url.c

      break;
    }

    if(score > highscore) {
      highscore = score;
      connindex = i;
    }
  }
  if(connindex >= 0) {

    /* the winner gets the honour of being disconnected */
    result = Curl_disconnect(data->connects[connindex]);

    /* clean the array entry */
    data->connects[connindex] = NULL;
  }

  return connindex; /* return the available index or -1 */
}

/*
 * The given input connection struct pointer is to be stored. If the "cache"
 * is already full, we must clean out the most suitable using the previously
 * set policy.
 *
 * The given connection should be unique. That must've been checked prior to
 * this call.
 */
static unsigned int
ConnectionStore(struct UrlData *data,
                struct connectdata *conn)
{
  size_t i;
  for(i=0; i< data->numconnects; i++) {
    if(!data->connects[i])
      break;
  }
  if(i == data->numconnects) {
    /* there was no room available, kill one */
    i = ConnectionKillOne(data);
    infof(data, "Connection (#%d) was killed to make room\n", i);
  }

  data->connects[i] = conn; /* fill in this */
  conn->connectindex = i; /* make the child know where the pointer to this
                             particular data is stored */

  return i;
}

static CURLcode ConnectPlease(struct UrlData *data,
                              struct connectdata *conn)
{

#ifndef ENABLE_IPV6
  conn->firstsocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

  memset((char *) &conn->serv_addr, '\0', sizeof(conn->serv_addr));
  memcpy((char *)&(conn->serv_addr.sin_addr),
         conn->hp->h_addr, conn->hp->h_length);
  conn->serv_addr.sin_family = conn->hp->h_addrtype;
  conn->serv_addr.sin_port = htons(conn->port);
#else
  /* IPv6-style */
  struct addrinfo *ai;
#endif

#if !defined(WIN32)||defined(__CYGWIN32__)
  /* We don't generally like checking for OS-versions, we should make this
     HAVE_XXXX based, although at the moment I don't have a decent test for
     this! */

#ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA

#ifndef INADDR_NONE
#define INADDR_NONE (unsigned long) ~0
#endif

#ifndef ENABLE_IPV6
  /*************************************************************
   * Select device to bind socket to
   *************************************************************/
  if (data->device && (strlen(data->device)<255)) {
    struct sockaddr_in sa;
    struct hostent *h=NULL;
    char *hostdataptr=NULL;
    size_t size;
    char myhost[256] = "";
    unsigned long in;

    if(Curl_if2ip(data->device, myhost, sizeof(myhost))) {
      h = Curl_gethost(data, myhost, &hostdataptr);
    }
    else {
      if(strlen(data->device)>1) {
        h = Curl_gethost(data, data->device, &hostdataptr);
      }
      if(h) {
        /* we know data->device is shorter than the myhost array */
        strcpy(myhost, data->device);
      }
    }

    if(! *myhost) {
      /* need to fix this
         h=Curl_gethost(data,
         getmyhost(*myhost,sizeof(myhost)),
         hostent_buf,
         sizeof(hostent_buf));
      */
      printf("in here\n");
    }

    infof(data, "We connect from %s\n", myhost);

    if ( (in=inet_addr(myhost)) != INADDR_NONE ) {

      if ( h ) {
        memset((char *)&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));
        memcpy((char *)&sa.sin_addr,
               h->h_addr,
               h->h_length);
        sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
        sa.sin_addr.s_addr = in;
        sa.sin_port = 0; /* get any port */
	
        if( bind(conn->firstsocket, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa)) >= 0) {
          /* we succeeded to bind */
          struct sockaddr_in add;
	
