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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ TODO
  * Introduce an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to
    know what cookies that are received. Pushing interface that calls a
    callback on each received cookie? Querying interface that asks about
-   existing cookies? We probably need both.
+   existing cookies? We probably need both. Enable applications to modify
+   existing cookies as well.
 
  * Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system.
 
@@ -23,13 +24,6 @@ TODO
    less copy of data and thus a faster operation.
    [http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt]
 
- * Run-time querying about library characterics. What protocols do this
-   running libcurl support? What is the version number of the running libcurl
-   (returning the well-defined version-#define). This could possibly be made
-   by allowing curl_easy_getinfo() work with a NULL pointer for global info,
-   but perhaps better would be to introduce a new curl_getinfo() (or similar)
-   function for global info reading.
-
  * Add asynchronous name resolving (http://daniel.haxx.se/resolver/). This
    should be made to work on most of the supported platforms, or otherwise it
    isn't really interesting.
@@ -51,12 +45,9 @@ TODO
    >4GB all over. Bug reports (and source reviews) indicate that it doesn't
    currently work properly.
 
- * Make the built-in progress meter use its own dedicated output stream, and
-   make it possible to set it. Use stderr by default.
-
  * CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE. Prevent downloads that are larger than the specified
    size. CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED would then be returned. Gautam Mani
-   requested. That is, the download should even begin but be aborted
+   requested. That is, the download should not even begin but be aborted
    immediately.
 
  * Allow the http_proxy (and other) environment variables to contain user and
@@ -66,8 +57,7 @@ TODO
  LIBCURL - multi interface
 
  * Make sure we don't ever loop because of non-blocking sockets return
-   EWOULDBLOCK or similar. This concerns the HTTP request sending (and
-   especially regular HTTP POST), the FTP command sending etc.
+   EWOULDBLOCK or similar. This FTP command sending etc.
 
  * Make uploads treated better. We need a way to tell libcurl we have data to
    write, as the current system expects us to upload data each time the socket
@@ -86,6 +76,9 @@ TODO
    receiver will convert the data from the standard form to his own internal
    form."
 
+ * Since USERPWD always override the user and password specified in URLs, we
+   might need another way to specify user+password for anonymous ftp logins.
+
  * An option to only download remote FTP files if they're newer than the local
    one is a good idea, and it would fit right into the same syntax as the
    already working http dito works. It of course requires that 'MDTM' works,
@@ -103,12 +96,6 @@ TODO
    also prevents the authentication info from getting sent when following
    locations to legitimate other host names.
 
- * "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib" HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get
-   and decode compressed documents. There is the zlib that is pretty good at
-   decompressing stuff. This work was started in October 1999 but halted again
-   since it proved more work than we thought. It is still a good idea to
-   implement though. This requires the filter system mentioned above.
-
  * Authentication: NTLM. Support for that MS crap called NTLM
    authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that
    protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network