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                                   History of Changes
    
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    Daniel (29 October 2001)
    - Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the
      packages/Win32/cygwin directory.
    
    - A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP
      server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one
      connection.
    
    - Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect
      code. This might be the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5
      release...
    
    
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    Daniel (26 October 2001)
    - Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the
      contents is separated with more than one space.
    
    Daniel (25 October 2001)
    - Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the
      correct data has been output.
    
    Version 7.9.1-pre5
    
    
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    Daniel (24 October 2001)
    - T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie
      that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The
      brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25]
    
    Daniel (23 October 2001)
    - pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs
      would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35]
    
    Daniel (22 October 2001)
    - Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented
      preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code!
    
    - Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from
      the out-of-the-box curl release archives.
    
    - I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report
      transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the
      future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be
      used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the
      connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the
      middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data
    
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      still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64]
    
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    Daniel (19 October 2001)
    - CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return
      anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this.
    
    - T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as
      well.
    
    Version 7.9.1-pre4
    
    Daniel (18 October 2001)
    - CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if
      the HTTP return code is below 400.
    
    Daniel (17 October 2001)
    - The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the
      tests.
    
    - We had to remote 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin
      adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard
      out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and
      cygwin?
    
    - A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed.
      It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61]
    
    - The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr
      if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it
      easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off.
    
    Daniel (16 October 2001)
    - Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments.
    
    Daniel (12 October 2001)
    - Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more
      accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures,
      and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should
      now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on
      the right edge.
    
    - After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified
      the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking
      if the redirected URL is absolute.
    
    Daniel (11 October 2001)
    - Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows
      2000 running cygwin.
    
    Daniel (10 October 2001)
    - Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser.
      Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work.
    
    Version 7.9.1-pre3
    
    
    Daniel (9 October 2001)
    - Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new
      libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0
      requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you
      really MUST do that because of a silly remote server.
    
    - Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as
      all public curl-symbols should.
    
    - libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal.
    
    Daniel (8 October 2001)
    - Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was
      applied.
    
    - Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed.
    
    Daniel (5 October 2001)
    - Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors
      on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'.
    
    - Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files.
    
    Version 7.9.1-pre2
    
    Daniel (4 October 2001)
    - Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper
      gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling
      is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost'
      name.
    
    - Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on
      IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any
      resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now.
    
    
    Daniel (3 October 2001)
    
    - Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name
      resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a
      thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being
      passed between threads.
    
    - Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that
      required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require
      that header, that is for true servers...
    
    
    - I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now.
    
    Version 7.9.1-pre1
    
    
    Daniel (3 October 2001)
    - Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not
      only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting
      the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the
      obsoleted curl_formparse.
    
    
    Daniel (2 October 2001)
    - Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking
      connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP
      addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first
      one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all
      the TCP connect stuff.
    
    - We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support
      people writing scripts without knowing what address there is.
    
    Daniel (28 September 2001)
    - Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller
      functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6
      get less noticable in the sources.
    
    - If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl,
      libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously
      did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known
      remote date when -R is used.
    
    Daniel (27 September 2001)
    - Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We
      will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should
      fail.
    
    Daniel (26 September 2001)
    - Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar
      functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it
      work.
    
    Daniel (25 September 2001)
    - Jörn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles.
    
    Version 7.9
    
    
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    Daniel (23 September 2001)
    - Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts
      when FTP RETR failed.
    
    - Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled.
    
    Version 7.9-pre8
    
    
    Daniel (19 September 2001)
    - Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with
      test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and
      #440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do
      now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail
      to connect with an error code returned.
    
    - Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong.
      I wrote a test case for this (45).
    
    Version 7.9-pre7
    
    
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    Daniel (17 September 2001)
    
    - Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require
      winsock 2.0.
    
    
    Version 7.9-pre6
    
    
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    - libtool 1.4.2 is now in use!
    
    Version 7.9-pre5
    
    
    Daniel (14 September 2001)
    - Added another 14 ftp tests.
    
    Daniel (13 September 2001)
    - Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been
      tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need
      to write up some docs for this function.
    
    - Added four more ftp tests to the test suite.
    
    Daniel (12 September 2001)
    - CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named
      --ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL
      connection.
    
    - T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out
      to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet.
    
    
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    Version 7.9-pre4
    
    
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    Daniel (11 September 2001)
    - Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server
      certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington.
    
    - Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test
      suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been
      made, but nothing really certain.
    
    - T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows
      and works on reducing it.
    
    Daniel (10 September 2001)
    - Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed
      behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers.
    
    - The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled.
    
    Daniel (7 September 2001)
    - SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was
      disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on
      windows.
    
