Loading docs/HISTORY +135 −104 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -5,17 +5,22 @@ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| How cURL Became Like This ========================= Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg came up with the idea to make Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg was spending time writing an IRC bot for an Amiga related channel on EFnet. He then came up with the idea to make currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to automate their retrieval. Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently release version 0.1 of. After a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support. a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. 1997 ---- HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support. We soon found and fixed support for getting currencies over GOPHER. Once FTP download support was added, the name of the project was changed and urlget 2.0 Loading @@ -33,33 +38,42 @@ was revealed to us much later.) SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library. August 1998, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net. 1998 ---- August, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net. October 1998, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of October, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of "copyleft". November 1998, configure script and reported successful compiles on several November, configure script and reported successful compiles on several major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added. Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it. January 1999, DICT support added. 1999 ---- January, DICT support added. OpenSSL took over where SSLeay was abandoned. May 1999, first Debian package. May, first Debian package. August 1999, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits weekly. August, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits weekly. Released curl 6.0 in September. 15000 lines of code. December 28 1999, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services for managing the project. December 28, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services for managing the project. 2000 ---- Spring 2000, major internal overhaul to provide a suitable library interface. The first non-beta release was named 7.1 and arrived in August. This offered Loading @@ -67,19 +81,22 @@ the easy interface and turned out to be the beginning of actually getting other software and programs to get based on and powered by libcurl. Almost 20000 lines of code. August 2000, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since the release of PHP 4.0.2. This would soon get followers. More than 16 different bindings exist at the time of this writing. September 2000, kerberos4 support was added. September, kerberos4 support was added. In November 2000 started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1. In November started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1. January 2001, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or 2001 ---- January, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or MPL). The MIT license is extremely liberal and can be used combined with GPL in other projects. This would finally put an end to the "complaints" from people involved in GPLed projects that previously were prohibited from using Loading @@ -92,17 +109,20 @@ code. The libcurl major SONAME number was bumped to 2 due to this overhaul. The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001. August 2001. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD August. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have never since got in touch again. September 2001, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and September, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and without much whistles. June 2002, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is 2002 ---- June, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is 35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations of CPUs and operating systems. Loading @@ -111,33 +131,36 @@ impossible. Around 5000 downloaded packages each week from the main site gives a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software. September 2002, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license only. September, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license only. January 2003. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds. 2003 ---- February 2003, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site. January. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds. February, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site. Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June) and Negotiate (June). November 2003: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors. November: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors. December 2003, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported. December, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported. January 2004: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support. 2004 ---- June 2004: January: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support. curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors. June: curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors. This release bumped the major SONAME to 3 due to the removal of the curl_formparse() function August 2004: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 August: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 Public curl release number: 82 Releases counted from the very beginning: 109 Loading @@ -147,52 +170,45 @@ August 2004: Amount of public web site mirrors: 12 Number of known libcurl bindings: 26 April 2005: GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is built. 2005 ---- September 2005: April. GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is built. TFTP support was added. September: TFTP support was added. More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors. December 2005: December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow 2006 ---- January 2006: We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that January. We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that nobody had found out in all this time we removed it instead of fixing it. March 2006: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow April 2006: Added the multi_socket() API September 2006: March: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the removal of ftp third party transfer support. April: Added the multi_socket() API November 2006: September: The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the removal of ftp third party transfer support. Added SCP and SFTP support November: Added SCP and SFTP support February 2007: 2007 ---- Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff February: Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff July 2007: July: security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification 2008 ---- November 2008: November: Command line options: 128 curl_easy_setopt() options: 158 Loading @@ -202,37 +218,30 @@ November 2008: 145,000 unique visitors. >100 GB downloaded. March 2009: 2009 ---- security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access March: security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access August 2009: August: security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name December: Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP December 2009: 2010 ---- Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP January: Added support for RTSP January 2010: February: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length Added support for RTSP March: The project switched over to use git (hosted by github) instead of CVS for source code control February 2010: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length March 2010: The project switched over to use git instead of CVS for source code control May 2010: Added support for RTMP May: Added support for RTMP Added support for PolarSSL to do the SSL/TLS stuff August 2010: August: Public curl releases: 117 Command line options: 138 Loading @@ -242,3 +251,25 @@ August 2010: Contributors: 808 Gopher support added (re-added actually) 2012 ---- July: Added support for Schannel (native Windows TLS backend) and Darwin SSL (Native Mac OS X and iOS TLS backend). Supports metalink October: SSH-agent support. 2013 ---- February: Cleaned up internals to always uses the "multi" non-blocking approach internally and only expose the blocking API with a wrapper. September: First small steps on supporting HTTP/2 with nghttp2. October: Removed krb4 support. December: Happy eyeballs. Loading
