Commit 658b9a20 authored by Sylvestre Ledru's avatar Sylvestre Ledru Committed by Dan Fandrich
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fix some typos in the doc (#1306)

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@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ BUGS
  This is a list of known bugs. Bugs we know exist and that have been pointed
  out but that haven't yet been fixed. The reasons for why they haven't been
  fixed can involve anything really, but the primary reason is that nobody has
  considered these problems to be important enough to spend the necesary time
  considered these problems to be important enough to spend the necessary time
  and effort to have them fixed.

  The KNOWN_BUGS are always up for grabs and we will always love the ones who
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ BUGS
2.8 Closing off stalled bugs

  The issue and pull request trackers on https://github.com/curl/curl will
  only hold "active" entries (using a non-precise defintion of what active
  only hold "active" entries (using a non-precise definition of what active
  actually is, but they're at least not completely dead). Those that are
  abandonded or in other ways dormant will be closed and sometimes added to
  TODO and KNOWN_BUGS instead.
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@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ FAQ
  In October 2009, there were interfaces available for the following
  languages: Ada95, Basic, C, C++, Ch, Cocoa, D, Dylan, Eiffel, Euphoria,
  Ferite, Gambas, glib/GTK+, Haskell, ILE/RPG, Java, Lisp, Lua, Mono, .NET,
  Object-Pascal, O'Caml, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, R, Rexx, Ruby,
  Object-Pascal, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, R, Rexx, Ruby,
  Scheme, S-Lang, Smalltalk, SP-Forth, SPL, Tcl, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro,
  Q, wxwidgets and XBLite. By the time you read this, additional ones may have
  appeared!
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@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written!
 It can also be noted that while adding a trailing dot to the host name in
 most (all?) cases will make the name resolve to the same set of IP addresses,
 many HTTP servers will not happily accept the trailing dot there unless that
 has been specificly configured to be a fine virtual host.
 has been specifically configured to be a fine virtual host.

 If URLs with trailing dots for host names become more popular or even just
 used more than for just plain fun experiments, I'm sure we will have reason
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 1.7 Detect when called from within callbacks
 1.8 CURLOPT_RESOLVE for any port number
 1.9 Cache negative name resolves
 1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamicly loaded modules
 1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamically loaded modules
 1.12 have form functions use CURL handle argument
 1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
 1.15 Monitor connections in the connection pool
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 A name resolve that has failed is likely to fail when made again within a
 short period of time. Currently we only cache positive responses.

1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamicly loaded modules
1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamically loaded modules

 We can create a system with loadable modules/plug-ins, where these modules
 would be the ones that link to 3rd party libs. That would allow us to avoid
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ This is not detailed in any FTP specification.

 RFC 7616 introduces an update to the HTTP Digest authentication
 specification, which amongst other thing defines how new digest algorithms
 can be used instead of MD5 which is considered old and not recommanded.
 can be used instead of MD5 which is considered old and not recommended.

 See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7616 and
 https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1018
@@ -1046,9 +1046,9 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs.
18.15 --retry should resume

 When --retry is used and curl actually retries transfer, it should use the
 already transfered data and do a resumed transfer for the rest (when
 already transferred data and do a resumed transfer for the rest (when
 possible) so that it doesn't have to transfer the same data again that was
 already tranfered before the retry.
 already transferred before the retry.

 See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1084

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@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ behind a firewall. Apps can mitigate against this by using the
.IP "IPv6 Addresses"
libcurl will normally handle IPv6 addresses transparently and just as easily
as IPv4 addresses. That means that a sanitizing function that filters out
addressses like 127.0.0.1 isn't sufficient--the equivalent IPv6 addresses ::1,
addresses like 127.0.0.1 isn't sufficient--the equivalent IPv6 addresses ::1,
::, 0:00::0:1, ::127.0.0.1 and ::ffff:7f00:1 supplied somehow by an attacker
would all bypass a naive filter and could allow access to undesired local
resources.  IPv6 also has special address blocks like link-local and site-local