To be addressed before 7.18.0 (planned release: January 2008)
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114 - Ranged downloads on file:// URLs by Daniel Egger (minor work left)
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0049.html (patch)
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0058.html (comments)

115 - Cleanup debugging messages in test harness, introduced for new minimum
      SSH version support for SCP, SFTP and SOCKS tests
      
117 - Eric Landes patch for introducing the --tcp-keep* options
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0038.html (review, consider)

Less likely to go in 7.18.0
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112 - pipelining patch(es) from Dmitry Kurochkin (outstanding work left probably
      no longer targeted for this release)
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-12/0252.html

118 - 
