security/libssh2 package.
Changes:
o --data-urlencode
o CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE
o --no-keepalive - now curl does connections with keep-alive enabled by
default
o --socks4a added (proxy type CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A for libcurl)
o --socks5-hostname added (CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME for libcurl)
o curl_easy_pause()
o CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SEEKDATA
o --keepalive-time
o curl --help output was re-ordered
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o curl-config --features and --protocols show the correct output when built
with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available
o free problem in the curl tool for users with empty home dir
o curl.h version 7.17.1 problem when building C++ apps with MSVC
o SFTP and SCP use persistent connections
o segfault on bad URL
o variable wrapping when using absolutely huge send buffer sizes
o variable wrapping when using debug callback and the HTTP request wasn't sent
in one go
o SSL connections with NSS done with the multi-interface
o setting a share no longer activates cookies
o Negotiate now works on auth and proxy simultanouesly
o support HTTP Digest nonces up to 1023 letters
o resumed ftp upload no longer requires the read callback to return full
buffers
o no longer default-appends ;type= on FTP URLs thru proxies
o SSL session id caching
o POST with callback over proxy requiring NTLM or Digest
o Expect: 100-continue flaw on re-used connection with POSTs
o build fix for MSVC 9.0 (VS2008)
o Windows curl builds failed file truncation when retry downloading
o SSL session ID cache memory leak
o bad connection re-use check with environment variable-activated proxy use
o --libcurl now generates a return statement as well
o socklen_t is no longer used in the public includes
o time zone offsets from -1400 to +1400 are now accepted by the date parser
o allows more spaces in WWW/Proxy-Authenticate: headers
o curl-config --libs skips /usr/lib64
o range support for file:// transfers
o libcurl hang with huge POST request and request-body read from callback
o removed extra newlines from many error messages
o improved pipelining
o improved OOM handling for data url encoded HTTP POSTs when read from a file
o test suite could pick wrong tool(s) if more than one existed in the PATH
o curl_multi_fdset() failed to return socket while doing CONNECT over proxy
o curl_multi_remove_handle() on a handle that is in used for a pipeline now
break that pipeline
o CURLOPT_COOKIELIST memory leaks
o progress meter/callback during http proxy CONNECT requests
o auth for http proxy when the proxy closes connection after first response
Version 7.17.1 (29 October 2007)
Dan F (25 October 2007)
- Added the --static-libs option to curl-config
Daniel S (25 October 2007)
- Made libcurl built with NSS possible to ignore the peer verification.
Previously it would fail if the ca bundle wasn't present, even if the code
ignored the verification results.
Patrick M (25 October 2007)
- Fixed test server to allow null bytes in binary posts.
_ Added tests 35, 544 & 545 to check binary data posts, both static (in place)
and dynamic (copied).
Daniel S (25 October 2007)
- Michal Marek fixed the test script to be able to use valgrind even when the
lib is built shared with libtool.
- Fixed a few memory leaks when the same easy handle is re-used to request
URLs with different protocols. FTP and TFTP related leaks. Caught thanks to
Dan F's new test cases.
Dan F (24 October 2007)
- Fixed the test FTP and TFTP servers to support the >10000 test number
notation
- Added test cases 2000 through 2003 which test multiple protocols using the
same easy handle
- Fixed the filecheck: make target to work outside the source tree
Daniel S (24 October 2007)
- Vladimir Lazarenko pointed out that we should do some 'mt' magic when
building with VC8 to get the "manifest" embedded to make fine stand-alone
binaries. The maketgz and the src/Makefile.vc6 files were adjusted
accordingly.
Daniel S (23 October 2007)
- Bug report #1812190 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1812190) points out
that libcurl tried to re-use connections a bit too much when using non-SSL
protocols tunneled over a HTTP proxy.
Daniel S (22 October 2007)
- Michal Marek forwarded the bug report
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332917 about a HTTP redirect to
FTP that caused memory havoc. His work together with my efforts created two
fixes:
#1 - FTP::file was moved to struct ftp_conn, because is has to be dealt with
at connection cleanup, at which time the struct HandleData could be
used by another connection.
Also, the unused char *urlpath member is removed from struct FTP.
#2 - provide a Curl_reset_reqproto() function that frees
data->reqdata.proto.* on connection setup if needed (that is if the
SessionHandle was used by a different connection).
A long-term goal is of course to somehow get rid of how the reqdata struct
is used, as it is too error-prone.
- Bug report #1815530 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1815530) points out
that specifying a proxy with a trailing slash didn't work (unless it also
contained a port number).
Patrick M (15 October 2007)
- Fixed the dynamic CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS problem: this option is now static again
and option CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS has been added to support dynamic mode.
Patrick M (12 October 2007)
- Added per-protocol callback static tables, replacing callback ptr storage
in the connectdata structure by a single handler table ptr.
Dan F (11 October 2007)
- Fixed the -l option of runtests.pl
- Added support for skipping tests based on key words.
Daniel S (9 October 2007)
- Michal Marek removed the no longer existing return codes from the curl.1
man page.
Daniel S (7 October 2007)
- Known bug #47, which confused libcurl if doing NTLM auth over a proxy with
a response that was larger than 16KB is now improved slightly so that now
the restriction at 16KB is for the headers only and it should be a rare
situation where the response-headers exceed 16KB. Thus, I consider #47 fixed
and the header limitation is now known as known bug #48.
Daniel S (5 October 2007)
- Michael Wallner made the CULROPT_COOKIELIST option support a new magic
string: "FLUSH". Using that will cause libcurl to flush its cookies to the
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR file.
- The new file docs/libcurl/ABI describes how we view ABI breakages, soname
bumps and what the version number's significance to all that is.
Daniel S (4 October 2007)
- I enabled test 1009 and made the --local-port use a wide range to reduce the
risk of failures.
- Kim Rinnewitz reported that --local-port didn't work with TFTP transfers.
This happened because the tftp code always uncondionally did a bind()
without caring if one already had been done and then it failed. I wrote a
test case (1009) to verify this, but it is a bit error-prone since it will
have to pick a fixed local port number and since the tests are run on so
many different hosts in different situations I'll add it in disabled state.
Yang Tse (3 October 2007)
- Fixed issue related with the use of ares_timeout() result.
Daniel S (3 October 2007)
- Alexey Pesternikov introduced CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION and
CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA to set a callback that allows an application to
replace the socket() call used by libcurl. It basically allows the app to
change address, protocol or whatever of the socket.
- I renamed the CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE error code to
CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION (standard CURL_NO_OLDIES style), and made
this return code get used by the previous SSH MD5 fingerprint check in case
it fails.
- Based on a patch brought by Johnny Luong, libcurl now offers
CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 and the curl tool --hostpubmd5. They both
make the SCP or SFTP connection verify the remote host's md5 checksum of the
public key before doing a connect, to reduce the risk of a man-in-the-middle
attack.
Daniel S (2 October 2007)
- libcurl now handles chunked-encoded CONNECT responses
Daniel S (1 October 2007)
- Alex Fishman reported a curl_easy_escape() problem that was made the
function do wrong on all input bytes that are >= 0x80 (decimal 128) due to a
signed / unsigned mistake in the code. I fixed it and added test case 543 to
verify.
Daniel S (29 September 2007)
- Immanuel Gregoire fixed a problem with persistent transfers over SFTP.
Daniel S (28 September 2007)
- Adapted the c-ares code to the API change c-ares 1.5.0 brings in the
notifier callback(s).
Dan F (26 September 2007)
- Enabled a few more gcc warnings with --enable-debug. Renamed a few
variables to avoid shadowing global declarations.
Daniel S (26 September 2007)
- Philip Langdale provided the new CURLOPT_POST301 option for
curl_easy_setopt() that alters how libcurl functions when following
redirects. It makes libcurl obey the RFC2616 when a 301 response is received
after a non-GET request is made. Default libcurl behaviour is to change
method to GET in the subsequent request (like it does for response code 302
- because that's what many/most browsers do), but with this CURLOPT_POST301
option enabled it will do what the spec says and do the next request using
the same method again. I.e keep POST after 301.
The curl tool got this option as --post301
Test case 1011 and 1012 were added to verify.
- Max Katsev reported that when doing a libcurl FTP request with
CURLOPT_NOBODY enabled but not CURLOPT_HEADER, libcurl wouldn't do TYPE
before it does SIZE which makes it less useful. I walked over the code and
made it do this properly, and added test case 542 to verify it.
Daniel S (24 September 2007)
- Immanuel Gregoire fixed KNOWN_BUGS #44: --ftp-method nocwd did not handle
URLs ending with a slash properly (it should list the contents of that
directory). Test case 351 brought back and also test 1010 was added.
Daniel S (21 September 2007)
- Mark Davies fixed Negotiate authentication over proxy, and also introduced
the --proxy-negotiate command line option to allow a user to explicitly
select it.
Daniel S (19 September 2007)
- Rob Crittenden provided an NSS update with the following highlights:
o It looks for the NSS database first in the environment variable SSL_DIR,
then in /etc/pki/nssdb, then it initializes with no database if neither of
those exist.
o If the NSS PKCS#11 libnspsem.so driver is available then PEM files may be
loaded, including the ca-bundle. If it is not available then only
certificates already in the NSS database are used.
o Tries to detect whether a file or nickname is being passed in so the right
thing is done
o Added a bit of code to make the output more like the OpenSSL module,
including displaying the certificate information when connecting in
verbose mode
o Improved handling of certificate errors (expired, untrusted, etc)
The libnsspem.so PKCS#11 module is currently only available in Fedora
8/rawhide. Work will be done soon to upstream it. The NSS module will work
with or without it, all that changes is the source of the certificates and
keys.
Daniel S (18 September 2007)
- Immanuel Gregoire pointed out that public key SSH auth failed if no
public/private key was specified and there was no HOME environment variable,
and then it didn't continue to try the other auth methods. Now it will
instead try to get the files id_dsa.pub and id_dsa from the current
directory if none of the two conditions were met.
Dan F (17 September 2007)
- Added hooks to the test suite to make it possible to test a curl running
on a remote host.
- Changed some FTP tests to validate the format of the PORT and EPRT commands
sent by curl, if not the addresses themselves.
Daniel S (15 September 2007)
- Michal Marek made libcurl automatically append ";type=<a|i>" when using HTTP
proxies for FTP urls.
- Günter Knauf fixed LDAP builds in the Windows makefiles and fixed LDAPv3
support on Windows.
Dan F (13 September 2007)
- Added LDAPS, SCP and SFTP to curl-config --protocols. Removed and
fixed some AC_SUBST configure entries.
Changes:
* support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library
* curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it
* SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later
* LDAP libraries are now linked "regularly" and not with dlopen
* HTTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
* FTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
* builds and runs on OS/400
* several error codes and options were marked as obsolete and subject to future removal (set CURL_NO_OLDIES to see if your application is using them)
* SFTP errors can return more specific error codes
Bugfixes:
* test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
* problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
* transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
* CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
* CONNECT endless loop
* krb5 support builds with Heimdal
* added returned error string for connection refused case
* re-use of dead FTP control connections
* login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the USER command
* bad free of memory from libssh2
* the SFTP PWD command works
* HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection
* FTPS data connection close
* AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets
* small POST with NTLM
* resumed file:// transfers
* CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit "clean"
* memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers
* no NTLM unicode response
* resume HTTP PUT using Digest authentication
* FTP NOBODY requests on directories sent "SIZE (null)"
* FTP NOBODY request on file crash
* excessively long FTP server responses and response lines
* file:// upload then FTP:// upload crash
* TFTP error 0 is no longer treated as success
* uploading empty file over FTP on re-used connection
* superfluous CWD command on re-used FTP connections without subdirs used
and to support the "inet6" option instead.
Remaining usage of USE_INET6 was solely for the benefit of the scripts
that generate the README.html files. Replace:
BUILD_DEFS+= USE_INET6
with
BUILD_DEFS+= IPV6_READY
and teach the README-generation tools to look for that instead.
This nukes USE_INET6 from pkgsrc proper. We leave a tiny bit of code
to continue to support USE_INET6 for pkgsrc-wip until it has been nuked
from there as well.
Version 7.16.4 (10 July 2007)
Daniel S (10 July 2007)
- Kees Cook notified us about a security flaw
(http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20070710.html) in which libcurl failed to
properly reject some outdated or not yet valid server certificates when
built with GnuTLS. Kees also provided the patch.
James H (5 July 2007)
- Gavrie Philipson provided a patch that will use a more specific error
message for an scp:// upload failure. If libssh2 has his matching
patch, then the error message return by the server will be used instead
of a more generic error.
Daniel S (1 July 2007)
- Thomas J. Moore provided a patch that introduces Kerberos5 support in
libcurl. This also makes the options change name to --krb (from --krb4) and
CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL (from CURLOPT_KRB4LEVEL) but the old names are still
- Song Ma helped me verify and extend a fix for doing FTP over a SOCKS4/5
proxy.
