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                               History of Changes


Daniel (14 March 2001)
- I fell onto a bug report on php.net that obiously was better directed to our
  project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't work as supposed, and as
  I agreed 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)