lots and lots

                               History of Changes

Daniel (24 October 2001)

- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie

  that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The

  brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25]

Daniel (23 October 2001)

- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs

  would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35]

Daniel (22 October 2001)

- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented

  preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code!

- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from

  the out-of-the-box curl release archives.

- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report

  transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the

  future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be

  used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the

  connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the

  middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data

  still being sent to us on it.

Daniel (19 October 2001)

- CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return

  anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this.

- T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as

  well.

Version 7.9.1-pre4

Daniel (18 October 2001)

- CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if

  the HTTP return code is below 400.

Daniel (17 October 2001)

- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the

  tests.

- We had to remote 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin

  adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard

  out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and

  cygwin?

- A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed.

  It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61]

- The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr

  if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it

  easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off.

Daniel (16 October 2001)

- Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments.

Daniel (12 October 2001)

- Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more

  accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures,

  and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should

  now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on

  the right edge.

- After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified

  the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking

  if the redirected URL is absolute.

Daniel (11 October 2001)

- Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows

  2000 running cygwin.

Daniel (10 October 2001)

- Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser.

  Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work.

Version 7.9.1-pre3

Daniel (9 October 2001)

- Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new

  libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0