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                               History of Changes

Version 7.9.1-pre7

Daniel (31 October 2001)

- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost they're subsecond accuracy

  as the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported.

- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I

  had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used

  connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection

  and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the

  SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those

  cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead.

- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets

  in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to

  send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those

  situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and

  added checks for what they actually return.

Version 7.9.1-pre6

Daniel (31 October 2001)

- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be

  more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then

  a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this

  problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider

  said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without

  actually trying an operation.

Daniel (30 October 2001)

- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL

  pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]

- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description

  in the curl.1 man page.

Daniel (29 October 2001)

- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file

  and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function.

- Andrés García found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function,

  that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26].

- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the

  packages/Win32/cygwin directory.

- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP

  server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one

  connection.

  connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167]

- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect

  code. This might be the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5

  release...

  code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release

  (test 19)...

  [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14]

Daniel (26 October 2001)

- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the

- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the

  tests.

- We had to remote 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin

- We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin

  adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard

  out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and

  cygwin?