          size = sizeof(add);
          if(getsockname(conn->firstsocket, (struct sockaddr *) &add,
                         (socklen_t *)&size)<0) {
            failf(data, "getsockname() failed");
            return CURLE_HTTP_PORT_FAILED;
          }
        }
        else {
          switch(errno) {
          case EBADF:
            failf(data, "Invalid descriptor: %d", errno);
            break;
          case EINVAL:
            failf(data, "Invalid request: %d", errno);
            break;
          case EACCES:
            failf(data, "Address is protected, user not superuser: %d", errno);
            break;
          case ENOTSOCK:
            failf(data,
                  "Argument is a descriptor for a file, not a socket: %d",
                  errno);
            break;
          case EFAULT:
            failf(data, "Inaccessable memory error: %d", errno);
            break;
          case ENAMETOOLONG:
            failf(data, "Address too long: %d", errno);
            break;
          case ENOMEM:
            failf(data, "Insufficient kernel memory was available: %d", errno);
            break;
          default:
            failf(data,"errno %d\n");
          } /* end of switch */
	
          return CURLE_HTTP_PORT_FAILED;
        } /* end of else */
	
      } /* end of if  h */
      else {
	failf(data,"could't find my own IP address (%s)", myhost);
	return CURLE_HTTP_PORT_FAILED;
      }
    } /* end of inet_addr */

    else {
      failf(data, "could't find my own IP address (%s)", myhost);
      return CURLE_HTTP_PORT_FAILED;
    }

    if(hostdataptr)
      free(hostdataptr); /* allocated by Curl_gethost() */

  } /* end of device selection support */
#endif  /* end of HAVE_INET_NTOA */
#endif /* end of not WIN32 */
#endif /*ENABLE_IPV6*/

  /*************************************************************
   * Connect to server/proxy
   *************************************************************/
#ifdef ENABLE_IPV6
  conn->firstsocket = -1;
  for (ai = conn->hp; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) {
    conn->firstsocket = socket(ai->ai_family,
                               ai->ai_socktype,
                               ai->ai_protocol);
    if (conn->firstsocket < 0)
      continue;

    if (connect(conn->firstsocket, ai->ai_addr, ai->ai_addrlen) < 0) {
      sclose(conn->firstsocket);
      conn->firstsocket = -1;
      continue;
    }

    break;
  }
  conn->ai = ai;
  if (conn->firstsocket < 0) {
    failf(data, strerror(errno));
    return CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT;
  }
#else
  if (connect(conn->firstsocket,
              (struct sockaddr *) &(conn->serv_addr),
              sizeof(conn->serv_addr)
              ) < 0) {
    switch(errno) {
#ifdef ECONNREFUSED
      /* this should be made nicer */
    case ECONNREFUSED:
      failf(data, "Connection refused");
      break;
    case EFAULT:
      failf(data, "Invalid socket address: %d",errno);
      break;
    case EISCONN:
      failf(data, "Socket already connected: %d",errno);
      break;
    case ETIMEDOUT:
      failf(data, "Timeout while accepting connection, server busy: %d",errno);
      break;
    case ENETUNREACH:
      failf(data, "Network is unreachable: %d",errno);
      break;
    case EADDRINUSE:
      failf(data, "Local address already in use: %d",errno);
      break;
    case EINPROGRESS:
      failf(data, "Socket is nonblocking and connection can not be completed immediately: %d",errno);
      break;
    case EALREADY:
      failf(data, "Socket is nonblocking and a previous connection attempt not completed: %d",errno);
      break;
    case EAGAIN:
      failf(data, "No more free local ports: %d",errno);
      break;
    case EACCES:
    case EPERM:
      failf(data, "Attempt to connect to broadcast address without socket broadcast flag or local firewall rule violated: %d",errno);
      break;
#endif
    case EINTR:
      failf(data, "Connection timed out");
      break;
    default:
      failf(data, "Can't connect to server: %d", errno);
      break;
    }
    return CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT;
  }
#endif

  return CURLE_OK;
}

static CURLcode Connect(struct UrlData *data,
                        struct connectdata **in_connect,
                        bool allow_port) /* allow data->use_port ? */
{
  char *tmp;
  char *buf;
  CURLcode result;
  char resumerange[40]="";
  struct connectdata *conn;
  struct connectdata *conn_temp;
  char endbracket;
  int urllen;

