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                                      Changelog
    
    
    - Dan Fandrich added --disable-verbose to the configure script to allow builds
      without verbose strings in the code, to save some 12KB space. Makes sense
      only for systems with very little memory resources.
    
    
    - Jeff Phillips found out that a date string with a year beyond 2038 could
      crash the new date parser on systems with 32bit time_t. We now check for
      this case and deal with it.
    
    
    Daniel (10 November 2004)
    - I installed Heimdal on my Debian box (using the debian package) and noticed
      that configure --with-gssapi failed to create a nice build. Fixed now.
    
    
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    - Gisle Vanem marked all external function calls with CURL_EXTERN so that now
      the Windows, Netware and other builds no longer need libcurl.def or similar
      files.
    
    
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    - Made the configure script check for tld.h if libidn was detected, since
      libidn 0.3.X didn't have such a header and we don't work with anything
      before libidn 0.4.1 anyway! Suse 9.1 apparently ships with a 0.3.X version
      of libidn which makes the curl 7.12.2 build fail. Jean-Philippe
      Barrette-LaPierre helped pointing this out.
    
    
    - Ian Gulliver reported in debian bug report #278691: if curl is invoked in an
      environment where stderr is closed the -v output will still be sent to file
      descriptor 2 which then might be the network socket handle! Now we have a
      weird hack instead that attempts to make sure that file descriptor 2 is
      opened (with a call to pipe()) before libcurl is called to do the transfer.
      configure now checks for pipe() and systems without pipe don't get the weird
      hack done.
    
    
    Daniel (5 November 2004)
    - Tim Sneddon made libcurl send no more than 64K in a single first chunk when
      doing a huge POST on VMS, as this is a system limitation. Default on general
      systems is 100K.
    
    
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    Daniel (4 November 2004)
    - Andres Garcia made it build on mingw againa, my --retry code broke the build.
    
    
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    - Added --retry-max-time that allows a maximum time that may not have been
      reached for a retry to be made. If not set there is no maximum time, only
      the amount of retries set with --retry.
    
    
    - Paul Nolan provided a patch to make libcurl build nicely on Windows CE.
    
    
    Daniel (1 November 2004)
    - When cross-compiling, the configure script no longer attempts to use
      pkg-config on the build host in order to detect OpenSSL compiler options.
    
    
    - Dan Fandrich:
    
      An improvement to the gzip handling of libcurl. There were two problems with
      the old version: it was possible for a malicious gzip file to cause libcurl
      to leak memory, as a buffer was malloced to hold the header and never freed
      if the header ended with no file contents.  The second problem is that the
      64 KiB decompression buffer was allocated on the stack, which caused
      unexpectedly high stack usage and overflowed the stack on some systems
      (someone complained about that in the mailing list about a year ago).
    
      Both problems are fixed by this patch. The first one is fixed when a recent
      (1.2) version of zlib is used, as it takes care of gzip header parsing
      itself.  A check for the version number is done at run-time and libcurl uses
      that feature if it's present. I've created a define OLD_ZLIB_SUPPORT that
      can be commented out to save some code space if libcurl is guaranteed to be
      using a 1.2 version of zlib.
    
      The second problem is solved by dynamically allocating the memory buffer
      instead of storing it on the stack. The allocation/free is done for every
      incoming packet, which is suboptimal, but should be dwarfed by the actual
      decompression computation.
     
      I've also factored out some common code between deflate and gzip to reduce
      the code footprint somewhat.  I've tested the gzip code on a few test files
      and I tried deflate using the freshmeat.net server, and it all looks OK. I
      didn't try running it with valgrind, however.
    
    
    - Added a --retry option to curl that takes a numerical option for the number
      of times the operation should be retried. It is retried if a transient error
      is detected or if a timeout occurred. By default, it will first wait one
      second between the retries and then double the delay time between each retry
      until the delay time is ten minutes which then will be the delay time
      between all forthcoming retries. You can set a static delay time with
      "--retry-delay [num]" where [num] is the number of seconds to wait between
      each retry.
    
    
    - Tomas Pospisek filed bug report #1053287 that proved -C - and --fail on a
      file that was already completely downloaded caused an error, while it
      doesn't if you don't use --fail! I added test case 194 to verify the fix.
      Grrr. CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is now added to the list stuff to remove in
      libcurl v8 due to all the kludges needed to support it.
    
    
    - Mohun Biswas found out that formposting a zero-byte file didn't work very
      good. I fixed.
    
    
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    - Alexander Krasnostavsky made it possible to make FTP 3rd party transfers
      with both source and destination being the same host. It can be useful if
      you want to move a file on a server or similar.
    
    
    - Guillaume Arluison added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS to allow an app to figure
      out how many new connects a previous transfer required.
    
      I added %{num_connects} to the curl tool and added test case 192 and 193
      to verify the new code.
    
    
    Daniel (18 October 2004)
    - Peter Wullinger pointed out that curl should call setlocale() properly to
      initiate the specific language operations, to make the IDN stuff work
      better.
    
    
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    Version 7.12.2 (18 October 2004)
    
    
    - Alexander Krasnostavsky made the CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS option work
      fine even for third party transfers.
    
    
    - runekl at opoint.com found out (and provided a fix) that libcurl leaked
      memory for cookies with the "max-age" field set.
    
