7.1.1 cleanup commit

                               History of Changes

Version 7.1.1

Daniel (21 August 2000)

- Got more people involved in the gethostbyname_r() mess. Caolan McNamara sent

  me configure-code that turned out to be very similar to my existing tests

  which only make me more sure I'm on the right path. I changed the order of

  the tests slightly, as it seems that some compilers don't yell error if a

  function is used with too many parameters. Thus, the first tested function

  will seem ok... Let's hope more compilers think of too-few parameters as bad

  manners, as we're now trying the functions in that order; fewer first. I

  should also add that Lars Hecking mailed me and volunteered to run tests on

  a few odd systems. Coalan is keeping his work over at

  http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/gethostbyname_r/. Might be handy in the

  future as well.

Daniel (18 August 2000)

- I noticed I hadn't increased the name lookup buffer in lib/ftp.c. I don't

  think this is the reason for the continued trouble though.

Daniel (17 August 2000)

- Fred Noz corrected my stupid mistakes in the gethostbyname_r() fluff. It

  should affect some AIX, Digital Unix and HPUX 10 systems.

Daniel (15 August 2000)

- Mathieu Legare compiled and build 7.1 without errors on both AIX 4.2 as well

  screwed up!

Daniel (11 August 2000)

- Jason Priebe and an anynomous friend found some host names the Linux version

- Jason Priebe and an anonymous friend found some host names the Linux version

  of curl could not resolve. It turned out the buffer used to retrieve that

  information was too small. Fixed. One could argue about the usefulness of

  not having the slightest trace of a man page for gethostbyname_r() on my

  Linux Redhat installation...

Daniel (10 August 2000)

- Balaji S Rao missed the possibility of replacing the Content-Type: and

  Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added the possibility just now

- Balaji S Rao was first in line to note the missing possibility to replace

  the Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers when doing -d posts. I added

  the possibility just now. It seems some people wants to do standard posts

  using custom Content-Types.

Daniel (8 August 2000)

- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve URLs with no user

  name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.

- Mike Dowell correctly discovered that curl did not approve of URLs with no

  user name but password. As in 'http://:foo@haxx.se'. I corrected this.

Version 7.1

  README.curl document. Find out how to install Curl by reading the INSTALL

  document.

  libcurl is a link-library that Curl is using to do its job. It is readily

  libcurl is a library that Curl is using to do its job. It is readily

  available to be used by your software. Read the README.libcurl document to

  find out how!

        Sweden --  ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/

        Germany -- ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/network/curl/

        China --   http://www.pshowing.com/curl/

  To download the very latest source off the CVS server do this:

/* Define to empty if the keyword does not work.  */

#undef const

/* Define if you don't have vprintf but do have _doprnt.  */

#undef HAVE_DOPRNT

/* Define if you have the vprintf function.  */

#undef HAVE_VPRINTF

/* Define as the return type of signal handlers (int or void).  */

#undef RETSIGTYPE

dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.

AC_INIT(lib/urldata.h)

AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h src/config.h)

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(curl,"7.1")

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(curl,"7.1.1")

AM_PROG_LIBTOOL

dnl

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <netdb.h>],

            [

struct hostent *hp;

struct hostent h;

struct hostent_data hdata;

char *name;

char buffer[10];

int  h_errno;

hp = gethostbyname_r(name, &h, buffer, 10, &h_errno);],

            ac_cv_gethostbyname_args=5)

int  rc;

rc = gethostbyname_r(name, &h, &hdata);],

            ac_cv_gethostbyname_args=3)

    fi

    if test -z "$ac_cv_gethostbyname_args"; then

        AC_TRY_COMPILE(

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <netdb.h>],

            [

struct hostent *hp;

struct hostent h;

struct hostent_data hdata;

char *name;

int  rc;

rc = gethostbyname_r(name, &h, &hdata);],

            ac_cv_gethostbyname_args=3)

char buffer[10];

int  h_errno;

hp = gethostbyname_r(name, &h, buffer, 10, &h_errno);],

            ac_cv_gethostbyname_args=5)

    fi

    if test -z "$ac_cv_gethostbyname_args"; then

        AC_TRY_COMPILE(

TODO

For version 7. Stuff I palnned to have included in curl for version

seven. Let's do a serious attempt to include most of this. (I do keep a task

list over at the sourceforge.net project space, reachable from

curl.sourceforge.net, it might be more up-to-date than this.)

For the future

  Make sure the low-level interface works. highlevel.c should basically be

  possible to write using that interface.

 Ok, this is what I wanna do with Curl. Please tell me what you think, and

 please don't hesitate to contribute and send me patches that improve this

 product! (Yes, you may add things not mentioned here, these are just a

 few teasers...)

  Document the low-level interface

 * Make sure the low-level interface works. highlevel.c should basically be

   possible to write using that interface. Document the low-level interface

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

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

   fork() systems.

  Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl

 * Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl

   application to a separate "portability lib".

  Add support for other languages than C (not important)

 * Add support for other languages than C (not important)

  Improve the -K config file parser.

 * Improve the -K config file parser.

For the future

 Ok, this is what I wanna do with Curl. Please tell me what you think, and

 please don't hesitate to contribute and send me patches that improve this

 product! (Yes, you may add things not mentioned here, these are just a

 few teasers...)

 * rtsp:// support -- "Real Time Streaming Protocol"

   RFC 2326

 * rtsp:// support -- "Real Time Streaming Protocol" (RFC 2326)

 * "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib"

   RFC 2428 "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" will be interesting. PORT

   should be replaced with EPRT for IPv6, and EPSV instead of PASV.

 * An automatic RPM package maker

   Please, write me a script that makes it. It'd make my day.

 * SSL for more protocols, like SSL-FTP...

   (http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-05.txt)

 * Make curl capable of verifying the server's certificate when connecting

   with HTTPS://.

 * Kerberos-FTP