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| History of Changes |
| |
| Version 7.5 |
| |
| Daniel (1 December 2000) |
| - Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should |
| build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too. |
| |
| - Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when |
| releasing new shared library interfaces. |
| |
| Daniel (30 November 2000) |
| - Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document |
| actually contains. |
| |
| Daniel (29 November 2000) |
| - I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things |
| harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS. |
| |
| Version 7.5-pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (28 November 2000) |
| - I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been |
| lagging. |
| |
| - James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS |
| libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the |
| set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops. |
| |
| Daniel (27 November 2000) |
| - Added two test cases for file://. |
| |
| Daniel (22 November 2000) |
| - Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the |
| modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it |
| involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command |
| which is not in the RFC959) |
| |
| curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time |
| after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if |
| the time wasn't possible to get. |
| |
| --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header |
| if curl could get the time of the specified file. |
| |
| - Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM |
| file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS |
| connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but |
| others have asked for it before as well. |
| |
| Daniel (21 November 2000) |
| - Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight: |
| |
| * curl_unescape() could return a too long string |
| * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks |
| * ftp CWD could use bad directory names |
| * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability |
| * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers |
| |
| - Added a bunch of test cases for FTP. |
| |
| - General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic. |
| |
| - I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp |
| operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now |
| all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl |
| script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run. |
| |
| Daniel (20 November 2000) |
| - Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of |
| 4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make |
| life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying |
| but that can be circumvented by using a config file. |
| |
| NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location: |
| headers. |
| |
| - Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages. |
| |
| - Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It |
| turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names |
| where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the |
| lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase |
| versions. |
| |
| Daniel (17 November 2000) |
| - curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the |
| test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on |
| memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the |
| cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar |
| things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these |
| problems have been removed. |
| |
| - Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and |
| weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now, |
| although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main |
| difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must |
| both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also |
| specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and |
| parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like: |
| |
| user-agent = "foobar and something" |
| |
| Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're |
| expected to be a single non-space word. |
| |
| Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work. |
| |
| - Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes |
| way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config |
| file doesn't work anymore. |
| |
| Daniel (15 November 2000) |
| - Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication |
| failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters, |
| and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused |
| passwords and usernames using 'ยง' (for example) to fail. |
| |
| Version 7.4.2 |
| |
| Daniel (15 November 2000) |
| - 'tests/runtests.pl' now sorts the test cases properly when 'all' is used. |
| |
| Daniel (14 November 2000) |
| - I fell over the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt Internet Draft titled |
| "Extensions to FTP" that contains a defined way how the ftp command SIZE |
| could be assumed to work. |
| |
| - Laurent Papier posted a bug report about using "-C -" and FTP uploading a |
| file that isn't prsent on the server. The server might then return a 550 and |
| curl will fail. Should it instead as Laurent Papier suggests, start |
| uploading from the beginning as a normal upload? |
| |
| Daniel (13 November 2000) |
| - Fixed a crash with the followlocation counter. |
| |
| - While writing test cases for the test suite, I discovered an old limitation |
| that prevented -o and -T to be used at the same time. I removed this |
| immediately as this has no relevance in the current libcurl. |
| |
| - Chris Faherty fixed a free-twice problem in lib/file.c |
| |
| - I fixed the perl http server problem in the test suite. |
| |
| Version 7.4.2 pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (10 November 2000) |
| - I've (finally) started working on the curl test suite. It is in the new |
| tests/ directory. It requires sh and perl. There's a TCP server in perl and |
| most of the other stuff running a pretty simple shell script. |
| |
| I've only made four test cases so far, but it proves the system can work. |
| |
| - Laurent Papier noticed that curl didn't set TYPE when doing --head checks |
| for sizes on FTP servers. Some servers seem to return different sizes |
| depending on whether ASCII or BINARY is used! |
| |
| - Laurent Papier detected that if you appended a FTP upload and everything was |
| already uploaded, curl would hang. |
| |
| - Angus Mackay's getpass_r() in lib/getpass.c is now compliant with the |
| getpass_r() function it seems some systems actually have. |
| |
| - Venkataramana Mokkapati detected a bug in the cookie parser and corrected |
| it. If the cookie was set for the full host name (domain=full.host.com), |
| the cookie was never sent back because of a faulty length comparison between |
| the set domain length and the current host name. |
| |
| Daniel (9 November 2000) |
| - Added a configure check for gethostbyname in -lsocket (OS/2 seems to need |
| it). Added a check for RSAglue/rsaref for the cases where libcrypto is found |
| but libssl isn't. I haven't verified this fix yet though, as I have no |
| system that requires those libs to build. |
| |
| Version 7.4.2 pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (7 November 2000) |
| - Removed perror() outputs from getpass.c. Angus Mackay also agreed to a |
| slightly modified license of the getpass.c file as the prototype was changed. |
| |
| Daniel (6 November 2000) |
| - Added possibility to set a password callback to use instead of the built-in. |
| They're controled with curl_easy_setopt() of course, the tags are |
| CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA. |
| |
| - Used T. Bharath's thinking and fixed the timers that showed terribly wrong |
| times when location: headers were followed. |
| |
| - Emmanuel Tychon discovered that curl didn't really like user names only in |
| the URL. I corrected this and I also fixed the since long living problem |
| with URL encoded user names and passwords in the URLs. They should work now. |
| |
| Daniel (2 November 2000) |
| - When I added --interface, the new error code that was added with it was |
| inserted in the wrong place and thus all error codes from 35 and upwards got |
| increased one step. This is now corrected, we're back at the previous |
| numbers. All new exit codes should be added at the end. |
| |
| Daniel (1 November 2000) |
| - Added a check for signal() in the configure script so that if sigaction() |
| isn't present, we can use signal() instead. |
| |
| - I'm having a license discussion going on privately. The issue is yet again |
| GPL-licensed programs that have problems with MPL. I am leaning towards |
| making a kind of dual-license that will solve this once and for all... |
| |
| Daniel (31 October 2000) |
| - Added the packages/ directory. I intend to let this contain some docs and |
| templates on how to generate custom-format packages for various platforms. |
| I've now removed the RPM related curl.spec files from the archive root. |
| |
| Daniel (30 October 2000) |
| - T. Bharath brought a set of patches that bring new functionality to |
| curl_easy_getinfo() and curl_easy_setopt(). Now you can request peer |
| certificate verification with the *setopt() CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option |
| and then use the CURLOPT_CAINFO to set the certificate to verify the remote |
| peer against. After an such an operation with a verification request, the |
| *_getinfo() option CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT will return information about |
| whether the verification succeeded or not. |
| |
| Daniel (27 October 2000) |
| - Georg Horn brought us a splendid patch that solves the long-standing |
| annoying problem with timeouts that made curl exit with silly exit codes |
| (which as been commented out lately). This solution is sigaction() based and |
| of course then only works for unixes (and only those unixes that actually |
| have the sigaction() function). |
| |
| Daniel (26 October 2000) |
| - Bjรถrn Stenberg supplied a patch that fixed the flaw mentioned by Kevin Roth |
| that made the password get echoed when prompted for interactively. The |
| getpass() function (now known as my_getpass()) was also fixed to not use any |
| static buffers. This also means we cannot use the "standard" getpass() |
| function even for those systems that have it, since it isn't thread-safe. |
| |
| - Kevin Roth found out that if you'd write a config file with '-v url', the |
| url would not be used as "default URL" as documented, although if you wrote |
| it 'url -v' it worked! This has been corrected now. |
| |
| - Kevin Roth's idea of using multiple -d options on the same command line was |
| just brilliant, and I couldn't really think of any reason why we shouldn't |
| support it! The append function always append '&' and then the new -d |
| chunk. This enables constructs like the following: |
| |
| curl -d name=daniel -d age=unknown foobarsite.com |
| |
| Daniel (24 October 2000) |
| - I fixed the lib/memdebug.c source so that it compiles on Linux and other |
| systems. It will be useful one day when someone else but me wants to run the |
| memory debugging system. |
| |
| Daniel (23 October 2000) |
| - I modified the maketgz and configure scripts, so that the configure script |
| will fetch the version number from the include/curl/curl.h header files, and |
| then the maketgz doesn't have to rebuild the configure script when I build |
| release-archives. |
| |
| - Bjรถrn Stenberg and Linus Nielsen correctly pointed out that curl was silly |
| enough to not allow @-letters in passwords when they were specified with the |
| -u or -U flags (CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD). This also |
| suggests that curl probably should url-decode the password piece of an URL |
| so that you could pass an encoded @-letter there... |
| |
| Daniel (20 October 2000) |
| - Yet another http server barfed on curl's request that include the port |
| number in the Host: header always. I now only include the port number if it |
| isn't the default (80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS). www.perl.com turned out to |
| run one of those nasty servers. |
| |
| - The PHP4 module for curl had problems with referer that seems to have been |
| corrected just yesterday. (Sterling Hughes of the PHP team confirmed this) |
| |
| Daniel (17 October 2000) |
| - Vladimir Oblomov reported that the -Y and -y options didn't work. They |
| didn't work for me either. This once again proves we should have that test |
| suite... |
| |
| - I finally changed the error message libcurl returns if you try a https:// |
| URL when the library wasn't build with SSL enabled. It will now return this |
| error: |
| "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!" |
| |
| I really hope it will make it a bit clearer to users where the actual |
| problem lies. |
| |
| Version 7.4.1 |
| |
| Daniel (16 October 2000) |
| - I forgot to remove some of the malloc debug defines from the makefiles in |
| the release archive (of course). |
| |
| Version 7.4 |
| |
| Daniel (16 October 2000) |
| - The buffer overflow mentioned below was posted to bugtraq on Friday 13th. |
| |
| Daniel (12 October 2000) |
| - Colin Robert Phipps elegantly corrected a buffer overflow. It could be used |
| by an evil ftp server to crash curl. I took the opportunity of replacing a |
| few other sprintf()s into snprintf()s as well. |
| |
| Daniel (11 October 2000) |
| - Found some more memory leaks. This new simple memory debugger has turned out |
| really useful! |
| |
| Version 7.4 pre6 |
| |
| Daniel (9 October 2000) |
| - Florian Koenig pointed out that the bool typedef in the curl/curl.h include |
| file was breaking PHP 4.0.3 compiling. The bool typedef is not used in the |
| public interface and was wrongly inserted in that header file. |
| |
| - Jรถrg Hartroth corrected a minor memory leak in the src/urlglob.c stuff. It |
| didn't harm anyone since the memory is free()ed on exit anyway. |
| |
| - Corrected the src/main.c. We use the _MPRINTF_REPLACE #define to use our |
| libcurl-printf() functions. This gives us snprintf() et al on all |
| platforms. I converted the allocated useragent string to one that uses a |
| local buffer. |
| |
| - I've set an #if 0 section around the Content-Transfer-Encoding header |
| generated in lib/formdata.c. This will hopefully make curl do more |
| PHP-friendly multi-part posts. |
| |
| Version 7.4 pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (9 October 2000) |
| - Nico Baggus found out that curl's ability to force a ASCII download when |
| using FTP was no longer working! I corrected this. This problem was probably |
| introduced when I redesigned libcurl for version 7. |
| |
| - Georg Horn provided a source example that proved a memory leak in libcurl. |
| I added simple memory debugging facilities and now we can make libcurl log |
| all memory fiddling functions. An additional perl script is used to analyze |
| the output logfile and to match malloc()s with free()s etc. The memory leak |
| Georg found turned out to be the main cookie struct that cookie_cleanup() |
| didn't free! The perl script is named memanalyze.pl and it is available in |
| the CVS respository, not in the release archive. |
| |
| Daniel (8 October 2000) |
| - Georg Horn found a GetHost() problem. It turned out it never assigned the |
| pointer in the third argument properly! This could make a crash, or at best |
| a memory leak! |
| |
| Version 7.4 pre4 |
| |
| Daniel (6 October 2000) |
| - Is the -F post following the RFC 1867 spec? We had this dicussion on the |
| mailing list since it appears curl can't post -F form posts to a PHP |