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    - Issue 50 in TODO-RELEASE; Added Traian Nicolescu's patches for threaded
      resolver on Windows. Plugged some potential handle and memory leaks.
    
    
    Daniel (14 October 2004)
    - Eric Vergnaud pointed out that libcurl didn't treat ?-letters in the user
      name and password fields properly in URLs, like
      ftp://us?er:pass?word@site.com/. Added test 191 to verify the fix.
    
    
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    - libcurl now uses SO_NOSIGPIPE for systems that support it (Mac OS X 10.2 or
      later is one) to inhibit the SIGPIPE signal when writing to a socket while
      the peer dies. The same effect is provide by the MSG_NOSIGNAL parameter to
      send() on other systems. Alan Pinstein verified the fix.
    
    
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    Daniel (10 October 2004)
    - Systems with 64bit longs no longeruse strtoll() or our strtoll- replacement
      to parse 64 bit numbers. strtol() works fine. Added a configure check to
      detect if [constant]LL works and if so, use that in the strtoll replacement
      code to work around compiler warnings reported by Andy Cedilnik.
    
    
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    Gisle (6 October 2004)
    - For USE_LIBIDN builds: Added Top-Level-Domain (TLD) check of host-name
      used in fix_hostname(). Checks if characters in 'host->name' (indirectly
      via 'ace_hostname') are legal according to the TLD tables in libidn.
    
    
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    Daniel (6 October 2004)
    
    - Chih-Chung Chang reported that if you use CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM and enabled
      CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, libcurl reported error if a redirect happened even
      if the new URL would provide the resumed file. Test case 188 added to verify
      the fix (together with existing test 99).
    
    
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    - Dan Fandrich fixed a configure flaw for systems that need both nsl and socket
      libs to use gethostbyname().
    
    - Removed tabs and trailing whitespace from lots of source files.
    
    
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    Daniel (5 October 2004)
    - Made configure --with-libidn=PATH try the given PATH before the default
      paths to make it possible to override.
    
    - If idna_strerror() is present in libidn, we can use that instead of our
      internal replacement. This function was added by Simon in libidn 0.5.6 and
      is detected by configure.
    
    - It seems basename() on IRIX is in the libgen library and since we don't use
      that, configure finds libgen.h but not basename and then we get a compiler
      error because our basename() replacement doesn't match the proto in
      libgen.h. Starting now, we don't include the file if basename wasn't found
      as well.
    
    
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    Daniel (4 October 2004)
    - Chris found a race condition resulting in CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST and
      potential crash, in the windows threaded name resolver code.
    
    Daniel (3 October 2004)
    - Replaced the use of isspace() in cookie.c with our own version instead since
      we have most data as 'char *' and that makes us pass in negative values if
      there is 8bit data in the string. Changing to unsigned causes too much
      warnings or too many required typecasts to the normal string functions.
      Harshal Pradhan identified this problem.
    
    
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    - Bertrand Demiddelaer found a case where libcurl could read already freed
      data when CURLOPT_VERBOSE is used and a (very) persistent connection. It
      happened when the dns cache entry for the connection was pruned while the
      connection was still alive and then again re-used. We worked together on
      this fix.
    
    
    - Gisle Vanem provided code that displays an error message when the (libidn
      based) IDN conversion fails. This is really due to a missing suitable
      function in the libidn API that I hope we can remove once libidn gets a
      function like this.
    
    
    - Aleksandar Milivojevic reported a problem in the Redhat bugzilla (see
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134133) and not to
      anyone involved in the curl project! This happens when you try to curl a
      file from a proftpd site using SSL. It seems proftpd sends a somewhat
      unorthodox response code (232 instead of 230). I relaxed the response code
      check to deal with this and similar cases.
    
    
    - Based on Fedor Karpelevitch's formpost path basename patch, file parts in
      formposts no longer include the path part. If you _really_ want them, you
      must provide your preferred full file name with CURLFORM_FILENAME.
    
      Added detection for libgen.h and basename() to configure. My custom
      basename() replacement function for systems without it, might be a bit too
      naive...
    
      Updated 6 test cases to make them work with the stripped paths.
    
    
    - Larry Campbell added CURLINFO_OS_ERRNO to curl_easy_getinfo() that allows an
      app to retrieve the errno variable after a (connect) failure. It will make
      sense to provide this for more failures in a more generic way, but let's
      start like this.
    
    
    - Günter Knauf and Casey O'Donnell worked out an extra #if condition for the
      curl/multi.h header to work better in winsock-using apps.
    
    
    - Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre made buildconf run better on Mac OS X by
      properly using glibtoolize instead of plain libtoolize. (This is made if
      glibtool was found and used instead of plain libtool.)
    
    
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    - Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed curl_easy_reset() so that it doesn't mistakingly
      enable the progress meter.
    
    
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    Daniel (28 September 2004)
    - "Mekonikum" found out that if you built curl without SSL support, although
      your current SSL installation supports Engine, the compile fails.
    
    Daniel (27 September 2004)
    - When --with-ssl=PATH is used to the configure script, it no longer uses
      pkg-config to figure out extra details. That is now only done if no PATH is
      included or if SSL is checked for by default without the --with-ssl option.
    
