the stream (wrongly) lacks a proper zlib header. This seems to be the case on
too many actual server implementations.

to be accurate on this.

can and will use more than one socket

arguments work properly - and the option is not harmful for the rest of the
curl build either!

to allow/support character conversions

the control connection when using FTP, for example when you remove an easy
handle from a multi stack.

to my previous brain-damaged version)

one

use correct version var.

typecast in the curl tool leading to a crash with (64bit?) VS2005 (at least)
since the struct timeval field tv_sec is an int while time_t is 64bit.

about what sockets to wait for what action on

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, the _longer_ time would wrongly be used for the SSL
connection time-out!

code rearrange to fit the future better.

fork support for cooler tests

ordinary test suite. Also removed the perror() calls and instead made the
logging output the errno code to ease error tracking using logs.