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  The A) case is mostly to reduce the default header size and remove a
  pointless header.

  The B) is to address (rare) problems with HTTP 1.0 proxies

  The C) headers are both to address (rare) problems with some proxies. The
  code in libcurl that deals with CONNECT requests need a rewrite, but it
  feels like a too big a job for me to do now. Details are added in the code
  comments for now.

  Updated a large amount of test cases to reflect the news.

Daniel (10 May 2005)
- Half-baked attempt to bail out if select() returns _only_ errorfds when the
  transfer is in progress. An attempt to fix Allan's problem. See
  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-05/0073.html and the rest of that thread
  for details.

  I'm still not sure this is the right fix, but...

Version 7.14.0-pre1 (9 May 2005)

Daniel (2 May 2005)
- Sort of "fixed" KNOWN_BUGS #4: curl now builds IPv6 enabled on AIX 4.3. At
  least it should no longer cause a compiler error. However, it does not have
  AI_NUMERICHOST so we cannot getaddrinfo() any numerical addresses with it
  (we use that for FTP PORT/EPRT)! So, I modified the configure check that
  checks if the getaddrinfo() is working, to use AI_NUMERICHOST since then
  it'll fail on AIX 4.3 and it will automatically build with IPv6 support
  disabled.

- Added --trace-time that when used adds a time stamp to each trace line that
  --trace, --trace-ascii and --verbose output. I also made the '>' display
  separate each line on the linefeed so that HTTP requests etc look nicer in
  the -v output.

- Made curl recognize the environment variables Lynx (and others?) support for
  pointing out the CA cert path/file: SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE. If
  CURL_CA_BUNDLE is not set, they are checked afterwards.

  Like before: on windows if none of these are set, it checks for the ca cert
  file like this:

  1. application's directory
  2. current working directory
  3. Windows System directory (e.g. C:\windows\system32)
  4. Windows Directory (e.g. C:\windows)
  5. all directories along %PATH%

Daniel (1 May 2005)
- The runtests.pl script now starts test servers by doing fork() and exec()
  instead of the previous approach. This is less complicated and should
  hopefully lead to less "leaked" servers (servers that aren't stopped
  properly when the tests are stopped).

- Alexander Zhuravlev found a case when you did "curl -I [URL]" and it
  complained on the chunked encoding, even though a HEAD should never return a
  body and thus it cannot be a chunked-encoding problem!

Daniel (30 April 2005)
- Alexander Zhuravlev found out that (lib)curl SIGSEGVed when using
  --interface on an address that can't be bound.

Daniel (28 April 2005)
- Working on fixing up test cases to mark sections as 'mode=text' for things
  that curl writes as text files, since then they can get different line
  endings depending on OS. Andrés García helps me work this out.

  Did lots of other minor tweaks on the test scripts to work better and more
  reliably find test servers and also kill test servers.

- Dan Fandrich pointed out how the runtests.pl script killed the HTTP server
  instead of the HTTPS server when closing it down.

Daniel (27 April 2005)
- Paul Moore made curl check for the .curlrc file (_curlrc on windows) on two
  more places. First, CURL_HOME is a new environment variable that is used
  instead of HOME if it is set, to point out where the default config file
  lives. If there's no config file in the dir pointed out by one of the
  environment variables, the Windows version will instead check the same
  directory the executable curl is located in.

Daniel (26 April 2005)
- Cory Nelson's work on nuking compiler warnings when building on x64 with
  VS2005.

Daniel (25 April 2005)
- Fred New reported a bug where we used Basic auth and user name and password
  in .netrc, and when following a Location: the subsequent requests didn't
  properly use the auth as found in the netrc file. Added test case 257 to
  verify my fix.

- Based on feedback from Cory Nelson, I added some preprocessor magic in
  */setup.h and */config-win32.h to build fine with VS2005 on x64.

Daniel (23 April 2005)
- Alex Suykov made the curl tool now assume that uploads using HTTP:// or
  HTTPS:// are the only ones that show output and thus motivates a switched
  off progress meter if the output is sent to the terminal. This makes FTP
  uploads without '>', -o or -O show the progress meter.

Daniel (22 April 2005)
- Dave Dribin's MSVC makefile fix: set CURL_STATICLIB when it builds static
  library variants.

- Andres Garcia fixed configure to set the proper define when building static
  libcurl on windows.

- --retry-delay didn't work.

