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Daniel (21 March 2000):
- I removed the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro from configure.in, since it appears that
one of the AM_* macros searches for a BSD compatible install already. Janne
Johansson made me aware of this.
- Paul Harrington quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
Version 6.5.1
Daniel (20 March 2000):
- An anonymous post on sourceforge correctly pointed out a possible buffer
overflow in the curl_unescape() function for URL conversions. The main
problem with this bug is that the ftp download uses that function and this
single- byte overflow could lead to very odd bugs (as one reported by Janne
Johansson).
- Marco G. Salvagno supplied me with a series of patches
that now allows curl to get compiled on OS/2. It even includes a section in
the INSTALL file. Very nice job!
Daniel (17 March 2000):
- Wham Bang supplied a patch for the lib/Makefile.vc6
file. We still need some fixes for the config-win32.h since it appears that
VC++ and mingw32 have different opinions about (at least) unistd.h's
Daniel (15 March 2000):
- I modified the -D/--dump-header workings so that it doesn't write anything
to the file until it needs to. This way, you can actually use -b and -D
on the same file if you want repeated invokes to store and read the cookies
in that one single file.
- Poked around in lots of texts. Added the BUGS file for bug reporting stuff.
Added the classic HTTP POST question to the FAQ, removed some #ifdef WIN32
stuff from the sources (they're covered by the config-win32.h now).
- Pascal Gaudette fixed a missing ldap.c problem in the
Makefile.vc6 file. He also addressed a problem in src/config-win32.h.
Daniel (14 March 2000):
- Paul Harrington pointed out that the 'http_code' variable in the -w output
was never written. I fixed it now.
- Janne Johansson reported the complaints that OpenBSD does
when getdate.c #includes malloc.h. It claims stdlib.h should be included
instead. I added #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H code in getdate.y and two checks in
the configure.in for malloc.h and stdlib.h.
Version 6.5
- <curl at spam.wolvesbane.net> pointed out that the way curl sent cookies in a
single line wasn't enjoyed by IIS4.0 servers. In my view, that is not what
the standards say, but I added a white space between the name/value pairs to
perhaps make them work better.
- Added the perl check back in the configure.in again since the mkhelp.pl
script needs it!
- Made some beautifications in the curl man page.
Daniel (3 March 2000):
- Jörn helped me update the config-win32.h files with HAVE_SETVBUF and
HAVE_STRDUP.
Daniel (3 March 2000):
- Uploaded the 6.5pre2 package.
Daniel (2 March 2000):
- Removed the perl-programs from the distribution, they never made many people
happy and I'll still keep them available on the web.
- Added the -w and -N stuff to the man page. Documented the new progress meter
display in README.curl.
- Jörn Hartroth, Chris <cbayliss at csc.come> and Ulf
Möller from the openssl development team helped bringing me the details for
fixing an OpenSSL usage flaw. It became apparent when they released openssl
0.9.5 since that barfed on curl's bad behavior (not seeding a random number
thing).
- Yet another option: -N/--no-buffer disables buffering in the output stream.
Probably most useful for very slow transfers when you really want to get
every byte curl receives within some preferred time. Andrew <tmr at gci.net>
- Damien Adant mailed me his fixes for making curl compile on Ultrix.
Daniel (24 February 2000):
- Applied Jörn Hartroth's fixes for config-win32.h and lib/Makefile.w32.
I should also make a note here, if nothing else to myself, that when using
the %-syntax for variables in DOS command prompts, you must use two %-
letters for each one since that is an escape letter there! Maybe I should
use another letter instead!
- Added more variables to -w:
'http_code'
'time_namelookup'
'time_connect'
'time_pretransfer'
'url_effective'
- Made -w@filename read the syntax from a file and -w@- reads the syntax from
stdin in the good old "standard" curl way.
Daniel (22 February 2000):
- Released a 6.5pre1 version to get some test and user feedback.
Daniel (21 February 2000):
- I added the -w/--write-out flag and some variables to go with it. -w is a
single string, whatever you enter there will be written out when curl has
completed a successful request. There are some variable substitutions and
they are specified as '%{variable}' (without the quotes). Variables that
exist as of this moment are:
total_time - total transfer time in seconds (with 2 decimals)
size_download - total downloaded amount of bytes
size_upload - total uploaded amount of bytes
speed_download - the average speed of the entire download
speed_upload - the average speed of the entire upload
I will of course add more variables, but I need input on these and others.
- It struck me that the -# progress bar will be hard to just apply on the new
progress bar concept. I need some feedback on this before that'll get re-
introduced! :-/
Daniel (16 February 2000):
- Jörn Hartroth brought me some fixes for the progress meter and I continued
working on it. It seems to work for http download, http post, ftp download
and ftp upload. It should be a pretty good test it works generally good.
- Still need to add the -# progress bar into the new style progress interface.
- Gonna have a go at my new output option parameter next.
Daniel (15 February 2000):
- The progress meter stuff is slowly taking place. There's more left before it
is working ok and everything is tested, but we're reaching there. Slowly!
- Paul Marquis fixed the config file parsing of curl to
deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.
- Eetu Ojanen's suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
- Reminder: -D should not write to the file until it needs to, in the same way
-o does. That would enable curl to use -b and -D on the same file...
- Ellis Pritchard made getdate.y work for MacOS X.
- Paul Harrington helped me out finding the crash in the
cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
Daniel (8 February 2000):
- Ron Zapp corrected a problem in src/urlglob.c that
prevented curl from getting compiled on sunos 4. The problem had to do
with the difference in sprintf() return code types.
- Transfer() should now be able to download and upload simultaneously. Let's
do some progress meter fixes later this week.
- Paul Harrington found another core dump in the cookie
parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.
RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...
- Mark W. Eichin found that while curl is uploading a form
to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
since the socket "pipe" becomes full.
It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.
- Zhibiao Wu pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
although I did not get a reproducible way to do this why I have to wait
- Bob Schader suggested I should implement resume
support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
I'll work on it.
Daniel (25 January 2000):
- M Travis Obenhaus pointed out a manual mixup with -y and -Y that was
corrected.
- Jens Schleusener pointed out a problem to compile
curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
by Jörn's recent #include modifications!
Daniel (19 January 2000):
- Oskar Liljeblad pointed out and corrected a problem
in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
different protocol to fail.
At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
on server not running on default ports.)
made it possible to select progress bar.
- Jörn also fixed a few include problems.
- Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg, I made the
progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
the time spent on the download so far.
- I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.
Daniel (10 January 2000):
- Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
- Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
quote commands.
- Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
- Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
- Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
- Jim Gallagher properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
and therefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!