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    Daniel (16 December 2005)
    - Jean Jacques Drouin pointed out that you could only have a user name or
      password of 127 bytes or less embedded in a URL, where actually the code
      uses a 255 byte buffer for it! Modified now to use the full buffer size.
    
    Daniel (12 December 2005)
    - Dov Murik corrected the HTTP_ONLY define to disable the TFTP support properly
    
    
    Version 7.15.1 (7 December 2005)
    
    Daniel (6 December 2005)
    - Full text here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20051207.html Pointed out by
      Stefan Esser.
    
      VULNERABILITY
    
      libcurl's URL parser function can overflow a malloced buffer in two ways, if
      given a too long URL.
    
      These overflows happen if you
     
      1 - pass in a URL with no protocol (like "http://") prefix, using no slash
          and the string is 256 bytes or longer. This leads to a single zero byte
          overflow of the malloced buffer.
    
      2 - pass in a URL with only a question mark as separator (no slash) between
          the host and the query part of the URL. This leads to a single zero byte
          overflow of the malloced buffer.
    
      Both overflows can be made with the same input string, leading to two single
      zero byte overwrites.
    
      The affected flaw cannot be triggered by a redirect, but the long URL must
      be passed in "directly" to libcurl. It makes this a "local" problem. Of
      course, lots of programs may still pass in user-provided URLs to libcurl
      without doing much syntax checking of their own, allowing a user to exploit
      this vulnerability.
    
      There is no known exploit at the time of this writing.
    
    
    
    Daniel (2 December 2005)
    - Jamie Newton pointed out that libcurl's file:// code would close() a zero
      file descriptor if given a non-existing file.
    
    
    Daniel (24 November 2005)
    - Doug Kaufman provided a set of patches to make curl build fine on DJGPP
      again using configure.
    
    - Yang Tse provided a whole series of patches to clear up compiler warnings on
      MSVC 6.
    
    
    Daniel (17 November 2005)
    - I extended a patch from David Shaw to make libcurl _always_ provide an error
      string in the given error buffer to address the flaw mention on 21 sep 2005.
    
    
    Daniel (16 November 2005)
    - Applied Albert Chin's patch that makes the libcurl.pc pkgconfig file get
      installed on 'make install' time.
    
    
    Daniel (14 November 2005)
    
    - Quagmire reported that he needed to raise a NTLM buffer for SSPI to work
      properly for a case, and so we did. We raised it even for non-SSPI builds
      but it should not do any harm. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1356715
    
    
    - Jan Kunder's debian bug report
      http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338680 identified a weird
      error message for when you try to upload a file and the requested directory
      doesn't exist on the target server.
    
    - Yang Tse fixed compiler warnings in lib/ssluse.c with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and in
      lib/memdebug.h that showed up in his msvc builds.
    
    
    Daniel (13 November 2005)
    
    - Debian bug report 338681 by Jan Kunder: make curl better detect and report
      bad limit-rate units:
      http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338681 Now curl will return
      error if a bad unit is used.
    
    
    - Thanks to this nice summary of poll() implementations:
      http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/06/poll.html and further tests by Eugene
      Kotlyarov, we now know that cygwin's poll returns only POLLHUP on remote
      connectin closure so we check for that case (too) and re-enable poll for
      cygwin builds.
    
    
    - Eugene Kotlyarov found out that cygwin's poll() function isn't doing things
      right: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2005-11/0045.html so we now disable
      poll() and use select() on cygwin too (we already do the same choice on Mac
      OS X)
    
    
    - Dima Barsky patched problem #1348930: the GnuTLS code completely ignored
      client certificates! (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1348930).
    
    
    - David Lang fixed IPv6 support for TFTP!
    
    
    - Introducing range stepping to the curl globbing support. Now you can specify
      step counter by adding :[num] within the brackets when specifying a range:
    
       [1-100:10]
       [a-z:2]
    
      If no step counter is set, it defaults to 1 as before:
    
       [1-100]
       [d-h]
    
    
    - Removed the use of AI_CANONNAME in the IPv6-enabled resolver functions since
      we really have no use for reverse lookups of the address.
    
      I truly hope these are the last reverse lookups we had lingering in the
      code!
    
    
    - Dmitry Bartsevich discovered some issues in compatibilty of SSPI-enabled
      version of libcurl with different Windows versions. Current version of
      libcurl imports SSPI functions from secur32.dll. However, under Windows NT
      4.0 these functions are located in security.dll, under Windows 9x - in
      secur32.dll and Windows 2000 and XP contains both these DLLs (security.dll
      just forwards calls to secur32.dll).
    
      Dmitry's patch loads proper library dynamically depending on Windows
      version. Function InitSecurityInterface() is used to obtain pointers to all
      of SSPI function in one structure.
    
    
    Daniel (31 October 2005)
    - Vilmos Nebehaj improved libcurl's LDAP abilities:
    
      The LDAP code in libcurl can't handle LDAP servers of LDAPv3 nor binary
      attributes in LDAP objects. So, I made a quick patch to address these
      problems.
    
