Closes #835

Closes #768

Closes #662

Closes #885

merged #931

... and make the distros link a proper link

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/914

Explain how some FTP servers support the machine readable listing
format MLSD from RFC 3659 and compare it to LIST.

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/906

Closes #896

Reported-by: Richard Gray
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-06/0136.html

... as previously the README.cmake would be picked and put at the bottom
of the docs page there and it wasn't very representative!

Closes #740

Closes #883

When CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is set to an empty string libcurl will send a
zero-byte POST. Prior to this change it was documented as sending data
from the read callback.

This also changes the wording of what happens when empty or NULL so that
it's hopefully easier to understand for people whose primary language
isn't English.

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/862
Reported-by: Askar Safin

- Remove some erroneous text.

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/865

Closes #850

Closes #822

Adds access to the effectively used http version to both libcurl and
curl.

Closes #799

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/826
Reported-by: Michael Wallner

Now giving credit properly to github user names, fixed some UTF-8 issues
and added names discovered when contrithanks was improved.

Closes #821

The connect-to list isn't copied so as long as the handle may be used
for a transfer the list must be valid.

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/819
Reported-by: Michael Kaufmann

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/816

Reported-by: Paul Howarth
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-05/0116.html