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History of Changes
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
- 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
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):
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