This release includes the following changes:
o recognize the [protocol]:// prefix in proxy hosts where the protocol is one
of socks4, socks4a, socks5 or socks5h.
o Added CURLOPT_CLOSESOCKETFUNCTION and CURLOPT_CLOSESOCKETDATA
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o SECURITY ADVISORY: inappropriate GSSAPI delegation. Full details at
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20110623.html
o NTLM: work with unicode
o fix connect with SOCKS proxy when using the multi interface
o anyauthput.c: stdint.h must not be included unconditionally
o CMake: improved build
o SCP/SFTP enable non-blocking earlier
o GnuTLS handshake: fix timeout
o cyassl: build without filesystem
o HTTPS over HTTP proxy using the multi interface
o speedcheck: invalid timeout event on a reused handle
o Force connection close for HTTP 200 OK when time condition matched
o curl_formget: fix FILE * leak
o configure: improved OpenSSL detection
o Android build: support gingerbread
o CURLFORM_STREAM: acknowledge CURLFORM_FILENAME
o windows build: use correct MS CRT
o pop3: remove extra space in LIST command
Fixed in 7.21.6 - April 22 2011
Changes:
Added --tr-encoding and CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING
Bugfixes:
curl-config: fix --version
curl_easy_setopt.3: CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE clarification
use HTTPS properly after CONNECT
SFTP: close file before post quote operations
Fixed in 7.21.5 - April 17 2011
Changes:
SOCKOPTFUNCTION: callback can say already-connected
Added --netrc-file
Added (new) support for cyassl
TSL-SRP: enabled with OpenSSL
Added CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
Bugfixes:
nss: avoid memory leak on SSL connection failure
nss: do not ignore failure of SSL handshake
multi: better failed connect handling when using FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP
runtests.pl: fix pid number concatenation that prevented it from killing the correct process at times
PolarSSL: Return 0 on receiving TLS CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
curl_easy_setopt.3: Removed wrong reference to CURLOPT_USERPASSWORD
multi: close connection on timeout
IMAP in multi mode does SSL connections non-blocking
honours the --disable-ldaps configure option
Force setopt constants written by --libcurl to be long
ssh_connect: treat libssh2 return code better
SFTP upload could stall the state machine when the multi_socket API was used
SFTP and SCP could leak memory when used with the multi interface and the connection was closed
Added missing file to repair the MSVC makefiles
Fixed detection of recvfrom arguments on Android/bionic
GSS: handle reuse fix
transfer: avoid insane conversion of time_t
nss: do not ignore value of CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER in certain cases
SMTP-multi: non-blocking connect
SFTP-multi: set cselect for sftp and scp to fix "stall" risk
configure: removed wrongly claimed default paths
pop3: fixed torture tests to succeed
symbols-in-versions: many corrections
if a HTTP request gets retried because the connection was dead, rewind if any data was sent as part of it
only probe for working ipv6 once and then re-use that info for further requests
requests that are asked to bound to a local interface/port will no longer wrongly re-use connections that aren't
libcurl.m4: Add missing quotes in AC_LINK_IFELSE
progress output: don't print the last update on a separate line
POP3: the command to send is STLS, not STARTTLS
POP3: PASS command was not sent after upgrade to TLS
configure: fix libtool warning
nss: allow to use multiple client certificates for a single host
HTTP pipelining: Fix handling of zero-length responses
Don't list NTLM in curl-config when HTTP is disabled
curl_easy_setopt.3: CURLOPT_RESOLVE typo version
OpenSSL: build fine with no-sslv2 versions
checkconnection: don't call with NULL pointer with RTSP and multi interface
Borland makefile updates
configure: libssh2 link fix without pkg-config
certinfo crash
CCC crash
This release includes the following changes:
o CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH now supports SFTP
o introduced new framework for unit-testing
o IDN: use win32 API if told to
o ares: ask for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
o HTTP: do Negotiate authentication using SSPI on windows
o Windows build: alternative makefile
o TLS-SRP: support added when using GnuTLS
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o SMTP: add brackets for MAIL FROM
o ossl_seed: no more RAND_screen (on Windows)
o multi: connect fail => use next IP address
o use the timeout when using multiple IP addresses similar to how
the easy interface does it
o cookies: tricked dotcounter fixed
o pubkey_show: allocate buffer to fit any-size result
o Curl_nss_connect: avoid PATH_MAX
o Curl_do: avoid using stale conn pointer
o tftpd test server: avoid buffer overflow report from glibc
o nss: avoid CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY given a file name without any slash
o nss: fix a bug in handling of CURLOPT_CAPATH
o CMake: Use upstream CheckTypeSize module
o OpenSSL get_cert_chain: support larger data sets
o SCP/SFTP transfers: acknowledge speedcheck
o GnuTLS builds: fix memory leak
o connect problem: use UDP correctly
o Borland C++ makefile tweaks
o OpenSSL: improved error message on SSL_CTX_new failures
o HTTP: memory leak on multiple Location:
o ares_query_completed_cb: don't touch invalid data
o ares: memory leak fix
o mk-ca-bundle: use new cacert url
o Curl_gmtime: added a portable gmtime and check for NULL
o curl.1: typo in -v description
o CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION: return proper error code
o --keepalive-time: warn if not supported properly
o file: add support for CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION
o nss: avoid memory leaks and failure of NSS shutdown
o multi: fix CURLM_STATE_TOOFAST for multi_socket
Changes:
* Added --noconfigure switch to testcurl.pl
* Added --xattr option
* Added CURLOPT_RESOLVE and --resolve
* Added CURLAUTH_ONLY
* Added version-check.pl to the examples dir
Bugfixes:
* check for libcurl features for some command line options
* Curl_setopt: disallow CURLOPT_USE_SSL without SSL support
* http_chunks: remove debug output
* URL-parsing: consider ? a divider
* SSH: avoid using the libssh2_ prefix
* SSH: use libssh2_session_handshake() to work on win64
* ftp: prevent server from hanging on closed data connection
when stopping a transfer before the end of the full transfer
(ranges)
* LDAP: detect non-binary attributes properly
* ftp: treat server's response 421 as CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT
* gnutls->handshake: improved timeout handling
* security: Pass the right parameter to init
* krb5: Use GSS_ERROR to check for error
* TFTP: resend the correct data
* configure: fix autoconf 2.68 warning: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected
* GnuTLS: now detects socket errors on Windows
* symbols-in-versions: updated en masse
* added a couple examples that were missing from the tar ball
* Curl_send/recv_plain: return errno on failure
* Curl_wait_for_resolv (for c-ares): correct timeout
* ossl_connect_common: detect connection re-use
* configure: Prevent link errors with --librtmp
* openldap: use remote port in URL passed to ldap_init_fd()
* url: provide dead_connection flag in Curl_handler::disconnect
* lots of compiler warning fixes
* ssh: fix a download resume point calculation
* fix getinfo CURLINFO_LOCAL* for reused connections
* multi: the returned running handles conuter could turn negative
* multi: only ever consider pipelining for connections doing HTTP(S)
Changes:
* curl -T: ignore file size of special files
* Added GOPHER protocol support
* Added mk-ca-bundle.vbs script
* c-ares build now requires c-ares >= 1.6.0
Bugfixes:
* --remote-header-name security vulnerability fixed
* multi: support the timeouts correctly, fixes known bug #62
* multi: use timeouts properly for MAX_RECV/SEND_SPEED
* negotiation: Wrong proxy authorization
* multi: avoid sending multiple complete messages
* cmdline: make -F type= accept ;charset=
* RESUME_FROM: clarify what ftp uploads do
* http: handle trailer headers in all chunked responses
* Curl_is_connected: use correct errno
* Added SSPI build to Watcom makefile
* progress: callback for POSTs less than MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE
* linking problem on Fedora 13
* Link curl and the test apps with -lrt explicitly when necessary
* chunky parser: only rewind stream internally if needed
* remote-header-name: don't output filename when NULL
* Curl_timeleft: avoid returning "no timeout" by mistake
* timeout: use the correct start value as offset
* FTP: fix wrong timeout trigger
* buildconf got better output on failures
* rtsp: avoid SIGSEGV on malformed header
* LDAP: Support for tunnelling queries through HTTP proxy
* configure's --enable-werror had a bashism
* test565: Don't hardcode IP:PORT
* configure: check for gcrypt if using GnuTLS
* configure: don't enable RTMP if the lib detect fails
* curl_easy_duphandle: clone the c-ares handle correctly
* MacOSX-Framework: updates for Snowleopard
* support URL containing colon without trailing port number
* parsedate: allow time specified without seconds
* curl_easy_escape: don't escape "unreserved" characters
* SFTP: avoid downloading negative sizes
* Lots of GSS/KRB FTP fixes
* TFTP: Work around tftpd-hpa upload bug
* libcurl.m4: several fixes
* HTTP: remove special case for 416
* examples: use example.com in example URLs
* globbing: fix crash on unballanced open brace
* cmake: build fixed
changes:
added the --proto and -proto-redir options
new configure option --enable-threaded-resolver
improve TELNET ability with libcurl
added support for PolarSSL
added support for FTP wildcard matching and downloads
added support for RTMP
added CURLINFO_PRIMARY_PORT, CURLINFO_LOCAL_IP and CURLINFO_LOCAL_PORT
Version 7.20.0 (9 February 2010)
Daniel Stenberg (9 Feb 2010)
- When downloading compressed content over HTTP and the app asked libcurl to
automatically uncompress it with the CURLOPT_ENCODING option, libcurl could
wrongly provide the callback with more data than the maximum documented
amount. An application could thus get tricked into badness if the maximum
limit was trusted to be enforced by libcurl itself (as it is documented).
This is further detailed and explained in the libcurl security advisory
20100209 at
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20100209.html
Daniel Fandrich (3 Feb 2010)
- Changed the Watcom makefiles to make them easier to keep in sync with
Makefile.inc since that can't be included directly.
Yang Tse (2 Feb 2010)
- Symbol CURL_FORMAT_OFF_T now obsoleted, will be removed in a future release,
symbol will not be available when building with CURL_NO_OLDIES defined. Use
of CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T is preferred since 7.19.0
Daniel Stenberg (1 Feb 2010)
- Using the multi_socket API, it turns out at times it seemed to "forget"
connections (which caused a hang). It turned out to be an existing (7.19.7)
bug in libcurl (that's been around for a long time) and it happened like
this:
The app calls curl_multi_add_handle() to add a new easy handle, libcurl will
then set it to timeout in 1 millisecond so libcurl will tell the app about
it.
The app's timeout fires off that there's a timeout, the app calls libcurl as
we so often document it:
do {
res = curl_multi_socket_action(... TIMEOUT ...);
} while(CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM == res);
And this is the problem number one:
When curl_multi_socket_action() is called with no specific handle, but only
a timeout-action, it will *only* perform actions within libcurl that are
marked to run at this time. In this case, the request would go from INIT to
CONNECT and return CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM. When the app then calls libcurl
again, there's no timer set for this handle so it remains in the CONNECT
state. The CONNECT state is a transitional state in libcurl so it reports no
sockets there, and thus libcurl never tells the app anything more about that
easy handle/connection.
libcurl _does_ set a 1ms timeout for the handle at the end of
multi_runsingle() if it returns CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM, but since the loop
is instant the new job is not ready to run at that point (and there's no
code that makes libcurl call the app to update the timout for this new
timeout). It will simply rely on that some other timeout will trigger later
on or that something else will update the timeout callback. This makes the
bug fairly hard to repeat.
The fix made to adress this issue:
We introduce a loop in lib/multi.c around all calls to multi_runsingle() and
simply check for CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM internally. This has the added
benefit that this goes in line with my long-term wishes to get rid of the
CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM all together from the public API.
The downside of this fix, is that the counter we return in 'running_handles'
in several of our public functions then gets a slightly new and possibly
confusing behavior during times:
If an app adds a handle that fails to connect (very quickly) it may just
as well never appear as a 'running_handle' with this fix. Previously it
would first bump the counter only to get it decreased again at next call.
Even I have used that change in handle counter to signal "end of a
transfer". The only *good* way to find the end of a individual transfer
is calling curl_multi_info_read() to see if it returns one.
Of course, if the app previously did the looping before it checked the
counter, it really shouldn't be any new effect.
Yang Tse (26 Jan 2010)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis' and Joshua Kwan's work done in the last four months
relative to the asynchronous DNS lookups, along with with some integration
adjustments I have done are finally committed to CVS.
Currently these enhancements will benefit builds done using c-ares on any
platform as well as Windows builds using the default threaded resolver.
