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From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:45:41 +0000
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+Daniel (28 December 1999):
+ - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl
+ doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a
+ problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines
+ that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of
+ the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just
+ translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with
+ the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names.
+
+Daniel (27 December 1999):
+ - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input
+ data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters
+ in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington.
+
+Daniel (13 December 1999):
+ - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges
+ added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was
+ both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions.
+
+Daniel (3 December 1999):
+ - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen...
+
+ - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as
+ well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is
+ only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course).
+
+Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999):
+ - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though!
+
+ - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in
+ different directories than the sources.
+
+Version 6.3.1
+
+Daniel (23 November 1999):
+ - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died
+ along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the
+ things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS
+ server!
+
+ - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling
+ that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It
+ was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly...
+
+ - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP
+ download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the
+ entire download was completed. It does now.
+
+Daniel (19 November 1999):
+ - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of
+ return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all
+ occurrences and corrected this.
+
+Daniel (17 November 1999):
+ - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option
+ doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have
+ any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard
+ when the timeout is reached.
+
+ - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason
+ why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version.
+
+ Daniel (12 November 1999):
+ - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave
+ a plain http header file as input...
+
+Version 6.3
+
+ Daniel (10 November 1999):
+ - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always
+ respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole
+ again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading
+ section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do
+ my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer
+ is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received).
+
+ - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page
+ to better describe how the -F works.
+
+ - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in
+ China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/
+
+ - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file
+
+ - I did add more explanations to the man page
+
+ Daniel (8 November 1999):
+ - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie
+ files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to
+ transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input.
+
+ Daniel (29 October 1999):
+ - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before
+ but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in
+ FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two
+ it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to
+ be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/
+ --range switch (previously HTTP-only).
+
+ - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be
+ able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid
+ idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in
+ this manner:
+ Content-Length: XXXX
+ As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more
+ info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also
+ makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the
+ file size the same way.
+
+ I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed
+ just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable
+ quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too.
+
+ - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in
+ the man page.
+
+ - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add
+ some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in
+ the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti.
+
+ - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl
+ man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay
+ reported and brought the suggestion.
+
+ - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came
+ up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the
+ internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header
+ that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely
+ obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than
+ the one curl would set.
+
+ Daniel (27 October 1999):
+ - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following
+ a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to
+ get the core.
+
+Version 6.2
+
+ Daniel (21 October 1999):
+ - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just
+ before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used.
+ - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without
+ having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again
+ when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the
+ URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system
+ such as curl has.)
+ - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6
+ with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c
+ that occurred after the download was done and completed.
+ - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter
+ to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with
+ the multiple URL support.
+ - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't
+ honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are
+ case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan
+ also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty
+ of editing slightly.
+ - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize
+ the Mac OS X
+ - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking
+ to fail on OS X.
+
+ Daniel (19 October 1999):
+ - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a
+ crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added
+ --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a
+ file or stdout.
+
+ Daniel (18 October 1999):
+ - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now
+ totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force
+ the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has
+ been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one.
+
+Version 6.1
+
+ Daniel (17 October 1999):
+ - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure
+ script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially
+ thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and
+ uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become
+ more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait
+ until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better
+ adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a
+ short a summary is suitable:
+ - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip
+ decompression methods.
+ - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor,
+ although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would
+ want it.
+ - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from
+ a file descriptor if that is a socket
+
+ Daniel (14 October 1999):
+ - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named
+ curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a
+ better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested.
+
+ Daniel (12 October 1999):
+ - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release
+ archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and
+ hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur.
+
+ Daniel (11 October 1999):
+ - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as
+ some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in
+ the man page.
+
+Version 6.1beta
+
+ Daniel (6 October 1999):
+ - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I
+ just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named
+ file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a
+ given file:
+
+ curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com
+
+ or let curl read it out from stdin:
+
+ curl -d @- www.postit.com
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999):
+ - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME
+ separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being
+ used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged".
+
+ Daniel
+ - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info.
+
+ Daniel (30 September 1999):
+ - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work
+ out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default
+ dirs.
+
+ Daniel (28 September 1999)
+ - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress
+ or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that
+ it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens
+ download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP
+ documents so that I can test this out properly.
+
+ - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string
+ a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too.
+
+ Daniel (17 September 1999)
+ - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead
+ of file name, the data will be read from stdin.
+
+Version 6.0
+
+ Daniel (13 September 1999)
+ - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent.
+ Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This
+ should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE.
+
+ - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles.
+
+ Daniel (10 September 1999)
+ - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP
+ servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It
+ took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as
+ OK.
+
+ - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do
+ turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all
+ cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I
+ doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet).
+
+ Daniel (8 September 1999)
+ - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32.
+
+ Daniel (7 September 1999)
+ - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by
+ Stefan Kanthak.
+
+ - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile.
+
+ Daniel (3 September 1999)
+ - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy.
+
+ Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999)
+ - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared
+ library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the
+ directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a
+ ldap:// URL.
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999)
+ - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files.
+ - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for
+ performance reasons.
+
+ Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999)
+ - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds.
+
+ Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999)
+ - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the
+ root dir of the openssl installation, as in
+
+ ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here
+
+ - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells.
+
+ Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999)
+ - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32
+ compiles.
+
+Version 5.11
+
+ Daniel (25 August 1999)
+ - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line
+ realloc() system in download.c.
+
+ - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It
+ probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it
+ as a start.
+
+ - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be
+ used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really
+ changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this
+ first.
+
+ Daniel (17 August 1999)
+ - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the
+ original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page
+ again.
+
+ - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of
+ them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should
+ not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas
+ E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this.