| receiver... I've been in touch with the PHP developers about this. |
| |
| - Domenico Andreoli found out that the long option '--proxy' wasn't working |
| anymore! The option parser got confused when I added the --proxytunnel for |
| 7.3. This was indeed a very old flaw that hasn't turned up until now... |
| |
| - Jรถrn Hartroth provided patches, updated makefiles and two new files for DLL |
| stuff on win32. He also pointed out that lib source files were compiled with |
| -I../src which isn't only wrong but plain stupid! |
| |
| - Troels Walsted Hansen fixed a problem with HTTP resume. Curl previously used |
| a local variable badly, that could lead to crashes. |
| |
| Version 7.4 pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (4 October 2000) |
| - More docs written. The curl_easy_getinfo.3 man page is now pretty accurate, |
| as is the -w section in curl.1. I added two options to enable the user to |
| get information about the received headers' size and the size of the HTTP |
| request. T. Bharath requested them. |
| |
| Daniel (3 October 2000) |
| - Corrected a sever free() before use in the new add_buffer_send()! ;-) |
| |
| Version 7.4 pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (3 October 2000) |
| - Jason S. Priebe sent me patches that changed the way curl issues HTTP |
| requests. The entire request is now issued in one single shot. It didn't do |
| this previously, and it has turned out that since the common browsers do it |
| this way, some sites have turned out to work with browsers but not with |
| curl! Although this is not a client-side problem, we want to be able to |
| fully emulate browsers, and thus we have now adjusted the networking layer |
| to slightly more appear as a browser. I adjusted Jason's patch, the faults |
| are probably mine. |
| |
| Daniel (2 October 2000) |
| - Anyone who ever uploaded data with curl on a slow link has noticed that the |
| progess meter is updated very infrequently. That is due to the large buffer |
| size curl is using. It reads 50Kb and sends it, updates the progress meter |
| and loops. 50Kb is very much on a slow link, although it is pretty neat to |
| use on a fast one. |
| |
| I've now made an adjustment that makes curl use a 2Kb buffer for uploads to |
| start with. If curl's average upload speed is faster than buffer size bytes |
| per second, curl will increase the used buffer size up to max 50Kb. It |
| should make the progress meter work better. |
| |
| Version 7.4 pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (29 September 2000) |
| - Ripped out the -w stuff from the library and put in the curl tool. It gets |
| all the relevant info from the library using the new curl_easy_getinfo() |
| function. |
| |
| - brad at openbsd.org mailed me a patch that corrected my kerberos mistake and |
| removed a compiler warning from hostip.c that OpenBSD people get. |
| |
| Daniel (28 September 2000) |
| - Of course (I should probably get punished somehow) I didn't properly correct |
| the #include lines for the base64 stuff in the kerberos sources in the just |
| released 7.3 package. They still include the *_krb.h files! Now, the error |
| is sooo very easy to spot and fix so I won't bother with a quick bug fix |
| release. I'll post a patch whenever one is needed instead. It'll be |
| available in the CVS in a few minutes anyway. |
| |
| Version 7.3 |
| |
| Daniel (28 September 2000) |
| - Removed the base64_krb.[ch] files. They've now replaced the former |
| base64.[ch] files. |
| |
| Daniel (26 September 2000) |
| - Updated some docs. |
| |
| - I changed the OpenSSL fix to work with older versions as well. The posted |
| patch was only working with 0.9.6 and no older ones. |
| |
| Version 7.3-pre8 |
| |
| Daniel (25 September 2000) |
| - Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and |
| showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly |
| again. |
| |
| - Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative |
| approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie |
| header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed. |
| |
| - I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell |
| you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for |
| nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl |
| tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected. |
| |
| Daniel (23 September 2000) |
| - Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload |
| work! |
| |
| Daniel (21 September 2000) |
| - The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals |
| that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first! |
| |
| Daniel (20 September 2000) |
| - Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this |
| opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer |
| sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I now use |
| malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a |
| large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like |
| that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness. |
| |
| - Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went |
| as smooth as it could. |
| |
| - Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how |
| to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples |
| further on. |
| |
| - Applied a patch by Jรถrn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the |
| config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word |
| "reservered". I figure that is some kind of C++ decease. |
| |
| - Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4. |
| |
| - Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that |
| I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding |
| functions! ;-) |
| |
| Version 7.3pre5 |
| |
| Daniel (19 September 2000) |
| - The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original |
| krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global |
| variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to |
| clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use |
| connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't |
| destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects |
| krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty. |
| |
| Version 7.3pre3 |
| |
| Daniel (18 September 2000) |
| - Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to |
| curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did |
| not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere |
| thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours! |
| |
| - Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to |
| the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an |
| outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all |
| platforms. This needs testing. |
| |
| - Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the |
| name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not |
| returning an error even though it failed on some platforms! |
| |
| Daniel (15 September 2000) |
| - Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support. |
| |
| Version 7.3pre2 |
| |
| Daniel (15 September 2000) |
| - Kai-Uwe Rommel pointed out a problem in the httpproxytunnel stuff for ftp. |
| Adjusted it. Added better info message when setting up the tunnel and the |
| pasv message when doing the second connect. |
| |
| Version 7.3pre1 |
| |
| Daniel (15 September 2000) |
| - libcurl now allows "httpproxytunnel" to an arbitrary host and port name. The |
| second connection on ftp needed that. |
| |
| - TheArtOfHTTPScripting was corrected all over. I both type and spell really |
| bad at times! |
| |
| Daniel (14 September 2000) |
| - -p/--proxytunnel was added to 'curl'. It uses the new |
| CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL libcurl option that allows "any" protocol to tunnel |
| through the specified http proxy. At the moment, this should work with ftp. |
| |
| Daniel (13 September 2000) |
| - Jochen Schaeuble found that file:// didn't work as expected. Corrected this |
| and mailed the patch to the mailing list. |
| |
| Daniel (7 September 2000) |
| - I changed the #define T() in curl.h since it turned out it wasn't really |
| a good symbol to use (when you compiled PHP with curl as a module, that |
| define collided with some IMAP define or something). This was posted to the |
| PHP bug tracker. |
| |
| - I added extern "C" stuff in two header files to better allow libcurl usage |
| in C++ sorces. Discussions on the libcurl list with Danny Horswell lead to |
| this. |
| |
| Version 7.2.1 |
| |
| Daniel (31 August 2000) |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young fixed the configure script *again* and now it seems to |
| detect Linux name resolving properly! (heard that before?) |
| |
| - Troels Walsted Hansen pointed out that downloading a file containing the |
| letter '+' from an ftp server didn't work. It did work from HTTP though and |
| the reason was my lame URL decoder. |
| |
| - I happened to notice that -I didn't at all work on ftp anymore. I corrected |
| that. |
| |
| Version 7.2 |
| |
| Daniel (30 August 2000) |
| - Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they |
| solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the |
| AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this |
| article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a |
| libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking |
| completely. |
| |
| So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that |
| fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want |
| to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the |
| following three include files before that one: |
| |
| #include <net/if_dl.h> |
| #include <sys/mbuf.h> |
| #include <netinet/if_ether.h> |
| |
| Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all |
| the source files that include it? |
| |
| Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX |
| login to try everything on. |
| |
| Daniel (24 August 2000) |
| - Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one |
| was not up to date but lacked several object files. |
| |
| - More work on the naming. |
| |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as |
| some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position |
| for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir... |
| |
| - As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary |
| option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to |
| work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday. |
| |
| Daniel (23 August 2000) |
| - Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added |
| when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with |
| it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think |
| I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the |
| file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new |
| *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since |
| libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases. |
| |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name |
| resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms |
| that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of |
| this. |
| |
| - The FAQ was much enhanced when it comes to the licensing issues thanks to |
| Bjorn Reese. |
| |
| Daniel (21 August 2000) |
| - Rick Welykochy pointed out a problem when you use -d to post and you want to |
| keep the newlines, as curl strips them off as a bonus before posting... |
| This needs to be addressed. |
| |
| Version 7.1.1 |
| |
| Daniel (21 August 2000) |
| - Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent |
| me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests |
| which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of |
| the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a |
| function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function |
| will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad |
| manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I |
| should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on |
| a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at |
| http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the |
| future as well. |
| |
| Daniel (18 August 2000) |
| - I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't |
| think this is the reason for the continued trouble though. |
| |
| Daniel (17 August 2000) |
| - Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It |
| should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems. |
| |
| Daniel (15 August 2000) |
| - Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well |
| as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before? |
| |
| - Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when |
| used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got |
| screwed up! |
| |
| Daniel (11 August 2000) |
| - Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version |
| of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that |
| information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of |
| not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my |
| Linux Redhat installation... |
| |
| Daniel (10 August 2000) |
| - Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace |
| the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added |
| the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts |
| using custom Content-Types. |
| |
| Daniel (8 August 2000) |
| - Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no |
| user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this. |
| |
| Version 7.1 |
| |
| Daniel (7 August 2000) |
| - My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker. |
| |
| - I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort |
| of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl. |
| |
| Daniel (4 August 2000) |
| - Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms. |
| My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to |
| move an include file before another, as is now described in the source. |
| |
| AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() |
| functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile |
| broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the |
| configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My |
| implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may |
| get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to |
| any system using that. |
| |
| For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread |
| to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few |
| functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work |
| although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use |
| libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a |
| thread-safe lib. |
| |
| - Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl. |
| |
| Daniel (1 August 2000) |
| - Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal() |
| that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true |
| function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string |
| comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the |
| now obsolete #define. |
| |
| - Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's |
| JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range |
| headers. |
| |
| - The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use |
| libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young |
| found out. |
| |
| Version 7.0.11beta |
| |
| Daniel (1 August 2000) |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that 'make install' did not properly create |
| the header include directory, why it failed to install the header files as |
| it should. Automake isn't really equipped to deal with subdirectories |
| without Makefiles in any nice way. I had to run ahead and add Makefiles in |
| both include and include/curl before I managed to create a top-level |
| makefile that succeeds in install everything properly! |
