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                               History of Changes

Daniel (31 August 2001)
- I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used
  structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit
  to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully
  decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get
  easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL-
  free bug from August 23.

Version 7.9-pre1

Daniel (29 August 2001)
- The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use
  that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl
  knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format.

  This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl,
  which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked.
  There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps
  it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all
  of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature...

- Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted
  by Erick Nuwendam.

Daniel (28 August 2001)
- Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems
  on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well!

- Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and
  added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect:
  header. Great work!

- Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There
  should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but
  in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other
  caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take
  effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination
  port number basis.

  Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and
  uses a previous SSL session ID.

- Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine.

Daniel (27 August 2001)
- Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code

Daniel (24 August 2001)
- T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project
  files.

- Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that
  curl didn't really deal with the way one would like.

- Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our
  own portable version named strequal() that should be used!

- Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix
  debug object modules causing confusions.

Daniel (23 August 2001)
- T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a
  second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke
  followed a Location: header.

- Started the improvement work on the cookie engine:
  - Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file
  - A write to the possibly static string was removed
  - Added a function that can output all cookies
  - Now supports reading multiple cookie files

- Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file.

- Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to
  increase readability and maintainability.

Daniel (21 August 2001)
- Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have:
  o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in
    all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server
    rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in
    the standard replace-internal-header style.
  o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to
    replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function
    will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way
    and correct way to build form posts.
  o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes

  These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9...

- We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release
  archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach.

- Andrés García's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was
  added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows.

- Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail
  on many Red Hat boxes!

Daniel (20 August 2001)
- We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD
  as well as FreeBSD

Version 7.8.1

Daniel (20 August 2001)
- Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that
  we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K
  smaller!

- Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t
  properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to
  acinclude.m4.

Daniel (19 August 2001)
- Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs...

Daniel (17 August 2001)
- Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global
  symbols and to not use global variables.

Version 7.8.1-pre6

Daniel (16 August 2001)
- S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified
  with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is
  used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?'
  separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth.

- curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link
  with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself.
  curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile
  source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include
  path correct.

Daniel (15 August 2001)
- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses
  were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format)

- Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core
  dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
  now equals setting it to no data at all.

- Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work
  properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the
  variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed.

- David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and
  builds with that compiler.

Daniel (14 August 2001)
- Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now.

- An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for
  windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock
  stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle
  with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame.

Version 7.8.1-pre5

Daniel (14 August 2001)
- Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few
  minor changes were necessary.

- I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options.
  I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I
  corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on
  the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently
  added #ifdef VMS lines.

- I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once
  necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should
  (hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of
  OpenSSL.

Daniel (13 August 2001)
- Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts
  to be larger than 4K.

Daniel (10 August 2001)
- S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile

Daniel (9 August 2001)
- The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call
  was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use
  the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was
  closed even if we looped to get more files.  Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug
  report #441610

- Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52