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                               History of Changes

Daniel (29 November 2001)
- Eric provided a few more fixes for building on Macs.

Daniel (28 November 2001)
- Fiddled with some Tru64 problems reported by Dimitris Sarris. They appear
  only when using VERBOSE ftp transfers. Do we use a too small buffer for
  gethostbyaddr_r(), was the lack of using in_addr_t wrong or is it that the
  hostent struct must be blanked before use? With Dimitris help and these
  patches, the problems seem to be history.

- CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV was added and can be set to FALSE to prevent libcurl
  from using the EPSV command before trying the normal PASV. Heikki Korpela
  pointed out that some firewalls and similar don't like the EPSV so we must
  be able to shut if off to work everywhere.

- I added a configure check for 'in_addr_t' and made the ftp code use that to
  receive the inet_addr() return code in. Works on Solaris and Linux at
  least. The Linux man page for inet_addr() doesn't even mention in_addr_t...

- Adjusted (almost) all FTP tests to the new command sequence.

- FTP command sequence changes:

  EPSV is now always attempted before PASV. It is the final touch to make IPv6
  passive FTP downloads to work, but EPSV is not restricted to IPv6 but works
  fine with IPv4 too on the servers that support it.

  SIZE is now always issued before RETR. It makes curl know the actual
  download size before the download takes place, as it makes it less important
  to find the size sent in RETR responses. Many sites don't include the size
  in there.

  Both these changes made it necessary to change the test suite's ftp server
  code, and all FTP test cases need to be checked and adjusted!

Daniel (27 November 2001)
- Hans Steegers pointed out that the telnet code read from stdout, not stdin
  as it is supposed to do!

Version 7.9.2-pre6

Daniel (27 November 2001)
- Eric Lavigne's minor changes to build on MacOS before OS X were applied.

- greep at mindspring.com provided a main index.html page for our release
  archive docs directory. It just links to all the existing HTML files, but
  I think it may come useful to people.

- There's now some initial code to support the EPSV FTP command. That should
  be used to do passive transfers IPv6-style. The code is still #if 0'ed in
  lib/ftp.c as I have no IPv6 ftp server to test this with.

Daniel (26 November 2001)
- Robert Schlabbach had problems to understand how to do resumed transfers,
  and I clarified the man page -C section somewhat.

Version 7.9.2-pre5

Daniel (22 November 2001)
- Andr<64>s Garc<72>a helped me out to track down the roots of bug report #479537,
  which was concerning curl returning the wrong error code when failing to
  connect. This didn't happen on all systems, and more specificly I've so far
  only seen this happen on IPv4-only Linux hosts.

- I applied the fixes for the two bugs Eric Lavigne found when doing his MacOS
  port. A missing comma in arpa_telnet.h and a pretty wild write in the FTP
  response reader function. The latter write is however likely to occur in our
  own buffer unless very big FTP server replies (>25K) are read. I've never
  seen such a reply ever, so I think this is a relatively minor risk.

Daniel (21 November 2001)
- Moonesamy provided code to prevent junk from being output when libcurl
  returns an error code but no error description and that corrects how make is
  run in the Makefile.dist file (that appears as root Makefile in release
  archives).

- Eric Lavigne mailed me bugfixes and patches for building libcurl on MacOS
  (non-X).

- Kevin Roth modified the cygwin files once again, now to build against the
  shared OpenSSL DLLs.

Version 7.9.2-pre4

Daniel (20 November 2001)
- Georg Horn brought a patch that introduced CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME,
  complete with man page updates!

Daniel (19 November 2001)
- Miklos Nemeth provided details enough to update the Borland makefile
  properly.

- Lars M Gustafsson found a case with a bad free(). In fact, it was so bad I'm
  amazed we never saw this before!

- Kevin Roth patched the cygwin Makfile.

Daniel (16 November 2001)
- Klevtsov Vadim fixed a bug in how time-conditionals were sent when doing
  HTTP.

Version 7.9.2-pre3

Daniel (14 November 2001)
- Samuel Listopad patched away the problem with SSL we got when someone call
  curl_global_init() => curl_global_cleanup() => curl_global_init(). The
  second init would not "take" and SSL would be unusable with curl from that
  point. This doesn't change the fact that calling the functions that way is
  wrong. curl_global_init() should be called exactly once and not more.

Daniel (13 November 2001)
- Fixed some minor variable type mixups in ftp.c that caused compiler warnings
  on HP-UX 11.00.

- The FTP fix I did yesterday used an uninitialized variable that caused
  spurious errors when doing FTP.

Version 7.9.2-pre2

Daniel (12 November 2001)
- Ricardo Cadime fell over a multiple-requests problem when first a FTP
  directory fetch failed and then a second request is made after that. The
  second request happened to get the FTP server response back from the
  previous request, when it did its initial CWD command.

- Bjorn Reese pointed out that we could improve the time diff function to
  prevent truncation a bit.

- Kai-Uwe Rommel made me aware that -p (http proxy tunnel) silly enough didn't
  work for plain HTTP requests! So I made that work.

Version 7.9.2-pre1

Daniel (12 November 2001)
- Rewrote the Curl_ConnectHTTPProxyTunnel(). It should now not only work a lot
  faster, it should also support such ("broken") proxies that John Lask
  previously have reported problems with. His proxy sends a trailing zero byte
  after the end of the (proxy-) headers. I've tested this myself and it seems
  to work on a proxy the previous version also worked with...! This rewrite is
  due to the problems John Lask previously experienced.

- Andr<64>s Garc<72>a found out why the "current speed" meter sometimes showed 2048K
  for very quick transfers. It turned out the "time diff"-function returned a
  zero millisecond diff. We now always say it is at least one millisecond! In
  reality, these timers very rarely have that good resolution so even though
  the time diff was longer than 1 millisecond, it was reported as no diff.

- I also modified the getinfo() again when returning times, as Paul Harrington
  reports that 7.9.1 only returns times with 1 second accuracy, which indeed
  is wrong.

Daniel (8 November 2001)
- Marcus Webster found out that curl_formadd() could read one byte outside a
  buffer boundary, which then of course could lead to a crash. Marcus also
  gracefully provided a patch for this this.

- Glen Scott ran configure on his Cobalt Qube and it didn't figure out the
  correct way of calling gethostbyname_r() and thus failed to resolve hosts.
  This is two errors: it shouldn't continue the configure script if it finds
  gethostbyname_r() but can't figure out how to use it, and it should really
  figure out how to use it as it was running Linux and we know how that
  works...
 
Daniel (7 November 2001)
- docs/VERSIONS is a new file in the archive that explains the version number
  system we use in the curl project.

- Did some more fixes that now makes libcurl only ignore signals as long as
  it needs to, and then restore (if any) previous signal handler again.

Daniel (6 November 2001)
- Enrik Berkhan posted bug report #478780, in which he very correctly pointed
  out two bad timeout matters in libcurl: we didn't restore the sigaction
  struct (the alarm handler for SIGALRM) nor did we restore the previous
  alarm() timeout that could've been set by a "parent" process or similar.

- Kevin Roth made the cygwin binary get stripped before install.

Daniel (5 November 2001)
- Detlef Schmier reported that curl didn't compile using Solaris 8 with the
  native cc compiler. It was due to a bad function prototype. Fixed now.
  Unfortunately, I can't enable the -Wstrict-prototypes in my debug builds
  though, as gcc then complains like crazy on OpenSSL include files... :-(

- John Lask provided SSL over HTTP proxy fixes. They'll need some tweaking
  to work on all platforms.

