the latest writeout bugfix

                               History of Changes

Daniel (15 August 2000)

- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well

  as AIX 4.3. Now why did problems occur before?

- Fred Noz reported a -w/--write-out bug that caused it to malfunction when

  used combined with multiple URL retrievales. All but the first display got

  screwed up!

Daniel (11 August 2000)

- Jason Priebe and an anynomous friend found some host names the Linux version

  of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that

  information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of

  not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my

  Linux Redhat installation...

Daniel (10 August 2000)

- Balaji S Rao missed the possibility of replacing the Content-Type: and

  Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added the possibility just now

Daniel (8 August 2000)

- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve URLs with no user

  name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.

Version 7.1

Daniel (7 August 2000)

- My AIX 4 fix does not work. I need help from a AIX 4 hacker.

- I added my new document in the docs directory. It is aimed to become a sort

  of tutorial on how to do HTTP scripting with curl.

Daniel (4 August 2000)

- Working with Rich Gray on compiling curl for lots of different platforms.

  My fix for AIX 3.2 was not good enough and was slightly changed, I had to

  move an include file before another, as is now described in the source.

  AIX 4.2 (4.X?) has different gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r()

  functions that the configure script didn't check for and thus the compile

  broke with an error. I have now changed the gethostbyname_r() check in the

  configure file to support all three versions of both these functions. My

  implementation that uses the AIX-style is though not yet verified and I may

  get problems to fix it if it turns out to bug since I don't have access to

  any system using that.

  For problems like that, I made the configure script allow --disable-thread

  to completely switch off the check for threadsafe versions of a few

  functions and thus go with the "good old versions" that tend to work

  although will break thread-safeness for libcurl. Most people won't use

  libcurl for other things than curl though, and curl doesn't need a

  thread-safe lib.

- Working on my big tutorial about HTTP scripting with curl.

Daniel (1 August 2000)

- Rich Gray spotted a problem in src/setup.h caused by a #define strequal()

  that was just a left-over from passed times. The strequal() is now a true

  function supplied by libcurl for a portable case insensitive string

  comparison. I added the prototypes in include/curl.h and removed the

  now obsolete #define.

- Igor Khristophorov made a fix to allow resumed download from Sun's

  JavaWebServer/1.1.1. It seems that their server sends bad Content-Range

  headers.

- The makefiles forced a static library build, which is bad since we now use

  libtool and thus have excellent shared library support! Albert Chin-A-Young

  found out.

Version 7.0.11beta

Daniel (1 August 2000)