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                                  Changelog


Daniel (19 Dec)
- Matthew B patched the Curl_base64_decode() function.

- Evan Jordan reported in bug report #653022 that the SSL_read() usage was
  wrong, and it certainly was. It could lead to curl using too much CPU due to
  a stupid loop.

Daniel (18 Dec)
- As suggested by Margus Freudenthal, CURLE_HTTP_NOT_FOUND was renamed to
  CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR since it is returned on any >= 400 code when
  CURLOPT_FAILONERROR is set.

Daniel (17 Dec)
- Bug reported #651464, reported by Christopher Palmer, provided an example
  source code using the multi interface that hang when trying to connect to a
  proxy on a localhost port where no proxy was listening. This bug was not
  repeatable on libcurls that were IPv6-enabled.

Daniel (16 Dec)
- Christopher Palmer also noticed what Vojtech Janota already was
  experiencing: The attempted name resolve fix for glibc 2.2.93 caused libcurl
  to crash when used on some older glibc versions. The problem is of course
  the silliness of the 2.2.93. I committed a fix that hopefully should make
  the binary run fine on either one of the versions, even though the solution
  is not as nice as I'd like it to be.

Daniel (13 Dec)
- Bug report #651460 by Christopher R. Palmer showed that when using libcurl
  to for example go over a proxy on localhost, it would attempt to connect
  through the proxy TWICE.

  I added test case 503 with which I managed to repeat this problem and I
  fixed the code to not re-attempt any connects (which also made it a nicer
  fix for the #650941 bug mentioned below).

  The sws server was extended to deal with CONNECT in order to make test
  case 503 do good.

- Evan Jordan posted bug report #650989 about a memory leak in the public key
  retrieving code. He provided a suggested fix and I merely applied it!

- Bug report #650941, posted by Christopher R. Palmer identified a problem
  with the multi interface and getting file:// URLs. This was now fixed and
  test case 502 was added to verify this.

Daniel (12 Dec)
- Test case 500 and 501 are the first ever libcurl test cases that run.

- Made "configure --enable-debug" cut off all -O* options to the compiler

- Finally fixed the test suite's ftp server so that test case 402 doesn't
  cause the following test case to fail anymore!

Daniel (11 Dec)
- CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE is now decreased to 16KB since it makes the Windows
  version perform uploads much faster!!! RBramante did lots of research on
  this topic.

- Fixed the #include in curl/curl.h to include the other files outside the
  extern "C" scope.

Daniel (10 Dec)
- Moved around and added more logic:

  First, POST data is never sent as part of the request headers in the http.c
  code. It is always sent the "normal" read callback then send() way. This now
  enables a plain HTTP POST to be sent chunked if we want to. This also
  reduces the risk of having very big POSTs causing problems.

  Further, sending off the initial HTTP request is not done using a loop
  anymore. If it wasn't all sent off in the first send(), the rest of the
  request is sent off in the normal transfer select() loop. This makes several
  things possible, but mainly it makes libcurl block less when used from the
  multi interface and it also reduces the risk of problems with issuing very
  large requests.

Daniel (9 Dec)
- Moved the read callback pointer and data within the structs to a more
  suitable place. This in preparation for a better HTTP-request sending code
  without (a silly) loop.

- The Dodds fix seems not to work.

- Vojtech Janota tests proved that the resolve fix from oct 21st is not good
  enough since obviously older glibcs might return EAGAIN without this meaning
  that the buffer was too small.

- [the other day] Made libcurl loop on recv() and send() now until done, and
  then get back to select(). Previously it went back to select() more often
  which really was a slight overhead. This was due to the reported performance
  problems on HTTP PUT on Windows. I couldn't see any notable difference on
  Linux...

Version 7.10.3-pre2 (4 Dec 2002)

Daniel (4 Dec 2002)
- Lots of work with Malcolm Dodds made me add a temporary code fix that now
  shortens the timeout waiting for the 226 or 250 line after a completed
  FTP transfer.

  If no data is received within 60 seconds, this is taken as a sign of a dead
  control connection and we bail out.

Daniel (3 Dec 2002)
- Ralph's bug report #644841 identified a problem in which curl returned a
  timeout error code when in fact the problem was not a timeout. The proper
  error should now be propagated better when they're detected in the FTP
  response reading function.

- Updated the Borland Makefiles.

Daniel (2 Dec 2002)
- Nicolas Berloquin provided a patch that introduced --create-dirs to the
  command line tool. When used in combination with -o, it lets curl create
  [non-existing] directories used in -o, suitably used with #-combinations
  such as:

     curl "www.images.com/{flowers,cities,parks,mountains}/pic_[1-100].jpg \
       -o "dir_#1/pic#2.jpg" --create-dirs

Version 7.10.3-pre1

Daniel (28 Nov 2002)
- I visited Lars Nordgren and had a go with his problem, which lead me to
  implement this fix. If libcurl detects the added custom header
  "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", it will now enable a chunked transfer.

  Also, chunked transfer didn't quite work before but seems to do so now.

- Kjetil Jacobsen pointed out that ./configure --disable-ipv6 --without-zlib
  didn't work on any platform...

Daniel (26 Nov 2002)
- Fixed a bad addrinfo free in the hostip.c code, hardly exposed anywhere

- Dan Becker found and fixed a minor memory leak on persistent connnections
  using CURLOPT_USERPWD.

Daniel (22 Nov 2002)
- Based on Ralph Mitchell's excellent analysis I found a bug in the test suite
  web server (sws) which now lets test case 306 run fine even in combination
  with the other test cases.

- Juan Ignacio Hervás found a crash in the verbose connect message that is
  used on persistent connections. This bug was added in 7.10.2 due to the
  rearranged name resolve code.

Daniel (20 Nov 2002)
- Kjetil Jacobsen provided a patch that introduces:

   CURLOPT_PRIVATE stores a private pointer in the curl handle.

   CURLINFO_PRIVATE retrieves the private pointer from the curl handle.

- Karol Pietrzak pointed out how curl-config --cflags didn't output a good
  include dir so I've removed that for now.

Version 7.10.2 (18 Nov 2002)

Daniel (11 Nov 2002)
- Dave Halbakken added curl_version_info to lib/libcurl.def to make libcurl
  properly build with MSVC on Windows.

Daniel (8 Nov 2002)
- Doing HTTP PUT without a specified file size now makes libcurl use
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked.

Daniel (7 Nov 2002)
- Bug report #634625 identified how curl returned timeout immediately when
  CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT was used and provided a fix.

Version 7.10.2-pre4 (6 Nov 2002)

Daniel (5 Nov 2002)
- Lehel Bernadt found out and fixed. libcurl sent error message to the debug
  output when it stored the error message.

- Avery Fay found some problems with the DNS cache (when the cache time was
  set to 0 we got a memory leak, but when the leak was fixed he got a crash
  when he used the CURLOPT_INTERFACE with that) that had me do some real
  restructuring so that we now have a reference counter in the dns cache
  entries to prevent an entry to get flushed while still actually in use.

  I also detected that we previously didn't update the time stamp when we
  extracted an entry from the cache so that must've been a reason for some
  very weird dns cache bugs.

Version 7.10.2-pre3

Daniel (31 Oct 2002)
- Downgraded automake to 1.6.3 in an attempt to fix cygwin problems. (It