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                               History of Changes

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

Daniel (17 September 2001)
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require
  winsock 2.0.

Version 7.9-pre6

- 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.

Version 7.9-pre4

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

Daniel (3 September 2001)
- 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.

- 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.

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