Commit ddfbe8b6 authored by Dan Fandrich's avatar Dan Fandrich
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Added some more to do items and a known bug.

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docs/KNOWN_BUGS

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@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the 
changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems

may have been fixed since this was written!



54. User names embedded in URLs without a password are parsed incorrectly--the

  host name is treated as part of the user name and the port number becomes the

  password.  This can be observed test 279.



53. SFTP busy-loop problem. When doing SFTP uploads, we can see that libcurl

  occasionally will busy-loop while waiting for certain network conditions.

  Reported by Pavel Shalagin, explained somewhat by Daniel Stenberg here:
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  -y/-Y) the next attempt doesn't resume the transfer properly from what was

  downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the

  original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See

  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html

  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report

  https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565



48. If a CONNECT response-headers are larger than BUFSIZE (16KB) when the

  connection is meant to be kept alive (like for NTLM proxy auth), the

docs/TODO

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 5. HTTP

 5.1 Other HTTP versions with CONNECT

 5.2 Better persistancy for HTTP 1.0

 5.2 Better persistency for HTTP 1.0

 5.3 support FF3 sqlite cookie files



 6. TELNET

 6.1 ditch stdin

 6.2 ditch telnet-specific select

 6.3 feature negotiation debug data

 6.4 send data in chunks



 7. SSL

 7.1 Disable specific versions
@@ -53,19 +55,19 @@ 
 7.4 Evaluate SSL patches

 7.5 Cache OpenSSL contexts

 7.6 Export session ids

 7.7 Provide callback for cert verfication

 7.7 Provide callback for cert verification

 7.8 Support other SSL libraries

 7.9  Support SRP on the TLS layer

 7.10 improve configure --with-ssl



 8. GnuTLS

 8.1 Make NTLM work without OpenSSL functions

 8.2 SSl engine stuff

 8.2 SSL engine stuff

 8.3 SRP

 8.4 non-blocking

 8.5 check connection



 9. LDAP

 9. Other protocols

 9.1 ditch ldap-specific select



 10. New protocols
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 11.6 simultaneous parallel transfers

 11.7 provide formpost headers

 11.8 url-specific options

 11.9 metalink support

 11.10 warning when setting an option



 12. Build

 12.1 roffit
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1.1 Zero-copy interface



 Introdue another callback interface for upload/download that makes one less

 Introduce another callback interface for upload/download that makes one less

 copy of data and thus a faster operation.

 [http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt]
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 never been reported as causing trouble to anyone, but should be considered to

 use the HTTP version the user has chosen.



5.2 Better persistancy for HTTP 1.0

5.2 Better persistency for HTTP 1.0



 "Better" support for persistent connections over HTTP 1.0

 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1089001
@@ -283,6 +287,16 @@ to provide the data to send. 
 into the main transfer loop. Until this is done, the multi interface won't

 work for telnet.



6.3 feature negotiation debug data



  Add telnet feature negotiation data to the debug callback as header data.



6.4 send data in chunks



  Currently, telnet sends data one byte at a time.  This is fine for interactive

  use, but inefficient for any other.  Sent data should be sent in larger

  chunks.



7. SSL



7.1 Disable specific versions
@@ -324,7 +338,7 @@ to provide the data to send. 
 the state from such a buffer at a later date - this is used by mod_ssl for

 apache to implement and SSL session ID cache".



7.7 Provide callback for cert verfication

7.7 Provide callback for cert verification



 OpenSSL supports a callback for customised verification of the peer

 certificate, but this doesn't seem to be exposed in the libcurl APIs. Could
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 hey... Another option is to get available DES and MD4 source code from the

 cryptopp library. They are fine license-wise, but are C++.



8.2 SSl engine stuff

8.2 SSL engine stuff



 Is this even possible?
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 Add a way to check if the connection seems to be alive, to correspond to the

 SSL_peak() way we use with OpenSSL.



9. LDAP

9. Other protocols



9.1 ditch ldap-specific select
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   lib/ldap.c source file and get moved to the main network code so that the

   multi interface and friends will work for LDAP as well.



9.2 stop TFTP blocking



  Stop TFTP from being blocking and doing its own read loop in tftp_do.



10. New protocols



10.1 RTSP
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 The example would do a POST-GET-POST combination on a single command line.



11.9 metalink support



 Add metalink support to curl (http://www.metalinker.org/). This is most useful

 with simultaneous parallel transfers (11.6) but not necessary.



11.10 warning when setting an option



  Display a warning when libcurl returns an error when setting an option.

  This can be useful to tell when support for a particular feature hasn't been

  compiled into the library.



12. Build



12.1 roffit