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| History of Changes |
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| |
| Daniel (16 January 2002) |
| - Mofied the main transfer loop and related stuff to deal with non-blocking |
| sockets in the upload section. While doing this, I've now separated the |
| connection oriented buffers to have one for downloads and one for uploads |
| (as two can happen simultaneously). I also shrunk the buffers to 20K |
| each. As we have a scratch buffer twice the size of the upload buffer, we |
| arrived at 80K for buffers compared with the previous 150K. |
| |
| - Added the --cc option to curl-config command as it enables so very cool |
| one-liners. Have a go a this one, building the simple.c example: |
| |
| $ `curl-config --cc --cflags --libs` -o example simple.c |
| |
| Daniel (14 January 2002) |
| - I made all socket reads (recv) handle EWOULDBLOCK. I hope nicely. Now we |
| only need to address all writes (send) too and then I'm ready for another |
| pre-release... |
| |
| - Stoned Elipot patched the in_addr_t configure test to make it work better on |
| more platforms. |
| |
| Daniel (9 January 2002) |
| - Cris Bailiff found out that filling up curl's SSL session cache caused a |
| crash! |
| |
| - Posted the curl questionnaire on the web site. If you haven't posted your |
| opinions there yet, go there and do it now while it is still there: |
| |
| http://curl.haxx.se/q/ |
| |
| - Georg Horn quickly found out that the SSL reading no longer worked as |
| supposed since the switch to non-blocking sockets. I've made a quick patch |
| (for reading only) but we should improve it even further. |
| |
| Version 7.9.3-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (7 January 2002) |
| - I made the 'bool' typedef use an "unsigned char". It makes it the same on |
| all platforms, no matter what the platform thinks the default format for |
| char is. This was noticed since we made a silly comparison involving such a |
| bool variable, and only one compiler/platform combination (on Debian Linux) |
| complained about it (that happened to have its char unsigned by default). |
| |
| - Bug report #495290 identified a cookie parsing problem that was corrected. |
| When a Set-Cookie: line is received without a trailing semicolon, libcurl |
| didn't read the last "name=value" pair of the line, leading to confusions... |
| |
| - Sterling committed his updated DNS cache code. |
| |
| - I worked with Georg Horn and comments from Götz Babin-Ebell and switched |
| curl's socket operations completely over to non-blocking for the entire |
| operation (previously we used non-blocking only for the connection phase). |
| We had to do this to make the SSL connection phase timeout properly without |
| the use of signals. A little extra code to deal with this was added. |
| |
| - T. Bharath pointed out a slightly obscure cookie engine flaw. |
| |
| - Pete Su pointed out that libcurl didn't treat HTTP code 204 as it should. |
| 204-replies never provides a response-body. This resulted in bad persistant |
| behavior when 204 was received. |
| |
| Daniel (5 January 2002) |
| - SM updated the VC++ library Makefiles for the new source files. |
| |
| Daniel (4 January 2002) |
| - I discovered that we wrongly used inet_ntoa() (instead of inet_ntoa_r() in |
| two places in the source code). One happened with VERBOSE set on connects, |
| and the other when VERBOSE was on and krb4 over nat was used... I honestly |
| don't think anyone has suffered from these mistakes. |
| |
| - I replaced a lot of silly occurances of printf() to instead use the more |
| appropriate Curl_infof() or Curl_failf(). The krb4 and telnet code were |
| affected. |
| |
| - Philip Gladstone found a few more problems with 64-bit archs (the 64-bit |
| sparc on solaris 8). |
| |
| - After discussions on the libcurl list with Raoul Cridlig, I just made FTP |
| response lines get passed to the header callback if such a one is |
| registered. It'll make it possible for any application to get all the |
| responses an FTP server sends to libcurl. |
| |
| Daniel (3 January 2002) |
| - Sterling Hughes brought a few buckets of code. Now, libcurl will |
| automatically cache DNS lookups and re-use the previous results first if any |
| such is available. It greatly improves speed when doing many repeated |
| operations to the same host. |
| |
| - As the test case uses --include and then --head, I had to modify src/main.c |
| to deal with this situation slightly better than previously. When done, we |
| have 100% good tests again in the main branch. |
| |
| Daniel (2 January 2002) |
| - Made test case 25 run again in the multi-dev branch. But it seems that the |
| changes done on dec-20 made test case 104 cease to work (in both branches). |
| |
| - Philip Gladstone pointed out a few portability problems in the source code |
| that didn't compile on 64-bit sparcs using Sun's native compiler... |
| |
| Daniel (20 December 2001) |
| - Björn Stenberg caught an unpleasent (but hard-to-find) bug that could cause |
| libcurl to hang on transfers over proxy, when the proxy was specified with |
| an environment variable! |
| |
| - Added code to make ftp operations treat the NO_BODY and HEADERS options |
| better: |
| |
| NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set TRUE: |
| Return a set of headers with file info |
| |
| NO_BODY set FALSE |
| Transfer data as usual, HEADERS is ignored |
| |
| NO_BODY set TRUE and HEADERS set FALSE |
| Don't transfer any data, don't return any headers. Just perform the set |
| of FTP commands. |
| |
| Daniel (17 December 2001) |
| - Götz Babin-Ebell dove into the dark dungeons of the OpenSSL ENGINE stuff and |
| made libcurl support it! This allows libcurl to do SSL connections with the |
| private key stored in external hardware. |
| |
| To make this good, he had to add a bunch of new library options that'll be |
| useful to others as well: |
| |
| CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE set SSL cert type (PEM/DER) |
| CURLOPT_SSLKEY set SSL private key (file) |
| CURLOPT_SSLKEYTYPE: set SSL key type (PEM/DER/ENG) |
| CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD: set the passphrase for your private key |
| (CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD is an alias) |
| CURLOPT_SSLENGINE: set the name of the crypto engine |
| (returns CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND on error) |
| CURLOPT_SSLENGINE_DEFAULT: set the default engine |
| |
| There are two new failure codes: |
| |
| CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_NOTFOUND |
| CURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED |
| |
| Daniel (14 December 2001) |
| - We have "branched" the source-tree at a few places. Checkout the CVS sources |
| with the 'multi-dev' label to get the latest multi interface development |
| tree. The idea is to only branch affected files and to restrict the branch |
| to the v8 multi interface development only. |
| |
| *NOTE* that if we get bug reports and patches etc, we might need to apply |
| them in both branches! |
| |
| The multi-dev branch is what we are gonna use as main branch in the future |
| if it turns out successful. Thus, we must maintain both now in case we need |
| them. The current main branch will be used if we want to release a 7.9.3 or |
| perhaps a 7.10 release before version 8. Which is very likely. |
| |
| - Marcus Webster provided code for the new CURLFORM_CONTENTHEADER option for |
| curl_formadd(), that lets an application add a set of headers for that |
| particular part in a multipart/form-post. He also provided a section to the |
| man page that describes the new option. |
| |
| Daniel (11 December 2001) |
| - Ben Greear made me aware of the fact that the Curl_failf() usage internally |
| was a bit sloppy with adding newlines or not to the error messages. Let's |
| once and for all say that they do not belong there! |
| |
| - When uploading files with -T to give a local file name, and you end the URL |
| with a slash to have the local file name used remote too, we now no longer |
| use the local directory as well. Only the file part of the -T file name |
| will be appended to the right of the slash in the URL. |
| |
| Daniel (7 December 2001) |
| - Michal Bonino pointed out that Digital Unix doesn't have gmtime_r so the |
| link failed. Added a configure check and corrected source code. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2 |
| |
| Daniel (5 December 2001) |
| - Jon Travis found out that if you used libcurl and CURLOPT_UPLOAD and then |
| on the same handle used CURLOPT_HTTPGET it would still attempt to upload. |
| His suggested fix was perfect. |
| |
| Daniel (4 December 2001) |
| - Incorporated more macos fixes and added four specific files in a new |
| subdirectory below src. |
| |
| Daniel (3 December 2001) |
| - Eric Lavigne reported two problems: |
| |
| First one in the curl_strnequal() function. I think this problem is rather |
| macos 9 specific, as most platform provides a function to use instead of the |
| one provided by libcurl. |
| |
| A second, more important, was in the way we take care of FTP responses. The |
| code would read a large chunk of data and search for the end-of-response |
| line within that chunk. When found, it would just skip the rest of the |
| data. However, when the network connections are special, or perhaps the |
| server is, we could actually get more than one response in that chunk of |
| data so that when the next invoke to this function was done, the response |
| had already been read and thrown away. Now, we cache the data not used in |
| one call, as it could be useful in the subsequent call. Test case 126 was |
| added and the test ftp server modified, to exercise this particular case. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre8 |
| |
| Daniel (2 December 2001) |
| - Bug report #487825 correctly identified a problem when using a proxy and |
| following a redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. libcurl then re-used the same |
| proxy connection but without doing a proper HTTPS request. |
| |
| - Fixed win32 compiling quirks. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre7 |
| |
| Daniel (30 November 2001) |
| - Documented --disable-epsv and CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV. |
| |
| Daniel (29 November 2001) |
| - Added --disable-epsv as an option. When used, curl won't attempt to use the |
| EPSV command when doing passive FTP downloads. Wrote a test case for it. |
