added the --no-keep-alive option that can disable that on demand.

values and what they mean

script(s) on it online

is no current timeout. It does not mean wait forever and it does not mean
do not wait at all. It means there is no timeout value known at this point in
time.

the appending of the "type=" thing on FTP URLs when they are passed to a
HTTP proxy. Some proxies just don't like that appending (which is done
unconditionally in 7.17.1), and some proxies treat binary/ascii transfers
better with the appending done!

and documentation.

data sent in a post.

the lib was built staticly.

and if () so the rule is from now on => no space before the parenthesis.

Don't confuse NUL with NULL.

CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS option added for dynamic.
Fix some OS400 features.

My understanding is that we use "number" for discrete variables and
"amount" for continuous variables.

So you can say "The amount of flour required depends on..." or, "Last
night I consumed a large amount of beer!".

And, "That tank contains a large number of fish" or, "Over the week I
consumed a number of cases of beer."

I think that features are discrete, so the man page would read "...the
number of features will make your head spin!".

behavior, it only changes the actual request method keyword and this is not
always what the user/app wants.

man page.

a response that was larger than 16KB is now improved slightly so that now
the restriction at 16KB is for the headers only and it should be a rare
situation where the response-headers exceed 16KB. Thus, I consider #47 fixed
and the header limitation is now known as known bug #48.

CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION

string: "FLUSH". Using that will cause libcurl to flush its cookies to the
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR file.