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                               History of Changes

Daniel (29 May 2000)
- Corrected the bits.* assignments when using CURLOPT options that only
  toggles one of those bits.

- Applied the huge patches from David LeBlanc <dleblanc at qnx.com> that add
  usage of the gethostbyname_r() and similar functions in case they're around,
  since that make libcurl much better threadsafe in many systems (such as
  solaris). I added the checks for these functions to the configure script.

  I can't explain why, but the inet_ntoa_r() function did not appear in my
  Solaris include files, I had to add my own include file for this for now.

Daniel (22 May 2000)
- Jörn Hartroth brought me fixes to make the win32 version compile properly as
  well as a rename of the 'interface' field in the urldata struct, as it seems
  to be reserved in some gcc versions!

- Rich Gray struck back with yet some portability reports. Data General DG/UX
  needed a little fix in lib/ldap.c since it doesn't have RTLD_GLOBAL defined.
  More fixes are expected as a result of Richies very helpful work.

Version 7.0.1beta released

Daniel (21 May 2000)
- Updated lots of #defines, enums and variable type names in the library. No
  more weird URG or URLTAG prefixes. All types and names should be curl-
  prefixed to avoid name space clashes. The FLAGS-parameter to the former
  curl_urlget() has been converted into a bunch of flags to use in separate
  setopt calls. I'm still focusing on the easy-interface, as the curl tool is
  now using that.

- Bjorn Reese has provided me with an asynchronous name resolver that I plan
  to use in upcoming versions of curl to be able to gracefully timeout name
  lookups.

Version 7.0beta released

Daniel (18 May 2000)
- Introduced LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM to the curl.h include file to better allow
  source codes to be dependent on the lib version. This define is now set to
  a dexadecimal number, with 8 bits each for major number, minor number and
  patch number. In other words, version 1.2.3 would make it 0x010203. It also
  makes a larger number a newer version.

Daniel (17 May 2000)
- Martin Kammerhofer correctly pointed out several flaws in the FTP range
  option. I corrected them.
- Removed the win32 winsock init crap from the lib to the src/main.c file
  in the application instead. They can't be in the lib, especially not for
  multithreaded purposes.

Daniel (16 May 2000)
- Rewrote the src/main.c source to use the new easy-interface to libcurl 7.
  There is still more work to do, but the first step is now taken.
  <curl/easy.h> is the include file to use.

Daniel (14 May 2000)
- FTP URLs are now treated slightly different, more according to RFC 1738.
- FTP sessions are now performed differently, with CWD commands to change
  directory instead of RETR/STOR/LIST with the full path. Discussions with
  Rich Gray made me notice these problems.
- Janne Johansson discovered and corrected a buffer overflow in the
  src/usrglob.c file.
- I had to add a lib/strequal.c file for doing case insensitive string
  compares on all platforms.

Daniel (8 May 2000):
- Been working lots on the new lib.
- Together with Rich Gray, I've tried to adjust the configure script to work
  better on the NCR MP-RAS Unix.

Daniel (2 May 2000):
- Albert Chin-A-Young pointed out that I had a few too many instructions in
  configure.in that didn't do any good.

Daniel (24 April 2000):
- Added a new paragraph to the FAQ about what to do when configure can't
  find OpenSSL even though it is installed. Supplied by Bob Allison
  <allisonb@users.sourceforge.net>.

Daniel (12 April 2000):
- Started messing around big-time to convert the old library interface to a
  better one...

Daniel (8 April 2000):
- Made the progress bar look better for file sizes between 9999 kilobytes
  and 100 megabytes. They're now displayed XX.XM.
- I also noticed that ftp fetches through HTTP proxies didn't add the user
  agent string. It does now.
- Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com> supplied a pretty good way to build RPMs
  on a Linux machine. It still a) requires me to be root to do it, b) leaves
  the rpm packages laying at some odd place on my disk c) doesn't work to
  build the ssl version of curl since I didn't install openssl from an rpm
  package so now the rpm crap thinks I don't have openssl and refuses to build
  a package that depends on ssl... Did I mention I don't get along with RPM?
- Once again I received a bug report about autoconf not setting -L prior to -l
  on the command line when checking for libs. In this case it made the native
  cc compiler on Solaris 7 to fail the OpenSSL check. This has previously been
  reported to cause problems on HP-UX and is a known flaw in autoconf 2.13. It
  is a pity there's no newer release around...