  /*************************************************************
   * Check input data
   *************************************************************/

  if(!data->url)
    return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;

  /* First, split up the current URL in parts so that we can use the
     parts for checking against the already present connections. In order
     to not have to modify everything at once, we allocate a temporary
     connection data struct and fill in for comparison purposes. */

  conn = (struct connectdata *)malloc(sizeof(struct connectdata));
  if(!conn) {
    *in_connect = NULL; /* clear the pointer */
    return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;
  }
  /* We must set the return variable as soon as possible, so that our
     parent can cleanup any possible allocs we may have done before
     any failure */
  *in_connect = conn;

  /* we have to init the struct */
  memset(conn, 0, sizeof(struct connectdata));

  /* and we setup a few fields in case we end up actually using this struct */
  conn->data = data;           /* remember our daddy */
  conn->upload_bufsize = UPLOAD_BUFSIZE; /* default upload buffer size */
  conn->firstsocket = -1;     /* no file descriptor */
  conn->secondarysocket = -1; /* no file descriptor */
  conn->connectindex = -1;    /* no index */
  conn->bits.httpproxy = data->bits.httpproxy; /* proxy-or-not status */

  /* Default protocol-independent behavior doesn't support persistant
     connections, so we set this to force-close. Protocols that support
     this need to set this to FALSE in their "curl_do" functions. */
  conn->bits.close = TRUE;
  
  /* inherite initial knowledge from the data struct */
  conn->bits.user_passwd = data->userpwd?1:0;
  conn->bits.proxy_user_passwd = data->proxyuserpwd?1:0;

  /* Store creation time to help future close decision making */
  conn->created = Curl_tvnow();


  /***********************************************************
   * We need to allocate memory to store the path in. We get the size of the
   * full URL to be sure, and we need to make it at least 256 bytes since
   * other parts of the code will rely on this fact
   ***********************************************************/
#define LEAST_PATH_ALLOC 256
  urllen=strlen(data->url);
  if(urllen < LEAST_PATH_ALLOC)
    urllen=LEAST_PATH_ALLOC;
  
  conn->path=(char *)malloc(urllen);
  if(NULL == conn->path)
    return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY; /* really bad error */

  /*************************************************************
   * Parse the URL.
   *
   * We need to parse the url even when using the proxy, because we will need
   * the hostname and port in case we are trying to SSL connect through the
   * proxy -- and we don't know if we will need to use SSL until we parse the
   * url ...
   ************************************************************/
  if((2 == sscanf(data->url, "%64[^:]://%[^\n]",
                  conn->protostr,
                  conn->path)) && strequal(conn->protostr, "file")) {
    /*
     * we deal with file://<host>/<path> differently since it supports no
     * hostname other than "localhost" and "127.0.0.1", which is unique among
     * the URL protocols specified in RFC 1738
     */

    if (strnequal(conn->path, "localhost/", 10) ||
        strnequal(conn->path, "127.0.0.1/", 10))
      /* If there's another host name than the one we support, <host>/ is
       * quietly ommitted */
      strcpy(conn->path, &conn->path[10]);

    strcpy(conn->protostr, "file"); /* store protocol string lowercase */
  }
  else {
    /* Set default host and default path */
    strcpy(conn->gname, "curl.haxx.se");
    strcpy(conn->path, "/");

    if (2 > sscanf(data->url,
                   "%64[^\n:]://%256[^\n/]%[^\n]",
                   conn->protostr, conn->gname, conn->path)) {
      
      /*
       * The URL was badly formatted, let's try the browser-style _without_
       * protocol specified like 'http://'.
       */
      if((1 > sscanf(data->url, "%256[^\n/]%[^\n]",
                     conn->gname, conn->path)) ) {
        /*
         * We couldn't even get this format.
         */
        failf(data, "<url> malformed");
        return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;
      }

