| Daniel (28 December 1999): |
| - Tim Verhoeven correctly identified that curl |
| doesn't support URL formatted file names when getting ftp. Now, there's a |
| problem with getting very weird file names off FTP servers. RFC 959 defines |
| that the file name syntax to use should be the same as in the native OS of |
| the server. Since we don't know the peer server system we currently just |
| translate the URL syntax into plain letters. It is still better and with |
| the solaris 2.6-supplied ftp server it works with spaces in the file names. |
| |
| Daniel (27 December 1999): |
| - When curl parsed cookies straight off a remote site, it corrupted the input |
| data, which, if the downloaded headers were stored made very odd characters |
| in the saved data. Correctly identified and reported by Paul Harrington. |
| |
| Daniel (13 December 1999): |
| - General cleanups in the library interface. There had been some bad kludges |
| added during times of stress and I did my best to clean them off. It was |
| both regarding the lib API as well as include file confusions. |
| |
| Daniel (3 December 1999): |
| - A small --stderr bug was reported by Eetu Ojanen... |
| |
| - who also brought the suggestion of extending the -X flag to ftp list as |
| well. So, now it is and the long option is now --request instead. It is |
| only for ftp list for now (and the former http stuff too of course). |
| |
| Lars J. Aas (24 November 1999): |
| - Patched curl to compile and build under BeOS. Doesn't work yet though! |
| |
| - Corrected the Makefile.am files to allow putting object files in |
| different directories than the sources. |
| |
| Version 6.3.1 |
| |
| Daniel (23 November 1999): |
| - I've had this major disk crash. My good old trust-worthy source disk died |
| along with the machine that hosted it. Thank goodness most of all the |
| things I've done are either backed up elsewhere or stored in this CVS |
| server! |
| |
| - Michael S. Steuer pointed out a bug in the -F handling |
| that made curl hang if you posted an empty variable such as '-F name='. It |
| was one of those old bugs that never have worked properly... |
| |
| - Jason Baietto pointed out a general flaw in the HTTP |
| download. Curl didn't complain if it was prematurely aborted before the |
| entire download was completed. It does now. |
| |
| Daniel (19 November 1999): |
| - Chris Maltby very accurately criticized the lack of |
| return code checks on the fwrite() calls. I did a thorough check for all |
| occurrences and corrected this. |
| |
| Daniel (17 November 1999): |
| - Paul Harrington pointed out that the -m/--max-time option |
| doesn't work for the slow system calls like gethostbyname()... I don't have |
| any good fix yet, just a slightly less bad one that makes curl exit hard |
| when the timeout is reached. |
| |
| - Bjorn Reese helped me point out a possible problem that might be the reason |
| why Thomas Hurst experience problems in his Amiga version. |
| |
| Daniel (12 November 1999): |
| - I found a crash in the new cookie file parser. It crashed when you gave |
| a plain http header file as input... |
| |
| Version 6.3 |
| |
| Daniel (10 November 1999): |
| - I kind of found out that the HTTP time-conditional GETs (-z) aren't always |
| respected by the web server and the document is therefore sent in whole |
| again, even though it doesn't match the requested condition. After reading |
| section 13.3.4 of RFC 2616, I think I'm doing the right thing now when I do |
| my own check as well. If curl thinks the condition isn't met, the transfer |
| is aborted prematurely (after all the headers have been received). |
| |
| - After comments from Robert Linden I also rewrote some parts of the man page |
| to better describe how the -F works. |
| |
| - Michael Anti put up a new curl download mirror in |
| China: http://www.pshowing.com/curl/ |
| |
| - I added the list of download mirrors to the README file |
| |
| - I did add more explanations to the man page |
| |
| Daniel (8 November 1999): |
| - I made the -b/--cookie option capable of reading netscape formatted cookie |
| files as well as normal http-header files. It should be able to |
| transparently figure out what kind of file it got as input. |
| |
| Daniel (29 October 1999): |
| - Another one of Sebastiaan van Erk's ideas (that has been requested before |
| but I seem to have forgotten who it was), is to add support for ranges in |
| FTP downloads. As usual, one request is just a request, when they're two |
| it is a demand. I've added simple support for X-Y style fetches. X has to |
| be the lower number, though you may omit one of the numbers. Use the -r/ |