- John Lask added the -1/--TLSv1 options that forces SSL into using TLS
  version 1 when speaking HTTPS.

- John Lask brought a brand new VC++ makefile for the lib directory, that
  works a lot better than the previous!

- Ramana Mokkapati brought some clever insights on the LDAP failures (bug
  report #475407), and his suggested changes are now applied.

Version 7.9.1

Daniel (4 November 2001)
- I've added a number of new test cases the last few days. A few of them since
  I got reports that hinted on problems on timeouts, so I added four tests
  with timeouts for all sorts of protocols and stuff. I also came to think of
  a few other error scenarios that we currently didn't test properly, so I
  wrote up tests for a few of those too.

Daniel (2 November 2001)
- Replaced read() and write() with recv() and send() for socket operations
  even under normal unixes.

Daniel (1 November 2001)
- When an FTP transfer was aborted due to a timeout, it wasn't really aware of
  how many bytes that had been transferred and the error text always said 0
  bytes. I modified this to output the actually transferred amount! :-)

- The FTP fixes in pre7 didn't compile on IPv6 enabled hosts. Does now. I also
  added more comments in the lib/ftp.c source file.

- Minor updates to the FAQ, added a brand new section to the web site about
  the name issue (who owns "curl"? will someone sue us? etc etc):
  http://curl.haxx.se/legal/thename.html

Version 7.9.1-pre7

Daniel (31 October 2001)
- The curl_easy_getinfo() timers accidentally lost their subsecond accuracy as
  the calculations used longs instead of doubles! Paul Harrington reported.

- The SSL SocketIsDead() checks weren't good enough (as expected really), so I
  had to add a generic internal try-it-out system. If the request on a re-used
  connection seems to fail, then we go back and get a new (fresh) connection
  and re-tries the request on that instead. It kind of makes the
  SocketIsDead() check obsolete, but I think it is a quicker way for those
  cases where it actually discovers that the connection is dead.

- When fixing the above, I noticed that we did quite a few writes to sockets
  in libcurl where we didn't check the return code (that it actually worked to
  send the data). With the new "attempted request" system we must detect those
  situations so I went over a bunch of functions, changed return types and
  added checks for what they actually return.

Version 7.9.1-pre6

Daniel (31 October 2001)
- Paul Harrington detected a problem with persistant SSL connections. Or to be
  more exact, we didn't properly detect that the connection was dead and then
  a second connection would try to re-use it wrongly. The solution to this
  problem is still not very clear and I'm working on it. One OpenSSL insider
  said there is no way to know if the SSL connection is alive or not without
  actually trying an operation.

Daniel (30 October 2001)
- If a cookie was read from a file, it could accidentally strdup() a NULL
  pointer. Paul Harrington reported. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26]

- The MANUAL file now documents -t correctly. I also fixed the -T description
  in the curl.1 man page.

Daniel (29 October 2001)
- John Janssen found out that curl_formadd was missing in the libcurl.def file
  and that the docs stated the wrong return type for the function.

- Andr<64>s Garc<72>a found a bug with multiple files in the curl_formadd() function,
  that I removed with this patch [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/formdata.c.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26].

- Kevin Roth brought another patch that moved the cygwin package files to the
  packages/Win32/cygwin directory.

- A bug in the connection re-use logic made repeated requests to the same FTP
  server (when using name+pasword in the URL) sometimes use more than one
  connection. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/url.c.diff?r1=1.166&r2=1.167]

- Moonesamy tracked down and fixed a problem with the new 7.9.1 connect
  code. This corrected the error Kevin Roth reported on the 7.9.1-pre5 release
  (test 19)...
  [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/connect.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14]

Daniel (26 October 2001)
- Added test28 which verifies that "Location:"-following works even if the
  contents is separated with more than one space.

Daniel (25 October 2001)
- Ramana Mokkapati pointed out that LDAP transfers would 'hang' after the
  correct data has been output.

Version 7.9.1-pre5

Daniel (24 October 2001)
- T. Bharath found a memory leak in the cookie engine. When we update a cookie
  that we already knew about, we lost a chunk of memory in the progress... The
  brand new test case 27 now tests for this occurrence. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/cookie.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25]

Daniel (23 October 2001)
- pack_hostent() didn't properly align some pointers, so at least SPARC CPUs
  would core. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/hostip.c.diff?r1=1.34&r2=1.35]

Daniel (22 October 2001)
- Tom Benoist reported that this SGI IRIX compiler didn't handle indented
  preprocessor instructions, so they're no longer in the source code!

- Applied Kevin Roth's patches to make it easier to build cygwin packages from
  the out-of-the-box curl release archives.

- I forgot to mention it below, but libcurl now closes connections that report
  transfer failures. Unconditionally. This could be made more nicely in the
  future if we set a flag or something that the connection is still good to be
  used for the errors that know that for a fact. We have to close the
  connection for the cases where we abort for example a HTTP transfer in the
  middle, or otherwise we might re-use that connection later with lots of data
  still being sent to us on it. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.63&r2=1.64]

Daniel (19 October 2001)
- CURLE_GOT_NOTHING is now returned when a HTTP server doesn't return
  anything, not even a header. test case 37 was added to test for this.

- T. Bharath made curl_easy_duphandle() properly clone the cookie status as
  well.

Version 7.9.1-pre4

Daniel (18 October 2001)
- CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, set with "curl --fail" no longer returns an error if
  the HTTP return code is below 400.

Daniel (17 October 2001)
- The test suite now kills any running test http server when you re-start the
  tests.

- We had to remove 'use strict' from two perl scripts, as the cygwin
  adjustments didn't play nicely otherwise for some reason. Any perl wizard
  out there who can put the scrict back and still make it run good on unix and
  cygwin?

- A potential memory leak pointed out to us by Yanick Pelletier was removed.
  It would occur when a http file transfer fails. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/curl/curl/lib/transfer.c.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61]

- The memory debugging system should no longer display anything to stderr
  if the curl_memdebug() hasn't been used to explicitly say so. This makes it
  easier to use the memory debug system and switch the logging on/off.

Daniel (16 October 2001)
- Kevin Roth provided fixes for building curl nicer in cygwin environments.

Daniel (12 October 2001)
- Cleaning up the progress meter/info code. The "current speed" is now more
  accurate than before as we now use the true time spent between the measures,
  and not just "assuming" every-second-update like before. The output should
  now also be of the same width at all times, never to show "extra" zeroes on
  the right edge.

- After talking about possible Location: bugs on the mailing list, I modified
  the "absolute URL" checker in lib/transfer.c to be more strict when checking
  if the redirected URL is absolute.

Daniel (11 October 2001)
- Kevin Roth provided patches that make the test suite run fine on Windows
  2000 running cygwin.

Daniel (10 October 2001)
- Setting the -c or the CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option now enables the cookie parser.
  Previously -b or CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE was also required for the jar to work.

Version 7.9.1-pre3

Daniel (9 October 2001)
- Added a new option to the command line client: -0/--http1.0. It uses the new
  libcurl option CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION to request that libcurl uses HTTP 1.0
  requests instead of the default version (1.1). It should only be used if you
  really MUST do that because of a silly remote server.

- Renamed the 'TimeCond' typedef in curl/curl.h to use a 'curl_' prefix as
  all public curl-symbols should.