    Daniel (6 September 2001)
    - T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it
      sometimes read from a NULL pointer.
    
    Version 7.9-pre3
    
    
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    - Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to
      set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local
      file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use
      -o or -O.
    
    
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    - Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything.
    
    
    Daniel (1 September 2001)
    - Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in 
      the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now
      been re-run.
    
    - Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite
      makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here.
    
    Version 7.9-pre2
    
    
    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.
    
    
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    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!
    
    
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    - 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.
    
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    - 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.
    
    
    - 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.
    
    
    - 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
    
    Version 7.8.1-pre4
    
    
    Daniel (8 August 2001)
    - curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned
      out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in
      the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around
      implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for
      this kind of construct.
    
    - Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl
      verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used,
      any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v).
    
    Daniel (7 August 2001)
    - Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test
      suite.
    
    
    Daniel (6 August 2001)
    - Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the
      directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my
      initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with
      libcurl easier.
    
    - Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file://
      URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl
      does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them.
    
    - Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and
      build under OpenVMS.
    
    Version 7.8.1-pre3
    
    
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    Daniel (6 August 2001)
    - Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you
      set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that
      data. This is now fixed.
    
    
    Daniel (5 August 2001)
    - Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd
      1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked
      for with HTTP 1.1.
    
    - curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input
      string especially.
    
    Daniel (3 August 2001)
    - I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to
      avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file.
    
    - Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license
      boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory
      should go to Andrew for his heads up.
    
    - Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you
      couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a
      new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP
      requestr (back) to GET.
    
    - Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in
      release archives. It should be now.
    
    
    Daniel (2 August 2001)
    - Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions.
    
    - Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the
      select() loop use far too much CPU.
    
    - Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's
      progress callback.
    
    
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    - Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated.
    
    
    - Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL.
    
    Daniel (27 June 2001)
    - Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled.
    
    - Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details.
    
    Version 7.8.1-pre2
    
    
    - Björn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading
      several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was
      then used for all files, resulting in weird results...
    
    
    - Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names
      with spaces like when -F is used.
    
    
    Daniel (20 June 2001)
    - Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option
      for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories
      for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given.
    
    Daniel (19 June 2001)
    - When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly
      garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed
      reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this.
    
    
    Daniel (12 June 2001)
    - Salvador Dávila provided a fix for FTP range downloads.
    
    - Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file
      format. We're now at a total of 26 tests.
    
    Daniel (11 June 2001)
    - libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and
      David Odin.
    
    Daniel (7 June 2001)
    - Jörn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def
    
    - I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed.
    
    
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    Version 7.8
    
    Daniel (7 June 2001)
    - SDavila provided a resumed download fix.
    
    Version 7.8-pre4
    
    
    Daniel (1 June 2001)
    - Sterling provided some new PHP examples.
    
    - Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer
      work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'.
    
    Daniel (31 May 2001)
    - CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file
      to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used
      anywhere in the library.
    
    
    Version 7.8-pre3
    
    Daniel (31 May 2001)
    - Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present
      less warnings.
    
    - Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So,
      curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to
      init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all
      known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely
      necessary. Man page updated accordingly.
    
    - Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms!
    
    Daniel (30 May 2001)
    - Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were
      set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE
      option is subject for complete removal...
    
    Version 7.8-pre2
    
    
    Daniel (30 May 2001)
    - Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages.
    
    - Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and
      we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h
    
    - Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl,
      available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
    
    Daniel (29 May 2001)
    - Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread-
      safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and
      lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included!
    
    - Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written
      to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected.
    
    - I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a
      separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it
      easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information.
    
      I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit
      you deserve.
    
    - lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake
    
    Version 7.8-pre1
    
    
    Daniel (28 May 2001)
    - curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version
      of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version
      7.7.4 appears as 070704
    
    - Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup...
    
    - T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was
      not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak
      memory.  The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two
      two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should
      be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done
      only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use,
      and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using
      libcurl completely.
    
      *** UPGRADE NOTICE ***
    
    
      If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two
    
      functions mentioned above !!!
    
      I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL
    
      insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk
      the path they point us to.
    
    
    - Moving more test cases into the new file format.
    
    Version 7.7.4-pre3
    
    Daniel (23 May 2001)
    - Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to
      modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not
      "ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come.
    
      The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test
      case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test
      case and a lot less files.
    
    - Andrés García brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing
      function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path!
    
    
    - As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was
      not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with
      the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected.
    
    
    - Installed and made use of the following tool versions:
        autoconf 2.50
        libtool 1.4
        automake 1.4-p1
    
      I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older
    
      versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require
      at least these versions.
    
