we certainly MUST NOT kill an active connection... Problem tracked down thanks
to Michael Wallner's excellent test program.

  (ares_init.c/get_iphlpapi_dns_info() function): when I disable the network
  by hand or disconnect the network cable in Windows 2000 or Windows XP, my
  application gets 127.0.0.1 as the only name server. The problem comes from
  'GetNetworkParams' function, that returns the empty string "" as the only
  name server in that case. Moreover, the Windows implementation of
  inet_addr() returns INADDR_LOOPBACK instead of INADDR_NONE.

  handle that is part of a multi handle first removes the handle from the
  stack.

- Added CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE and --no-sessionid to disable SSL
  session-ID re-use on demand since there obviously are broken servers out
  there that misbehave with session-IDs used.

  problem with it (SIGSEGV-style). It clearly showed that the existing
  socket-state and state-difference function wasn't good enough so I rewrote
  it and could then re-run Jeff's program without any crash. The previous
  version clearly could miss to tell the application when a handle changed
  from using one socket to using another.

  While I was at it (as I could use this as a means to track this problem
  down), I've now added a 'magic' number to the easy handle struct that is
  inited at curl_easy_init() time and cleared at curl_easy_cleanup() time that
  we can use internally to detect that an easy handle seems to be fine, or at
  least not closed or freed (freeing in debug builds fill the area with 0x13
  bytes but in normal builds we can of course not assume any particular data
  in the freed areas).

"dump" a hash table which is useful when tracking problems with data stored
in one of our hashes.

Winsock.

don't expect fully qualified names we need to cut them off at the first dot.

of them can be completetly removed though...

cache within the multi handle.

server as part of test cases

for easier future error-tracking.

the two first lines to get the version string. The good news is that older
libtools have an empty line after the first so I think this works fine all
over...

  while not fixing things very nicely, it does make the SOCKS5 proxy
  connection slightly better as it now acknowledges the timeout for connection
  and it no longer segfaults in the case when SOCKS requires authentication
  and you did not specify username:password.