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                               History of Changes

Version XX

Daniel (31 January 2000):
 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> found another core dump in the cookie
   parser. Curl doesn't properly recognize the 'version' keyword and I think
   that is what caused this. I need to refresh some specs on cookies and see
   what else curl lacks to improve this a bit more once and for all.

   RFC 2109 clearly specifies how cookies should be dealt with when they are
   compliant with that spec. I don't think many servers are though...

 - Mark W. Eichin <eichin@thok.org> found that while curl is uploading a form
   to a web site, it doesn't read incoming data why it'll hang after a while
   since the socket "pipe" becomes full.

   It took me two hours to rewrite Download() and Upload() into the new
   single function Transfer(). It even seems to work! More testing is required
   of course... I should get the header-sending together in a kind of queue
   and let them get "uploaded" in Transfer() as well.

 - Zhibiao Wu <wuzb@erols.com> pointed out a curl bug in the location: area,
   although I did not get a reproducable way to do this why I have to wait
   with fixing anything.

 - Bob Schader <rschader@product-des.com> suggested I should implement resume
   support for the HTTP PUT operation, and as I think it is a valid suggestion
   I'll work on it.

Daniel (25 January 2000):
 - M Travis Obenhaus <Travis.Obenhaus@aud.alcatel.com> pointed out a manual
   mixup with -y and -Y that was corrected.

 - Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de> pointed out a problem to compile
   curl on AIX 4.1.4 and gave me a solution. This problem was already fixed
   by Jörn's recent #include modifications!

Daniel (19 January 2000):
 - Oskar Liljeblad <osk@hem.passagen.se> pointed out and corrected a problem
   in the Location: following system that made curl following a location: to a
   different protocol to fail.

   At January 31st I re-considered this fix and the surrounding source code. I
   could not really see that the patch did any difference, why I removed it
   again for further research and debugging. (It disabled location: following
   on server not running on default ports.)

 - Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de> brought a fix that once again
   made it possible to select progress bar.

 - Jörn also fixed a few include problems.

Version 6.4

Daniel (17 January 2000):
 - Based on suggestions from Björn Stenberg (bjorn@haxx.nu), I made the
   progress deal better with larger files and added a "Time" field which shows
   the time spent on the download so far.
 - I'm now using the CVS repository on sourceforge.net, which also allows web
   browsing. See http://curl.haxx.nu.

Daniel (10 January 2000):
 - Renumbered some enums in curl/curl.h since tag number 35 was used twice!
 - Added "postquote" support to the ftp section that enables post-ftp-transfer
   quote commands.
 - Now made the -Q/--quote parameter recognize '-' as a prefix, which means
   that command will be issued AFTER a successful ftp transfer. This can of
   course be used to delete or rename a file after it has been uploaded or
   downloaded. Use your imagination! ;-)
 - Since I do the main development on solaris 2.6 now, I had to download and
   install GNU groff to generate the hugehelp.c file. The solaris nroff cores
   on the man page! So, in order to make the solaris configure script find a
   better result I made gnroff get checked prior to the regular nroff.
 - Added all the curl exit codes to the man page.
 - Jim Gallagher <jmgallag@usa.net> properly tracked down a bug in autoconf
   2.13. The AC_CHECK_LIB() macro wrongfully uses the -l flag before the -L
   flag to 'ld' which causes the HP-UX 10.20 flavour to fail on all libchecks
   and thefore you can't make the configure script find the openssl libs!

Daniel (28 December 1999):
 - Tim Verhoeven <dj@walhalla.sin.khk.be> correctly identified that curl
   doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
   problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
   that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
   the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
   translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
   the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.

Daniel (27 December 1999):
 - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
   data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
   in the saved data. Correctfully identified and reported by Paul Harrington
   <paul@pizza.org>.

Daniel (13 December 1999):
 - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
   added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
   both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.

Daniel (3 December 1999):
 - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen <esojanen@jyu.fi>...

 - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
   well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
   only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).

Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no> (24 November 1999):
 - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!

 - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
   different directories than the sources.

Version 6.3.1

Daniel (23 November 1999):
 - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
   along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
   things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
   server!

 - Michael S. Steuer <michael@steuer.com> pointed out a bug in the -F handling
   that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
   was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...

 - Jason Baietto <jason@durians.com> pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
   download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
   entire download was completed. It does now.

Daniel (19 November 1999):
 - Chris Maltby <chris@aurema.com> very accurately criticized the lack of
   return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
   occurrences and corrected this.

Daniel (17 November 1999):
 - Paul Harrington <paul@pizza.org> pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
   doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
   any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
   when the timeout is reached.

 - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
   why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.

 Daniel (12 November 1999):
 - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
   a plain http header file as input...

Version 6.3

 Daniel (10 November 1999):
 - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
   respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
   again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
   section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
   my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
   is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).

 - After comments from Robert Linden <robert.linden@postcom.deutschepost.de> I
   also rewrote some parts of the man page to better describe how the -F
   works.

 - Michael Anti <anti@pshowing.com> put up a new curl download mirror in
   China:  http://www.pshowing.com/curl/

 - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file

 - I did add more explanations to the man page

 Daniel (8 November 1999):
 - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
   files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
   transparantly figure out what kind of file it got as input.

 Daniel (29 October 1999):
 - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
   but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
   FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
   it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
   be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
   --range switch (previously HTTP-only).

 - Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> suggested that curl should be
   able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
   idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
   this manner:
        Content-Length: XXXX
   As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
   info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
   makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
   file size the same way.

   I changed the order of the QUOTE command execusions. They're now executed
   just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
   quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.