This release does not make generally available POSIX threaded DNS lookups
yet. There is no configure option to enable this feature yet. It is possible
to experimantally try this feature running configure with compiler flags that
make simultaneous definition of preprocessor symbols USE_THREADS_POSIX and
HAVE_PTHREAD_H, as well as whatever reentrancy compiler flags and linker ones
are required to link and properly use pthread_* functions on each platform.
Daniel Stenberg (26 Jan 2010)
- Mike Crowe made libcurl return CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY when it is the
proxy that cannot be resolved when using c-ares. This matches the behaviour
when not using c-ares.
Bj
- Added a new flag: -J/--remote-header-name. This option tells the
-O/--remote-name option to use the server-specified Content-Disposition
filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL.
Daniel Stenberg (21 Jan 2010)
- Chris Conroy brought support for RTSP transfers, and with it comes 8(!) new
libcurl options for controlling what to get and how to receive posssibly
interleaved RTP data.
Daniel Stenberg (20 Jan 2010)
- As was pointed out on the http-state mailing list, the order of cookies in a
HTTP Cookie: header _needs_ to be sorted on the path length in the cases
where two cookies using the same name are set more than once using
(overlapping) paths. Realizing this, identically named cookies must be
sorted correctly. But detecting only identically named cookies and take care
of them individually is harder than just to blindly and unconditionally sort
all cookies based on their path lengths. All major browsers also already do
this, so this makes our behavior one step closer to them in the cookie area.
Test case 8 was the only one that broke due to this change and I updated it
accordingly.
Daniel Stenberg (19 Jan 2010)
- David McCreedy brought a fix and a new test case (129) to make libcurl work
again when downloading files over FTP using ASCII and it turns out that the
final size of the file is not the same as the initial size the server
reported. This is very common since servers don't take the newline
conversions into account.
Kamil Dudka (14 Jan 2010)
- Suppressed side effect of OpenSSL configure checks, which prevented NSS from
being properly detected under certain circumstances. It had been caused by
strange behavior of pkg-config when handling PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. pkg-config
distinguishes among empty and non-existent environment variable in that case.
Daniel Stenberg (12 Jan 2010)
- Gil Weber reported a peculiar flaw with the multi interface when doing SFTP
transfers: curl_multi_fdset() would return -1 and not set and file
descriptors several times during a transfer of a single file. It turned out
to be due to two different flaws now fixed. Gil's excellent recipe helped me
nail this.
Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 2010)
- Made sure that the progress callback is repeatedly called at a regular
interval even during very slow connects.
- The tests/runtests.pl script now checks to see if the test case that runs is
present in the tests/data/Makefile.am and outputs a notice message on the
screen if not. Each test file has to be included in that Makefile.am to get
included in release archives and forgetting to add files there is a common
mistake. This is an attempt to make it harder to forget.
Daniel Stenberg (9 Jan 2010)
- Johan van Selst found and fixed a OpenSSL session ref count leak:
ossl_connect_step3() increments an SSL session handle reference counter on
each call. When sessions are re-used this reference counter may be
incremented many times, but it will be decremented only once when done (by
Curl_ossl_session_free()); and the internal OpenSSL data will not be freed
if this reference count remains positive. When a session is re-used the
reference counter should be corrected by explicitly calling
SSL_SESSION_free() after each consecutive SSL_get1_session() to avoid
introducing a memory leak.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2926284)
Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 2010)
- Make sure the progress callback is called repeatedly even during very slow
name resolves when c-ares is used for resolving.
Claes Jakobsson (6 Jan 2010)
- Julien Chaffraix fixed so that the fragment part in an URL is not sent
to the server anymore.
Kamil Dudka (3 Jan 2010)
- Julien Chaffraix eliminated a duplicated initialization in singlesocket().
Daniel Stenberg (2 Jan 2010)
- Make curl support --ssl and --ssl-reqd instead of the previous FTP-specific
versions --ftp-ssl and --ftp-ssl-reqd as these options are now used to
control SSL/TLS for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP as well in addition to FTP. The old
option names are still working but the new ones are the ones listed and
documented.
Daniel Stenberg (1 Jan 2010)
- Ingmar Runge enhanced libcurl's FTP engine to support the PRET command. This
command is a special "hack" used by the drftpd server, but even though it is
a custom extension I've deemed it fine to add to libcurl since this server
seems to survive and people keep using it and want libcurl to support
it. The new libcurl option is named CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, and it is also
usable from the curl tool with --ftp-pret. Using this option on a server
that doesn't support this command will make libcurl fail.
I added test cases 1107 and 1108 to verify the functionality.
The PRET command is documented at
http://www.drftpd.org/index.php/Distributed_PASV
Yang Tse (30 Dec 2009)
- Steven M. Schweda improved VMS build system, and Craig A. Berry helped
with the patch and testing.
Daniel Stenberg (26 Dec 2009)
- Renato Botelho and Peter Pentchev brought a patch that makes the libcurl
headers work correctly even on FreeBSD systems before v8.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2916915)
Daniel Stenberg (17 Dec 2009)
- David Byron fixed Curl_ossl_cleanup to actually call ENGINE_cleanup when
available.
- Follow-up fix for the proxy fix I did for Jon Nelson's bug. It turned out I
was a bit too quick and broke test case 1101 with that change. The order of
some of the setups is sensitive. I now changed it slightly again to make
sure we do them in this order:
1 - parse URL and figure out what protocol is used in the URL
2 - prepend protocol:// to URL if missing
3 - parse name+password off URL, which needs to know what protocol is used
(since only some allows for name+password in the URL)
4 - figure out if a proxy should be used set by an option
5 - if no proxy option, check proxy environment variables
6 - run the protocol-specific setup function, which needs to have the proxy
already set
Daniel Stenberg (15 Dec 2009)
- Jon Nelson found a regression that turned out to be a flaw in how libcurl
detects and uses proxies based on the environment variables. If the proxy
was given as an explicit option it worked, but due to the setup order
mistake proxies would not be used fine for a few protocols when picked up
from '[protocol]_proxy'. Obviously this broke after 7.19.4. I now also added
test case 1106 that verifies this functionality.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2913886)
Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2009)
- IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support and their TLS versions (including IMAPS, POP3S
and SMTPS) are now supported. The current state may not yet be solid, but
the foundation is in place and the test suite has some initial support for
these protocols. Work will now persue to make them nice libcurl citizens
until release.
The work with supporting these new protocols was sponsored by
networking4all.com - thanks!
Daniel Stenberg (10 Dec 2009)
- Siegfried Gyuricsko found out that the curl manual said --retry would retry
on FTP errors in the transient 5xx range. Transient FTP errors are in the
4xx range. The code itself only tried on 5xx errors that occured _at login_.
Now the retry code retries on all FTP transfer failures that ended with a
4xx response.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2911279)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis figured out a case which would lead to libcurl
accessing alredy freed memory and thus crash when using HTTPS (with
OpenSSL), multi interface and the CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and a certain order
of cleaning things up. I fixed it.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2905220)
Daniel Stenberg (7 Dec 2009)
- Martin Storsjo made libcurl use the Expect: 100-continue header for posts
with unknown size. Previously it was only used for posts with a known size
larger than 1024 bytes.
Daniel Stenberg (1 Dec 2009)
- If the Expect: 100-continue header has been set by the application through
curl_easy_setopt with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, the library should set
data->state.expect100header accordingly - the current code (in 7.19.7 at
least) doesn't handle this properly. Martin Storsjo provided the fix!
Yang Tse (28 Nov 2009)
- Added Diffie-Hellman parameters to several test harness certificate files in
PEM format. Required by several stunnel versions used by our test harness.
Daniel Stenberg (28 Nov 2009)
- Markus Koetter provided a polished and updated version of Chad Monroe's TFTP
rework patch that now integrates TFTP properly into libcurl so that it can
be used non-blocking with the multi interface and more. BLKSIZE also works.
The --tftp-blksize option was added to allow setting the TFTP BLKSIZE from
the command line.
Daniel Stenberg (26 Nov 2009)
- Extended and fixed the change I did on Dec 11 for the the progress
meter/callback during FTP command/response sequences. It turned out it was
really lame before and now the progress meter SHOULD get called at least
once per second.
Daniel Stenberg (23 Nov 2009)
- Bjorn Augustsson reported a bug which made curl not report any problems even
though it failed to write a very small download to disk (done in a single
fwrite call). It turned out to be because fwrite() returned success, but
there was insufficient error-checking for the fclose() call which tricked
curl to believe things were fine.
Yang Tse (23 Nov 2009)
- David Byron modified Makefile.dist vc8 and vc9 targets in order to allow
finer granularity control when generating src and lib makefiles.
Yang Tse (22 Nov 2009)
- I modified configure to force removal of the curlbuild.h file included in
distribution tarballs for use by non-configure systems. As intended, this
would get overwriten when doing in-tree builds. But VPATH builds would end
having two curlbuild.h files, one in the source tree and another in the
build tree. With the modification I introduced 5 Nov 2009 this could become
an issue when running libcurl's test suite.
Daniel Stenberg (20 Nov 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis identified a write after close, as the sockets were
closed by libcurl before the SSL lib were shutdown and they may write to its
socket. Detected to at least happen with OpenSSL builds.
- Jad Chamcham pointed out a bug with connection re-use. If a connection had
CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL enabled over a proxy, a subsequent request using the
same proxy with the tunnel option disabled would still wrongly re-use that
previous connection and the outcome would only be badness.
Yang Tse (18 Nov 2009)
- I modified the memory tracking system to make it intolerant with zero sized
malloc(), calloc() and realloc() function calls.
Daniel Stenberg (17 Nov 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis provided another fix for the DNS cache that could
end up with entries that wouldn't time-out:
1. Set up a first web server that redirects (307) to a http://server:port
that's down
2. Have curl connect to the first web server using curl multi
After the curl_easy_cleanup call, there will be curl dns entries hanging
around with in_use != 0.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2891591)
- Marc Kleine-Budde fixed: curl saved the LDFLAGS set during configure into
its pkg-config file. So -Wl stuff ended up in the .pc file, which is really
bad, and breaks if there are multiple -Wl in our LDFLAGS (which are in
PTXdist). bug #2893592 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2893592)
Kamil Dudka (15 Nov 2009)
- David Byron improved the configure script to use pkg-config to find OpenSSL
(and in particular the list of required libraries) even if a path is given
as argument to --with-ssl
Yang Tse (15 Nov 2009)
- I removed enable-thread / disable-thread configure option. These were only
placebo options. The library is always built as thread safe as possible on
every system.
Claes Jakobsson (14 Nov 2009)
- curl-config now accepts '--configure' to see what arguments was
passed to the configure script when building curl.
Daniel Stenberg (14 Nov 2009)
- Claes Jakobsson restored the configure functionality to detect NSS when
--with-nss is set but not "yes".
I think we can still improve that to check for pkg-config in that path etc,
but at least this patch brings back the same functionality we had before.
- Camille Moncelier added support for the file type SSL_FILETYPE_ENGINE for
the client certificate. It also disable the key name test as some engines
can select a private key/cert automatically (When there is only one key
and/or certificate on the hardware device used by the engine)
Yang Tse (14 Nov 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis provided the fix that ensures that an SSL connection
won't be reused unless protection level for peer and host verification match.
I refactored how preprocessor symbol _THREAD_SAFE definition is done.
Kamil Dudka (12 Nov 2009)
- Kevin Baughman provided a fix preventing libcurl-NSS from crash on doubly
closed NSPR descriptor. The issue was hard to find, reported several times
before and always closed unresolved. More info at the RH bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/534176
- libcurl-NSS now tries to reconnect with TLS disabled in case it detects
a broken TLS server. However it does not happen if SSL version is selected
manually. The approach was originally taken from PSM. Kaspar Brand helped me
to complete the patch. Original bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/525496https://bugzilla.redhat.com/527771
Yang Tse (12 Nov 2009)
- I modified configure script to make the getaddrinfo function check also
verify if the function is thread safe.
Yang Tse (11 Nov 2009)
- Marco Maggi reported that compilation failed when configured --with-gssapi
and GNU GSS installed due to a missing mutual exclusion of header files in
the Kerberos 5 code path. He also verified that my patch worked for him.
Daniel Stenberg (11 Nov 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug #2891595
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2891595) which identified how an entry
in the DNS cache would linger too long if the request that added it was in
use that long. He also provided the patch that now makes libcurl capable of
still doing a request while the DNS hash entry may get timed out.
- Christian Schmitz noticed that the progress meter/callback was not properly
used during the FTP connection phase (after the actual TCP connect), while
it of course should be. I also made the speed check get called correctly so
that really slow servers will trigger that properly too.
Kamil Dudka (5 Nov 2009)
- Dropped misleading timeouts in libcurl-NSS and made sure the SSL socket works
in non-blocking mode.