      /*
       * Since there was no protocol part specified, we guess what protocol it
       * is based on the first letters of the server name.
       */

      if(strnequal(conn->gname, "FTP", 3)) {
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "ftp");
      }
      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "GOPHER", 6))
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "gopher");
#ifdef USE_SSLEAY
      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "HTTPS", 5))
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "https");
      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "FTPS", 4))
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "ftps");
#endif /* USE_SSLEAY */
      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "TELNET", 6))
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "telnet");
      else if (strnequal(conn->gname, "DICT", sizeof("DICT")-1))
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "DICT");
      else if (strnequal(conn->gname, "LDAP", sizeof("LDAP")-1))
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "LDAP");
      else {
        strcpy(conn->protostr, "http");
      }

      conn->protocol |= PROT_MISSING; /* not given in URL */
    }
  }

  buf = data->buffer; /* this is our buffer */

  /*************************************************************
   * Take care of user and password authentication stuff
   *************************************************************/

  if(conn->bits.user_passwd && !data->bits.use_netrc) {
    data->user[0] =0;
    data->passwd[0]=0;

    if(*data->userpwd != ':') {
      /* the name is given, get user+password */
      sscanf(data->userpwd, "%127[^:]:%127[^\n]",
             data->user, data->passwd);
    }
    else
      /* no name given, get the password only */
      sscanf(data->userpwd+1, "%127[^\n]", data->passwd);

    /* check for password, if no ask for one */
    if( !data->passwd[0] ) {
      if(!data->fpasswd ||
         data->fpasswd(data->passwd_client,
                       "password:", data->passwd, sizeof(data->passwd)))
        return CURLE_BAD_PASSWORD_ENTERED;
    }
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Take care of proxy authentication stuff
   *************************************************************/
  if(conn->bits.proxy_user_passwd) {
    data->proxyuser[0] =0;
    data->proxypasswd[0]=0;

    if(*data->proxyuserpwd != ':') {
      /* the name is given, get user+password */
      sscanf(data->proxyuserpwd, "%127[^:]:%127[^\n]",
             data->proxyuser, data->proxypasswd);
      }
    else
      /* no name given, get the password only */
      sscanf(data->proxyuserpwd+1, "%127[^\n]", data->proxypasswd);

    /* check for password, if no ask for one */
    if( !data->proxypasswd[0] ) {
      if(!data->fpasswd ||
         data->fpasswd( data->passwd_client,
                        "proxy password:",
                        data->proxypasswd,
                        sizeof(data->proxypasswd)))
        return CURLE_BAD_PASSWORD_ENTERED;
    }

  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Set a few convenience pointers 
   *************************************************************/
  conn->name = conn->gname;
  conn->ppath = conn->path;
  conn->hostname = conn->name;


  /*************************************************************
   * Detect what (if any) proxy to use
   *************************************************************/
  if(!data->bits.httpproxy) {
    /* If proxy was not specified, we check for default proxy environment
     * variables, to enable i.e Lynx compliance:
     *
     * http_proxy=http://some.server.dom:port/
     * https_proxy=http://some.server.dom:port/
     * ftp_proxy=http://some.server.dom:port/
     * gopher_proxy=http://some.server.dom:port/
     * no_proxy=domain1.dom,host.domain2.dom
     *   (a comma-separated list of hosts which should
     *   not be proxied, or an asterisk to override
     *   all proxy variables)
     * all_proxy=http://some.server.dom:port/
     *   (seems to exist for the CERN www lib. Probably
     *   the first to check for.)
     *
     * For compatibility, the all-uppercase versions of these variables are
     * checked if the lowercase versions don't exist.
     */
    char *no_proxy=NULL;
    char *proxy=NULL;
    char proxy_env[128];

    no_proxy=curl_getenv("no_proxy");
    if(!no_proxy)
      no_proxy=curl_getenv("NO_PROXY");

    if(!no_proxy || !strequal("*", no_proxy)) {
      /* NO_PROXY wasn't specified or it wasn't just an asterisk */
      char *nope;

      nope=no_proxy?strtok(no_proxy, ", "):NULL;
      while(nope) {
        if(strlen(nope) <= strlen(conn->name)) {
          char *checkn=
            conn->name + strlen(conn->name) - strlen(nope);
          if(strnequal(nope, checkn, strlen(nope))) {
            /* no proxy for this host! */
            break;
          }
        }
	nope=strtok(NULL, ", ");
      }
      if(!nope) {
	/* It was not listed as without proxy */
	char *protop = conn->protostr;
	char *envp = proxy_env;
	char *prox;