      The solution is simple: if we connect to an LDAP server, first try LDAPv3
      (which is the preferred protocol as of now) and then fall back to LDAPv2.
      In case of binary attributes, we first convert them to base64, just like the
      openldap client does. It uses ldap_get_values_len() instead of
      ldap_get_values() to be able to retrieve binary attributes correctly. I
      defined the necessary LDAP macros in lib/ldap.c to be able to compile
      libcurl without the presence of libldap
    
    
    - Nis Jorgensen filed bug report #1338648
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1338648) which really is more of a
      feature request, but anyway. It pointed out that --max-redirs did not allow
      it to be set to 0, which then would return an error code on the first
      Location: found. Based on Nis' patch, now libcurl supports CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
      set to 0, or -1 for infinity. Added test case 274 to verify.
    
    
    - tommink[at]post.pl reported in bug report #1337723
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1337723) that curl could not upload
      binary data from stdin on Windows if the data contained control-Z (hex 1a)
      since that is treated as end-of-file when read in text mode. Gisle Vanem
      pointed out the fix, and I made both -T and --data-binary take advantage of
      it.
    
    
    - Jaz Fresh pointed out that if you used "-r [number]" as was wrongly described
      in the man page, curl would send an invalid HTTP Range: header. The correct
      way would be to use "-r [number]-" or even "-r -[number]". Starting now,
      curl will warn if this is discovered, and automatically append a dash to the
      range before passing it to libcurl.
    
    
    Daniel (25 October 2005)
    - Amol Pattekar reported a bug with great detail and a fine example in bug
      #1326306 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326306). When using the multi
      interface and connecting to a host with multiple IP addresses, and one of
      the addresses fails to connect (the server must exist and respond, just not
      accept connections) libcurl leaks a socket descriptor. Thanks to the fine
      report, I could find and fix this.
    
    
    Daniel (22 October 2005)
    - Dima Barsky reported a problem with GnuTLS-enabled libcurl in bug report
      #1334338 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1334338). When reading an SSL
      stream from a server and the server requests a "rehandshake", the current
      code simply returns this as an error. I have no good way to test this, but
      I've added a crude attempt of dealing with this situation slightly better -
      it makes a blocking handshake if this happens. Done like this because fixing
      this the "proper" way (that would handshake asynchronously) will require
      quite some work and I really need a good way to test this to do such a
      change.
    
    
    - "Ofer" reported a problem when libcurl re-used a connection and failed to do
      it, it could then accidentally actually crash. Presumably, this concerns FTP
      connections.  http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1330310
    
    
    - Temprimus improved the MSVC makefile so that the static debug SSL libs are
      linked to the executable and not to the libcurld.lib
      http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326676
    
    
    - Bradford Bruce made the windows resolver code properly return
      CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_PROXY and CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST on resolving
      errors (as documented).
    
    
    - Dave Dribin made libcurl understand and handle cases when the server
      (wrongly) sends *two* WWW-Authenticate headers for Digest. While this should
      never happen in a sane world, libcurl previously got into an infinite loop
      when this occurred. Dave added test 273 to verify this.
    
    
    - Temprimus improved the MSVC makefile: "makes a build option available so if
      you set rtlibcfg=static for the make, then it would build with /MT. The
      default behaviour is /MD (the original)."
      http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326665
    
    
    Daniel (14 October 2005)
    - Reverted the LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM change from October 6. As Dave Dribin
      reported, the define is used by the configure script and is assumed to use
      the 0xYYXXZZ format. This made "curl-config --vernum" fail in the 7.15.0
      release version.
    
    
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    Version 7.15.0 (13 October 2005)
    
    Daniel (12 October 2005)
    - Michael Sutton of iDEFENSE reported and I fixed a securitfy flaw in the NTLM
      code that would overflow a buffer if given a too long user name or domain
      name. This would happen if you enable NTLM authentication and either
    
      A - pass in a user name and domain name to libcurl that together are longer
          than 192 bytes
    
      B - allow (lib)curl to follow HTTP "redirects" (Location: and the
          appropriate HTTP 30x response code) and the new URL contains a URL with
          a user name and domain name that together are longer than 192 bytes
    
      See http://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html for further details and updates
    
    
    Daniel (5 October 2005)
    - Darryl House reported a problem with using -z to download files from FTP.
      It turned out that if the given time stamp was exact the same as the remote
      time stamp, the file would still wrongly be downloaded. Added test case 272
      to verify.
    
    
    - Domenico Andreoli fixed a man page malformat and removed odd (0xa0) bytes
      from the configure script.
    
    
    - Michael Wallner reported that the date parser had wrong offset stored for
      the MEST and CEST time zones.
    
    
    - David Yan filed bug #1299181 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1299181)
      that identified a silly problem with Content-Range: headers with the 'bytes'
      keyword written in a different case than all lowercase! It would cause a
      segfault!
    
    - TJ Saunders of the proftpd project identified and pointed out problems with
      the modified FTPS negotiation change of August 19 2005. Thus, we revert the
      change back to pre-7.14.1 status.
    