- libcurl now explicitly ignores the SIGPIPE signal.

Daniel (8 October 2001)
- Kevin Roth's change to the cookie-jar comment (in the stored file) was
  applied.

- Lucas Adamski's minor bug in the bind error code failf() was fixed.

Daniel (5 October 2001)
- Moonesamy fixed the Curl_connecthost() function to not give compiler errors
  on a bunch of compilers, due to the argument named 'socket'.

- Moonesamy also provided updated VC++ makefiles and project files.

Version 7.9.1-pre2

Daniel (4 October 2001)
- Albert Chin provided a configure patch that makes the script detect proper
  gethostbyname_r() method without actually running any code, only compiling
  is necessary. This also removes the need of having a resolving 'localhost'
  name.

- Found and removed memory leakage (name resolve data) in libcurl on
  IPv6-enabled hosts. These could sneak through because we didn't have any
  resource tracing on the IPv6-related functions. We do now.

Daniel (3 October 2001)
- Keith McGuigan patched away a (mainly Windows-) problem with the name
  resolver data being kept in the static memory area, which is removed when a
  thread is killed. The curl handle itself though perfectly handles being
  passed between threads.

- Dirk Eddelbuettel reported an odd bug that turned out to be his proxy that
  required an Authorization: header. Now, proxies are not supposed to require
  that header, that is for true servers...

- I accidentally ruined Georg's curl_formadd(). Uh, bad me. Corrected now.

Version 7.9.1-pre1

Daniel (3 October 2001)
- Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not
  only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting
  the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the
  obsoleted curl_formparse.

Daniel (2 October 2001)
- Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking
  connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP
  addresses for any given host (if it resolves more than one and the first
  one(s) don't connect). Added a new source file 'connect.c' to deal with all
  the TCP connect stuff.

- We now support IPv4-style IP-addresses in rfc2732-format, to better support
  people writing scripts without knowing what address there is.

Daniel (28 September 2001)
- Cleanups in the FTP source code. Divided the code into even more smaller
  functions and generally tried to make the differences between IPv4 and IPv6
  get less noticable in the sources.

- If the remote file time is not readable/accessable/understood by libcurl,
  libcurl now returns -1 in the CURLINFO_FILETIME data, not 0 as it previously
  did. This should make curl not touch the file data unless there was a known
  remote date when -R is used.

Daniel (27 September 2001)
- Working on getting non-blocking connects working platform independent. We
  will also make curl try all IPs for a given host if the first one should
  fail.

Daniel (26 September 2001)
- Kevin Roth provided a cookie example that proved the cookie jar
  functionality wasn't working properly. I added test case 46 and made it
  work.

Daniel (25 September 2001)
- J<>rn Hartroth updated the mingw32 makefiles.

Version 7.9

Daniel (23 September 2001)
- Found and removed a 'socket leak' that would occur on IPv6 enabled hosts
  when FTP RETR failed.

- Made the FTP upload tests run fine on machines with IPv6 enabled.

Version 7.9-pre8

Daniel (19 September 2001)
- Vojtech Minarik set up a special-purpose test server and provided me with
  test certificates in order for me to repeat the bug reports #440068 and
  #440373. It turned out we didn't check all the error codes properly. We do
  now, and connecting with a unacceptable certificate will make libcurl fail
  to connect with an error code returned.

- Ramana Mokkapati found a case when the Location: following code did wrong.
  I wrote a test case for this (45).

Version 7.9-pre7

Daniel (17 September 2001)
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing fixed telnet for win32. It makes libcurl require
  winsock 2.0.

Version 7.9-pre6

- libtool 1.4.2 is now in use!

Version 7.9-pre5

Daniel (14 September 2001)
- Added another 14 ftp tests.

Daniel (13 September 2001)
- Added curl_easy_duphandle() to the easy.h header file. It has now been
  tested and proved to work in a real-world tests by T Bharath. We still need
  to write up some docs for this function.

- Added four more ftp tests to the test suite.

Daniel (12 September 2001)
- CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST was added, and the curl tool option is named
  --ciphers. Use them to specify a list of ciphers to use in the SSL
  connection.

- T. Bharath found a memory leak in libcurl's windows version. It turned out
  to be the new duphandle() that didn't quite work yet.

Version 7.9-pre4

Daniel (11 September 2001)
- Added verbose output for SSL connections that output the server
  certificate's start and expire dates. As suggested by Paul Harrington.

- Heikki Korpela found problems in the perl ftp server used for the test
  suite, when he runs on on OpenBSD with perl 5.6. Some changes have been
  made, but nothing really certain.

- T. Bharath has experienced problems with libcurl's stack usage on windows
  and works on reducing it.

Daniel (10 September 2001)
- Cris Bailiff fixed the perl interface. It stopped working since the changed
  behavior with WRITEHEADER and NULL pointers.

- The "output cookies" function could dump core if no cookies were enabled.

Daniel (7 September 2001)
- SM pointed out that the SSL code didn't compile any longer if SSL was
  disabled... Also, we needed to correct the #include for the utime stuff on
  windows.

Daniel (6 September 2001)
- T. Bharath pointed out a flaw in the SSL session cache code that made it
  sometimes read from a NULL pointer.

Version 7.9-pre3

Daniel (3 September 2001)
- Added the -R/--remote-time option, that uses the remote file's datestamp to
  set the local file's datestamp. Thus, when you get a remote file your local
  file will get the same time and date. Note that this only works when you use
  -o or -O.

- Installed libtool 1.4.1, libtoolized and everything.

Daniel (1 September 2001)
- Heikki Korpela pointed out that I did not ship the proper libtool stuff in 
  the pre-releases, even though that was my intention. libtoolize has now
  been re-run.

- Heikki also patched away the bad use of 'make -C' in the test suite
  makefile. make -C is not very portable and is now banned from here.

Version 7.9-pre2

Daniel (31 August 2001)
- I just made a huge internal struct rehaul, and all the big internally used
  structs have been renamed, redesigned and stuff have been moved around a bit
  to make the source easier to follow, more logically grouped and to hopefully
  decrease future bugs. I also hope that this will make new functions to get
  easier to add, and make it less likely that we have bugs left like the URL-
  free bug from August 23.

Version 7.9-pre1

Daniel (29 August 2001)
- The new cookie code have enabled the brand new '-c/--cookie-jar' option. Use
  that to specify the file name in which you want to have all cookies curl
  knows of, dumped to. It'll be written using the netscape cookie format.

  This is internally done with the new CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option to libcurl,
  which in turn dumps this information when curl_easy_cleanup() is invoked.
  There might be reasons to re-consider my choice of putting it there. Perhaps
  it is better placed to get done just before *_perform() is done. It is all
  of course depending on how you guys want to use this feature...

- Added ftpupload.c in the source examples section, based on source code posted
  by Erick Nuwendam.

Daniel (28 August 2001)
- Now running libtool CVS branch-1-4 to generate stuff. Should fix problems
  on OpenBSD and hopefully on FreeBSD as well!

- Georg Huettenegger modified the curl_formadd() functionality slightly, and
  added support for error code 417 when doing form post and using the Expect:
  header. Great work!

- Made some tests with cached SSL session IDs, and they seem to work. There
  should be a significant speed improvement in the SSL connection phase, but
  in my tiny tests it just isn't possible to notice any difference. Like other
  caching in libcurl, you must reuse the same handle for the caching to take
  effect. SSL session ID caching is done on a per host-name and destination
  port number basis.

