diff --git a/ftp/curl/Makefile b/ftp/curl/Makefile
index b9de875a0cf4..b5d275f8cdeb 100644
--- a/ftp/curl/Makefile
+++ b/ftp/curl/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	curl
-PORTVERSION=	7.12.1
+PORTVERSION=	7.12.3
 CATEGORIES=	ftp ipv6 www
 MASTER_SITES=	http://curl.haxx.se/download/ \
 		${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE} \
@@ -66,10 +66,12 @@ PLIST_SUB+=	SSL="@comment "
 CONFIGURE_ARGS += --with-krb4=/usr
 .endif
 
-# Note: some of these tests seem to intermittently fail on my system.
-# I don't know why they would do that, yet.
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += --without-libidn
+
+# Setting LANG=C is a kludge; maybe curl/libcurl shouldn't actually use
+# the user's locale when dates are sent to the server.
 test:	build
-	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${MAKE} test
+	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} LANG=C ${MAKE} test
 
 .if !defined(NOPORTDOCS)
 post-install:
diff --git a/ftp/curl/distinfo b/ftp/curl/distinfo
index 0e744e09a1c2..76fbd0afa0af 100644
--- a/ftp/curl/distinfo
+++ b/ftp/curl/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-MD5 (curl-7.12.1.tar.bz2) = ffa1386d7473fdc419441cb0156d0005
-SIZE (curl-7.12.1.tar.bz2) = 1355061
+MD5 (curl-7.12.3.tar.bz2) = a71b80538872245b984e176de932e99e
+SIZE (curl-7.12.3.tar.bz2) = 1830712
diff --git a/ftp/curl/files/patch-configure b/ftp/curl/files/patch-configure
index cdee47ca403f..fa5024b5f52c 100644
--- a/ftp/curl/files/patch-configure
+++ b/ftp/curl/files/patch-configure
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---- configure.orig	Fri Apr  9 14:00:52 2004
-+++ configure	Fri Apr  9 14:01:29 2004
-@@ -24123,8 +24123,10 @@
-     EXTRA_SSL= ;;
+--- configure.orig	Mon Oct 18 01:22:10 2004
++++ configure	Mon Dec 13 14:59:23 2004
+@@ -24217,8 +24217,10 @@
    *)
-         EXTRA_SSL=$OPT_SSL
-+    if [ ! "$EXTRA_SSL" = "/usr" ]; then
+         PKGTEST="no"
+     EXTRA_SSL=$OPT_SSL
++    if ! [ "$EXTRA_SSL" = "/usr" ]; then
      LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$EXTRA_SSL/lib$libsuff"
      CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$EXTRA_SSL/include/openssl -I$EXTRA_SSL/include"
 +    fi
diff --git a/ftp/curl/files/patch-lib::select.c b/ftp/curl/files/patch-lib::select.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..de3e74ea85ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/curl/files/patch-lib::select.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--- lib/select.c.orig	Tue Dec 21 09:06:14 2004
++++ lib/select.c	Tue Dec 21 09:06:27 2004
+@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
+ 
+ #include "setup.h"
+ 
+-#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
+-#include <sys/select.h>
+-#endif
+ #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
+ #include <sys/types.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
++#include <sys/select.h>
+ #endif
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
diff --git a/ftp/curl/files/patch-lib::sendf.c b/ftp/curl/files/patch-lib::sendf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..158073d74dd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/curl/files/patch-lib::sendf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+--- lib/sendf.c.orig	Tue Dec 21 10:13:04 2004
++++ lib/sendf.c	Tue Dec 21 10:16:45 2004
+@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@
+ {
+   va_list ap;
+   va_start(ap, fmt);
+-  if(data->set.errorbuffer && !data->state.errorbuf) {
+-    vsnprintf(data->set.errorbuffer, CURL_ERROR_SIZE, fmt, ap);
+-    data->state.errorbuf = TRUE; /* wrote error string */
+-  }
+   if(data->set.verbose) {
+       size_t len;
+ 
+@@ -170,6 +166,15 @@
+         data->state.buffer[++len] = '\0';
+       }
+       Curl_debug(data, CURLINFO_TEXT, data->state.buffer, len, NULL);
++      data->state.buffer[len] = '\0';
++  }
++  if(data->set.errorbuffer && !data->state.errorbuf) {
++    if (data->set.verbose)
++      snprintf(data->set.errorbuffer, CURL_ERROR_SIZE, "%s",
++	  data->state.buffer);
++    else
++      vsnprintf(data->set.errorbuffer, CURL_ERROR_SIZE, fmt, ap);
++    data->state.errorbuf = TRUE; /* wrote error string */
+   }
+ 
+   va_end(ap);
diff --git a/ftp/curl/files/patch-tests::runtests.pl b/ftp/curl/files/patch-tests::runtests.pl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0d8ccf4a0187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ftp/curl/files/patch-tests::runtests.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- tests/runtests.pl.orig	Tue Dec 21 09:55:34 2004
++++ tests/runtests.pl	Tue Dec 21 09:55:07 2004
+@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@
+     }
+     elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "-c") {
+         # use this path to curl instead of default
+-        $CURL=$ARGV[1];
++        $CURL=$DBGCURL=$ARGV[1];
+         shift @ARGV;
+     }
+     elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "-d") {