+
+ Daniel (16 August 1999)
+ - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location:
+ page. Nusu's page showed this too.
+
+ - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times
+ used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it
+ should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this
+ painfully visible...
+
+ Troy (15 August 1999)
+ - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the
+ configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include
+ files are in /usr/include/openssl
+
+Version 5.10
+
+ Daniel (13 August 1999)
+ - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of
+ OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of
+ modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get
+ a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had
+ to come up with a #if construction that deals with this...
+
+ - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4.
+
+ Troy (12 August 1999)
+ - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also
+ a bit rearranged.
+
+ Daniel (12 August 1999)
+ - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source
+ tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights
+ allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified.
+
+ - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when
+ -Wall -pedantic was used.
+
+ - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it
+ will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic.
+ The old one still works and shows the same info.
+
+ Daniel (11 August 1999)
+ - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the
+ configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users.
+
+ Daniel (10 August 1999)
+ - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as
+ some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under
+ HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate
+ yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new,
+ we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it
+ still compiles there.
+
+ Daniel (5 August 1999)
+ - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions
+ around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and
+ brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking
+ about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl.
+
+ To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe
+ <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to
+ libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl
+ talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've
+ started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at
+ www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/.
+
+ - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure
+ script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under
+ Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004!
+
+ - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present
+ in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly...
+
+ - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet
+ support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on
+ the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and
+ run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little
+ weird output.
+
+ This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your
+ feed-back and input in how this is best done.
+
+ WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current
+ lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time.
+
+ - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be
+ defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the
+ configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it.
+
+ Daniel (4 August 1999)
+ - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem,
+ which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp
+ servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made
+ some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do
+ hope you report if you have problems with this!
+
+ - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl.
+
+ Daniel (2 August 1999)
+ - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers
+ a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar.
+
+ T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999)
+ - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain
+ username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to
+ another location (option '-L').
+
+ There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which
+ tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line
+ argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since
+ CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it
+ checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to
+ redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd.
+
+Version 5.9.1
+
+ Daniel (30 July 1999)
+ - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata
+ functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to
+ correct this flaw.
+
+ - Mark Wotton reported:
+ 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by
+ correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL
+ 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I
+ don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that.
+
+ - Marcus Klein:
+ Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand.
+ I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten.
+
+ Daniel (29 July 1999)
+ - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location:
+ and I could only agree and fix it!
+
+ - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out
+ that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter
+ when supposed to.
+
+ - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If
+ you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a
+ standard port number, curl still used that first port number.
+
+ - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION
+ and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on
+ the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any
+ html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if
+ CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set.
+
+ - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph
+ Beckmann).
+
+ - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the
+ latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now
+ in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl
+ option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I
+ leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too.
+
+ Daniel (9 June 1999)
+ - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it!
+ I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now.
+
+ Daniel (4 June 1999)
+ - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better
+ with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied
+ something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro
+ and Mark Butler brought a solution for it.
+
+ Daniel (26 May 1999)
+ - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a
+ README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann.
+
+ - I also updated the INSTALL text.
+
+ Daniel (25 May 1999)
+ - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal
+ with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl
+ -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed.
+
+Version 5.9
+
+ Daniel (22 May 1999)
+ - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some
+ problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug
+ report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms
+ when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster
+ and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though...
+
+ Daniel (20 May 1999)
+ - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too.
+
+ Daniel (19 May 1999)
+ - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread()
+ function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel
+ helped me out isolating it.
+
+ Daniel (16 May 1999)
+ - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't
+ work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now.
+
+ - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl
+ to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was
+ used.
+
+ Daniel (10 May 1999)
+ - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source
+ files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them
+ layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the
+ future!
+
+ - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl
+ archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a
+ debian package that I've made available for download at the web page
+
+ Daniel (9 May 1999)
+ - Made it compile on cygwin too.
+
+ Troy Engel (7 May 1999)
+ - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6
+ again!
+
+ Daniel (6 May 1999)
+ - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it
+ will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus
+ can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined
+ too.
+
+Version 5.8
+
+ Daniel (5 May 1999)
+ - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright
+ for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have
+ there are problems all over.
+
+ I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last
+ week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at
+ hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this.
+
+ Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to
+ generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems
+ can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root
+ before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle
+ a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least!
+
+ Daniel (4 May 1999)
+ - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in
+ the regexes.
+
+ - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to.
+ I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a
+ curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as
+ in:
+
+ curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html
+
+ This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local.
+ I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out
+ there may depend on that the file is always touched...
+
+ - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection.
+
+ - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send
+ "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it
+ right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date
+ expression or a file name to get the date from!
+
+ Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999)
+ - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable
+ isn't set and causes the make to fail.
+
+ Daniel (26 April 1999)
+ - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version
+ number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug
+ in my maketgz script!
+
+ David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999)
+ - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times.
+
+Version 5.7.1
+
+ Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999)
+ - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned
+ below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h
+
+ - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the
+ INSTALL file.
+
+ Daniel
+ - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the
+ README file
+
+ Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999)
+ - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1.
+ It needs an #include <sys/types.h>
+
+Version 5.7
+
+ Daniel (Apr 20 1999)
+ - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now!
+
+ - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now
+ simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small!
+
+ - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a
+ start.
+
+ Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999)
+ - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout.
+
+Version 5.6.3beta
+
+ Daniel (Apr 12 1999)
+
+ - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing
+ in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should
+ try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone?
+
+ - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf!
+
+ - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as
+ much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it
+ should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you
+ talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the
+ start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to
+ use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really
+ want such a crippled solution.
+
+ - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the
+ "Curr.Speed" progress meter.
+
+ - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from
+ stdin.
+
+ - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it!
