curl issues when doing a regular HTTP post. This should not be taken light-
heartedly though. Replacing them might get you into trouble!

the AIX-style as well. The AIX-stuff is *NOT* verified to work.

headers...

localtime() call

these changes when trying to run lclint on the curl code.

completely disable that header to get sent.

Location: following takes "us" to other servers that should not get the
user and password

on those occations

function to get called in the curl_close() function for cleanup
auth_host is added to store the original (first) host name used

allow the connect function to better deal with timeouts, as was just added
to ftp