    
    Daniel (21 September 2005)
    - Fixed "cut off" sentence in the libcurl-tutorial man page:
      http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329305
    
    - Clarified in the curl_easy_setopt man page what the default
      CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION and CURLOPT_WRITEDATA mean:
      http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329311
    
    - Clarified in the curl_easy_setopt man page that CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
      sometimes doesn't fill in the buffer even though it is supposed to:
      http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329313
    
    - When CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT is returned due to a missing URL, it now has an
      error string set.
    
    
    Daniel (19 September 2005)
    - Dmitry Bartsevich made the SSPI support work on Windows 9x as well.
    
    
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    Daniel (15 September 2005)
    - Added a TFTP server to the test suite and made the test suite capable of
      using it.
    
    Daniel (7 September 2005)
    - Ben Madsen's detailed reports that funnily enough only occurred with certain
      glibc versions turned out to be curl using an already closed file handle
      during certain conditions (like when saving FTP server "headers").
    
    - Scott Davis helped me track down a problem in the test HTTP server that made
      test case 56 wrongly fail at times. It turned out it was due to the server
      finding the end of a chunked-encoded POST too early.
    
    
    Daniel (6 September 2005)
    - Now curl warns if an unknown variable is used in the -w/--writeout argument.
    
    
    Daniel (4 September 2005)
    - I applied Nicolas François' man page patch he posted to the Debian bug
      tracker. It corrected two lines that started with apostrophes, which isn't
    
      legal nroff format. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326511
    
    
    - Added --ftp-skip-pasv-ip to the command line tool, that sets the new
      CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP option. It makes libcurl re-use the control
      connection's IP address when setting up the data connection instead of
      extractting the IP address from the PASV response. It has turned out this
      feature is frequently needed by people to circumvent silly servers and silly
      firewalls, especially when FTPS is used and the PASV command-response is
      sent encrtyped.
    
      Sponsored by CU*Answers
    
    
    Daniel (1 September 2005)
    - John Kelly added TFTP support to libcurl. A bunch of new error codes was
      added. TODO: add them to docs. add TFTP server to test suite. add TFTP to
      list of protocols whereever those are mentioned.
    
    
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    Version 7.14.1 (1 September 2005)
    
    
    Daniel (29 August 2005)
    
    - Kevin Lussier pointed out a problem with curllib.dsp and how to fix it.
    
    
    - Igor Polyakov fixed a rather nasty problem with the threaded name resolver
      for Windows, that could lead to an Access Violation when the multi interface
      was used due to an issue with how the resolver thread was and was not
      terminated.
    
    
    - Simon Josefsson brought a patch that allows curl to get built to use GNU GSS
      instead of MIT/Heimdal for GSS capabilities.
    
    
    - Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible
      from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it
      easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are
      still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option
      is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the
      connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a
    
      simple test to verify that this works.
    
    - (Trying hard to exclude emotions now.) valgrind version 3 suddenly renamed
      the --logfile command line option to --log-file, and thus the test script
      valgrind autodetection now has yet another version check to do and then it
      alters the valgrind command line accordingly.
    
    
    - Fixed CA cert verification using GnuTLS with the default bundle, which
    
      previously failed due to GnuTLS not allowing x509 v1 CA certs by default.
      Ralph Mitchell reported.
    
    Daniel (19 August 2005)
    - Norbert Novotny had problems with FTPS and he helped me work out a patch
      that made curl run fine in his end. The key was to make sure we do the
      SSL/TLS negotiation immediately after the TCP connect is done and not after
      a few other commands have been sent like we did previously. I don't consider
      this change necessary to obey the standards, I think this server is pickier
      than what the specs allow it to be, but I can't see how this modified
      libcurl code can add any problems to those who are interpreting the
      standards more liberally.
    
    
    Daniel (17 August 2005)
    - Jeff Pohlmeyer found out that if you ask libcurl to load a cookiefile (with
      CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE), add a cookie (with CURLOPT_COOKIELIST), tell it to
      write the result to a given cookie jar and then never actually call
      curl_easy_perform() - the given file(s) to read was never read but the
      output file was written and thus it caused a "funny" result.
    
    - While doing some tests for the bug above, I noticed that Firefox generates
      large numbers (for the expire time) in the cookies.txt file and libcurl
      didn't treat them properly. Now it does.
    
    
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    Daniel (15 August 2005)
    - Added more verbose "warning" messages to the curl client for cases where it
      fails to open/read files etc to help users diagnose why it doesn't do what
      you'd expect it to. Converted lots of old messages to use the new generic
      function I wrote for this purpose.
    
    Daniel (13 August 2005)
    - James Bursa identified a libcurl HTTP bug and a good way to repeat it. If a
      site responds with bad HTTP response that doesn't contain any header at all,
      only a response body, and the write callback returns 0 to abort the
      transfer, it didn't have any real effect but the write callback would be
      called once more anyway.
    
    Daniel (12 August 2005)
    - Based on Richard Clayton's reports, I found out that using curl -d @filename
      when 'filename' was not possible to access made curl use a GET request
      instead.
    
    - The time condition illegal syntax warning is now inhibited if -s is used.
    
    Daniel (10 August 2005)
    - Mario Schroeder found out that one of the debug callbacks calls that regards
      SSL data with the CURLINFO_TEXT type claimed that the data was one byte
      larger than it actually is, thus falsely telling the application that the
      terminating zero was part of the data.
    