| --range switch (previously HTTP-only). |
| |
| - Sebastiaan van Erk suggested that curl should be |
| able to show the file size of a specified file. I think this is a splendid |
| idea and the -I flag is now working for FTP. It displays the file size in |
| this manner: |
| Content-Length: XXXX |
| As it resembles normal headers, and leaves us the opportunity to add more |
| info in that display if we can come up with more in the future! It also |
| makes sense since if you access ftp through a HTTP proxy, you'd get the |
| file size the same way. |
| |
| I changed the order of the QUOTE command executions. They're now executed |
| just after the login and before any other command. I made this to enable |
| quote commands to run before the -I stuff is done too. |
| |
| - I found out that -D/--dump-header and -V/--version weren't documented in |
| the man page. |
| |
| - Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not support ranges. Don't ask me why. I did add |
| some text about this in the man page for the range option. The thread in |
| the mailing list that started this was initiated by Michael Anti. |
| |
| - I get reports about nroff crashes on solaris 2.6+ when displaying the curl |
| man page. Switch to gnroff instead, it is reported to work(!). Adam Barclay |
| reported and brought the suggestion. |
| |
| - In a dialogue with Johannes G. Kristinsson we came |
| up with the idea to let -H/--header specified headers replace the |
| internally generated headers, if you happened to select to add a header |
| that curl normally uses by itself. The advantage with this is not entirely |
| obvious, but in Johannes' case it means that he can use another Host: than |
| the one curl would set. |
| |
| Daniel (27 October 1999): |
| - Jongki Suwandi brought a nice patch for (yet another) crash when following |
| a location:. This time you had to follow a https:// server's redirect to |
| get the core. |
| |
| Version 6.2 |
| |
| Daniel (21 October 1999): |
| - I think I managed to remove the suspicious (nil) that has been seen just |
| before the "Host:" in HTTP requests when -v was used. |
| - I found out that if you followed a location: when using a proxy, without |
| having specified http:// in the URL, the protocol part was added once again |
| when moving to the next URL! (The protocol part has to be added to the |
| URL when going through a proxy since it has no protocol-guessing system |
| such as curl has.) |
| - Benjamin Ritcey reported a core dump under solaris 2.6 |
| with OpenSSL 0.9.4. It turned out this was due to a bad free() in main.c |
| that occurred after the download was done and completed. |
| - Benjamin found ftp downloads to show the first line of the download meter |
| to get written twice, and I removed that problem. It was introduced with |
| the multiple URL support. |
| - Dan Zitter correctly pointed out that curl 6.1 and earlier versions didn't |
| honor RFC 2616 chapter 4 section 2, "Message Headers": "...Field names are |
| case-insensitive..." HTTP header parsing assumed a certain casing. Dan |
| also provided me with a patch that corrected this, which I took the liberty |
| of editing slightly. |
| - Dan Zitter also provided a nice patch for config.guess to better recognize |
| the Mac OS X |
| - Dan also corrected a minor problem in the lib/Makefile that caused linking |
| to fail on OS X. |
| |
| Daniel (19 October 1999): |
| - Len Marinaccio came up with some problems with curl. Since Windows has a |
| crippled shell, it can't redirect stderr and that causes trouble. I added |
| --stderr today which allows the user to redirect the stderr stream to a |
| file or stdout. |
| |
| Daniel (18 October 1999): |
| - The configure script now understands the '--without-ssl' flag, which now |
| totally disable SSL/https support. Previously it wasn't possible to force |
| the configure script to leave SSL alone. The previous functionality has |
| been retained. Troy Engel helped test this new one. |
| |
| Version 6.1 |
| |
| Daniel (17 October 1999): |
| - I ifdef'ed or commented all the zlib stuff in the sources and configure |
| script. It turned out we needed to mock more with zlib than I initially |
| thought, to make it capable of downloading compressed HTTP documents and |
| uncompress them on the fly. I didn't mean the zlib parts of curl to become |
| more than minor so this means I halt the zlib expedition for now and wait |
| until someone either writes the code or zlib gets updated and better |
| adjusted for this kind of usage. I won't get into details here, but a |
| short a summary is suitable: |
| - zlib can't automatically detect whether to use zlib or gzip |