  Set verbose, and you'll get informational tests when libcurl detects and
  uses a previous SSL session ID.

- Upgraded to automake 1.5 on my development/release machine.

Daniel (27 August 2001)
- Slowly started writing SSL session ID caching code

Daniel (24 August 2001)
- T. Bharath removed compiler warnings on windows and updated the MS project
  files.

- Kevin Roth reported two kinds of command line constructs with the new -G that
  curl didn't really deal with the way one would like.

- Tim Costello patched away a use of strcasecmp() in the SSL code. We have our
  own portable version named strequal() that should be used!

- Tim also pointed out a problem in the lib/Makefile.vc6 file that made it mix
  debug object modules causing confusions.

Daniel (23 August 2001)
- T. Bharath accurately found a libcurl bug that would happen when doing a
  second invoke of curl_easy_perform() with a new URL when the previous invoke
  followed a Location: header.

- Started the improvement work on the cookie engine:
  - Now keeps cookies in the same order as the cookie file
  - A write to the possibly static string was removed
  - Added a function that can output all cookies
  - Now supports reading multiple cookie files

- Steve Lhomme corrected a DLL naming issue in the MSVC++ project file.

- Split up the monster function in lib/ftp.c to use more smallish functions to
  increase readability and maintainability.

Daniel (21 August 2001)
- Georg Huettenegger's big patch was applied. Now we have:
  o "Expect: 100-continue" support. We will from now on send that header in
    all rfc1867-posts, as that makes us abort much faster when the server
    rejects our POST. Posting without the Expect: header is still possible in
    the standard replace-internal-header style.
  o curl_formadd() is a new formpost building function that is introduced to
    replace the now deprecated curl_formparse() function. The latter function
    will still hang around for a while, but the curl_formadd() is the new way
    and correct way to build form posts.
  o Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes

  These changes are reason enough to name the next curl release 7.9...

- We now convert man pages to HTML pages and include them in the release
  archive. For the pleasure of everyone without nroff within reach.

- Andr<64>s Garc<72>a's suggested flushing of the progress meter output stream was
  added. It should make the progress meter look better on Windows.

- Troy Engel pointed out a mistake in the configure script that made it fail
  on many Red Hat boxes!

Daniel (20 August 2001)
- We need an updated libtool to make a better build environment for OpenBSD
  as well as FreeBSD

Version 7.8.1

Daniel (20 August 2001)
- Brad pointed out that we ship two extra libtool files in the tarballs that
  we really don't need to! Removing them makes the gz-archive about 60K
  smaller!

- Albert Chin brought fixes for the configure script to detect socklen_t
  properly as well as moving lots of our custom autoconf macros to
  acinclude.m4.

Daniel (19 August 2001)
- Moonesamy improved his -G feature for host names only URLs...

Daniel (17 August 2001)
- Finally cleaned up the kerberos code to use Curl_ prefixes on all global
  symbols and to not use global variables.

Version 7.8.1-pre6

Daniel (16 August 2001)
- S. Moonesamy added the -G option to curl, that converts the data specified
  with -d to a GET request. Default action when using -d is POST. When -G is
  used, the -d specified data will be appended to the URL with a '?'
  separator. As suggested previously by Kevin Roth.

- curl-config --libs should now display all linker options required to link
  with libcurl. It includes the path and options for libcurl itself.
  curl-config --cflags displays the compiler option(s) needed to compile
  source files that use libcurl functions. Basically, that sets the include
  path correct.

Daniel (15 August 2001)
- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz pointed out a mistake in how IPv6-style IP-addresses
  were parsed and used. (RFC2732-format)

- Bug #12733 over on php.net identified a problem in libcurl that made it core
  dump if you used CURLOPT_POST without setting any data to post with
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS! This is no longer the case. Not using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
  now equals setting it to no data at all.

- Ramana Mokkapati reported that curl with '-w %{http_code}' didn't work
  properly when used for multiple URLs on a single command line. Indeed, the
  variable was not reset between the requests. This is now fixed.

- David James fixed the Borland makefile so that libcurl still compiles and
  builds with that compiler.

Daniel (14 August 2001)
- Oops. I ruined Nico's socklen_t define in config-vms.h, corrected it now.

- An older item not mentioned here before: CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32 is a define for
  windows users to curl_global_init(), that makes libcurl init the winsock
  stuff. If libcurl is all socket stuff you do, then allowing it to fiddle
  with this is a comfortable shortcut to fame.

Version 7.8.1-pre5

Daniel (14 August 2001)
- Nico Baggus provided more feedback from his VMS porting efforts and a few
  minor changes were necessary.

- I modified configure.in so that --enable-debug sets more picky gcc options.
  I then removed almost all the new warnings that appeared, and by doing so I
  corrected the size_t-treated-as-signed problem that has been discussed on
  the mailing list previously. I also removed a bunch of the just recently
  added #ifdef VMS lines.

- I removed the use of a global variable in the SSL code. It was once
  necessary but hasn't been needed since OpenSSL 0.9.4. The old code should
  (hopefully) still work if libcurl is built against an ancient version of
  OpenSSL.

Daniel (13 August 2001)
- Peter Todd posted a patch that now allows non-file rc1867-style form posts
  to be larger than 4K.

Daniel (10 August 2001)
- S. Moonesamy fixed bugs for building debug and SSL lib in VC makefile

Daniel (9 August 2001)
- The redirected error stream was closed before the curl_easy_cleanup() call
  was made, and when VERBOSE was enabled, the cleanup function tried to use
  the stream. It could lead to a segmentation fault. Also, the stream was
  closed even if we looped to get more files.  Corrects Dustin Boswell's bug
  report #441610

- Now generates the release configure script with autoconf 2.52

Version 7.8.1-pre4

Daniel (8 August 2001)
- curl -E uses a colon to separate a file name from a passphrase. This turned
  out really bad for the windows people who wants to include a drive letter in
  the file name like "c:\cert.pem". There's now a win32 work-around
  implemented that tries work around that, when the colon seems to be used for
  this kind of construct.

- Patrick Bihan-Faou introduced CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, which makes curl
  verify the server's CN field when talking https://. If --cacert is not used,
  any failures in matching is only displayed as information (-v).

Daniel (7 August 2001)
- Wrote up nine more test cases, more or less converted from the former test
  suite.

Daniel (6 August 2001)
- Heikki Korpela posted a patch that makes 'curl-config --libs' include the
  directory in which libcurl itself is installed in. While this wasn't my
  initial intention with this option, it makes sense and makes linking with
  libcurl easier.

- Stefan Ulrich pointed out to us that other tools and libraries treat file://
  URLs with only one slash after the host name slighly different than libcurl
  does. Since all the others seem to agree, we better follow them.

- Nico Baggus provided us with a huge set of fixes to make curl compile and
  build under OpenVMS.

Version 7.8.1-pre3

Daniel (6 August 2001)
- Jonathan Hseu noticed that you couldn't get a header callback unless you
  set CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER to non-NULL, even if you didn't care about that
  data. This is now fixed.

Daniel (5 August 2001)
- Sergio Ballestrero provided a patch for reading responses from NCSA httpd
  1.5.x servers, as they return really screwed up response headers when asked
  for with HTTP 1.1.

- curl_escape() no longer treats already encoded characters in the input
  string especially.