    Daniel (25 September 2004)
    - Peter Sylvester pointed out that CURLOPT_SSLENGINE couldn't even be set to
      NULL when no engine was supported. It can now.
    
    
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    - Dan Fandrich fixed three test cases to no longer use "localhost" but instead
      use "127.0.0.1" to avoid requiring that localhost resolves nicely.
    
    
    - Jean-Claude Chauve fixed an LDAP crash when more than one record was
      retrieved.
    
    
    Daniel (19 September 2004)
    - Andreas Rieke pointed out that when attempting to connect to a host without
      a service on the specified port, curl_easy_perform() didn't properly provide
      an error message in the CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER buffer.
    
    
    - Daniel at touchtunes uses the FTP+SSL server "BSDFTPD-SSL from
      http://bsdftpd-ssl.sc.ru/" which accordingly doesn't properly work with curl
      when "AUTH SSL" is issued (although the server responds fine and everything)
      but requires that curl issues "AUTH TLS" instead. See
      http://curl.haxx.se/feedback/display.cgi?id=10951944937603&support=yes
    
      Introducing CURLOPT_FTPSSLAUTH that allows the application to select which
      of the AUTH strings to attempt first.
    
    
    - Anonymous filed bug report #1029478 which identified a bug when you 1) used
      a URL without properly seperating the host name and the parameters with a
      slash. 2) the URL had parameters to the right of a ? that contains a slash
      3) curl was told to follow Location:s 4) the request got a response that
      contained a Location: to redirect to "/dir". curl then appended the new path
      on the wrong position of the original URL.
    
      Test case 187 was added to verify that this was fixed properly.
    
    
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    Daniel (11 September 2004)
    
    - Added parsedate.c that contains a rewrite of the date parser currently
    
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      provided by getdate.y. The new one is MUCH smaller and will allow us to run
      away from the yacc/bison jungle. It is also slightly lacking in features
    
      compared to the old one, but it supports parsing of all date formats HTTP
      involves (and a fair bunch of others).
    
    - As found out by Jonas Forsman, curl didn't allow -F to set Content-Type on
      text-parts. Starting now, we can do -F "name=daniel;type=text/extra". Added
      test case 186 to verify.
    
    
    - Bug report #1025986. When following a Location: with a custom Host: header
      replacement, curl only replaced the Host: header on the initial request
      and didn't replace it on the following ones. This resulted in requests with
      two Host: headers.
    
      Now, curl checks if the location is on the same host as the initial request
      and then continues to replace the Host: header. And when it moves to another
      host, it doesn't replace the Host: header but it also doesn't make the
      second Host: header get used in the request.
    
      This change is verified by the two new test cases 184 and 185.
    
    
    Daniel (8 September 2004)
    - Modified the test suite to be able to use and run with customized port
      numbers. This was always intended but never before possible. Now a simple
      change in the runtests.pl script can make all tests use different ports.
      The default ports in use from now on are 8990 to 8993.
    
    Daniel (2 September 2004)
    - Minor modification of an SSL-related error message.
    
    
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    - David Tarendash found out that curl_multi_add_handle() returned
    
      CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM instead of CURLM_OK.
    
    
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    Daniel (30 August 2004)
    - Make "Proxy-Connection: close" close the current proxy connection, as Roman
      Koifman found out.
    
    
    Daniel (24 August 2004)
    - Fixed a getdate problem by post-replacing the getdate.c file after the
      bison/yacc process to add the fix Harshal Pradhan suggested. The problem
      caused a crash on Windows when parsing some dates.
    
    
    Daniel (23 August 2004)
    - Roman Koifman pointed out that libcurl send Expect: 100-continue on POSTs
    
      even when told to use HTTP 1.0, which is not correct. Test case 180 and
      181 verify this.
    
    - Added test case 182 to verify that zero byte transfers call the callback
      properly.
    
    Daniel (20 August 2004)
    - Alexander Krasnostavsky made the write callback get called even when a zero
      byte file is downloaded.
    
    
    Daniel (18 August 2004)
    - Ling Thio pointed out that when libcurl is built ipv6-enabled, it still did
      reverse DNS lookups when fed with a numerical IP-address (like
      http://127.0.0.1/), although it doesn't when built ipv6-disabled. libcurl
      should never do reverse lookups.
    
    
    Daniel (17 August 2004)
    - Kjetil Jacobsen noticed that when transferring a file:// URL pointing to an
      empty file, libcurl would return with the file still open.
    
    - Alexander Krasnostavsky pointed out that the configure script needs to define
      _THREAD_SAFE for AIX systems to make libcurl built really thread-safe.
    
      Also added a check for the xlc compiler on AIX, and if that is detect we use
      the -qthreaded compiler option
    
    
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    - libcurl now allows a custom "Accept-Encoding:" header override the
      internally set one that gets set with CURLOPT_ENCODING. Pointed out by Alex.
    
    
    - Roland Krikava found and fixed a cookie problem when using a proxy (the
      path matching was wrong). I added test case 179 to verify that we now do
      right.
    
    
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    - Casey O'Donnell fixed some MSVC makefile targets to link properly.
    