    
    Daniel (9 August 2005)
    - Christopher R. Palmer fixed the offsets used for date parsings when the time
      zone name of a daylight savings time was used. For example, PDT vs PDS. This
      flaw was introduced with the new date parser (11 sep 2004 - 7.12.2).
      Fortunately, no web server or cookie string etc should be using such time
      zone names thus limiting the effect of this bug.
    
    
    - Jon Grubbs filed bug report #1249962
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1249962) which identified a problem
      with NTLM on a HTTP proxy if an FTP URL was given. libcurl now properly
      switches to pure HTTP internally when an HTTP proxy is used, even for FTP
      URLs. The problem would also occur with other multi-pass auth methods.
    
    Daniel (7 August 2005)
    - When curl is built with GnuTLS, curl-config didn't include "SSL" when
      --features was used.
    
    
    Daniel (28 July 2005)
    - If any of the options CURLOPT_HTTPGET, CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_HTTPPOST is
      set to 1, CURLOPT_NOBODY will now automatically be set to 0.
    
    
    Daniel (27 July 2005)
    - Dan Fandrich changes over the last week: fixed numerous minor configure
      option parsing flaws: --without-gnutls, --without-spnego --without-gssapi
      and --without-krb4. Spellfixed several error messages.
    
    - Peteris Krumins added CURLOPT_COOKIELIST and CURLINFO_COOKIELIST, which is a
      simple interface to extracting and setting cookies in libcurl's internal
      "cookie jar". See the new cookie_interface.c example code.
    
    
    Daniel (13 July 2005)
    - Diego Casorran provided patches to make curl build fine on Amiga again.
    
    
    Daniel (12 July 2005)
    - Adrian Schuur added trailer support in the chunked encoding stream. The
      trailer is then sent to the normal header callback/stream. I wrote up test
      case 266 to verify the basic functionality. Do note that test case 34
      contains a flawed chunked encoding stream that still works the same.
    
    
    - Gisle Vanem came up with a nice little work-around for bug #1230118
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1230118). It seems the Windows (MSVC)
      libc time functions may return data one hour off if TZ is not set and
      automatic DST adjustment is enabled. This made curl_getdate() return wrong
      value, and it also concerned internal cookie expirations etc.
    
    Daniel (4 July 2005)
    - Andrew Bushnell provided enough info for me to tell that we badly needed to
      fix the CONNECT authentication code with multi-pass auth methods (such as
      NTLM) as it didn't previously properly ignore response-bodies - in fact it
      stopped reading after all response headers had been received. This could
      lead to libcurl sending the next request and reading the body from the first
      request as response to the second request. (I also renamed the function,
      which wasn't strictly necessary but...)
    
      The best fix would to once and for all make the CONNECT code use the
      ordinary request sending/receiving code, treating it as any ordinary request
      instead of the special-purpose function we have now. It should make it
      better for multi-interface too. And possibly lead to less code...
    
      Added test case 265 for this. It doesn't work as a _really_ good test case
      since the test proxy is too stupid, but the test case helps when running the
      debugger to verify.
    
    
    Daniel (30 June 2005)
    - Dan Fandrich improved the configure script's ability to figure out what kind
      of strerror_r() API that is used when cross-compiling. If __GLIB__ is
      defined, it assumes the glibc API. If not, it issues a notice as before that
      the user needs to manually edit lib/config.h for this.
    
    
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    Daniel (23 June 2005)
    - David Shaw's fix that unifies proxy string treatment so that a proxy given
      with CURLOPT_PROXY can use a http:// prefix and user + password. The user
      and password fields are now also URL decoded properly. Test case 264 added
      to verify.
    
    Daniel (22 June 2005)
    - David Shaw updated libcurl.m4
    
    
    Daniel (14 June 2005)
    
    - Gisle Vanem fixed a potential thread handle leak. Bug report #1216500
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1216500).  Comment in
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-06/0059.html
    
    Daniel (13 June 2005)
    - Made buildconf run libtoolize in the ares dir too (inspired by Tupone's
      reverted patch).
    
    Daniel (9 June 2005)
    - Incorporated Tupone's findtool fix in buildconf (slightly edited)
    
    - Incorporated Tupone's head -n fix in buildconf.
    
    Daniel (8 June 2005)
    - Reverted Tupone's patch again, it broke numerous autobuilds. Let's apply it
      in pieces, one by one and see what we need to adjust to work all over.
    
    Daniel (6 June 2005)
    - Tupone Alfredo fixed three problems in buildconf:
    
      1) findtool does look per tool in PATH and think ./perl is the perl
      executable, while is just a local directory (I have . in the PATH)
    
      2) I got several warning for head -1 deprecated in favour of head -n 1
     
      3) ares directory is missing some file (missing is missing :-) ) because
      automake and friends is not run.
    
    
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    - Added docs/libcurl/getinfo-times, based on feedback from 'Edi':
      http://curl.haxx.se/feedback/display.cgi?id=11178325798299&support=yes
    
    
    - Andres Garcia provided yet another text mode patch for several test cases so
      that they do text comparisions better on Windows (newline-wise).
    