Daniel S (27 June 2007)
- James Housley: Add two new options for the SFTP/SCP/FILE protocols:
CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS and CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS. These control the
premissions for files and directories created on the remote
server. CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS defaults to 0644 and
CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS defaults to 0755
- I corrected the 10-at-a-time.c example and applied a patch for it by James
Bursa.
Daniel S (26 June 2007)
- Robert Iakobashvili re-arranged the internal hash code to work with a custom
hash function for different hashes, and also expanded the default size for
the socket hash table used in multi handles to greatly enhance speed when
very many connections are added and the socket API is used.
- James Housley made the CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY mode work for SFTP directory
listings as well
Daniel S (25 June 2007)
- Adjusted how libcurl treats HTTP 1.1 responses without content-lenth or
chunked encoding (that also lacks "Connection: close"). It now simply
assumes that the connection WILL be closed to signal the end, as that is how
RFC2616 section 4.4 point #5 says we should behave.
Version 7.16.3 (25 June 2007)
Daniel S (23 June 2007)
- As reported by "Tro" in http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-06/0161.html and
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-06/0238.html, libcurl didn't properly do
no-body requests on FTP files on re-used connections properly, or at least
it didn't provide the info back in the header callback properly in the
subsequent requests.
Daniel S (21 June 2007)
- Gerrit Bruchhäuser pointed out a warning that the Intel(R) Thread Checker
tool reports and it was indeed a legitimate one and it is one fixed. It was
a use of a share without doing the proper locking first.
Daniel S (20 June 2007)
- Adam Piggott filed bug report #1740263
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1740263). Adam discovered that when
getting a large amount of URLs with curl, they were fetched slower and
slower... which turned out to be because the --libcurl data collecting which
wrongly always was enabled, but no longer is...
Daniel S (18 June 2007)
- Robson Braga Araujo filed bug report #1739100
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1739100) that mentioned that libcurl
could not actually list the contents of the root directory of a given FTP
server if the login directory isn't root. I fixed the problem and added
three test cases (one is disabled for now since I identified KNOWN_BUGS #44,
we cannot use --ftp-method nocwd and list ftp directories).
Daniel S (14 June 2007)
- Shmulik Regev:
I've encountered (and hopefully fixed) a problem involving proxy CONNECT
requests and easy handles state management. The problem isn't simple to
reproduce since it depends on socket state. It only manifests itself when
working with non-blocking sockets.
Here is the scenario:
1. in multi_runsingle the easy handle is in the CURLM_STATE_WAITCONNECT and
calls Curl_protocol_connect
2. in Curl_proxyCONNECT, line 1247, if the socket isn't ready the function
returns and conn->bits.tunnel_connecting is TRUE
3. when the call to Curl_protocol_connect returns the protocol_connect flag
is false and the easy state is changed to CURLM_STATE_PROTOCONNECT which
isn't correct if a proxy is used. Rather CURLM_STATE_WAITPROXYCONNECT
should be used.
I discovered this while performing an HTTPS request through a proxy (squid)
on my local network. The problem caused openssl to fail as it read the proxy
response to the CONNECT call ('HTTP/1.0 Established') rather than the SSL
handshake (the exact openssl error was 'wrong ssl version' but this isn't
very important)
- Dave Vasilevsky filed bug report #1736875
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1736875) almost simultanouesly as Dan
Fandrich mentioned a related build problem on the libcurl mailing list:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-06/0131.html. Both problems had the same
reason: the definitions of the POLL* defines and the pollfd struct in the
libcurl code was depending on HAVE_POLL instead of HAVE_SYS_POLL_H.
Daniel S (13 June 2007)
- Tom Regner provided a patch and worked together with James Housley, so now
CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS works for SFTP connections as well as FTP
ones.
- Rich Rauenzahn filed bug report #1733119
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1733119) and we collaborated on the
fix. The problem is that for 64bit HPUX builds, several socket-related
functions would still assume int (32 bit) arguments and not socklen_t (64
bit) ones.
Daniel S (12 June 2007)
- James Housley brought his revamped SSH code that is state-machine driven to
really take advantage of the now totally non-blocking libssh2 (in CVS).
Dan F (8 June 2007)
- Incorporated Daniel Black's test706 and test707 SOCKS test cases.
- Fixed a few problems when starting the SOCKS server.
- Reverted some recent changes to runtests.pl that weren't compatible with
perl 5.0.
- Fixed the test harness so that it actually kills the ssh being used as
the SOCKS server.
Daniel S (6 June 2007)
- -s/--silent can now be used to toggle off the silence again if used a second
time.
Daniel S (5 June 2007)
- Added Daniel Black's work that adds the first few SOCKS test cases. I also
fixed two minor SOCKS problems to make the test cases run fine.
Daniel S (31 May 2007)
- Feng Tu made (lib)curl support "upload" resuming work for file:// URLs.
Daniel S (30 May 2007)
- I modified the 10-at-a-time.c example to transfer 500 downloads in parallel
with a c-ares enabled build only to find that it crashed miserably, and this
was due to some select()isms left in the code. This was due to API
restrictions in c-ares 1.3.x, but with the upcoming c-ares 1.4.0 this is no
longer the case so now libcurl runs much better with c-ares and the multi
interface with > 1024 file descriptors in use.
Extra note: starting now we require c-ares 1.4.0 for asynchronous name
resolves.
- Added CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS which is a curl_multi_setopt() option for setting
the maximum size of the connection cache maximum size of the multi handle.
Daniel S (27 May 2007)
- When working with a problem Stefan Becker had, I found an off-by-one buffer
overwrite in Curl_select(). While fixing it, I also improved its performance
somewhat by changing calloc to malloc and breaking out of a loop earlier
(when possible).
Daniel S (25 May 2007)
- Rob Crittenden fixed bug #1705802
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1705802), which was filed by Daniel
Black identifying several FTP-SSL test cases fail when we build libcurl with
NSS for TLS/SSL. Listed as #42 in KNOWN_BUGS.
Daniel S (24 May 2007)
- Song Ma filed bug report #1724016
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1724016) noticing that downloading
glob-ranges for TFTP was broken in CVS. Fixed now.
- 'mytx' in bug report #1723194 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1723194)
pointed out that the warnf() function in the curl tool didn't properly deal
with the cases when excessively long words were used in the string to chop
up.
Daniel S (22 May 2007)
- Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed a memory leak in the function that verifies the
peer's name in the SSL certificate when built for OpenSSL. The leak happens
for libcurls with CURL_DOES_CONVERSIONS enabled that fail to convert the CN
name from UTF8. He also fixed a leak when PKCS #12 parsing failed.
Daniel S (18 May 2007)
- Feng Tu reported that curl -w did wrong on TFTP transfers in bug report
#1715394 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1715394), and the
transfer-related info "variables" were indeed overwritten with zeroes
wrongly and have now been adjusted. The upload size still isn't accurate.
Daniel S (17 May 2007)
- Feng Tu pointed out a division by zero error in the TFTP connect timeout
code for timeouts less than five seconds, and also provided a fix for it.
Bug report #1715392 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1715392)
Dan F (16 May 2007)
- Added support for compiling under Minix 3.1.3 using ACK.
Dan F (14 May 2007)
- Added SFTP directory listing test case 613.
- Added support for quote commands before a transfer using SFTP and test
case 614.
- Changed the post-quote commands to occur after the transferred file is
closed.
- Allow SFTP quote commands chmod, chown, chgrp to set a value of 0.
Dan F (9 May 2007)
- Kristian Gunstone fixed a problem where overwriting an uploaded file with
sftp didn't truncate it first, which would corrupt the file if the new
file was shorter than the old.
Dan F (8 May 2007)
- Added FTPS test cases 406 and 407
Daniel S (8 May 2007)
- CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_STOR_FILE is now known as CURLE_UPLOAD_FAILED. This is
because I just made SCP uploads return this value if the file size of
the upload file isn't given with CURLOPT_INFILESIZE*. Docs updated to
reflect this news, and a define for the old name was added to the public
header file.
Daniel S (7 May 2007)
- James Bursa fixed a bug in the multi handle code that made the connection
cache grow a bit too much, beyond the normal 4 * easy_handles.
Daniel S (2 May 2007)
- Anders Gustafsson remarked that requiring CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION set to 1.0
when CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES is used to avoid the problem mentioned below is
not very nice if the client wants to be able to use _either_ a HTTP 1.1
server or one within the aliases list... so starting now, libcurl will
simply consider 200-alias matches the to be HTTP 1.0 compliant.
- Tobias Rundström reported a problem they experienced with xmms2 and recent
libcurls, which turned out to be the 25-nov-2006 change which treats HTTP
responses without Content-Length or chunked encoding as without bodies. We
now added the conditional that the above mentioned response is only without
body if the response is HTTP 1.1.
- Jeff Pohlmeyer improved the hiperfifo.c example to use the
CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION callback option.
- Set the timeout for easy handles to expire really soon after addition or
when CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM is returned from curl_multi_socket*/perform,
to make applications using only curl_multi_socket() to properly function
when adding easy handles "on the fly". Bug report and test app provided by
Michael Wallner.
Dan F (30 April 2007)
- Improved the test harness to allow running test servers on other than
the default port numbers, allowing more than one test suite to run
simultaneously on the same host.
Daniel S (28 April 2007)
- Peter O'Gorman fixed libcurl to not init GnuTLS as early as we did before,
since it then inits libgcrypt and libgcrypt is being evil and EXITS the
application if it fails to get a fine random seed. That's really not a nice
thing to do by a library.
- Frank Hempel fixed a curl_easy_duphandle() crash on a handle that had
been removed from a multi handle, and then fixed another flaw that prevented
curl_easy_duphandle() to work even after the first fix - the handle was
still marked as using the multi interface.
Daniel S (26 April 2007)
- Peter O'Gorman found a problem with SCP downloads when the downloaded file
was 16385 bytes (16K+1) and it turned out we didn't properly always "suck
out" all data from libssh2. The effect being that libcurl would hang on the
socket waiting for data when libssh2 had in fact already read it all...
Dan F (25 April 2007)
- Added support in runtests.pl for "!n" test numbers to disable individual
tests. Changed -t to only keep log files around when -k is specified,
to have the same behaviour as without -t.
Daniel S (25 April 2007)
- Sonia Subramanian brought our attention to a problem that happens if you set
the CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM or CURLOPT_RANGE options and an existing connection
in the connection cache is closed to make room for the new one when you call
curl_easy_perform(). It would then wrongly free range-related data in the
connection close funtion.
Yang Tse (25 April 2007)
- Steve Little fixed compilation on VMS 64-bit mode
Daniel S (24 April 2007)
- Robert Iakobashvili made the 'master_buffer' get allocated first once it is
can/will be used as it then makes the common cases save 16KB of data for each
easy handle that isn't used for pipelining.
Dan F (23 April 2007)
- Added <postcheck> support to the test harness.
- Added tests 610-612 to test more SFTP post-quote commands.
Daniel S (22 April 2007)
- Song Ma's warning if -r/--range is given with a "bad" range, also noted in
the man page now.
- Daniel Black filed bug #1705177
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1705177) where --without-ssl
--with-gnutl outputs a warning about SSL not being enabled even though GnuTLS
was found and used.
Daniel S (21 April 2007)
- Daniel Black filed bug #1704675
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1704675) identifying a double-free
problem in the SSL-dealing layer, telling GnuTLS to free NULL credentials on
closedown after a failure and a bad #ifdef for NSS when closing down SSL.
Yang Tse (20 April 2007)
- Save one call to curlx_tvnow(), which calls gettimeofday(), in each of
Curl_socket_ready(), Curl_poll() and Curl_select() when these are called
with a zero timeout or a timeout value indicating a blocking call should
be performed.
Daniel S (18 April 2007)
- James Housley made SFTP uploads use libssh2's non-blocking API
- Prevent the internal progress meter from updating more frequently than once
per second.
Dan F (17 April 2007)
- Added test cases 296, 297 and 298 to test --ftp-method handling
Daniel S (16 April 2007)
- Robert Iakobashvil added curl_multi_socket_action() to libcurl, which is a
function that deprecates the curl_multi_socket() function. Using the new
function the application tell libcurl what action that was found in the
socket that it passes in. This gives a significant performance boost as it
allows libcurl to avoid a call to poll()/select() for every call to
curl_multi_socket*().
I added a define in the public curl/multi.h header file that will make your
existing application automatically use curl_multi_socket_action() instead of
curl_multi_socket() when you recompile. But of course you'll get better
performance if you adjust your code manually and actually pass in the
correct action bitmask to this function.
Daniel S (14 April 2007)
- Jay Austin added "DH PARAMETERS" to the stunnel.pem certificate for the test
suite to make stunnel run better in some (most?) environments.
Dan F (13 April 2007)
- Added test cases 294 and 295 to test --ftp-account handling
- Improved handling of out of memory in ftp.
Yang Tse (13 April 2007)
- Fix test case 534 which started to fail 2007-04-13 due to the existance
of a new host on the net with the same silly domain the test was using
for a host which was supposed not to exist.