    
    Daniel (11 August 2004)
    - configure now defines _XOPEN_SOURCE to 500 on systems that need it to build
      warning-free (the only known one so far is non-gcc builds on 64bit SGI
    
      IRIX). (Reverted this change later as it caused compiler errors.)
    
    
    - the FTP code now includes the server response in the error message when the
      server gives back a 530 after the password is provided, as it isn't
      necessary because of a bad user name or password.
    
    
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    Version 7.12.1 (10 August 2004)
    
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    - In OpenSSL 0.9.7d and earlier, ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8 fails if the input is
      already UTF-8 encoded. This made the certificate verification fail if the
      remote server used a certificate with the name UTF-8 encoded.
    
      Work-around brought by Alexis S. L. Carvalho.
    
    Daniel (9 August 2004)
    - I fixed the configure script for krb4 to use -lcom_err as well, as I started
      to get link problems with it unless I did that on my Solaris 2.7 box. I
      don't understand why I started to get problems with this now!
    
    
    Daniel (5 August 2004)
    - Enrico Scholz fixed the HTTP-Negotiate service name to be uppercase as
      reported in bug report #1004105
    
    
    Daniel (4 August 2004)
    - Gisle Vanem provided a fix for the multi interface and connecting to a host
      using multiple IP (bad) addresses.
    
    - Dylan Salisbury made libcurl no longer accept cookies set to a TLD only (it
      previously allowed that on the seven three-letter domains).
    
    
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    - Joel Chen reported that the digest code assumed quotes around the contents a
      bit too much.
    
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    - Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed the host name to get setup properly even when a
      connection is re-used, when a proxy is in use. Previously the wrong Host:
      header could get sent when re-using a proxy connection to a different target
      host.
    
    - Fixed Brian Akins' reported problems with duplicate Host: headers on re-used
      connections. If you attempted to replace the Host: header in the second
      request, you got two such headers!
    
    - src/Makefile.am now includes the Makefile.inc file to get info about files
    
    
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    - Made "curl [URL] -o name#2" work as expected. If there's no globbing for the
      #-number, it will simply be used as #2 in the file name.
    
    
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    - Bertrand Demiddelaer fixed testing with valgrind 2.1.x and added two missing
      newlines in the cookie informationals.
    
    
    Daniel (24 July 2004)
    - I fixed the autobuilds with ares, since they now need to have buildconf run
      in the ares dir before the configure script is run.
    
    - Added Casey O'Donnell's curl_easy_reset() function. It has a proto in
      curl/curl.h but we have no man page yet.
    
    
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    Daniel (20 July 2004)
    - Added buildconf and buildconf.bat to the release archives, since they are
      handy for rebuilding curl when using a daily snapshot (and not a pure CVS
      checkout).
    
    Daniel (16 July 2004)
    - As suggested by Toby Peterson, libcurl now ignores Content-Length data if the
      given size is a negative number. Test case 178 verifies this.
    
    
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    - Günter Knauf has made the Netware builds do without the config-netware.h
      files, so they are now removed from the dist packages.
    
    - Günter Knauf made curl and libcurl build with Borland again.
    
    - Andres Garcia fixed the common test 505 failures on windows.
    
    
    Daniel (6 July 2004)
    - Andrés García found out why the windows tests failed on file:// "uploads".
    
    
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    Daniel (2 July 2004)
    - Andrés García reported a curl_share_cleanup() crash that occurs when no
      lock/unlock callbacks have been set and the share is cleaned up.
    
    
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    - When using curl --trace or --trace-ascii, no trace messages that were sent
      by curl_easy_cleanup() were included in the trace file. This made the
      message "Closing connection #0" never appear in trace dumps.
    
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    - Niels van Tongeren found that setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to TRUE doesn't disable
      a previously set POST request, making a very odd request get sent (unless
      you disabled the POST) a HEAD request with a POST request-body. I've now
      made CURLOPT_NOBODY enforce a proper HEAD. Added test case 514 for this.
    
    
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    - Günter Knauf made the testcurl.pl script capable of using a custom setup
      file to easier run multiple autobuilds on the same source tree.
    
    - Gisle fixed the djgpp build and fixed a memory problem in some of the
      reorged name resolved code.
    
    
    - Fixed code to allow connects done using the multi interface to attempt the
      next IP when connecting to a host that resolves to multiple IPs and a
      connect attempt fails.
    
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    - Based on Rob Stanzel's bug report #979480, I wrote a configure check that
      checks if poll() can be used to wait on NULL as otherwise select() should be
      used to do it. The select() usage was also fixed according to his report.
    
    
      Mac OS X 10.3 says "poll() functionality for Mac OS X is implemented via an
      emulation layer on top of select(), not in the kernel directly. It is
      recommended that programs running under OS X 10.3 prefer select() over
      poll(). Configure scripts should look for the _POLL_EMUL_H_ define (instead
      of _POLL_H_ or _SYS_POLL_H_) and avoid implementations where poll is not
      implemented in the kernel."
    
      Yes, we can probably use select() on most platforms but today I prefered to
      leave the code unaltered.
    
    
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    - The standard curl_version() string now only includes version info about
      involved libraries and not about particular features. Thus it will no longer
      include info about ipv6 nor GSS. That info is of course still available in
      the feature bitmask curl_version_info() offers.
    