+
+ Daniel (Apr 9 1999)
+ - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at
+ all! ;-O
+
+ Daniel (Apr 6 1999)
+ - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version.
+
+ - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that
+ previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get
+ some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the
+ best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days!
+
+Version 5.6.2beta
+
+ Daniel (Apr 4 1999)
+ - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how
+ it works.
+ To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header-
+ format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the
+ -b flag like:
+
+ curl -b file http://site/foo.html
+
+ Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets
+ a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string
+ following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel".
+
+ To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which
+ sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e
+ to start with no existing cookies), like:
+
+ curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html
+
+ - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently
+ reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address.
+
+ - Better "Location:" following.
+
+ Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999)
+ - A subsecond display patch.
+
+ Daniel (Mar 14 1999)
+ - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make
+ things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from
+ 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one
+ set for libcurl.
+
+ - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted
+ that.
+
+ - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under
+ win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-)
+ Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in
+ INSTALL for details.
+
+ - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http
+ server while remaining connected.
+
+Version 5.6beta
+
+ Daniel (Mar 13 1999)
+ - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the
+ suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing
+ HTTP headers separately in the specified file.
+
+ - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now.
+
+ - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files
+ in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++...
+
+ Daniel (Mar 12 1999)
+ - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability
+ and smaller size.
+
+ Daniel (Mar 11 1999)
+ - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate
+ curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into
+ the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as
+ before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so.
+
+ libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to
+ the lib functions though.
+
+ The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information
+ about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-)
+
+
+ Daniel (Mar 1 1999)
+ - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the
+ info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the
+ README and the RFC in the RESOURCES.
+
+ Daniel (Feb 23 1999)
+ - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes
+ in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl...
+
+ Daniel (Feb 22 1999)
+ - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be
+ the most recent.
+
+ Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999)
+ - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an
+ RPM automatically...
+
+Version 5.5.1
+
+ Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected problems in Download().
+
+ Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999)
+ - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from
+ compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d.
+
+Version 5.5
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999)
+ - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999)
+ - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use
+ ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static-
+ buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls!
+
+ Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999)
+ - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).
+ It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better
+ formatted.
+
+ To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in
+ the RFC)
+
+ dict://dict.org/m:hello
+ dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex
+
+
+ Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999)
+ - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only.
+
+Version 5.4
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ (7 Jan 1999)
+ - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress
+ reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on
+ again. This is now corrected!
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If
+ you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file
+ upload.
+
+ I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used
+ that.
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it
+ now.
+
+ (4 Jan 1999)
+ - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It
+ should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes.
+
+ - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so
+ I redid that now.
+
+Version 5.3a (win32 only)
+
+ Troy Engel
+ - Corrected a win32 bug in the environment variable part.
+
+Version 5.3
+
+ Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (21 Dec 1998)
+ - I have implemented the "quote" function of FTP clients. It allows you to
+ send arbitrary commands to the remote FTP server. I chose the -Q/--quote
+ command-line arguments.
+
+ You can have more than one quoted string, and curl will apply them in
+ order. This is what I use for my MVS upload:
+
+ curl -B --crlf -Q "site lrecl=80" -Q "site blk=8000" -T file ftp://os390/test
+
+ Curl will send the two quoted "site" commands in the proper order.
+
+ - Made it compile smoothly on AIX.
+
+ Gilbert Ramirez Jr. (18 Dec 1998)
+ - Brought an MVS patch: -3/--mvs, for ftp upload to the MVS ftp server.
+
+ Troy Engel (17 Dec 1998)
+ - Brought a correction that fixes the win32 curl bug.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - A bug, pointed out to me by Dr H. T. Leung, caused curl to crash on the -A
+ flag on certain systems. Actually, all systems should've!
+
+ - Added a few defines to make directories/file names get build nicer (with _
+ instead of . and \ instead of / in win32).
+
+ - steve <fisk at polar.bowdoin.edu> reported a weird bug that occured if the
+ ftp server response line had a parenthesis on the line before the (size)
+ info. I hope it works better now!
+
+Version 5.2.1
+
+ Steven G. Johnson (Dec 14, 1998)
+ - Brought a fix that corrected a crash in 5.2 due to bad treatment of the
+ environment variables.
+
+Version 5.2
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Dec 14, 1998)
+ - Rewrote the mkhelp script and now, the mkhelp.pl script generates the
+ hugehelp.c file from the README *and* the man page file curl.1. By using
+ both files, I no longer need to have double information in both the man
+ page and the README as well. So, win32-users will only have the hugehelp.c
+ file for all info, but then, they download the plain binary most times
+ anyway.
+
+ - gcc2.8.1 with the -Wall flag complaints a lot on subscript has type `char'
+ if I don't explicitly typecast the argument to isdigit() or isspace() to
+ int. So I did to compile warning free with that too.
+
+ - Added checks for 'long double' and 'long long' in the configure script. I
+ need those for the mprintf.c source to compile well on non long long
+ comforming systems!
+
+Version 5.1 (not publicly released)
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Dec 10, 1998)
+ - I got a request for a pre-compiled NT Alpha version. Anyone?
+
+ - Added Lynx/CERN www lib proxy environment variable support. That means curl
+ now reads and understands the following environment variables:
+
+ HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY
+
+ They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be
+ set with
+
+ ALL_PROXY
+
+ And a comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any
+ proxy is set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts).
+
+ NO_PROXY
+
+ The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.
+
+ - Proxy can now be specified with a procotol:// prefix.
+
+ - Wrote the curl.1 man page.
+
+ - Introduced a whole new dynamic buffer system for all sprintf()s. It is
+ based on the *printf() package by yours truly and Bjorn Reese. Hopefully,
+ there aren't that many buffer overflow risks left now.
+
+ - Ah, I should mention I've compiled and built curl successfully under
+ solaris 2.6 with gcc now, gcc 2.7.2 won't work but 2.8.1 did ok.