    Daniel (1 June 2005)
    - The configure check for c-ares now adds the cares lib before the other libs,
      to make it build fine with mingw. Inspired by Tupone Alfredo's bug report
    
      and patch: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1212940
    
    Daniel (31 May 2005)
    - Todd Kulesza reported a flaw in the proxy option, since a numerical IPv6
      address was not possible to use. It is now, but requires it written
      RFC2732-style, within brackets - which incidently is how you enter numerical
      IPv6 addresses in URLs. Test case 263 added to verify.
    
    
    Daniel (30 May 2005)
    - Eric Cooper reported about a problem with HTTP servers that responds with
      binary zeroes within the headers. They confused libcurl to do wrong so the
      downloaded headers become incomplete. The fix is now verified with test case
    
      262. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=310948
    
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    Daniel (25 May 2005)
    - Fixed problems with the test suite, and in particular the FTP test cases
      since it previously was failing every now and then in a nonsense manner.
    
    - --trace-time now outputs the full microsecond, all 6 digits.
    
    
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    Daniel (24 May 2005)
    - Andres Garcia provided a text mode patch for several test cases so that they
      do text comparisions better on Windows (newline-wise).
    
    - Any 2xx response (and not just 200) is now considered a fine response to
      TYPE, as some servers obviously sends a 226 there. Added test case 261 to
      verify. Based on a question/report by Georg Wicherski.
    
    Daniel (20 May 2005)
    - Improved runtests.pl to allow stdout tests to be mode=text as well, just
      as file comparisons already supports. Added this info to the FILEFORMAT
      docs.
    
    
    - John McGowan identified a problem in bug report #1204435
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1204435) with malformed URLs like
      "http://somehost?data" as it added a slash too much in the request ("GET
      /?data/"...). Added test case 260 to verify.
    
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    - The configure check for strerror_r() failed to detect the proper API at
    
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      times, like on HP-UX 10.20. Then lib/strerror.c badly assumed the glibc
      version if the posix define wasn't set (since it _had_ found a strerror_r).
    
    
    Daniel (16 May 2005)
    - The gmtime_r() function in HP-UX 10.20 is broken. About 13 test cases fail
      due to this. There's now a configure check that attempts to detect the bad
      function and not use it on such systems.
    
    
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    Version 7.14.0 (16 May 2005)
    
    
    Daniel (13 May 2005)
    - Grigory Entin reported that curl's configure detects a fine poll() for Mac
      OS X 10.4 (while 10.3 or later detected a "bad" one), but the executable
      doesn't work as good as if built without poll(). I've adjusted the configure
      to always skip the fine-poll() test on Mac OS X (darwin).
    
    
    Daniel (12 May 2005)
    - When doing a second request (after a disconnect) using the same easy handle,
      over a proxy that uses NTLM authentication, libcurl failed to use NTLM again
      properly (the auth method was accidentally reset to the same as had been set
    
      for host auth, which defaults to Basic). Bug report #1200661
      (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1200661) identified the the problem and
      the fix.
    
    
    - If -z/--time-cond is used with an invalid date syntax, this is no longer
      silently discarded. Instead a proper warning message is diplayed that
      informs about it. But it still continues without the condition.
    
    Version 7.14.0-pre2 (11 May 2005)
    
    
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    - Starting now, libcurl sends a little different set of headers in its default
      HTTP requests:
      
      A) Normal non-proxy HTTP:
        - no more "Pragma: no-cache" (this only makes sense to proxies)
    
      B) Non-CONNECT HTTP request over proxy:
        - "Pragma: no-cache" is used (like before)
        - "Proxy-Connection: Keep-alive" (for older style 1.0-proxies)
    
      C) CONNECT HTTP request over proxy:
        - "Host: [name]:[port]"
        - "Proxy-Connection: Keep-alive"
    
      The A) case is mostly to reduce the default header size and remove a
      pointless header.
    
      The B) is to address (rare) problems with HTTP 1.0 proxies
    
      The C) headers are both to address (rare) problems with some proxies. The
      code in libcurl that deals with CONNECT requests need a rewrite, but it
      feels like a too big a job for me to do now. Details are added in the code
      comments for now.
    
      Updated a large amount of test cases to reflect the news.
    
    
    Daniel (10 May 2005)
    - Half-baked attempt to bail out if select() returns _only_ errorfds when the
      transfer is in progress. An attempt to fix Allan's problem. See
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-05/0073.html and the rest of that thread
      for details.
    
      I'm still not sure this is the right fix, but...
    
    
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    Version 7.14.0-pre1 (9 May 2005)
    
    
    - Sort of "fixed" KNOWN_BUGS #4: curl now builds IPv6 enabled on AIX 4.3. At
      least it should no longer cause a compiler error. However, it does not have
      AI_NUMERICHOST so we cannot getaddrinfo() any numerical addresses with it
      (we use that for FTP PORT/EPRT)! So, I modified the configure check that
      checks if the getaddrinfo() is working, to use AI_NUMERICHOST since then
      it'll fail on AIX 4.3 and it will automatically build with IPv6 support
      disabled.
    