| |
| - Ok, no more "features" added now. Let's just verify that there's no major |
| flaws added now. |
| |
| Daniel (31 July 2000) |
| - Both Jeff Schasny and Ketil Froyn asked me how to tell curl not to send one |
| of those internally generated headers. They didn't settle with the blank |
| ones you could tell curl to use. I rewrote the header-replace stuff a |
| little. Now, if you replace an internal header with your own and that new |
| one is a blank header you will only remove the internal one and not get any |
| blank. I couldn't figure out any case when you want that blank header. |
| |
| Daniel (29 July 2000) |
| - It struck me that the lib used localtime() which is not thread-safe, so now |
| I use localtime_r() in the systems that has it. |
| |
| - I went through this entire document and removed all email addresses and left |
| names only. I've really made an effort to always note who brought be bug |
| reports or fixes, but more and more people ask me to remove the email |
| addresses since they become victims for spams this way. Gordon Beaton got me |
| working on this. |
| |
| Daniel (27 July 2000) |
| - Jรถrn Hartroth found out that when you specified a HTTP proxy in an |
| environment variable and used -L, curl failed in the second fetch. I |
| corrected this problem and posted a patch to the list. No need for an extra |
| beta release just for this. |
| |
| Version 7.0.10beta |
| |
| Daniel (27 July 2000) |
| - So, libtool replaced two of my files with symbolic links and I forgot to add |
| the two new libtool files to the release archive (and they were added as |
| symlinks as well!) This of course lead to that the configure script failed |
| on 7.0.9... |
| |
| Version 7.0.9beta |
| |
| Daniel (25 July 2000) |
| - Kristian Kรถhntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> brought a fix that makes libcurl |
| libtoolified, just as we've wanted for a while now. He also made the |
| recently added man pages get installed properly on 'make install' and some |
| other nice cleanups. |
| |
| - In a discussion with Eetu Ojanen it struck me that if we use curl to get a |
| page using a password, and that page then sends a Location: to another |
| server that curl follows, curl will send the user name and password to that |
| server as well. |
| |
| Now, I'll never be able to make curl do Location: following all that perfect |
| and you're all sooner or later required to write a script to do several |
| fetches when you're doing advanced stuff, but now I've modified curl to at |
| least *only* send the user name and password to the original server. Which |
| means that if get a page from server A with a password, that forwards curl |
| to server B, curl won't use the password there. If server B then forwards |
| curl back to server A again, the password will be used again. |
| |
| This is not a perfect implementation, as in a browser case it would only use |
| the password if the left-prefix of the first path is the same. I just think |
| that this fix prevents a somewhat lurky "security hole". |
| |
| As a side-note in this subject: HTTP passwords are sent in cleartext and |
| will never be considered to be safe or secure. Use HTTPS for that. |
| |
| - As discussed on the mailing list, I converted the FTP response reading |
| function into using select() which then allows timeouts (even under win32!) |
| if the command-reply session gets too slow or dies completely. I made a |
| default timeout on 3600 seconds unless anything else is specified, since I |
| don't think anyone wants to wait more than that for a single character to |
| get received... |
| |
| - Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch at gmx.net> brought a set of fixes for |
| the rfc1867 form posts. He introduced 'name=<file' which brings a means to |
| suuply very large text chunks read from the given file name. It differs from |
| 'name=@file' in the way that this latter thing is marked in the uploaded |
| contents as a file upload, while the first is just text (as in a input or |
| textarea field). Torsten also corrected a bug that would happen if you used |
| %s or similar in a -F file name. |
| |
| - As discovered by Nico Baggus <Nico.Baggus at mail.ing.nl>, when transferring |
| files to/from FTP using type ASCII curl should not expect the transfer to be |
| the exact size reported by the server as the file size. Since ASCII may very |
| well mean that the content is translated while transfered, the final size |
| may very well differ. Therefor, curl now ignores the file size when doing |
| ASCII transfers in FTP. |
| |
| Daniel (24 July 2000) |
| - Added CURLOPT_PROXYPORT to the curl_easy_setopt() call to allow the proxy |
| port number to be set separately from the proxy host name. |
| |
| - Andrew <andrew at ugh.net.au> pointed out a netrc manual bug. |
| |
| - The FTP transfer code now accepts a 250-code as well as the previously |
| accepted 226, after a successful file transfer. Mohan <mnair at |
| evergreen-funds.com> pointed this out. |
| |
| - The check for *both* nsl and socket was never added in the v7 configure.in |
| when I moved the main branch. I re-added that check to configure.in. This was |
| discovered by Rich Gray. |
| |
| - Howard, Blaise <Blaise.Howard at factiva.com> pointed out a missing free() in |
| curl_disconnect() which of course meant libcurl ate memory. |
| |
| - Brian E. Gallew noted that the HTTP 'Host:' header curl sent did not |
| properly include the port number if non-default ports were used. This should |
| now have been fixed. |
| |
| - HTTP connect errors now return errors earlier. This was most notably causing |
| problems when the HTTPS certificate had problems and later caused a crash. |
| Many thanks to Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls at level8.com> for discovering |
| and suggesting a fix... |
| |
| Daniel (21 June 2000) |
| - After a "bug report" I received where the user was using both -F and -I in a |
| HTTP request (it severly confused the library I should add), I added some |
| checks to src/main.c that prevents setting more than one HTTP request |
| command, no matter what the user wants! ;-) |
| |
| Version 7.0.8beta |
| |
| Daniel (20 June 2000) |
| - I did a major replace in many files to use the new curl domain haxx.se |
| instead of the previous one. |
| |
| - As Eetu Ojanen suggested, I finally took the step and now libcurl no longer |
| makes a POST after it has followed a location. When the initial POST has |
| been done, it'll turned into a GET for the further requests. This is only |
| interesting when using -L/--location *and* doing a POST at the same time. |
| |
| While messing with this, I added another weird feature I call 'auto |
| referer'. If you append ';auto' to the right of a given referer string (or |
| only use that string as referer), libcurl will automatically set the |
| previoud URL as refered when it follows a Location: and gets a succeeding |
| document. |
| |
| - My hero Rich Gray found the very obscure FTP bug that happened to him only |
| when passing through a particular firewall and using the PORT command. It |
| turned out that PORT was the only command in the lib/ftp.c source that |
| didn't send a proper \r\n sequence but instead used the faulty \n which as |
| it seemed is supported by most major ftp servers... :-O |
| |
| Version 7.0.7beta |
| |
| Daniel (16 June 2000) |
| - I had avoided this long enough now, so I moved the alternative progress bar |
| stuff from the lib and added it to the client code. This is now using the |
| recently added progress callback and it seems to work pretty much like |
| before. Since it is only one progress bar and you and download and upload at |
| the same time, this bar shows the combined progress of both directions. This |
| code was just ported from the old place to this, Lars is still our saviour! |
| ;-) This also made the documentation more accurate since I never removed |
| this function from any docs! Although I now removed the CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE |
| from the library since the lib has only one internal progress meter and it |
| will never get another. It is although likely that the internal one also |
| will be moved to the client code in the future (when I have other means of |
| getting the writeout data and move that too to the client). |
| |
| - I took the opportunity to verify that standard progress meter works and I |
| found out it didn't get inited properly. Grrr. I corrected that as well. |
| |
| Daniel (15 June 2000) |
| - I thought I'd better verify that the -F option still works in v7 and of |
| course it didn't... :-/ Anyway, I had the problems I could discover |
| corrected. About one month of beta testing and not a single person has used |
| this feature with v7? |
| |
| - Bjรถrn correctly pointed out that the --progress-bar still doesn't work in |
| v7. Hm. |
| |
| Daniel (14 June 2000) |
| - Tim Tassonis discovered that curl 7 didn't handle normal http POST as it |
| should. I corrected this. |
| |
| Version 7.0.6beta |
| |
| Daniel (14 June 2000) |
| - Bjรถrn Stenberg pointed out several problems (related to win32 compiling): |
| lib/strequal.c had a bad #ifdef for one of the string comparisons (win32) |
| src/main.c had several minor problems |
| lib/makefile.m32 had getpass.[co] twice |
| src/config-win32.h lacked the HAVE_FCNTL_H define |
| both config-win32.h files now only set the HAVE_UNISTD_H define if the |
| define MINGW32 is set, and I modified src/makefile.m32 and lib/makefile.m32 |
| to set it. |
| |
| Version 7.0.5beta |
| |
| Daniel (14 June 2000) |
| - Applied Luong Dinh Dung's comments about a few win32 compile problems. |
| |
| - Applied Bjรถrn Stenberg's suggested fix that turns the win32 stdout to |
| binary. It won't do it if the -B / --use-ascii option is used. That option |
| is now an extended version of the previous -B /--ftp--ascii. The flag was |
| already in use be the ldap as well so the new name fits pretty good. The |
| libcyrl CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT was also introduced as an alias to the now |
| obsolete CURLOPT_FTPASCII. Can't verify this fix myself as I have no win32 |
| compiler around. |
| |
| Daniel (13 June 2000) |
| - Luong Dinh Dung <dung at sch.bme.hu> found a problem in curl_easy_cleanup() |
| since it free()ed the main curl struct *twice*. This is now corrected. |
| |
| Daniel (9 June 2000) |
| - Updated the RESOURCES file, added a README.win32 file. |
| |
| Daniel (8 June 2000) |
| - So I finally added the progress callback to the *setopt() options and it |
| should work now. I don't have the energy to write any test program for it |
| right now. |
| - Made the callback function typedefs public in curl/curl.h for comfort. Just |
| in case anyone wanna fiddle with such pointers. |
| - Updated the curl_easy_setopt() man page accordingly. |
| |
| Version 7.0.4beta |
| |
| Daniel (2 June 2000) |
| - I noticed that when doing Location: following, we lost custom headers in all |
| but the first request. |
| - Removed the 'HttpPost' struct and moved the header stuff to the more generic |
| curl_slist. |
| - Added some better slist-cleanups in src/main.c |
| |
| Version 7.0.3beta |
| |
| Daniel (31 May 2000) |
| - So I discovered that I released the 7.0.2beta without it being able to |
| compile under Linux. gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() turned out to |
| feature a different amount of arguments on different systems so I had to add |
| a configure check for this and adjust the code slightly. |
| |
| Version 7.0.2beta |
| |
| Daniel (29 May 2000) |
| - Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only |
| toggles one of those bits. |
| |
| - Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add |
| usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around, |
| since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as |
| solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script. |
| |
| I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my |
| Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now. |
| |
| Daniel (22 May 2000) |
| - Jรถrn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as |
| well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems |
| to be reserved in some gcc versions! |
| |
| - Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX |
| needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined. |
| More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work. |
| |
| Version 7.0.1beta |
| |
| Daniel (21 May 2000) |
| - Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No |
| more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl- |
| prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former |
| curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate |
| setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is |
| now using that. |
| |
| - Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan |
| to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name |
| lookups. |
| |
| Version 7.0beta |
| |
| Daniel (18 May 2000) |
| - Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow |
| source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to |
| a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and |
| patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also |
| makes a larger number a newer version. |
| |
| Daniel (17 May 2000) |
| - Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range |
| option. I corrected them. |
| - Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file |
| in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for |
| multithreaded purposes. |
| |
| Daniel (16 May 2000) |
| - Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7. |
| There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken. |
| <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use. |
| |
| Daniel (14 May 2000) |
| - FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738. |
| - FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change |
| directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with |
| Rich Gray made me notice these problems. |
| - Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the |
| src/usrglob.c file. |
| - I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string |
| compares on all platforms. |
| |
| Daniel (8 May 2000): |
| - Been working lots on the new lib. |
| - Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work |
| better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix. |
| |
| Daniel (2 May 2000): |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in |
| configure.in that didn't do any good. |
| |
| Daniel (24 April 2000): |
| - Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't |
| find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison |
| |
| Daniel (12 April 2000): |
| - Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a |
| better one... |
| |
| Daniel (8 April 2000): |
| - Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes |
| and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM. |
| - I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user |
| agent string. It does now. |
| - Habibie <habibie at MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs |
| on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves |
| the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to |
| build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm |
| package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build |
| a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM? |
| - Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l |
| on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native |
| cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been |
| reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It |
| is a pity there's no newer release around... |
| |
| Daniel (4 April 2000): |
| - Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with two fixes that |
| appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs. |