Daniel S (12 April 2007)
- Song Ma found a memory leak in the if2ip code if you pass in an interface
name longer than the name field of the ifreq struct (typically 6 bytes), as
then it wouldn't close the used dummy socket. Bug #1698974
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1698974)
Version 7.16.2 (11 April 2007)
Yang Tse (10 April 2007)
- Ravi Pratap provided some fixes for HTTP pipelining
- configure script will ignore --enable-sspi option for non-native Windows.
Daniel S (9 April 2007)
- Nick Zitzmann did ssh.c cleanups
Daniel S (3 April 2007)
- Rob Jones fixed better #ifdef'ing for a bunch of #include lines.
Daniel S (2 April 2007)
- Nick Zitzmann made the CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE option work for SFTP as well. The
accepted commands are as follows:
chgrp (gid) (path)
Changes the group ID of the file or directory at (path) to (gid). (gid)
must be a number.
chmod (perms) (path)
Changes the permissions of the file or directory at (path) to
(perms). (perms) must be a number in the format used by the chmod Unix
command.
chown (uid) (path)
Changes the user ID of the file or directory at (path) to (uid). (uid)
must be a number.
ln (source) (dest)
Creates a symbolic link at (dest) that points to the file located at
(source).
mkdir (path)
Creates a new directory at (path).
rename (source) (dest)
Moves the file or directory at (source) to (dest).
rm (path)
Deletes the file located at (path).
rmdir (path)
Deletes the directory located at (path). This command will raise an error
if the directory is not empty.
symlink (source) (dest)
Same as ln.
Daniel S (1 April 2007)
- Robert Iakobashvili made curl_multi_remove_handle() a lot faster when many
easy handles are added to a multi handle, by avoiding the looping over all
the handles to find which one to remove.
- Matt Kraai provided a patch that makes curl build on QNX 6 fine again.
Daniel S (31 March 2007)
- Fixed several minor issues detected by the coverity.com scanner.
- "Pixel" fixed a problem that appeared when you used -f with user+password
embedded in the URL.
Dan F (29 March 2007)
- Don't tear down the ftp connection if the maximum filesize was exceeded
and added tests 290 and 291 to check.
- Added ftps upload and SSL required tests 401 and 402.
- Send an EOF message before closing an SCP channel, as recommended by
RFC4254. Enable libssh2 tracing when ssh debugging is turned on.
Yang Tse (27 March 2007)
- Internal function Curl_select() renamed to Curl_socket_ready()
New Internal wrapper function Curl_select() around select (2), it
uses poll() when a fine poll() is available, so now libcurl can be
built without select() support at all if a fine poll() is available.
Daniel S (25 March 2007)
- Daniel Johnson fixed multi code to traverse the easy handle list properly.
A left-over bug from the February 21 fix.
Dan F (23 March 2007)
- Added --pubkey option to curl and made --key also work for SCP/SFTP,
plus made --pass work on an SSH private key as well.
- Changed the test harness to attempt to gracefully shut down servers
before resorting to the kill -9 hammer.
- Added test harness infrastructure to support scp/sftp tests, using
OpenSSH as the server.
- Fixed a memory leak when specifying a proxy with a file: URL.
Yang Tse (20 March 2007)
- Fixed: When a signal was caught awaiting for an event using Curl_select()
or Curl_poll() with a non-zero timeout both functions would restart the
specified timeout. This could even lead to the extreme case that if a
signal arrived with a frecuency lower to the specified timeout neither
function would ever exit.
Added experimental symbol definition check CURL_ACKNOWLEDGE_EINTR in
Curl_select() and Curl_poll(). When compiled with CURL_ACKNOWLEDGE_EINTR
defined both functions will return as soon as a signal is caught. Use it
at your own risk, all calls to these functions in the library should be
revisited and checked before fully supporting this feature.
Yang Tse (19 March 2007)
- Bryan Henderson fixed the progress function so that it can get called more
frequently allowing same calling frecuency for the client progress callback.
Dan F (15 March 2007)
- Various memory leaks plugged and NULL pointer fixes made in the ssh code.
Daniel (15 March 2007)
- Nick made the curl tool accept globbing ranges that only is one number, i.e
you can now use [1-1] without curl complaining.
Daniel (10 March 2007)
- Eygene Ryabinkin:
The problem is the following: when we're calling Curl_done and it decides to
keep the connection opened ('left intact'), then the caller is not notified
that the connection was done via the NULLifying of the pointer, so some easy
handle is keeping the pointer to this connection.
Later ConnectionExists can select such connection for reuse even if we're
not pipelining: pipeLen is zero, so the (pipeLen > 0 && !canPipeline) is
false and we can reuse this connection for another easy handle. But thus the
connection will be shared between two easy handles if the handle that wants
to take the ownership is not the same as was not notified of the connection
was done in Curl_done. And when some of these easy handles will get their
connection really freed the another one will still keep the pointer.
My fix was rather trivial: I just added the NULLification to the 'else'
branch in the Curl_done. My tests with Git and ElectricFence showed no
problems both for HTTP pulling and cloning. Repository size is about 250 Mb,
so it was a considerable amount of Curl's work.
Dan F (9 March 2007)
- Updated the test harness to add a new "crypto" feature check and updated the
appropriate test case to use it. For now, this is treated the same as the
"SSL" feature because curl doesn't list it separately.
Daniel (9 March 2007)
- Robert Iakobashvili fixed CURLOPT_INTERFACE for IPv6.
- Robert A. Monat improved the maketgz and VC6/8 generating to set the correct
machine type too.
- Justin Fletcher fixed a file descriptor leak in the curl tool when trying to
upload a file it couldn't open. Bug #1676581
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1676581)
Dan F (9 March 2007)
- Updated the test harness to check for protocol support before running each
test, fixing KNOWN_BUGS #11.
Dan F (7 March 2007)
- Reintroduced (after a 3 year hiatus) an FTPS test case (400) into the test
harness. It is very limited as it supports only ftps:// URLs with
--ftp-ssl-control specified, which implicitly encrypts the control
channel but not the data channels. That allows stunnel to be used with
an unmodified ftp server in exactly the same way that the test https
server is set up.
Dan F (7 March 2007)
- Honour --ftp-ssl-control on ftps:// URLs to allow encrypted control and
unencrypted data connections.
Dan F (6 March 2007)
- Fixed a couple of improper pointer uses detected by valgrind in test
cases 181 & 216.
Daniel (2 March 2007)
- Robert A. Monat and Shmulik Regev helped out to fix the new */Makefile.vc8
makefiles that are included in the source release archives, generated from
the Makefile.vc6 files by the maketgz script. I also modified the root
Makefile to have a VC variable that defaults to vc6 but can be overridden to
allow it to be used for vc8 as well. Like this:
nmake VC=vc8 vc
Daniel (27 February 2007)
- Hang Kin Lau found and fixed: When I use libcurl to connect to an https
server through a proxy and have the remote https server port set using the
CURLOPT_PORT option, protocol gets reset to http from https after the first
request.
User defined URL was modified internally by libcurl and subsequent reuse of
the easy handle may lead to connection using a different protocol (if not
originally http).
I found that libcurl hardcoded the protocol to "http" when it tries to
regenerate the URL if CURLOPT_PORT is set. I tried to fix the problem as
follows and it's working fine so far
Daniel (25 February 2007)
- Adam D. Moss made the HTTP CONNECT procedure less blocking when used from
the multi interface. Note that it still does a part of the connection in a
blocking manner.
Daniel (23 February 2007)
- Added warning outputs if the command line uses more than one of the options
-v, --trace and --trace-ascii, since it could really confuse the user.
Clarified this fact in the man page.
Daniel (21 February 2007)
- Ravi Pratap provided work on libcurl making pipelining more robust and
fixing some bugs:
o Don't mix GET and POST requests in a pipeline
o Fix the order in which requests are dispatched from the pipeline
o Fixed several curl bugs with pipelining when the server is returning
chunked encoding:
* Added states to chunked parsing for final CRLF
* Rewind buffer after parsing chunk with data remaining
* Moved chunked header initializing to a spot just before receiving
headers
Daniel (20 February 2007)
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing changed the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option to handle
active and passive CCC shutdown and added the --ftp-ssl-ccc-mode command
line option.
Daniel (19 February 2007)
- Ian Turner fixed the libcurl.m4 macro's support for --with-libcurl.
- Shmulik Regev found a memory leak in re-used HTTPS connections, at least
when the multi interface was used.
- Robson Braga Araujo made passive FTP transfers work with SOCKS (both 4 and
5).
Daniel (18 February 2007)
- Jeff Pohlmeyer identified two problems: first a rather obscure problem with
the multi interface and connection re-use that could make a
curl_multi_remove_handle() ruin a pointer in another handle.
The second problem was less of an actual problem but more of minor quirk:
the re-using of connections wasn't properly checking if the connection was
marked for closure.
Daniel (16 February 2007)
- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett and Michal Marek reported problems with resetting
CURLOPT_RANGE back to no range on an easy handle when using FTP.
Dan F (14 February 2007)
- Fixed curl-config --libs so it doesn't list unnecessary libraries (and
therefore introduce unnecessary dependencies) when it's not needed.
Also, don't bother adding a library path of /usr/lib
Daniel (13 February 2007)
- The default password for anonymous FTP connections is now changed to be
"ftp@example.com".
- Robert A. Monat made libcurl build fine with VC2005 - it doesn't have
gmtime_r() like the older VC versions. He also made use of some machine-
specific defines to differentiate the "OS" define.
Daniel (12 February 2007)
- Rob Crittenden added support for NSS (Network Security Service) for the
SSL/TLS layer. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
This is the fourth supported library for TLS/SSL that libcurl supports!
- Shmulik Regev fixed so that the final CRLF of HTTP response headers are sent
to the debug callback.
- Shmulik Regev added CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING and
CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING that if set to zero will disable libcurl's
internal decoding of content or transfer encoded content. This may be
preferable in cases where you use libcurl for proxy purposes or similar. The
command line tool got a --raw option to disable both at once.
- release tarballs made with maketgz will from now on have a LIBCURL_TIMESTAMP
define set to hold the exact date and time of when the tarball was built, as
a human readable string using the UTC time zone.
- Jeff Pohlmeyer fixed a flaw in curl_multi_add_handle() when adding a handle
that has an easy handle present in the "closure" list pending closure.
Daniel (6 February 2007)
- Regular file downloads wiht SFTP and SCP are now done using the non-blocking
API of libssh2, if the libssh2 headers seem to support them. This will make
SCP and SFTP much more responsive and better libcurl citizens when used with
the multi interface etc.
Daniel (5 February 2007)
- Michael Wallner added support for CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS that, as their names suggest, do the timeouts with
millisecond resolution. The only restriction to that is the alarm()
(sometimes) used to abort name resolves as that uses full seconds. I fixed
the FTP response timeout part of the patch.
Internally we now count and keep the timeouts in milliseconds but it also
means we multiply set timeouts with 1000. The effect of this is that no
timeout can be set to more than 2^31 milliseconds (on 32 bit systems), which
equals 24.86 days. We probably couldn't before either since the code did
*1000 on the timeout values on several places already.
Daniel (3 February 2007)
- Yang Tse fixed the cookie expiry date in several test cases that started to
fail since they used "1 feb 2007"...
- Manfred Schwarb reported that socks5 support was broken and help us pinpoint
the problem. The code now tries harder to use httproxy and proxy where
apppropriate, as not all proxies are HTTP...
Package info: scp support not enabled (libssh2 is not packaged).
Version 7.16.1 (29 January 2007)
Daniel (29 January 2007)
- Michael Wallner reported that when doing a CONNECT with a custom User-Agent
header, you got _two_ User-Agent headers in the CONNECT request...! Added
test case 287 to verify the fix.
Daniel (28 January 2007)
- curl_easy_reset() now resets the CA bundle path correctly.
- David McCreedy fixed the Curl command line tool for HTTP on non-ASCII
platforms.
Daniel (25 January 2007)
- Added the --libcurl [file] option to curl. Append this option to any
ordinary curl command line, and you will get a libcurl-using source code
written to the file that does the equivalent operation of what your command
line operation does!
Dan F (24 January 2007)
- Fixed a dangling pointer problem that prevented the http_proxy environment
variable from being properly used in many cases (and caused test case 63
to fail).
Daniel (23 January 2007)
- David McCreedy did NTLM changes mainly for non-ASCII platforms:
#1
There's a compilation error in http_ntlm.c if USE_NTLM2SESSION is NOT
defined. I noticed this while testing various configurations. Line 867 of
the current http_ntlm.c is a closing bracket for an if/else pair that only
gets compiled in if USE_NTLM2SESSION is defined. But this closing bracket
wasn't in an #ifdef so the code fails to compile unless USE_NTLM2SESSION was
defined. Lines 198 and 140 of my patch wraps that closing bracket in an
#ifdef USE_NTLM2SESSION.
#2
I noticed several picky compiler warnings when DEBUG_ME is defined. I've
fixed them with casting. By the way, DEBUG_ME was a huge help in
understanding this code.
