made short options and their parmaters possible to specify without space

                               History of Changes

Daniel (11 January 2001)

- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without

  having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as

  -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter

  options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with

  space from their parameters.

Daniel (8 January 2001)

- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling

  curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef

 * Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same

   host is requested.

 * Improve the command line option parser to accept '-m300' as well as the '-m

   300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be

   space separated to the next option.

 * Make the curl tool support URLs that start with @ that would then mean that

   the following is a plain list with URLs to download. Thus @filename.txt

   reads a list of URLs from a local file. A fancy option would then be to

   noticable when there's a resume going on.

 * Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time

   stamp as the remote file. This requires some fiddling on FTP but comes

   almost free for HTTP.

   stamp as the remote file. We already are capable of fetching the remote

   file's date.

 * Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as

   an alternative to OpenSSL:

 * Make the easy-interface support multiple file transfers. If they're done

   to the same host, they should use persistant connections or similar.

   Figure out a nice design for this.

 * Add asynchronous name resolving, as this enables full timeout support for

   fork() systems.