+
+ Oren Tirosh (Dec 3, 1998)
+ - Brought two .spec files, to use when creating (Linux) Redhat style RPM
+ packages. They're named curl.spec and curl-ssl.spec.
+
+ Troy Engel
+ - Supplied the src/Makefile.vc6 for easy compiling with VC++ under Win32.
+
+Version 5.0
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Dec 1, 1998)
+ - Not a single bug report in ages.
+ - Corrected getpass.c and main.c to compile warning and error free with the
+ Win32 VC++ crap.
+
+Version 5.0 beta 24
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 20, 1998)
+
+ HOW TO BUILD A RELEASE ARCHIVE:
+
+ * Pre-requisite software:
+ What To build what Reads data from
+ ==== ============= ===============
+ GNU automake Makefile.in, aclocal.m4 configure.in
+ GNU make(1) - " -
+ GNU gcc(1) - " -
+ GNU autoconf configure configure.in
+ GNU autoheader(2) config.h.in configure.in, acconfig.h
+
+ * Make sure all files that should be part of the archive are put in FILES.
+
+ * Run './maketgz' and enter version number of the new to become archive.
+
+ maketgz does:
+
+ - Enters the newly created version number in url.h.
+ - (If you don't have automake, this script will warn about that, but unless
+ you have changed the Makefile.am files, that is nothing to care about.)
+ If you have it, it'll run it.
+ - If you have autoconf, the configure.in will be edited to get the newly
+ created version number and autoconf will be run.
+ - Creates a new directory named curl-<version>. (Actually, it uses the base
+ name of the current directory up to the first '-'.)
+ - Copies all files mentioned in FILES to the new directory. Saving
+ permissions and directory structure.
+ - Uses tar to create an archive of it all, named curl-<version>.tar.gz
+ - gzips the archive
+ - Removes the new directory and all its contents.
+
+ * When done, you have an archive stored in your directory named
+ curl-<version>.tar.gz.
+
+ Done!
+
+ (1) They're required to make automake run properly.
+ (2) It is distributed as a part of the GNU autoconf archive.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 18, 1998)
+ - I changed the TAG-system. If you ever used urlget() from this package in
+ another product, you need to recompile with the new headers. I did this
+ new stuff to better deal with different compilers and system with different
+ variable sizes. I think it makes it a little more portable. This proves
+ to compile warning free with the problematic IRIX compiler!
+ - Win32 compiled with a silly error. Corrected now.
+ - Brian Chaplin reported yet another problem in
+ multiline FTP responses. I've tried to correct it. I mailed him a new
+ version and I hope he gets back soon with positive feedback!
+ - Improved the 'maketgz' to create a temporary directory tree which it makes
+ an archive from instead of the previous renaming of the current one.
+ - Mailing list opened (see README).
+ - Made -v more verbose on the PASV section of ftp transfers. Now it tells
+ host name and IP of the new host (and port number). I also added a section
+ about PORT vs PASV in the README.
+
+Version 5.0 beta 21
+
+ Angus Mackay (Nov 15, 1998)
+ - Introduced automake stuff.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 13, 1998)
+ - Just made a successful GET of a document from an SSL-server using my own
+ private certificate for authentication! The certificate has to be in PEM
+ format. You do that the easiest way (although not *that* easy) by
+ downloading the SSLyeay PKCS#12-patch by Dr Stephen N. Henson from his site
+ at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/. Using his tool, you can
+ convert any modern Netscape or (even) MSIE certificate to PEM-format. Use
+ it with 'curl -E <certificate:password> https://site.com'. If this isn't a
+ cool feature, then I don't know what cool features look like! ;-)
+ - Working slowly on telnet connections. #define TRY_TELNET to try it out.
+ (curl -u user:passwd "telnet://host.com/cat .login" is one example) I do
+ have problem to define how it should work. The prime purpose for this must
+ be to get (8bit clean) files via telnet, and it really isn't that easy to
+ get files this way. Still having problems with \n being converted to \r\n.
+
+ Angus Mackay (Nov 12, 1998)
+ - Corrected another bug in the long parameter name parser.
+ - Modified getpass.c (NOTE: see the special licensing in the top of that
+ source file).
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 12, 1998)
+ - We may have removed the silly warnings from url.c when compiled under IRIX.
+ Thanks again to Bjorn Reese and Martin Staael.
+ - Wrote formfind.pl which is a new perl script intended to help you find out
+ how a FORM submission should be done. This needs a little more work to get
+ really good.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 11, 1998)
+ - Made the HTTP header-checker accept white spaces before the HTTP/1.? line.
+ Appearantly some proxies/sites add such at times (my test proxy did when I
+ downloaded a gopher page with it)!
+ - Moved the former -h to -M and made -h show the short help text instead. I
+ had to enable a forced help text option. Now an even shorter help text will
+ be presented when an unknown option and similar, is used.
+ - stdcheaders.h didn't work with IRIX 6.4 native cc compiler. I hope my
+ changes don't make other versions go nuts instead.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 10, 1998)
+ - Added a weird check in the configure script to check for the silly AIX
+ warnings about my #define strcasecmp() stuff. I do that define to prevent
+ me and other contributors to accidentaly use that function name instead
+ of strequal()...
+ - I bugfixed Angus's getpass.c very little.
+ - Fixed the verbose flag names to getopt-style, i.e 'curl --loc' will be
+ sufficient instead of --location as "loc" is a unique prefix. Also, anything
+ after a '--' is treated as an URL. So if you do have a host with a weeeird
+ name you can do 'curl -- -host.com'.
+ - Another getopt-adjust; curl now accepts flags after the URL on the command
+ line. 'curl www.foo.com -O' is perfectly valid.