#3
Hopefully the last non-ASCII conversion patch for libcurl in a while. I
changed the "NTLMSSP" literal to hex since this signature must always be in
ASCII.
Conversion code was strategically added where necessary. And the
Curl_base64_encode calls were changed so the binary "blobs" http_ntlm.c
creates are NOT translated on non-ASCII platforms.
Dan F (22 January 2007)
- Converted (most of) the test data files into genuine XML. A handful still
are not, due mainly to the lack of support for XML character entities
(e.g. & => & ). This will make it easier to validate test files using
tools like xmllint, as well as to edit and view them using XML tools.
Daniel (16 January 2007)
- Armel Asselin improved libcurl to behave a lot better when an easy handle
doing an FTP transfer is removed from a multi handle before completion. The
fix also fixed the "alive counter" to be correct on "premature removal" for
all protocols.
Dan F (16 January 2007)
- Fixed a small memory leak in tftp uploads discovered by curl's memory leak
detector. Also changed tftp downloads to URL-unescape the downloaded
file name.
Daniel (14 January 2007)
- David McCreedy provided libcurl changes for doing HTTP communication on
non-ASCII platforms. It does add some complexity, most notably with more
#ifdefs, but I want to see this supported added and I can't see how we can
add it without the extra stuff added.
- Setting CURLOPT_COOKIELIST to "ALL" when no cookies at all was present,
libcurl would crash when trying to read a NULL pointer.
Daniel (12 January 2007)
- Toby Peterson found a nasty bug that prevented (lib)curl from properly
downloading (most) things that were larger than 4GB on 32 bit systems. Matt
Witherspoon helped as narrow down the problem.
Daniel (5 January 2007)
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing introduced the --ftp-ssl-ccc command line option to
curl that uses the new CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC option in libcurl. If enabled, it
will make libcurl shutdown SSL/TLS after the authentication is done on a
FTP-SSL operation.
Daniel (4 January 2007)
- David McCreedy made changes to allow base64 encoding/decoding to work on
non-ASCII platforms.
Daniel (3 January 2007)
- Matt Witherspoon fixed the flaw which made libcurl 7.16.0 always store
downloaded data in two buffers, just to be able to deal with a special HTTP
pipelining case. That is now only activated for pipelined transfers. In
Matt's case, it showed as a considerable performance difference,
Daniel (2 January 2007)
- Victor Snezhko helped us fix bug report #1603712
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1603712) (known bug #36) --limit-rate
(CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE and CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE) are broken
on Windows (since 7.16.0, but that's when they were introduced as previous
to that the limiting logic was made in the application only and not in the
library). It was actually also broken on select()-based systems (as apposed
to poll()) but we haven't had any such reports. We now use select(), Sleep()
or delay() properly to sleep a while without waiting for anything input or
output when the rate limiting is activated with the easy interface.
- Modified libcurl.pc.in to use Libs.private for the libs libcurl itself needs
to get built static. It has been mentioned before and was again brought to
our attention by Nathanael Nerode who filed debian bug report #405226
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405226).
Daniel (29 December 2006)
- Make curl_easy_duphandle() set the magic number in the new handle.
Daniel (22 December 2006)
- Robert Foreman provided a prime example snippet showing how libcurl would
get confused and not acknowledge the 'no_proxy' variable properly once it
had used the proxy and you re-used the same easy handle. I made sure the
proxy name is properly stored in the connect struct rather than the
sessionhandle/easy struct.
- David McCreedy fixed a bad call to getsockname() that wrongly used a size_t
variable to point to when it should be a socklen_t.
- When setting a proxy with environment variables and (for example) running
'curl [URL]' with a URL without a protocol prefix, curl would not send a
correct request as it failed to add the protocol prefix.
Daniel (21 December 2006)
- Robson Braga Araujo reported bug #1618359
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1618359) and subsequently provided a
patch for it: when downloading 2 zero byte files in a row, curl 7.16.0
enters an infinite loop, while curl 7.16.1-20061218 does one additional
unnecessary request.
Fix: During the "Major overhaul introducing http pipelining support and
shared connection cache within the multi handle." change, headerbytecount
was moved to live in the Curl_transfer_keeper structure. But that structure
is reset in the Transfer method, losing the information that we had about
the header size. This patch moves it back to the connectdata struct.
Daniel (16 December 2006)
- Brendan Jurd provided a fix that now prevents libcurl from getting a SIGPIPE
during certain conditions when GnuTLS is used.
Daniel (11 December 2006)
- Alexey Simak found out that when doing FTP with the multi interface and
something went wrong like it got a bad response code back from the server,
libcurl would leak memory. Added test case 538 to verify the fix.
I also noted that the connection would get cached in that case, which
doesn't make sense since it cannot be re-use when the authentication has
failed. I fixed that issue too at the same time, and also that the path
would be "remembered" in vain for cases where the connection was about to
get closed.
Daniel (6 December 2006)
- Sebastien Willemijns reported bug #1603712
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1603712) which is about connections
getting cut off prematurely when --limit-rate is used. While I found no such
problems in my tests nor in my reading of the code, I found that the
--limit-rate code was severly flawed (since it was moved into the lib, since
7.15.5) when used with the easy interface and it didn't work as documented
so I reworked it somewhat and now it works for my tests.
Daniel (5 December 2006)
- Stefan Krause pointed out a compiler warning with a picky MSCV compiler when
passing a curl_off_t argument to the Curl_read_rewind() function which takes
an size_t argument. Curl_read_rewind() also had debug code left in it and it
was put in a different source file with no good reason when only used from
one single spot.
- Sh Diao reported that CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY doesn't work, and indeed, there is
no code present in the library that receives the option. Since it was not
possible to use, we know that no current users exist and thus we simply
removed it from the docs and made the code always use the default path of
the code.
- Jared Lundell filed bug report #1604956
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1604956) which identified setting
CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to zero caused libcurl to SIGSEGV. Starting now, libcurl
will always internally use no less than 1 entry in the connection cache.
- Sh Diao reported that CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE no works, and indeed it broke in
the 7.16.0 release.
- Martin Skinner brought back bug report #1230118 to haunt us once again.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1230118) curl_getdate() did not work
properly for all input dates on Windows. It was mostly seen on some TZ time
zones using DST. Luckily, Martin also provided a fix.
- Alexey Simak filed bug report #1600447
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1600447) in which he noted that active
FTP connections don't work with the multi interface. The problem is here
that the multi interface state machine has a state during which it can wait
for the data connection to connect, but the active connection is not done in
the same step in the sequence as the passive one is so it doesn't quite work
for active. The active FTP code still use a blocking function to allow the
remote server to connect.
The fix (work-around is a better word) for this problem is to set the
boolean prematurely that the data connection is completed, so that the "wait
for connect" phase ends at once.
The proper fix, left for the future, is of course to make the active FTP
case to act in a non-blocking way too.
- Matt Witherspoon fixed a problem case when the CPU load went to 100% when a
HTTP upload was disconnected:
"What appears to be happening is that my system (Linux 2.6.17 and 2.6.13) is
setting *only* POLLHUP on poll() when the conditions in my previous mail
occur. As you can see, select.c:Curl_select() does not check for POLLHUP. So
basically what was happening, is poll() was returning immediately (with
POLLHUP set), but when Curl_select() looked at the bits, neither POLLERR or
POLLOUT was set. This still caused Curl_readwrite() to be called, which
quickly returned. Then the transfer() loop kept continuing at full speed
forever."
Daniel (1 December 2006)
- Toon Verwaest reported that there are servers that send the Content-Range:
header in a third, not suppported by libcurl, format and we agreed that we
could make the parser more forgiving to accept all the three found
variations.
Daniel (25 November 2006)
- Venkat Akella found out that libcurl did not like HTTP responses that simply
responded with a single status line and no headers nor body. Starting now, a
HTTP response on a persistent connection (i.e not set to be closed after the
response has been taken care of) must have Content-Length or chunked
encoding set, or libcurl will simply assume that there is no body.
To my horror I learned that we had no less than 57(!) test cases that did bad
HTTP responses like this, and even the test http server (sws) responded badly
when queried by the test system if it is the test system. So although the
actual fix for the problem was tiny, going through all the newly failing test
cases got really painful and boring.
Daniel (24 November 2006)
- James Housley did lots of work and introduced SFTP downloads.
Daniel (13 November 2006)
- Ron in bug #1595348 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1595348) pointed
out a stack overwrite (and the corresponding fix) on 64bit Windows when
dealing with HTTP chunked encoding.
Daniel (9 November 2006)
- Nir Soffer updated libcurl.framework.make:
o fix symlinks, should link to Versions, not to ./Versions
o indentation improvments
- Dmitriy Sergeyev found a SIGSEGV with his test04.c example posted on 7 Nov
2006. It turned out we wrongly assumed that the connection cache was present
when tearing down a connection.
- Ciprian Badescu found a SIGSEGV when doing multiple TFTP transfers using the
multi interface, but I could also repeat it doing multiple sequential ones
with the easy interface. Using Ciprian's test case, I could fix it.
Daniel (8 November 2006)
- Bradford Bruce reported that when setting CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION without
CURLOPT_VERBOSE set to non-zero, you still got a few debug messages from the
SSL handshake. This is now stopped.
Daniel (7 November 2006)
- Olaf fixed a leftover problem with the CONNECT fix of his that would leave a
wrong error message in the error message buffer.
Daniel (3 November 2006)
- Olaf Stueben provided a patch that I edited slightly. It fixes the notorious
KNOWN_BUGS #25, which happens when a proxy closes the connection when
libcurl has sent CONNECT, as part of an authentication negotiation. Starting
now, libcurl will re-connect accordingly and continue the authentication as
it should.
Daniel (2 November 2006)
- James Housley brought support for SCP transfers, based on the libssh2 library
for the actual network protocol stuff.
Added these new curl_easy_setopt() options:
CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES
CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE
CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE
Version 7.16.0 (30 October 2006)
Daniel (25 October 2006)
- Fixed CURLOPT_FAILONERROR to return CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR even for the
case when 401 or 407 are returned, *IF* no auth credentials have been given.
The CURLOPT_FAILONERROR option is not possible to make fool-proof for 401
and 407 cases when auth credentials is given, but we've now covered this
somewhat more.
You might get some amounts of headers transferred before this situation is
detected, like for when a "100-continue" is received as a response to a
POST/PUT and a 401 or 407 is received immediately afterwards.
Added test 281 to verify this change.
Daniel (23 October 2006)
- Ravi Pratap provided a major update with pipelining fixes. We also no longer
re-use connections (for pipelining) before the name resolving is done.
Daniel (21 October 2006)
- Nir Soffer made the tests/libtest/Makefile.am use a proper variable for all
the single test applications' link and dependences, so that you easier can
override those from the command line when using make.
- Armel Asselin separated CA cert verification problems from problems with
reading the (local) CA cert file to let users easier pinpoint the actual
problem. CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE (77) is the new libcurl error code.
Daniel (18 October 2006)
- Removed the "protocol-guessing" for URLs with host names starting with FTPS
or TELNET since they are practically non-existant. This leaves us with only
three different prefixes that would assume the protocol is anything but
HTTP, and they are host names starting with "ftp.", "dict." or "ldap.".
Daniel (17 October 2006)
- Bug report #1579171 pointed out code flaws detected with "prefast", and they
were 1 - a too small memory clear with memset() in the threaded resolver and
2 - a range of potentially bad uses of the ctype family of is*() functions
such as isdigit(), isalnum(), isprint() and more. The latter made me switch
to using our own set of these functions/macros using uppercase letters, and
with some extra set of crazy typecasts to avoid mistakingly passing in
negative numbers to the underlying is*() functions.
- With Jeff Pohlmeyer's help, I fixed the expire timer when using
curl_multi_socket() during name resolves with c-ares and the LOW_SPEED
options now work fine with curl_multi_socket() as well.
Daniel (16 October 2006)
- Added a check in configure that simply tries to run a program (not when
cross-compiling) in order to detect problems with run-time libraries that
otherwise would occur when the sizeof tests for curl_off_t would run and
thus be much more confusing to users. The check of course should run after
all lib-checks are done and before any other test is used that would run an
executable built for testing-purposes.
Dan F (13 October 2006)
- The tagging of application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST body data sent
to the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION callback has been fixed (it was erroneously
included as part of the header). A message was also added to the
command line tool to show when data is being sent, enabled when
--verbose is used.
Daniel (12 October 2006)
- Starting now, adding an easy handle to a multi stack that was already added
to a multi stack will cause CURLM_BAD_EASY_HANDLE to get returned.
- Jeff Pohlmeyer has been working with the hiperfifo.c example source code,
and while doing so it became apparent that the current timeout system for
the socket API really was a bit awkward since it become quite some work to
be sure we have the correct timeout set.
Jeff then provided the new CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION that is yet another
callback the app can set to get to know when the general timeout time
changes and thus for an application like hiperfifo.c it makes everything a
lot easier and nicer. There's a CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA option too of course in
good old libcurl tradition.