Yang Tse (5 Nov 2009)
- I removed leading 'curl' path on the 'curlbuild.h' include statement in
curl.h, adjusting auto-makefiles include path, to enhance portability to
OS's without an orthogonal directory tree structure such as OS/400.
Daniel Stenberg (4 Nov 2009)
- I fixed several problems with the transfer progress meter. It showed the
wrong percentage for small files, most notable for <1000 bytes and could
easily end up showing more than 100% at the end. It also didn't show any
percentage, transfer size or estimated transfer times when transferring
less than 100 bytes.
changes:
--T. is now for non-blocking uploading from stdin
-SYST handling on FTP for OS/400 FTP server cases
-libcurl refuses to read a single HTTP header longer than 100K
-added the --crlfile option to curl
+bugfices
Version 7.19.6 (12 August 2009)
Daniel Stenberg (12 Aug 2009)
- Carsten Lange reported a bug and provided a patch for TFTP upload and the
sending of the TSIZE option. I don't like fixing bugs just hours before
a release, but since it was broken and the patch fixes this for him I decided
to get it in anyway.
Daniel Stenberg (11 Aug 2009)
- Peter Sylvester made the HTTPS test server use specific certificates for
each test, so that the test suite can now be used to actually test the
verification of cert names etc. This made an error show up in the OpenSSL-
specific code where it would attempt to match the CN field even if a
subjectAltName exists that doesn't match. This is now fixed and verified
in test 311.
- Benbuck Nason posted the bug report #2835196
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2835196), fixing a few compiler
warnings when mixing ints and bools.
Daniel Fandrich (10 Aug 2009)
- Fixed a memory leak in the FTP code and an off-by-one heap buffer overflow.
Daniel Fandrich (9 Aug 2009)
- Fixed some memory leaks in the command-line tool that caused most of the
torture tests to fail.
Daniel Stenberg (2 Aug 2009)
- Curt Bogmine reported a problem with SNI enabled on a particular server. We
should introduce an option to disable SNI, but as we're in feature freeze
now I've addressed the obvious bug here (pointed out by Peter Sylvester): we
shouldn't try to enable SNI when SSLv2 or SSLv3 is explicitly selected.
Code for OpenSSL and GnuTLS was fixed. NSS doesn't seem to have a particular
option for SNI, or are we simply not using it?
Daniel Stenberg (1 Aug 2009)
- Scott Cantor posted the bug report #2829955
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2829955) mentioning the recent SSL cert
verification flaw found and exploited by Moxie Marlinspike. The presentation
he did at Black Hat is available here:
https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-09/bh-usa-09-archives.html#Marlinspike
Apparently at least one CA allowed a subjectAltName or CN that contain a
zero byte, and thus clients that assumed they would never have zero bytes
were exploited to OK a certificate that didn't actually match the site. Like
if the name in the cert was "example.com\0theatualsite.com", libcurl would
happily verify that cert for example.com.
libcurl now better uses the length of the extracted name, not using the zero
termination for getting the string length.
This fixing only made and needed in OpenSSL interfacing code.
- Tanguy Fautre pointed out that OpenSSL's function RAND_screen() (present
only in some OpenSSL installs - like on Windows) isn't thread-safe and we
agreed that moving it to the global_init() function is a decent way to deal
with this situation.
- Alexander Beedie provided the patch for a noproxy problem: If I have set
CURLOPT_NOPROXY to "*", or to a host that should not use a proxy, I actually
could still end up using a proxy if a proxy environment variable was set.
Daniel Stenberg (27 Jul 2009)
- All the quote options (CURLOPT_QUOTE, CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE and
CURLOPT_PREQUOTE) now accept a preceeding asterisk before the command to
send when using FTP, as a sign that libcurl shall simply ignore the response
from the server instead of treating it as an error. Not treating a 400+ FTP
response code as an error means that failed commands will not abort the
chain of commands, nor will they cause the connection to get disconnected.
Daniel Stenberg (26 Jul 2009)
- Johan van Selst posted bug report #2825989
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2825989) pointing out that
OpenSSL-powered libcurl didn't support the SHA-2 digest algorithm, and
provided the solution too: to use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in addition
to the older SSLeay_* alternative. OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms was added in
OpenSSL 0.9.5
Daniel Stenberg (23 Jul 2009)
- Added CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION, CURLOPT_SSH_KEYDATA.
They introduce known_host support for SSH keys to libcurl. See docs for
details. Note that this feature depends on a new enough libssh2 version, to
be supported in libssh2 1.2 and later (or current git repo at this time).
Michal Marek (22 Jul 2009)
- David Binderman found a memory and fd leak in lib/gtls.c:load_file()
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/523919). When looking at the code, I found that
also the ptr pointer can leak.
Kamil Dudka (20 Jul 2009)
- Claes Jakobsson improved the support for client certificates handling in
NSS-powered libcurl. Now the client certificates can be selected
automatically by a NSS built-in hook. Additionally pre-login to all PKCS11
slots is no more performed. It used to cause problems with HW tokens.
- Fixed reference counting for NSS client certificates. Now the PEM reader
module should be always properly unloaded on Curl_nss_cleanup(). If the
unload fails though, libcurl will try to reuse the already loaded instance.
Daniel Fandrich (15 Jul 2009)
- Added nonblock.c to the non-automake makefiles (note that the dependencies
in the Watcom makefiles aren't quite correct).
Michal Marek (15 Jul 2009)
- Changed the description of CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to make it clear that the
errno is not reset on success.
Guenter Knauf (14 Jul 2009)
- renamed generated config.h to curl_config.h to avoid any future clashes
with config.h from other projects.
Daniel Stenberg (9 Jul 2009)
- Eric Wong introduced curlx_nonblock() that the curl tool now (re-)uses for
setting a file descriptor non-blocking. Used by the functionality Eric
himself brough on June 15th.
Daniel Stenberg (8 Jul 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis posted bug report #2813123
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2813123) and an a patch that fixes the
problem:
Url A is accessed using auth. Url A redirects to Url B (on a different
server0. Url B reuses a persistent connection. Url B has auth, even though
it's on a different server.
Note: if Url B does not reuse a persistent connection, auth is not sent.
reason:
data->state.first_host is not initialized becuase Curl_http_connect is not
called when a connection is reused.
Solution:
move initialization of data->state.first_host to Curl_http. No code before
Curl_http uses data->state.first_host anyway.
Guenter Knauf (4 Jul 2009)
- Markus Koetter provided a patch to avoid getnameinfo() usage which broke a
couple of both IPv4 and IPv6 autobuilds.
Daniel Stenberg (29 Jun 2009)
- Markus Koetter made CURLOPT_FTPPORT (and curl's -P/--ftpport) support a port
range if given colon-separated after the host name/address part. Like
"192.168.0.1:2000-10000"
- Modified the separators used for CURLOPT_CERTINFO in multi-part outputs. I
don't know how they got wrong in the first place, but using this output
format makes it possible to quite easily separate the string into an array
of multiple items.
Daniel Fandrich (16 June 2009)
- Added a few more compiler warning options for gcc.
Daniel Stenberg (16 Jun 2009)
- Reuven Wachtfogel made curl -o - properly produce a binary output on windows
(no newline translations). Use -B/--use-ascii if you rather get the ascii
approach.
Michal Marek (16 Jun 2009)
- When doing non-anonymous ftp via http proxies and the password is not
provided in the url, add it there (squid needs this).
Daniel Stenberg (15 Jun 2009)
- Eric Wong's patch:
This allows curl(1) to be used as a client-side tunnel for arbitrary stream
protocols by abusing chunked transfer encoding in both the HTTP request and
HTTP response. This requires server support for sending a response while a
request is still being read, of course.
If attempting to read from stdin returns EAGAIN, then we pause our sender.
This leaves curl to attempt to read from the socket while reading from stdin
(and thus sending) is paused.
This change was needed to allow successfully tunneling the git protocol over
HTTP (--no-buffer is needed, as well).
Patrick Monnerat (15 Jun 2009)
- Replaced use of standard C library rand()/srand() by our own pseudo-random
number generator.
Yang Tse (11 Jun 2009)
- I adapted testcurl script to allow building test harness programs when
cross-compiling for a *-*-mingw* host.
Daniel Stenberg (10 Jun 2009)
- Fabian Keil ran clang on the (lib)curl code, found a bunch of warnings and
contributed a range of patches to fix them.
Yang Tse (10 Jun 2009)
- I introduced configure script option --enable-curldebug which now allows
the decoupled enabling or disabling of the curl debug memory tracking
feature from the --enable-debug option which no longer controls this.
curl --version will list 'Debug' feature for debug enabled builds, and
will list 'TrackMemory' feature for curl debug memory tracking capable
builds. These features are independent and can be controlled when running
the configure script. When --enable-debug is given both features will be
enabled, unless some restriction prevents memory tracking from being used.
Internally, definition of preprocessor symbol DEBUGBUILD restricts code
which is only compiled for debug enabled builds. And symbol CURLDEBUG is
used to differentiate code which is _only_ used for memory tracking.
Yang Tse (9 Jun 2009)
- Daniel Steinberg pointed out that Curl_FormInit() in formdata.c was not
initializing the fread callback pointer and this triggered a compiler
warning, also provided a friendly suggestion on how to fix it.
Daniel Stenberg (8 Jun 2009)
- Claes Jakobsson provided a patch for libcurl-NSS that fixed a bad refcount
issue with client certs that caused issues like segfaults.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0316.html
- Triggered by bug report #2798852 and the patch in there, I fixed configure
to detect gnutls build options with pkg-config only and not libgnutls-config
anymore since GnuTLS has stopped distributing that tool. If an explicit path
is given to configure, we will instead guess on how to link and use that
lib. I did not use the patch from the bug report.
Yang Tse (8 Jun 2009)
- Igor Novoseltsev adjusted Makefile.vxworks to get sources and headers
included from Makefile.inc, and provided docs\INSTALL VxWorks section.
- I removed buildconf.bat from release and daily snapshot archives. This
file is only for CVS tree checkout builds.
Daniel Stenberg (8 Jun 2009)
- Eric Wong fixed --no-buffer to actually switch off output buffering. Been
broken since 7.19.0
Bill Hoffman (6 Jun 2009)
- Added some cmake docs and fixed socklen_t in the build.
Yang Tse (5 Jun 2009)
- John E. Malmberg provided VMS specific patch: "This fixes an existing bug
in urlglob.c where it was not converting the Curl Unix exit code to a VMS
DCL compatible exit code. This fix required the enhancement described next.
This also adds an enhancement to main.c so that when curl is run under a
Unix shell like Bash on VMS, it will return the standard Unix exit codes
and messages." And another patch for docs/examples.
I introduced os-specific.c and os-specific.h for use in curl tool code
and adjusted John E. Malmberg's patch placement to use these new files
as an effort to prevent main.c from growing ad infinitum. Code already
existing in main.c which is OS specific should be moved into these files.
Daniel Stenberg (4 June 2009)
- Setting the Content-Length: header from your app when you do a POST or PUT
is almost always a VERY BAD IDEA. Yet there are still apps out there doing
this, and now recently it triggered a bug/side-effect in libcurl as when
libcurl sends a POST or PUT with NTLM, it sends an empty post first when it
knows it will just get a 401/407 back. If the app then replaced the
Content-Length header, it caused the server to wait for input that libcurl
wouldn't send. Aaron Oneal reported this problem in bug report #2799008
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2799008) and helped us verify the fix.
Yang Tse (4 Jun 2009)
- Igor Novoseltsev provided patches and information, that after some
adjustments to better fit curl's way of doing things, have resulted
in the posibility of building libcurl for VxWorks.
Daniel Fandrich (2 June 2009)
- Checked in a Google Android make file. To use it, you must first
create a config.h file by running configure in the Android environment,
which doesn't seem to be easy to do. If no easy way can be found, a
static config-android.h may need to be created and checked in to the
libcurl source tree.
Daniel Stenberg (1 June 2009)
- Claes Jakobsson fixed the configure script to better find and use NSS
without pkg-config.
Yang Tse (1 Jun 2009)
- John E. Malmberg provided a VMS specific clean-up for curl.h, and pointed
out that the configure script was failing to detect the timeval struct on
VMS when building with _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED undefined due to definition
taking place in socket.h instead of time.h. I have adjusted configure
script to also include this header when checking struct timeval.
Daniel Stenberg (27 May 2009)
- Frank McGeough provided a small OpenSSL #include fix to make libcurl compile
fine with Nokia 5th edition 1.0 SDK for Symbian.
- Andre Guibert de Bruet found a call to a OpenSSL function that didn't check
for a failure properly.