| |
| Daniel (2 April 2000): |
| - Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then |
| followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved. |
| |
| Daniel (27 March 2000): |
| - H. Daphne Luong pointed out that curl was wrongly |
| messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy, |
| which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings. |
| |
| Daniel (23 March 2000): |
| - Marco G. Salvagno corrected my badly applied patch he |
| actually already told me about! |
| |
| - H. Daphne Luong brought me a fix that now makes curl |
| ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to |
| happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded... |
| |
| Daniel (22 March 2000): |
| - Wham Bang supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME |
| was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been. |
| The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6 |
| makefile for MS VC++. |
| |
| Daniel (21 March 2000): |
| - I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that |
| one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne |
| Johansson made me aware of this. |
| |
| Version 6.5.2 |
| |
| Daniel (21 March 2000): |
| - Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1 |
| crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was |
| the -D adjustments in src/main.c. |
| |
| Version 6.5.1 |
| |
| Daniel (20 March 2000): |
| - An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer |
| overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main |
| problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this |
| single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne |
| Johansson). |
| |
| Daniel (19 March 2000): |
| - Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches |
| that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in |
| the INSTALL file. Very nice job! |
| |
| Daniel (17 March 2000): |
| - Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6 |
| file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that |
| VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's |
| existence. |
| |
| Daniel (15 March 2000): |
| - I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything |
| to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D |
| on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies |
| in that one single file. |
| |
| - Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff. |
| Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32 |
| stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now). |
| |
| - Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the |
| Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h. |
| |
| Daniel (14 March 2000): |
| - Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output |
| was never written. I fixed it now. |
| |
| - Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does |
| when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included |
| instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in |
| the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h. |
| |
| Version 6.5 |
| |
| Daniel (13 March 2000): |
| - <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a |
| single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what |
| the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to |
| perhaps make them work better. |
| |
| - Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl |
| script needs it! |
| |
| - Made some beautifications in the curl man page. |
| |
| Daniel (3 March 2000): |
| - Jรถrn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and |
| HAVE_STRDUP. |
| |
| Daniel (3 March 2000): |
| - Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package. |
| |
| Daniel (2 March 2000): |
| - Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people |
| happy and I'll still keep them available on the web. |
| |
| - Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter |
| display in README.curl. |
| |
| - Jรถrn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf |
| Mรถller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for |
| fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl |
| 0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number |
| thing). |
| |
| - Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream. |
| Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get |
| every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net> |
| suggested this. |
| |
| - Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix. |
| |
| Daniel (24 February 2000): |
| - Applied Jรถrn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32. |
| |
| I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using |
| the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %- |
| letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should |
| use another letter instead! |
| |
| - Added more variables to -w: |
| |
| 'http_code' |
| 'time_namelookup' |
| 'time_connect' |
| 'time_pretransfer' |
| 'url_effective' |
| |
| - Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from |
| stdin in the good old "standard" curl way. |
| |
| Daniel (22 February 2000): |
| - Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback. |
| |
| Daniel (21 February 2000): |
| |
| - I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a |
| single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has |
| completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and |
| they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that |
| exist as of this moment are: |
| |
| total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals) |
| size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes |
| size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes |
| speed_download - the average speed of the entire download |
| speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload |
| |
| I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others. |
| |
| - It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new |
| progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re- |
| introduced! :-/ |
| |
| Daniel (16 February 2000): |
| - Jรถrn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued |
| working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download |
| and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good. |
| |
| - Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface. |
| |
| - Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next. |
| |
| Daniel (15 February 2000): |
| - The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it |
| is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly! |
| |
| Daniel (11 February 2000): |
| - Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to |
| deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K. |
| |
| - Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b |
| is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also |
| similarly reads the cookies from stdin. |
| |
| - Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way |
| -o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file... |
| |
| - Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X. |
| |
| - Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the |
| cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to |
| the server. |
| |
| Daniel (8 February 2000): |
| - Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that |
| prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do |
| with the difference in sprintf() return code types. |
| |
| - Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's |
| do some progress meter fixes later this week. |
| |
| Daniel (31 January 2000): |
| - Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie |
| parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think |
| that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see |
| what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all. |
| |
| RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are |
| compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though... |
| |
| - Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form |
| to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while |
| since the socket "pipe" becomes full. |
| |
| It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new |
| single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required |
| of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue |
| and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well. |
| |
| - Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area, |
| although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait |
| with fixing anything. |
| |
| - Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume |
| support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion |
| I'll work on it. |
| |
| Daniel (25 January 2000): |
| - M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was |
| corrected. |
| |
| - Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile |
| curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed |
| by Jรถrn's recent #include modifications! |
| |
| Daniel (19 January 2000): |
| - Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem |
| in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a |
| different protocol to fail. |
| |
| At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I |
| could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it |
| again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following |
| on server not running on default ports.) |
| |
| - Jรถrn Hartroth brought a fix that once again |
| made it possible to select progress bar. |
| |
| - Jรถrn also fixed a few include problems. |
| |
| Version 6.4 |
| |
| Daniel (17 January 2000): |
| - Based on suggestions from Bjรถrn Stenberg, I made the |
| progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows |
| the time spent on the download so far. |
| - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web |
| browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu. |
| |
| Daniel (10 January 2000): |
| - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice! |
| - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer |
| quote commands. |
| - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means |
| that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of |
| course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or |
| downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-) |
| - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and |
| install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores |
| on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a |
| better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff. |
| - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page. |
| - Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf |
| 2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L |
| flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks |
| and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs! |
| |
| Daniel (28 December 1999): |
| - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl |
| doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a |
| problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines |
| that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of |
| the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just |
| translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with |
| the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names. |
| |
| Daniel (27 December 1999): |
| - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input |
| data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters |
| in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington. |
| |
| Daniel (13 December 1999): |
| - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges |
| added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was |
| both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions. |
| |
| Daniel (3 December 1999): |
| - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen... |
| |
| - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as |
| well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is |
| only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course). |
| |
| Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999): |
| - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though! |
| |
| - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in |
| different directories than the sources. |
| |
| Version 6.3.1 |
| |
| Daniel (23 November 1999): |
| - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died |
| along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the |
| things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS |
| server! |
| |
| - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling |
| that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It |
| was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly... |
| |
| - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP |
| download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the |
| entire download was completed. It does now. |
| |
| Daniel (19 November 1999): |
| - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of |
| return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all |
| occurrences and corrected this. |
| |
| Daniel (17 November 1999): |
| - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option |
| doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have |
| any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard |
| when the timeout is reached. |
| |
| - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason |
| why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version. |
| |
| Daniel (12 November 1999): |
| - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave |
| a plain http header file as input... |
| |
| Version 6.3 |
| |
| Daniel (10 November 1999): |
| - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always |
| respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole |
| again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading |
| section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do |
| my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer |
| is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received). |
| |
| - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page |
| to better describe how the -F works. |
| |
| - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in |
| China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/ |
| |
| - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file |
| |
| - I did add more explanations to the man page |
| |
| Daniel (8 November 1999): |
| - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie |
| files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to |
| transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input. |
| |
| Daniel (29 October 1999): |
| - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before |
| but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in |
| FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two |
| it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to |
| be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/ |
| --range switch (previously HTTP-only). |
| |
| - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be |
| able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid |
| idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in |
| this manner: |
| Content-Length: XXXX |
| As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more |
| info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also |
| makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the |
| file size the same way. |
| |
| I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed |
| just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable |
| quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too. |
| |
| - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in |
| the man page. |
| |
| - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add |
| some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in |
| the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti. |
| |
| - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl |
| man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay |
| reported and brought the suggestion. |
| |
| - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came |
| up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the |
| internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header |
| that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely |
| obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than |
| the one curl would set. |
| |
| Daniel (27 October 1999): |
| - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following |
| a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to |
| get the core. |
| |
| Version 6.2 |
| |
| Daniel (21 October 1999): |
| - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just |
| before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used. |
| - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without |
| having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again |
| when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the |
| URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system |
| such as curl has.) |
| - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6 |
| with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c |
| that occurred after the download was done and completed. |
| - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter |
| to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with |
| the multiple URL support. |
| - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't |
| honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are |
| case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan |
| also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty |
| of editing slightly. |
| - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize |
| the Mac OS X |
| - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking |
| to fail on OS X. |
| |
| Daniel (19 October 1999): |
| - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a |
| crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added |
| --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a |
| file or stdout. |
| |
| Daniel (18 October 1999): |
| - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now |
| totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force |
| the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has |
| been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one. |
| |
| Version 6.1 |
| |
| Daniel (17 October 1999): |
| - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure |
| script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially |
| thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and |
| uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become |
| more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait |
| until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better |
| adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a |
| short a summary is suitable: |
| - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip |
| decompression methods. |
| - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor, |
| although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would |
| want it. |
| - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from |
| a file descriptor if that is a socket |
| |
| Daniel (14 October 1999): |
| - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named |
| curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a |
| better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested. |
| |
| Daniel (12 October 1999): |
| - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release |
| archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and |
| hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur. |
| |
| Daniel (11 October 1999): |
| - Applied Jรถrn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as |
| some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in |
| the man page. |
| |
| Version 6.1beta |
| |
| Daniel (6 October 1999): |
| - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I |
| just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named |
| file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a |
| given file: |
| |
| curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com |
| |
| or let curl read it out from stdin: |
| |
| curl -d @- www.postit.com |
| |
| Jรถrn Hartroth (3 October 1999): |
| - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME |
| separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being |
| used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged". |
| |
| Daniel |
| - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info. |
| |
| Daniel (30 September 1999): |
| - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work |
| out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default |
| dirs. |
| |
| Daniel (28 September 1999) |
| - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress |
| or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that |
| it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens |
| download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP |
| documents so that I can test this out properly. |
| |
| - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string |
| a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too. |
| |
| Daniel (17 September 1999) |
| - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead |
| of file name, the data will be read from stdin. |
| |
| Version 6.0 |
| |
| Daniel (13 September 1999) |
| - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent. |
| Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This |
| should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE. |
| |
| - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles. |
| |
| Daniel (10 September 1999) |
| - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP |
| servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It |
| took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as |
| OK. |
| |
| - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do |
| turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all |
| cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I |
| doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet). |
| |
| Daniel (8 September 1999) |
| - Jรถrn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32. |
| |
| Daniel (7 September 1999) |
| - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by |
| Stefan Kanthak. |
| |
| - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile. |
| |
| Daniel (3 September 1999) |
| - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy. |
| |
| Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999) |
| - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared |
| library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the |
| directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a |
| ldap:// URL. |
| |
| Jรถrn Hartroth (31 August 1999) |
| - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files. |
| - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for |
| performance reasons. |
| |
| Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999) |
| - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds. |
| |
| Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999) |
| - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the |
| root dir of the openssl installation, as in |
| |
| ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here |
| |
| - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells. |
| |
| Jรถrn Hartroth (26 August 1999) |
| - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32 |
| compiles. |
| |
| Version 5.11 |
| |
| Daniel (25 August 1999) |
| - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line |
| realloc() system in download.c. |
| |
| - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It |
| probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it |
| as a start. |
| |
| - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be |
| used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really |
| changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this |
| first. |
| |
| Daniel (17 August 1999) |
| - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the |
| original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page |
| again. |
| |
| - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of |
| them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should |
| not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas |
| E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this. |
| |
| Daniel (16 August 1999) |
| - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location: |
| page. Nusu's page showed this too. |
| |
| - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times |
| used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it |
| should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this |
| painfully visible... |
| |
| Troy (15 August 1999) |
| - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the |
| configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include |
| files are in /usr/include/openssl |
| |
| Version 5.10 |
| |
| Daniel (13 August 1999) |
| - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of |
| OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of |
| modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get |
| a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had |
| to come up with a #if construction that deals with this... |
| |
| - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4. |
| |
| Troy (12 August 1999) |
| - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also |
| a bit rearranged. |
| |
| Daniel (12 August 1999) |
| - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source |
| tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights |
| allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified. |
| |
| - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when |
| -Wall -pedantic was used. |
| |
| - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it |
| will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic. |
| The old one still works and shows the same info. |
| |
| Daniel (11 August 1999) |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the |
| configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users. |
| |
| Daniel (10 August 1999) |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as |
| some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under |
| HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate |
| yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new, |
| we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it |
| still compiles there. |
| |
| Daniel (5 August 1999) |
| - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions |
| around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and |
| brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking |
| about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl. |
| |
| To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe |
| <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to |
| libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl |
| talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've |
| started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at |
| www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/. |
| |
| - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure |
| script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under |
| Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004! |
| |
| - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present |
| in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly... |
| |
| - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet |
| support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on |
| the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and |
| run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little |
| weird output. |
| |
| This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your |
| feed-back and input in how this is best done. |
| |
| WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current |
| lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time. |
| |
| - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be |
| defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the |
| configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it. |
| |
| Daniel (4 August 1999) |
| - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem, |
| which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp |
| servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made |
| some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do |
| hope you report if you have problems with this! |
| |
| - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl. |
| |
| Daniel (2 August 1999) |
| - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers |
| a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. |
| |
| T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999) |
| - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain |
| username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to |
| another location (option '-L'). |
| |
| There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which |
| tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line |
| argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since |
| CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it |
| checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to |
| redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd. |
| |
| Version 5.9.1 |
| |
| Daniel (30 July 1999) |
| - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata |
| functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to |
| correct this flaw. |
| |
| - Mark Wotton reported: |
| 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by |
| correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL |
| 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I |
| don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that. |
| |
| - Marcus Klein: |
| Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand. |
| I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten. |
| |
| Daniel (29 July 1999) |
| - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location: |
| and I could only agree and fix it! |
| |
| - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out |
| that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter |
| when supposed to. |
| |
| - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If |
| you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a |
| standard port number, curl still used that first port number. |
| |
| - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION |
| and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on |
| the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any |
| html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if |
| CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set. |
| |
| - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph |
| Beckmann). |
| |
| - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the |
| latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now |
| in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl |
| option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I |
| leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too. |
| |
| Daniel (9 June 1999) |
| - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it! |
| I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now. |
| |
| Daniel (4 June 1999) |
| - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better |
| with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied |
| something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro |
| and Mark Butler brought a solution for it. |
| |
| Daniel (26 May 1999) |
| - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a |
| README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann. |
| |
| - I also updated the INSTALL text. |
| |
| Daniel (25 May 1999) |
| - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal |
| with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl |
| -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed. |
| |
| Version 5.9 |
| |
| Daniel (22 May 1999) |
| - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some |
| problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug |
| report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms |
| when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster |
| and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though... |
| |
| Daniel (20 May 1999) |
| - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too. |
| |
| Daniel (19 May 1999) |
| - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread() |
| function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel |
| helped me out isolating it. |
| |
| Daniel (16 May 1999) |
| - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't |
| work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now. |
| |
| - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl |
| to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was |
| used. |
| |
| Daniel (10 May 1999) |
| - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source |
| files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them |
| layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the |
| future! |
| |
| - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl |
| archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a |
| debian package that I've made available for download at the web page |
| |
| Daniel (9 May 1999) |
| - Made it compile on cygwin too. |
| |
| Troy Engel (7 May 1999) |
| - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6 |
| again! |
| |
| Daniel (6 May 1999) |
| - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it |
| will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus |
| can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined |
| too. |
| |
| Version 5.8 |
| |
| Daniel (5 May 1999) |
| - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright |
| for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have |
| there are problems all over. |
| |
| I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last |
| week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at |
| hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this. |
| |
| Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to |
| generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems |
| can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root |
| before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle |
| a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least! |
| |
| Daniel (4 May 1999) |
| - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in |
| the regexes. |
| |
| - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to. |
| I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a |
| curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as |
| in: |
| |
| curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html |
| |
| This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local. |
| I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out |
| there may depend on that the file is always touched... |
| |
| - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection. |
| |
| - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send |
| "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it |
| right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date |
| expression or a file name to get the date from! |
| |
| Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999) |
| - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable |
| isn't set and causes the make to fail. |
| |
| Daniel (26 April 1999) |
| - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version |
| number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug |
| in my maketgz script! |
| |
| David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999) |
| - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times. |
| |
| Version 5.7.1 |
| |
| Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999) |
| - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned |
| below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h |
| |
| - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the |
| INSTALL file. |
| |
| Daniel |
| - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the |
| README file |
| |
| Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999) |
| - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1. |
| It needs an #include <sys/types.h> |
| |
| Version 5.7 |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 20 1999) |
| - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now! |
| |
| - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now |
| simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small! |
| |
| - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a |
| start. |
| |
| Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999) |
| - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout. |
| |
| Version 5.6.3beta |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 12 1999) |
| |
| - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing |
| in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should |
| try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone? |
| |
| - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf! |
| |
| - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as |
| much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it |
| should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you |
| talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the |
| start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to |
| use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really |
| want such a crippled solution. |
| |
| - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the |
| "Curr.Speed" progress meter. |
| |
| - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from |
| stdin. |
| |
| - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it! |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 9 1999) |
| - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at |
| all! ;-O |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 6 1999) |
| - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version. |
| |
| - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that |
| previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get |
| some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the |
| best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days! |
| |
| Version 5.6.2beta |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 4 1999) |
| - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how |
| it works. |
| To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header- |
| format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the |
| -b flag like: |
| |
| curl -b file http://site/foo.html |
| |
| Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets |
| a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string |
| following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel". |
| |
| To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which |
| sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e |
| to start with no existing cookies), like: |
| |
| curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html |
| |
| - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently |
| reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address. |
| |
| - Better "Location:" following. |
| |
| Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999) |
| - A subsecond display patch. |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 14 1999) |
| - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make |
| things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from |
| 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one |
| set for libcurl. |
| |
| - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted |
| that. |
| |
| - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under |
| win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-) |
| Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in |
| INSTALL for details. |
| |
| - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http |
| server while remaining connected. |
| |
| Version 5.6beta |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 13 1999) |
| - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the |
| suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing |
| HTTP headers separately in the specified file. |
| |
| - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now. |
| |
| - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files |
| in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++... |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 12 1999) |
| - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability |
| and smaller size. |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 11 1999) |
| - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate |
| curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into |
| the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as |
| before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so. |
| |
| libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to |
| the lib functions though. |
| |
| The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information |
| about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-) |
| |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 1 1999) |
| - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the |
| info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the |
| README and the RFC in the RESOURCES. |
| |
| Daniel (Feb 23 1999) |
| - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes |
| in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl... |
| |
| Daniel (Feb 22 1999) |
| - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be |
| the most recent. |
| |
| Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999) |
| - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an |
| RPM automatically... |
| |
| Version 5.5.1 |
| |
| Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999) |
| - Corrected problems in Download(). |
| |
| Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999) |
| - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from |
| compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d. |
| |
| Version 5.5 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999) |
| - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999) |
| - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use |
| ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static- |
| buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls! |
| |
| Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999) |
| - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229). |
| It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better |
| formatted. |
| |
| To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in |
| the RFC) |
| |
| dict://dict.org/m:hello |
| dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex |
| |
| |
| Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999) |
| - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999) |
| - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only. |
| |
| Version 5.4 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| (7 Jan 1999) |
| - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress |
| reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on |
| again. This is now corrected! |
| |
| (4 Jan 1999) |
| - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If |
| you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file |
| upload. |
| |
| I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used |
| that. |
| |
| (4 Jan 1999) |
| - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it |
| now. |
| |
| (4 Jan 1999) |
| - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It |
| should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes. |
| |
| - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so |
| I redid that now. |
| |
| Version 5.3a (win32 only) |
| |
| Troy Engel |
| - Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part. |
| |
| Version 5.3 |
| |
| Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998) |
| - I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to |
| send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote |
| command-line arguments. |
| |
| You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in |
| order. This is what I use for my MVS upload: |
| |
| curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test |
| |
| Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order. |
| |
| - Made it compile smoothly on AIX. |
| |
| Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (18 Dec 1998) |
| - Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server. |
| |
| Troy Engel (17 Dec 1998) |
| - Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung, caused curl to crash on the -A |
| flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems should've! |
| |
| - Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _ |
| instead of . and \ instead of / in win32). |
| |
| - steve <fisk at polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the |
| ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size) |
| info. I hope it works better now! |
| |
| Version 5.2.1 |
| |
| Steven G. Johnson (Dec 14, 1998) |
| - Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the |
| environment variables. |
| |
| Version 5.2 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998) |
| - Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the |
| hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using |
| both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man |
| page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c |
| file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times |
| anyway. |
| |
| - gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char' |
| if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to |
| int. So I did to compile warning free with that too. |
| |
| - Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I |
| need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long |
| comforming systems! |
| |
| Version 5.1 (not publicly released) |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998) |
| - I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone? |
| |
| - Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl |
| now reads and understands the following environment variables: |
| |
| HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY |
| |
| They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be |
| set with |
| |
| ALL_PROXY |
| |
| And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any |
| proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts). |
| |
| NO_PROXY |
| |
| The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables. |
| |
| - Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix. |
| |
| - Wrote the curl.1 man page. |
| |
| - Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is |
| based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully, |
| there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now. |
| |
| - Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under |
| solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok. |
| |
| Oren Tirosh (Dec 3, 1998) |
| - Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM |
| packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec. |
| |
| Troy Engel |
| - Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32. |
| |