Jeff has also updated the hiperfifo.c example code to use this news.
Daniel (9 October 2006)
- Bogdan Nicula's second test case (posted Sun, 08 Oct 2006) converted to test
case 535 and it now runs fine. Again a problem with the pipelining code not
taking all possible (error) conditions into account.
Daniel (6 October 2006)
- Bogdan Nicula's hanging test case (posted Wed, 04 Oct 2006) was converted to
test case 533 and the test now runs fine.
Daniel (4 October 2006)
- Dmitriy Sergeyev provided an example source code that crashed CVS libcurl
but that worked nicely in 7.15.5. I converted it into test case 532 and
fixed the problem.
Daniel (29 September 2006)
- Removed a few other no-longer present options from the header file.
- Support for FTP third party transfers was removed. Here's why:
o The recent multi interface changes broke it and the design of the 3rd party
transfers made it very hard to fix the problems
o It was still blocking and thus nasty for the multi interface
o It was a lot of extra code for a very rarely used feature
o It didn't use the same code as for "plain" FTP transfers, so it didn't work
fine for IPv6 and it didn't properly re-use connections and more
o There's nobody around who's willing to work on and improve the existing
code
This does not mean that third party transfers are banned forever, only that
they need to be done better if they are to be re-added in the future.
The CURLOPT_SOURCE_* options are removed from the lib and so are the --3p*
options from the command line tool. For this reason, I also bumped the
version info for the lib.
Daniel (28 September 2006)
- Reported in #1561470 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1561470), libcurl
would crash if a bad function sequence was used when shutting down after
using the multi interface (i.e using easy_cleanup after multi_cleanup) so
precautions have been added to make sure it doesn't any more - test case 529
was added to verify.
Daniel (27 September 2006)
- The URL in the cookie jar file is now changed since it was giving a 404.
Reported by Timothy Stone. The new URL will take the visitor to a curl web
site mirror with the document.
Daniel (24 September 2006)
- Bernard Leak fixed configure --with-gssapi-libs.
- Cory Nelson made libcurl use the WSAPoll() function if built for Windows
Vista (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600)
Daniel (23 September 2006)
- Mike Protts added --ftp-ssl-control to make curl use FTP-SSL, but only
encrypt the control connection and use the data connection "plain".
- Dmitriy Sergeyev provided a patch that made the SOCKS[45] code work better
as it now will read the full data sent from servers. The SOCKS-related code
was also moved to the new lib/socks.c source file.
Daniel (21 September 2006)
- Added test case 531 in an attempt to repeat bug report #1561470
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1561470) that is said to crash when an
FTP upload fails with the multi interface. It did not, but I made a failed
upload still assume the control connection to be fine.
Daniel (20 September 2006)
- Armel Asselin fixed problems when you gave a proxy URL with user name and
empty password or no password at all. Test case 278 and 279 were added to
verify.
Daniel (12 September 2006)
- Added docs/examples/10-at-a-time.c by Michael Wallner
- Added docs/examples/hiperfifo.c by Jeff Pohlmeyer
Daniel (11 September 2006)
- Fixed my breakage from earlier today so that doing curl_easy_cleanup() on a
handle that is part of a multi handle first removes the handle from the
stack.
- Added CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE and --no-sessionid to disable SSL
session-ID re-use on demand since there obviously are broken servers out
there that misbehave with session-IDs used.
- Jeff Pohlmeyer presented a *multi_socket()-using program that exposed a
problem with it (SIGSEGV-style). It clearly showed that the existing
socket-state and state-difference function wasn't good enough so I rewrote
it and could then re-run Jeff's program without any crash. The previous
version clearly could miss to tell the application when a handle changed
from using one socket to using another.
While I was at it (as I could use this as a means to track this problem
down), I've now added a 'magic' number to the easy handle struct that is
inited at curl_easy_init() time and cleared at curl_easy_cleanup() time that
we can use internally to detect that an easy handle seems to be fine, or at
least not closed or freed (freeing in debug builds fill the area with 0x13
bytes but in normal builds we can of course not assume any particular data
in the freed areas).
Daniel (9 September 2006)
- Michele Bini fixed how the hostname is put in NTLM packages. As servers
don't expect fully qualified names we need to cut them off at the first dot.
- Peter Sylvester cleaned up and fixed the getsockname() uses in ftp.c. Some
of them can be completetly removed though...
Daniel (6 September 2006)
- Ravi Pratap and I have implemented HTTP Pipelining support. Enable it for a
multi handle using CURLMOPT_PIPELINING and all HTTP connections done on that
handle will be attempted to get pipelined instead of done in parallell as
they are performed otherwise.
As a side-effect from this work, connections are now shared between all easy
handles within a multi handle, so if you use N easy handles for transfers,
each of them can pick up and re-use a connection that was previously used by
any of the handles, be it the same or one of the others.
This separation of the tight relationship between connections and easy
handles is most noticable when you close easy handles that have been used in
a multi handle and check amount of used memory or watch the debug output, as
there are times when libcurl will keep the easy handle around for a while
longer to be able to close it properly. Like for sending QUIT to close down
an FTP connection.
This is a major change.
Daniel (4 September 2006)
- Dmitry Rechkin (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1551412) provided a
patch that while not fixing things very nicely, it does make the SOCKS5
proxy connection slightly better as it now acknowledges the timeout for
connection and it no longer segfaults in the case when SOCKS requires
authentication and you did not specify username:password.
Daniel (31 August 2006)
- Dmitriy Sergeyev found and fixed a multi interface flaw when using asynch
name resolves. It could get stuck in the wrong state.
Gisle (29 August 2006)
- Added support for other MS-DOS compilers (desides djgpp). All MS-DOS
compiler now uses the same config.dos file (renamed to config.h by
make). libcurl now builds fine using Watcom and Metaware's High-C
using the Watt-32 tcp/ip-stack.
Daniel (29 August 2006)
- David McCreedy added CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION and CURLOPT_SOCKOPTDATA to
allow applications to set their own socket options.
Daniel (25 August 2006)
- Armel Asselin reported that the 'running_handles' counter wasn't updated
properly if you removed a "live" handle from a multi handle with
curl_multi_remove_handle().
Daniel (22 August 2006)
- David McCreedy fixed a remaining mistake from the August 19 TYPE change.
- Peter Sylvester pointed out a flaw in the AllowServerConnect() in the FTP
code when doing pure ipv6 EPRT connections.
Daniel (19 August 2006)
- Based on a patch by Armel Asselin, the FTP code no longer re-issues the TYPE
command on subsequent requests on a re-used connection unless it has to.
- Armel Asselin fixed a crash in the FTP code when using SINGLECWD mode and
files in the root directory.
- Andrew Biggs pointed out a "Expect: 100-continue" flaw where libcurl didn't
send the whole request at once, even though the Expect: header was disabled
by the application. An effect of this change is also that small (< 1024
bytes) POSTs are now always sent without Expect: header since we deem it
more costly to bother about that than the risk that we send the data in
vain.
Daniel (9 August 2006)
- Armel Asselin made the CURLOPT_PREQUOTE option work fine even when
CURLOPT_NOBODY is set true. PREQUOTE is then run roughly at the same place
in the command sequence as it would have run if there would've been a
transfer.
Daniel (8 August 2006)
- Fixed a flaw in the "Expect: 100-continue" treatment. If you did two POSTs
on a persistent connection and allowed the first to use that header, you
could not disable it for the second request.
Daniel (7 August 2006)
- Domenico Andreolfound a quick build error which happened because
src/config.h.in was not a proper duplcate of lib/config.h.in which it
should've been and this was due to the maketgz script not doing the cp
properly.
Version 7.15.5 (7 August 2006)
Daniel (2 August 2006)
- Mark Lentczner fixed how libcurl was not properly doing chunked encoding
if the header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" was set by the application.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1531838
Daniel (1 August 2006)
- Maciej Karpiuk fixed a crash that would occur if we passed Curl_strerror()
an unknown error number on glibc systems.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1532289
Daniel (31 July 2006)
- *ALERT* curl_multi_socket() and curl_multi_socket_all() got modified
prototypes: they both now provide the number of running handles back to the
calling function. It makes the functions resemble the good old
curl_multi_perform() more and provides a nice way to know when the multi
handle goes empty.
ALERT2: don't use the curl_multi_socket*() functionality in anything
production-like until I say it's somewhat settled, as I suspect there might
be some further API changes before I'm done...
Daniel (28 July 2006)
- Yves Lejeune fixed so that replacing Content-Type: when doing multipart
formposts work exactly the way you want it (and the way you'd assume it
works).
Daniel (27 July 2006)
- David McCreedy added --ftp-ssl-reqd which makes curl *require* SSL for both
control and data connection, as the existing --ftp-ssl option only requests
it.
- [Hiper-related work] Added a function called curl_multi_assign() that will
set a private pointer added to the internal libcurl hash table for the
particular socket passed in to this function:
CURLMcode curl_multi_assign(CURLM *multi_handle,
curl_socket_t sockfd,
void *sockp);
'sockp' being a custom pointer set by the application to be associated with
this socket. The socket has to be already existing and in-use by libcurl,
like having already called the callback telling about its existance.
The set hashp pointer will then be passed on to the callback in upcoming
calls when this same socket is used (in the brand new 'socketp' argument).
Daniel (26 July 2006)
- Dan Nelson added the CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER libcurl option and curl
tool option named --ftp-alternative-to-user. It provides a mean to send a
particular command if the normal USER/PASS approach fails.
- Michael Jerris added magic that builds lib/curllib.vcproj automatically for
newer MSVC.
Daniel (25 July 2006)
- Georg Horn made the transfer timeout error message include more details.
Daniel (20 July 2006)
- David McCreedy fixed a build error when building libcurl with HTTP disabled,
problem added with the curl_formget() patch.
Daniel (17 July 2006)
- Jari Sundell did some excellent research and bug tracking, figured out that
we did wrong and patched it: When nodes were removed from the splay tree,
and we didn't properly remove it from the splay tree when an easy handle was
removed from a multi stack and thus we could wrongly leave a node in the
splay tree pointing to (bad) memory.
Daniel (14 July 2006)
- David McCreedy fixed a flaw where the CRLF counter wasn't properly cleared
for FTP ASCII transfers.
Daniel (8 July 2006)
- Ates Goral pointed out that libcurl's cookie parser did case insensitive
string comparisons on the path which is incorrect and provided a patch that
fixes this. I edited test case 8 to include details that test for this.
- Ingmar Runge provided a source snippet that caused a crash. The reason for
the crash was that libcurl internally was a bit confused about who owned the
DNS cache at all times so if you created an easy handle that uses a shared
DNS cache and added that to a multi handle it would crash. Now we keep more
careful internal track of exactly what kind of DNS cache each easy handle
uses: None, Private (allocated for and used only by this single handle),
Shared (points to a cache held by a shared object), Global (points to the
global cache) or Multi (points to the cache within the multi handle that is
automatically shared between all easy handles that are added with private
caches).
Daniel (4 July 2006)
- Toshiyuki Maezawa fixed a problem where you couldn't override the
Proxy-Connection: header when using a proxy and not doing CONNECT.
Daniel (24 June 2006)
- Michael Wallner added curl_formget(), which allows an application to extract
(serialise) a previously built formpost (as with curl_formadd()).
Daniel (23 June 2006)
- Arve Knudsen found a flaw in curl_multi_fdset() for systems where
curl_socket_t is unsigned (like Windows) that could cause it to wrongly
return a max fd of -1.
Daniel (20 June 2006)
- Peter Silva introduced CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE and
CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE that limit tha maximum rate libcurl is allowed
to send or receive data. This kind of adds the the command line tool's
option --limit-rate to the library.
The rate limiting logic in the curl app is now removed and is instead
provided by libcurl itself. Transfer rate limiting will now also work for -d
and -F, which it didn't before.
Daniel (19 June 2006)
- Made -K on a file that couldn't be read cause a warning to be displayed.
Daniel (13 June 2006)
- Dan Fandrich implemented --enable-hidden-symbols configure option to enable
-fvisibility=hidden on gcc >= 4.0. This reduces the size of the libcurl
binary and speeds up dynamic linking by hiding all the internal symbols from
the symbol table.
and add a new helper target and script, "show-buildlink3", that outputs
a listing of the buildlink3.mk files included as well as the depth at
which they are included.
For example, "make show-buildlink3" in fonts/Xft2 displays:
zlib
fontconfig
iconv
zlib
freetype2
expat
freetype2
Xrender
renderproto
Version 7.15.4 (12 June 2006)
Daniel (8 June 2006)
- Brian Dessent fixed the code for cygwin in three distinct ways:
The first modifies {lib,src}/setup.h to not include the winsock headers
under Cygwin. This fixes the reported build problem. Cygwin attempts as
much as possible to emulate a posix environment under Windows. This means
that WIN32 is *not* #defined and (to the extent possible) everything is done
as it would be on a *ix type system. Thus <sys/socket.h> is the proper
include, and even though winsock2.h is present, including it just introduces
a whole bunch of incompatible socket API stuff.