| |
| - Eric provided a few more fixes for building on Macs. He also pointed out |
| a flaw in the signal handler restoration code. |
| |
| Daniel (28 November 2001) |
| - Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appeared |
| only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for |
| gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the |
| hostent struct must be blanked before use? With Dimitris help and these |
| patches, the problems seem to be history. |
| |
| - CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl |
| from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela |
| pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must |
| be able to shut if off to work everywhere. |
| |
| - I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to |
| receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at |
| least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t... |
| |
| - Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence. |
| |
| - FTP command sequence changes: |
| |
| EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6 |
| passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works |
| fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it. |
| |
| SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual |
| download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important |
| to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size |
| in there. |
| |
| Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server |
| code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted! |
| |
| Daniel (27 November 2001) |
| - Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin |
| as it is supposed to do! |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre6 |
| |
| Daniel (27 November 2001) |
| - Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied. |
| |
| - greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release |
| archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but |
| I think it may come useful to people. |
| |
| - There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should |
| be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in |
| lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with. |
| |
| Daniel (26 November 2001) |
| - Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers, |
| and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (22 November 2001) |
| - Andrés García helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537, |
| which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to |
| connect. This didn't happen on all systems, and more specificly I've so far |
| only seen this happen on IPv4-only Linux hosts. |
| |
| - I applied the fixes for the two bugs Eric Lavigne found when doing his MacOS |
| port. A missing comma in arpa_telnet.h and a pretty wild write in the FTP |
| response reader function. The latter write is however likely to occur in our |
| own buffer unless very big FTP server replies (>25K) are read. I've never |
| seen such a reply ever, so I think this is a relatively minor risk. |
| |
| Daniel (21 November 2001) |
| - Moonesamy provided code to prevent junk from being output when libcurl |
| returns an error code but no error description and that corrects how make is |
| run in the Makefile.dist file (that appears as root Makefile in release |
| archives). |
| |
| - Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS |
| (non-X). |
| |
| - Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the |
| shared OpenSSL DLLs. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (20 November 2001) |
| - Georg Horn brought a patch that introduced CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME, |
| complete with man page updates! |
| |
| Daniel (19 November 2001) |
| - Miklos Nemeth provided details enough to update the Borland makefile |
| properly. |
| |
| - Lars M Gustafsson found a case with a bad free(). In fact, it was so bad I'm |
| amazed we never saw this before! |
| |
| - Kevin Roth patched the cygwin Makfile. |
| |
| Daniel (16 November 2001) |
| - Klevtsov Vadim fixed a bug in how time-conditionals were sent when doing |
| HTTP. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (14 November 2001) |
| - Samuel Listopad patched away the problem with SSL we got when someone call |
| curl_global_init() => curl_global_cleanup() => curl_global_init(). The |
| second init would not "take" and SSL would be unusable with curl from that |
| point. This doesn't change the fact that calling the functions that way is |
| wrong. curl_global_init() should be called exactly once and not more. |
| |
| Daniel (13 November 2001) |
| - Fixed some minor variable type mixups in ftp.c that caused compiler warnings |
| on HP-UX 11.00. |
| |
| - The FTP fix I did yesterday used an uninitialized variable that caused |
| spurious errors when doing FTP. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (12 November 2001) |
| - Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple-requests problem when first a FTP |
| directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The |
| second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the |
| previous request, when it did its initial CWD command. |
| |
| - Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improve the time diff function to |
| prevent truncation a bit. |
| |
| - Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't |
| work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work. |
| |
| Version 7.9.2-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (12 November 2001) |
| - Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot |
| faster, it should also support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask |
| previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte |
| after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems |
| to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is |
| due to the problems John Lask previously experienced. |
| |
| - Andrés García found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K |
| for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a |
| zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In |
| reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though |
| the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff. |
| |
| - I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington |
| reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed |
| is wrong. |
| |
| Daniel (8 November 2001) |
| - Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a |
| buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also |
| gracefully provided a patch for this this. |
| |
| - Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the |
| correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts. |
| This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds |
| gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really |
| figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that |
| works... |
| |
| Daniel (7 November 2001) |
| - docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number |
| system we use in the curl project. |
| |
| - Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as |
| it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again. |
| |
| Daniel (6 November 2001) |
| - Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed |
| out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction |
| struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous |
| alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar. |
| |
| - Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install. |
| |
| Daniel (5 November 2001) |
| - Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the |
| native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now. |
| Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds |
| though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-( |
| |
| - John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking |
| to work on all platforms. |
| |
| - John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS |
| version 1 when speaking HTTPS. |
| |
| - John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that |
| works a lot better than the previous! |
| |
| - Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug |
| report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1 |
| |
| Daniel (4 November 2001) |
| - I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since |
| I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests |
| with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of |
| a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I |
| wrote up tests for a few of those too. |
| |
| Daniel (2 November 2001) |
| - Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations |
| even under normal unixes. |
| |
| Daniel (1 November 2001) |
| - When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of |
| how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0 |
| bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-) |
| |
| - The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also |
| added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file. |
| |
| - Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about |
| the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc): |
| http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre7 |
| |
| Daniel (31 October 2001) |
| - The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as |
| the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported. |
| |
| - The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I |
| had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used |
| connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection |
| and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the |
| SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those |
| cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead. |
| |
| - When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets |
| in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to |
| send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those |
| situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and |
| added checks for what they actually return. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre6 |
| |
| Daniel (31 October 2001) |
| - Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be |
| more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then |
| a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this |
| problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider |
| said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without |
| actually trying an operation. |
| |
| Daniel (30 October 2001) |
| - If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL |
| pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26] |
| |
| - The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description |
| in the curl.1 man page. |
| |
| Daniel (29 October 2001) |
| - John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file |
| and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function. |
| |
| - Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function, |
| that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]. |
| |
| - Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the |
| packages/Win32/cygwin directory. |
| |
| - A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP |
| server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one |
| connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167] |
| |
| - Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect |
| code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release |
| (test 19)... |
| [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14] |
| |
| Daniel (26 October 2001) |
| - Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the |
| contents is separated with more than one space. |
| |
| Daniel (25 October 2001) |
| - Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the |
| correct data has been output. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (24 October 2001) |
| - T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie |
| that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The |
| brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25] |
| |
| Daniel (23 October 2001) |
| - pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs |
| would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35] |
| |
| Daniel (22 October 2001) |
| - Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented |
| preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code! |
| |
| - Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from |
| the out-of-the-box curl release archives. |
| |
| - I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report |
| transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the |
| future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be |
| used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the |
| connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the |
| middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data |
| still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64] |
| |
| Daniel (19 October 2001) |
| - CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return |
| anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this. |
| |
| - T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as |
| well. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (18 October 2001) |
| - CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if |
| the HTTP return code is below 400. |
| |
| Daniel (17 October 2001) |
| - The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the |
| tests. |
| |
| - We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin |
| adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard |
| out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and |
| cygwin? |
| |
| - A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed. |
| It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61] |
| |
| - The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr |
| if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it |
| easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off. |
| |
| Daniel (16 October 2001) |
| - Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments. |
| |
| Daniel (12 October 2001) |
| - Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more |
| accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures, |
| and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should |
| now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on |
| the right edge. |
| |
| - After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified |
| the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking |
| if the redirected URL is absolute. |
| |
| Daniel (11 October 2001) |
| - Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows |
| 2000 running cygwin. |
| |
| Daniel (10 October 2001) |
| - Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser. |
| Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (9 October 2001) |
| - Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new |
| libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0 |
| requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you |
| really MUST do that because of a silly remote server. |
| |
| - Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as |
| all public curl-symbols should. |
| |
| - libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal. |
| |
| Daniel (8 October 2001) |
| - Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was |
| applied. |
| |
| - Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed. |
| |
| Daniel (5 October 2001) |
| - Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors |
| on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'. |
| |
| - Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (4 October 2001) |
| - Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper |
| gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling |
| is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost' |
| name. |
| |
| - Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on |
| IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any |
| resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now. |
| |
| Daniel (3 October 2001) |
| - Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name |
| resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a |
| thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being |
| passed between threads. |
| |
| - Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that |
| required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require |
| that header, that is for true servers... |
| |
| - I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now. |
| |
| Version 7.9.1-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (3 October 2001) |
| - Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not |
| only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting |
| the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the |
| obsoleted curl_formparse. |
| |
| Daniel (2 October 2001) |
| - Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking |
| connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP |
| addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first |
| one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all |
| the TCP connect stuff. |
| |
| - We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support |
| people writing scripts without knowing what address there is. |
| |
| Daniel (28 September 2001) |
| - Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller |
| functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 |
| get less noticable in the sources. |
| |
| - If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl, |
| libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously |
| did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known |
| remote date when -R is used. |
| |
| Daniel (27 September 2001) |
| - Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We |
| will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should |
| fail. |
| |
| Daniel (26 September 2001) |
| - Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar |
| functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it |
| work. |
| |
| Daniel (25 September 2001) |
| - Jörn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles. |
| |
| Version 7.9 |
| |
| Daniel (23 September 2001) |
| - Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts |
| when FTP RETR failed. |
| |
| - Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled. |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre8 |
| |
| Daniel (19 September 2001) |
| - Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with |
| test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and |
| #440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do |
| now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail |
| to connect with an error code returned. |
| |
| - Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong. |
| I wrote a test case for this (45). |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre7 |
| |
| Daniel (17 September 2001) |
| - Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require |
| winsock 2.0. |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre6 |
| |
| - libtool 1.4.2 is now in use! |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (14 September 2001) |
| - Added another 14 ftp tests. |
| |
| Daniel (13 September 2001) |
| - Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been |
| tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need |
| to write up some docs for this function. |
| |
| - Added four more ftp tests to the test suite. |
| |
| Daniel (12 September 2001) |
| - CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named |
| --ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL |
| connection. |
| |
| - T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out |
| to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet. |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (11 September 2001) |
| - Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server |
| certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington. |
| |
| - Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test |
| suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been |
| made, but nothing really certain. |
| |
| - T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows |
| and works on reducing it. |
| |
| Daniel (10 September 2001) |
| - Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed |
| behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers. |
| |
| - The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled. |
| |
| Daniel (7 September 2001) |
| - SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was |
| disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on |
| windows. |
| |
| Daniel (6 September 2001) |
