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                               History of Changes

Daniel (4 January 2001)
- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command
  line option and what happens when you specify that option more than
  once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before.

- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For
  odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with
  curl's dependencies on libcurl...

Daniel (3 January 2001)
- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL

- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of
  curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
  accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
  release archive.

Daniel (30 December 2000)
- Made all FTP commands get sent with the trailing CRLF in one single write()
  as splitting them up seems to confuse at least some firewalls (FW-1 being
  one major).

Daniel (19 December 2000)
- Added file desrciptor and FILE handle leak detection to the memdebug system
  and thus I found and removed a file handler leakage in the ftp parts.

- Added an include <stdio.h> in <curl/curl.h> since it uses FILE *.

Daniel (12 December 2000)
- Multiple URL downloads with -O was still bugging. Not anymore I think or
  hope, or at least I've tried... :-O

- Francois Petitjean fixed another -O problem

Version 7.5.1

Daniel (11 December 2000)
- Cleaned up a few of the makefiles to use unix-style newlines only. As Kevin
  P Roth found out, at least one CVS client behaved wrongly when it found
  different newline conventions within the same file.

- Albert Chin-A-Young corrected the LDFLAGS use in the configure script for
  the SSL stuff.

Daniel (6 December 2000)
- Massimo Squillace correctly described how libcurl could use session ids when
  doing SSL connections.

- James Griffiths found out that curl would crash if the file you specify with
  -o is shorter than the URL! This took some hours to fully hunt down, but it
  is fixed now.

Daniel (5 December 2000)
- Jaepil Kim sent us makefiles that build curl using the free windows borland
  compiler. The root makefile now accepts 'make borland' to build curl with
  that compiler.

- Stefan Radman pointed out that the test makefiles didn't use the PERL
  variable that the configure scripts figure out. Actually, you still need
  perl in the path for the test suite to run ok.

- Rich Gray found numerous portability problems:
  * The SCO compiler got an error on the getpass_r() prototype in getpass.h
    since the curl one differed from the SCO one
  * The HPUX compiler got an error because of how curl did the sigaction
    stuff and used a define HPUX doesn't have (or need).
  * A few more problems remain to be researched.

- Paul Harrington experienced a core dump using https. Not much details yet.

Daniel (4 December 2000)
- Jörn Hartroth fixed a problem with multiple URLs and -o/-O.

Version 7.5

Daniel (1 December 2000)
- Craig Davison gave us his updates on the VC++ makefiles, so now curl should
  build fine with the Microsoft compiler on windows too.

- Fixed the libcurl versioning so that we don't ruin old programs when
  releasing new shared library interfaces.

Daniel (30 November 2000)
- Renamed docs/README.curl to docs/MANUAL to better reflect what the document
  actually contains.

Daniel (29 November 2000)
- I removed a bunch of '#if 0' sections from the code. They only make things
  harder to follow. After all, we do have all older versions in the CVS.

Version 7.5-pre5

Daniel (28 November 2000)
- I filled in more error codes in the man page error code list that had been
  lagging.

- James Griffiths mailed me a fine patch that introduces the CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
  libcurl option. When used, it'll prevent location following more than the
  set number of times. It is useful to break out of endless redirect-loops.

Daniel (27 November 2000)
- Added two test cases for file://.

Daniel (22 November 2000)
- Added the libcurl CURLOPT_FILETIME setopt, when set it tries to get the
  modified time of the remote document. This is a special option since it
  involves an extra set of commands on FTP servers. (Using the MDTM command
  which is not in the RFC959)

  curl_easy_getinfo() got a corresponding CURLINFO_FILETIME to get the time
  after a transfer. It'll return a zero if CURLOPT_FILETIME wasn't used or if
  the time wasn't possible to get.

  --head/-I used on a FTP server will now present a 'Last-Modified:' header
  if curl could get the time of the specified file.

- Added the option '--cacert [file]' to curl, which allows a specified PEM
  file to be used to verify the peer's certificate when doing HTTPS
  connections. This has been requested, rather recently by Hulka Bohuslav but
  others have asked for it before as well.

Daniel (21 November 2000)
- Numerous fixes the test suite has brought into the daylight:

   * curl_unescape() could return a too long string
   * on ftp transfer failures, there could be memory leaks
   * ftp CWD could use bad directory names
   * memdebug now uses the mprintf() routines for better portability
   * free(NULL) removed when doing resumed transfers

- Added a bunch of test cases for FTP.

- General cleanups to make less warnings with gcc -Wall -pedantic.

- I made the tests/ftpserver.pl work with the most commonly used ftp
  operations. PORT, PASV, RETR, STOR, LIST, SIZE, USER, PASS all work now. Now
  all I have to do is integrate the ftp server doings in the runtests.pl
  script so that ftp tests can be run the same way http tests already run.

Daniel (20 November 2000)
- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of
  4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make
  life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying
  but that can be circumvented by using a config file.

  NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location:
  headers.

- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages.

- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It
  turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names
  where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the
  lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase
  versions.

Daniel (17 November 2000)
- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the
  test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on
  memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the
  cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar
  things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these
  problems have been removed.

- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and
  weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now,
  although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main
  difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must
  both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also
  specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and
  parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like:

        user-agent = "foobar and something"

  Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're
  expected to be a single non-space word.

  Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work.

- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes
  way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config
  file doesn't work anymore.

Daniel (15 November 2000)
- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication
  failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters,
  and if they weren't isprint() they weren't outputed "as-is". This caused
  passwords and usernames using '§' (for example) to fail.

Version 7.4.2

Daniel (15 November 2000)