- Mike Crowe pointed out that setting CURLOPT_USERPWD to NULL used to clear
the auth credentials back in 7.19.0 and earlier while now you have to set ""
to get the same effect. His patch brings back the ability to use NULL.
- Claes Jakobsson fixed libcurl-NSS to build fine even without the
PK11_CreateGenericObject() function.
Daniel Stenberg (25 May 2009)
- bug report #2796358 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2796358) pointed
out that the cookie parser would leak memory when it parses cookies that are
received with domain, path etc set multiple times in the same header. While
such a cookie is questionable, they occur in the wild and libcurl no longer
leaks memory for them. I added such a header to test case 8.
Daniel Fandrich (22 May 2009)
- Removed some obsolete digest code that caused a valgrind error in test 551.
Daniel Fandrich (20 May 2009)
- Added "non-existing host" test keywords to make it easy to skip those
tests on machines that have broken DNS configurations (such as
those configured to use OpenDNS).
Daniel Stenberg (19 May 2009)
- Kamil Dudka brought the patch from the Redhat bug entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427966 which was libcurl closing
a bad file descriptor when closing down the FTP data connection. Caolan
McNamara seems to be the original author of it.
Version 7.19.5 (18 May 2009)
Daniel Stenberg (17 May 2009)
- James Bursa posted a patch to the mailing list that fixed a problem with
no_proxy which made it not skip the proxy if the URL entered contained a
user name. I added test case 1101 to verify.
Daniel Stenberg (11 May 2009)
- Balint Szilakszi reported a memory leak when libcurl did gzip decompression
of streams that had some parts (legitimately) missing. We now provide and use
a proper cleanup function for the content encoding submodule.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-05/0092.html
- Kamil Dudka provided a fix for libcurl-NSS reported by Michael Cronenworth
at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612#c12
If an incorrect password is given while loading a private key, libcurl ends
up in an infinite loop consuming memory. The bug is critical.
- I fixed the problem with doing NTLM, POST and then following a 302 redirect,
as reported by Ebenezer Ikonne (on curl-users) and Laurent Rabret (on
curl-library). The transfer was mistakenly marked to get more data to send
but since it didn't actually have that, it just hung there...
Daniel Stenberg (10 May 2009)
- Andre Guibert de Bruet correctly pointed out an over-alloc with one wasted
byte in the digest code.
Yang Tse (9 May 2009)
- Removed DOS and TPF package's subdirectory Makefile.am, it was only used
to include some files in the distribution tarball serving no other purpose.
Files from the DOS and TPF subdirectories are now included in the EXTRA_DIST
of the Makefile in the parent subdirectory.
Yang Tse (8 May 2009)
- Changed host name literal in several tests to one under the haxx.se domain.
- Renamed vc6 workspace and project files to avoid filename clash when used
for conversion to later VS versions.
Daniel Stenberg (8 May 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis fixed bug report #2784055
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2784055) identifying a problem to
connect to SOCKS proxies when using the multi interface. It turned out to
almost not work at all previously. We need to wait for the TCP connect to
be properly verified before doing the SOCKS magic.
There's still a flaw in the FTP code for this.
Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
- Made the SO_SNDBUF setting for the data connection socket for ftp uploads as
well. See change 28 Apr 2009.
Yang Tse (7 May 2009)
- Fixed an issue affecting FTP transfers, introduced with the transfer.c
patch committed May 4.
Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
- Man page *roff problems fixed thanks to input from Colin Watson. Problems
reported in the Debian package.
- Vijay G filed bug report #2723236
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723236) identifying a problem with
libcurl's TFTP code and its lack of dealing with the OACK packet.
Yang Tse (5 May 2009)
- Fixed the --ftp-port address of test #251 to the CLIENTIP address, and
reverted the change affecting test suite harness committed 4 May.
Daniel Stenberg (5 May 2009)
- Inspired by Michael Smith's session id fix for OpenSSL, I did the
corresponding fix in the GnuTLS code: make sure to store the new session id
in case the previous re-used one is rejected.
Daniel Stenberg (4 May 2009)
- Michael Smith posted bug report #2786255
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2786255) with a patch, identifying how
libcurl did not deal with SSL session ids properly if the server rejected a
re-use of one. Starting now, it will forget the rejected one and remember
the new. This change was for OpenSSL only, it is likely that other SSL lib
code needs similar fixes.
Yang Tse (4 May 2009)
- Applied David McCreedy's "transfer.c fixes for CURL_DO_LINEEND_CONV and
non-ASCII platform HTTP requests" patch addressing two HTTP PUT problems:
1) On non-ASCII platforms not all of the protocol portions of the PUT are
being translated to ASCII. 2) On all platforms the line endings of part of
the protocol portions are mangled from CRLF to CRCRLF if data->set.crlf or
data->set.prefer_ascii are set (depending on CURL_DO_LINEEND_CONV).
- Applied David McCreedy's patch to fix test suite harness to allow test FTP
server and client on different machines, providing FTP client address when
running the FTP test server.
Daniel Fandrich (3 May 2009)
- Added and disabled test case 563 which shows KNOWN_BUGS #59. The bug
report failed to mention that a proxy must be used to reproduce it.
Yang Tse (2 May 2009)
- Use a build-time configured curl_socklen_t data type instead of socklen_t.
Yang Tse (1 May 2009)
- Applied David McCreedy's patches "TPF-platform specific changes to various
files" and "http.c fix to Curl_proxyCONNECT for non-ASCII platforms", the
former with minor edits.
Daniel Stenberg (30 Apr 2009)
- I was going to fix issue #59 in KNOWN_BUGS
If the CURLOPT_PORT option is used on an FTP URL like
"ftp://example.com/file;type=A" the ";type=A" is stripped off.
I added test case 562 to verify, only to find out that I couldn't repeat
this bug so I hereby consider it not a bug anymore!
Daniel Stenberg (29 Apr 2009)
- Based on bug report #2723219 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2723219)
I've now made TFTP "connections" not being kept for re-use within libcurl.
TFTP is UDP-based so the benefit was really low (if even existing) to begin
with so instead of tracking down to fix this problem we instead removed the
re-use. I also enabled test case 1099 that I wrote a few days ago to verify
that this change fixes the reported problem.
Daniel Stenberg (28 Apr 2009)
- Constantine Sapuntzakis filed bug report #2783090
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2783090) pointing out that on windows
we need to grow the SO_SNDBUF buffer somewhat to get really good upload
speeds. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823764 has the details. Friends
confirmed that simply adding 32 to CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is enough.
- Bug report #2709004 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2709004) by Tim
Chen pointed out how curl couldn't upload with resume when reading from a
pipe.
This ended up with the introduction of a new return code for the
CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION callback that basically says that the seek failed but
that libcurl may try to resolve the situation anyway. In our case this means
libcurl will attempt to instead read that much data from the stream instead
of seeking and that way curl can now upload with resume when data is read
from a stream!
Daniel Stenberg (26 Apr 2009)
- Bug report #2779733 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779733) by Sven
Wegener pointed out that CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME didn't work with the multi
interface and provided a patch that fixed the problem!
Daniel Stenberg (24 Apr 2009)
- Kamil Dudka fixed another NSS-related leak when client certs were used.
- Bug report #2779245 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779245) by Rainer
Koenig pointed out that the man page didn't tell that the *_proxy
environment variables can be specified lower case or UPPER CASE and the
lower case takes precedence,
Daniel Fandrich (21 Apr 2009)
- Added new libcurl source files to Amiga, RiscOS and VC6 build files.
Yang Tse (21 Apr 2009)
- Moved potential inclusion of system's malloc.h and memory.h header files to
setup_once.h. Inclusion of each header file is based on the definition of
NEED_MALLOC_H and NEED_MEMORY_H respectively.
Renamed libcurl's memory.h to curl_memory.h
Daniel Stenberg (20 Apr 2009)
- Leanic Lefever reported a crash and did some detailed research on why and
how it occurs (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-04/0289.html). The
conclusion was that if an error is detected and Curl_done() is called for
the connection, ftp_done() could at times return another error code that
then would take precedence and that new code confused existing logic that
works for the first error code (CURLE_SEND_ERROR) only.
- Gisle Vanem noticed that --libtool would produce bogus strings at times for
OBJECTPOINT options. Now we've introduced a new function - my_setopt_str -
within the app for setting plain string options to avoid the risk of this
mistake happening.
Daniel Stenberg (17 Apr 2009)
- Pramod Sharma reported and tracked down a bug when doing FTP over a HTTP
proxy. libcurl would then wrongly close the connection after each
request. In his case it had the weird side-effect that it killed NTLM auth
for the proxy causing an inifinite loop!
I added test case 1098 to verify this fix. The test case does however not
properly verify that the transfers are done persistently - as I couldn't
think of a clever way to achieve it right now - but you need to read the
stderr output after a test run to see that it truly did the right thing.
Daniel Stenberg (13 Apr 2009)
- bug report #2727981 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2727981) by Martin
Storsj
confusing as it set the method to either GET or HEAD. The example he showed
looked like:
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
The new way doesn't alter the method until the request is about to start. If
CURLOPT_NOBODY is then 1 the HTTP request will be HEAD. If CURLOPT_NOBODY is
0 and the request happens to have been set to HEAD, it will then instead be
set to GET. I believe this will be less surprising to users, and hopefully
not hit any existing users badly.
- Toshio Kuratomi reported a memory leak problem with libcurl+NSS that turned
out to be leaking cacerts. Kamil Dudka helped me complete the fix. The issue
is found in Redhat's bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453612
There are still memory leaks present, but they seem to have other reasons.
Daniel Fandrich (11 Apr 2009)
- Added new libcurl source files to Symbian OS build files.
- Improved Symbian support for SSL.
Yang Tse (10 Apr 2009)
- Daniel Johnson improved the MacOSX-Framework shell script to now perform all
the steps required to build a Mac OS X four way fat ppc/i386/ppc64/x86_64
libcurl.framework. Four way fat framework requires OS X 10.5 SDK or later.
Yang Tse (8 Apr 2009)
- Removed Sun compilers preprocessor block from curlbuild.h.dist, this also
removes it from the curlbuild.h file originally distributed by the cURL
project as this file is intended for systems not capable of running the
configure script. For those who have been building curl out of the source
code curl distribution tarball provided by curl.haxx.se the change implies
nothing. Previous change in this area committed 2 Apr becomes irrelevant.
Daniel Stenberg (6 Apr 2009)
- I clarified in the docs that CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION should return 0 on success
and 1 on fatal errors. Previously it only mentioned non-zero on fatal
errors. This is a slight change in meaning, but it follows what we've done
elsewhere before and it opens up for LOTS of more useful return codes
whenever we can think of them...
Yang Tse (2 Apr 2009)
- Fix curl_off_t definition for builds done using Sun compilers and a
non-configured libcurl. In this case curl_off_t data type was gated
to the off_t data type which depends on the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. This
configuration is exactly the unwanted configuration for our curl_off_t
data type which must not depend on such setting. This breaks ABI for
libcurl libraries built with Sun compilers which were built without
having run the configure script with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS different than
64 and using the ILP32 data model.
Daniel Stenberg (1 Apr 2009)
- Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed a NULL pointer use in an infof() call if a
strdup() call failed.
Daniel Fandrich (31 Mar 2009)
- Properly return an error code in curl_easy_recv (reported by Jim Freeman).
Daniel Stenberg (18 Mar 2009)
- Kamil Dudka brought a patch that enables 6 additional crypto algorithms when
NSS is used. These ciphers were added in NSS 3.4 and require to be enabled
explicitly.
Daniel Stenberg (13 Mar 2009)
- Use libssh2_version() to present the libssh2 version in case the libssh2
library is found to support it.
Yang Tse (12 Mar 2009)
- Added missing Curl_read() return code checking in TELNET transfers.
- Pierre Brico found and fixed TELNET transfers not being aborted upon
a write callback failure.
Daniel Stenberg (11 Mar 2009)
- Kamil Dudka made the curl tool properly call curl_global_init() before any
other libcurl function.
Yang Tse (11 Mar 2009)
- Added missing TELNET timeout support for Windows builds. This issue was
reported by Pierre Brico.
Daniel Stenberg (9 Mar 2009)
- Frank Hempel found out a bug and provided the fix:
curl_easy_duphandle did not necessarily duplicate the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
option. It only enabled the cookie engine in the destination handle if
data->cookies is not NULL (where data is the source handle). In case of a
newly initialized handle which just had the cookie support enabled by a
curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURL_COOKIEFILE, "")-call, handle->cookies was
still NULL because the setopt-call only appends the value to
data->change.cookielist, hence duplicating this handle would not have the
cookie engine switched on.
