of int in their APIs
-19.4 remove several functions
+21.4 remove several functions
remove the following functions from the public API:
curl_multi_socket_all
-19.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
+21.5 remove CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
Remove support for CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, it has gotten too kludgy and weird
internally. Let the app judge success or not for itself.
-19.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
+21.6 remove CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE
Remove support for a global DNS cache. Anything global is silly, and we
already offer the share interface for the same functionality but done
"right".
-19.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
+21.7 remove progress meter from libcurl
The internally provided progress meter output doesn't belong in the library.
Basically no application wants it (apart from curl) but instead applications
variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work
correctly.
-19.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
+21.8 remove 'curl_httppost' from public
curl_formadd() was made to fill in a public struct, but the fact that the
struct is public is never really used by application for their own advantage
Changing them to return a private handle will benefit the implementation and
allow us much greater freedoms while still maintaining a solid API and ABI.
-
-19.9 have form functions use CURL handle argument
-
- curl_formadd() and curl_formget() both currently have no CURL handle
- argument, but both can use a callback that is set in the easy handle, and
- thus curl_formget() with callback cannot function without first having
- curl_easy_perform() (or similar) called - which is hard to grasp and a design
- mistake.
-
-19.10 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
-
- Rather than use the URL to specify the mail client string to present in the
- HELO and EHLO commands, libcurl should support a new CURLOPT specifically for
- specifying this data as the URL is non-standard and to be honest a bit of a
- hack ;-)
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- Please see the following thread for more information:
- http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-05/0178.html
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