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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!