    
    - Added --trace-time that when used adds a time stamp to each trace line that
      --trace, --trace-ascii and --verbose output. I also made the '>' display
      separate each line on the linefeed so that HTTP requests etc look nicer in
      the -v output.
    
    
    - Made curl recognize the environment variables Lynx (and others?) support for
      pointing out the CA cert path/file: SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE. If
      CURL_CA_BUNDLE is not set, they are checked afterwards.
    
      Like before: on windows if none of these are set, it checks for the ca cert
      file like this:
    
      1. application's directory
      2. current working directory
      3. Windows System directory (e.g. C:\windows\system32)
      4. Windows Directory (e.g. C:\windows)
      5. all directories along %PATH%
    
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    - The runtests.pl script now starts test servers by doing fork() and exec()
      instead of the previous approach. This is less complicated and should
      hopefully lead to less "leaked" servers (servers that aren't stopped
      properly when the tests are stopped).
    
    - Alexander Zhuravlev found a case when you did "curl -I [URL]" and it
      complained on the chunked encoding, even though a HEAD should never return a
      body and thus it cannot be a chunked-encoding problem!
    
    Daniel (30 April 2005)
    - Alexander Zhuravlev found out that (lib)curl SIGSEGVed when using
      --interface on an address that can't be bound.
    
    
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    - Working on fixing up test cases to mark sections as 'mode=text' for things
      that curl writes as text files, since then they can get different line
      endings depending on OS. Andrés García helps me work this out.
    
      Did lots of other minor tweaks on the test scripts to work better and more
      reliably find test servers and also kill test servers.
    
    - Dan Fandrich pointed out how the runtests.pl script killed the HTTP server
      instead of the HTTPS server when closing it down.
    
    
    Daniel (27 April 2005)
    - Paul Moore made curl check for the .curlrc file (_curlrc on windows) on two
      more places. First, CURL_HOME is a new environment variable that is used
      instead of HOME if it is set, to point out where the default config file
      lives. If there's no config file in the dir pointed out by one of the
      environment variables, the Windows version will instead check the same
      directory the executable curl is located in.
    
    
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    - Cory Nelson's work on nuking compiler warnings when building on x64 with
      VS2005.
    
    
    - Fred New reported a bug where we used Basic auth and user name and password
      in .netrc, and when following a Location: the subsequent requests didn't
      properly use the auth as found in the netrc file. Added test case 257 to
      verify my fix.
    
    
    - Based on feedback from Cory Nelson, I added some preprocessor magic in
      */setup.h and */config-win32.h to build fine with VS2005 on x64.
    
    
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    - Alex Suykov made the curl tool now assume that uploads using HTTP:// or
      HTTPS:// are the only ones that show output and thus motivates a switched
      off progress meter if the output is sent to the terminal. This makes FTP
      uploads without '>', -o or -O show the progress meter.
    
    Daniel (22 April 2005)
    - Dave Dribin's MSVC makefile fix: set CURL_STATICLIB when it builds static
      library variants.
    
    - Andres Garcia fixed configure to set the proper define when building static
      libcurl on windows.
    
    - --retry-delay didn't work.
    
    
    - Olivier reported that even though he used CURLOPT_PORT, libcurl clearly
      still used the default port. He was right. I fixed the problem and added the
      test cases 521, 522 and 523 to verify the fix.
    
    
    - Toshiyuki Maezawa reported that when doing a POST with a read callback,
      libcurl didn't properly send an Expect: 100-continue header. It does now.
    
    - I committed by mig change in the test suite's FTP server that moves out all
      socket/TCP code to a separate C program named sockfilt. And added 4 new
      test cases for FTP over IPv6.
    
    
    Daniel (8 April 2005)
    - Cory Nelson reported a problem with a HTTP server that responded with a 304
      response containing an "illegal" Content-Length: header, which was not
      properly ignored by libcurl. Now it is. Test case 249 verifies.
    
    
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    - Added ability to build and run with GnuTLS as an alternative to OpenSSL for
      the secure layer. configure --with-gnutls enables with. Note that the
      previous OpenSSL check still has preference and if it first detects OpenSSL,
      it will not check for GnuTLS. You may need to explictly diable OpenSSL with
      --without-ssl.
    
      This work has been sponsored by The Written Word.
    
    Daniel (5 April 2005)
    - Christophe Legry fixed the post-upload check for FTP to not complain if the
      upload was skipped due to a time-condition as set with
      CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION. I added test case 247 and 248 to verify.
    
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    Version 7.13.2 (5 April 2005)
    
    
    - Marcelo Juchem fixed the MSVC makefile for libcurl
    
    - Gisle Vanem fixed a crash in libcurl, that could happen if the easy handle
      was killed before the threading resolver (windows only) still hadn't
      completed.
    
    
    - Hardeep Singh reported a problem doing HTTP POST with Digest. (It was
      actually also affecting NTLM and Negotiate.) It turned out that if the
      server responded with 100 Continue before the initial 401 response, libcurl
      didn't take care of the response properly. Test case 245 and 246 added to
      verify this.
    
    
    Daniel (30 March 2005)
    - Andres Garcia modified the configure script to check for libgdi32 before
      libcrypto, to make the SSL check work fine on msys/mingw.
    