+ - Corrected the .curlrc parser so that strtok() is no longer used and I
+ believe it works better. Even URLs can be specified in it now.
+
+ Angus Mackay (Nov 9, 1998)
+ - Replaced getpass.c with a newly written one, not under GPL license
+ - Changed OS to a #define in config.h instead of compiler flag
+ - Makefile now uses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 9, 1998)
+ - Ok, I expanded the tgz-target to update the version string on each occation
+ I build a release archive!
+ - I reacted on Angus Mackay's initiative and remade the parameter parser to
+ be more getopt compliant. Curl now supports "merged" flags as in
+ curl -lsv ftp.site.com
+ Do note that I had to move three short-names of the options. Parameters
+ that needs an additional string such as -x must be stand-alone or the
+ last in a merged sequence:
+ curl -lsx my-proxy ftp.site.com
+ is ok, but using the flags in a different order like '-lxs' would cause
+ unexpected results (as the 's' option would be skipped).
+ - I've changed the headers in all files that are subject to the MozPL
+ license, as they are supposed to look like when conforming.
+ - Made the configure script make the config.h. The former config.h is now
+ setup.h.
+ - The RESOURCES and TODO files have been added to the archive.
+
+ Angus Mackay (Nov 5, 1998)
+ - Fixed getpass.c and various configure stuff
+
+ Daniel Stenberg (Nov 3, 1998)
+ - Use -H/--header for custom HTTP-headers. Lets you pass on your own
+ specified headers to the remote server. I wouldn't recommend trying to use
+ a header with a defined usage according to standards. Use this flag once
+ for every custom header you want to add.
+ - Use -B/--ftp-ascii to force ftp to use ASCII mode when transfering files.
+ - Corrected the 'getlinks.pl' script, I accidentally left my silly proxy
+ usage in there! Since the introduction of the .curlrc file, it is easier to
+ write scripts that use curl since proxies and stuff should be in the
+ .curlrc file anyway.
+ - Introducing the new -F flag for HTTP POST. It supports multipart/form-data
+ which means it is gonna be possible to upload files etc through HTTP POST.
+ Shiraz Kanga asked for the feature and my brother,
+ Björn Stenberg helped me design the user
+ interface for this beast. This feature requires quite some docs,
+ since it has turned out not only quite capable, but also complicated! :-)
+ - A note here, since I've received mail about it. SSLeay versions prior to
+ 0.8 will *not* work with curl!
+ - Wil Langford reported a bug that occurred since curl
+ did not properly use CRLF when issuing ftp commands. I fixed it.
+ - Rearranged the order config files are read. .curlrc is now *always* read
+ first and before the command line flags. -K config files then act as
+ additional config items.
+ - Use -q AS THE FIRST OPTION specified to prevent .curlrc from being read.
+ - You can now disable a proxy by using -x "". Useful if the .curlrc file
+ specifies a proxy and you wanna fetch something without going through
+ that.
+ - I'm thinking of dropping the -p support. Its really not useful since ports
+ could (and should?) be specified as :<port> appended on the host name
+ instead, both in URLs and to proxy host names.
+ - Martin Staael reports curl -L bugs under Windows NT
+ (test with URL http://come.to/scsde). This bug is not present in this
+ version anymore.
+ - Added support for the weird FTP URL type= thing. You can download a file
+ using ASCII transfer by appending ";type=A" to the right of it. Other
+ available types are type=D for dir-list (NLST) and type=I for binary
+ transfer. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use this kind of URL though!
+ :-)
+ - Troy Engel pointed out a bug in my getenv("HOME")
+ usage for win32 systems. I introduce getenv.c to better cope with
+ this. Mr Engel helps me with the details around that...
+ - A little note to myself and others, I should make the win32-binary built
+ with SSL support...
+ - Ryan Nelson sent me comments about building curl
+ with SSL under FreeBSD. See the Makefile for details. Using the configure
+ script, it should work better and automatically now...
+ - Cleaned up in the port number mess in the source. No longer stores and uses
+ proxy port number separate from normal port number.
+ - 'configure' script working. Confirmed compiles on:
+ Host SSL Compiler
+ SunOS 5.5 no gcc
+ SunOS 5.5.1 yes gcc
+ SunOS 5.6 no cc (with gcc, it has the "gcc include files" problem)
+ SunOS 4.1.3 no gcc (without ANSI C headers)
+ SunOS 4.1.2 no gcc (native compiler failed)
+ Linux 2.0.18 no gcc
+ Linux 2.0.32 yes gcc
+ Linux 2.0.35 no gcc (with glibc)
+ IRIX 6.2 no gcc (cc compiles generate a few warnings)
+ IRIX 6.4 no cc (generated warnings though)
+ Win32 no Borland
+ OSF4.0 no ?
+
+ - Ooops. The 5beta (and 4.10) under win32 failed if the HOME variable wasn't
+ set.
+ - When using a proxy, curl now guesses and uses the protocol part in cases
+ like:
+ curl -x proxy:80 www.site.com
+ Proxies normally go nuts unless http:// is prepended to the host name, so
+ if curl is used like this, it guesses protocol and appends the protocol
+ string before passing it to the proxy. It already did this when used
+ without proxy.
+ - Better port usage with SSL through proxy now. If you specified a different
+ https-port when accessing through a proxy, it didn't use that number
+ correctly. I also rewrote the code that parses the stuff read from the
+ proxy when you wanna connect through it with SSL.
+ - Bjorn Reese helped me work around one of the compiler
+ warnings on IRIX native cc compiles.
+
+Version 4.10 (Oct 26, 1998)
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - John A. Bristor suggested a config file switch,
+ and since I've been having that idea kind of in the background for a long
+ time I rewrote the parameter parsing function a little and now I introduce
+ the -K/--config flag. I also made curl *always* (unless -K is used) try to
+ load the .curlrc file for command line parameters. The syntax for the
+ config file is the standard command line argument style. Details in 'curl
+ -h' or the README.