Daniel (3 August 2001)
- I replaced the former lib/arpa_telnet.h file with one I wrote myself, to
  avoid the BSD annoucement clause of the license in the former file.

- Andrew Francis provided a new version of base64.c to work around the license
  boiler plate that came with the previous one. I patched it, but the glory
  should go to Andrew for his heads up.

- Tomasz Lacki noticed that when you do repeated transfers with libcurl you
  couldn't always reliably change HTTP request. This has now been fixed and a
  new libcurl option was added: CURLOPT_HTTPGET, that can force the HTTP
  requestr (back) to GET.

- Linus Nielsen Feltzing pointed out that httpsserver.pl wasn't included in
  release archives. It should be now.

Daniel (2 August 2001)
- Frank Keeney pointed out a manual mistake for certificate convertions.

- Tomasz Lacki pointed out a problem in the transfer loop that could make the
  select() loop use far too much CPU.

- Pawel A. Gajda pointed out an output mistake done when using libcurl's
  progress callback.

Daniel (29 June 2001)
- Naveen Noel noticed that the Borland library makefile wasn't updated.

- Nic Roets brought a fix for the certificate verification when using SSL.

Daniel (27 June 2001)
- Made the FTP tests run OK even on machines running curl IPv6-enabled.

- Troy Engel corrected some RPM package details.

Version 7.8.1-pre2

Daniel (25 June 2001)
- Bj<42>rn Stenberg correctly identified a problem that occurred when downloading
  several files with curl, and using resume. The first file's resume index was
  then used for all files, resulting in weird results...

- Anton Kalmykov provided a fix that makes curl work with form field names
  with spaces like when -F is used.

Version 7.8.1-pre1

Daniel (20 June 2001)
- Mike Bytnar provided a fine report that proved that the --with-ssl option
  for configure needed tweaking. It no longer searches the default directories
  for OpenSSL libs or directories when a specified path is given.

Daniel (19 June 2001)
- When an FTP transfer is cut off during transfer, curl could present a truly
  garbaged error message and in worst case dump core. Thanks to detailed
  reports from Shawn Poulson we nailed this.

Daniel (12 June 2001)
- Salvador D<>vila provided a fix for FTP range downloads.

- Added a few more test cases from the former test suite to the new file
  format. We're now at a total of 26 tests.

Daniel (11 June 2001)
- libcurl's version-info was wrong, as noted by both Domenico Andreoli and
  David Odin.

Daniel (7 June 2001)
- J<>rn fixed the curl_unescape duplicate entry in lib/libcurl.def

- I made SSL certificate failure messages to be more detailed.

Version 7.8

Daniel (7 June 2001)
- SDavila provided a resumed download fix.

Version 7.8-pre4

Daniel (1 June 2001)
- Sterling provided some new PHP examples.

- Changed the CVS hierarchy and the older checkout instruction does no longer
  work. We moved the entire source code into a CVS module named 'curl'.

Daniel (31 May 2001)
- CURLOPT_MUTE does not exist anymore. It is still present in the include file
  to not cause compiler errors for applications using it, but it isn't used
  anywhere in the library.

Version 7.8-pre3

Daniel (31 May 2001)
- Once and for all fixed the _REENTRANT mess for Solaris compiles to present
  less warnings.

- Sterling Hughes tirelessly points out and corrects my mistakes...! So,
  curl_global_init() now lets the argument flags *SET* what parts to
  init. CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT makes a nice default, CURL_GLOBAL_ALL inits all
  known subsystems and CURL_GLOBAL_NONE inits nothing more than absolutely
  necessary. Man page updated accordingly.

- Fixed the strtok.h include file as it wouldn't compile on all platforms!

Daniel (30 May 2001)
- Made libcurl by default act as if CURLOPT_MUTE and CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS were
  set TRUE. Set them to FALSE to make libcurl more talkative. The *_MUTE
  option is subject for complete removal...

Version 7.8-pre2

Daniel (30 May 2001)
- Cris Bailiff wrote a makefile for building Solaris packages.

- Sterling Hughes brought fixes for 'buildconf' (the build-from-CVS tool) and
  we discussed and added a few CURL_GLOBAL_* flags in include/curl.h

- Kjetil Jacobsen privately announced his python interface to libcurl,
  available at http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/

Daniel (29 May 2001)
- Sterling Hughes fixed a strtok() problem in libcurl. It is not a thread-
  safe function. Now configure checks for a thread-safe version, and
  lib/strtok.c offers one for the systems that don't come with one included!

- Mettgut Jamalla correctly pointed out that the -# progress bar was written
  to stderr even though --stderr redirection was used. This is now corrected.

- I moved out the list of contributors from the curl.1 man page and made a
  separate docs/THANKS file. It makes the list easier to find, and made it
  easier for me to make a separate web page with that same information.

  I really do want all you guys mentioned in there to feel you get the credit
  you deserve.

- lib/easy.c didn't compile properly in the 7.8-pre1 due to a silly mistake

Version 7.8-pre1

Daniel (28 May 2001)
- curl-config now supports '--vernum' that outputs a plain hexadecimal version
  of the libcurl version number (using 8 bits for each 3 numbers). Version
  7.7.4 appears as 070704

- Wrote man pages for curl_global_init and curl_global_cleanup...

- T. Bharath brought news about the usage of the OpenSSL interface that was
  not previously taken into consideration and thus caused libcurl to leak
  memory.  The only somewhat sane approach to fix this dilemma, is adding two
  two new functions curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() that should
  be called *ONCE* by the application using libcurl. The init should be done
  only at startup, no matter how many threads the application is gonna use,
  and the cleanup should be called when the application has finished using
  libcurl completely.

  *** UPGRADE NOTICE ***

  If you write applications using libcurl, you really want to use the two
  functions mentioned above !!!

  I can't say I think this is a very beautiful solution, but as OpenSSL
  insists on making lots of stuff on a "global" scope, we're forced to walk
  the path they point us to.

- Moving more test cases into the new file format.

Version 7.7.4-pre3

Daniel (23 May 2001)
- Introduced a new file format for storing test cases, and thus I had to
  modify all the perl test scripts and more (I added a new one). I have not
  "ported" all the old test cases to the new format yet, but it'll come.

  The main advantage of this new format is that all test data for each test
  case is stored in a single file. It gives a better overview for each test
  case and a lot less files.

- Andr<64>s Garc<72>a brought a fix for the netscape/mozilla cookie file parsing
  function, as it turns out it doesn't always store the path!

Daniel (22 May 2001)
- As was reported anonymously, when FAILONERROR was used, the httpcode was
  not stored properly and thus wasn't possibly to read after a transfer with
  the curl_easy_getinfo() function. This is now corrected.

- Installed and made use of the following tool versions:
    autoconf 2.50
    libtool 1.4
    automake 1.4-p1

  I wouldn't recommend any developer to try to generate things with older
  versions than these. Building from CVS will probably more or less require
  at least these versions.

  As a result of this, the configure script grew to more than double its
  previous size!

  Arkadiusz Miskiewicz helped me by pointing out I had to remove my
  acinclude.m4 file before I could get it working!

Daniel (21 May 2001)
- I made ftps:// work. Added test case 400 to the release archive, as the
  first ftps:// test case. Requires stunnel.

- Also made the test cases that runs ssl tests not run if libcurl isn't built
  with ssl support.

