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

thus enables timeout if the server doesn't respond within the proper time.

Added a missing free() in curl_disconnect()
Made (https) connect errors abort better and earlier

transfer