type to the already provided type CURLPROXY_SOCKS4.
I added a --socks4 option that works like the current --socks5 option but
instead use the socks4 protocol.

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.

fact equal to a blank one according to the spec.

interface

string in the given error buffer to address the flaw mention on 21 sep 2005.

(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1338648) which really is more of a
feature request, but anyway. It pointed out that --max-redirs did not allow
it to be set to 0, which then would return an error code on the first
Location: found. Based on Nis' patch, now libcurl supports CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS
set to 0, or -1 for infinity. Added test case 274 to verify.

do not get NTLM support enabled.

option

they should. And I removed all uses 'Note' (as they are pretty useless) and
did some other language and phrasing cleanups.

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.

set to 1, CURLOPT_NOBODY will now automatically be set to 0.

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

passed to the app using the header callback

the cookie "engine" without having to provide an empty or non-existing file.