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History of Changes
Daniel (9 February 2001)
- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.
Daniel (8 February 2001)
- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty
password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to
support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user
and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you
specify you want the prompt otherwise?
- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and
HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes).
- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue.
- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on
request.
- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly.
Version 7.6.1-pre3
Daniel (7 February 2001)
- SM found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that could make
libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if libcurl got -1
returned when reading the socket.
- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
results from the proxy connection.
Daniel (6 February 2001)
- A friendly person named "SM" (nntp at iname.com) pointed out that the VC
makefile in src/ needed the libpath set for the debug build to work.
- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
brought up yesterday.
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
a bunch of different areas within libcurl.
- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
Daniel (4 February 2001)
- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
was done after discussions with Bob Schader.
Daniel (3 February 2001)
- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to
not include WIN32 anymore.
Version 7.6.1-pre2
Daniel (31 January 2001)
- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
possibility to weird behaviour all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
find this.
- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc.
Daniel (30 January 2001)
- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and
now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows
a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server
doesn't seem to support range requests.
- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33).
Version 7.6.1-pre1
Daniel (29 January 2001)
- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end
and it works for him.
Daniel (27 January 2001)
- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a
Content-Range header when resuming a PUT.
- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP
download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field
in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for
this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing.
- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP.
- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It
makes the output slightly better for resumes.
- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt
to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a
URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on
what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a
second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported.
I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff.
Daniel (26 January 2001)
- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small
piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can
now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT
the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL.
Version 7.6-pre4
Daniel (25 January 2001)
- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for
reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and
swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested
in the next beta-round coming right up.
- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied
his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the
function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write().
I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and
reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing
would only have to be implemented at one point.
- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the
total time very accurate on subsecond levels.
- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout
value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently
no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only.
Daniel (24 January 2001)
- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile
properly with cygwin.
- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code
that corrected a potential memory leak.
- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more
easy to read and understand!
Daniel (23 January 2001)
- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version
string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be
set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled.
- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when
IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'...
- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an
error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't
follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string
is used instead.
I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want*
globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure
seriously confuse the globber.
Daniel (22 January 2001)
- Björn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even
during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions...
- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on
the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly.
Daniel (19 January 2001)
- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last
code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports.
- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem
in src/main.c that I took care of.
Version 7.6-pre3
Daniel (17 January 2001)
- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new
lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer()
to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function
in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols.
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