The last week's changes

Version 7.3

Daniel (25 September 2000)

- Erdmut Pfeifer informed us that curl didn't build with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and

  showed us what needed to get patched in order to make it build properly

  again.

- Dirk Kruschewski found a bug in the cookie parser. I made an alternative

  approach to the solution Dirk himself suggested. The bug made a cookie

  header that didn't end with a trailing semicolon to not get parsed.

- I've marked -c and -t deprecated now. If you use any of them, curl will tell

  you to use "-C -" or "-T -" instead. I don't think occupying two letters for

  nearly identical functions is good use. Also, -T - kind of follows the curl

  tradition of using - for stdin where a file name is expected.

Daniel (23 September 2000)

- Martin Hedenfalk provided the patch that finally made the krb4 ftp upload

  work!

Daniel (21 September 2000)

- The kerberos code is not quite thread-safe yet. There are a few more globals

  that need to be take care of. Let's get the upload working first!

Daniel (20 September 2000)

- Richard Prescott solved another name lookup buffer size problem. I took this

  opportunity to rewrite the GetHost() function. With these large buffer

  sizes, I think keeping them as local arrays quickly turn ugly. I know use

  malloc() to get the buffer memory. Thanks to this, I now can realloc() to a

  large buffer in case of demand (errno == ERANGE) in case a solution like

  that would become necessary. I still want to avoid that kind of nastiness.

- Tried to compile and run curl on Linux for alpha and FreeBSD for alpha. Went

  as smooth as it could.

- Added a docs/examples directory with two tiny example sources that show how

  to use libcurl. I hope users will supply me with more useful examples

  further on.

- Applied a patch by Jörn Hartroth to no longer use the word 'inteface' in the

  config struct in the src/main.c file since certain compilers have that word

  "reservered".  I figure that is some kind of C++ decease.

- Updated the curl.1 man page with --interface and --krb4.

- Modified the base64Encode() function to work like the kerberos one, so that

  I could remove the use of that. There is no need for *two* base64 encoding

  functions! ;-)

Version 7.3pre5

Daniel (19 September 2000)

- The kerberos4-layer source code that is much "influenced" by the original

  krb4 source code, through yafc into curl, was using quite a lot of global

  variables. libcurl can't work properly with globals like that why I had to

  clean up almost every function in the new security.c to make them use

  connection specific variables instead of the globals. I just hope I didn't

  destroy anything now... :-) configure updated, version string now reflects

  krb4 built-in. It almost works now. Only uploads are still being naughty.

Version 7.3pre3

Daniel (18 September 2000)

- Martin Hedenfalk supplied a major patch that introduces krb4-ftp support to

  curl. Martin is the primary author of the ftp client named yafc and he did

  not hesitate to help us implement this when I asked him. Many and sincere

  thanks to a splendid effort. It didn't even take many hours!

- Stephen Kick supplied a big patch that introduces the --interface flag to

  the curl tool and CURLOPT_INTERFACE for libcurl. It allows you to specify an

  outgoing interface to use for your request. This may not work on all

  platforms. This needs testing.

- Richard Prescott noticed that curl on Tru64 unix could core dumped if the

  name didn't resolve properly. This was due to the GetHost() function not

  returning an error even though it failed on some platforms!

Daniel (15 September 2000)

- Updated all sorts of documents in regards to the new proxytunnel support.