Daniel (19 May 2001)
- Made the configure not add any extra -L LDFLAGS or -I CPPFLAGS unless they
  are actually needed. Albert Chin's and Domenico Andreoli's suggestions
  helped out.

Version 7.7.4-pre2

Daniel (18 May 2001)
- Nicer configure-check for the OpenSSL headers, which then sets the proper
  variable to have curl-config be good. (Albert Chin provided the fix)

- For systems that don't have theiw own 'strlcat()' libcurl provides its own.
  It was now renamed to prevent collides with other libs. (After discussions
  with Sterling Hughes and the implications this had on PHP builds.)

Daniel (17 May 2001)
- Colm Buckley posted a detailed bug report on (the debianized) 7.7.3, that
  turned out to be a problem with the debian-built 7.7.3-package that
  contained files from the 7.7.2 release!

- I added the CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE again, but with a fake value, just to
  make programs that use it, not fail when compiling against this version of
  libcurl.

Daniel (14 May 2001)
- Pawel A. Gajda fixed a problem with resumed transfers on re-used persistent
  connections.

Version 7.7.4-pre1

Daniel (14 May 2001)
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino fixed FTP PORT for IPv6-enabled libcurl.

- Added the first HTTPS test to the test suite in the release archive.

Daniel (12 May 2001)
- Jukka Pihl suggested that if (lib)curl is told to verify the peer's
  certificate and the peer can't be verified, it should fail and return a
  proper error code. I added a brand new error code named
  CURLE_SSL_PEER_CERTIFICATE for this purpose.

Daniel (11 May 2001)
- As was discussed with Frederic Lepied a while ago, I now made libcurl not
  return error even though no data was transfered on upload/download resume
  when the no transfer is needed. The CURLE_ALREADY_COMPLETE error was removed
  from the header file to make any implemenator that uses that to be aware of
  the fact that it can't be returned anymore!

- Improved general header-parsing to better allow white spaces and more.

- Rodney Simmons proved the fix I did yesterday was bad and I had to post
  another one.

- Ingo Wilken patched away two redirect problems more!
  
Daniel (10 May 2001)
- Cris Bailiff correctly noted that the space-after-header problem with
  Location: is present on several other places in the libcurl sources.

- Ingo Wilken patched away a problem libcurl had when following Location:
  headers with an extra space after the colon.

- Rodney Simmons found out that multiple FTP transfers did not treat relative
  directories correctly.

Daniel (9 May 2001)
- Getting an FTP file with CURLOPT_NOBODY set (or -I from the command line),
  makes curl use the non-standard ftp command "SIZE". If it failed, libcurl
  returned error. Starting now, it just don't output the file size instead.
  Anonymous bug report.

- stunnel.pm was accidentally left out from the release archive, it is now
  added (stunnel is needed to run the https-tests in the test suite)
  
Daniel (7 May 2001)
- Corrected two minor compiler warnings due to the FILE * to void * conversion
  that I missed at two places. J<>rn Hartroth brought me patches. Sander Gates
  filed a bug report on this.

Version 7.7.3

Daniel (4 May 2001)
- All callback functions now take 'void *' instead of 'FILE *'. This is made
  this way to make it more obvious to people that anything can be passed to
  them (by using the apropriate option). After discussions with Sterling
  Hughes.

Daniel (3 May 2001)
- Cris Bailiff fixed a chunked transfer encoding problem with persistent
  connection that made libcurl fail if the persistent connection used mixed
  chunked and non-chunked transfers.

- Cris Bailiff fixed a bad treatment of 304-replies, as they would not be
  treated as content-length 0 replies but would cause a "hang" until the
  server timed-out and closed the connection.

- Brad Burdick found a minor problem in the docs/examples/Makefile.am

Daniel (27 April 2001)
- Updated the INTERALS document again. It was lagging a bit. I think I made it
  more easy to follow now as well.

- Brad Burdick found a problem with persistent connections when curl received
  a "Content-Length: 0" header.

- Giuseppe D'Ambrosio was first out to report that TELNET doesn't work in curl
  compiled/built on win32. It seems to work for unixes though!

- Dave Hamilton reported weird problems with CURL/PHP that I really can't
  explain at the moment. I'm hoping on some help from the PHP crew.

Daniel (26 April 2001)
- I rewrote the FTP command response function. I had to do it to make ftps
  work, as the OpenSSL read()-function didn't work the same way the normal
  unix read() does, but it was also a huge performance boost. Previously the
  function read one byte at a time, now it reads very large chunks, and it
  makes a notable speed difference.

Daniel (25 April 2001)
- Connection re-use when not using a proxy didn't work properly for
  non-default port numbers.

Daniel (24 April 2001)
- I've noticed that FTPS doesn't work. We attempt to use ssl even for the
  data transfer, which causes the transfer to 'hang'... We need to fix this.

- Improved the test suite to use 'stunnel' to do HTTPS and FTPS testing on
  the alredy written perl servers easily.

Daniel (23 April 2001)
- The OpenSSL version string recently modified didn't zero terminate one
  of the generated strings properly, which could lead to a crash or simply
  weird version string output!

Version 7.7.2

Daniel (22 April 2001)
- Rosimildo da Silva updated the Makefiles for Borland/Windows.

- Eric Rautman pointed out a problem with persistent connections that would
  lead to broken Host: headers in the second HTTP request.

Daniel (20 April 2001)
- Added man pages for the curl_strequal() and curl_mprintf() families. Wrote
  a 'libcurl overview' man page.

- Spell-fixed some documents.

- S. Moonesamy corrected mistakes in the man page.

- Cris Bailiff fixed the curl_slists options in the perl interface, present
  separately in the Curl::easy 1.1.4 package.

Daniel (19 April 2001)
- Linus Nielsen Feltzing removed the decimals from the size variables in the
  --write-out output. We hardly ever get fraction of bytes! :-)

Version 7.7.2-pre1

Daniel (19 April 2001)

- Albert Chin provided a configure patch for the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.

Daniel (18 April 2001)
- Input from Michael Mealling made me add --feature to curl-config. It
  displays a list of features that have been built-in in the current
  libcurl. The currently available features that can be listed are: SSL, KRB4
  and IPv6.

- I committed Cris and Georg's perl interface work. They've got callbacks
  working and options that receives those slist pointers.

- Puneet Pawaia detected a problem with resumed downloads that use persistent
  connections and I made a rather large writeup to correct this. It is
  important that all session-data is stored in the connectdata struct and not
  in the main struct as this previously did.

Daniel (17 April 2001)
- Frederic Lepied fixed a ftp resumed download problem and introduced a new
  error code that lets applications be able to detect when a resumed download
  actually didn't download anything since the whole file is already present.
  Should this return OK instead?

- I added 'curl-config.in' to the root dir and configure script. Now, a
  curl-config script is made when curl is built. The script can be used to
  figure out compile time options used when libcurl was built, which in turn
  should be options YOU should use to build applications that use libcurl.

  This *-config style is not a new idea, but something that has been used
  successfully in other (library based) projects.

- Phil Karn pointed out that libcurl wrongly did not always use GMT time zone
  for the If-Modified-Since style headers.

- Georg Schwarz pointed out an extra needed #include file needed in src/main.c
  for curl to build on Ultrix.

Daniel (11 April 2001)
- Cris Bailiff pointed out two problems that I corrected. First, libcurl's use
  of the environment variable HTTP_PROXY in uppercase may become a security
  hazard when people use libcurl in a server/cgi situation where the server
  sets the HTTP_*-variables according to incoming headers in the HTTP
  request. Thus, a "Proxy:"-header would set that environment variable!