+ - I removed the -k option. Keep-alive isn't really anything anyone would
+ want to enable with curl anyway.
+ - Martin Staael helped me add the 'irix' target. Now
+ "make irix" should build curl successfully on non-gcc SGI machines.
+ - Single switches now toggle behaviours. I.e if you use -v -v the second
+ will switch off the verbose mode the first one enabled. This is so that
+ you can disable a default setting a .curlrc file enables etc.
+
+Version 4.9 (Oct 7, 1998)
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Martin Staael suggested curl would support cookies.
+ I added -b/--cookie to enable free-text cookie data to be passed. There's
+ also a little blurb about general cookie stuff in the README/help text.
+ - dmh <dmh at jet.es> suggested HTTP resume capabilities. Although you could
+ manually get curl to resume HTTP documents, I made the -c resume flag work
+ for HTTP too (unless -r is used too, which would be very odd anyway).
+ - Added checklinks.pl to the archive. It is a still experimental perl script
+ that checks all links of a web page by using curl.
+ - Rearranged the archive hierarchy a little. Build the executable in the
+ src/ dir from now on!
+ - Version 4.9 and hereafter, is no longer released under the GPL license.
+ I have now updated the LEGAL file etc and now this is released using the
+ Mozilla Public License to avoid the plague known as "the GPL virus". You
+ must make the source available if you decide to change and/or redistribute
+ curl, but if you decide to use curl within something else you do not need
+ to offer the world the source to that too.
+ - Curl did not like HTTP servers that sent no headers at all on a GET
+ request. It is a violation of RFC2068 but appearantly some servers do
+ that anyway. Thanks to Gordon Beaton for the report!
+ - -L/--location was added after a suggestion from Martin Staael. This makes
+ curl ATTEMPT to follow the Location: redirect if one is present in the HTTP
+ headers. If -i or -I is used with this flag, you will see headers from all
+ sites the Location: points to. Do note that the first server can point to a
+ second that points to a third etc. It seems the Location: parameter (said
+ to be an AbsoluteURI in RFC2068) isn't always absolute.. :-/ Anyway, I've
+ made curl ATTEMPT to do the best it can to deal with the reality.
+ - Added getlinks.pl to the archive. getlinks.pl selectively downloads
+ files that a web page links to.
+
+Version 4.8.4
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - As Julian Romero Nieto reported, curl reported wrong version number.
+ - As Teemu Yli-Elsila pointed out, the win32 version of 4.8 (and probably all
+ other versions for win32) didn't work with binary files since I'm too used
+ to the UNIX style fopen() where binary and text don't differ...
+ - Ralph Beckmann brought me some changes that lets curl compile error and
+ warning free with -Wall -pedantic with g++. I also took the opportunity to
+ clean off some unused variables and similar.
+ - Ralph Beckmann made me aware of a really odd bug now corrected. When curl
+ read a set of headers from a HTTP server, divided into more than one read
+ and the first read showed a full line *exactly* (i.e ending with a
+ newline), curl did not behave well.
+
+Version 4.8.3
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - I was too quick to release 4.8.2 with too little testing. One of the
+ changes is now reverted slightly to the 4.8.1 way since 4.8.2 couldn't
+ upload files. I still think both problems corrected in 4.8.2 remain
+ corrected. Reported by Julian Romero Nieto.
+
+Version 4.8.2
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Bernhard Iselborn reported two FTP protocol errors curl did. They're now
+ corrected. Both appeared when getting files from a MS FTP server! :-)
+
+Version 4.8.1
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Added a last update of the progress meter when the transfer is done. The
+ final output on the screen didn't have to be the final size transfered
+ which made it sometimes look odd.
+ - Thanks to David Long I got rid of a silly bug that happened if a HTTP-page
+ had nothing but header. Appearantly Solaris deals with negative sizes in
+ fwrite() calls a lot better than Linux does... =B-]
+
+Version 4.8
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Continue FTP file transfer. -c is the switch. Note that you need to
+ specify a file name if you wanna resume a download (you can't resume a
+ download sent to stdout). Resuming upload may be limited by the server
+ since curl is then using the non-RFC959 command SIZE to get the size of
+ the target file before upload begins (to figure out which offset to
+ use). Use -C to specify the offset yourself! -C is handy if you're doing
+ the output to something else but a plain file or when you just want to get
+ the end of a file.
+ - recursiveftpget.pl now features a maximum recursive level argument.
+
+Version 4.7
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Added support to abort a download if the speed is below a certain amount
+ (speed-limit) bytes per second for a certain (speed-time) time.
+ - Wrote a perl script 'recursiveftpget.pl' to recursively use curl to get a
+ whole ftp directory tree. It is meant as an example of how curl can be
+ used. I agree it isn't the wisest thing to do to make a separate new
+ connection for each file and directory for this.
+
+Version 4.6
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user
+ and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is
+ the new switch.
+ - Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string.
+ - Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the
+ verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it.
+ - Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name
+ resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first
+ sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen reported.
+ - Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-)
+ - Added bug report email address in the README.
+ - Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average
+ speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of
+ the entire transfer so far.
+
+Version 4.5.1
+ Linas Vepstas
+ - SSL through proxy fix
+ - Added -A to allow User-Agent: changes
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Made the -A work when SSL-through-proxy.
+
+Version 4.5
+ Linas Vepstas
+ - More SSL corrections
+ - I've added a port to AIX.
+ - running SSL through a proxy causes a chunk of code to be executred twice.
