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Daniel (2 November 2004)
- 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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Daniel (16 October 2004)
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- Alexander Krasnostavsky made the CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS option work
fine even for third party transfers.
- runekl at opoint.com found out (and provided a fix) that libcurl leaked
memory for cookies with the "max-age" field set.
Gisle (16 October 2004)
- Issue 50 in TODO-RELEASE; Added Traian Nicolescu's patches for threaded
resolver on Windows. Plugged some potential handle and memory leaks.
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Daniel (14 October 2004)
- Eric Vergnaud pointed out that libcurl didn't treat ?-letters in the user
name and password fields properly in URLs, like
ftp://us?er:pass?word@site.com/. Added test 191 to verify the fix.
Daniel (11 October 2004)
- libcurl now uses SO_NOSIGPIPE for systems that support it (Mac OS X 10.2 or
later is one) to inhibit the SIGPIPE signal when writing to a socket while
the peer dies. The same effect is provide by the MSG_NOSIGNAL parameter to
send() on other systems. Alan Pinstein verified the fix.
Daniel (10 October 2004)
- Systems with 64bit longs no longeruse strtoll() or our strtoll- replacement
to parse 64 bit numbers. strtol() works fine. Added a configure check to
detect if [constant]LL works and if so, use that in the strtoll replacement
code to work around compiler warnings reported by Andy Cedilnik.
Gisle (6 October 2004)
- For USE_LIBIDN builds: Added Top-Level-Domain (TLD) check of host-name
used in fix_hostname(). Checks if characters in 'host->name' (indirectly
via 'ace_hostname') are legal according to the TLD tables in libidn.
- Chih-Chung Chang reported that if you use CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM and enabled
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, libcurl reported error if a redirect happened even
if the new URL would provide the resumed file. Test case 188 added to verify
the fix (together with existing test 99).
- Dan Fandrich fixed a configure flaw for systems that need both nsl and socket
libs to use gethostbyname().
- Removed tabs and trailing whitespace from lots of source files.
Daniel (5 October 2004)
- Made configure --with-libidn=PATH try the given PATH before the default
paths to make it possible to override.
- If idna_strerror() is present in libidn, we can use that instead of our
internal replacement. This function was added by Simon in libidn 0.5.6 and
is detected by configure.
- It seems basename() on IRIX is in the libgen library and since we don't use
that, configure finds libgen.h but not basename and then we get a compiler
error because our basename() replacement doesn't match the proto in
libgen.h. Starting now, we don't include the file if basename wasn't found
as well.
Daniel (4 October 2004)
- Chris found a race condition resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST and
potential crash, in the windows threaded name resolver code.
Daniel (3 October 2004)
- Replaced the use of isspace() in cookie.c with our own version instead since
we have most data as 'char *' and that makes us pass in negative values if
there is 8bit data in the string. Changing to unsigned causes too much
warnings or too many required typecasts to the normal string functions.
Harshal Pradhan identified this problem.
Daniel (2 October 2004)
- Bertrand Demiddelaer found a case where libcurl could read already freed
data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very) persistent connection. It
happened when the dns cache entry for the connection was pruned while the
connection was still alive and then again re-used. We worked together on
this fix.
- Gisle Vanem provided code that displays an error message when the (libidn
based) IDN conversion fails. This is really due to a missing suitable
function in the libidn API that I hope we can remove once libidn gets a
function like this.
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Daniel (1 October 2004)
- Aleksandar Milivojevic reported a problem in the Redhat bugzilla (see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134133) and not to
anyone involved in the curl project! This happens when you try to curl a
file from a proftpd site using SSL. It seems proftpd sends a somewhat
unorthodox response code (232 instead of 230). I relaxed the response code
check to deal with this and similar cases.
Daniel Stenberg
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- Based on Fedor Karpelevitch's formpost path basename patch, file parts in
formposts no longer include the path part. If you _really_ want them, you
must provide your preferred full file name with CURLFORM_FILENAME.
Added detection for libgen.h and basename() to configure. My custom
basename() replacement function for systems without it, might be a bit too
naive...
Updated 6 test cases to make them work with the stripped paths.
Daniel (30 September 2004)
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- Larry Campbell added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to curl_easy_getinfo() that allows an
app to retrieve the errno variable after a (connect) failure. It will make
sense to provide this for more failures in a more generic way, but let's
start like this.
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- Günter Knauf and Casey O'Donnell worked out an extra #if condition for the
curl/multi.h header to work better in winsock-using apps.
- Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre made buildconf run better on Mac OS X by
properly using glibtoolize instead of plain libtoolize. (This is made if
glibtool was found and used instead of plain libtool.)
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Daniel (29 September 2004)
- Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed curl_easy_reset() so that it doesn't mistakingly
enable the progress meter.
Daniel (28 September 2004)
- "Mekonikum" found out that if you built curl without SSL support, although
your current SSL installation supports Engine, the compile fails.
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