    - Replaced all occurances of sprintf() with snprintf(). This is mostly because
      it is "A Good Thing" rather than actually fixing any known problem. This
      will help preventing future possible mistakes to cause buffer overflows.
    
    
    - Major reorganization in the host resolve code (again). This time, I've
      modified the code to now always use a linked list of Curl_addrinfo structs
      to return resolved info in, no matter what resolver method or support that
      is available on the platform. It makes it a lot easier to write code that
      uses or depends on resolved data.
    
      Internally, this means amongst other things that we can stop doing the weird
      "increase buffer size until it works" trick when resolving hosts on
      ipv4-only with gethostbyname_r(), we support socks even on libcurls built
      with ipv6 enabled (but only to socks servers that resolve to an ipv4
      address) and we no longer deep-copy or relocate hostent structs (we create
      Curl_addrinfo chains instead).
    
      The new "hostent to Curl_addrinfo" converter function is named Curl_he2ai()
      and is slightly naive and simple, yet I believe it is functional enough to
      work for libcurl.
    
    
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    - David Cohen pointed out that RFC2109 says clients should allow cookies to
      contain least 4096 bytes while libcurl only allowed 2047. I raised the limit
      to 4999 now and made the used buffer get malloc()ed instead of simply
      allocated on stack as before. Extended test case 46 to include a cookie with
      very huge content to verify the fix.
    
    - Günter Knauf fixed getdate.y to remove a few warnings. I removed the
      ifdef'ed test we never ever use anyway.
    
    
    - Gisle Vanem fixed the certificate wildcard checks to support a '*'-letter
      anywhere in the wildcard string, support multiple '*'-letters in the
      wildcard and to allow the '*'-letter to match a string that includes a dot.
    
    
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    - testcurl.sh is now removed completely, tests/testcurl.pl is the script to
      use when autobuilding curl!
    
    
    - Kjetil Jacobsen brought my attention to the fact that you cannot properly
      abort an upload with the readfunction callback, since returning 0 or -1 only
      stops the upload and libcurl will continue waiting for downloaded data and
      the server often waits for the rest of the upload data to arrive.
    
      Thus, I've now added the ability for read callbacks to return
      CURL_READFUNC_ABORT to abort an upload from a read callback. This will stop
      the transfer immediately with a CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK return code.
    
    
      Test case 513 was added to verify that it works. I had to improve the test
      HTTP server too to dump the request to a file even when the client
      disconnects prematurely.
    
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    - Luca Alteas provided a test case with a failing curl operation: when we POST
      to a site with --digest (or similar) set, and the server responded with a 302
      Location: to the "authprobe" request, it was not treated correctly. We still
      will behave badly if FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled for this case, but I'm not
      in the mood to dive into this right now and will leave it as-is for now.
      Verified my fix with test case 177.
    
    
    Daniel (18 June 2004)
    - Gisle Vanem's patch that provides more details from the SSL layers (if you
      use an OpenSSL version that supports it). It also introduces two new types
      of data that can be sent to the debug callback: CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_IN and
      CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_OUT.
    
    - With David Byron's test server I could repeat his problem and make sure that
      POSTing over HTTPS:// with NTLM works fine now. There was a general problem
      with multi-pass authentication with non-GET operations with CONNECT.
    
    
    Daniel (16 June 2004)
    - Modified to keep the upload byte counter in an curl_off_t, not an int as
      before. 32bits is not enough. This is most likely the bug Jean-Louis Lemaire
      reported that makes 2GB FTP uploads to report error ("unaligned file sizes")
      when completed.
    
    
    Daniel (15 June 2004)
    - Luca Alteas reported a problem that I fixed: if you did a POST with
      CURLAUTH_DIGEST set but the server didn't require any authentication,
      libcurl would repeatedly send HEAD lots of times until it gives up. This was
      actually the case for all multi-pass authentications. Added test case 174,
      175 and 176 to verify this.
    
    
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    - Multipart formposts uploading files no longer inserts the files themselves
      into the huge prebuilt chunk. This enables libcurl to formpost files that is
      larger than the amount of system memory. When the file given is passed on
      stdin, libcurl still uses the old method of reading the full fill before the
      upload takes place. This approach was selected in order to not alter the
      behavior for existing applications, as when using stdin libcurl can't know
      the size of the upload and chunked transfer-encoding can only be used on
      HTTP 1.1 servers.
    
    Daniel (13 June 2004)
    - Gisle found out that we did wildcard cert name checks wrong, so that parts
      of the check wrongly was case sensitive.
    
    Daniel (11 June 2004)
    - Tim Sneddon brought a minor VMS fix to make curl build properly on his VMS
      machine. He also had some interesting libcurl patches... they might be able
      to do in a slightly nicer way. Discussions are in progress.
    
    Daniel (10 June 2004)
    - Gisle Vanem brought code cleanupsm better verbose output and better connect
      timeout handling when attempting to connect to a host that resolves to
      multiple IP addresses.
    
    - Steven Bazyl and Seshubabu Pasam pointed out a bug on win32 when freeing the
      path after a file:// transfer.
    
    Daniel (9 June 2004)
    - Alexander Krasnostavsky made 'configure --disable-http' work to build libcurl
      without HTTP support. I added a new return code for curl_formadd() in case
      libcurl is built with HTTP disable: CURL_FORMADD_DISABLED.
    