| Version 5.0 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998) |
| - Not a single bug report in ages. |
| - Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the |
| Win32 VC++ crap. |
| |
| Version 5.0 beta 24 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998) |
| |
| HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE: |
| |
| * Pre-requisite software: |
| What To build what Reads data from |
| ==== ============= =============== |
| GNU automake Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 configure.in |
| GNU make(1) - " - |
| GNU gcc(1) - " - |
| GNU autoconf configure configure.in |
| GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in configure.in, acconfig.h |
| |
| * Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES. |
| |
| * Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive. |
| |
| maketgz does: |
| |
| - Enters the newly created version number in url.h. |
| - (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless |
| you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.) |
| If you have it, it'll run it. |
| - If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly |
| created version number and autoconf will be run. |
| - Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base |
| name of the current directory up to the first '-'.) |
| - Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving |
| permissions and directory structure. |
| - Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz |
| - gzips the archive |
| - Removes the new directory and all its contents. |
| |
| * When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named |
| curl-<version>.tar.gz. |
| |
| Done! |
| |
| (1) They're required to make automake run properly. |
| (2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998) |
| - I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in |
| another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this |
| new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different |
| variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves |
| to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler! |
| - Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now. |
| - Brian Chaplin reported yet another problem in |
| multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new |
| version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback! |
| - Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes |
| an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one. |
| - Mailing list opened (see README). |
| - Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells |
| host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section |
| about PORT vs PASV in the README. |
| |
| Version 5.0 beta 21 |
| |
| Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998) |
| - Introduced automake stuff. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998) |
| - Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own |
| private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM |
| format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by |
| downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site |
| at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can |
| convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format. Use |
| it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'. If this isn't a |
| cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-) |
| - Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out. |
| (curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do |
| have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must |
| be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to |
| get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n. |
| |
| Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998) |
| - Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser. |
| - Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that |
| source file). |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998) |
| - We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX. |
| Thanks again to Bjorn Reese and Martin Staael. |
| - Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out |
| how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get |
| really good. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998) |
| - Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line. |
| Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I |
| downloaded a gopher page with it)! |
| - Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I |
| had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will |
| be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used. |
| - stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my |
| changes don't make other versions go nuts instead. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998) |
| - Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX |
| warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent |
| me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead |
| of strequal()... |
| - I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little. |
| - Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be |
| sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything |
| after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird |
| name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'. |
| - Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command |
| line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid. |
| - Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I |
| believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now. |
| |
| Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998) |
| - Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license |
| - Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag |
| - Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998) |
| - Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation |
| I build a release archive! |
| - I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to |
| be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in |
| curl -lsv ftp.site.com |
| Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters |
| that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the |
| last in a merged sequence: |
| curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com |
| is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause |
| unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped). |
| - I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL |
| license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming. |
| - Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now |
| setup.h. |
| - The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive. |
| |
| Angus Mackay (Nov 5, 1998) |
| - Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998) |
| - Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own |
| specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use |
| a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once |
| for every custom header you want to add. |
| - Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files. |
| - Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy |
| usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to |
| write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the |
| .curlrc file anyway. |
| - Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data |
| which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST. |
| Shiraz Kanga asked for the feature and my brother, |
| Bjรถrn Stenberg helped me design the user |
| interface for this beast. This feature requires quite some docs, |
| since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-) |
| - A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to |
| 0.8 will *not* work with curl! |
| - Wil Langford reported a bug that occurred since curl |
| did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it. |
| - Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read |
| first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as |
| additional config items. |
| - Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read. |
| - You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file |
| specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through |
| that. |
| - I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports |
| could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name |
| instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names. |
| - Martin Staael reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT |
| (test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this |
| version anymore. |
| - Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file |
| using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other |
| available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary |
| transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though! |
| :-) |
| - Troy Engel pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME") |
| usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with |
| this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that... |
| - A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built |
| with SSL support... |
| - Ryan Nelson sent me comments about building curl |
| with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure |
| script, it should work better and automatically now... |
| - Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses |
| proxy port number separate from normal port number. |
| - 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on: |
| Host SSL Compiler |
| SunOS 5.5 no gcc |
| SunOS 5.5.1 yes gcc |
| SunOS 5.6 no cc (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem) |
| SunOS 4.1.3 no gcc (without ANSI C headers) |
| SunOS 4.1.2 no gcc (native compiler failed) |
| Linux 2.0.18 no gcc |
| Linux 2.0.32 yes gcc |
| Linux 2.0.35 no gcc (with glibc) |
| IRIX 6.2 no gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings) |
| IRIX 6.4 no cc (generated warnings though) |
| Win32 no Borland |
| OSF4.0 no ? |
| |
| - Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't |
| set. |
| - When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases |
| like: |
| curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com |
| Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so |
| if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol |
| string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used |
| without proxy. |
| - Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different |
| https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number |
| correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the |
| proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL. |
| - Bjorn Reese helped me work around one of the compiler |
| warnings on IRIX native cc compiles. |
| |
| Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998) |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - John A. Bristor suggested a config file switch, |
| and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long |
| time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce |
| the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to |
| load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the |
| config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl |
| -h' or the README. |
| - I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would |
| want to enable with curl anyway. |
| - Martin Staael helped me add the 'irix' target. Now |
| "make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines. |
| - Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second |
| will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that |
| you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc. |
| |
| Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998) |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Martin Staael suggested curl would support cookies. |
| I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's |
| also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text. |
| - dmh <dmh at jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could |
| manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work |
| for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway). |
| - Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script |
| that checks all links of a web page by using curl. |
| - Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the |
| src/ dir from now on! |
| - Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license. |
| I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the |
| Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You |
| must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute |
| curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need |
| to offer the world the source to that too. |
| - Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET |
| request. It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do |
| that anyway. Thanks to Gordon Beaton for the report! |
| - -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael. This makes |
| curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location: redirect if one is present in the HTTP |
| headers. If -i or -I is used with this flag, you will see headers from all |
| sites the Location: points to. Do note that the first server can point to a |
| second that points to a third etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said |
| to be an AbsoluteURI in RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've |
| made curl ATTEMPT to do the best it can to deal with the reality. |
| - Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads |
| files that a web page links to. |
| |
| Version 4.8.4 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - As Julian Romero Nieto reported, curl reported wrong version number. |
| - As Teemu Yli-Elsila pointed out, the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all |
| other versions for win32) didn't work with binary files since I'm too used |
| to the UNIX style fopen() where binary and text don't differ... |
| - Ralph Beckmann brought me some changes that lets curl compile error and |
| warning free with -Wall -pedantic with g++. I also took the opportunity to |
| clean off some unused variables and similar. |
| - Ralph Beckmann made me aware of a really odd bug now corrected. When curl |
| read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided into more than one read |
| and the first read showed a full line *exactly* (i.e ending with a |
| newline), curl did not behave well. |
| |
| Version 4.8.3 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the |
| changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't |
| upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain |
| corrected. Reported by Julian Romero Nieto. |
| |
| Version 4.8.2 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Bernhard Iselborn reported two FTP protocol errors curl did. They're now |
| corrected. Both appeared when getting files from a MS FTP server! :-) |
| |
| Version 4.8.1 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The |
| final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered |
| which made it sometimes look odd. |
| - Thanks to David Long I got rid of a silly bug that happened if a HTTP-page |
| had nothing but header. Appearantly Solaris deals with negative sizes in |
| fwrite() calls a lot better than Linux does... =B-] |
| |
| Version 4.8 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to |
| specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a |
| download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server |
| since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of |
| the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to |
| use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing |
| the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get |
| the end of a file. |
| - recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument. |