| decompression methods. |
| - zlib is very neat for reading gzipped files from a file descriptor, |
| although not as nice for reading buffer-based data such as we would |
| want it. |
| - there are still some problems with the win32 version when reading from |
| a file descriptor if that is a socket |
| |
| Daniel (14 October 1999): |
| - Moved the (external) include files for libcurl into a subdirectory named |
| curl and adjusted all #include lines to use <curl/XXXX> to maintain a |
| better name space and control of the headers. This has been requested. |
| |
| Daniel (12 October 1999): |
| - I modified the 'maketgz' script to perform a 'make' too before a release |
| archive is put together in an attempt to make the time stamps better and |
| hopefully avoid the double configure-running that use to occur. |
| |
| Daniel (11 October 1999): |
| - Applied Jörn's patches that fixes zlib for mingw32 compiles as well as |
| some other missing zlib #ifdef and more text on the multiple URL docs in |
| the man page. |
| |
| Version 6.1beta |
| |
| Daniel (6 October 1999): |
| - Douglas E. Wegscheid sent me a patch that made the exact same thing as I |
| just made: the -d switch is now capable of reading post data from a named |
| file or stdin. Use it similarly to the -F. To read the post data from a |
| given file: |
| |
| curl -d @path/to/filename www.postsite.com |
| |
| or let curl read it out from stdin: |
| |
| curl -d @- www.postit.com |
| |
| Jörn Hartroth (3 October 1999): |
| - Brought some more patches for multiple URL functionality. The MIME |
| separation ideas are almost scrapped now, and a custom separator is being |
| used instead. This is still compile-time "flagged". |
| |
| Daniel |
| - Updated curl.1 with multiple URL info. |
| |
| Daniel (30 September 1999): |
| - Felix von Leitner brought openssl-check fixes for configure.in to work |
| out-of-the-box when the openssl files are installed in the system default |
| dirs. |
| |
| Daniel (28 September 1999) |
| - Added libz functionality. This should enable decompressing gzip, compress |
| or deflate encoding HTTP documents. It also makes curl send an accept that |
| it accepts that kind of encoding. Compressed contents usually shortens |
| download time. I *need* someone to tell me a site that uses compressed HTTP |
| documents so that I can test this out properly. |
| |
| - As a result of the adding of zlib awareness, I changed the version string |
| a little. I plan to add openldap version reporting in there too. |
| |
| Daniel (17 September 1999) |
| - Made the -F option allow stdin when specifying files. By using '-' instead |
| of file name, the data will be read from stdin. |
| |
| Version 6.0 |
| |
| Daniel (13 September 1999) |
| - Added -X/--http-request <request> to enable any HTTP command to be sent. |
| Do not that your server has to support the exact string you enter. This |
| should possibly a string like DELETE or TRACE. |
| |
| - Applied Douglas' mingw32-fixes for the makefiles. |
| |
| Daniel (10 September 1999) |
| - Douglas E. Wegscheid pointed out a problem. Curl didn't check the FTP |
| servers return code properly after the --quote commands were issued. It |
| took anything non 200 as an error, when all 2XX codes should be accepted as |
| OK. |
| |
| - Sending cookies to the same site in multiple lines like curl used to do |
| turned out to be bad and breaking the cookie specs. Curl now sends all |
| cookies on a single Cookie: line. Curl is not yet RFC 2109 compliant, but I |
| doubt that many servers do use that syntax (yet). |
| |
| Daniel (8 September 1999) |
| - Jörn helped me make sure it still compiles nicely with mingw32 under win32. |
| |
| Daniel (7 September 1999) |
| - FTP upload through proxy is now turned into a HTTP PUT. Requested by |
| Stefan Kanthak. |
| |
| - Added the ldap files to the .m32 makefile. |
| |
| Daniel (3 September 1999) |
| - Made cookie matching work while using HTTP proxy. |
| |
| Bjorn Reese (31 August 1999) |
| - Passed his ldap:// patch. Note that this requires the openldap shared |
| library to be installed and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the |
| directory where the lib will be found when curl is run with a |
| ldap:// URL. |
| |
| Jörn Hartroth (31 August 1999) |
| - Made the Mingw32 makefiles into single files. |
| - Made file:// work for Win32. The same code is now used for unix as well for |
| performance reasons. |
| |
| Douglas E. Wegscheid (30 August 1999) |
| - Patched the Mingw32 makefiles for SSL builds. |
| |
| Matthew Clarke (30 August 1999) |
| - Made a cool patch for configure.in to allow --with-ssl to specify the |
