gethostbyname() in the socket lib as it seems some systems need it

CURLOPT_CAINFO and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.

according to the source license)

requests

(and the password entered interactively). This fix also includes proper
URL-decoding of the user name and password if specified in the URL.

function prototype is missting

switch should work under most unixes (requires sigaction())

disable passwd-echoing on win32 (supplied by Bjrn Stenberg)

fixed

which lets the maketgz skip updating the configure.in file