Daniel (18 April 2005)
- Olivier reported that even though he used CURLOPT_PORT, libcurl clearly
  still used the default port. He was right. I fixed the problem and added the
  test cases 521, 522 and 523 to verify the fix.

- Toshiyuki Maezawa reported that when doing a POST with a read callback,
  libcurl didn't properly send an Expect: 100-continue header. It does now.

- I committed by mig change in the test suite's FTP server that moves out all
  socket/TCP code to a separate C program named sockfilt. And added 4 new
  test cases for FTP over IPv6.

Daniel (8 April 2005)
- Cory Nelson reported a problem with a HTTP server that responded with a 304
  response containing an "illegal" Content-Length: header, which was not
  properly ignored by libcurl. Now it is. Test case 249 verifies.

Daniel (7 April 2005)
- Added ability to build and run with GnuTLS as an alternative to OpenSSL for
  the secure layer. configure --with-gnutls enables with. Note that the
  previous OpenSSL check still has preference and if it first detects OpenSSL,
  it will not check for GnuTLS. You may need to explictly diable OpenSSL with
  --without-ssl.

  This work has been sponsored by The Written Word.

Daniel (5 April 2005)
- Christophe Legry fixed the post-upload check for FTP to not complain if the
  upload was skipped due to a time-condition as set with
  CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION. I added test case 247 and 248 to verify.

Version 7.13.2 (5 April 2005)

Daniel (4 April 2005)
- Marcelo Juchem fixed the MSVC makefile for libcurl

- Gisle Vanem fixed a crash in libcurl, that could happen if the easy handle
  was killed before the threading resolver (windows only) still hadn't
  completed.

- Hardeep Singh reported a problem doing HTTP POST with Digest. (It was
  actually also affecting NTLM and Negotiate.) It turned out that if the
  server responded with 100 Continue before the initial 401 response, libcurl
  didn't take care of the response properly. Test case 245 and 246 added to
  verify this.

Daniel (30 March 2005)
- Andres Garcia modified the configure script to check for libgdi32 before
  libcrypto, to make the SSL check work fine on msys/mingw.

Daniel (29 March 2005)
- Tom Moers identified a flaw when you sent a POST with Digest authentication,
  as in the first request when curl sends a POST with Content-Length: 0, it
  still forcibly closed the connection before doing the next step in the auth
  negotiation.

- Jesper Jensen found out that FTP-SSL didn't work since my FTP
  rewrite. Fixing that was easy, but it also revealed a much worse problem:
  the FTP server response reader function didn't properly deal with reading
  responses in multiple tiny chunks properly! I modified the FTP server to
  allow it to produce such split-up responses to make sure curl deals with
  them as it should.

- Based on Augustus Saunders' comments and findings, the HTTP output auth
  function was fixed to use the proper proxy authentication when multiple ones
  are accepted. test 239 and test 243 were added to repeat the problems and
  verify the fixes.

  --proxy-anyauth was added to the curl tool

Daniel (16 March 2005)
- Tru64 and some IRIX boxes seem to not like test 237 as it is. Their
  inet_addr() functions seems to use &255 on all numericals in a ipv4 dotted
  address which makes a different failure... Now I've modified the ipv4
  resolve code to use inet_pton() instead in an attempt to make these systems
  better detect this as a bad IP address rather than creating a toally bogus
  address that is then passed on and used.

Daniel (15 March 2005)
- Dan Fandrich made the code properly use the uClibc's version of
  inet_ntoa_r() when built with it.

- Added test 237 and 238: test EPSV and PASV response handling when they get
  well- formated data back but using illegal values. In 237 PASV gets an IP
  address that is way bad. In 238 EPSV gets a port that is way out of range.

Daniel (14 March 2005)
- Added a few missing features to the curl-config --features list

- Modified testcurl.pl to now offer
  1 - command line options for all info it previously only read from
      file: --name, --email, --desc and --configure
  2 - --nocvsup makes it not attempt to do cvs update
  3 - --crosscompile informs it and makes it not attempt things it can't do

- Fixed numerous win32 compiler warnings.

- Removed the lib/security.h file since it shadowed the mingw/win32 header
  with the same name which is needed for SSPI builds. The contents of the
  former security.h is now i krb4.h

- configure --enable-sspi now enables SSPI in the build. It only works for
  windows builds (including cross-compiles for windows).

Daniel (12 March 2005)
- David Houlder added --form-string that adds that string to a multipart
  formpost part, without special characters having special meanings etc like
  --form features.