  Then, invoking curl_easy_perform() without having an URL set caused a crash.

- S. Moonesamy brought a patch that make curl use non-blocking connects on
  windows when connection timeout is set, as it allows windows users to set
  that timeout!

- Hirotaka Matsuyuki wrote a Ruby interface to libcurl!

- Cris Bailiff, Forrest Cahoon and Georg Horn work on the Perl interface.

- I've written a first shot at a Java interface to libcurl. Many thanks to
  Daniel Marell for tirelessly answering to all my basic Java questions. It
  works, but it is still very basic.

Daniel (10 April 2001)
- The progress display could get silly when doing multiple file transfers, as
  it wasn't properly reset between transfers!

- Discussions with Cris Bailiff who writes a Perl interface to libcurl, made
  me add CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION. It can be used to set a separate callback
  function for writing headers. Previously you could only set a different FILE
  * when headers are written from within libcurl.

Daniel (7 April 2001)
- Andr<64>s Garc<72>a fixed a problem in curl_escape() and pointed out a flaw in
  the curl_easy_setopt man page.

Daniel (6 April 2001)
- Adjusted the version code to properly display OpenSSL 0.9.6a. They sure
  change their version define format often...

- curl_formfree() now accepts a NULL pointer without crashing!

Version 7.7.1

Daniel (3 April 2001)
- Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
  read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
  Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.

- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
  it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistent and non-
  persistent connections. I think I've fixed it now.

Daniel (29 March 2001)
- Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.

- Experimental ftps:// support added. It is basically FTP over SSL for the
  control connection. It still makes all data transfers going over unencrypted
  connections. Rainer Weikusat's ftpd-ssl server hack supports this and I used
  that to verify the functionality.

Daniel (27 March 2001)
- Guenole Bescon discovered that if you set a CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and then tried
  to get a file from a site and it fails, the SIGALRM would still be sent
  after the timeout-time, quite inexpectedly!

- I added an ftp transfer example to docs/examples/ and I also wrote a tiny
  example makefile that can be used as a start when building one of the
  examples.

Version 7.7.1-beta1

Daniel (26 March 2001)
- Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistent HTTP/1.0
  connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
  problem was not properly dealt with in 7.7 either. A patch was posted to the
  curl-and-php mailing list.

Daniel (24 March 2001)
- Colin Watson reported about a problem and brought a patch that corrected it,
  which was about the man page and lines starting with a single quote (') in a
  way that gnroff doesn't like.

Daniel (23 March 2001)
- Peter Bray reported correctly that the root makefile used make instead of
  $(MAKE) for the test target.

- Corrected the Curl::easy perl interface to use curl_easy_setopt() and not
  curl_setopt() which was removed in 7.7!

- S. Moonesamy provided updates on three documents (MANUAL, INSTALL and FAQ).

- When following a Location:, libcurl would sometimes write to the URL string
  in a way it shouldn't. As the pointer is passed-in to libcurl from an
  application, we can't be allowed to write to it. The particular bug report
  from 'nk' that brought this up was because he had a read-only URL that then
  caused a libcurl crash!

- No longer reads HEAD responses longer than to the last header. Previously,
  curl would read the full reply if the connection was a "close" one.

- libcurl did re-use connections way too much. Doing "curl
  http://www.{microsoft,ibm}.com" would make it re-use the connection which
  made the second request return very odd results.

Daniel (22 March 2001)
- Edin Kadribasic made me aware that curl should not re-send POST requests
  when following 302-redirects. I made 302 work like 303 which means curl uses
  GET in the following request(s).

- libcurl now reset the "followed-location" counter on each invoke of
  curl_easy_perform() as it otherwise would sum up all redirects on the same
  connection and thus could reach the maxredirs counter wrongly.

- Jim Drash suggested curl_escape() should not re-encode what already looks
  like an encoded sequence and I think that's a fair suggestion.

Version 7.7

Daniel (22 March 2001)
- The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is
  detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of
  arguments it is supposed to get). Reports from Andr<64>s Garc<72>a made me aware
  of this need.

- Talking with Jim Drash made me finally put the curl_escape and curl_unescape
  functions in the curl.h include file and write man pages for them. The
  escape function was modified to use the same interface as the unescape one
  had.

- No bug reports at all on the latest betas. Release time coming up.

Version 7.7-beta5

Daniel (19 March 2001)
- Georg Ottinger reported problems with using -C together with -L in the sense
  that the -C info got lost when it was redirected. I could not repeat this
  problem on the 7.7 branch why I leave this for the moment. Test case 39 was
  added to do exactly this, and it seems to do right.

- Christian Robottom Reis reported how his 7.7 beta didn't successfully do
  form posts as elegantly as 7.6.1 did. Indeed, this was a flaw in the header
  engine, as HTTP 1.1 has introduced a new 100 "transient" return code for PUT
  and POST operations that I need to add support for. Section 8.2.3 in RFC2616
  has all the details. Seems to work now!

Daniel (16 March 2001)
- After having experienced another machine break-down, we're back.

- Georg Horn's perl interface Curl::easy is now included in the curl release
  archive. The perl/ directory is now present. Please help me with docs,
  examples and updates you think fit.

- Made a new php/ directory in the release archive and moved the PHP examples
  into a subdirectory in there. Not much PHP info yet, but I plan to. Please
  help me here as well!

- Made libcurl return error if a transfer is aborted in the middle of a
  "chunk". It actually enables libcurl to discover premature transfer aborts
  even if the Content-Length: size is unknown.

Daniel (15 March 2001)
- Added --connect-timeout to curl, which sets the new CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
  option in libcurl. It limits the time curl is allowed to spend in the
  connection phase. This differs from -m/--max-time that limits the entire
  file transfer operation. Requested by Larry Fahnoe and others.

  I also updated the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages and removed the
  item from the TODO.

Version 7.7-beta4

Daniel (14 March 2001)
- Made curl grok IPv6 with HTTP proxies and got everything to compile nicely
  again when ENABLE_IPV6 is set.

  I need to remake things in the test suite. I can't test the FTP parts with
  curl built for IPv6 as it uses a different set of FTP commands then!

- I fell onto a bug report on php.net (posted by Lars Torben Wilson) that was
  a report meant for our project. Anyway, it said the .netrc parsing didn't
  work as supposed, and as I agreed with Lars, I made the netrc parser use
  getpwuid() to figure out the home directory of the effective user and try
  that netrc. It still uses the environment variable HOME for those that don't
  have that function or if the user doesn't return valid pwd info.

- Edin Kadribaic posted a bug report where he got a crash when a fetch with
  user+password in the URL followed a Location: to a second URL (absolute,
  without name+password). This bug has been around for a long while and
  crashes due to a read at address zero. Fixed now. Wrote test case 38, that
  tests this.

- Modified the test suite's httpserver slightly to append all client request
  data to its log file so that the test script now better can verify a range
  of requests and not only the last one, as it did previously.

- Updated the curl man page with --random-file and --egd-file details.

Version 7.7-beta3

Daniel (14 March 2001)
- Bj<42>rn Stenberg provided similar fixes as J<>rn did and some additional patches
  for non-SSL compiles.

