I guess it seldomly happens on linux and that's why it wasn't found before.
He used Solaris to notice it.

I took the opportunity to rewrite the Curl_connecthost() slightly to feature
less duplicate code in the two different versions (ipv4/ipv6).

This seems more appropriate, and I believe mozilla and the likes do this.

.html files now get text/html as Content-Type.

Pointed out in bug report #839806.

(at least).

which works nicely since the build dir is before the source dir in the
include path.

in the 229-reply servers respond on a EPSV command and bail out better if
the reply string is not valid RFC2428-compliant.

in a slightly better way for more platforms. The $HOME is only used for
.curlrc atm, but the possible upcoming change of .netrc treatment may also
need the home dir.

existed in 7.10.7 and earlier, but has since been cut out.

directory name and build/run/test curl in there instead of trying to update
from CVS. Using this approach, this script can be used to test daily tarballs
etc.

definitions from the global curl header and thus this needs to do it
themselves.

well. Removed the depedency on perl.

defines.