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                                  Changelog



Daniel (27 October 2005)
- 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.

Daniel (21 October 2005)
- "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).

Daniel (20 October 2005)
- 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.

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.

Daniel (4 October 2005)
- 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.

Daniel (27 September 2005)
- 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.

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.

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.

Daniel (24 August 2005)
- 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