	/* Now, build <protocol>_proxy and check for such a one to use */
	while(*protop)
	  *envp++ = tolower(*protop++);

	/* append _proxy */
	strcpy(envp, "_proxy");

	/* read the protocol proxy: */
	prox=curl_getenv(proxy_env);

	if(!prox) {
          /* There was no lowercase variable, try the uppercase version: */
	  for(envp = proxy_env; *envp; envp++)
	    *envp = toupper(*envp);
	  prox=curl_getenv(proxy_env);
	}

	if(prox && *prox) { /* don't count "" strings */
	  proxy = prox; /* use this */
	}
	else {
	  proxy = curl_getenv("all_proxy"); /* default proxy to use */
	  if(!proxy)
            proxy=curl_getenv("ALL_PROXY");
	}

        if(proxy && *proxy) {
          /* we have a proxy here to set */
          data->proxy = proxy;
          data->bits.proxystringalloc=1; /* this needs to be freed later */
          data->bits.httpproxy=1;
        }
      } /* if (!nope) - it wasn't specified non-proxy */
    } /* NO_PROXY wasn't specified or '*' */
    if(no_proxy)
      free(no_proxy);
  } /* if not using proxy */

  /*************************************************************
   * No protocol but proxy usage needs attention
   *************************************************************/
  if((conn->protocol&PROT_MISSING) && data->bits.httpproxy ) {
    /* We're guessing prefixes here and since we're told to use a proxy, we
       need to add the protocol prefix to the URL string before we continue!
       */
    char *reurl;

    reurl = aprintf("%s://%s", conn->protostr, data->url);

    if(!reurl)
      return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;

    data->url = reurl;
    if(data->freethis)
      free(data->freethis);
    data->freethis = reurl;

    conn->protocol &= ~PROT_MISSING; /* switch that one off again */
  }

  /************************************************************
   * RESUME on a HTTP page is a tricky business. First, let's just check that
   * 'range' isn't used, then set the range parameter and leave the resume as
   * it is to inform about this situation for later use. We will then
   * "attempt" to resume, and if we're talking to a HTTP/1.1 (or later)
   * server, we will get the document resumed. If we talk to a HTTP/1.0
   * server, we just fail since we can't rewind the file writing from within
   * this function.
   ***********************************************************/
  if(data->resume_from) {
    if(!data->bits.set_range) {
      /* if it already was in use, we just skip this */
      snprintf(resumerange, sizeof(resumerange), "%d-", data->resume_from);
      data->range=strdup(resumerange); /* tell ourselves to fetch this range */
      data->bits.rangestringalloc = TRUE; /* mark as allocated */
      data->bits.set_range = 1; /* switch on range usage */
    }
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Set timeout if that is being used
   *************************************************************/
  if(data->timeout || data->connecttimeout) {
    /* We set the timeout on the connection/resolving phase first, separately
     * from the download/upload part to allow a maximum time on everything */

    /* myalarm() makes a signal get sent when the timeout fires off, and that
       will abort system calls */
    if(data->connecttimeout)
      myalarm(data->connecttimeout);
    else
      myalarm(data->timeout);
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Setup internals depending on protocol
   *************************************************************/

  if (strequal(conn->protostr, "HTTP")) {
    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port:PORT_HTTP;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_HTTP;
    conn->protocol |= PROT_HTTP;
    conn->curl_do = Curl_http;
    conn->curl_done = Curl_http_done;
    conn->curl_close = Curl_http_close;
  }
  else if (strequal(conn->protostr, "HTTPS")) {
#ifdef USE_SSLEAY