The second is a patch I've included in the Cygwin binary packages for a
while. It skips two unnecessary library checks (-lwinmm and -lgdi32). The
checks are innocuous and they do succeed, but they pollute LIBS with
unnecessary stuff which gets recorded as such in the libcurl.la file, which
brings them into the build of any libcurl-downstream. As far as I know
these libs are really only necessary for mingw, so alternatively they could
be designed to only run if $host matches *-*-mingw* but I took the safer
route of skipping them for *-*-cygwin*.
The third patch replaces all uses of the ancient and obsolete __CYGWIN32__
with __CYGWIN__. Ref: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01520.html>.
Daniel (7 June 2006)
- Mikael Sennerholm provided a patch that added NTLM2 session response support
to libcurl. The 21 NTLM test cases were again modified to comply...
Daniel (27 May 2006)
- Óscar Morales Vivó updated the libcurl.framework.make file.
Daniel (26 May 2006)
- Olaf Stüben fixed a bug that caused Digest authentication with md5-sess to
fail. When using the md5-sess, the result was not Md5 encoded and Base64
transformed.
Daniel (25 May 2006)
- Michael Wallner provided a patch that allows "SESS" to be set with
CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, which then makes all session cookies get cleared.
Daniel (24 May 2006)
- Tor Arntsen made test 271 run fine again since the TFTP path fix.
Daniel (23 May 2006)
- Martin Michlmayr filed debian bug report #367954, but the same error also
showed up in the autobuilds. It seems a rather long-since introduced shell
script flaw in the configure script suddenly was detected by the bash
version in Debian Unstable. It had previously passed undetected by all
shells used so far...
- David McCreedy updated lib/config-tpf.h
Daniel (11 May 2006)
- Fixed the configure's check for old-style SSLeay headers since I fell over a
case with a duplicate file name (a krb4 implementation with an err.h
file). I converted the check to manually make sure three of the headers are
present before considering them fine.
- David McCreedy provided a fix for CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET that does extended
checks on the to-be-returned socket to make sure it truly seems to be alive
and well. For SSL connection it (only) uses OpenSSL functions.
Daniel (10 May 2006)
- Fixed DICT in two aspects:
1 - allow properly URL-escaped words, like using %20 for spaces
2 - properly escape certain letters within a word to comply to the RFC2229
Daniel (9 May 2006)
- Andreas Ntaflos reported a bug in libcurl.m4: When configuring my GNU
autotools project, which optionally (default=yes) uses libcurl on a system
without a (usable) libcurl installation, but not specifying
`--without-libcurl', configure determines correctly that no libcurl is
available, however, the LIBCURL variable gets expanded to `LIBCURL = -lcurl'
in the resulting Makefiles.
David Shaw fixed the flaw.
- Robson Braga Araujo fixed two problems in the recently added non-blocking SSL
connects. The state machine was not reset properly so that subsequent
connects using the same handle would fail, and there were two memory leaks.
- Robson Braga Araujo fixed a memory leak when you added an easy handle to a
multi stack and that easy handle had already been used to do one or more
easy interface transfers, as then the code threw away the previously used
DNS cache without properly freeing it.
Daniel (8 May 2006)
- Dan Fandrich went over the TFTP code and he pointed out and fixed numerous
problems:
* The received file is corrupted when a packet is lost and retransmitted
(this is a serious problem!)
* Transmitting a file aborts if a block is lost and retransmitted
* Data is stored in the wrong location in the buffer for uploads, so uploads
always fail (I don't see how it could have ever worked, but it did on x86
at least)
* A number of calls are made to strerror instead of Curl_strerror, making
the code not thread safe
* There are references to errno instead of Curl_sockerrno(), causing
incorrect error messages on Windows
* The file name includes a leading / which violates RFC3617. Doing something
similar to ftp, where two slashes after the host name means an absolute
reference seems a reasonable extension to fix this.
* Failures in EBCDIC conversion are not propagated up to the caller but are
silently ignored
- Fixed known bug #28. The TFTP code no longer assumes a packed struct and
thus works reliably on more platforms.
Daniel (5 May 2006)
- Roland Blom filed bug report #1481217
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1481217), with follow-ups by Michele
Bini and David Byron. libcurl previously wrongly used GetLastError() on
windows to get error details after socket-related function calls, when it
really should use WSAGetLastError() instead.
When changing to this, the former function Curl_ourerrno() is now instead
called Curl_sockerrno() as it is necessary to only use it to get errno from
socket-related functions as otherwise it won't work as intended on Windows.
Daniel (4 May 2006)
- Mark Eichin submitted bug report #1480821
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1480821) He found and identified a
problem with how libcurl dealt with GnuTLS and a case where gnutls returned
GNUTLS_E_AGAIN indicating it would block. It would then return an unexpected
return code, making Curl_ssl_send() confuse the upper layer - causing random
28 bytes trash data to get inserted in the transfered stream.
The proper fix was to make the Curl_gtls_send() function return the proper
return codes that the callers would expect. The Curl_ossl_send() function
already did this.
Daniel (2 May 2006)
- Added a --checkfor option to curl-config to allow users to easier
write for example shell scripts that test for the presence of a
new-enough libcurl version. If --checkfor is given a version string
newer than what is currently installed, curl-config will return a
non-zero exit code and output a string about the unfulfilled
requirement.
Daniel (26 April 2006)
- David McCreedy brought initial line end conversions when doing FTP ASCII
transfers. They are done on non-windows systems and translate CRLF to LF.
I modified the 15 LIST-using test cases accordingly. The downside is that now
we'll have even more trouble to get the tests to run on Windows since they
should get CRLF newlines left intact which the *nix versions don't. I figure
the only sane thing to do is to add some kind of [newline] macro for the test
case files and have them expanded to the proper native line ending when the
test cases are run. This is however left to implement.
Daniel (25 April 2006)
- Paul Querna fixed libcurl to better deal with deflate content encoding
when the stream (wrongly) lacks a proper zlib header. This seems to be the
case on too many actual server implementations.
Daniel (21 April 2006)
- Ale Vesely fixed CURLOPT_INTERFACE when using a hostname.
Daniel (19 April 2006)
- Based on previous info from Tor Arntsen, I made configure detect the Intel
ICC compiler to add a compiler option for it, in order for configure to
properly be able to detect function prototypes.
- Robson Braga Araujo provided a patch that makes libcurl less eager to close
the control connection when using FTP, for example when you remove an easy
handle from a multi stack.
- Applied a patch by Ates Goral and Katie Wang that corrected my bad fix
attempt from April 10.
Daniel (11 April 2006)
- #1468330 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1468330) pointed out a bad
typecast in the curl tool leading to a crash with (64bit?) VS2005 (at least)
since the struct timeval field tv_sec is an int while time_t is 64bit.
Daniel (10 April 2006)
- Ates Goral found out that if you specified both CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT and
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, the _longer_ time would wrongly be used for the SSL
connection time-out!
- I merged my hiper patch (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/hiper/) into the main
sources. See the lib/README.multi_socket for implementation story with
details. Don't expect it to work fully yet. I don't intend to blow any
whistles or ring any bells about it until I'm more convinced it works at
least somewhat reliably.
Daniel (7 April 2006)
- David McCreedy's EBCDIC and TPF changes. Three new curl_easy_setopt()
options (callbacks) were added:
CONV_FROM_NETWORK_FUNCTION
CONV_TO_NETWORK_FUNCTION
CONV_FROM_UTF8_FUNCTION
Daniel (5 April 2006)
- Michele Bini modified the NTLM code to work for his "weird IIS case"
(http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2006-02/0154.html) by adding the NTLM hash
function in addition to the LM one and making some other adjustments in the
order the different parts of the data block are sent in the Type-2 reply.
Inspiration for this work was taken from the Firefox NTLM implementation.
I edited the existing 21(!) NTLM test cases to run fine with these news. Due
to the fact that we now properly include the host name in the Type-2 message
the test cases now only compare parts of that chunk.
Daniel (28 March 2006)
- #1451929 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1451929) detailed a bug that
occurred when asking libcurl to follow HTTP redirects and the original URL
had more than one question mark (?). Added test case 276 to verify.
Daniel (27 March 2006)
- David Byron found a problem multiple -d options when libcurl was built with
--enable-debug, as then curl used free() on memory allocated both with
normal malloc() and with libcurl-provided functions, when the latter MUST be
freed with curl_free() in debug builds.
Daniel (26 March 2006)
- Tor Arntsen figured out that TFTP was broken on a lot of systems since we
called bind() with a too big argument in the 3rd parameter and at least
Tru64, AIX and IRIX seem to be very picky about it.
Daniel (21 March 2006)
- David McCreedy added CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH.
- Xavier Bouchoux made the SSL connection non-blocking for the multi interface
(when using OpenSSL).
- Tor Arntsen fixed the AIX Toolbox RPM spec
Daniel (20 March 2006)
- David McCreedy fixed libcurl to no longer ignore AUTH failures and now it
reacts properly according to the CURLOPT_FTP_SSL setting.
- Dan Fandrich fixed two TFTP problems: Fixed a bug whereby a received file
whose length was a multiple of 512 bytes could have random garbage
appended. Also, stop processing TFTP packets which are too short to be
legal.
- Ilja van Sprundel reported a possible crash in the curl tool when using
"curl hostwithoutslash -d data -G"
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
Fixes a TFTP packet buffer overflow vulnerability.
See http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20060320.html for details.
Changes:
- added docs for --ftp-method and CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD
Bugfixes:
- TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- properly detecting problems with sending the FTP command USER
- wrong error message shown when certificate verification failed
- multi-part formpost with multi interface crash
- the CURLFTPSSL_CONTROL setting for CURLOPT_FTP_SSL is acknowledged
- "SSL: couldn't set callback" is now treated as a less serious problem
- Interix build fix
- fixed curl "hang" when out of file handles at start
- prevent FTP uploads to URLs with trailing slash
Version 7.15.2 (27 February 2005)
Daniel (22 February 2006)
- Lots of work and analysis by "xbx___" in bug #1431750
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1431750) helped me identify and fix two
different but related bugs:
1) Removing an easy handle from a multi handle before the transfer is done
could leave a connection in the connection cache for that handle that is
in a state that isn't suitable for re-use. A subsequent re-use could then
read from a NULL pointer and segfault.
2) When an easy handle was removed from the multi handle, there could be an
outstanding c-ares DNS name resolve request. When the response arrived,
it caused havoc since the connection struct it "belonged" to could've
been freed already.
Now Curl_done() is called when an easy handle is removed from a multi handle
pre-maturely (that is, before the transfer was complteted). Curl_done() also
makes sure to cancel all (if any) outstanding c-ares requests.
Daniel (21 February 2006)
- Peter Su added support for SOCKS4 proxies. Enable this by setting the proxy
type to the already provided type CURLPROXY_SOCKS4.
I added a --socks4 option that works like the current --socks5 option but
instead use the socks4 protocol.
Daniel (20 February 2006)
- Shmulik Regev fixed an issue with multi-pass authentication and compressed
content when libcurl didn't honor the internal ignorebody flag.
Daniel (18 February 2006)
- Ulf Härnhammar fixed a format string (printf style) problem in the Negotiate
code. It should however not be the cause of any troubles. He also fixed a
few similar problems in the HTTP test server code.
Daniel (17 February 2006)
- Shmulik Regev provided a fix for the DNS cache when using short life times,
as previously it could be holding on to old cached entries longer than
requested.
Daniel (11 February 2006)
- Karl Moerder added the CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY and CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET options
that an app can use to let libcurl only connect to a remote host and then
extract the socket from libcurl. libcurl will then not attempt to do any
transfer at all after the connect is done.
- Kent Boortz improved the configure check for GnuTLS to properly set LIBS
instead of LDFLAGS.
Daniel (8 February 2006)
- Philippe Vaucher provided a brilliant piece of test code that show a problem
with re-used FTP connections. If the second request on the same connection
was set not to fetch a "body", libcurl could get confused and consider it an
attempt to use a dead connection and would go acting mighty strange.
Daniel (2 February 2006)
- Make --limit-rate [num] mean bytes. It used to be that but it broke in my
change done in November 2005.
Daniel (30 January 2006)
- Added CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE to libcurl. Set with the
curl tool with --local-port. Plain and simply set the range of ports to bind
the local end of connections to. Implemented on to popular demand.
- Based on an error report by Philippe Vaucher, we no longer count a retried
connection setup as a follow-redirect. It turns out 1) this fails when a FTP
connection is re-setup and 2) it does make the max-redirs counter behave
wrong.
Daniel (24 January 2006)
- Michal Marek provided a patch for FTP that makes libcurl continue to try
PASV even after EPSV returned a positive response code, if libcurl failed to
connect to the port number the EPSV response said. Obviously some people are
going through protocol-sensitive firewalls (or similar) that don't
understand EPSV and then they don't allow the second connection unless PASV
was used. This also called for a minor fix of test case 238.