| root dir of the openssl installation, as in |
| |
| ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/ssl_here |
| |
| - Corrected the 'reconf' script to work better with some shells. |
| |
| Jörn Hartroth (26 August 1999) |
| - Fixed the Mingw32 makefiles in lib/ and corrected the file.c for win32 |
| compiles. |
| |
| Version 5.11 |
| |
| Daniel (25 August 1999) |
| - John Weismiller pointed out a bug in the header-line |
| realloc() system in download.c. |
| |
| - I added lib/file.[ch] to offer a first, simple, file:// support. It |
| probably won't do much good on win32 system at this point, but I see it |
| as a start. |
| |
| - Made the release archives get a Makefile in the root dir, which can be |
| used to start the compiling/building process easier. I haven't really |
| changed any INSTALL text yet, I wanted to get some feed-back on this |
| first. |
| |
| Daniel (17 August 1999) |
| - Another Location: bug. Curl didn't do proper relative locations if the |
| original URL had cgi-parameters that contained a slash. Nusu's page |
| again. |
| |
| - Corrected the NO_PROXY usage. It is a list of substrings that if one of |
| them matches the tail of the host name it should connect to, curl should |
| not use a proxy to connect there. Pointed out to me by Douglas |
| E. Wegscheid. I also changed the README text a little regarding this. |
| |
| Daniel (16 August 1999) |
| - Fixed a memory bug with http-servers that sent Location: to a Location: |
| page. Nusu's page showed this too. |
| |
| - Made cookies work a lot better. Setting the same cookie name several times |
| used to add more cookies instead of replacing the former one which it |
| should've. Nusu <nus at intergorj.ro> brought me an URL that made this |
| painfully visible... |
| |
| Troy (15 August 1999) |
| - Brought new .spec files as well as a patch for configure.in that lets the |
| configure script find the openssl files better, even when the include |
| files are in /usr/include/openssl |
| |
| Version 5.10 |
| |
| Daniel (13 August 1999) |
| - SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb() has been modified in the 0.9.4 version of |
| OpenSSL. Now why couldn't they simply add a *new* function instead of |
| modifying the parameters of an already existing function? This way, we get |
| a compiler warning if compiling with 0.9.4 but not with earlier. So, I had |
| to come up with a #if construction that deals with this... |
| |
| - Made curl output the SSL version number get displayed properly with 0.9.4. |
| |
| Troy (12 August 1999) |
| - Added MingW32 (GCC-2.95) support under Win32. The INSTALL file was also |
| a bit rearranged. |
| |
| Daniel (12 August 1999) |
| - I had to copy a good <arpa/telnet.h> include file into the curl source |
| tree to enable the silly win32 systems to compile. The distribution rights |
| allows us to do that as long as the file remains unmodified. |
| |
| - I corrected a few minor things that made the compiler complain when |
| -Wall -pedantic was used. |
| |
| - I'm moving the official curl web page to http://curl.haxx.nu. I think it |
| will make it easier to remember as it is a lot shorter and less cryptic. |
| The old one still works and shows the same info. |
| |
| Daniel (11 August 1999) |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young mailed me another correction for NROFF in the |
| configure.in that is supposed to be better for IRIX users. |
| |
| Daniel (10 August 1999) |
| - Albert Chin-A-Young helped me with some stupid Makefile things, as well as |
| some fiddling with the getdate.c stuff that he had problems with under |
| HP-UX v10. getdate.y will now be compiled into getdate.c if the appropriate |
| yacc or bison is found by the configure script. Since this is slightly new, |
| we need to test the output getdate.c with win32 systems to make sure it |
| still compiles there. |
| |
| Daniel (5 August 1999) |
| - I've just setup a new mailing list with the intention to keep discussions |
| around libcurl development in it. I mainly expect it to be for thoughts and |
| brainstorming around a "next generation" library, rather than nitpicking |
| about the current implementation or details in the current libcurl. |
| |
| To join our happy bunch of future-looking geeks, enter 'subscribe |
| <address>' in the body of a mail and send it to |
| libcurl-request@listserv.fts.frontec.se. Curl bug reports, the usual curl |
| talk and everything else should still be kept in this mailing list. I've |
| started to archive this mailing list and have put the libcurl web page at |
| www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/libcurl/. |