Daniel (4 April 2000):
- Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net> supplied me with two fixes that
  appearantly makes the OS/2 port work better with multiple URLs.

Daniel (2 April 2000):
- Another Location: fix. This time, when curl connected to a port and then
  followed a location with an absolute URL to another port, it misbehaved.

Daniel (27 March 2000):
- H. Daphne Luong <daphne@tellme.com> pointed out that curl was wrongly
  messing up the proxy string when fetching a document through a http proxy,
  which screwed up multiple fetches such as in location: followings.

Daniel (23 March 2000):
- Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net> corrected my badly applied patch he
  actually already told me about!

- H. Daphne Luong <daphne@tellme.com> brought me a fix that now makes curl
  ignore select() errors in the download if errno is EINTR, which turns out to
  happen every now and then when using libcurl multi-threaded...

Daniel (22 March 2000):
- Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com> supplied a couple of win32 fixes. HAVE_UNAME
  was accidentally #defined in config-win32.h, which it shouldn't have been.
  The HAVE_UNISTD_H is not defined when compiling with the Makefile.vc6
  makefile for MS VC++.

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.

Version 6.5.2

Daniel (21 March 2000):
- Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> quickly pointed out to me that 6.5.1
  crashes hard. I upload 6.5.2 now as quickly as possible! The problem was
  the -D adjustments in src/main.c.

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).

Daniel (19 March 2000):
- Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net> 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 <wham_bang@yahoo.com> 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
  existence.

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 <pascal@gaudette.org> 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 <jj@dynarc.se> 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

Daniel (13 March 2000):
- <curl@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 <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de>, Chris <cbayliss@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@gci.net>
  suggested this.

- Damien Adant <dams@usa.net> 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!

Daniel (11 February 2000):
- Paul Marquis <pmarquis@iname.com> fixed the config file parsing of curl to
  deal with any-length lines, removing the previous limit of 4K.

- Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>'s suggestion of supporting the @-style for -b
  is implemented. Now -b@<filename> works as well as the old style. -b@- also
  similarly reads the cookies from stdin.

- 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 <ellis@citria.com> made getdate.y work for MacOS X.

- Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> helped me out finding the crash in the
  cookie parser. He also pointed out curl's habit of sending empty cookies to
  the server.

Daniel (8 February 2000):
 - Ron Zapp <rzapper@yahoo.com> 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.

Daniel (31 January 2000):
 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> 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 <eichin@thok.org> 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 <wuzb@erols.com> 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
   with fixing anything.

 - Bob Schader <rschader@product-des.com> 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 <Travis.Obenhaus@aud.alcatel.com> pointed out a manual
   mixup with -y and -Y that was corrected.

 - Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de> 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 <osk@hem.passagen.se> 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.)

 - Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> brought a fix that once again
   made it possible to select progress bar.

 - Jörn also fixed a few include problems.

Version 6.4

Daniel (17 January 2000):
 - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg (bjorn@haxx.nu), 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 <jmgallag@usa.net> 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!

Daniel (28 December 1999):
 - Tim Verhoeven <dj@walhalla.sin.khk.be> correctly identified that curl
   doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
   problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
   that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
   the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
   translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
   the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.

Daniel (27 December 1999):
 - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
   data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
   in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington
   <paul@pizza.org>.

Daniel (13 December 1999):
 - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
   added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
   both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.

Daniel (3 December 1999):
 - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>...

 - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
   well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
   only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).

Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no> (24 November 1999):
 - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!

 - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
   different directories than the sources.

Version 6.3.1

Daniel (23 November 1999):
 - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
   along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
   things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
   server!

