mucho stuff since pre6!

                               History of Changes

Daniel (28 November 2001)

- Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appear

  only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for

  gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the

  hostent struct must be blanked before use? I hope Dimitris will found out

  and tell us.

- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl

  from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela

  pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must

  be able to shut if off to work everywhere.

- I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to

  receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at

  least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t...

- Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence.

- FTP command sequence changes:

  EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6

  passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works

  fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it.

  SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual

  download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important

  to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size

  in there.

  Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server

  code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted!

Daniel (27 November 2001)

- Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin

  as it is supposed to do!

Version 7.9.2-pre6

Daniel (27 November 2001)

- Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied.

- greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release

  archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but

  I think it may come useful to people.

- There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should

  be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in

  lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with.

- Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers,

  and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat.

Version 7.9.2-pre5

Daniel (22 November 2001)

- Andrés García helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537,

  which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to

  archives).

- Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS

  (non-X). He'll get back with more updated patches soon.

  (non-X).

- Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the

  shared OpenSSL DLLs.