We also concluded that the slist-functionality would be suitable for being
put in its own module rather than simply hanging out in lib/sendf.c so I
created lib/slist.[ch] for them.
- Andreas Farber made the 'buildconf' script check for the presence of m4
scripts to make it detect a bad checkout earlier. People with older
checkouts who don't do cvs update with the -d option won't get the new dirs
and then will get funny outputs that can be a bit hard to understand and
fix.
Daniel Stenberg (8 Mar 2009)
- Andre Guibert de Bruet found and fixed a code segment in ssluse.c where the
allocation of the memory BIO was not being properly checked.
- Andre Guibert de Bruet fixed the gnutls-using code: There are a few places
in the gnutls code where we were checking for negative values for errors,
when the man pages state that GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS is returned on success and
other values indicate error conditions.
- Bill Egert pointed out (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2671602) that
curl didn't use sprintf() in a way that is documented to work in POSIX but
since we use our own printf() code (from libcurl) that shouldn't be a
problem. Nonetheless I modified the code to not rely on such particular
features and to not cause further raised eyebrowse with no good reason.
Daniel Fandrich (5 Mar 2009)
- Expanded the security section of the libcurl-tutorial man page to cover
more issues for authors to consider when writing robust libcurl-using
applications.
Yang Tse (5 Mar 2009)
- Fixed NTLM authentication memory leak on SSPI enabled Windows builds. This
issue was noticed by Chris Deidun.
Daniel Fandrich (4 Mar 2009)
- Fixed a problem with m4 quoting in the OpenSSL configure check reported
by Daniel Johnson.
Daniel Stenberg (3 Mar 2009)
- David James brought a patch that make libcurl close (all) dead connections
whenever you attempt to open a new connection.
1. After cleaning up a dead connection, "continue" instead of
returning FALSE. This ensures that we clean up all dead connections,
rather than just cleaning up the first dead connection.
2. Move up the cleanup for dead connections so that it occurs for
all connections, rather than just the connections which have the same
preferences as our current new connection.
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
Changes:
- Added CURLOPT_NOPROXY and the corresponding --noproxy
- the OpenSSL-specific code disables TICKET (rfc5077) which is enabled
by default in openssl 0.9.8j
- Added CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE
- Added CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE and CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC -
with the corresponding curl options --socks5-gssapi-service and
--socks5-gssapi-nec
- Improved IPv6 support when built with with c-ares >= 1.6.1
- Added CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0 and --proxy1.0
- Added docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
- Added CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET
- Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication using GnuTLS
- CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS can now be set to 2 to retry the CWD
even when MKD fails
- GnuTLS initing moved to curl_global_init()
- Added CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS and CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS
Bugfixes:
- missing ssh.obj in VS makefiles
- FTP ;type=i URLs now work with CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE in
Turkish locale
- realms with quoted quotation marks in HTTP Digest headers
- VC9 makefiles are now really included
- multi interface memory leak with CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS set
- CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD size from file:// "transfers" with
CURLOPT_NOBODY set true
- memory leak on some libz errors for content encodings
- NSS-enabled build is repaired
- superfluous wait in SFTP downloads removed
- FTP with the multi interface no longer kills the control connection
as easily on transfer failures
- compilation halting when using VS2008 to build a Windows 2000 target
- ease creation of libcurl Mac OS X Framework
- CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD
are -1 if unknown
- Negotiate proxy authentication
- CURLOPT_INTERFACE and CURLOPT_LOCALPORT used together
This update fixes the security problem reported in CVE-2009-0037.
7.19.2
Three added regressions in 7.19.1 have been fixed: a build failure
when using the MSVC 6 makefile, a crash when using --interface name
on Linux, and multi interface downloading HTTPS pages with libcurl
built powered by OpenSSL.
7.19.1
CURLOPT_CERTINFO, CURLINFO_CERTINFO, CURLOPT_POSTREDIR, CURLOPT_USERNAME,
CURLOPT_PASSWORD, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, and CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD
were added. 24 bugs were fixed.
7.19.0
Some new libcurl options, new Boolean options handling in the curl
tool, and around 40 bugfixes.
7.18.2
This release adds CURLFORM_STREAM, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL, and the
two new functions curl_easy_send() and curl_easy_recv(). libcurl
now supports CURLOPT_NOBODY over SFTP, and curl now runs on Symbian
OS. At least 21 described bugfixes were made.
7.18.1
This release adds support for HttpOnly cookies. It no longer
distributes or installs a CA cert bundle. SSLv2 is now disabled by
default. Resumed transfers work with SFTP. At least 23 described
bugfixes were made.
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.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
Changes:
* the version string now only contains info about (sub) package versions,
while for example krb4 and ipv6 now only are available as 'features'
* added curl_easy_reset()
* socks proxy support even when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled
* read callbacks can stop the transfer by returning CURL_READFUNC_ABORT
* libcurl-tutorial.3 is the new man page formerly known as
libcurl-the-guide
* additional SSL trace data might be sent to the debug callback using two
new types: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT
* multipart formposts can upload files larger than system memory
* the curl tool continues with the next URL even if one transfer fails
* FTP 3rd party transfer support - seven new setopt() options
Bugfixes:
* UTF-8 encoded certificate names can now be verified properly
* krb4 link problem
* HTTP Negotiate service name now provided in uppercase
* no longer accepts any cookies with domain set to just a TLD
* HTTP Digest properties without quotes in the header
* bad Host: header case on re-used connections over proxy
* duplicate Host: header case on re-used connections
* curl -o name#[num] now works when no globbing for [num] exists
* test suite runs fine with valgrind 2.1.x
* negative Content-Length is ignored
* test 505 runs fine on windows
* curl_share_cleanup() crash
* --trace files now get the final info lines too
* multi interface connects fine to multi-IP resolving hosts
* --limit-rate works on Mac OS X (and other systems with bad poll()s)
* cookies can now hold 4999 bytes of content
* HTTP POST/PUT with NTLM/Digest/Negotiate to a URL returning 3XX
* HTTPS POST/PUT over a proxy requiring NTLM/Digest/Negotiate
* less restrictive libidn requirements, 0.4.1 or later is fine
* HTTP POST or PUT with Digest/Negotiate/NTLM selected but the server
didn't require any authentication
* win32 file:// transfer free memory bug
* configure --disable-http builds a libcurl without HTTP support
* CURLOPT_FILETIME had wrong type in curl.h, it expects a long argument
* builds fine with Borland on Windows
* the msvc curllib.dsp now builds the libcurl.lib file
* builds fine on VMS
* builds fine on NetWare
* HTTP Digest authentication with proxies uses correct user name + password
* builds fine with lcc-win32
o added ability to "upload" to file:// URLs
o added curl_global_init_mem()
o removed curl_formparse()
o the MSVC project file in the release archive is automatically built
o curl --proxy-digest is a new command line option
o the Windows version of libcurl can use wldap32.dll for LDAP
o added curl_easy_strerror(), curl_multi_strerror() and curl_share_strerror()
o IPv6-enabled Windows hosts now resolves names threaded/asynch as well
o configure --with-libidn can be used to point out the root dir of a libidn
installation (version 0.4.5 or later) for curl to use, then libcurl can
resolve and use IDNA names (domain names with "international" letters)
Bugfixes:
o incoming cookies with domains set with a prefixed dot now works better
o CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIE can be used in the same request
o improved peer certificate name verification
o allocation failures cause no leaks nor crashes
o the progress meter display now handles file sizes up to full 8 exabytes
(which is as high a signed 64 bit number can reach)
o general HTTP authentication improvements
o HTTP Digest authentication with the proxy works
o mulipart formposting with -F and file names with spaces work again
o curl_easy_duphandle() now works when ares-enabled
o HTTP Digest authentication works a lot more like the RFC says
o curl works with telnet and stdin properly on Windows
o configure --without-ssl works even when pkg-config has OpenSSL details
o src/hugehelp.c builds correct again in non-configure build environments
* removed maximum user+password+hostname size limit
* removed maximum dir depth limit for FTP
* the ares build now requires c-ares 1.2.0 or later
* --tcp-nodelay and CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY were added
* curl/curlver.h contains the libcurl version info now
* bugfixes
This release includes the following changes:
o CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE added to offer POSTs larger than 2GB
o CURL_VERSION_LARGEFILE is a feature bit returned by libcurls that feature
large file support
o libcurl only requires winsock 1.1 on windows now
o when doing FTP, curl now sends QUIT before disconnecting
o name resolves can now timeout on windows too
o $HOME is now recognized better when looking for .netrc files
o now re-uses the ares handle when re-using curl handles
o SO_BINDTODEVICE is used for network interface binding
o configure --disable-manual disables the built-in huge manual from the
command line tool
o the default Accept: header used in HTTP requests changed
o asynch dns lookups now require the c-ares library
o curl --socks can be used to set a SOCKS5 proxy to use
o response-headers received after a (proxy) CONNECT request are now passed
to the header callback just like other headers
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o builds and runs on Novell NetWare
o Windows builds now report OS as "i386-pc-win32"
o received signals during SSL connect is handled better
o improved PUT/POST with NTLM/Digest authentication
o following redirects and doing NTLM/Digest (where the first connection gets
closed) with the multi interface work better now
o file: progress meter and getinfo variables work now
o CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT and CURLAUTH_NTLM now work when set together
o share interface usage without (un)lock functions segfaulted
o --limit-rate no longer cripples the --speed-limit feature
o fixed verbose output problem with ipv6-enabled re-used connections
o fixed the socks5 code to check version in the socks response properly
o dns cache bug - fixed the 'inuse' counter
o large file fix for Content-Length
o better docs for the share interface
o several configure fixes for mingw/msys
o setting a Host: header is no longer affecting the Host: header used when
libcurl follows a Location:
o fixed numerous compiler warnings on several operating systems and compilers
o PUTing from stdin couldn't disable chunked transfer-encoding
o corrected the mingw makefiles
o improved the configure libz detection
o fixed EPRT/PORT use when doing FTP on ipv6-enabled AIX hosts
o *nroff commands that only support -mandoc and not -man are now supported
(for the built-in manual text in the command line tool)
o fixed the unconditional #include of config.h in hugehelp.c
o builds fine on MPE/iX
o upload using chunked transfer-encoding now sends the last chunk properly
teriminated with an extra CRLF
o Fixed the progress meter display for files >2GB
o persistant connections over a proxy messed up the proxy name/password
o the socks5 code segfaulted if no username/password was set
o the *_LARGE options now take curl_off_t types as parameters and this will
make it possible to handle large files on windows too
o builds with large file support even on systems without strtoll()
by moving the inclusion of buildlink3.mk files outside of the protected
region. This bug would be seen by users that have set PREFER_PKGSRC
or PREFER_NATIVE to non-default values.
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES should be ordered so that for any package in the
list, that package doesn't depend on any packages to the left of it
in the list. This ordering property is used to check for builtin
packages in the correct order. The problem was that including a
buildlink3.mk file for <pkg> correctly ensured that <pkg> was removed
from BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and appended to the end. However, since the
inclusion of any other buildlink3.mk files within that buildlink3.mk
was in a region that was protected against multiple inclusion, those
dependencies weren't also moved to the end of BUILDLINK_PACKAGES.
Fixed in 7.11.0
Changes:
- allows the URL to be set by a callback when using the multi interface
- large file support was added. Use one of the new options:
INFILESIZE_LARGE, RESUME_FROM_LARGE and MAXFILESIZE_LARGE
- the new --ftp-pasv overrides a previous --ftpport
- CURLOPT_FTPSSL and ftps:// now do ssl over FTP "The Right Way"
(the curl tool now features the --ftp-ssl option)
- The Windows DLLs are built with an added "resource file"
- New LIBCURL_VERSION_* defines for easier checking version number
- Included Mac OS X 'framework' makefile in the release archive
- Removed the TRUE and FALSE #defines from the public curl header file
- Added CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE
For a complete list see the Changelog at http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html
7.10.8
SPNEGO support, Negotiate support, multiple -T flags work, IPv6
support on Windows, and more were added. More than 40 bugs were
fixed.
7.10.7
This release supports NTLM for proxies, --ftp-create-dirs, and
optional support for asynchronous name-resolving calls. It fixes
an information leak, minor memory leaks, a 64bit problem, two
cookie-related problems, URL globbing output using -o #[num], and
more.