    - Alexander Krasnostavsky pointed out a missing file in the generated
      curllib.dsp file, and now people building with this should get a libcurl.lib
      file generated as it used to do before we generated this file.
    
    
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    - Marty Kuhrt fixed a minor build problem for VMS.
    
    Daniel (7 June 2004)
    - Reverted the configure check from the 4th since it obviously didn't work.
      Remade it in a different manner that hopefully works better.
    
    
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    - Günter Knauf brought patches to make curl build fine on NetWare again.
    
    
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    - Made the configure checks for strerror_r() not exit the configure script
      when built for cross-compiling.
    
    
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    - Chris Gaukroger pointed out that 'make test' attempts to run the tests even
      if curl is built cross-compiled. I've now made it output a short message
      instead, saying it isn't possible to do.
    
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    - Alexander Krasnostavsky brought FTP 3rd party transfer support to libcurl.
      You can now use libcurl to transfer files between two remote hosts using
      FTP. There are a bunch of new options to control this with:
       CURLOPT_SOURCE_HOST
       CURLOPT_SOURCE_USERPWD
       CURLOPT_SOURCE_PATH
       CURLOPT_SOURCE_PORT
       CURLOPT_PASV_HOST
       CURLOPT_SOURCE_PREQUOTE
       CURLOPT_SOURCE_POSTQUOTE
    
      (They still remain to be documented properly in the curl_easy_setopt man
      page.)
    
      When using this, the ordinary CURLOPT_URL specifies the target URL, and you
      specify the source data with these additional options. ftp3rdparty.c is a
      new example source code showing how to use this.
    
    - Vincent Bronner fixed the HTTP Digest code to use the proxy user name and
      password when doing proxy authentication, it previously always used the host
      user name and password!
    
    Daniel (2 June 2004)
    - CURLOPT_UPLOAD and CURLOPT_PUT now do the exact same thing internally, which
      fixes some old confusions on when which of these should be used and what the
      differences are.
    
    - Applied Gisle's fixes to make curl build fine with lcc-win32
    
    
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    - I clarified the --create-dirs option somewhat in the curl man page.
    
    - Renaud Duhaut corrected the curl_unescape man page.
    
    - David Byron modified one of Massimiliano Ziccardi's recent MSVC makefile
      changes to now again use the mm lib by default.
    
    
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    - Mohun Biswas added release-zlib and debug-zlib targets to the MSVC libcurl
      Makefile
    
    
    - David Byron reported a problem with proxy authentication when doing CONNECT,
      like when accessing HTTPS sites wiht a proxy. This probably broke when I
      rewrote the auth stuff recently.
    
    
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    - I added fileupload.c in the examples directory, showing how an upload to a
      file:// URL is made.
    
    
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    - Massimiliano Ziccardi updated the MSVC makefiles.
    
    
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    - libcurl now supports "uploading" to file:// URLs. Test 204 and 205 were
      added to verify.
    
    - Simon Josefsson added a idn_free() function in libidn 0.4.5 as a reaction to
      Gisle's previous mail. We now use this function, and thus we require libidn
    
      0.4.5 or later. No earlier version will do.
    
    - Robert D. Young reported that CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIE could
      not be used both in one request. Fixed it and added test case 172 to verify.
    
    
    Daniel (21 May 2004)
    - While talking to host a.b.c, libcurl did wrongly not accept cookies that
      were set to the domain .a.b.c (that is with a dot prefix). This is now fixed
      and test case 171 verifies it.
    
    
    Daniel (20 May 2004)
    - Jesse Noller reported that the upload speed info reported by libcurl was
      wrong. The same was true for the download speed. Fixed now.
    
    
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    - Peter Sylvester's patch that addresses two flaws in the peer certificate
      name verification:
      o when multiple common names are used (as in the curl tests), the last name
        needs to be selected.
      o allow comparing with encoded values, at least with BMP and ISO latin1
        encoded T61strings.
    
    - All 191 test cases run through the torture test OK! 'make test-torture' is
      now available in the root makefile (on configure-based environments).
    
    
    Daniel (14 May 2004)
    - With a slightly modified ftpserver.pl I've now run almost all tests through
      with runtests.pl -t. This is goodness!
    
    - Since I have been unable to contact the CVS admins for several months, I've
      decided that the current CVS hosting was not good enough. I've now moved the
      CVS repo once again, see README for updated cvs checkout instructions.
    
    Daniel (13 May 2004)
    - runtests.pl -t now runs fine all the way to test 100. I believe test case
      100 fails because of an FTP server problem.
    
    Daniel (12 May 2004)
    - General cleanups all over to make libcurl survive and do well when a memory
      function returns NULL. runtests.pl -t now works fine for the first 26 test
      cases.
    
    
    Daniel (11 May 2004)
    
    - Seshubabu Pasam provided a patch that introduces curl_global_init_mem() -
      like normal curl_global_init() but allows the app to replace all memory
      functions with its own set. I modified it slightly.
    
    
    - Based on Luca Alteas' comments, I modified the curllib.dsp generation code.
    