+ one of those blocks needs to be deleted.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Made -i and -I work again
+
+Version 4.4
+ Linas Vepstas
+ - -x can now also specify proxyport when used as in 'proxyhost:proxyport'
+ - SSL fixes
+
+Version 4.3
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Adjusted to compile under win32 (VisualC++ 5). The -P switch does not
+ support network interface names in win32. I couldn't figure out how!
+
+Version 4.2
+ Linas Vepstas / Sampo Kellomaki
+ - Added SSL / SSLeay support (https://)
+ - Added the -T usage for HTTP POST.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Bugfixed the SSL implementation.
+ - Made -P a lot better to use other IP addresses. It now accepts a following
+ parameter that can be either
+ interface - i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you
+ want to use
+ IP address - i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number
+ host name - i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
+ "-" - (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's
+ default
+ - The Makefile is now ready to compile for solaris, sunos4 and linux right
+ out of the box.
+ - Better generated version string seen with 'curl -V'
+
+Version 4.1
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - The IP number returned by the ftp server as a reply to PASV does no longer
+ have to DNS resolve. In fact, no IP-number-only addresses have to anymore.
+ - Binds better to available port when -P is used.
+ - Now LISTs ./ instead of / when used as in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. The reason
+ for this is that exactly that site, ftp.funet.fi, does not allow LIST /
+ while LIST ./ is fine. Any objections?
+
+Version 4 (1998-03-20)
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - I took another huge step and changed both version number and project name!
+ The reason for the new name is that there are just one too many programs
+ named urlget already and this program already can a lot more than merely
+ getting URLs, and the reason for the version number is that I did add the
+ pretty big change in -P and since I changed name I wanted to start with
+ something fresh!
+ - The --style flags are working better now.
+ - Listing directories with FTP often reported that the file transfer was
+ incomplete. Wrong assumptions were too common for directories, why no
+ size will be attempted to get compared on them from now on.
+ - Implemented the -P flag that let's the ftp control issue a PORT command
+ instead of the standard PASV.
+ - -a for appending FTP uploads works.
+
+***************************************************************************
+
+Version 3.12 (14 March 1998)
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - End-of-header tracking still lacked support for \r\n or just \n at the
+ end of the last header line.
+ Sergio Barresi
+ - Added PROXY authentication.
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - Fixed some little bugs.
+
+Version 3.11
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - The header parsing was still not correct since the 3.2 modification...
+
+Version 3.10
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - 3.7 and 3.9 were simultaneously developed and merged into this version.
+ - FTP upload did not work correctly since 3.2.
+
+Version 3.9
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - Added the "-e <url> / --referer <url>" option where we can specify
+ the referer page. Obviously, this is necessary only to fool the
+ server, but...
+
+Version 3.7
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Now checks the last error code sent from the ftp server after a file has
+ been received or uploaded. Wasn't done previously.
+ - When 'urlget <host>' is used without a 'protocol://' first in the host part,
+ it now checks for host names starting with ftp or gopher and if it does,
+ it uses that protocol by default instead of http.
+
+Version 3.6
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Silly mistake made the POST bug. This has now also been tested to work with
+ proxy.
+
+Version 3.5
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Highly inspired by Rafael Sagula's changes to the 3.1 that added an almost
+ functional POST, I applied his changes into this version and made them work.
+ (It seems POST requires the Content-Type and Content-Length headers.) It is
+ now usable with the -d switch.
+
+Version 3.3 - 3.4
+ Passed to avoid confusions
+
+Version 3.2
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Major rewrite of two crucial parts of this code: upload and download.
+ They are both now using a select() switch, that allows much better
+ progress meter and time control.
+ - alarm() usage removed completely
+ - FTP get can now list directory contents if the path ends with a slash '/'.
+ Urlget on a ftp-path that doesn't end with a slash means urlget will
+ attempt getting it as a file name.
+ - FTP directory view supports -l for "list-only" which lists the file names
+ only.
+ - All operations support -m for max time usage in seconds allowed.
+ - FTP upload now allows the size of the uploaded file to be provided, and
+ thus it can better check it actually uploaded the whole file. It also
+ makes the progress meter for uploads much better!
+ - Made the parameter parsing fail in cases like 'urlget -r 900' which
+ previously tried to connect to the host named '900'.
+
+Version 3.1
+ Kjell Ericson
+ - Pointed out how to correct the 3 warnings in win32-compiles.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Removed all calls to exit().
+ - Made the short help text get written to stdout instead of stderr.
+ - Made this file instead of keeping these comments in the source.
+ - Made two callback hooks, that enable external programs to use urlget()
+ easier and to grab the output/offer the input easier.
+ - It is evident that Win32-compiles are painful. I watched the output from
+ the Borland C++ v5 and it was awful. Just ignore all those warnings.
+
+Version 3.0
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Added FTP upload capabilities. The name urlget gets a bit silly now
+ when we can put too... =)
+ - Restructured the source quite a lot.
+ Changed the urlget() interface. This way, we will survive changes much
+ better. New features can come and old can be removed without us needing
+ to change the interface. I've written a small explanation in urlget.h
+ that explains it.
+ - New flags include -t, -T, -O and -h. The -h text is generated by the new
+ mkhelp script.
+
+Version 2.9
+ Remco van Hooff
+ - Added a fix to make it compile smoothly on Amiga using the SAS/C
+ compiler.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Believe it or not, but the STUPID Novell web server seems to require
+ that the Host: keyword is used, so well I use it and I (re-introduce) the
+ urlget User-Agent:. I still have to check that this Host: usage works with
+ proxies... 'Host:' is required for HTTP/1.1 GET according to RFC2068.
+
+Version 2.8
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - some little modifications
+
+Version 2.7
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Removed the -l option and introduced the -f option instead. Now I'll
+ rewrite the former -l kludge in an external script that'll use urlget to
+ fetch multipart files like that.