Daniel (11 March 2005)
- curl_version_info() returns the feature bit CURL_VERSION_SSPI if it was
  built with SSPI support.

- Christopher R. Palmer made it possible to build libcurl with the
  USE_WINDOWS_SSPI on Windows, and then libcurl will be built to use the
  native way to do NTLM. SSPI also allows libcurl to pass on the current user
  and its password in the request.

Daniel (9 March 2005)
- Dan F improved the SSL lib setup in configure.

- Nodak Sodak reported a crash when using a SOCKS4 proxy.

- Jean-Marc Ranger pointed out an embarassing debug printf() leftover in the
  multi interface code.

- Adjusted the man page for the curl_getdate() return value for dates after
  year 2038. For 32 bit time_t it returns 0x7fffffff but for 64bit time_t it
  returns either the correct value or even -1 on some systems that still seem
  to not deal with this properly. Tor Arntsen found a 64bit AIX system for us
  that did the latter. Gwenole Beauchesne's Mandrake patch put the lights on
  this problem in the first place.

Daniel (8 March 2005)
- Dominick Meglio reported that using CURLOPT_FILETIME when transferring a FTP
  file got a Last-Modified: header written to the data stream, corrupting the
  actual data. This was because some conditions from the previous FTP code was
  not properly brought into the new FTP code. I fixed and I added test case
  520 to verify. (This bug was introduced in 7.13.1)

- Dan Fandrich fixed the configure --with-zlib option to always consider the
  given path before any standard paths.

Daniel (6 March 2005)
- Randy McMurchy was the first to report that valgrind.pm was missing from the
  release archive and thus 'make test' fails.

Daniel (5 March 2005)
- Dan Fandrich added HAVE_FTRUNCATE to several config-*.h files.

- Added test case 235 that makes a resumed upload of a file that isn't present
  on the remote side. This then converts the operation to an ordinary STOR
  upload. This was requested/pointed out by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams.

  It also proved (and I fixed) a bug in the newly rewritten ftp code (and
  present in the 7.13.1 release) when trying to resume an upload and the
  servers returns an error to the SIZE command. libcurl then loops and sends
  SIZE commands infinitely.

- Dan Fandrich fixed a SSL problem introduced on February 9th that made
  libcurl attempt to load the whole random file to seed the PRNG. This is
  really bad since this turns out to be using /dev/urandom at times...

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.

Version 7.13.0 (1 February 2005)

Daniel (31 January 2005)
- Added Lars Nilsson's htmltitle.cc example

Daniel (30 January 2005)
- Fixed a memory leak when using the multi interface and the DO operation
  failed (as in test case 205).

- Fixed a valgrind warning for file:// operations.

- Fixed a valgrind report in the url globbing code for the curl command line
  tool.

- Bugfixed the parser that scans the valgrind report outputs (in runtests.pl).
  I noticed that it previously didn't detect and report the "Conditional jump
  or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" error. When I fixed this, I
  caught a few curl bugs with it. And then I had to spend time to make the
  test suite IGNORE these errors when OpenSSL is used since it produce massive
  amounts of valgrind warnings (but only of the "Conditional..." kind it
  seems). So, if a test that requires SSL is run, it ignores the
  "Conditional..." errors, and you'll get a "valgrind PARTIAL" output instead
  of "valgrind OK".

Daniel (29 January 2005)
- Using the multi interface, and doing a requsted a re-used connection that
  gets closed just after the request has been sent failed and did not re-issue
  a request on a fresh reconnect like the easy interface did. Now it does!

- Define CURL_MULTIEASY when building libcurl (lib/easy.c to be exact), to use
  my new curl_easy_perform() that uses the multi interface to run the
  request. It is a great testbed for the multi interface and I believe we
  shall do it this way for real in the future when we have a successor to
  curl_multi_fdset(). I've used this approach to detect and fix several of the
  recent multi-interfaces issues.

- Adjusted the KNOWN_BUGS #17 fix a bit more since the FTP code also did some
  bad assumptions.

- multi interface: when a request is denied due to "Maximum redirects
  followed" libcurl leaked the last Location: URL.

- Connect failures with the multi interface was often returned as "connect()
  timed out" even though the reason was different.

Daniel (28 January 2005)
- KNOWN_BUGS #17 fixed. A DNS cache entry may not remain locked between two
  curl_easy_perform() invokes. It was previously unlocked at disconnect, which
  could mean that it remained locked between multiple transfers. The DNS cache
  may not live as long as the connection cache does, as they are separate.