    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port:PORT_HTTPS;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_HTTPS;
    conn->protocol |= PROT_HTTP;
    conn->protocol |= PROT_HTTPS;

    conn->curl_do = Curl_http;
    conn->curl_done = Curl_http_done;
    conn->curl_connect = Curl_http_connect;
    conn->curl_close = Curl_http_close;

#else /* USE_SSLEAY */
    failf(data, "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported!");
    return CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL;
#endif /* !USE_SSLEAY */
  }
  else if (strequal(conn->protostr, "GOPHER")) {
    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port:PORT_GOPHER;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_GOPHER;
    /* Skip /<item-type>/ in path if present */
    if (isdigit((int)conn->path[1])) {
      conn->ppath = strchr(&conn->path[1], '/');
      if (conn->ppath == NULL)
	conn->ppath = conn->path;
      }
    conn->protocol |= PROT_GOPHER;
    conn->curl_do = Curl_http;
    conn->curl_done = Curl_http_done;
    conn->curl_close = Curl_http_close;
  }
  else if(strequal(conn->protostr, "FTP") ||
          strequal(conn->protostr, "FTPS")) {
    char *type;

    if(strequal(conn->protostr, "FTPS")) {
#ifdef USE_SSLEAY
      conn->protocol |= PROT_FTPS;
#else
      failf(data, "libcurl was built with SSL disabled, ftps: not supported!");
      return CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL;
#endif /* !USE_SSLEAY */
    }

    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port:PORT_FTP;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_FTP;
    conn->protocol |= PROT_FTP;

    if(data->bits.httpproxy &&
       !data->bits.tunnel_thru_httpproxy) {
      /* Unless we have asked to tunnel ftp operations through the proxy, we
         switch and use HTTP operations only */
      if(conn->protocol & PROT_FTPS) {
        /* FTPS is a hacked protocol and does not work through your
           ordinary http proxy! */
        failf(data, "ftps does not work through http proxy!");
        return CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL;
      }
      conn->curl_do = Curl_http;
      conn->curl_done = Curl_http_done;
      conn->curl_close = Curl_http_close;
    }
    else {
      conn->curl_do = Curl_ftp;
      conn->curl_done = Curl_ftp_done;
      conn->curl_connect = Curl_ftp_connect;
      conn->curl_disconnect = Curl_ftp_disconnect;
    }

    conn->ppath++; /* don't include the initial slash */

    /* FTP URLs support an extension like ";type=<typecode>" that
     * we'll try to get now! */
    type=strstr(conn->ppath, ";type=");
    if(!type) {
      type=strstr(conn->gname, ";type=");
    }
    if(type) {
      char command;
      *type=0;
      command = toupper(type[6]);
      switch(command) {
      case 'A': /* ASCII mode */
	data->bits.ftp_ascii = 1;
	break;
      case 'D': /* directory mode */
	data->bits.ftp_list_only = 1;
	break;
      case 'I': /* binary mode */
      default:
	/* switch off ASCII */
	data->bits.ftp_ascii = 0;
	break;
      }
    }
  }
  else if(strequal(conn->protostr, "TELNET")) {
    /* telnet testing factory */
    conn->protocol |= PROT_TELNET;

    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port: PORT_TELNET;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_TELNET;
    conn->curl_do = Curl_telnet;
    conn->curl_done = Curl_telnet_done;
  }
  else if (strequal(conn->protostr, "DICT")) {
    conn->protocol |= PROT_DICT;
    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port:PORT_DICT;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_DICT;
    conn->curl_do = Curl_dict;
    conn->curl_done = Curl_dict_done;
  }
  else if (strequal(conn->protostr, "LDAP")) {
    conn->protocol |= PROT_LDAP;
    conn->port = (data->use_port && allow_port)?data->use_port:PORT_LDAP;
    conn->remote_port = PORT_LDAP;
    conn->curl_do = Curl_ldap;
    conn->curl_done = Curl_ldap_done;
  }
  else if (strequal(conn->protostr, "FILE")) {
    conn->protocol |= PROT_FILE;

    conn->curl_do = Curl_file;
    /* no done() function */

    /* anyway, this is supposed to be the connect function so we better
       at least check that the file is present here! */
    result = Curl_file_connect(conn);