Daniel (20 January 2006)
- Duane Cathey was one of our friends who reported that curl -P [IP]
(CURLOPT_FTPPORT) didn't work for ipv6-enabed curls if the IP wasn't a
"native" IP while it works fine for ipv6-disabled builds!
In the process of fixing this, I removed the support for LPRT since I can't
think of many reasons to keep doing it and asking on the mailing list didn't
reveal anyone else that could either. The code that sends EPRT and PORT is
now also a lot simpler than before (IMHO).
Daniel (19 January 2006)
- Jon Turner pointed out that doing -P [hostname] (CURLOPT_FTPPORT) with curl
(built ipv4-only) didn't work.
Daniel (18 January 2006)
- As reported in bug #1408742 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1408742),
the configure script complained about a missing "missing" script if you ran
configure within a path whose name included one or more spaces. This is due
to a flaw in automake (1.9.6 and earlier). I've now worked around it by
including an "overloaded" version of the AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN script that'll
be used instead of the one automake ships with. This kludge needs to be
removed once we get an automake version with this problem corrected.
Possibly we'll then need to convert this into a kludge depending on what
automake version that is used and that is gonna be painful and I don't even
want to think about that now...!
Daniel (17 January 2006)
- David Shaw: Here is the latest libcurl.m4 autoconf tests. It is updated with
the latest features and protocols that libcurl supports and has a minor fix
to better deal with the obscure case where someone has more than one libcurl
installed at the same time.
Daniel (16 January 2006)
- David Shaw finally removed all traces of Gopher and we are now officially
not supporting it. It hasn't been functioning for years anyway, so this is
just finally stating what already was true. And a cleanup at the same time.
- Bryan Henderson turned the 'initialized' variable for curl_global_init()
into a counter, and thus you can now do multiple curl_global_init() and you
are then supposed to do the same amount of calls to curl_global_cleanup().
Bryan has also updated the docs accordingly.
Daniel (13 January 2006)
- Andrew Benham fixed a race condition in the test suite that could cause the
test script to kill all processes in the current process group!
Daniel (12 January 2006)
- Michael Jahn:
Fixed FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV to "do right" when used on FTP thru
HTTP proxy.
Fixed PROXYTUNNEL to work fine when you do ftp through a proxy. It would
previously overwrite internal memory and cause unpredicted behaviour!
Daniel (11 January 2006)
- I decided to document the "secret option" here now, as I've received *NO*
feedback at all on my mailing list requests from November 2005:
I'm looking for feedback and comments. I added some experimental code the
other day, that allows a libcurl user to select what method libcurl should
use to reach a file on a FTP(S) server.
This functionality is available in CVS code and in recent daily snapshots.
Let me explain...
The current name for the option is CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD (--ftp-method for
the command line tool) and you set it to a long (there are currenly no
defines for the argument values, just plain numericals). You can set three
different "methods" that do this:
1 multicwd - like today, curl will do a single CWD operation for each path
part in the given URL. For deep hierarchies this means very many
commands. This is how RFC1738 says it should be done. This is the
default.
2 nocwd - no CWD at all is done, curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give
a full path to the server.
3 singlecwd - make one CWD with the full target directory and then operate
on the file "normally".
(With the command line tool you do --ftp-method [METHOD], where [METHOD] is
one of "multicwd", "nocwd" or "singlecwd".)
What feedback I'm interested in:
1 - Do they work at all? Do you find servers where one of these don't work?
2 - What would proper names for the option and its arguments be, if we
consider this feature good enough to get included and documented in
upcoming releases?
3 - Should we make libcurl able to "walk through" these options in case of
(path related) failures, or should it fail and let the user redo any
possible retries?
(This option is not documented in any man page just yet since I'm not sure
these names will be used or if the functionality will end up exactly like
this. And for the same reasons we have no test cases for these yet.)
Daniel (10 January 2006)
- When using a bad path over FTP, as in when libcurl couldn't CWD into all
given subdirs, libcurl would still "remember" the full path as if it is the
current directory libcurl is in so that the next curl_easy_perform() would
get really confused if it tried the same path again - as it would not issue
any CWD commands at all, assuming it is already in the "proper" dir.
Starting now, a failed CWD command sets a flag that prevents the path to be
"remembered" after returning.
Daniel (7 January 2006)
- Michael Jahn fixed so that the second CONNECT when doing FTP over a HTTP
proxy actually used a new connection and not sent the second request on the
first socket!
Daniel (6 January 2006)
- Alexander Lazic made the buildconf run the buildconf in the ares dir if that
is present instead of trying to mimic that script in curl's buildconf
script.
Daniel (3 January 2006)
- Andres Garcia made the TFTP test server build with mingw.
Daniel (16 December 2005)
- Jean Jacques Drouin pointed out that you could only have a user name or
password of 127 bytes or less embedded in a URL, where actually the code
uses a 255 byte buffer for it! Modified now to use the full buffer size.
Daniel (12 December 2005)
- Dov Murik corrected the HTTP_ONLY define to disable the TFTP support properly
Changes:
- the libcurl.pc pkgconfig file now gets installed on make install
- URL globbing now offers "range steps": [1-100:10]
- LDAPv3 is now the preferred LDAP protocol version
- --max-redirs and CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS set to 0 limits redirects
- improved MSVC makefile
Bugfixes:
- URL buffer overflow problem (CVE-2005-4077)
- using file:// on non-existing files are properly handled
- builds fine on DJGPP
- CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER is now always filled in on errors
- curl outputs error on bad --limit-rate units
- fixed libcurl's use of poll() on cygwin
- the GnuTLS code didn't support client certificates
- TFTP over IPv6 works
- no reverse lookups on IP addresses when ipv6-enabled
- SSPI compatibility fix: using the proper DLLs
- binary LDAP properties are now shown base64 encoded
- Windows uploads from stdin using curl can now contain ctrl-Z bytes
- -r [num] would produce an invalid HTTP Range: header
- multi interface with multi IP hosts could leak socket descriptors
- the GnuTLS code didn't handle rehandshakes
- re-use of a dead FTP connection
- name resolve error codes fixed for Windows builds
- double WWW-Authenticate Digest headers are now handled
- curl-config --vernum fixed
* GNU GSS support
* --ignore-content-length and CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH added
* negotiates data connection SSL earlier when doing FTPS with PASV
* CURLOPT_COOKIELIST and CURLINFO_COOKIELIST
* trailer support for chunked encoded data streams
* -x/CURL_PROXY strings may now contain user+password
* --trace-time now outputs the full microsecond, all 6 digits
* Bugfixes
using it (such as the new drivel-2.0.0). Bump PKGREVISION to 1.
The problem is that this header file requires the fd_set definitions, but
it only pulls in <sys/select.h> on AIX and NETWARE systems. Instead, change
the inclusion to only happen if configure script detected it during build
time.
- Grigory Entin reported that curl's configure detects a fine poll() for Mac
OS X 10.4 (while 10.3 or later detected a "bad" one), but the executable
doesn't work as good as if built without poll(). I've adjusted the configure
to always skip the fine-poll() test on Mac OS X (darwin).
- When doing a second request (after a disconnect) using the same easy handle,
over a proxy that uses NTLM authentication, libcurl failed to use NTLM again
properly (the auth method was accidentally reset to the same as had been set
for host auth, which defaults to Basic).
- If -z/--time-cond is used with an invalid date syntax, this is no longer
silently discarded. Instead a proper warning message is diplayed that
informs about it. But it still continues without the condition.
Version 7.13.1 (4 March 2005)
Daniel (4 March 2005)
- Dave Dribin made it possible to set CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE to "" to activate
the cookie "engine" without having to provide an empty or non-existing file.
- Rene Rebe fixed a -# crash when more data than expected was retrieved.
Daniel (22 February 2005)
- NTLM and ftp-krb4 buffer overflow fixed, as reported here:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/391042 and the CAN report here:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0490
If these security guys were serious, we'd been notified in advance and we
could've saved a few of you a little surprise, but now we weren't.
Daniel (19 February 2005)
- Ralph Mitchell reported a flaw when you used a proxy with auth, and you
requested data from a host and then followed a redirect to another
host. libcurl then didn't use the proxy-auth properly in the second request,
due to the host-only check for original host name wrongly being extended to
the proxy auth as well. Added test case 233 to verify the flaw and that the
fix removed the problem.
Daniel (18 February 2005)
- Mike Dobbs reported a mingw build failure due to the lack of
BUILDING_LIBCURL being defined when libcurl is built. Now this is defined by
configure when mingw is used.
Daniel (17 February 2005)
- David in bug report #1124588 found and fixed a socket leak when libcurl
didn't close the socket properly when returning error due to failing
localbind
Daniel (16 February 2005)
- Christopher R. Palmer reported a problem with HTTP-POSTing using "anyauth"
that picks NTLM. Thanks to David Byron letting me test NTLM against his
servers, I could quickly repeat and fix the problem. It turned out to be:
When libcurl POSTs without knowing/using an authentication and it gets back
a list of types from which it picks NTLM, it needs to either continue
sending its data if it keeps the connection alive, or not send the data but
close the connection. Then do the first step in the NTLM auth. libcurl
didn't send the data nor close the connection but simply read the
response-body and then sent the first negotiation step. Which then failed
miserably of course. The fixed version forces a connection if there is more
than 2000 bytes left to send.
Daniel (14 February 2005)
- The configure script didn't check for ENGINE_load_builtin_engines() so it
was never used.
Daniel (11 February 2005)
- Removed all uses of strftime() since it uses the localised version of the
week day names and month names and servers don't like that.
Daniel (10 February 2005)
- Now the test script disables valgrind-testing when the test suite runs if
libcurl is built shared. Otherwise valgrind only tests the shell that runs
the wrapper-script named 'curl' that is a front-end to curl in this case.
This should also fix the huge amount of reports of false positives when
valgrind has identified leaks in (ba)sh and not in curl and people report
that as curl bugs. Bug report #1116672 is one example.
Also, the valgrind report parser has been adapted to check that at least one
of the sources in a stack strace is one of (lib)curl's source files or
otherwise it will not consider the problem to concern (lib)curl.
- Marty Kuhrt streamlined the VMS build.
Daniel (9 February 2005)
- David Byron fixed his SSL problems, initially mentioned here:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-01/0240.html. It turned out we didn't use
SSL_pending() as we should.
- Converted lots of FTP code to a statemachine, so that the multi interface
doesn't block while communicating commands-responses with an FTP server.
I've added a comment like BLOCKING in the code on all spots I could find
where we still have blocking operations. When we change curl_easy_perform()
to use the multi interface, we'll also be able to simplify the code since
there will only be one "internal interface".
While doing this, I've now made CURLE_FTP_ACCESS_DENIED separate from the
new CURLE_LOGIN_DENIED. The first one is now access denied to a function,
like changing directory or retrieving a file, while the second means that we
were denied login.
The CVS tag 'before_ftp_statemachine' was set just before this went in, in
case of future need.
- Gisle made the DICT code send CRLF and not just LF as the spec says so.
Daniel (8 February 2005)
- Gisle fixed problems when libcurl runs out of memory, and worked on making
sure the proper error code is returned for those occations.
Daniel (7 February 2005)
- Maruko pointed out a problem with inflate decompressing exactly 64K
contents.
Daniel (5 February 2005)
- Eric Vergnaud found a use of an uninitialised variable in the ftp when doing
PORT on ipv6-enabled hosts.
- David Byron pointed out we could use BUFSIZE to read data (in
lib/transfer.c) instead of using BUFSIZE -1.
This release includes the following changes:
o added --ftp-account and CURLOPT_FTP_ACCOUNT
o added CURLOPT_SOURCE_URL and CURLOPT_SOURCE_QUOTE
o obsoleted CURLOPT_SOURCE_HOST, CURLOPT_SOURCE_PATH, CURLOPT_SOURCE_PORT
and CURLOPT_PASV_HOST
o added --3p-url, --3p-user and --3p-quote
o -Q "+[command]" was added
o src/getpass.c license issue sorted (code was rewritten)
o curl -w now supports 'http_connect' for the proxy's response to CONNECT
o introducing "curl-config --protocols"
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o re-sending a request when retrying on a fresh connection with multi
interface
o improved valgrind report parser in the test suite
o several valgrind reports
o CURLOPT_FTPPORT and -P work when built ipv6-enabled
o FTP third party transfers was much improved
o proxy environment variables are now ignored when built HTTP-disabled
o CURLOPT_PROXY can now disable HTTP proxy even when built HTTP-disabled
o "curl dictionary.com" no longer assumes DICT protocol
o re-invoke some system calls on EINTR
o duplicate Host: when failed connection re-use
o SOCKS5 version check
o memory problem with cleaning up multi interface
o SSL certificate name memory leak
o -d with -G to multiple URLs crashed
o double va_list access crash fixed
o minor memory leak when "version" is set in a cookie header
o builds fine on BeOS and NetBSD
o builds and runs fine on FreeBSD
Version 7.12.3 (20 December 2004)
Daniel (19 December 2004)
- I investigated our PKCS12 build problem on Solaris 2.7 with OpenSSL 0.9.7e,
and it turned out to be the fault of the zlib 1.1.4 headers doing a typedef
named 'free_func' and the OpenSSL headers have a prototype that uses
'free_func' in one of its arguments. This is why the compile errors out.
