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.

from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it
easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are
still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option
is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the
connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a
simple test that this works.

true since the getdate() parser code rewrite

simple interface to extracting and setting cookies in libcurl's internal
"cookie jar". See the new cookie_interface.c example code.

documentational purposes.

layers and it won't make sense to provide a numerical version for it. I also
doubt that many people have used this for anything critical.