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curl the next few years - perhaps
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Roadmap of things Daniel Stenberg and Steve Holme want to work on next. It is
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intended to serve as a guideline for others for information, feedback and
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possible participation.
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New stuff - libcurl
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1. http2 test suite
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2. http2 multiplexing/pipelining
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3. SPDY
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4. SRV records
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5. HTTPS to proxy
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6. make sure there's an easy handle passed in to curl_formadd(),
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curl_formget() and curl_formfree() by adding replacement functions and
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deprecating the old ones to allow custom mallocs and more
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7. HTTP Digest authentication via Windows SSPI
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8. GSSAPI authentication in the email protocols
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9. add support for third-party SASL libraries such as Cyrus SASL - may need to
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move existing native and SSPI based authentication into vsasl folder after
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reworking HTTP and SASL code
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10. SASL authentication in LDAP
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11. Simplify the SMTP email interface so that programmers don't have to
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construct the body of an email that contains all the headers, alternative
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content, images and attachments - maintain raw interface so that
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programmers that want to do this can
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12. Allow the email protocols to return the capabilities before
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authenticating. This will allow an application to decide on the best
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authentication mechanism
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13. Allow Windows threading model to be replaced by Win32 pthreads port
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14. Implement a dynamic buffer size to allow SFTP to use much larger buffers
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and possibly allow the size to be customizable by applications. Use less
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memory when handles are not in use?
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New stuff - curl
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1. Embed a language interpreter (lua?). For that middle ground where curl
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isn’t enough and a libcurl binding feels “too much”. Build-time conditional
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of course.
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2. Simplify the SMTP command line so that the headers and multi-part content
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don't have to be constructed before calling curl
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Improve
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1. build for windows (considered hard by many users)
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2. curl -h output (considered overwhelming to users)
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3. we have > 160 command line options, is there a way to redo things to
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simplify or improve the situation as we are likely to keep adding
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features/options in the future too
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4. docs (considered "bad" by users but how do we make it better?)
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A - split up curl_easy_setopt.3
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B - split up curl.1
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5. authentication framework (consider merging HTTP and SASL authentication to
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give one API for protocols to call)
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6. Perform some of the clean up from the TODO document, removing old
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definitions and such like that are currently earmarked to be removed years
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ago
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Remove
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1. cmake support (nobody maintains it)
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2. makefile.vc files as there is no point in maintaining two sets of Windows
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makefiles. Note: These are currently being used by the Windows autobuilds
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