docs/HISTORY +135 −104 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -5,17 +5,22 @@ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| How cURL Became Like This ========================= Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg came up with the idea to make Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg was spending time writing an IRC bot for an Amiga related channel on EFnet. He then came up with the idea to make currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to automate their retrieval. Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently release version 0.1 of. After a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support. a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. 1997 ---- HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support. We soon found and fixed support for getting currencies over GOPHER. Once FTP download support was added, the name of the project was changed and urlget 2.0 Loading @@ -33,33 +38,42 @@ was revealed to us much later.) SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library. August 1998, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net. 1998 ---- August, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net. October 1998, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of October, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of "copyleft". November 1998, configure script and reported successful compiles on several November, configure script and reported successful compiles on several major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added. Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it. January 1999, DICT support added. 1999 ---- January, DICT support added. OpenSSL took over where SSLeay was abandoned. May 1999, first Debian package. May, first Debian package. August 1999, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits weekly. August, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits weekly. Released curl 6.0 in September. 15000 lines of code. December 28 1999, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services for managing the project. December 28, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services for managing the project. 2000 ---- Spring 2000, major internal overhaul to provide a suitable library interface. The first non-beta release was named 7.1 and arrived in August. This offered Loading @@ -67,19 +81,22 @@ the easy interface and turned out to be the beginning of actually getting other software and programs to get based on and powered by libcurl. Almost 20000 lines of code. August 2000, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since the release of PHP 4.0.2. This would soon get followers. More than 16 different bindings exist at the time of this writing. September 2000, kerberos4 support was added. September, kerberos4 support was added. In November 2000 started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1. In November started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1. January 2001, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or 2001 ---- January, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or MPL). The MIT license is extremely liberal and can be used combined with GPL in other projects. This would finally put an end to the "complaints" from people involved in GPLed projects that previously were prohibited from using Loading @@ -92,17 +109,20 @@ code. The libcurl major SONAME number was bumped to 2 due to this overhaul. The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001. August 2001. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD August. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have never since got in touch again. September 2001, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and September, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and without much whistles. June 2002, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is 2002 ---- June, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is 35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations of CPUs and operating systems. Loading @@ -111,33 +131,36 @@ impossible. Around 5000 downloaded packages each week from the main site gives a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software. September 2002, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license only. September, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license only. January 2003. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds. 2003 ---- February 2003, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site. January. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds. February, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site. Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June) and Negotiate (June). November 2003: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors. November: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors. December 2003, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported. December, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported. January 2004: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support. 2004 ---- June 2004: January: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support. curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors. June: curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors. This release bumped the major SONAME to 3 due to the removal of the curl_formparse() function August 2004: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 August: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 Public curl release number: 82 Releases counted from the very beginning: 109 Loading @@ -147,52 +170,45 @@ August 2004: Amount of public web site mirrors: 12 Number of known libcurl bindings: 26 April 2005: GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is built. 2005 ---- September 2005: April. GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is built. TFTP support was added. September: TFTP support was added. More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors. December 2005: December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow 2006 ---- January 2006: We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that January. We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that nobody had found out in all this time we removed it instead of fixing it. March 2006: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow April 2006: Added the multi_socket() API September 2006: March: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the removal of ftp third party transfer support. April: Added the multi_socket() API November 2006: September: The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the removal of ftp third party transfer support. Added SCP and SFTP support November: Added SCP and SFTP support February 2007: 2007 ---- Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff February: Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff July 2007: July: security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification 2008 ---- November 2008: November: Command line options: 128 curl_easy_setopt() options: 158 Loading @@ -202,37 +218,30 @@ November 2008: 145,000 unique visitors. >100 GB downloaded. March 2009: 2009 ---- security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access March: security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access August 2009: August: security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name December: Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP December 2009: 2010 ---- Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP January: Added support for RTSP January 2010: February: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length Added support for RTSP March: The project switched over to use git (hosted by github) instead of CVS for source code control February 2010: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length March 2010: The project switched over to use git instead of CVS for source code control May 2010: Added support for RTMP May: Added support for RTMP Added support for PolarSSL to do the SSL/TLS stuff August 2010: August: Public curl releases: 117 Command line options: 138 Loading @@ -242,3 +251,25 @@ August 2010: Contributors: 808 Gopher support added (re-added actually) 2012 ---- July: Added support for Schannel (native Windows TLS backend) and Darwin SSL (Native Mac OS X and iOS TLS backend). Supports metalink October: SSH-agent support. 2013 ---- February: Cleaned up internals to always uses the "multi" non-blocking approach internally and only expose the blocking API with a wrapper. September: First small steps on supporting HTTP/2 with nghttp2. October: Removed krb4 support. December: Happy eyeballs.