| |
| Version 4.7 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount |
| (speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time. |
| - Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a |
| whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be |
| used. I agree it isn't the wisest thing to do to make a separate new |
| connection for each file and directory for this. |
| |
| Version 4.6 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user |
| and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is |
| the new switch. |
| - Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string. |
| - Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the |
| verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it. |
| - Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name |
| resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first |
| sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen reported. |
| - Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-) |
| - Added bug report email address in the README. |
| - Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average |
| speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of |
| the entire transfer so far. |
| |
| Version 4.5.1 |
| Linas Vepstas |
| - SSL through proxy fix |
| - Added -A to allow User-Agent: changes |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Made the -A work when SSL-through-proxy. |
| |
| Version 4.5 |
| Linas Vepstas |
| - More SSL corrections |
| - I've added a port to AIX. |
| - running SSL through a proxy causes a chunk of code to be executred twice. |
| one of those blocks needs to be deleted. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Made -i and -I work again |
| |
| Version 4.4 |
| Linas Vepstas |
| - -x can now also specify proxyport when used as in 'proxyhost:proxyport' |
| - SSL fixes |
| |
| Version 4.3 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Adjusted to compile under win32 (VisualC++ 5). The -P switch does not |
| support network interface names in win32. I couldn't figure out how! |
| |
| Version 4.2 |
| Linas Vepstas / Sampo Kellomaki |
| - Added SSL / SSLeay support (https://) |
| - Added the -T usage for HTTP POST. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Bugfixed the SSL implementation. |
| - Made -P a lot better to use other IP addresses. It now accepts a following |
| parameter that can be either |
| interface - i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you |
| want to use |
| IP address - i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number |
| host name - i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine |
| "-" - (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's |
| default |
| - The Makefile is now ready to compile for solaris, sunos4 and linux right |
| out of the box. |
| - Better generated version string seen with 'curl -V' |
| |
| Version 4.1 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - The IP number returned by the ftp server as a reply to PASV does no longer |
| have to DNS resolve. In fact, no IP-number-only addresses have to anymore. |
| - Binds better to available port when -P is used. |
| - Now LISTs ./ instead of / when used as in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. The reason |
| for this is that exactly that site, ftp.funet.fi, does not allow LIST / |
| while LIST ./ is fine. Any objections? |
| |
| Version 4 (1998-03-20) |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - I took another huge step and changed both version number and project name! |
| The reason for the new name is that there are just one too many programs |
| named urlget already and this program already can a lot more than merely |
| getting URLs, and the reason for the version number is that I did add the |
| pretty big change in -P and since I changed name I wanted to start with |
| something fresh! |
| - The --style flags are working better now. |
| - Listing directories with FTP often reported that the file transfer was |
| incomplete. Wrong assumptions were too common for directories, why no |
| size will be attempted to get compared on them from now on. |
| - Implemented the -P flag that let's the ftp control issue a PORT command |
| instead of the standard PASV. |
| - -a for appending FTP uploads works. |
| |
| *************************************************************************** |
| |
| Version 3.12 (14 March 1998) |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - End-of-header tracking still lacked support for \r\n or just \n at the |
| end of the last header line. |
| Sergio Barresi |
| - Added PROXY authentication. |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - Fixed some little bugs. |
| |
| Version 3.11 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - The header parsing was still not correct since the 3.2 modification... |
| |
| Version 3.10 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - 3.7 and 3.9 were simultaneously developed and merged into this version. |
| - FTP upload did not work correctly since 3.2. |
| |
| Version 3.9 |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - Added the "-e <url> / --referer <url>" option where we can specify |
| the referer page. Obviously, this is necessary only to fool the |
| server, but... |
| |
| Version 3.7 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Now checks the last error code sent from the ftp server after a file has |
| been received or uploaded. Wasn't done previously. |
| - When 'urlget <host>' is used without a 'protocol://' first in the host part, |
| it now checks for host names starting with ftp or gopher and if it does, |
| it uses that protocol by default instead of http. |
| |
| Version 3.6 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Silly mistake made the POST bug. This has now also been tested to work with |
| proxy. |
| |
| Version 3.5 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Highly inspired by Rafael Sagula's changes to the 3.1 that added an almost |
| functional POST, I applied his changes into this version and made them work. |
| (It seems POST requires the Content-Type and Content-Length headers.) It is |
| now usable with the -d switch. |
| |
| Version 3.3 - 3.4 |
| Passed to avoid confusions |
| |
| Version 3.2 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Major rewrite of two crucial parts of this code: upload and download. |
| They are both now using a select() switch, that allows much better |
| progress meter and time control. |
| - alarm() usage removed completely |
| - FTP get can now list directory contents if the path ends with a slash '/'. |
| Urlget on a ftp-path that doesn't end with a slash means urlget will |
| attempt getting it as a file name. |
| - FTP directory view supports -l for "list-only" which lists the file names |
| only. |
| - All operations support -m for max time usage in seconds allowed. |
| - FTP upload now allows the size of the uploaded file to be provided, and |
| thus it can better check it actually uploaded the whole file. It also |
| makes the progress meter for uploads much better! |
| - Made the parameter parsing fail in cases like 'urlget -r 900' which |
| previously tried to connect to the host named '900'. |
| |
| Version 3.1 |
| Kjell Ericson |
| - Pointed out how to correct the 3 warnings in win32-compiles. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Removed all calls to exit(). |
| - Made the short help text get written to stdout instead of stderr. |
| - Made this file instead of keeping these comments in the source. |
| - Made two callback hooks, that enable external programs to use urlget() |
| easier and to grab the output/offer the input easier. |
| - It is evident that Win32-compiles are painful. I watched the output from |
| the Borland C++ v5 and it was awful. Just ignore all those warnings. |
| |
| Version 3.0 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Added FTP upload capabilities. The name urlget gets a bit silly now |
| when we can put too... =) |
| - Restructured the source quite a lot. |
| Changed the urlget() interface. This way, we will survive changes much |
| better. New features can come and old can be removed without us needing |
| to change the interface. I've written a small explanation in urlget.h |
| that explains it. |
| - New flags include -t, -T, -O and -h. The -h text is generated by the new |
| mkhelp script. |
| |
| Version 2.9 |
| Remco van Hooff |
| - Added a fix to make it compile smoothly on Amiga using the SAS/C |
| compiler. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Believe it or not, but the STUPID Novell web server seems to require |
| that the Host: keyword is used, so well I use it and I (re-introduce) the |
| urlget User-Agent:. I still have to check that this Host: usage works with |
| proxies... 'Host:' is required for HTTP/1.1 GET according to RFC2068. |
| |
| Version 2.8 |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - some little modifications |
| |
| Version 2.7 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Removed the -l option and introduced the -f option instead. Now I'll |
| rewrite the former -l kludge in an external script that'll use urlget to |
| fetch multipart files like that. |
| - '-f' is introduced, it means Fail without output in case of HTTP server |
| errors (return code >=300). |
| - Added support for -r, ranges. Specify which part of a document you |
| want, and only that part is returned. Only with HTTP/1.1-servers. |
| - Split up the source in 3 parts. Now all pure URL functions are in |
| urlget.c and stuff that deals with the stand-alone program is in main.c. |
| - I took a few minutes and wrote an embryo of a README file to explain |
| a few things. |
| |
| Version 2.6 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Made the -l (loop) thing use the new CONF_FAILONERROR which makes |
| urlget() return error code if non-successful. It also won't output anything |
| then. Now finally removed the HTTP 1.0 and error 404 dependencies. |
| - Added -I which uses the HEAD request to get the header only from a |
| http-server. |
| |
| Version 2.5 |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - Made the progress meter use HHH:MM:SS instead of only seconds. |
| |
| Version 2.4 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and |
| mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from |
| really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the |
| download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which |
| makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty, |
| the progress meter is shut off. |
| - Increased buffer size used for reading. |
| - Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing. |
| - Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64 |
| encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in |
| RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one. To get a |
| http document from a place that requires user and password, use an URL |
| like: |
| |
| http://user:passwd@www.site.to.leach/doc.html |
| |
| I also added the -u flag, since WHEN USING A PROXY YOU CAN'T SPECIFY THE |
| USER AND PASSWORD WITH HTTP LIKE THAT. The -u flag works for ftp too, but |
| not if used with proxy. To do the same as the above one, you can invoke: |
| |
| urlget -u user:passwd http://www.site.to.leach/doc.html |
| |
| Version 2.3 |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - Added "-o" option (output file) |
| - Added URG_HTTP_NOT_FOUND return code. |
| (Daniel's note:) |
| Perhaps we should detect all kinds of errors and instead of writing that |
| custom string for the particular 404-error, use the error text we actually |
| get from the server. See further details in RFC2068 (HTTP 1.1 |
| definition). The current way also relies on a HTTP/1.0 reply, which newer |
| servers might not do. |
| - Looping mode ("-l" option). It's easier to get various split files. |
| (Daniel's note:) |
| Use it like 'urlget -l 1 http://from.this.site/file%d.html', which will |
| make urlget to attempt to fetch all files named file1.html, file2.html etc |
| until no more files are found. This is only a modification of the |
| STAND_ALONE part, nothing in the urlget() function was modfified for this. |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Changed the -h to be -i instead. -h should be preserved to help use. |
| - Bjorn Reese indicated that Borland _might_ use '_WIN32' instead of the |
| VC++ WIN32 define and therefore I added a little fix for that. |
| |
| Version 2.2 |
| Johan Andersson |
| - The urlget function didn't set the path to url when using proxy. |
| - Fixed bug with IMC proxy. Now using (almost) complete GET command. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Made it compile on Solaris. Had to reorganize the includes a bit. |
| (so Win32, Linux, SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 compile fine.) |
| - Made Johan's keepalive keyword optional with the -k flag (since it |
| makes a lot of urlgets take a lot longer time). |
| - Made a '-h' switch in case you want the HTTP-header in the output. |
| |
| Version 2.1 |
| Daniel Stenberg and Kjell Ericson |
| - Win32-compilable |
| - No more global variables |
| - Mute option (no output at all to stderr) |
| - Full range of return codes from urlget(), which is now written to be a |
| function for easy-to-use in [other] programs. |
| - Define STAND_ALONE to compile the stand alone urlget program |
| - Now compiles with gcc options -ansi -Wall -pedantic ;) |
| |
| Version 2.0 |
| - Introducing ftp GET support. The FTP URL type is recognized and used. |
| - Renamed the project to 'urlget'. |
| - Supports the user+passwd in the FTP URL (otherwise it tries anonymous |
| login with a weird email address as password). |
| |
| Version 1.5 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - The skip_header() crap messed it up big-time. By simply removing that |
| one we can all of a sudden download anything ;) |
| - No longer requires a trailing slash on the URLs. |
| - If the given URL isn't prefixed with 'http://', HTTP is assumed and |
| given a try! |
| - 'void main()' is history. |
| |
| Version 1.4 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - The gopher source used the ppath variable instead of path which could |
| lead to disaster. |
| |
| Version 1.3 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Well, I added a lame text about the time it took to get the data. I also |
| fought against Johan to prevent his -f option (to specify a file name |
| that should be written instead of stdout)! =) |
| - Made it write 'connection refused' for that particular connect() |
| problem. |
| - Renumbered the version. Let's not make silly 1.0.X versions, this is |
| a plain 1.3 instead. |
| |
| Version 1.2 |
| Johan Andersson |
| - Discovered and fixed the problem with getting binary files. puts() is |
| now replaced with fwrite(). (Daniel's note: this also fixed the buffer |
| overwrite problem I found in the previous version.) |
| |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - Let "-p" before "-x". |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Bugfixed the proxy usage. It should *NOT* use nor strip the port number |
| from the URL but simply pass that information to the proxy. This also |
| made the user/password fields possible to use in proxy [ftp-] URLs. |
| (like in ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README) |
| |
| Johan Andersson |
| - Implemented HTTP proxy support. |
| - Receive byte counter added. |
| |
| Bjorn Reese |
| - Implemented URLs (and skipped the old syntax). |
| - Output is written to stdout, so to achieve the above example, do: |
| httpget http://143.54.10.6/info_logo.gif > test.gif |
| |
| Version 1.1 |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| - Adjusted it slightly to accept named hosts on the command line. We |
| wouldn't wanna use IP numbers for the rest of our lifes, would we? |
| |
| Version 1.0 |
| Rafael Sagula |
| - Wrote the initial httpget, which started all this! |