4.2
- Fix for old versions of libcurl (build was broken in 4.1 on RHEL / CentOS).
- Add hostname to timeout errors (#190)
4.1
- Fixed typechecking code for new internal macro names in libcurl 7.66
- Rewrite typechecking to work better with clang and old libcurl (#192)
- has_internet() now checks for connectivity via a proxy server if one is detected
- Windows: respect the CURL_SSL_BACKEND variable for people that want to use OpenSSL.
- Windows: respect CURL_CA_BUNDLE if (and only if) CURL_SSL_BACKEND == openssl
- curl_download now writes to a temporary file, which is renamed to the destfile
upon success. This prevents corrupt files when a download fails or is interrupted.
- Automatically set forbid_reuse = TRUE in curl_echo() handles
- Update symbol table to 7.66.0
The canonical form [1] of an R package Makefile includes the
following:
- The first stanza includes R_PKGNAME, R_PKGVER, PKGREVISION (as
needed), and CATEGORIES.
- HOMEPAGE is not present but defined in math/R/Makefile.extension to
refer to the CRAN web page describing the package. Other relevant
web pages are often linked from there via the URL field.
This updates all current R packages to this form, which will make
regular updates _much_ easier, especially using pkgtools/R2pkg.
[1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2019/08/02/msg021711.html
Upstream changes:
3.2
- Windows: Update libcurl to 7.59.0
- Update curl_symbols dataset to 7.59.0
- Fix an IDN unit test (malmﾃｶ.se has messed up their SSL cert)
- Add unit test for multi_fdset
- Add backport of trimws for R 3.1
Each R package should include ../../math/R/Makefile.extension, which also
defines MASTER_SITES. Consequently, it is redundant for the individual
packages to do the same. Package-specific definitions also prevent
redefining MASTER_SITES in a single common place.
Changes:
- Fix potential memory bug in curl() when doubling the buffer is
insufficient.
- Added unit test for curl_echo() to post large multipart data.
- Fix IDN unit test error "string has forbidden bi-directional
properties"
The curl() and curl_download() functions provide highly configurable
drop-in replacements for base url() and download.file() with better
performance, support for encryption (https, ftps), gzip compression,
authentication, and other 'libcurl' goodies. The core of the package
implements a framework for performing fully customized requests where
data can be processed either in memory, on disk, or streaming via the
callback or connection interfaces.