| |
| - Stefan Kanthak contacted me regarding a few problems in the configure |
| script which he discovered when trying to make curl compile and build under |
| Siemens SINIX-Z V5.42B2004! |
| |
| - Marcus Klein very accurately informed me that src/version.h was not present |
| in the CVS repository. Oh, how silly... |
| |
| - Linus Nielsen rewrote the telnet:// part and now curl offers limited telnet |
| support. If you run curl like 'curl telnet://host' you'll get all output on |
| the screen and curl will read input from stdin. You'll be able to login and |
| run commands etc, but since the output is buffered, expect to get a little |
| weird output. |
| |
| This is still in its infancy and it might get changed. We need your |
| feed-back and input in how this is best done. |
| |
| WIN32 NOTE: I bet we'll get problems when trying to compile the current |
| lib/telnet.c on win32, but I think we can sort them out in time. |
| |
| - David Sanderson reported that FORCE_ALLOCA_H or HAVE_ALLOCA_H must be |
| defined for getdate.c to compile properly on HP-UX 11.0. I updated the |
| configure script to check for alloca.h which should make it. |
| |
| Daniel (4 August 1999) |
| - I finally got to understand Marcus Klein's ftp download resume problem, |
| which turns out to be due to different outputs from different ftp |
| servers. It makes ftp download resuming a little trickier, but I've made |
| some modifications I really believe will work for most ftp servers and I do |
| hope you report if you have problems with this! |
| |
| - Added text about file transfer resuming to README.curl. |
| |
| Daniel (2 August 1999) |
| - Applied a progress-bar patch from Lars J. Aas. It offers |
| a new styled progress bar enabled with -#/--progress-bar. |
| |
| T. Yamada <tai at imasy.or.jp> (30 July 1999) |
| - It breaks with segfault when 1) curl is using .netrc to obtain |
| username/password (option '-n'), and 2) is automatically redirected to |
| another location (option '-L'). |
| |
| There is a small bug in lib/url.c (block starting from line 641), which |
| tries to take out username/password from user- supplied command-line |
| argument ('-u' option). This block is never executed on first attempt since |
| CONF_USERPWD bit isn't set at first, but curl later turns it on when it |
| checks for CONF_NETRC bit. So when curl tries to redo everything due to |
| redirection, it segfaults trying to access *data->userpwd. |
| |
| Version 5.9.1 |
| |
| Daniel (30 July 1999) |
| - Steve Walch pointed out that there is a memory leak in the formdata |
| functions. I added a FormFree() function that is now used and supposed to |
| correct this flaw. |
| |
| - Mark Wotton reported: |
| 'curl -L https://www.cwa.com.au/' core dumps. I managed to cure this by |
| correcting the cleanup procedure. The bug seems to be gone with my OpenSSL |
| 0.9.2b, although still occurs when I run the ~100 years old SSLeay 0.8.0. I |
| don't know whether it is curl or SSLeay that is to blame for that. |
| |
| - Marcus Klein: |
| Reported an FTP upload resume bug that I really can't repeat nor understand. |
| I leave it here so that it won't be forgotten. |
| |
| Daniel (29 July 1999) |
| - Costya Shulyupin suggested support for longer URLs when following Location: |
| and I could only agree and fix it! |
| |
| - Leigh Purdie found a problem in the upload/POST department. It turned out |
| that http.c accidentaly cleared the pointer instead of the byte counter |
| when supposed to. |
| |
| - Costya Shulyupin pointed out a problem with port numbers and Location:. If |
| you had a server at a non-standard port that redirected to an URL using a |
| standard port number, curl still used that first port number. |
| |
| - Ralph Beckmann pointed out a problem when using both CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION |
| and CONF_FAILONERROR simultaneously. Since the CONF_FAILONERROR exits on |
| the 302-code that the follow location header outputs it will never show any |
| html on location: pages. I have now made it look for >=400 codes if |
| CONF_FOLLOWLOCATION is set. |
| |
| - 'struct slist' is now renamed to 'struct curl_slist' (as suggested by Ralph |
| Beckmann). |
| |
| - Joshua Swink and Rick Welykochy were the first to point out to me that the |
| latest OpenSSL package now have moved the standard include path. It is now |
| in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl and I have now modified the --enable-ssl |
| option for the configure script to use that as the primary path, and I |
| leave the former path too to work with older packages of OpenSSL too. |
| |
| Daniel (9 June 1999) |