+ - '-f' is introduced, it means Fail without output in case of HTTP server
+ errors (return code >=300).
+ - Added support for -r, ranges. Specify which part of a document you
+ want, and only that part is returned. Only with HTTP/1.1-servers.
+ - Split up the source in 3 parts. Now all pure URL functions are in
+ urlget.c and stuff that deals with the stand-alone program is in main.c.
+ - I took a few minutes and wrote an embryo of a README file to explain
+ a few things.
+
+Version 2.6
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Made the -l (loop) thing use the new CONF_FAILONERROR which makes
+ urlget() return error code if non-successful. It also won't output anything
+ then. Now finally removed the HTTP 1.0 and error 404 dependencies.
+ - Added -I which uses the HEAD request to get the header only from a
+ http-server.
+
+Version 2.5
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - Made the progress meter use HHH:MM:SS instead of only seconds.
+
+Version 2.4
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and
+ mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from
+ really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the
+ download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which
+ makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty,
+ the progress meter is shut off.
+ - Increased buffer size used for reading.
+ - Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing.
+ - Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64
+ encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in
+ RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one. To get a
+ http document from a place that requires user and password, use an URL
+ like:
+
+ http://user:passwd@www.site.to.leach/doc.html
+
+ I also added the -u flag, since WHEN USING A PROXY YOU CAN'T SPECIFY THE
+ USER AND PASSWORD WITH HTTP LIKE THAT. The -u flag works for ftp too, but
+ not if used with proxy. To do the same as the above one, you can invoke:
+
+ urlget -u user:passwd http://www.site.to.leach/doc.html
+
+Version 2.3
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - Added "-o" option (output file)
+ - Added URG_HTTP_NOT_FOUND return code.
+ (Daniel's note:)
+ Perhaps we should detect all kinds of errors and instead of writing that
+ custom string for the particular 404-error, use the error text we actually
+ get from the server. See further details in RFC2068 (HTTP 1.1
+ definition). The current way also relies on a HTTP/1.0 reply, which newer
+ servers might not do.
+ - Looping mode ("-l" option). It's easier to get various split files.
+ (Daniel's note:)
+ Use it like 'urlget -l 1 http://from.this.site/file%d.html', which will
+ make urlget to attempt to fetch all files named file1.html, file2.html etc
+ until no more files are found. This is only a modification of the
+ STAND_ALONE part, nothing in the urlget() function was modfified for this.
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Changed the -h to be -i instead. -h should be preserved to help use.
+ - Bjorn Reese indicated that Borland _might_ use '_WIN32' instead of the
+ VC++ WIN32 define and therefore I added a little fix for that.
+
+Version 2.2
+ Johan Andersson
+ - The urlget function didn't set the path to url when using proxy.
+ - Fixed bug with IMC proxy. Now using (almost) complete GET command.
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Made it compile on Solaris. Had to reorganize the includes a bit.
+ (so Win32, Linux, SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 compile fine.)
+ - Made Johan's keepalive keyword optional with the -k flag (since it
+ makes a lot of urlgets take a lot longer time).
+ - Made a '-h' switch in case you want the HTTP-header in the output.
+
+Version 2.1
+ Daniel Stenberg and Kjell Ericson
+ - Win32-compilable
+ - No more global variables
+ - Mute option (no output at all to stderr)
+ - Full range of return codes from urlget(), which is now written to be a
+ function for easy-to-use in [other] programs.
+ - Define STAND_ALONE to compile the stand alone urlget program
+ - Now compiles with gcc options -ansi -Wall -pedantic ;)
+
+Version 2.0
+ - Introducing ftp GET support. The FTP URL type is recognized and used.
+ - Renamed the project to 'urlget'.
+ - Supports the user+passwd in the FTP URL (otherwise it tries anonymous
+ login with a weird email address as password).
+
+Version 1.5
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - The skip_header() crap messed it up big-time. By simply removing that
+ one we can all of a sudden download anything ;)
+ - No longer requires a trailing slash on the URLs.
+ - If the given URL isn't prefixed with 'http://', HTTP is assumed and
+ given a try!
+ - 'void main()' is history.
+
+Version 1.4
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - The gopher source used the ppath variable instead of path which could
+ lead to disaster.
+
+Version 1.3
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Well, I added a lame text about the time it took to get the data. I also
+ fought against Johan to prevent his -f option (to specify a file name
+ that should be written instead of stdout)! =)
+ - Made it write 'connection refused' for that particular connect()
+ problem.
+ - Renumbered the version. Let's not make silly 1.0.X versions, this is
+ a plain 1.3 instead.
+
+Version 1.2
+ Johan Andersson
+ - Discovered and fixed the problem with getting binary files. puts() is
+ now replaced with fwrite(). (Daniel's note: this also fixed the buffer
+ overwrite problem I found in the previous version.)
+
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - Let "-p" before "-x".
+
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Bugfixed the proxy usage. It should *NOT* use nor strip the port number
+ from the URL but simply pass that information to the proxy. This also
+ made the user/password fields possible to use in proxy [ftp-] URLs.
+ (like in ftp://user:password@ftp.my.site:8021/README)
+
+ Johan Andersson
+ - Implemented HTTP proxy support.
+ - Receive byte counter added.
+
+ Bjorn Reese
+ - Implemented URLs (and skipped the old syntax).
+ - Output is written to stdout, so to achieve the above example, do:
+ httpget http://143.54.10.6/info_logo.gif > test.gif
+
+Version 1.1
+ Daniel Stenberg
+ - Adjusted it slightly to accept named hosts on the command line. We
+ wouldn't wanna use IP numbers for the rest of our lifes, would we?
+
+Version 1.0
+ Rafael Sagula
+ - Wrote the initial httpget, which started all this!
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