formfree, config file, --url, more testcases, infinite URL lengths and more

                               History of Changes

Daniel (20 November 2000)

- Made libcurl capable of dealing with any-length URLs. The former limit of

  4096 bytes was a bit annoying when people wanted to use curl to really make

  life tough on a web server. Now, the command line limit is the most annoying

  but that can be circumvented by using a config file.

  NOTE: there is still a 4096-byte limit on URLs extracted from Location:

  headers.

- Corrected the spelling of 'resolve' in two error messages.

- Alexander Kourakos posted a bug report and a patch that corrected it! It

  turned out that lynx and wget support lowercase environment variable names

  where curl only looked for the uppercase versions. Now curl will use the

  lowercase versions if they exist, but if they don't, it'll use the uppercase

  versions.

Daniel (17 November 2000)

- curl_formfree() was added. How come no one missed that one before? I ran the

  test suite with the malloc debug enabled and got lots of "nice" warnings on

  memory leaks. The most serious one was this. There were also leaks in the

  cookie handling, and a few errors when curl failed to connect and similar

  things. More tests cases were added to cover up and to verify that these

  problems have been removed.

- Mucho updated config file parser (I'm dead tired of all the bug reports and

  weird behaviour I get on the former one). It works slightly differently now,

  although I doubt many people will notice the differences. The main

  difference being that if you use options that require parameters, they must

  both be specified on the same line. With this new parser, you can also

  specify long options without '--' and you may separate options and

  parameters with : or =. It makes a config file line could look like:

        user-agent = "foobar and something"

  Parameters within quotes may contain spaces. Without quotes, they're

  expected to be a single non-space word.

  Had to patch the command line argument parser a little to make this work.

- Added --url as an option to allow the URL to be specified this way. It makes

  way nicer config files. The previous way of specifying URLs in the config

  file doesn't work anymore.

Daniel (15 November 2000)

- Using certain characters in usernames or passwords for HTTP authentication

  failed. This was due to the mprintf() that had a silly check for letters,