    /* Setup a "faked" transfer that'll do nothing */
    if(CURLE_OK == result) {
      result = Curl_Transfer(conn, -1, -1, FALSE, NULL, /* no download */
                             -1, NULL); /* no upload */
    }

    return result;
  }
  else {
    /* We fell through all checks and thus we don't support the specified
       protocol */
    failf(data, "Unsupported protocol: %s", conn->protostr);
    return CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL;
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * .netrc scanning coming up
   *************************************************************/
  if(data->bits.use_netrc) {
    if(Curl_parsenetrc(conn->hostname, data->user, data->passwd)) {
      infof(data, "Couldn't find host %s in the .netrc file, using defaults",
            conn->hostname);
    }
    else
      conn->bits.user_passwd = 1; /* enable user+password */

    /* weather we failed or not, we don't know which fields that were filled
       in anyway */
    if(!data->user[0])
      strcpy(data->user, CURL_DEFAULT_USER);
    if(!data->passwd[0])
      strcpy(data->passwd, CURL_DEFAULT_PASSWORD);
  }
  else if(!(conn->bits.user_passwd) &&
	  (conn->protocol & (PROT_FTP|PROT_HTTP)) ) {
    /* This is a FTP or HTTP URL, and we haven't got the user+password in
     * the extra parameter, we will now try to extract the possible
     * user+password pair in a string like:
     * ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README */
    char *ptr=NULL; /* assign to remove possible warnings */
    if((ptr=strchr(conn->name, '@'))) {
      /* there's a user+password given here, to the left of the @ */

      data->user[0] =0;
      data->passwd[0]=0;

      if(*conn->name != ':') {
        /* the name is given, get user+password */
        sscanf(conn->name, "%127[^:@]:%127[^@]",
               data->user, data->passwd);
      }
      else
        /* no name given, get the password only */
        sscanf(conn->name+1, "%127[^@]", data->passwd);

      if(data->user[0]) {
        char *newname=curl_unescape(data->user, 0);
        if(strlen(newname) < sizeof(data->user)) {
          strcpy(data->user, newname);
        }
        /* if the new name is longer than accepted, then just use
           the unconverted name, it'll be wrong but what the heck */
        free(newname);
      }

      /* check for password, if no ask for one */
      if( !data->passwd[0] ) {
        if(!data->fpasswd ||
           data->fpasswd(data->passwd_client,
                         "password:",data->passwd,sizeof(data->passwd)))
          return CURLE_BAD_PASSWORD_ENTERED;
      }
      else {
        /* we have a password found in the URL, decode it! */
        char *newpasswd=curl_unescape(data->passwd, 0);
        if(strlen(newpasswd) < sizeof(data->passwd)) {
          strcpy(data->passwd, newpasswd);
        }
        free(newpasswd);
      }

      conn->name = ++ptr;
      conn->bits.user_passwd=TRUE; /* enable user+password */
    }
    else {
      strcpy(data->user, CURL_DEFAULT_USER);
      strcpy(data->passwd, CURL_DEFAULT_PASSWORD);
    }
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Figure out the remote port number
   *
   * No matter if we use a proxy or not, we have to figure out the remote
   * port number of various reasons.
   *
   * To be able to detect port number flawlessly, we must not confuse them
   * IPv6-specified addresses in the [0::1] style.
   *************************************************************/

