numerous corrections since the 7.7 release

                               History of Changes

Daniel (24 March 2001)

- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it,

  which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a

  way that gnroff doesn't like.

Daniel (23 March 2001)

- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of

  $(MAKE) for the test target.

- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not

  curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7!

- SM provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ).

- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string

  in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an

  application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report

  from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then

  caused a libcurl crash!

- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously,

  curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one.

- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl

  http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which

  made the second request return very odd results.

Daniel (22 March 2001)

- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests

  when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses

  GET in the following request(s).

- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of

  curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same

  connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly.

- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks

  like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion.

Version 7.7

Daniel (22 March 2001)