    
    - Tom Moers identified a flaw when you sent a POST with Digest authentication,
      as in the first request when curl sends a POST with Content-Length: 0, it
      still forcibly closed the connection before doing the next step in the auth
      negotiation.
    
    
    - Jesper Jensen found out that FTP-SSL didn't work since my FTP
      rewrite. Fixing that was easy, but it also revealed a much worse problem:
      the FTP server response reader function didn't properly deal with reading
      responses in multiple tiny chunks properly! I modified the FTP server to
      allow it to produce such split-up responses to make sure curl deals with
      them as it should.
    
    - Based on Augustus Saunders' comments and findings, the HTTP output auth
      function was fixed to use the proper proxy authentication when multiple ones
      are accepted. test 239 and test 243 were added to repeat the problems and
      verify the fixes.
    
      --proxy-anyauth was added to the curl tool
    
    
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    - Tru64 and some IRIX boxes seem to not like test 237 as it is. Their
      inet_addr() functions seems to use &255 on all numericals in a ipv4 dotted
      address which makes a different failure... Now I've modified the ipv4
      resolve code to use inet_pton() instead in an attempt to make these systems
      better detect this as a bad IP address rather than creating a toally bogus
      address that is then passed on and used.
    
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    - Dan Fandrich made the code properly use the uClibc's version of
      inet_ntoa_r() when built with it.
    
    
    - Added test 237 and 238: test EPSV and PASV response handling when they get
      well- formated data back but using illegal values. In 237 PASV gets an IP
      address that is way bad. In 238 EPSV gets a port that is way out of range.
    
    
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    - Added a few missing features to the curl-config --features list
    
    - Modified testcurl.pl to now offer
      1 - command line options for all info it previously only read from
          file: --name, --email, --desc and --configure
      2 - --nocvsup makes it not attempt to do cvs update
      3 - --crosscompile informs it and makes it not attempt things it can't do
    
    - Fixed numerous win32 compiler warnings.
    
    
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    - Removed the lib/security.h file since it shadowed the mingw/win32 header
      with the same name which is needed for SSPI builds. The contents of the
      former security.h is now i krb4.h
    
    - configure --enable-sspi now enables SSPI in the build. It only works for
      windows builds (including cross-compiles for windows).
    
    
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    - David Houlder added --form-string that adds that string to a multipart
      formpost part, without special characters having special meanings etc like
      --form features.
    
    
    - curl_version_info() returns the feature bit CURL_VERSION_SSPI if it was
      built with SSPI support.
    
    
    - Christopher R. Palmer made it possible to build libcurl with the
      USE_WINDOWS_SSPI on Windows, and then libcurl will be built to use the
      native way to do NTLM. SSPI also allows libcurl to pass on the current user
      and its password in the request.
    
    
    Daniel (9 March 2005)
    - Dan F improved the SSL lib setup in configure.
    
    - Nodak Sodak reported a crash when using a SOCKS4 proxy.
    
    - Jean-Marc Ranger pointed out an embarassing debug printf() leftover in the
      multi interface code.
    
    - Adjusted the man page for the curl_getdate() return value for dates after
      year 2038. For 32 bit time_t it returns 0x7fffffff but for 64bit time_t it
      returns either the correct value or even -1 on some systems that still seem
      to not deal with this properly. Tor Arntsen found a 64bit AIX system for us
    
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      that did the latter. Gwenole Beauchesne's Mandrake patch put the lights on
      this problem in the first place.
    
    Daniel (8 March 2005)
    - Dominick Meglio reported that using CURLOPT_FILETIME when transferring a FTP
      file got a Last-Modified: header written to the data stream, corrupting the
      actual data. This was because some conditions from the previous FTP code was
      not properly brought into the new FTP code. I fixed and I added test case
      520 to verify. (This bug was introduced in 7.13.1)
    
    - Dan Fandrich fixed the configure --with-zlib option to always consider the
      given path before any standard paths.
    
    
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    - Randy McMurchy was the first to report that valgrind.pm was missing from the
      release archive and thus 'make test' fails.
    
    
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    - Dan Fandrich added HAVE_FTRUNCATE to several config-*.h files.
    
    
    - Added test case 235 that makes a resumed upload of a file that isn't present
      on the remote side. This then converts the operation to an ordinary STOR
      upload. This was requested/pointed out by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams.
    
      It also proved (and I fixed) a bug in the newly rewritten ftp code (and
      present in the 7.13.1 release) when trying to resume an upload and the
      servers returns an error to the SIZE command. libcurl then loops and sends
      SIZE commands infinitely.
    
    - Dan Fandrich fixed a SSL problem introduced on February 9th that made
      libcurl attempt to load the whole random file to seed the PRNG. This is
      really bad since this turns out to be using /dev/urandom at times...
    
    
    Version 7.13.1 (4 March 2005)
    
    
    - Dave Dribin made it possible to set CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE to "" to activate
      the cookie "engine" without having to provide an empty or non-existing file.
    
    
    - Rene Rebe fixed a -# crash when more data than expected was retrieved.
    