  To deal with the lack of DNS (host address) data availability in re-used
  connections, libcurl now keeps a copy of the IP adress as a string, to be
  able to show it even on subsequent requests on the same connection.

  The problem could be made to appear with this stunt:

  1. create a multi handle
  2. add an easy handle
  3. fetch a URL that is persistent (leaves the connection alive)
  4. remove the easy handle from the multi
  5. kill the multi handle
  6. create a multi handle
  7. add the same easy handle to the new multi handle
  8. fetch a URL from the same server as before (re-using the connection)

- Stephen More pointed out that CURLOPT_FTPPORT and the -P option didn't work
  when built ipv6-enabled. I've now made a fix for it. Writing test cases for
  custom port hosts turned too tricky so unfortunately there's none.

Daniel (25 January 2005)
- Ian Ford asked about support for the FTP command ACCT, and I discovered it
  is present in RFC959... so now (lib)curl supports it as well. --ftp-account
  and CURLOPT_FTP_ACCOUNT set the account string. (The server may ask for an
  account string after PASS have been sent away. The client responds
  with "ACCT [account string]".) Added test case 228 and 229 to verify the
  functionality. Updated the test FTP server to support ACCT somewhat.

- David Shaw contributed a fairly complete and detailed autoconf test you can
  use to detect libcurl and setup variables for the protocols the installed
  libcurl supports: docs/libcurl/libcurl.m4

Daniel (21 January 2005)
- Major FTP third party transfer overhaul.

  These four options are now obsolete: CURLOPT_SOURCE_HOST,
  CURLOPT_SOURCE_PATH, CURLOPT_SOURCE_PORT (this option didn't work before)
  and CURLOPT_PASV_HOST.

  These two options are added: CURLOPT_SOURCE_URL and CURLOPT_SOURCE_QUOTE.

  The target-side didn't use the proper path with RETR, and thus this only
  worked correctly in the login path (i.e without doing any CWD). The source-
  side still uses a wrong path, but the fix for this will need to wait. Verify
  the flaw by using a source URL with included %XX-codes.

  Made CURLOPT_FTPPORT control weather the target operation should use PORT
  (or not). The other side thus uses passive (PASV) mode.

  Updated the ftp3rdparty.c example source to use the updated options.

  Added support for a second FTP server in the test suite. Named... ftp2.
  Added test cases 230, 231 and 232 as a few first basic tests of very simple
  3rd party transfers.

  Changed the debug output to include 'target' and 'source' when a 3rd party
  is being made, to make it clearer what commands/responses came on what
  connection.

  Added three new command line options: --3p-url, --3p-user and --3p-quote.

  Documented the command line options and the curl_easy_setopt options related
  to third party transfers.

  (Temporarily) disabled the ability to re-use an existing connection for the
  source connection. This is because it needs to force a new in case the
  source and target is the same host, and the host name check is trickier now
  when the source is identified with a full URL instead of a plain host name
  like before.

  TODO (short-term) for 3rd party transfers: quote support. The options are
  there, we need to add test cases to verify their functionality.

  TODO (long-term) for 3rd party transfers: IPv6 support (EPRT and EPSV etc)
  and SSL/TSL support.

Daniel (20 January 2005)
- Philippe Hameau found out that -Q "+[command]" didn't work, although some
  code was written for it. I fixed and added test case 227 to verify it.
  The curl.1 man page didn't mention the '+' so I added it.

Daniel (19 January 2005)
- Stephan Bergmann made libcurl return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT if an FTP URL
  contains %0a or %0d in the user, password or CWD parts. (A future fix would
  include doing it for %00 as well - see KNOWN_BUGS for details.) Test case
  225 and 226 were added to verify this

- Stephan Bergmann pointed out two flaws in libcurl built with HTTP disabled:

  1) the proxy environment variables are still read and used to set HTTP proxy

  2) you couldn't disable http proxy with CURLOPT_PROXY (since the option was
     disabled). This is important since apps may want to disable HTTP proxy
     without actually knowing if libcurl was built to disable HTTP or not.

  Based on Stephan's patch, both these issues should now be fixed.

Daniel (18 January 2005)
- Cody Jones' enhanced version of Samuel Díaz García's MSVC makefile patch was
  applied.