| - I finally understood the IRIX problem and now it seem to compile on it! |
| I am gonna remove those #define strcasecmp() things once and for all now. |
| |
| Daniel (4 June 1999) |
| - I adjusted the FTP reply 227 parser to make the PASV command work better |
| with more ftp servers. Appearantly the Roxen Challanger server replied |
| something curl 5.9 could deal with! :-( Reported by Ashley Reid-Montanaro |
| and Mark Butler brought a solution for it. |
| |
| Daniel (26 May 1999) |
| - Rearranged. README is new, the old one is now README.curl and I added a |
| README.libcurl with text I got from Ralph Beckmann. |
| |
| - I also updated the INSTALL text. |
| |
| Daniel (25 May 1999) |
| - David Jonathan Lowsky correctly pointed out that curl didn't properly deal |
| with form posting where the variable shouldn't have any content, as in curl |
| -F "form=" www.site.com. It was now fixed. |
| |
| Version 5.9 |
| |
| Daniel (22 May 1999) |
| - I've got a bug report from Aaron Scarisbrick in which he states he has some |
| problems with -L under FreeBSD 3.0. I have previously got another bug |
| report from Stefan Grether which points at an error with similar sympthoms |
| when using win32. I made the allocation of the new url string a bit faster |
| and different, don't know if it actually improves anything though... |
| |
| Daniel (20 May 1999) |
| - Made the cookie parser deal with CRLF newlines too. |
| |
| Daniel (19 May 1999) |
| - Download() didn't properly deal with failing return codes from the sread() |
| function. Adam Coyne found the problem in the win32 version, and Troy Engel |
| helped me out isolating it. |
| |
| Daniel (16 May 1999) |
| - Richard Adams pointed out a bug I introduced in 5.8. --dump-header doesn't |
| work anymore! :-/ I fixed it now. |
| |
| - After a suggestion by Joshua Swink I added -S / --show-error to force curl |
| to display the error message in case of an error, even if -s/--silent was |
| used. |
| |
| Daniel (10 May 1999) |
| - I moved the stuff concerning HTTP, DICT and TELNET it their own source |
| files now. It is a beginning on my clean-up of the sources to make them |
| layer all those protocols better to enable more to be added easier in the |
| future! |
| |
| - Leon Breedt sent me some files I've not put into the main curl |
| archive. They're for creating the Debian package thingie. He also sent me a |
| debian package that I've made available for download at the web page |
| |
| Daniel (9 May 1999) |
| - Made it compile on cygwin too. |
| |
| Troy Engel (7 May 1999) |
| - Brought a series of patches to allow curl to compile smoothly on MSVC++ 6 |
| again! |
| |
| Daniel (6 May 1999) |
| - I changed the #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME placement for the -z code so that it |
| will be easier to discover systems that don't have that function and thus |
| can't use -z successfully. Made the strftime() get used if WIN32 is defined |
| too. |
| |
| Version 5.8 |
| |
| Daniel (5 May 1999) |
| - I've had it with this autoconf/automake mess. It seems to work allright |
| for most people who don't have automake installed, but for those who have |
| there are problems all over. |
| |
| I've got like five different bug reports on this only the last |
| week... Claudio Neves and Federico Bianchi and root <duggerj001 at |
| hawaii.rr.com> are some of them reporting this. |
| |
| Currently, I have no really good fix since I want to use automake myself to |
| generate the Makefile.in files. I've found out that the @SHELL@-problems |
| can often be fixed by manually invoking 'automake' in the archive root |
| before you run ./configure... I've hacked my maketgz script now to fiddle |
| a bit with this and my tests seem to work better than before at least! |
| |
| Daniel (4 May 1999) |
| - mkhelp.pl has been doing badly lately. I corrected a case problem in |
| the regexes. |
| |
| - I've now remade the -o option to not touch the file unless it needs to. |
| I had to do this to make -z option really fine, since now you can make a |
| curl fetch and use a local copy's time when downloading to that file, as |
| in: |
| |
| curl -z dump -o dump remote.site.com/file.html |
| |
| This will only get the file if the remote one is newer than the local. |
| I'm aware that this alters previous behaviour a little. Some scripts out |
| there may depend on that the file is always touched... |
| |
| - Corrected a bug in the SSLv2/v3 selection. |
| |
| - Felix von Leitner requested that curl should be able to send |
| "If-Modified-Since" headers, which indeed is a fair idea. I implemented it |
| right away! Try -z <expression> where expression is a full GNU date |