 - Michael S. Steuer <michael@steuer.com> pointed out a bug in the -F handling
   that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
   was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...

 - Jason Baietto <jason@durians.com> pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
   download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
   entire download was completed. It does now.

Daniel (19 November 1999):
 - Chris Maltby <chris@aurema.com> very accurately criticized the lack of
   return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
   occurrences and corrected this.

Daniel (17 November 1999):
 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
   doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
   any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
   when the timeout is reached.

 - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
   why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.

 Daniel (12 November 1999):
 - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
   a plain http header file as input...

Version 6.3

 Daniel (10 November 1999):
 - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
   respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
   again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
   section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
   my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
   is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).

 - After comments from Robert Linden <robert.linden@postcom.deutschepost.de> I
   also rewrote some parts of the man page to better describe how the -F
   works.

 - Michael Anti <anti@pshowing.com> put up a new curl download mirror in
   China:  http://www.pshowing.com/curl/

 - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file

 - I did add more explanations to the man page

 Daniel (8 November 1999):
 - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
   files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
   transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.

 Daniel (29 October 1999):
 - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
   but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
   FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
   it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
   be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
   --range switch (previously HTTP-only).

 - Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> suggested that curl should be
   able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
   idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
   this manner:
        Content-Length: XXXX
   As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
   info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
   makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
   file size the same way.

   I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
   just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
   quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.

 - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
   the man page.

 - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
   some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
   the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti
   <anti@pshowing.com>.

 - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
   man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
   <adam@oz.org> reported and brought the suggestion.

 - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson <d98is@dtek.chalmers.se> we came
   up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
   internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
   that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
   obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
   the one curl would set.

 Daniel (27 October 1999):
 - Jongki Suwandi <Jongki.Suwandi@eng.sun.com> brought a nice patch for
   (yet another) crash when following a location:. This time you had to
   follow a https:// server's redirect to get the core.

Version 6.2

 Daniel (21 October 1999):
 - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
   before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
 - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
   having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
   when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
   URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
   such as curl has.)
 - Benjamin Ritcey <ritcey@tfn.com> reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
   with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
   that occurred after the download was done and completed.
 - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
   to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
   the multiple URL support.
 - Dan Zitter <dzitter@zitter.net> correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and
   earlier versions didn't honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message
   Headers": "...Field names are case-insensitive..."
   HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan also provided me with
   a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty of editing slightly.
 - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
   the Mac OS X
 - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
   to fail on OS X.

 Daniel (19 October 1999):
 - Len Marinaccio <len@goodnet.com> came up with some problems with curl.
   Since Windows has a crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that
   causes trouble. I added --stderr today which allows the user to redirect
   the stderr stream to a file or stdout.

 Daniel (18 October 1999):
 - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
   totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
   the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
   been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.

Version 6.1

 Daniel (17 October 1999):
 - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
   script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
   thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
   uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
   more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
   until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
   adjusted for this kind of usage.  I won't get into details here, but a
   short a summary is suitable:
   - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
     decompression methods.
   - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
     although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
     want it.
   - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
     a file descriptor if that is a socket

 Daniel (14 October 1999):
 - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
   curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
   better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.

 Daniel (12 October 1999):
 - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
   archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
   hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.

 Daniel (11 October 1999):
 - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
   some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
   the man page.

Version 6.1beta

 Daniel (6 October 1999):
 - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> sent me a patch that made the
   exact same thing as I just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading
   post data from a named file or stdin.  Use it similarly to the -F. To read
   the post data from a given file:

        curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com

   or let curl read it out from stdin:

        curl -d @- www.postit.com

 Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
 - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
   separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
   used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".

 Daniel
 - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.

 Daniel (30 September 1999):
 - Felix von Leitner <felix@convergence.de> brought openssl-check fixes
   for configure.in to work out-of-the-box when the openssl files are
   installed in the system default dirs.

 Daniel (28 September 1999)
 - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
   or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
   it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
   download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
   documents so that I can test this out properly.

 - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
   a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.

 Daniel (17 September 1999)
 - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
   of file name, the data will be read from stdin.

Version 6.0

 Daniel (13 September 1999)
 - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
   Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
   should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.

 - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.

 Daniel (10 September 1999)
 - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> pointed out a problem. Curl
   didn't check the FTP servers return code properly after the --quote
   commands were issued. It took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX
   codes should be accepted as OK.

 - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
   turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
   cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
   doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).

 Daniel (8 September 1999)
 - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.

 Daniel (7 September 1999)
 - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
   Stefan Kanthak <Stefan.Kanthak@mchp.siemens.de>.

 - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.

 Daniel (3 September 1999)
 - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.

 Bjorn Reese <breese@mail1.stofanet.dk> (31 August 1999)
 - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
   library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
   directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
   ldap:// URL.

 Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> (31 August 1999)
 - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
 - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
   performance reasons.

 Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> (30 August 1999)
 - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.

 Matthew Clarke <clamat@van.maves.ca> (30 August 1999)
 - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
   root dir of the openssl installation, as in

        ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here

 - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.

 Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> (26 August 1999)
 - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
   compiles.

Version 5.11

 Daniel (25 August 1999)
 - John Weismiller <johnweis@home.com> pointed out a bug in the header-line
   realloc() system in download.c.

 - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
   probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
   as a start.

 - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
   used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
   changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
   first.

 Daniel (17 August 1999)
 - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
   original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
   again.

 - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
   them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
   not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas E. Wegscheid
   <wegscd@whirlpool.com>. I also changed the README text a little regarding
   this.

 Daniel (16 August 1999)
 - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
   page. Nusu's page showed this too.

 - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
   used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
   should've. Nusu <nus@intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
   painfully visible...

 Troy (15 August 1999)
 - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
   configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
   files are in /usr/include/openssl

Version 5.10

 Daniel (13 August 1999)
 - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
   OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
   modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
   a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
   to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...

 - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.

 Troy (12 August 1999)
 - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
   a bit rearranged.
 
 Daniel (12 August 1999)
 - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
   tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
   allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.

 - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
   -Wall -pedantic was used.

 - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
   will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
   The old one still works and shows the same info.

 Daniel (11 August 1999)
 - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
   configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.

 Daniel (10 August 1999)
 - Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> helped me with some stupid
   Makefile things, as well as some fiddling with the getdate.c
   stuff that he had problems with under HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be
   compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate yacc or bison is found by the
   configure script. Since this is slightly new, we need to test the output
   getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it still compiles there.

 Daniel (5 August 1999)
 - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
   around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
   brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
   about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.

   To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
   <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
   libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se.  Curl bug reports, the usual curl
   talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
   started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
   www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.

 - Stefan Kanthak <Stefan.Kanthak@mchp.siemens.de> contacted me regarding a
   few problems in the configure script which he discovered when trying to
   make curl compile and build under Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!

 - Marcus Klein <m.klein@in-olpe.de> very accurately informed me that
   src/version.h was not present in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...

 - Linus Nielsen <Linus.Nielsen@sth.frontec.se> rewrote the telnet:// part and
   now curl offers limited telnet support. If you run curl like 'curl
   telnet://host' you'll get all output on the screen and curl will read input
   from stdin. You'll be able to login and run commands etc, but since the
   output is buffered, expect to get a little weird output.

   This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
   feed-back and input in how this is best done.

   WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
   lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.

 - David Sanderson <david@transarc.com> reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or
   HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX
   11.0. I updated the configure script to check for alloca.h which should
   make it.

 Daniel (4 August 1999)
 - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
   which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
   servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
   some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
   hope you report if you have problems with this!

 - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.

 Daniel (2 August 1999)
 - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no>. It offers
   a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. 

 T. Yamada <tai@imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
 - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
   username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
   another location (option '-L').

   There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
   tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
   argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
   CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
   checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
   redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.