Changes:
* CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION allows a custom callback for SSL connections
* multiple patches lets curl build and run on DOS
* libcurl now deals with spaces in Location: redirects and URLifies them
* curl --version shows more detailed info
* curl_version_info() now returns info on NTLM, GSS-Negotiate and Debug
* curl_version() includes "GSS" in the string if built with GSSAPI available
* Pick-best-authentication option added (--anyauth, using the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH set to CURLAUTH_ANY)
* NTLM authentication support (--ntlm and CURLAUTH_NTLM)
* GSS-Negotiate authentication support (--negotiate and CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE)
* Digest authentication support added (--digest and CURLAUTH_DIGEST)
* Allow curl to switch (back to) to Basic authentication (--basic)
* libcurl supports name and password in proxy environment variables
Bugs:
* double slash after the host name on a FTP URL again points out the root dir
* obscure and rare DNS cache problem was fixed
* multiple FTP connections to the same host with different user names didn't work properly
* no more CWD commands without arguments for ftp connections
* curl no longer uses setvbuf() due to portability problems
* VMS build fixes
* the curl tool has the -M manual compressed internally if built with libz
* url globbing syntax error could cause segfault
* Huge (>40-60KB) GET requests over HTTPS failed.
* Content-Length now overrides socket-closed as a means of knowing when the response body is
complete.
* --progress-bar takes the initial size into account when doing resumed downloads
* work around SSL bugs better
* libcurl typically issues POST requests with less send() calls
* better main makefile
* external headers improved portability
* Listing FTP directories without contents could leak a socket
* Getting HTTP contents in one line without headers failed
* bugfixed the socks5-proxy usage (twice)
* h_aliases name-lookup rare crash fixed
* improved curl -M output
* curl_unescape() now only unescapes valid %HH codes
Extract of changes:
- Changed the order for the in_addr_t testing, as 'unsigned long' seems to be
a very common type inet_addr() returns.
- George Comninos provided a fix that calls the progress meter when waiting
for FTP command responses take >1 second. It'll make applications more
"responsive" even when dealing with very slow ftp servers.
- George Comninos pointed out that libcurl uploads had two quirks:
o when using FTP PORT command, it used blocking sockets!
o it could loop a long time without doing progress meter updates
Both items are fixed now.
- Dan Fandrich changed CURLOPT_ENCODING to select all supported encodings if
set to "". This frees the application from having to know which encodings
the library supports.
- Avery Fay found out that the CURLOPT_INTERFACE way of first checking if the
given name is a network interface gave a real performance penalty on Linux,
so now we more appropriately first check if it is an IP number and if so
we don't check for a network interface with that name.
- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT added. Set this to FALSE to disable libcurl's attempts
to use EPRT and LPRT before the traditional PORT command. The command line
tool sets this option with '--disable-eprt'.
- Added test case 62 and fixed some more on the cookie sending with a custom
Host: header set.
- Made the "SSL read error: 5" error message more verbose, by adding code that
queries the OpenSSL library to fill in the error buffer.
- Added sys/select.h include in the curl/multi.h file, after having been
reminded about this by Rich Gray.
- I made each test set its own server requirements, thus abandoning the
previous system where the test number implied what server(s) to use for a
specific test.
- David Balazic made curl more RFC1738-compliant for FTP URLs, by fixing so
that libcurl now uses one CWD command for each path part. A bunch of test
cases were fixed to work accordingly.
- Cookie fixes.
- Peter Kovacs provided a patch that makes the CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME work fine
when using the multi interface (too).
- Peter Sylvester pointed out that curl_easy_setopt() will always (wrongly)
return CURLE_OK no matter what happens.
- Dan Fandrich fixed some gzip decompression bugs and flaws.
- Formposting a file using a .html suffix is now properly set to Content-Type: text/html.
- Fixed the SSL error handling to return proper SSL error messages again, they
broke in 7.10.4. I also attempt to track down CA cert problems and then
return the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code.
- The curl tool now intercepts the CURLE_SSL_CACERT error code and displays
a fairly big and explanatory error message. Kevin Roth helped me out with
the wording.
- Nic Hines provided a second patch for gzip decompression, and fixed a bug
when deflate or gzip contents were downloaded using chunked encoding.
- Dan Fandrich made libcurl support automatic decompression of gzip contents
(as an addition to the previous deflate support).
- I made the CWD command during FTP session consider all 2xy codes to be OK
responses.
- Vlad Krupin fixed a URL parsing issue. URLs that were not using a slash
after the host name, but still had "?" and parameters appended, as in
"http://hostname.com?foobar=moo", were not properly parsed by libcurl.
- Made CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION work for FTP transfers, using the same syntax as
for HTTP. This then made -z work for ftp transfers too. Added test case 139
and 140 for verifying this.
- Getting the file date of an ftp file used the wrong time zone when
displayed. It is supposedly always GMT. Added test case 141 for this.
- Made the test suite's FTP server support MDTM.
- The default DEBUGFUNCTION, as enabled with CURLOPT_VERBOSE now outputs
CURLINFO_HEADER_IN data as well. The most notable effect from this is that
using curl -v, you get to see the incoming "headers" as well. This is
perhaps most useful when doing ftp.
- James Bursa fixed a flaw in the Content-Type extraction code, which missed
the first letter if no space followed the colon.
- Martijn Broenland found another cases where a server application didn't
like the boundary string used by curl when foing a multi-part/formpost. We
modified the boundary string to look like the one IE uses, as this is
probably gonna make curl work with more applications.
Changes:
* the curl tool now "clears" sensitive commands line args
* no more emacs local variables in the source files
* script for distributed, automatic, multi-platform testing added. Please join up and help us test
the bleeding edge curl on various platforms!
* the "scratch buffer" is now only allocated when actually needed
* removed the strequal and strnequal macros from curl/curl.h
* added CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH / --location-trusted
Bugs:
* "curl -O" only, now outputs an error message accordingly
* builds fine on Redhat Linux 9 (configure fix)
* the CA cert bundle included a demo cert now removed
* changing some attributes between two transfers when re-using a connection did not "take effect"
properly
* the test suite runs faster and hopefully a bit more reliably
* improved configure check for presence of functions, needed for HPUX
* the curl tool now makes a correct URL escaping when appending to the URL when using -T and the
file name is appended to the URL.
* configure --enable-libgcc now explicitly add -lgcc to the linker
* better configure checks for headers (since some platforms got nasty warnings output previously)
* configure --help looks nicer
* data transfer bug on HP-UX systems
* improved random seeding for systems without a reliable random source
* 64bit Sparc compiler warnings removed
* a case where a connect failure didn't return an error string
* DNS cache problem in AIX 4.3 and later was fixed
* a POST-then-GET problem when re-using the same handle in libcurl
* extra precaution added for FTP servers returning 0 bytes to SIZE commands
* looping issue in the receive function (i.e badly updated progress meter)
* Fixed the 'Expect: 100-continue' behavior
* CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS segfault fixed
* multi-interface connecting on Windows to non-listening ports fixed
* Curl_base64_encode() now encodes zero-bytes too properly
* fixed the infamous SSL error:00000000 outputs
* zlib build fix in the mingw makefile
* don't check for ca cert env variable if --insecure is used
* always use strict cert name check unless --insecure is used
* content-type extracting fixed
* DEBUGFUNCTION could be called with wrong arguments in uploads
* ftp downloads could wrongly return CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE in some conditions
* the fopen.c example code didn't work
* content-type extracting memory leak fixed
* curl/multi.h was fixed for C++ compiles
* .netrc file scanning for names+passwored fixed
* curl-config --cflags works even when include dirs isn't /usr/include
* CURLINFO_PRIVATE can return NULL properly
Patches by Adrian Portelli <adrianp@stindustries.net> (PR#20142)
Changes :
- Steve Oliphant pointed out that test case 105 did not work anymore
and this was due to a missing fix for the password prompting.
- Bryan Kemp pointed out that curl -u could not provide a blank password
without prompting the user. It can now. -u username: makes the password
empty, while -u username makes curl prompt the user for a password.
- Kjetil Jacobsen found a remaining connect problem in the multi interface
on ipv4 systems (Linux only?), that I fixed and Kjetil verified that it
fixed his problems.
- memanalyze.pl now reads a file name from the command line, and no longer
takes the data on stdin as before.
- Fixed tests/memanalyze.pl to work with file names that contain colons
(as on Windows).
- Kjetil Jacobsen quickly pointed out that lib/share.h was missing...
* For more, see CHANGES.
Changes since 7.10.1:
- Dave Halbakken added curl_version_info to lib/libcurl.def to make libcurl
properly build with MSVC on Windows.
- Doing HTTP PUT without a specified file size now makes libcurl use
Transfer-Encoding: chunked.
- Bug report #634625 identified how curl returned timeout immediately when
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT was used and provided a fix.
- Lehel Bernadt found out and fixed. libcurl sent error message to the debug
output when it stored the error message.
- Avery Fay found some problems with the DNS cache (when the cache time was
set to 0 we got a memory leak, but when the leak was fixed he got a crash
when he used the CURLOPT_INTERFACE with that) that had me do some real
restructuring so that we now have a reference counter in the dns cache
entries to prevent an entry to get flushed while still actually in use.
I also detected that we previously didn't update the time stamp when we
extracted an entry from the cache so that must've been a reason for some
very weird dns cache bugs.
- Downgraded automake to 1.6.3 in an attempt to fix cygwin problems. (It
turned out this didn't help though.)
- Disable the DNS cache (by setting the timeout to 0) made libcurl leak
memory. Avery Fay brought the example code that proved this.
- Upgraded to autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7 on the release-build host.
- Kevin Roth made the command line tool check for a CURL_CA_BUNDLE environment
variable (if --cacert isn't used) and if not set, the Windows version will
check for a file named "curl-ca-bundle.crt" in the current directory or the
directory where curl is located. That file is then used as CA root cert
bundle.
- Avery Fay pointed out that curl's configure scrip didn't get right if you
used autoconf newer than 2.52. This was due to some badly quoted code.
- Emiliano Ida confirmed that we now build properly with the Borland C++
compiler too. We needed yet another fix for the ISO cpp check in the curl.h
header file.
- Yet another fix was needed to get the HTTP download without headers to work.
This time it was needed if the first "believed header" was read all in the
first read. Test 306 has not run properly since the 11th october fix.
- Zvi Har'El pointed out a problem with curl's name resolving on Redhat 8
machines (running IPv6 disabled). Mats Lidell let me use an account on his
machine and I could verify that gethostbyname_r() has been changed to return
EAGAIN instead of ERANGE when the given buffer size is too small. This is
glibc 2.2.93.
- Albert Chin helped me get the -no-undefined option corrected in
lib/Makefile.am since Cygwin builds want it there while Solaris builds don't
want it present. Kevin Roth helped me try it out on cygwin.
- Nikita Schmidt provided a bug fix for a FOLLOWLOCATION bug introduced when
the ../ support got in (7.10.1).
- Fabrizio Ammollo pointed out a remaining problem with FOLLOWLOCATION in
the multi interface.
- Richard Cooper's experimenting proved that -j (CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION) didn't
work quite as supposed. You needed to set it *before* you use
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, and we dont' want that kind of dependencies.
- Andrés García provided corrections for erratas in four libcurl man pages.
- Starting now, we generate and include PDF versions of all the docs in the
release archives.
- Trying to connect to a host on a bad port number caused the multi interface
to never return failure and it appeared to keep on trying forever (it just
didn't do anything).
- Downloading HTTP without headers didn't work 100%, some of the initial data
got written twice. Kevin Roth reported.
- Kevin Roth found out the "config file" parser in the client code could
segfault, like if DOS newlines were used.
Changes :
- Jeff Lawson fixed a few problems with connection re-use that remained when
you set CURLOPT_PROXY to "".
- Craig Davison found a terrible flaw and Cris Bailiff helped out in the
search. Getting HTTP data from servers when the headers are split up in
multiple reads, could cause junk data to get inserted among the saved
headers. This only concerns HTTP(S) headers.
- Vincent Penquerc'h gave us the good suggestion that when the ERRRORBUFFER
is set internally, the error text is sent to the debug function as well.
- Fixed the telnet code to timeout properly as the option tells it to. On
non-windows platforms.
- John Crow pointed out that libcurl-the-guide wasn't included in the release
tarball!
- Kevin Roth pointed out that make install didn't do right if build outside
the source tree (ca-bundle wise).
- FOLLOW_LOCATION bugfix for the multi interface
[trim], more see CHANGES.
- fmt on DESCR
- Regen PLIST
- Remove patch since it was applied
Changes since curl-7.9.5
(Lots of change, here is the recently changes, see CHANGE for more)
- Dirk Manske brought a fix that makes libcurl strip off white
spaces from the beginning of cookie contents.
- Had to patch include/curl/curl.h since MSVC doesn't set the
__STDC__ define. Moonesamy pointed out the problem, Bjorn Reese
the solution.
- Fixed the TIMER_CONNECT to be more accurate for FTP transfers.
Previously FTP transfers got the "connect done" time set after
the initial FTP commands and not directly after the TCP/IP connect
as it should.
- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre provided his patch that introduces
CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA. They allow a program
to a set a callback to receive debug/information data. That
includes headers and data that is received and sent. CURLOPT_VERBOSE
still controls it.
By default, there is an internal debugfunction that will make
things look and work as before if not changed.
- Sebastien Willemijns found out that -x didn't use the default
port number as is documented. It does now.
- libcurl-errors.3 is a new man page attempting to document all
libcurl error codes
LTCONFIG_OVERRIDE changed to LIBTOOL_OVERRIDE.
GNU make no longer needed.
Install some documentation in ${PREFIX}/share/doc/curl, and examples of
libcurl usage in ${PREFIX}/share/examples/curl.
XXX A buildlink.mk would be nice to have...
Bump PKGREVISION for the PLIST additions.
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Version 7.9.5
Daniel (7 March 2002)
- Added docs/KNOWN_BUGS to the release archive.
Daniel (6 March 2002)
- Kevin Roth corrected a flaw in the curl client globbing code that made it
mess up backslashes. This was most notable on windows (cygwin) machines when
using file://.
- Brad provided another fix for building outside the source-tree.
- Ralph Mitchell patched away a few compiler warnings in tests/server/sws.c
Daniel (5 March 2002)
- I noticed that the typedef in curl.h for the progress callback prototype was
wrong and thus applications that used it would not get the proper input
data. It used size_t where the implementation actually uses doubles!
I wish I could blame someone else, but this was my fault. Again.
Version 7.9.5-pre6
Daniel (4 March 2002)
- Cut off the changes done during 2001 from this changelog file and put them
in a separate file (CHANGES.2001), available from CVS of course.
- I removed the multi directory. The example sources were moved to the
docs/examples directory where they belong.
- Wrote 7 new man pages for the current functions in the new multi interface.
They're all still pretty basic, but we can use them as a start and add more
contents to them when we figure out what to write. The large amount of man
pages for libcurl now present made me decide to put them in a new separate
subdirectory in the docs directory. Named libcurl.
- Giuseppe Corbelli provided a template file for the EPM package manager, it
gets generated nicely by the configure script now.
Version 7.9.5-pre5
Daniel (1 March 2002)
- Moved the memanalyze.pl script into the tests/ dir and added it to the
release archives. It was previously only present in the CVS tree.
- Modified the February 17th Host: fix, as bug report #523718 pointed out that
it caused crashes!
- Nico Baggus added more error codes to the VMS stuff.
- Wesley Laxton brought the code that introduced the new CURLOPT_PREQUOTE
option. It is just another FTP quote option that allows the user to specify
a list of FTP commands to issue *just before* the transfer command (RETR or
STOR etc). It has turned up a few systems that really need this.
The curl command line tool can also take advantage of this by prefixing the
quote commands with a plus (+) in similar style that post transfer quote
commands are specified.
This is not yet documented. There is no test case for this yet.
Daniel (28 February 2002)
- Ralph Mitchell made some serious efforts and put a lot of sweat in setting
up scripts and things for me to be able to repeat his problems, and I
finally could. I found a problem with the header byte counter that wasn't
increased properly and thus we could return CURLE_GOT_NOTHING when we in
fact had received data.
Daniel (27 February 2002)
- I had to revert the non-space parsing cookie fix I posted to the mailing
list. Expire dates do have spaces and still need to get parsed properly!
Instead we just ignore trailing white space and it seems to work...
Daniel (26 February 2002)
- Made the cookie property 'Max-Age' work, just since we already tried to
support it, it is better to do it right. No one uses this anyway.
- The cookie parser could crash if a really weird (illegal) cookie line was
received. I also made it better discard really oddly formatted lines better.
Made the cookie jar store the second field from the left using the syntax
that Netscape and Mozilla probably like. Curl itself ignores it.
Added test case 31 for these cases.
Clay Loveless' email regarding some cookie issues started my cleanup.
- Kevin Roth pointed out that my automake fiddles broke the ability to build
outside the source-tree and I posted a patch to the mailing list that brings
this ability back.
Version 7.9.5-pre4
Daniel (25 February 2002)
- Fiddled with the automake files to make all source files in the lib
directory not have ../src in the include path, and the src sources shouldn't
have ../lib!
- All 79 test cases ran OK under Linux and Solaris using the new HTTP server
in the test suite. The new HTTP server was first donated by Georg Horn and
subsequently modified to work with the test suite. It is currently still not
portable enough to run on "all over" but this is a start and I can run all
curl tests on my machines. This is an important requirement for the upcoming
public release.
- Using -d and -I on the same command line now reports an error, as it implies
two different HTTP requests that can't be mixed.
- Jeffrey Pohlmeyer provided a patch that made the -w/--write-out option
support %{content_type} to get the content type of the recent download.
- Kevin Roth reported that pre2 and pre3 didn't compile properly on cygwin,
and this was because I used #ifdef HAVE_WINSOCK_H in lib/multi.h to figure
out if we could include winsock.h which turns out not to be a wise choice to
do on cygwin since it has the file but can't include it!
Daniel (22 February 2002)
- Added src/config-vms.h to the release archive.
- Fixed the connection timeout value again, the change from February 18 wasn't
complete.
Version 7.9.5-pre3
Daniel (21 February 2002)
- Kevin Roth and Andrés García both found out that lib/config.h.in was missing
in the pre-release archive and thus the configure script failed.
Version 7.9.5-pre2
Daniel (20 February 2002)
- Andrés García provided a solution to bug report #515228. the total time
counter was not set correctly when -I was used during some conditions (all
headers were read in one single read).
- Nico Baggus provided a huge patch with minor tweaks all over to make curl
compile nicely on VMS.
Daniel (19 February 2002)
- Rick Richardson found out that by replacing PF_UNSPEC with PF_INET in the
getaddrinfo() calls, he could speed up some name resolving calls with an
order of magnitudes on his Redhat Linux 7.2.
- Philip Gladstone found a second INADDR_NONE problem where we used long
intead of in_addr_t which caused 64bit problemos. We really shouldn't define
that on two different places.
Daniel (18 February 2002)
- Philip Gladstone found a problem in how HTTP requests were sent if the
request couldn't be sent all at once.
- Emil found and corrected a bad connection timeout comparison that made curl
use the longest of connect-timeout and timout as a timeout value, instead of
the shortest as it was supposed to!
- Aron Roberts provided updated information about LDAP URL syntax to go into
the manual as a replacement for the old references.
Daniel (17 February 2002)
- Philip Gladstone pointed out two missing include files that made curl core
dump on 64bit architectures. We need to pay more attention on these details.
It is *lethal* to for example forget the malloc() prototype, as 'int' is
32bit and malloc() must return a 64bit pointer on these platforms.
- Giaslas Georgios fixed a problem with Host: headers on repeated requests on
the same handle using a proxy.
Daniel (8 February 2002)
- Hanno L. Kranzhoff accurately found out that disabling the Expect: header
when doing multipart formposts didn't work very well. It disabled other
parts of the request header too, resulting in a broken header. When I fixed
this, I also noticed that the Content-Type wasn't possible to disable. It is
now, even though it probably is really stupid to try to do this (because of
the boundary string that is included in the internally generated header,
used as form part separator.)
Daniel (7 February 2002)
- I moved the config*.h files from the root directory to the lib/ directory.
- I've added the new test suite HTTP server to the CVS repository, It seems to
work pretty good now, but we must make it get used by the test scripts
properly and then we need to make sure that it compiles, builds and runs on
most operating systems.
Version 7.9.5-pre1
Daniel (6 February 2002)
- Miklos Nemeth provided updated windows makefiles and INSTALL docs.
- Mr Larry Fahnoe found a problem with formposts and I managed to track down
and patch this bug. This was actually two bugs, as the posted size was also
said to be two bytes too large.
- Brent Beardsley found out and brought a correction for the
CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE parser that was off one byte. This was my fault, I
accidentaly broke Giaslas Georgios' patch.
Daniel (5 February 2002)
- Kevin Roth found yet another SSL download problem.
Version 7.9.4
- no changes since pre-release
Version 7.9.4-pre2
Daniel (3 February 2002)
- Eric Melville provided a few spelling corrections in the curl man page.
Daniel (1 February 2002)
- Andreas Damm corrected the unconditional use of gmtime() in getdate, it now
uses gmtime_r() on all hosts that have it.
Daniel (31 January 2002)
- An anonymous bug report identified a problem in the DNS caching which made it
sometimes allocate one byte too little to store the cache entry in. This
happened when the port number started with 1!
- Albert Chin provided a patch that improves the gethostbyname_r() configure
check on HP-UX 11.00.
Version 7.9.4-pre1
Daniel (30 January 2002)
- Georg Horn found another way the SSL reading failed due to the non-blocking
state of the sockets! I fixed.
Daniel (29 January 2002)
- Multipart formposts now send the full request properly, including the CRLF.
They were previously treated as part of the post data.
- The upload byte counter bugged.
- T. Bharath pointed out that we seed SSL on every connect, which is a time-
consuming operation that should only be needed to do once. We patched
libcurl to now only seed on the first connect when unseeded. The seeded
status is global so it'll now only happen once during a program's life time.
If the random_file or egdsocket is set, the seed will be re-made though.
- Giaslas Georgios introduced CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE that lets
curl_easy_getinfo() read the content-type from the previous request.
Daniel (28 January 2002)
- Kjetil Jacobsen found a way to crash curl and after much debugging, it
turned out it was a IPv4-linux only problem introduced in 7.9.3 related to
name resolving.
- Andreas Damm posted a huge patch that made the curl_getdate() function fully
reentrant!
- Steve Marx pointed out that you couldn't mix CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST with
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. You can now!
Daniel (25 January 2002)
- Krishnendu Majumdar pointed out that the header length counter was not reset
between multiple requests on the same handle.
- Pedro Neves rightfully questioned why curl always append \r\n to the data
that is sent in HTTP POST requests. Unfortunately, this broke the test suite
as the test HTTP server is lame enough not to deal with this... :-O
- Following Location: headers when the connection didn't close didn't work as
libcurl didn't properly stop reading. This problem was added in 7.9.3 due to
the restructured internals. 'Frank' posted a bug report about this.
Daniel (24 January 2002)
- Kevin Roth very quickly spotted that we wrongly installed the example
programs that were built in the multi directory, when 'make install' was
used. :-/
Version 7.9.3
Daniel (23 January 2002)
- Andrés García found a persistancy problem when doing HTTP HEAD, that made
curl "hang" until the connection was closed by the server. This problem has
been introduced in 7.9.3 due to internal rewrites, this was not present in
7.9.2.
Version 7.9.3-pre4
Daniel (19 January 2002)
- Antonio filed bug report #505514 and provided a fix! When doing multipart
formposts, libcurl would include an error text in the actual post if a
specified file wasn't found. This is not libcurl's job. Instead we add an
empty part.
Daniel (18 January 2002)
- Played around with stricter compiler warnings for gcc (when ./configure
--enable-debug is used) and changed some minor things to stop the warnings.
- Commented out the 'long long' and 'long double' checks in configure.in, as
we don't currently use them anyway and the code in lib/mprintf.c that use
them causes warnings.
- Saul Good and jonatan pointed out Mac OS X build problems with pre3 and how
to correct them. Two compiler warnings were removed as well.
- Andrés García fixed two minor mingw32 building problems.
Version 7.9.3-pre3
Daniel (17 January 2002)
- docs/libcurl-the-guide is a new tutorial for our libcurl programming
friends.
- Richard Archer brought back the ability to compile and build with OpenSSL
versions before 0.9.5.
[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=504163&group_id=976]
- The DNS cache code didn't take the port number into account, which made it
work rather bad on IPv6-enabled hosts (especially when doing passive
FTP). Sterling fixed it.
Daniel (16 January 2002)
- Georg Horn could make a transfer time-out without error text. I found it and
corrected it.
- SSL writes didn't work, they return an uninitialized value that caused
havoc all over. Georg Horn experienced this.
- Kevin Roth patched the curl_version() function to use the proper OpenSSL
function for version information. This way, curl will report the version of
the SSL library actually running right now, not the one that had its headers
installed when libcurl was built. Mainly intersting when running with shared
OpenSSL libraries.
Version 7.9.3-pre2
Daniel (16 January 2002)
- Mofied the main transfer loop and related stuff to deal with non-blocking
sockets in the upload section. While doing this, I've now separated the
connection oriented buffers to have one for downloads and one for uploads
(as two can happen simultaneously). I also shrunk the buffers to 20K
each. As we have a scratch buffer twice the size of the upload buffer, we
arrived at 80K for buffers compared with the previous 150K.
