clarified

BUGS

  Curl and libcurl have grown substantially since the beginning. At the time

  of writing (mid March 2001), there are 23000 lines of source code, and by

  of writing (end of April 2002), there are 32000 lines of source code, and by

  the time you read this it has probably grown even more.

  Of course there are lots of bugs left. And lots of misfeatures.

  To help us make curl the stable and solid product we want it to be, we need

  bug reports and bug fixes. If you can't fix a bug yourself and submit a fix

  for it, try to report an as detailed report as possible to the curl mailing

  list to allow one of us to have a go at a solution. You should also post

  your bug/problem at curl's bug tracking system over at

  bug reports and bug fixes.

WHERE TO REPORT

  If you can't fix a bug yourself and submit a fix for it, try to report an as

  detailed report as possible to the curl mailing list to allow one of us to

  have a go at a solution. You should also post your bug/problem at curl's bug

  tracking system over at

        http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=976

  (but please read the section below first before doing that)

WHAT TO REPORT

  When reporting a bug, you should include information that will help us

  understand what's wrong, what you expected to happen and how to repeat the

  bad behavior. You therefore need to supply your operating system's name and

  version number (uname -a under a unix is fine), what version of curl you're

  using (curl -V is fine), what URL you were working with and anything else

  you think matters.

  Since curl deals with networks, it often helps us a lot if you include a

  protocol debug dump with your bug report. The output you get by using the -v

  understand what's wrong what you expected to happen and how to repeat the

  bad behavior. You therefore need to tell us:

   - your operating system's name and version number (uname -a under a unix

     is fine)

   - what version of curl you're using (curl -V is fine)

   - what URL you were working with (if possible), at least which protocol

  and anything and everything else you think matters. Tell us what you

  expected to happen, tell use what did happen, tell us how you could make it

  work another way. Dig around, try out, test. Then include all the tiny bits

  and pieces in your report. You will benefit from this yourself, as it will

  enable us to help you quicker and more accurately.

  Since curl deals with networks, it often helps us if you include a protocol

  debug dump with your bug report. The output you get by using the -v

  flag. Usually, you also get more info by using -i so that is likely to be

  useful when reporting bugs as well.