| - T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it |
| sometimes read from a NULL pointer. |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (3 September 2001) |
| - Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to |
| set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local |
| file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use |
| -o or -O. |
| |
| - Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything. |
| |
| Daniel (1 September 2001) |
| - Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in |
| the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now |
| been re-run. |
| |
| - Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite |
| makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here. |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (31 August 2001) |
| - I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used |
| structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit |
| to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully |
| decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get |
| easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL- |
| free bug from August 23. |
| |
| Version 7.9-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (29 August 2001) |
| - The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use |
| that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl |
| knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format. |
| |
| This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl, |
| which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked. |
| There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps |
| it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all |
| of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature... |
| |
| - Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted |
| by Erick Nuwendam. |
| |
| Daniel (28 August 2001) |
| - Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems |
| on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well! |
| |
| - Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and |
| added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect: |
| header. Great work! |
| |
| - Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There |
| should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but |
| in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other |
| caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take |
| effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination |
| port number basis. |
| |
| Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and |
| uses a previous SSL session ID. |
| |
| - Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine. |
| |
| Daniel (27 August 2001) |
| - Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code |
| |
| Daniel (24 August 2001) |
| - T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project |
| files. |
| |
| - Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that |
| curl didn't really deal with the way one would like. |
| |
| - Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our |
| own portable version named strequal() that should be used! |
| |
| - Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix |
| debug object modules causing confusions. |
| |
| Daniel (23 August 2001) |
| - T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a |
| second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke |
| followed a Location: header. |
| |
| - Started the improvement work on the cookie engine: |
| - Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file |
| - A write to the possibly static string was removed |
| - Added a function that can output all cookies |
| - Now supports reading multiple cookie files |
| |
| - Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file. |
| |
| - Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to |
| increase readability and maintainability. |
| |
| Daniel (21 August 2001) |
| - Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have: |
| o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in |
| all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server |
| rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in |
| the standard replace-internal-header style. |
| o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to |
| replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function |
| will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way |
| and correct way to build form posts. |
| o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes |
| |
| These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9... |
| |
| - We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release |
| archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach. |
| |
| - Andrés García's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was |
| added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows. |
| |
| - Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail |
| on many Red Hat boxes! |
| |
| Daniel (20 August 2001) |
| - We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD |
| as well as FreeBSD |
| |
| Version 7.8.1 |
| |
| Daniel (20 August 2001) |
| - Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that |
| we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K |
| smaller! |
| |
| - Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t |
| properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to |
| acinclude.m4. |
| |
| Daniel (19 August 2001) |
| - Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs... |
| |
| Daniel (17 August 2001) |
| - Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global |
| symbols and to not use global variables. |
| |
| Version 7.8.1-pre6 |
| |
| Daniel (16 August 2001) |
| - S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified |
| with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is |
| used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?' |
| separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth. |
| |
| - curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link |
| with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself. |
| curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile |
| source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include |
| path correct. |
| |
| Daniel (15 August 2001) |
| - Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses |
| were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format) |
| |
| - Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core |
| dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with |
| CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS |
| now equals setting it to no data at all. |
| |
| - Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work |
| properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the |
| variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed. |
| |
| - David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and |
| builds with that compiler. |
| |
| Daniel (14 August 2001) |
| - Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now. |
| |
| - An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for |
| windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock |
| stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle |
| with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame. |
| |
| Version 7.8.1-pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (14 August 2001) |
| - Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few |
| minor changes were necessary. |
| |
| - I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options. |
| I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I |
| corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on |
| the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently |
| added #ifdef VMS lines. |
| |
| - I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once |
| necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should |
| (hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of |
| OpenSSL. |
| |
| Daniel (13 August 2001) |
| - Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts |
| to be larger than 4K. |
| |
| Daniel (10 August 2001) |
| - S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile |
| |
| Daniel (9 August 2001) |
| - The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call |
| was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use |
| the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was |
| closed even if we looped to get more files. Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug |
| report #441610 |
| |
| - Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52 |
| |
| Version 7.8.1-pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (8 August 2001) |
| - curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned |
| out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in |
| the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around |
| implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for |
| this kind of construct. |
| |
| - Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl |
| verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used, |
| any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v). |
| |
| Daniel (7 August 2001) |
| - Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test |
| suite. |
| |
| Daniel (6 August 2001) |
| - Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the |
| directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my |
| initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with |
| libcurl easier. |
| |
| - Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file:// |
| URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl |
| does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them. |
| |
| - Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and |
| build under OpenVMS. |
| |
| Version 7.8.1-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (6 August 2001) |
| - Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you |
| set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that |
| data. This is now fixed. |
| |
| Daniel (5 August 2001) |
| - Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd |
| 1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked |
| for with HTTP 1.1. |
| |
| - curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input |
| string especially. |
| |
| Daniel (3 August 2001) |
| - I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to |
| avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file. |
| |
| - Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license |
| boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory |
| should go to Andrew for his heads up. |
| |
| - Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you |
| couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a |
| new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP |
| requestr (back) to GET. |
| |
| - Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in |
| release archives. It should be now. |
| |
| Daniel (2 August 2001) |
| - Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions. |
| |
| - Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the |
| select() loop use far too much CPU. |
| |
| - Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's |
| progress callback. |
| |
| Daniel (29 June 2001) |
| - Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated. |
| |
| - Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL. |
| |
| Daniel (27 June 2001) |
| - Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled. |
| |
| - Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details. |
| |
| Version 7.8.1-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (25 June 2001) |
| - Björn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading |
| several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was |
| then used for all files, resulting in weird results... |
| |
| - Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names |
| with spaces like when -F is used. |
| |
| Version 7.8.1-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (20 June 2001) |
| - Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option |
| for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories |
| for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given. |
| |
| Daniel (19 June 2001) |
| - When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly |
| garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed |
| reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this. |
| |
| Daniel (12 June 2001) |
| - Salvador Dávila provided a fix for FTP range downloads. |
| |
| - Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file |
| format. We're now at a total of 26 tests. |
| |
| Daniel (11 June 2001) |
| - libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and |
| David Odin. |
| |
| Daniel (7 June 2001) |
| - Jörn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def |
| |
| - I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed. |
| |
| Version 7.8 |
| |
| Daniel (7 June 2001) |
| - SDavila provided a resumed download fix. |
| |
| Version 7.8-pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (1 June 2001) |
| - Sterling provided some new PHP examples. |
| |
| - Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer |
| work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'. |
| |
| Daniel (31 May 2001) |
| - CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file |
| to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used |
| anywhere in the library. |
| |
| Version 7.8-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (31 May 2001) |
| - Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present |
| less warnings. |
| |
| - Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So, |
| curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to |
| init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all |
| known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely |
| necessary. Man page updated accordingly. |
| |
| - Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms! |
| |
| Daniel (30 May 2001) |
| - Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were |
| set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE |
| option is subject for complete removal... |
| |
| Version 7.8-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (30 May 2001) |
| - Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages. |
| |
| - Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and |
| we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h |
| |
| - Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl, |
| available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ |
| |
| Daniel (29 May 2001) |
| - Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread- |
| safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and |
| lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included! |
| |
| - Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written |
| to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected. |
| |
| - I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a |
| separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it |
| easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information. |
| |
| I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit |
| you deserve. |
| |
| - lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake |
| |
| Version 7.8-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (28 May 2001) |
| - curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version |
| of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version |
| 7.7.4 appears as 070704 |
| |
| - Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup... |
| |
| - T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was |
| not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak |
| memory. The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two |
| two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should |
| be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done |
| only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use, |
| and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using |
| libcurl completely. |
| |
| *** UPGRADE NOTICE *** |
| |
| If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two |
| functions mentioned above !!! |
| |
| I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL |
| insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk |
| the path they point us to. |
| |
| - Moving more test cases into the new file format. |
| |
| Version 7.7.4-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (23 May 2001) |
| - Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to |
| modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not |
| "ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come. |
| |
| The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test |
| case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test |
| case and a lot less files. |
| |
| - Andrés García brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing |
| function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path! |
| |
| Daniel (22 May 2001) |
| - As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was |
| not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with |
| the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected. |
| |
| - Installed and made use of the following tool versions: |
| autoconf 2.50 |
| libtool 1.4 |
| automake 1.4-p1 |
| |
| I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older |
| versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require |
| at least these versions. |
| |
| As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its |
| previous size! |
| |
| Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my |
| acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working! |
| |
| Daniel (21 May 2001) |
| - I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the |
| first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel. |
| |
| - Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built |
| with ssl support. |
| |
| Daniel (19 May 2001) |
| - Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they |
| are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions |
| helped out. |
| |
| Version 7.7.4-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (18 May 2001) |
| - Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper |
| variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix) |
| |
| - For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own. |
| It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions |
| with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.) |
| |
| Daniel (17 May 2001) |
| - Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that |
| turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that |
| contained files from the 7.7.2 release! |
| |
| - I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to |
| make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of |
| libcurl. |
| |
| Daniel (14 May 2001) |
| - Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent |
| connections. |
| |
| Version 7.7.4-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (14 May 2001) |
| - Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl. |
| |
| - Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive. |
| |
| Daniel (12 May 2001) |
| - Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's |
| certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a |
| proper error code. I added a brand new error code named |
| CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose. |
| |
| Daniel (11 May 2001) |
| - As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not |
| return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume |
| when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed |
| from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of |
| the fact that it can't be returned anymore! |
| |
| - Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more. |
| |
| - Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post |
| another one. |
| |
| - Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more! |
| |
| Daniel (10 May 2001) |
| - Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with |
| Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources. |
| |
| - Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location: |
| headers with an extra space after the colon. |
| |
| - Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative |
| directories correctly. |
| |
| Daniel (9 May 2001) |
| - Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line), |
| makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl |
| returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead. |
| Anonymous bug report. |
| |
| - stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now |
| added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite) |
| |
| Daniel (7 May 2001) |
| - Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion |
| that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates |
| filed a bug report on this. |
| |
| Version 7.7.3 |
| |
| Daniel (4 May 2001) |
| - All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made |
| this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to |
| them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling |
| Hughes. |
| |
| Daniel (3 May 2001) |
| - Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent |
| connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed |
| chunked and non-chunked transfers. |
| |
| - Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be |
| treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the |
| server timed-out and closed the connection. |
| |
| - Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am |
| |
| Daniel (27 April 2001) |
| - Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it |
| more easy to follow now as well. |
| |
| - Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received |
| a "Content-Length: 0" header. |
| |
| - Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl |
| compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though! |
| |
| - Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't |
| explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew. |
| |
| Daniel (26 April 2001) |
| - I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps |
| work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal |
| unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the |
| function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it |
| makes a notable speed difference. |
| |
| Daniel (25 April 2001) |
| - Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for |
| non-default port numbers. |
| |
| Daniel (24 April 2001) |
| - I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the |
| data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this. |
| |
| - Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on |
| the alredy written perl servers easily. |
| |
| Daniel (23 April 2001) |
| - The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one |
| of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply |
| weird version string output! |
| |
| Version 7.7.2 |
| |
| Daniel (22 April 2001) |
| - Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows. |
| |
| - Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would |
| lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request. |
| |
| Daniel (20 April 2001) |
| - Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote |
| a 'libcurl overview' man page. |
| |
| - Spell-fixed some documents. |
| |
| - S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page. |
| |
| - Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present |
| separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package. |
| |
| Daniel (19 April 2001) |
| - Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the |
| --write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-) |
| |
| Version 7.7.2-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (19 April 2001) |
| |
| - Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro. |
| |
| Daniel (18 April 2001) |
| - Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It |
| displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current |
| libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4 |
| and IPv6. |
| |
| - I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks |
| working and options that receives those slist pointers. |
| |
| - Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent |
| connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is |
| important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not |
| in the main struct as this previously did. |
| |
| Daniel (17 April 2001) |
| - Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new |
| error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download |
| actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present. |
| Should this return OK instead? |
| |
| - I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a |
| curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to |
| figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn |
| should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl. |
| |
| This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used |
| successfully in other (library based) projects. |
| |
| - Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone |
| for the If-Modified-Since style headers. |
| |
| - Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c |
| for curl to build on Ultrix. |
| |
| Daniel (11 April 2001) |
| - Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use |
| of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security |
| hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server |
| sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP |
| request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable! |
| |
| Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash. |
| |
| - S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on |
| windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set |
| that timeout! |
| |
| - Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl! |
| |
| - Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface. |
| |
| - I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to |
| Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It |
| works, but it is still very basic. |
| |
| Daniel (10 April 2001) |
| - The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as |
| it wasn't properly reset between transfers! |
| |
| - Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made |
| me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback |
| function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE |
| * when headers are written from within libcurl. |
| |
| Daniel (7 April 2001) |
| - Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in |
| the curl_easy_setopt man page. |
| |
| Daniel (6 April 2001) |
| - Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure |
| change their version define format often... |
| |
| - curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing! |
| |
| Version 7.7.1 |
| |
| Daniel (3 April 2001) |
| - Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to |
| read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed. |
| Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected. |
| |
| - More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that |
| it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non- |
| persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now. |
| |
| Daniel (29 March 2001) |
| - Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface. |
| |
| - Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the |
| control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted |
| connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used |
| that to verify the functionality. |
| |
| Daniel (27 March 2001) |
| - Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried |
| to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent |
| after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly! |
| |
| - I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny |
| example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the |
| examples. |
| |
| Version 7.7.1-beta1 |
| |
| Daniel (26 March 2001) |
| - Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0 |
| connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this |
| problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the |
| curl-and-php mailing list. |
| |
| Daniel (24 March 2001) |
| - Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it, |
| which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a |
| way that gnroff doesn't like. |
| |
| Daniel (23 March 2001) |
| - Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of |
| $(MAKE) for the test target. |
| |
| - Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not |
| curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7! |
| |
| - S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ). |
| |
| - When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string |
| in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an |
| application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report |
| from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then |
| caused a libcurl crash! |
| |
| - No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously, |
| curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one. |
| |
| - libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl |
| http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which |
| made the second request return very odd results. |
| |
| Daniel (22 March 2001) |
| - Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests |
| when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses |
| GET in the following request(s). |
| |
| - libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of |
| curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same |
| connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly. |
| |
| - Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks |
| like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion. |
| |
| Version 7.7 |
| |
| Daniel (22 March 2001) |
| - The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is |
| detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of |
| arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware |
| of this need. |
| |
| - Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape |
| functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The |
| escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one |
| had. |
| |
| - No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up. |
| |
| Version 7.7-beta5 |
| |
| Daniel (19 March 2001) |
| - Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense |
| that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this |
| problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was |
| added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right. |
| |
| - Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do |
| form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header |
| engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT |
| and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616 |
| has all the details. Seems to work now! |
| |
| Daniel (16 March 2001) |