- Added the --cc option to curl-config command as it enables so very cool
one-liners. Have a go a this one, building the simple.c example:
$ `curl-config --cc --cflags --libs` -o example simple.c
Daniel (14 January 2002)
- I made all socket reads (recv) handle EWOULDBLOCK. I hope nicely. Now we
only need to address all writes (send) too and then I'm ready for another
pre-release...
- Stoned Elipot patched the in_addr_t configure test to make it work better on
more platforms.
Daniel (9 January 2002)
- Cris Bailiff found out that filling up curl's SSL session cache caused a
crash!
- Posted the curl questionnaire on the web site. If you haven't posted your
opinions there yet, go there and do it now while it is still there:
http://curl.haxx.se/q/
- Georg Horn quickly found out that the SSL reading no longer worked as
supposed since the switch to non-blocking sockets. I've made a quick patch
(for reading only) but we should improve it even further.
Version 7.9.3-pre1
Daniel (7 January 2002)
- I made the 'bool' typedef use an "unsigned char". It makes it the same on
all platforms, no matter what the platform thinks the default format for
char is. This was noticed since we made a silly comparison involving such a
bool variable, and only one compiler/platform combination (on Debian Linux)
complained about it (that happened to have its char unsigned by default).
- Bug report #495290 identified a cookie parsing problem that was corrected.
When a Set-Cookie: line is received without a trailing semicolon, libcurl
didn't read the last "name=value" pair of the line, leading to confusions...
- Sterling committed his updated DNS cache code.
- I worked with Georg Horn and comments from Götz Babin-Ebell and switched
curl's socket operations completely over to non-blocking for the entire
operation (previously we used non-blocking only for the connection phase).
We had to do this to make the SSL connection phase timeout properly without
the use of signals. A little extra code to deal with this was added.
- T. Bharath pointed out a slightly obscure cookie engine flaw.
- Pete Su pointed out that libcurl didn't treat HTTP code 204 as it should.
204-replies never provides a response-body. This resulted in bad persistant
behavior when 204 was received.
Daniel (5 January 2002)
- SM updated the VC++ library Makefiles for the new source files.
Daniel (4 January 2002)
- I discovered that we wrongly used inet_ntoa() (instead of inet_ntoa_r() in
two places in the source code). One happened with VERBOSE set on connects,
and the other when VERBOSE was on and krb4 over nat was used... I honestly
don't think anyone has suffered from these mistakes.
- I replaced a lot of silly occurances of printf() to instead use the more
appropriate Curl_infof() or Curl_failf(). The krb4 and telnet code were
affected.
- Philip Gladstone found a few more problems with 64-bit archs (the 64-bit
sparc on solaris 8).
- After discussions on the libcurl list with Raoul Cridlig, I just made FTP
response lines get passed to the header callback if such a one is
registered. It'll make it possible for any application to get all the
responses an FTP server sends to libcurl.
Daniel (3 January 2002)
- Sterling Hughes brought a few buckets of code. Now, libcurl will
automatically cache DNS lookups and re-use the previous results first if any
such is available. It greatly improves speed when doing many repeated
operations to the same host.
- As the test case uses --include and then --head, I had to modify src/main.c
to deal with this situation slightly better than previously. When done, we
have 100% good tests again in the main branch.
Daniel (2 January 2002)
- Made test case 25 run again in the multi-dev branch. But it seems that the
changes done on dec-20 made test case 104 cease to work (in both branches).
- Philip Gladstone pointed out a few portability problems in the source code
that didn't compile on 64-bit sparcs using Sun's native
Trivial patch on configure which fixes compilation on NetBSD/!i386 added.
Fixed in 7.9.2
- compiles and builds on the good old Mac OS (in addition to Mac OS X)
- bugfixed persistant connections over proxy with multiple protocols
- --disable-epsv is a new option to the curl command line tool
- bugfixed verbose ftp output on Tru64 unix
- added CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV
- passive ftp download works with IPv6
- always return proper error code on failed connects
- bugfixed FTP response reader
- bugfixed verbose telnet
- added CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME
- bugfixed conditional HTTP fetches based on time
- multiple calls to curl_global_init() is now treated better
- bugfixed multiple ftp requests
- made -p/--proxytunnel work for plain HTTP as well
- "current speed" progress meter bugfix
- improved the name resolver configure check
- libcurl now restores signal handlers and timeouts properly
- improved SSL over HTTP-proxy when using weird proxies(!)
- added the -1/--TLSv1 option
- bugfixed LDAP transfers
Fixed in 7.9.1
much better connection re-use validity check
bugfixed connection re-use for FTP urls containing name and password
LDAP transfers no longer "hang"
a memory leak in the cookie engine was removed
CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is a new possible error code
curl_easy_duphandle() now duplicates cookie parser status too
--fail now only returns error if HTTP code is >= 400
a possible memory leak when a transfer failed was removed
builds better in cygwin
"current speed" meter more accurate
-c without -b saves the cookies now
-0/--http1.0 can now be used to set HTTP 1.0 operations
bugfixed libcurl for "thread-hopping" on Windows
removed memory leak in IPv6-enabled libcurl
'curl' no longer uses curl_formparse()
non-blocking connects
bugfixed curl_formadd()
bugfixed CURLINFO_FILETIME
bugfixed cookiejar
Fixed in 7.9
now properly returns an error code when connection to an SSL server
with a non-legitimate certificate.
displays certificate expire date with SSL and verbose output
-R sets the timestamp of a downloaded file to the same as the remote
file
-c writes all cookies to a specified file (based on the new libcurl
option CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR)
SSL session ID caching is being done for multiple requests to the same
hosts
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE can now be specified any number of times
fixed portability issue in the SSL code
-G improvements, now works with -I and on URLs including question mark.
various windows compile, build and makefile fixes
multiple curl_easy_perform() invokes when a previous invoke followed a
Location: could lead to a crash
curl_formadd() is a new function to replace the now deprecated
curl_formparse() one, for building rfc1867 form posts.
rfc1867-posts are now done including the Expect: 100-continue header.
release archive now includes all docs as HTML pages too
flushes the progress meter stream to improve look on windows
fixed the configure script --with-ssl problem
Fixed 7.8
'curl-config --vernum' shows version number as a hexadecimal number
libcurl's got two new functions (for global init/cleanup)
SSL memory leak fixed
new file format for the tests in the test suite
netscape/mozilla cookie file parser bugfix
everything is now built with autoconf 2.50, libtool 1.4
and automake 1.4-p1
libcurl's own version of 'strlcat' no longer pollutes the name space
libcurl now treats an already completed resumed download as a
successful operation, and not as an error like before
https and ftps test cases added to the test suite (depend on stunnel)
better white space awareness when parsing HTTP headers
curl -I now plays ball even if the ftp server doesn't grok SIZE
corrected resumed transfers on re-used persistent connections
FTP PORT works again when libcurl is IPv6-enabled
corrected path usage when doing multiple FTP transfers
several Location: header related bugs corrected
Version 7.7.1
Daniel (3 April 2001)
- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.
- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistant and non-
persistant connections. I think I've fixed it now.
Daniel (29 March 2001)
- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.
- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the
control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted
connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used
that to verify the functionality.
Daniel (27 March 2001)
- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried
to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent
after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly!
- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny
example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the
examples.
Version 7.7.1-beta1
Daniel (26 March 2001)
- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistant HTTP/1.0
connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the
curl-and-php mailing list.
Daniel (24 March 2001)
- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it,
which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a
way that gnroff doesn't like.
Daniel (23 March 2001)
- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of
$(MAKE) for the test target.
- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not
curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7!
- SM provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ).
- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string
in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an
application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report
from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then
caused a libcurl crash!
- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously,
curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one.
- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl
http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which
made the second request return very odd results.
Daniel (22 March 2001)
- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests
when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses
GET in the following request(s).
- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of
curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same
connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly.
- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks
like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion.
Version 7.7
Daniel (22 March 2001)
- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is
detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of
arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andrés García made me aware
of this need.
- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape
functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The
escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one
had.
- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up.
Version 7.7-beta5
Daniel (19 March 2001)
- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense
that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this
problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was
added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right.
- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do
form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header
engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT
and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616
has all the details. Seems to work now!
Daniel (16 March 2001)
- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back.
- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release
archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs,
examples and updates you think fit.
- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples
into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please
help me here as well!
- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a
"chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts
even if the Content-Length: size is unknown.
Daniel (15 March 2001)
- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the
connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire
file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others.
I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the
item from the TODO.
Version 7.7-beta4
Daniel (14 March 2001)
- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely
again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set.
I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with
curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then!
- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was
a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't
work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use
getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try
that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't
have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info.
- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with
user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute,
without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and
crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that
tests this.
- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request
data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range
of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously.
- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details.
Version 7.7-beta3
Daniel (14 March 2001)
- Björn Stenberg provided similar fixes as Jörn did and some additional patches
for non-SSL compiles.
- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level
functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the
Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to
curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still
undocumented).
This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with
just a drop-in replacement.
- Jörn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles:
o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t
o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement
o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again
o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files
o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state
Daniel (13 March 2001)
- It only took an hour or so before Jörn Hartroth found a problem in the
chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot
the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top
of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly
wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data
in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted).
Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well.
Version 7.7-beta2
Daniel (13 March 2001)
- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported
policies.
- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies
CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now
supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy
is chosen.
Daniel (12 March 2001)
- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the
SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl
client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I
need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember
that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered
weak (HTTPS connections).
- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length
and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is
the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60
test cases.
- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the
persistant connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly
thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now
implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new
implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,
CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are:
CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION.
- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistant
connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file
transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK.
I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well.
- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so
that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple
connections... Now I get 100% test case OK.
- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are
all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are
located. Horrible.
- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing
that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though
(Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what
the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot
of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe.
Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP)
not supporting persistant connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have
to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK.
Daniel (8 March 2001)
- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if
MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if
there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected.
Version 7.7-beta1
Daniel (8 March 2001)
- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've
added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine.
- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers.
Daniel (5 March 2001)
- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works
using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't
handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this.
- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It
should make it a lot nicer library-wise.
- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first-
then-do approach.
Daniel (4 March 2001)
- More bugs erased.
Version 7.7-alpha2
Daniel (4 March 2001)
- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive
before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will
then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection!
Daniel (2 March 2001)
- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness!
- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has
proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistant connections. They do
not work intermixed yet though.
Daniel (1 March 2001)
- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that
curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does
now.
Daniel (22 February 2001)
- The persistant connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent
request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection
if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one.
- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page
that I applied.
Daniel (20 February 2001)
- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends.
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and
improvements:
* Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does.
* Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only
XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV).
* Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used.
* Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!)
- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of
struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific
data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the
mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs
and more will follow.
Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistant connections should
work. Seems cool enough.
Daniel (19 February 2001)
- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project
easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file.
- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the
library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The
low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality.
Daniel (15 February 2001)
- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in
libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to
switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL
string switches off the POST again.
- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn
Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistant connections into
libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made
to older programs and they will just start using persistant connections when
applicable!
Daniel (13 February 2001)
- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages.
Suggested by Larry Fahnoe.
Version 7.6.1
Daniel (9 February 2001)
- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.
Daniel (8 February 2001)
- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty
password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to
support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user
and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you
specify you want the prompt otherwise?
- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and
HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes).
- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue.
- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on
request.
- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly.
Version 7.6.1-pre3
Daniel (7 February 2001)
- SM found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that could make
libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if libcurl got -1
returned when reading the socket.
- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
results from the proxy connection.
Daniel (6 February 2001)
- A friendly person named "SM" (nntp at iname.com) pointed out that the VC
makefile in src/ needed the libpath set for the debug build to work.
- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
brought up yesterday.
Daniel (5 February 2001)
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
a bunch of different areas within libcurl.
- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone?
Daniel (4 February 2001)
- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
was done after discussions with Bob Schader.
Daniel (3 February 2001)
- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to
not include WIN32 anymore.
Version 7.6.1-pre2
Daniel (31 January 2001)
- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
possibility to weird behaviour all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
find this.
- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc.
Daniel (30 January 2001)
- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and
now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows
a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server
doesn't seem to support range requests.
Daniel (29 January 2001)
- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33).
Version 7.6.1-pre1
Daniel (29 January 2001)
- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end
and it works for him.
Daniel (27 January 2001)
- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a
Content-Range header when resuming a PUT.
- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP
download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field
in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for
this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing.
- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP.
- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It
makes the output slightly better for resumes.
- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt
to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a
URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on
what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a
second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported.
I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff.
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