    Daniel (10 May 2004)
    - Gisle mailed Simon Josefsson (of libidn fame) about the benefits of a
      separate free()-function by that lib to make sure the memory is freed by the
      same memory subsystem that allocated it. He responded positively and this
      will likely cause us to require a newer version of libidn as soon as Simon
      releases one with such a libidn_free() function.
    
    - James Bursa made runtests.pl's -t option work for any given test case, and I
      edited to allow -g too. Not even test case 1 worked...
    
    - Luca Altea made the nc= field not use quotes in outgoing HTTP Digest headers.
    
    - Andrés García fixed a problem in the test script that made it fail to
      recognize our own running HTTP server.
    
    
    - James Bursa fixed the memanalyze.pl script to conder malloc(0) areas OK to
      free() and he made two failed-resolve error messages use the new display-
      name instead of the internally-used name.
    
    - Gisle Vanem tried curl with
      www.etdomenenavnkanmaksimaltinneholdesekstitrebokstaversliksomdette.com
      which caused problems, and I fixed the single zero byte buffer overwrite
    
      that occurred (due to a stupid protocol buffer size and parser).
    
    - Made the lib/curllib.dsp file get generated automaticly when a distribution
      package is made, with the msvcproj.* files as templates and all
      win32-sources added. I think this can be made to work better than the always
      lagging-behind previous approach. I'm not sure this builds a working project
      file right now though!
    
    
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    - Michael Benedict brought a fix that fills in the errorbuffer properly when
      ares fails to resolve a name for a case not previously dealt with like this.
    
    Daniel (5 May 2004)
    - Joe Halpin fixed the annoying typecast warning in lib/ldap.c
    
    - Gisle Vanem fixes:
      o memdebug to not access NULL on several places
      o libcurl.def; curl_formparse is gone.
      o progress.c; fixed the percent values being trunced to 0.
      o if2ip.*; constified the 'interface' argument.
    
    - Tor Arntsen reported that many of his autobuilds froze and I found and fixed
      a problem introduced with the HTTP auth overhaul that could lead to a
      never-ending internal request-loop due to un-initialized variables!
    
    - Removed several compiler warnings on various compilers/platforms.
    
    
    Daniel (4 May 2004)
    - curl_formparse() has been removed from the library. It has been marked and
      mentioned as deprecated for several years.
    
    
    Daniel (3 May 2004)
    - Rewritten HTTP authentication code. The previous code could not properly
      deal with the added test cases 167, 168 and 169. I've now rewritten the code
      to better separate host and proxy authentication and not re-use the same
      variables as much as before as it proved non working in the more involved
      cases. All the current tests run OK now, and so do the new ones. The curl
      tool got a new option named --proxy-digest to enable HTTP Digest
      authentication with the proxy. I also made the library support it.
    
    - Gisle Vanem made the LDAP code work with wldap32.dll as supplied with
      Win-98/ME/2000/XP, so no extra .dlls are required when curl/libcurl is used
      on these Windows versions.
    
    
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    - runtests.pl now scans the valgrind log for valgrind-detected memory leaks
      after each test case if valgrind was found and used.
    
    - I modified the app-code in curl to include the new lib/curlx.h and only
      access those functions using the curlx_-prefix in preparation for the future
      removal of several curl_-functions from the public libcurl API.
    
    - Introduced lib/curlx.h as a single header to provide the curlx_-functions
      to apps.
    
    - Added notices in the man pages for curl_getenv, curl_mprintf, curl_strequal
      and curl_strnequal that they are subject for removal in a future release.
      STOP USING THESE FUNCTIONS.
    
    - Mihai Ionescu noticed he couldn't do formposts with whitespace in the file
      names and yes, I broke that on April 23. Sigh. I fixed it now and added
      test case 166 to verify it.
    
    - Luca Altea pointed out a mistake left from the Digest patch of yesterday.
    
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    - Made IDN domains work when sending requsts over HTTP proxy as well. Added
      test case 165 to verify the functionality.
    
    - Fixed a bug in the new internal host name setup when re-using connections.
    
    - James Bursa found out that curl_easy_duphandle() with ares-built libcurl
      created a bad handle that would crash in the first name resolve attempt. This
      is now fixed and test case 512 was added to verify it.
    
    - Luca Altea provided a major HTTP Digest code fix and cleanup. We now follow
      the Digest RFC a lot better.
    
    - Gisle Vanem made the SSL code use ERR_error_string_n() where applicable.
    
    
    Daniel (27 April 2004)
    - I remodeled Gisle's IDN code slightly and now we convert both the host name
      and proxy name to the ACE encoded version to use internally for resolves and
      cookies etc. They are now using one 'struct hostname' each that keep both
      the original name and the possibly encoded name. IDN resolves work for me
      now using ipv6, ipv4 and ares resolving. Even cookies on IDN sites seem to
      do right. I got some failures at first when CHARSET wasn't set at all which
      confused libidn completely and it decided by encoding of choice was
      'ANSI_X3.4-1968'...
    
    - made 'configure --without-libidn' work
    
    
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    - Fixed the src/hugehelp.c file to include "setup.h" instead of "config.h" to
      make the problems with USE_MANUAL on windows go away.
    
    - configure --without-ssl could still wrongly include some OpenSSL info in the
    
      Makefiles if pkg-config had info about OpenSSL. Bug #941762 reported by
      Martin.
    