| - After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back. |
| |
| - Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release |
| archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs, |
| examples and updates you think fit. |
| |
| - Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples |
| into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please |
| help me here as well! |
| |
| - Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a |
| "chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts |
| even if the Content-Length: size is unknown. |
| |
| Daniel (15 March 2001) |
| - Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT |
| option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the |
| connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire |
| file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others. |
| |
| I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the |
| item from the TODO. |
| |
| Version 7.7-beta4 |
| |
| Daniel (14 March 2001) |
| - Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely |
| again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set. |
| |
| I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with |
| curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then! |
| |
| - I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was |
| a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't |
| work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use |
| getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try |
| that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't |
| have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info. |
| |
| - Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with |
| user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute, |
| without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and |
| crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that |
| tests this. |
| |
| - Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request |
| data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range |
| of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously. |
| |
| - Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details. |
| |
| Version 7.7-beta3 |
| |
| Daniel (14 March 2001) |
| - Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches |
| for non-SSL compiles. |
| |
| - I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level |
| functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the |
| Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to |
| curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still |
| undocumented). |
| |
| This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with |
| just a drop-in replacement. |
| |
| - Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles: |
| o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t |
| o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement |
| o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again |
| o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files |
| o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state |
| |
| Daniel (13 March 2001) |
| - It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the |
| chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot |
| the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top |
| of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly |
| wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data |
| in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted). |
| |
| Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well. |
| |
| Version 7.7-beta2 |
| |
| Daniel (13 March 2001) |
| - Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported |
| policies. |
| |
| - Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies |
| CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now |
| supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy |
| is chosen. |
| |
| Daniel (12 March 2001) |
| - Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the |
| SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl |
| client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I |
| need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember |
| that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered |
| weak (HTTPS connections). |
| |
| - Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length |
| and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is |
| the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60 |
| test cases. |
| |
| - Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the |
| persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly |
| thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now |
| implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new |
| implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, |
| CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are: |
| CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION. |
| |
| - Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent |
| connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file |
| transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK. |
| I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well. |
| |
| - Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so |
| that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple |
| connections... Now I get 100% test case OK. |
| |
| - The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are |
| all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are |
| located. Horrible. |
| |
| - I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing |
| that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though |
| (Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what |
| the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot |
| of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe. |
| |
| Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP) |
| not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have |
| to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK. |
| |
| Daniel (8 March 2001) |
| - Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if |
| MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if |
| there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected. |
| |
| Version 7.7-beta1 |
| |
| Daniel (8 March 2001) |
| - "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've |
| added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine. |
| |
| - HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers. |
| |
| Daniel (5 March 2001) |
| - The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works |
| using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't |
| handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this. |
| |
| - I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It |
| should make it a lot nicer library-wise. |
| |
| - The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first- |
| then-do approach. |
| |
| Daniel (4 March 2001) |
| - More bugs erased. |
| |
| Version 7.7-alpha2 |
| |
| Daniel (4 March 2001) |
| - Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive |
| before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will |
| then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection! |
| |
| Daniel (2 March 2001) |
| - Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness! |
| |
| - More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has |
| proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do |
| not work intermixed yet though. |
| |
| Daniel (1 March 2001) |
| - Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that |
| curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does |
| now. |
| |
| Daniel (22 February 2001) |
| - The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent |
| request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection |
| if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one. |
| |
| - Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page |
| that I applied. |
| |
| Daniel (20 February 2001) |
| - Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends. |
| |
| - Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and |
| improvements: |
| |
| * Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does. |
| * Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only |
| XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV). |
| * Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used. |
| * Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!) |
| |
| - Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of |
| struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific |
| data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the |
| mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs |
| and more will follow. |
| |
| Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should |
| work. Seems cool enough. |
| |
| Daniel (19 February 2001) |
| - Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project |
| easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file. |
| |
| - I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the |
| library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The |
| low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality. |
| |
| Daniel (15 February 2001) |
| - CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with |
| CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in |
| libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to |
| switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL |
| string switches off the POST again. |
| |
| - Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn |
| Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into |
| libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made |
| to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when |
| applicable! |
| |
| Daniel (13 February 2001) |
| - Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages. |
| Suggested by Larry Fahnoe. |
| |
| Version 7.6.1 |
| |
| Daniel (9 February 2001) |
| - Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS |
| PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet. |
| |
| Daniel (8 February 2001) |
| - An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having |
| curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty |
| password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to |
| support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user |
| and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you |
