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                               History of Changes

Daniel (12 November 2001)
- Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple requests problem when first a FTP
  directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The
  second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the
  previous request, when it did its initial CWD command.

- Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improved the time diff function to
  prevent truncation a bit.

- Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't
  work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work.

Version 7.9.2-pre1

Daniel (12 November 2001)
- Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot
  faster, it should only support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask
  previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte
  after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems
  to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is
  due to the problems John Lask previously experienced.

- Andrés García found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K
  for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a
  zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In
  reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though
  the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff.

- I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington
  reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed
  is wrong.

Daniel (8 November 2001)
- Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a
  buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also
  gracefully provided a patch for this this.

- Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the
  correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts.
  This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds
  gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really
  figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that
  works...
 
Daniel (7 November 2001)
- docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number
  system we use in the curl project.

- Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as
  it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again.

Daniel (6 November 2001)
- Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed
  out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction
  struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous
  alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar.

- Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install.

Daniel (5 November 2001)
- Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the
  native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now.
  Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds
  though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-(

- John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking
  to work on all platforms.

- John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS
  version 1 when speaking HTTPS.

- John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that
  works a lot better than the previous!

- Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug
  report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied.

Version 7.9.1

Daniel (4 November 2001)
- I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since
  I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests
  with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of
  a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I
  wrote up tests for a few of those too.

Daniel (2 November 2001)
- Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations
  even under normal unixes.

Daniel (1 November 2001)
- When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of
  how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0
  bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-)

- The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also
  added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file.

- Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about
  the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc):
  http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html

Version 7.9.1-pre7

Daniel (31 October 2001)
- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as
  the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported.

- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I
  had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used
  connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection
  and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the
  SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those
  cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead.

- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets
  in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to
  send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those
  situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and
  added checks for what they actually return.

Version 7.9.1-pre6

Daniel (31 October 2001)
- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be
  more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then
  a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this
  problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider
  said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without
  actually trying an operation.

Daniel (30 October 2001)
- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL
  pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]

- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description
  in the curl.1 man page.

Daniel (29 October 2001)
- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file
  and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function.

- Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function,
  that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26].

- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the
  packages/Win32/cygwin directory.

- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP
  server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one
  connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167]

- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect
  code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release
  (test 19)...
  [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14]

Daniel (26 October 2001)
- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the
  contents is separated with more than one space.

Daniel (25 October 2001)
- Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the
  correct data has been output.

Version 7.9.1-pre5

Daniel (24 October 2001)
- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie
  that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The
  brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25]

Daniel (23 October 2001)
- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs
  would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35]

Daniel (22 October 2001)
- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented
  preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code!

- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from
  the out-of-the-box curl release archives.

- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report
  transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the
  future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be
  used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the
  connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the
  middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data
  still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64]

Daniel (19 October 2001)