| expression or a file name to get the date from! |
| |
| Stephan Lagerholm (30 Apr 1999) |
| - Pointed out a problem with the src/Makefile for FreeBSD. The RM variable |
| isn't set and causes the make to fail. |
| |
| Daniel (26 April 1999) |
| - Am I silly or what? Irving Wolfe pointed out to me that the curl version |
| number was not set properly. Hasn't been since 5.6. This was due to a bug |
| in my maketgz script! |
| |
| David Eriksson (25 Apr 1999) |
| - Found a bug in cookies.c that made it crash at times. |
| |
| Version 5.7.1 |
| |
| Doug Kaufman (23 Apr 1999) |
| - Brought two sunos 4 fixes. One of them being the hostip.c fix mentioned |
| below and the other one a correction in include/stdcheaders.h |
| |
| - Added a paragraph about compiling with the US-version of openssl to the |
| INSTALL file. |
| |
| Daniel |
| - New mailing list address. Info updated on the web page as well as in the |
| README file |
| |
| Greg Onufer (20 Apr 1999) |
| - hostip.c didn't compile properly on SunOS 5.5.1. |
| It needs an #include <sys/types.h> |
| |
| Version 5.7 |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 20 1999) |
| - Decided to upload a non-beta version right now! |
| |
| - Made curl support any-length HTTP headers. The destination buffer is now |
| simply enlarged every time it turns out to be too small! |
| |
| - Added the FAQ file to the archive. Still a bit smallish, but it is a |
| start. |
| |
| Eric Thelin (15 Apr 1999) |
| - Made -D accept '-' instead of filename to write to stdout. |
| |
| Version 5.6.3beta |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 12 1999) |
| |
| - Changed two #ifdef WIN32 to better #ifdef <errorcode> when connect()ing |
| in url.c and ftp.c. Makes cygwin32 deal with them better too. We should |
| try to get some decent win32-replacement there. Anyone? |
| |
| - The old -3/--crlf option is now ONLY --crlf! |
| |
| - I changed the "SSL fix" to a more lame one, but that doesn't remove as |
| much functionality. Now I've enabled the lib to select what SSL version it |
| should try first. Appearantly some older SSL-servers don't like when you |
| talk v3 with them so you need to be able to force curl to talk v2 from the |
| start. The fix dated April 6 and posted on the mailing list forced curl to |
| use v2 at all times using a modern OpenSSL version, but we don't really |
| want such a crippled solution. |
| |
| - Marc Boucher sent me a patch that corrected a math error for the |
| "Curr.Speed" progress meter. |
| |
| - Eric Thelin sent me a patch that enables '-K -' to read a config file from |
| stdin. |
| |
| - I found out we didn't close the file properly before so I added it! |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 9 1999) |
| - Yu Xin pointed out a problem with ftp download resume. It didn't work at |
| all! ;-O |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 6 1999) |
| - Corrected the version string part generated for the SSL version. |
| |
| - I found a way to make some other SSL page work with openssl 0.9.1+ that |
| previously didn't (ssleay 0.8.0 works with it though!). Trying to get |
| some real info from the OpenSSL guys to see how I should do to behave the |
| best way. SSLeay 0.8.0 shouldn't be that much in use anyway these days! |
| |
| Version 5.6.2beta |
| |
| Daniel (Apr 4 1999) |
| - Finally have curl more cookie "aware". Now read carefully. This is how |
| it works. |
| To make curl read cookies from an already existing file, in plain header- |
| format (like from the headers of a previous fetch) invoke curl with the |
| -b flag like: |
| |
| curl -b file http://site/foo.html |
| |
| Curl will then use all cookies it finds matching. The old style that sets |
| a single cookie with -b is still supported and is used if the string |
| following -b includes a '=' letter, as in "-b name=daniel". |
| |
| To make curl read the cookies sent in combination with a location: (which |
| sites often do) point curl to read a non-existing file at first (i.e |
| to start with no existing cookies), like: |
| |
| curl -b nowhere http://site/setcookieandrelocate.html |
| |
| - Added a paragraph in the TODO file about the SSL problems recently |
| reported. Evidently, some kind of SSL-problem curl may need to address. |
| |
| - Better "Location:" following. |
| |
| Douglas E. Wegscheid (Tue, 30 Mar 1999) |
| - A subsecond display patch. |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 14 1999) |
| - I've separated the version number of libcurl and curl now. To make |
| things a little easier, I decided to start the curl numbering from |
| 5.6 and the former version number known as "curl" is now the one |