Daniel (16 January 2005)
- Alex aka WindEagle pointed out that when doing "curl -v dictionary.com", curl
  assumed this used the DICT protocol. While guessing protocols will remain
  fuzzy, I've now made sure that the host names must start with "[protocol]."
  for them to be a valid guessable name. I also removed "https" as a prefix
  that indicates HTTPS, since we hardly ever see any host names using that.

Daniel (13 January 2005)
- Inspired by Martijn Koster's patch and example source at
  http://www.greenhills.co.uk/mak/gentoo/curl-eintr-bug.c, I now made the
  select() and poll() calls properly loop if they return -1 and errno is
  EINTR. glibc docs for this is found here:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Interrupted-Primitives.html

  This last link says BSD doesn't have this "effect". Will there be a problem
  if we do this unconditionally?

Daniel (11 January 2005)
- Dan Torop cleaned up a few no longer used variables from David Phillips'
  select() overhaul fix.

- Cyrill Osterwalder posted a detailed analysis about a bug that occurs when
  using a custom Host: header and curl fails to send a request on a re-used
  persistent connection and thus creates a new connection and resends it. It
  then sent two Host: headers. Cyrill's analysis was posted here:
  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2005-01/0022.html

- Bruce Mitchener identified (bug report #1099640) the never-ending SOCKS5
  problem with the version byte and the check for bad versions. Bruce has lots
  of clues on this, and based on his suggestion I've now removed the check of
  that byte since it seems to be able to contain 1 or 5.

Daniel (10 January 2005)
- Pavel Orehov reported memory problems with the multi interface in bug report
  #1098843. In short, a shared DNS cache was setup for a multi handle and when
  the shared cache was deleted before the individual easy handles, the latter
  cleanups caused read/writes to already freed memory.

- Hzhijun reported a memory leak in the SSL certificate code, that leaked the
  remote certificate name when it didn't match the used host name.

Gisle (8 January 2005)
- Added Makefile.Watcom files (src/lib). Updated Makefile.dist.

Daniel (7 January 2005)
- Improved the test script's valgrind log parser to actually work! Also added
  the ability to disable the log scanner for specific test cases. Test case
  509 results in numerous problems and leaks in OpenSSL and has to get it
  disabled.

Daniel (6 January 2005)
- Fixed a single-byte read out of bounds in test case 39 in the curl tool code
  (i.e not in the library).

- Bug report #1097019 identified a problem when doing -d "data" with -G and
  sending it to two URLs with {}. Added test 199 to verify the fix.

Daniel (4 January 2005)
- Marty Kuhrt adjusted a VMS build script slightly

- Kai Sommerfeld and Gisle Vanem fixed libcurl to build with IPv6 support on
  Win2000.

Daniel (2 January 2005)
- Alex Neblett updated the MSVC makefiles slightly.
Daniel (25 December 2004)
- Removed src/config.h.in from CVS, it is now copied from the (generated)
  lib/config.h.in instead, as they can very well be the same. This removes a
  "manual hassle". You may want to re-run buildconf now.

- Werner Koch filed Debian bug report #286794, mentioning that curl contained
  non-free (by Debian's view) source code. This was Angus Mackay's
  src/getpass.c source code. I tried to contact him about it to quickly solve
  this issue, but his email addresses bounce and I got some time "over" and
  reimplemented the functionality once brought by Angus. We no longer use any
  of Angus' original code and the new function is much simpler (IMO). Issue
  solved.

Daniel (24 December 2004)
- David Shaw added --protocols to curl-config, so that it now lists all
  protocols libcurl was built to support. --feature no longer lists disabled
  protocols.

Daniel (23 December 2004)
- David Shaw fixed the configure --disable-[protocol] variables so that
  curl-config --feature now works correctly!

Daniel (22 December 2004)
- Rune Kleveland fixed a minor memory leak for received cookies with the
  (rare) version attribute set.

- Marcin Konicki provided two configure fixes and a source fix to make curl
  build out-of-the-box on BeOS.

Daniel (21 December 2004)
- Added test case 217 that verified CURLINFO_HTTP_CONNECTCODE, and I made the
  -w option support 'http_connect' to make it easier to verify!

- Fixed lib/select.c include order to build fine on FreeBSD

- Fixed failf()'s reuse of the va_list variable that crashed on FreeBSD.
  Pointed out by Peter Pentchev.

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.

Version 7.12.2 (18 October 2004)

Daniel (16 October 2004)
- 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.

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 longer use 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.