    
    Daniel (22 February 2005)
    - NTLM and ftp-krb4 buffer overflow fixed, as reported here:
      http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/391042 and the CAN report here:
      http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0490
    
      If these security guys were serious, we'd been notified in advance and we
      could've saved a few of you a little surprise, but now we weren't.
    
    
    Daniel (19 February 2005)
    - Ralph Mitchell reported a flaw when you used a proxy with auth, and you
      requested data from a host and then followed a redirect to another
      host. libcurl then didn't use the proxy-auth properly in the second request,
      due to the host-only check for original host name wrongly being extended to
      the proxy auth as well. Added test case 233 to verify the flaw and that the
      fix removed the problem.
    
    
    Daniel (18 February 2005)
    - Mike Dobbs reported a mingw build failure due to the lack of
      BUILDING_LIBCURL being defined when libcurl is built. Now this is defined by
      configure when mingw is used.
    
    Daniel (17 February 2005)
    - David in bug report #1124588 found and fixed a socket leak when libcurl
      didn't close the socket properly when returning error due to failing
      localbind
    
    
    Daniel (16 February 2005)
    - Christopher R. Palmer reported a problem with HTTP-POSTing using "anyauth"
      that picks NTLM. Thanks to David Byron letting me test NTLM against his
      servers, I could quickly repeat and fix the problem. It turned out to be:
    
      When libcurl POSTs without knowing/using an authentication and it gets back
      a list of types from which it picks NTLM, it needs to either continue
      sending its data if it keeps the connection alive, or not send the data but
      close the connection. Then do the first step in the NTLM auth. libcurl
      didn't send the data nor close the connection but simply read the
      response-body and then sent the first negotiation step. Which then failed
      miserably of course. The fixed version forces a connection if there is more
      than 2000 bytes left to send.
    
    Daniel (14 February 2005)
    - The configure script didn't check for ENGINE_load_builtin_engines() so it
      was never used.
    
    
    Daniel (11 February 2005)
    - Removed all uses of strftime() since it uses the localised version of the
      week day names and month names and servers don't like that.
    
    
    Daniel (10 February 2005)
    - Now the test script disables valgrind-testing when the test suite runs if
      libcurl is built shared. Otherwise valgrind only tests the shell that runs
      the wrapper-script named 'curl' that is a front-end to curl in this case.
      This should also fix the huge amount of reports of false positives when
      valgrind has identified leaks in (ba)sh and not in curl and people report
      that as curl bugs. Bug report #1116672 is one example.
    
      Also, the valgrind report parser has been adapted to check that at least one
      of the sources in a stack strace is one of (lib)curl's source files or
      otherwise it will not consider the problem to concern (lib)curl.
    
    - Marty Kuhrt streamlined the VMS build.
    
    
    Daniel (9 February 2005)
    
    - David Byron fixed his SSL problems, initially mentioned here:
      http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-01/0240.html. It turned out we didn't use
      SSL_pending() as we should.
    
    
    - Converted lots of FTP code to a statemachine, so that the multi interface
      doesn't block while communicating commands-responses with an FTP server.
    
      I've added a comment like BLOCKING in the code on all spots I could find
      where we still have blocking operations. When we change curl_easy_perform()
      to use the multi interface, we'll also be able to simplify the code since
      there will only be one "internal interface".
    
      While doing this, I've now made CURLE_FTP_ACCESS_DENIED separate from the
      new CURLE_LOGIN_DENIED. The first one is now access denied to a function,
      like changing directory or retrieving a file, while the second means that we
      were denied login.
    
      The CVS tag 'before_ftp_statemachine' was set just before this went in, in
      case of future need.
    
    - Gisle made the DICT code send CRLF and not just LF as the spec says so.
    
    
    Daniel (8 February 2005)
    - Gisle fixed problems when libcurl runs out of memory, and worked on making
      sure the proper error code is returned for those occations.
    
    Daniel (7 February 2005)
    - Maruko pointed out a problem with inflate decompressing exactly 64K
      contents.
    
    
    Daniel (5 February 2005)
    - Eric Vergnaud found a use of an uninitialised variable in the ftp when doing
      PORT on ipv6-enabled hosts.
    
    - David Byron pointed out we could use BUFSIZE to read data (in
      lib/transfer.c) instead of using BUFSIZE -1.
    
    
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    Version 7.13.0 (1 February 2005)
    
    Daniel (31 January 2005)
    - Added Lars Nilsson's htmltitle.cc example
    
    
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    - Fixed a memory leak when using the multi interface and the DO operation
      failed (as in test case 205).
    
    - Fixed a valgrind warning for file:// operations.
    
    - Fixed a valgrind report in the url globbing code for the curl command line
      tool.
    
    - Bugfixed the parser that scans the valgrind report outputs (in runtests.pl).
      I noticed that it previously didn't detect and report the "Conditional jump
      or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" error. When I fixed this, I
      caught a few curl bugs with it. And then I had to spend time to make the
      test suite IGNORE these errors when OpenSSL is used since it produce massive
      amounts of valgrind warnings (but only of the "Conditional..." kind it
      seems). So, if a test that requires SSL is run, it ignores the
      "Conditional..." errors, and you'll get a "valgrind PARTIAL" output instead
      of "valgrind OK".