| set for libcurl. |
| |
| - Removed the 'enable-no-pass' from configure, I doubt anyone wanted |
| that. |
| |
| - Made lots of tiny adjustments to compile smoothly with cygwin under |
| win32. It's a killer for porting this to win32, bye bye VC++! ;-) |
| Compiles and builds out-of-the-box now. See the new wordings in |
| INSTALL for details. |
| |
| - Beginning experiments with downloading multiple document from a http |
| server while remaining connected. |
| |
| Version 5.6beta |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 13 1999) |
| - Since I've changed so much, I thought I'd just go ahead and implement the |
| suggestion from Douglas E. Wegscheid. -D or --dump-header is now storing |
| HTTP headers separately in the specified file. |
| |
| - Added new text to INSTALL on what to do to build this on win32 now. |
| |
| - Aaargh. I had to take a step back and prefix the shared #include files |
| in the sources with "../include/" to please VC++... |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 12 1999) |
| - Split the url.c source into many tiny sources for better readability |
| and smaller size. |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 11 1999) |
| - Started to change stuff for a move to make libcurl and a more separate |
| curl application that uses the libcurl. Made the libcurl sources into |
| the new lib directory while the curl application will remain in src as |
| before. New makefiles, adjusted configure script and so. |
| |
| libcurl.a built quickly and easily. I better make a better interface to |
| the lib functions though. |
| |
| The new root dir include/ is supposed to contain the public information |
| about the new libcurl. It is a little ugly so far :-) |
| |
| |
| Daniel (Mar 1 1999) |
| - Todd Kaufmann sent me a good link to Netscape's cookie spec as well as the |
| info that RFC 2109 specifies how to use them. The link is now in the |
| README and the RFC in the RESOURCES. |
| |
| Daniel (Feb 23 1999) |
| - Finally made configure accept --with-ssl to look for SSL libs and includes |
| in the "standard" place /usr/local/ssl... |
| |
| Daniel (Feb 22 1999) |
| - Verified that curl linked fine with OpenSSL 0.9.1c which seems to be |
| the most recent. |
| |
| Henri Gomez (Fri Feb 5 1999) |
| - Sent in an updated curl-ssl.spec. I still miss the script that builds an |
| RPM automatically... |
| |
| Version 5.5.1 |
| |
| Mark Butler (27 Jan 1999) |
| - Corrected problems in Download(). |
| |
| Danitel Stenberg (25 Jan 1999) |
| - Jeremie Petit pointed out a few flaws in the source that prevented it from |
| compile warning free with the native compiler under Digital Unix v4.0d. |
| |
| Version 5.5 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (15 Jan 1999) |
| - Added Bjorns small text to the README about the DICT protocol. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (11 Jan 1999) |
| - <jswink at softcom.net> reported about the win32-versioin: "Doesn't use |
| ALL_PROXY environment variable". Turned out to be because of the static- |
| buffer nature of the win32 environment variable calls! |
| |
| Bjorn Reese (10 Jan 1999) |
| - I have attached a simple addition for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229). |
| It performs dictionary lookups. The output still needs to be better |
| formatted. |
| |
| To test it try (the exact format, and more examples are described in |
| the RFC) |
| |
| dict://dict.org/m:hello |
| dict://dict.org/m:hello::soundex |
| |
| |
| Vicente Garcia (10 Jan 1999) |
| - Corrected the progress meter for files larger than 20MB. |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg (7 Jan 1999) |
| - Corrected the -t and -T help texts. They claimed to be FTP only. |
| |
| Version 5.4 |
| |
| Daniel Stenberg |
| (7 Jan 1999) |
| - Irving Wolfe reported that curl -s didn't always supress the progress |
| reporting. It was the form post that autoamtically always switched it on |
| again. This is now corrected! |
| |
| (4 Jan 1999) |
| - Andreas Kostyrka suggested I'd add PUT and he helped me out to test it. If |
| you use -t or -T now on a http or https server, PUT will be used for file |
| upload. |
| |
| I removed the former use of -T with HTTP. I doubt anyone ever really used |
| that. |
| |
| (4 Jan 1999) |
| - Erik Jacobsen found a width bug in the mprintf() function. I corrected it |
| now. |
| |
| (4 Jan 1999) |
| - As John V. Chow pointed out to me, curl accepted very limited URL sizes. It |
| should now accept path parts that are up to at least 4096 bytes. |
| |
| - Somehow I screwed up when applying the AIX fix from Gilbert Ramirez, so |
| I redid that now. |
| |