| specify you want the prompt otherwise? |
| |
| - Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and |
| HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes). |
| |
| - The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue. |
| |
| - Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on |
| request. |
| |
| - Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly. |
| |
| Version 7.6.1-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (7 February 2001) |
| - S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that |
| could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if |
| libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket. |
| |
| - I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the |
| results from the proxy connection. |
| |
| Daniel (6 February 2001) |
| - S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set |
| for the debug build to work. |
| |
| - Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver |
| brought up yesterday. |
| |
| Daniel (5 February 2001) |
| - Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to |
| a bunch of different areas within libcurl. |
| |
| - Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with |
| the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a |
| patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler. |
| How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone? |
| |
| Daniel (4 February 2001) |
| - curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options: |
| CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They |
| return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given |
| direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length: |
| size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This |
| was done after discussions with Bob Schader. |
| |
| Daniel (3 February 2001) |
| - Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more |
| recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to |
| not include WIN32 anymore. |
| |
| Version 7.6.1-pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (31 January 2001) |
| - Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to |
| be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a |
| possibility to weird behavior all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me |
| find this. |
| |
| - Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested. |
| I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple |
| of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc. |
| |
| Daniel (30 January 2001) |
| - I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and |
| now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows |
| a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server |
| doesn't seem to support range requests. |
| |
| Daniel (29 January 2001) |
| - I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33). |
| |
| Version 7.6.1-pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (29 January 2001) |
| - Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end |
| and it works for him. |
| |
| Daniel (27 January 2001) |
| - So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a |
| Content-Range header when resuming a PUT. |
| |
| - I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP |
| download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field |
| in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for |
| this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing. |
| |
| - Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP. |
| |
| - Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It |
| makes the output slightly better for resumes. |
| |
| - When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt |
| to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a |
| URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on |
| what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a |
| second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported. |
| |
| I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff. |
| |
| Version 7.6 |
| |
| Daniel (26 January 2001) |
| - Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small |
| piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can |
| now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT |
| the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL. |
| |
| Version 7.6-pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (25 January 2001) |
| - I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for |
| reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and |
| swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested |
| in the next beta-round coming right up. |
| |
| - Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied |
| his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the |
| function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write(). |
| |
| I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and |
| reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing |
| would only have to be implemented at one point. |
| |
| - Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the |
| total time very accurate on subsecond levels. |
| |
| - Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout |
| value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently |
| no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only. |
| |
| Daniel (24 January 2001) |
| - Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile |
| properly with cygwin. |
| |
| - Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code |
| that corrected a potential memory leak. |
| |
| - Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more |
| easy to read and understand! |
| |
| Daniel (23 January 2001) |
| - Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version |
| string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be |
| set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled. |
| |
| - Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when |
| IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'... |
| |
| - Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an |
| error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't |
| follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string |
| is used instead. |
| |
| I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want* |
| globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure |
| seriously confuse the globber. |
| |
| Daniel (22 January 2001) |
| - Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even |
| during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions... |
| |
| - Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on |
| the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly. |
| |
| Daniel (19 January 2001) |
| - Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last |
| code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports. |
| |
| - Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem |
| in src/main.c that I took care of. |
| |
| Version 7.6-pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (17 January 2001) |
| - Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new |
| lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer() |
| to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function |
| in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols. |
| |
| Daniel (11 January 2001) |
| - Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[] |
| letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly |
| mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by |
| Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry. |
| |
| - Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without |
| having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as |
| -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter |
| options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with |
| space from their parameters. |
| |
| Daniel (8 January 2001) |
| - Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling |
| curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef |
| HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems. |
| |
| - Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made |
| the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout. |
| |
| - Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work |
| correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make |
| dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms' |
| automatically build RPMs! |
| |
| Loic Dachary (6 January 2001) |
| - Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root. |
| |
| - make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST |
| in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES). |
| |
| Daniel (5 January 2001) |
| - Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs |
| can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There |
| must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to |
| stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package. |
| |
| - The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now. |
| |
| - Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal |
| symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other |
| libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should |
| be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS |
| document to say this as well. |
| |
| Version 7.5.2 |
| |
| Daniel (4 January 2001) |
| - As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command |
| line option and what happens when you specify that option more than |
| once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before. |
| |
| - Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For |
| odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with |
| curl's dependencies on libcurl... |
| |
| - Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file. |
| The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in |
| case anyone would need it. |
| |
| - I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about |
| files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build |
| curl when you get the sources off CVS. |
| |
| - Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license. |
| |
| Daniel (3 January 2001) |
| - Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL |
| |
| - Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of |
| curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated |
| accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the |
| release archive. |