      As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its
      previous size!
    
      Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my
      acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working!
    
    
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    - I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the
      first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel.
    
    - Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built
      with ssl support.
    
    Daniel (19 May 2001)
    - Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they
      are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions
      helped out.
    
    Version 7.7.4-pre2
    
    Daniel (18 May 2001)
    - Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper
      variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix)
    
    - For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own.
      It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions
      with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.)
    
    Daniel (17 May 2001)
    - Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that
      turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that
      contained files from the 7.7.2 release!
    
    - I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to
      make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of
      libcurl.
    
    Daniel (14 May 2001)
    - Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent
      connections.
    
    Version 7.7.4-pre1
    
    Daniel (14 May 2001)
    - Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl.
    
    - Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive.
    
    
    Daniel (12 May 2001)
    - Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's
      certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a
      proper error code. I added a brand new error code named
      CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose.
    
    Daniel (11 May 2001)
    - As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not
      return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume
      when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed
      from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of
      the fact that it can't be returned anymore!
    
    - Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more.
    
    - Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post
      another one.
    
    - Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more!
      
    Daniel (10 May 2001)
    - Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with
      Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources.
    
    - Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location:
      headers with an extra space after the colon.
    
    - Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative
      directories correctly.
    
    Daniel (9 May 2001)
    - Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line),
      makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl
      returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead.
      Anonymous bug report.
    
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    - stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now
      added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite)
    
      
    Daniel (7 May 2001)
    - Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion
      that I missed at two places. Jörn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates
      filed a bug report on this.
    
    Version 7.7.3
    
    
    Daniel (4 May 2001)
    - All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made
      this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to
      them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling
      Hughes.
    
    
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    - Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent
      connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed
      chunked and non-chunked transfers.
    
    - Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be
      treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the
      server timed-out and closed the connection.
    
    
    - Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am
    
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    Daniel (27 April 2001)
    - Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it
      more easy to follow now as well.
    
    - Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received
      a "Content-Length: 0" header.
    
    - Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl
      compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though!
    
    - Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't
      explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew.
    
    Daniel (26 April 2001)
    - I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps
      work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal
      unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the
      function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it
      makes a notable speed difference.
    
    Daniel (25 April 2001)
    - Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for
      non-default port numbers.
    
    Daniel (24 April 2001)
    - I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the
      data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this.
    
    - Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on
      the alredy written perl servers easily.
    
    Daniel (23 April 2001)
    - The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one
      of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply
      weird version string output!
    
    
    Version 7.7.2
    
    Daniel (22 April 2001)
    - Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows.
    
    - Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would
      lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request.
    
    Daniel (20 April 2001)
    - Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote
      a 'libcurl overview' man page.
    
    - Spell-fixed some documents.
    
    - S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page.
    
    - Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present
      separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package.
    
    
    Daniel (19 April 2001)
    - Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the
      --write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-)
    
    
    Version 7.7.2-pre1
    
    Daniel (19 April 2001)
    
    
    - Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.
    
    
    Daniel (18 April 2001)
    - Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It
      displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current
      libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4
      and IPv6.
    
    - I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks
      working and options that receives those slist pointers.
    
    
    - Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent
    
      connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is
      important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not
      in the main struct as this previously did.
    
    Daniel (17 April 2001)
    - Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new
      error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download
      actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present.
      Should this return OK instead?
    
    - I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a
      curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to
      figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn
      should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl.
    
      This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used
      successfully in other (library based) projects.
    
    - Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone
      for the If-Modified-Since style headers.
    
    - Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c
      for curl to build on Ultrix.
    
    
    - Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use
      of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security
      hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server
      sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP
      request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable!
    
      Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash.
    
    
    - S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on
      windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set
      that timeout!
    
    
    - Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl!
    
    - Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface.
    
    - I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to
    
      Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It
      works, but it is still very basic.
    
    
    Daniel (10 April 2001)
    - The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as
      it wasn't properly reset between transfers!
    
    - Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made
      me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback
      function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE
      * when headers are written from within libcurl.
    
    
    Daniel (7 April 2001)
    - Andrés García fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in
      the curl_easy_setopt man page.
    
    Daniel (6 April 2001)
    - Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure
      change their version define format often...
    
    - curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing!
    
    
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    Daniel (3 April 2001)
    - Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
      read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
      Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.
    
    
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    - More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
    
      it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non-
      persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now.
    
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    Daniel (29 March 2001)
    - Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.
    
    - Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the
      control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted
      connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used
      that to verify the functionality.
    
    Daniel (27 March 2001)
    - Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried
      to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent
      after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly!
    
    - I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny
      example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the