both now provide the number of running handles back to the calling function.

set a private pointer added to the internal libcurl hash table for the
particular socket passed in to this function.

tool option named --ftp-alternative-to-user. It provides a mean to send a
particular command if the normal USER/PASS approach fails.

Prevent definition of HAVE_WINxxx_H symbols and avoid inclusion of Windows headers when compiled with Cygwin in POSIX emulation mode.

(serialise) a previously built formpost (as with curl_formadd()).

CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE that limit tha maximum rate libcurl is allowed
to send or receive data. This kind of adds the the command line tool's
option --limit-rate to the library.

The rate limiting logic in the curl app is now removed and is instead
provided by libcurl itself. Transfer rate limiting will now also work for -d
and -F, which it didn't before.

-fvisibility=hidden on gcc >= 4.0.  This reduces the size of the libcurl
binary and speeds up dynamic linking by hiding all the internal symbols from
the symbol table.

to allow/support character conversions

if any use of such a function slip through

an app can use to let libcurl only connect to a remote host and then extract
the socket from libcurl. libcurl will then not attempt to do any transfer at
all after the connect is done.

curl tool with --local-port. Plain and simply set the range of ports to bind
the local end of connections to. Implemented on to popular demand.

Not extensively tested. Please let me know how it works.

Modified the callback proto used for it.

interface and the change could break the compilation of thrid
party apps which link against this library.

windows.h winsock.h winsock2.h ws2tcpip.h is done in setup.h

H_MPRINTF to our more used style __CURL_MPRINTF_H

reported, the define is used by the configure script and is assumed to use
the 0xYYXXZZ format. This made "curl-config --vernum" fail in the 7.15.0
release version.

added. TODO: add them to docs. add TFTP server to test suite. add TFTP to
list of protocols whereever those are mentioned.