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                               History of Changes

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

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

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.

Daniel (29 June 2001)
- 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)