Jaz Fresh pointed out that if you used "-r [number]" as was wrongly described

Daniel (27 October 2005)

- Jaz Fresh pointed out that if you used "-r [number]" as was wrongly described

  in the man page, curl would send an invalid HTTP Range: header. The correct

  way would be to use "-r [number]-" or even "-r -[number]". Starting now,

  curl will warn if this is discovered, and automatically append a dash to the

  range before passing it to libcurl.

Daniel (25 October 2005)

- Amol Pattekar reported a bug with great detail and a fine example in bug

  #1326306 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1326306). When using the multi

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o -r [num] would produce an invalid HTTP Range: header

 o multi interface with multi IP hosts could leak socket descriptors

 o the GnuTLS code didn't handle rehandshakes

 o re-use of a dead FTP connection

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and

advice from friends like these:

 Dave Dribin, Bradford Bruce, Temprimus

 Dave Dribin, Bradford Bruce, Temprimus, Ofer, Dima Barsky, Amol Pattekar, Jaz

 Fresh

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

.B -500

specifies the last 500 bytes

.TP

.B 9500

.B 9500-

specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward

.TP

.B 0-0,-1

        return err;

      break;

    case 'r':

      /* Specifying a range WITHOUT A DASH will create an illegal HTTP range

         (and won't actually be range by definition). The man page previously

         claimed that to be a good way, why this code is added to work-around

         it. */

      if(!strchr(nextarg, '-')) {

        char buffer[32];

        curl_off_t off;

        warnf(config,

              "A specfied range MUST include at least one dash (-). "

              "Appending one for you!\n");

        off = curlx_strtoofft(nextarg, NULL, 10);

        snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), CURL_FORMAT_OFF_T "-", off);

        GetStr(&config->range, buffer);

      }

      else

        /* byte range requested */

        GetStr(&config->range, nextarg);

      break;

    case 'R':

      /* use remote file's time */