  if((1 == sscanf(conn->name, "[%*39[0-9a-fA-F:]%c", &endbracket)) &&
     (']' == endbracket)) {
    /* this is a IPv6-style specified IP-address */
#ifndef ENABLE_IPV6
    failf(data, "You haven't enabled IPv6 support");
    return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;
#else
    tmp = strchr(conn->name, ']');

    tmp++; /* pass the ending bracket */
    if(':' != *tmp)
      tmp = NULL; /* no port number available */
#endif
  }
  else {
    /* traditional IPv4-style port-extracting */
    tmp = strchr(conn->name, ':');
  }

  if (tmp) {
    *tmp++ = '\0'; /* cut off the name there */
    conn->remote_port = atoi(tmp);
  }

  if(data->bits.httpproxy) {
    /* If this is supposed to use a proxy, we need to figure out the proxy
       host name name, so that we can re-use an existing connection
       that may exist registered to the same proxy host. */

    char *prox_portno;
    char *endofprot;

    /* We need to make a duplicate of the proxy so that we can modify the
       string safely. */
    char *proxydup=strdup(data->proxy);

    /* We use 'proxyptr' to point to the proxy name from now on... */
    char *proxyptr=proxydup;

    if(NULL == proxydup) {
      failf(data, "memory shortage");
      return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;
    }

    /* Daniel Dec 10, 1998:
       We do the proxy host string parsing here. We want the host name and the
       port name. Accept a protocol:// prefix, even though it should just be
       ignored. */

    /* 1. skip the protocol part if present */
    endofprot=strstr(proxyptr, "://");
    if(endofprot) {
      proxyptr = endofprot+3;
    }

    /* allow user to specify proxy.server.com:1080 if desired */
    prox_portno = strchr (proxyptr, ':');
    if (prox_portno) {
      *prox_portno = 0x0; /* cut off number from host name */
      prox_portno ++;
      /* now set the local port number */
      conn->port = atoi(prox_portno);
    }
    else if(data->proxyport) {
      /* None given in the proxy string, then get the default one if it is
         given */
      conn->port = data->proxyport;
    }

    /* now, clone the cleaned proxy host name */
    conn->proxyhost = strdup(proxyptr);

    free(proxydup); /* free the duplicate pointer and not the modified */
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Check the current list of connections to see if we can
   * re-use an already existing one or if we have to create a
   * new one.
   *************************************************************/

  /* reuse_fresh is set TRUE if we are told to use a fresh connection
     by force */
  if(!data->bits.reuse_fresh &&
     ConnectionExists(data, conn, &conn_temp)) {
    /*
     * We already have a connection for this, we got the former connection
     * in the conn_temp variable and thus we need to cleanup the one we
     * just allocated before we can move along and use the previously
     * existing one.
     */
    struct connectdata *old_conn = conn;
    char *path = old_conn->path; /* setup the current path pointer properly */
    if(old_conn->proxyhost)
      free(old_conn->proxyhost);
    conn = conn_temp;        /* use this connection from now on */
    free(conn->path);        /* free the previous path pointer */

    /* we need these pointers if we speak over a proxy */
    conn->name = old_conn->name;
    conn->hostname = old_conn->hostname;

    conn->path = path;       /* use this one */
    conn->ppath = path;      /* set this too */

    /* re-use init */
    conn->maxdownload = 0;   /* might have been used previously! */
    conn->bits.reuse = TRUE; /* yes, we're re-using here */

    free(old_conn);          /* we don't need this anymore */

    *in_connect = conn;      /* return this instead! */

    infof(data, "Re-using existing connection! (#%d)\n", conn->connectindex);
  }
  else {
    /*
     * This is a brand new connection, so let's store it in the connection
     * cache of ours!
     */
    ConnectionStore(data, conn);
  }

  /*************************************************************
   * Resolve the name of the server or proxy
   *************************************************************/
  if(!data->bits.httpproxy) {
    /* If not connecting via a proxy, extract the port from the URL, if it is
     * there, thus overriding any defaults that might have been set above. */
    conn->port =  conn->remote_port; /* it is the same port */