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    - Since we can now build and use quite a large set of 3rd party libraries, I
      decided I would make configure produce a summary at the end showing what
      libraries it uses and if not, what option to use to make it use that. I also
      added some other random info that is nice in a "configure summary" output.
    
    - Applied TommyTam's patch that now make curl work with telnet and stdin
      properly on Windows.
    
    - The changes for today below were made by me and Gisle Vanem.
    
      The file previously known as hostip.c has now undergone a huge cleanup and
    
      split:
    
      hostip.c explained
      ==================
    
      The main COMPILE-TIME DEFINES to keep in mind when reading the host*.c
      source file are these:
    
      CURLRES_IPV6 - this host has getaddrinfo() and family, and thus we use
      that. The host may not be able to resolve IPv6, but we don't really have to
      take that into account. Hosts that aren't IPv6-enabled have CURLRES_IPV4
      defined.
    
      CURLRES_ARES - is defined if libcurl is built to use c-ares for asynchronous
      name resolves. It cannot have ENABLE_IPV6 defined at the same time, as
      c-ares has no ipv6 support. This can be Windows or *nix.
    
      CURLRES_THREADED - is defined if libcurl is built to run under (native)
      Windows, and then the name resolve will be done in a new thread, and the
      supported asynch API will be the same as for ares-builds.
    
      If any of the two previous are defined, CURLRES_ASYNCH is defined too. If
      libcurl is not built to use an asynchronous resolver, CURLRES_SYNCH is
      defined.
    
      The host*.c sources files are split up like this:
    
      hostip.c   - method-independent resolver functions and utility functions
      hostasyn.c - functions for asynchronous name resolves
      hostsyn.c  - functions for synchronous name resolves
      hostares.c - functions for ares-using name resolves
      hostthre.c - functions for threaded name resolves
      hostip4.c  - ipv4-specific functions
      hostip6.c  - ipv6-specific functions
    
      The hostip.h is the single united header file for all this. It defines the
      CURLRES_* defines based on the config*.h and setup.h defines.
    
    - Added function header comments to many functions in an attempt to better
      explain the purpose of them all.
    
    - configure --with-libidn is now supported. It makes the configure script
      check for libidn libs and include files in the prefix path given. If you
      say --with-libidn=/usr/local, it will check for the lib in /usr/local/lib
      and the includes in /usr/local/include etc.
    
    - curl_version_info() now returns a struct aged CURLVERSION_THIRD including
      libidn version info. The string curl_version() returns also includes libidn
      version info, if available.
    
    
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    - Erwin Authried pointed out that configure --disable-manual didn't do right
      if you already had a src/hugehelp.c source file present (which most people
      do I guess). It now uses the USE_MANUAL define properly.
    
    
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    - Gisle Vanem found and fixed a memory leak when doing (failing) Windows
      threaded name resolves.
    
    
    - I also added test case 163 just to make sure -F "var=<file" works fine and
      can pass on characters such as newlines, carriage-return and tabs.
    
    - When we added test case 162 without adding the necessary requirement field
      in the test meta data we could see that curl didn't complain if you used
      --proxy-ntlm even if the underlying libcurl it uses has no NTLM support! I
      now made it check this first, and it now exists with a "the installed
      libcurl version doesn't support this" message if it happens again.
    
    
    - David Byron found and fixed a small bug with the --fail and authentication
      stuff added a few weeks ago.  Turns out that if you specify --proxy-ntlm and
      communicate with a proxy that requires basic authentication, the proxy
      properly returns a 407, but the failure detection code doesn't realize it
      should give up, so curl returns with exit code 0. Test case 162 added to
      verify the functionality.
    
    
    - allow newlines in the contents when doing -F "var=[contents]"
      Robert Marlow reported.
    
    
    - If a transfer is found out to be only partial, libcurl will now treat that
      as a problem serious enough to skip the final QUIT command before closing
      the control connection. To avoid the risk that it will "hang" waiting for
      the QUIT response. Added test case 161 to verify this.
    
    
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    - Modified the heuristics for dealing with the test 160 scenario. When a
      connection is re-used and nothing at all is received from it (because the
      server closes the connection), we will now retry the request on a fresh new
      connection. The previous ECONNRESET stuff from January 30 was removed again
      as it didn't detect the situation good enough.
    
    Daniel (20 April 2004)
    - Added test case 160 to verify that curl works correctly when it gets a
      connection reset when trying to re-use a connection. It should then simply
      create a new connection and resend the request.
    
    
    Daniel (19 April 2004)
    - No more 512 byte limit for host name (inclusing name + password) in libcurl.
      An added bonus is that we use less memory for the typical (shorter URL)
      case.
    
    - Cleaned up the sources to better use the terms 'hostname' and 'path'
      internally when referring to that data. The buffers used for keep that info
      is called 'namebuffer' and 'pathbuffer'. Much easier to read and understand
      than the previous mess.
    
    
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    - Modified runtests.pl again to remove all log files in the log/ dir between
      each test, and then made -p display all non-zero byte files in the log dir.
      It should make that data more usable and contain less rubbish.
    
    - ftpserver.pl now produces log files more similar to how the sws ones look
      and they now also contains a bit more details to help debugging ftp
      problems.