In other words, we need to include the openssl/pkcs12.h header before the
zlib.h header and it builds fine. The configure script now checks for this
file and it then gets included early in lib/urldata.h.
Daniel (18 December 2004)
- Samuel Listopad added support for PKCS12 formatted certificates.
- Samuel Listopad fixed -E to support "C:/path" (with forward slash) as well.
Daniel (16 December 2004)
- Gisle found and fixed a problem in the directory re-use for FTP.
I added test case 215 and 216 to better verify the functionality.
- Dinar in bug report #1086121, found a file handle leak when a multipart
formpost (including a file upload part) was aborted before the whole file
was sent.
Daniel (15 December 2004)
- Tom Lee found out that globbing of strings with backslashes didn't work as
you'd expect. Backslashes are such a central part of windows file names that
forcing backslashes to have to be escaped with backslashes is a bit too
awkward to users. Starting now, you only need to escape globbing characters
such as the five letters: "[]{},". Added test case 214 to verify this.
Daniel (14 December 2004)
- Harshal Pradhan patched a HTTP persistent connection flaw: if the user name
and/or password were modified between two requests on a persistent
connection, the second request were still made with the first setup!
I added test case 519 to verify the fix.
Daniel (13 December 2004)
- Gisle added CURLINFO_SSL_ENGINES to curl_easy_getinfo() to allow an app
to list all available crypto ENGINES.
- Gisle fixed bug report #1083542, which pointed out a problem with resuming
large file (>4GB) file:// transfers on windows.
Daniel (11 December 2004)
- Made the test suite HTTP server (sws) capable of using IPv6, and then
extended the test environment to support that and also added three test
cases (240, 241, 242) that run tests using IPv6. Test 242 uses a URL that
didn't work before the 10 dec fix by Kai Sommerfeld.
- Made a failed file:// resume output an error message
- Corrected the CURLE_BAD_DOWNLOAD_RESUME error message in lib/strerror.c
- Dan Fandrich:
simplified and consolidated the SSL checks in configure and the usage of the
defines in lib/setup.h
provided a first libcurl.pc.in file for pkg-config (but the result is not
installed anywhere at this point)
extended the cross compile section in the docs/INSTALL file
Daniel (10 December 2004)
- When providing user name in the URL and a IPv6-style IP-address (like in
"ftp://user@[::1]/tmp"), the URL parser didn't get the host extracted
properly. Reported and fixed by Kai Sommerfeld.
Daniel (9 December 2004)
- Ton Voon provided a configure fix that should fix the notorious (mostly
reported on Solaris) problem where the size_t check fails due to the SSL
libs being found in a dir not searched through by the run-time linker.
patch-tracker entry #1081707.
- Bryan Henderson pointed out in bug report #1081788 that the curl-config
--vernum output wasn't zero prefixed properly (as claimed in documentation).
This is fixed in maketgz now.
Daniel (8 December 2004)
- Matt Veenstra updated the mach-O framework files for Mac OS X.
- Rene Bernhardt found and fixed a buffer overrun in the NTLM code, where
libcurl always and unconditionally overwrote a stack-based array with 3 zero
bytes. This is not an exploitable buffer overflow. No need to get alarmed.
Daniel (7 December 2004)
- Fixed so that the final error message is sent to the verbose info "stream"
even if no errorbuffer is set.
Daniel (6 December 2004)
- Dan Fandrich added the --disable-cookies option to configure to build
libcurl without cookie support. This is mainly useful if you want to build a
minimalistic libcurl with no cookies support at all. Like for embedded
systems or similar.
- Richard Atterer fixed libcurl's way of dealing with the EPSV
response. Previously, libcurl would re-resolve the host name with the new
port number and attempt to connect to that, while it should use the IP from
the control channel. This bug made it hard to EPSV from an FTP server with
multiple IP addresses!
Daniel (3 December 2004)
- Bug report #1078066: when a chunked transfer was pre-maturely closed exactly
at a chunk boundary it was not considered an error and thus went unnoticed.
Fixed by Maurice Barnum.
Added test case 207 to verify.
Daniel (2 December 2004)
- Fixed the CONNECT loop to default timeout to 3600 seconds.
Added test case 206 that makes CONNECT with Digest.
Fixed a flaw that prepended "(nil)" to the initial CONNECT rqeuest's user-
agent field.
Daniel (30 November 2004)
- Dan Fandrich's fix for libz 1.1 and "extra field" usage in a gzip stream
- Dan also helped me with input data to create three more test cases for the
--compressed option.
Daniel (29 November 2004)
- I improved the test suite to enable binary contents in the tests (by proving
it base64 encoded), like for testing decompress etc. Added test 220 and 221
for this purpose. Tests can now also depend on libz to run.
- As reported by Reinout van Schouwen in Mandrake's bug tracker bug 12285
(http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12285), when connecting to an
IPv6 host with FTP, --disable-epsv (or --disable-eprt) effectively disables
the ability to transfer a file. Now, when connected to an FTP server with
IPv6, these FTP commands can't be disabled even if asked to with the
available libcurl options.
Daniel (26 November 2004)
- As reported in Mandrake's bug tracker bug 12289
(http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12289), curl would print a
newline to "finish" the progress meter after each redirect and not only
after a completed transfer.
Daniel (25 November 2004)
- FTP improvements:
If EPSV, EPRT or LPRT is tried and doesn't work, it will not be retried on
the same server again even if a following request is made using a persistent
connection.
If a second request is made to a server, requesting a file from the same
directory as the previous request operated on, libcurl will no longer make
that long series of CWD commands just to end up on the same spot. Note that
this is only for *exactly* the same dir. There is still room for improvements
to optimize the CWD-sending when the dirs are only slightly different.
Added test 210, 211 and 212 to verify these changes. Had to improve the
test script too and added a new primitive to the test file format.
Daniel (24 November 2004)
- Andrés García fixed the configure script to detect select properly when run
with Msys/Mingw on Windows.
Daniel (22 November 2004)
- Made HTTP PUT and POST requests no longer use HEAD when doing multi-pass
auth negotiation (NTLM, Digest and Negotiate), but instead use the request
keyword "properly". Details in lib/README.httpauth. This also introduces
CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, to be used by apps that use the
"any" auth alternative as then libcurl may need to send the PUT/POST data
more than once and thus may need to ask the app to "rewind" the read data
stream to start.
See also the new example using this: docs/examples/anyauthput.c
- David Phillips enhanced test 518. I made it depend on a "feature" so that
systems without getrlimit() won't attempt to test 518. configure now checks
for getrlimit() and setrlimit() for this test case.
Daniel (18 November 2004)
- David Phillips fixed libcurl to not crash anymore when more than FD_SETSIZE
file descriptors are in use. Test case 518 added to verify.
Daniel (15 November 2004)
- To test my fix for the CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME bug, I added time_redirect and
num_redirects support to the -w writeout option for the command line tool.
- Wojciech Zwiefka found out that CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME didn't work as
documented.
Daniel (12 November 2004)
- Gisle Vanem modigied the MSVC and Netware makefiles to build without
libcurl.def
- Dan Fandrich added the --disable-crypto-auth option to configure to allow
libcurl to build without Digest support. (I figure it should also explicitly
disable Negotiate and NTLM.)
- *** Modified Behaviour Alert ***
Setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to NULL will no longer do a GET.
Setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to "" will send a zero byte POST and setting
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to NULL and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE to zero will also make
a zero byte POST. Added test case 515 to verify this.
Setting CURLOPT_HTTPPOST to NULL makes a zero byte post. Added test case 516
to verify this.
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE must now be set to -1 to signal "we don't know".
Setting it to zero simply says this is a zero byte POST.
When providing POST data with a read callback, setting the size up front
is now made with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE and not with CURLOPT_INFILESIZE.
Daniel (11 November 2004)
- Dan Fandrich added --disable-verbose to the configure script to allow builds
without verbose strings in the code, to save some 12KB space. Makes sense
only for systems with very little memory resources.
- Jeff Phillips found out that a date string with a year beyond 2038 could
crash the new date parser on systems with 32bit time_t. We now check for
this case and deal with it.
Daniel (10 November 2004)
- I installed Heimdal on my Debian box (using the debian package) and noticed
that configure --with-gssapi failed to create a nice build. Fixed now.
Daniel (9 November 2004)
- Gisle Vanem marked all external function calls with CURL_EXTERN so that now
the Windows, Netware and other builds no longer need libcurl.def or similar
files.
Daniel (8 November 2004)
- Made the configure script check for tld.h if libidn was detected, since
libidn 0.3.X didn't have such a header and we don't work with anything
before libidn 0.4.1 anyway! Suse 9.1 apparently ships with a 0.3.X version
of libidn which makes the curl 7.12.2 build fail. Jean-Philippe
Barrette-LaPierre helped pointing this out.
- Ian Gulliver reported in debian bug report #278691: if curl is invoked in an
environment where stderr is closed the -v output will still be sent to file
descriptor 2 which then might be the network socket handle! Now we have a
weird hack instead that attempts to make sure that file descriptor 2 is
opened (with a call to pipe()) before libcurl is called to do the transfer.
configure now checks for pipe() and systems without pipe don't get the weird
hack done.
Daniel (5 November 2004)
- Tim Sneddon made libcurl send no more than 64K in a single first chunk when
doing a huge POST on VMS, as this is a system limitation. Default on general
systems is 100K.
Daniel (4 November 2004)
- Andres Garcia made it build on mingw againa, my --retry code broke the build.
Daniel (2 November 2004)
- Added --retry-max-time that allows a maximum time that may not have been
reached for a retry to be made. If not set there is no maximum time, only
the amount of retries set with --retry.
- Paul Nolan provided a patch to make libcurl build nicely on Windows CE.
Daniel (1 November 2004)
- When cross-compiling, the configure script no longer attempts to use
pkg-config on the build host in order to detect OpenSSL compiler options.
Daniel (27 October 2004)
- Dan Fandrich:
An improvement to the gzip handling of libcurl. There were two problems with
the old version: it was possible for a malicious gzip file to cause libcurl
to leak memory, as a buffer was malloced to hold the header and never freed
if the header ended with no file contents. The second problem is that the
64 KiB decompression buffer was allocated on the stack, which caused
unexpectedly high stack usage and overflowed the stack on some systems
(someone complained about that in the mailing list about a year ago).
Both problems are fixed by this patch. The first one is fixed when a recent
(1.2) version of zlib is used, as it takes care of gzip header parsing
itself. A check for the version number is done at run-time and libcurl uses
that feature if it's present. I've created a define OLD_ZLIB_SUPPORT that
can be commented out to save some code space if libcurl is guaranteed to be
using a 1.2 version of zlib.
The second problem is solved by dynamically allocating the memory buffer
instead of storing it on the stack. The allocation/free is done for every
incoming packet, which is suboptimal, but should be dwarfed by the actual
decompression computation.
I've also factored out some common code between deflate and gzip to reduce
the code footprint somewhat. I've tested the gzip code on a few test files
and I tried deflate using the freshmeat.net server, and it all looks OK. I
didn't try running it with valgrind, however.
- Added a --retry option to curl that takes a numerical option for the number
of times the operation should be retried. It is retried if a transient error
is detected or if a timeout occurred. By default, it will first wait one
second between the retries and then double the delay time between each retry
until the delay time is ten minutes which then will be the delay time
between all forthcoming retries. You can set a static delay time with
"--retry-delay [num]" where [num] is the number of seconds to wait between
each retry.
Daniel (25 October 2004)
- Tomas Pospisek filed bug report #1053287 that proved -C - and --fail on a
file that was already completely downloaded caused an error, while it
doesn't if you don't use --fail! I added test case 194 to verify the fix.
Grrr. CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is now added to the list stuff to remove in
libcurl v8 due to all the kludges needed to support it.
- Mohun Biswas found out that formposting a zero-byte file didn't work very
good. I fixed.
Daniel (19 October 2004)
- Alexander Krasnostavsky made it possible to make FTP 3rd party transfers
with both source and destination being the same host. It can be useful if
you want to move a file on a server or similar.
- Guillaume Arluison added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS to allow an app to figure
out how many new connects a previous transfer required.
I added %{num_connects} to the curl tool and added test case 192 and 193
to verify the new code.
Daniel (18 October 2004)
- Peter Wullinger pointed out that curl should call setlocale() properly to
initiate the specific language operations, to make the IDN stuff work
better.
* the IDN code now verifies that only TLD-legitmate letters are used in the
name or a warning is displayed (when verbose is enabled)
* provides error texts for IDN errors
* file upload parts in formposts now get their directory names cut off
* added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO
* added CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH to allow ftp connects to attempt "AUTH TLS" instead
before "AUTH SSL"
* curl_getdate() completely rewritten: may affect rare curl -z use cases
* bugfixes
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
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