Version 5.9.1

 Daniel (30 July 1999)
 - Steve Walch <swalch@cisoft.com> pointed out that there is a memory leak in
   the formdata functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and
   supposed to correct this flaw.

 - Mark Wotton <mwotton@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> reported:
   'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps.  I managed to cure this by
   correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
   0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
   don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.

 - Marcus Klein <m.klein@in-olpe.de>:
   Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
   I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.

 Daniel (29 July 1999)
 - Costya Shulyupin <costya@trivnet.com> suggested support for longer URLs
   when following Location: and I could only agree and fix it!

 - Leigh Purdie <leighp@defcen.gov.au> found a problem in the upload/POST
   department. It turned out that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer
   instead of the byte counter when supposed to.

 - Costya Shulyupin <costya@trivnet.com> pointed out a problem with port
   numbers and Location:. If you had a server at a non-standard port that
   redirected to an URL using a standard port number, curl still used that
   first port number.

 - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de> pointed out a problem when using both
   CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the
   CONF_FAILONERROR exits on the 302-code that the follow location header
   outputs it will never show any html on location: pages. I have now made it
   look for >=400 codes if CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.

 - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
   Beckmann).

 - Joshua Swink <jpswink@hotmail.com> and Rick Welykochy <rick@praxis.com.au>
   were the first to point out to me that the latest OpenSSL package now have
   moved the standard include path. It is now in
   /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
   option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
   leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.

 Daniel (9 June 1999)
 - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
   I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.

 Daniel (4 June 1999)
 - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
   with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
   something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
   <ashley@compsoc.man.ac.uk> and Mark Butler <butlerm@xmission.com> brought a
   solution for it.

 Daniel (26 May 1999)
 - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
   README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de>.

 - I also updated the INSTALL text.

 Daniel (25 May 1999)
 - David Jonathan Lowsky <dlowsky@leland.stanford.edu> correctly pointed out
   that curl didn't properly deal with form posting where the variable 
   shouldn't have any content, as in curl -F "form=" www.site.com. It was
   now fixed.

Version 5.9

 Daniel (22 May 1999)
 - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick <aaronsca@hotmail.com> in
   which he states he has some problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have
   previously got another bug report from Stefan Grether
   <stefan.grether@ubs.com> which points at an error with similar sympthoms
   when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
   and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...

 Daniel (20 May 1999)
 - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.

 Daniel (19 May 1999)
 - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the
   sread() function. Adam Coyne <adam@gamespy.com> found the problem in the
   win32 version, and Troy Engel helped me out isolating it.

 Daniel (16 May 1999)
 - Richard Adams <Richard@Slayford.com> pointed out a bug I introduced in
   5.8. --dump-header doesn't work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.

 - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink <jpswink@hotmail.com> I added -S /
   --show-error to force curl to display the error message in case of an
   error, even if -s/--silent was used.

 Daniel (10 May 1999)
 - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
   files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
   layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
   future!

 - Leon Breedt <ljb@debian.org> sent me some files I've not put into the main
   curl archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent
   me a debian package that I've made available for download at the web page

 Daniel (9 May 1999)
 - Made it compile on cygwin too.

 Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
 - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
   again!

 Daniel (6 May 1999)
 - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
   will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
   can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
   too.

Version 5.8

 Daniel (5 May 1999)
 - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
   for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
   there are problems all over.

   I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
   week... Claudio Neves <claudio@nextis.com> and Federico Bianchi
   <bianchi@pc-arte2.arte.unipi.it> and root <duggerj001@hawaii.rr.com> are
   some of them reporting this.

   Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
   generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
   can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
   before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
   a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!

 Daniel (4 May 1999)
 - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
   the regexes.

 - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
   I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
   curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
   in:

        curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html

   This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
   I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
   there may depend on that the file is always touched...

 - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.

 - Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de> requested that curl should
   be able to send "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea.
   I implemented it right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full
   GNU date expression or a file name to get the date from!

 Stephan Lagerholm <stephan@unilog.se> (30 Apr 1999)
 - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
   isn't set and causes the make to fail.