- I increased the interface number for libcurl as I've removed the low level
  functions from the interface. I also took this opportunity to rename the
  Curl_strequal function to curl_strequal and Curl_strnequal to
  curl_strnequal, as they're public libcurl functions (even if they're still
  undocumented).

  This will make older programs not capable of using the new libcurl with
  just a drop-in replacement.

- J<>rn Hartroth updated stuff for win32 compiles:
  o config-win32.h was fixed for socklen_t
  o lib/ssluse.c had a bad #endif placement
  o lib/file.c was made to compile on win32 again
  o lib/Makefile.m32 was updated with the new files
  o lib/libcurl.def matches the current interface state

Daniel (13 March 2001)
- It only took an hour or so before J<>rn Hartroth found a problem in the
  chunked transfer-encoding. Given his fine example-site, I could easily spot
  the problem and when I re-read the spec (the part I have pasted in the top
  of the http_chunks.h file), I realized I had made my state-machine slightly
  wrong and didn't expect/handle the trailing CRLF that comes after the data
  in each chunk (and those extra two bytes sure feel wasted).

  Had to modify test case 34 to match this as well.

Version 7.7-beta2

Daniel (13 March 2001)
- Added the policy stuff to the curl_easy_setopt man page for the two supported
  policies.

- Implemented some support for the CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY option. The policies
  CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED and CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST are now
  supported, and the "least recently used" is used as default if no policy
  is chosen.

Daniel (12 March 2001)
- Added CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE and CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET to libcurl for seeding the
  SSL random engine. The random seeding support was also brought to the curl
  client with the new options --random-file <file> and --egd-file <file>. I
  need some people to really test this to know they work as supposed. Remember
  that libcurl now informs (if verbose is on) if the random seed is considered
  weak (HTTPS connections).

- Made the chunked transfer-encoding engine detected bad formatted data length
  and return error if so (we can't possibly extract sensible data if this is
  the case). Added a test case that detects this. Number 36. Now there are 60
  test cases.

- Added 5 new libcurl options to curl/curl.h that can be used to control the
  persistent connection support in libcurl. They're also documented (fairly
  thoroughly) in the curl_easy_setopt.3 man page. Three of them are now
  implemented, although not really tested at this point... Anyway, the new
  implemented options are named CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,
  CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE. The ones still left to write code for are:
  CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY and its related option CURLOPT_CLOSEFUNCTION.

- Made curl (the actual command line tool) use the new libcurl 7.7 persistent
  connection support by re-using the same curl handle for every specified file
  transfer and after some more test case tweaking we have 100% test case OK.
  I made some test cases return HTTP/1.0 now to make sure that works as well.

- Had to add 'Connection: close' to the headers of a bunch of test cases so
  that curl behaves "old-style" since the test http server doesn't do multiple
  connections... Now I get 100% test case OK.

- The curl.haxx.se site, the main curl mailing list and my personal email are
  all dead today due to power blackout in the area where the main servers are
  located. Horrible.

- I've made persistance work over a squid HTTP proxy. I find it disturbing
  that it uses headers that aren't present in any HTTP standard though
  (Proxy-Connection:) and that makes me feel that I'm now on the edge of what
  the standard actually defines. I need to get this code excercised on a lot
  of different HTTP proxies before I feel safe.

  Now I'm facing the problem with my test suite servers (both FTP and HTTP)
  not supporting persistent connections and libcurl is doing them now. I have
  to fix the test servers to get all the test cases do OK.

Daniel (8 March 2001)
- Guenole Bescon reported that libcurl did output errors to stderr even if
  MUTE and NOPROGRESS was set. It turned out to be a bug and happens if
  there's an error and no ERRORBUFFER is set. This is now corrected.

Version 7.7-beta1

Daniel (8 March 2001)
- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is no longer any trouble for libcurl. I've
  added two source files and I've run some test downloads that look fine.

- HTTP HEAD works too, even on 1.1 servers.

Daniel (5 March 2001)
- The current 57 test cases now pass OK. It would suggest that libcurl works
  using the old-style with one connection per handle. The test suite doesn't
  handle multiple connections yet so there are no test cases for this.

- I patched the telnet.c heavily to not use any global variables anymore. It
  should make it a lot nicer library-wise.

- The file:// support was modified slightly to use the internal connect-first-
  then-do approach.

Daniel (4 March 2001)
- More bugs erased.

Version 7.7-alpha2

Daniel (4 March 2001)
- Now, there's even a basic check that a re-used connection is still alive
  before it is assumed so. A few first tests have proven that libcurl will
  then re-connect instead of re-use the dead connection!

Daniel (2 March 2001)
- Now they work intermixed as well. Major coolness!

- More fiddling around, my 'tiny' client I have for testing purposes now has
  proved to download both FTP and HTTP with persistent connections. They do
  not work intermixed yet though.

Daniel (1 March 2001)
- Wilfredo Sanchez pointed out a minor spelling mistake in a man page and that
  curl_slist_append() should take a const char * as second argument. It does
  now.

Daniel (22 February 2001)
- The persistent connections start to look good for HTTP. On a subsequent
  request, it seems that libcurl now can pick an already existing connection
  if a suitable one exists, or it opens a new one.

- Douglas R. Horner mailed me corrections to the curl_formparse() man page
  that I applied.

Daniel (20 February 2001)
- Added the docs/examples/win32sockets.c file for our windows friends.

- Linus Nielsen Feltzing provided brand new TELNET functionality and
  improvements:

  * Negotiation is now passive. Curl does not negotiate until the peer does.
  * Possibility to set negotiation options on the command line, currently only
    XDISPLOC, TTYPE and NEW_ENVIRON (called NEW_ENV).
  * Now sends the USER environment variable if the -u switch is used.
  * Use -t to set telnet options (Linus even updated the man page, awesome!)

- Haven't done this big changes to curl for a while. Moved around a lot of
  struct fields and stuff to make multiple connections get connection specific
  data in separate structs so that they can co-exist in a nice way. See the
  mailing lists for discussions around how this is gonna be implemented. Docs
  and more will follow.

  Studied the HTTP RFC to find out better how persistent connections should
  work. Seems cool enough.

Daniel (19 February 2001)
- Bob Schader brought me two files that help set up a MS VC++ libcurl project
  easier. He also provided me with an up-to-date libcurl.def file.

- I moved a bunch of prototypes from the public <curl/curl.h> file to the
  library private urldata.h. This is because of the upcoming changes. The
  low level interface is no longer being planned to become reality.

Daniel (15 February 2001)
- CURLOPT_POST is not required anymore. Just setting the POST string with
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS will switch on the HTTP POST. Most other things in
  libcurl already works this way, i.e they require only the parameter to
  switch on a feature so I think this works well with the rest. Setting a NULL
  string switches off the POST again.

- Excellent suggestions from Rich Gray, Rick Jones, Johan Nilsson and Bjorn
  Reese helped me define a way how to incorporate persistent connections into
  libcurl in a very smooth way. If done right, no change may have to be made
  to older programs and they will just start using persistent connections when
  applicable!

Daniel (13 February 2001)
- Changed the word 'timeouted' to 'timed out' in two different error messages.
  Suggested by Larry Fahnoe.

Version 7.6.1

Daniel (9 February 2001)
- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
  PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.

Daniel (8 February 2001)
- An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
  curl ask for it interactively? The current implmentation takes an empty
  password as a request for a password prompt. However, I still want to
  support a blank user field. Thus, today if you enter "-u :" (without user
  and password) curl will prompt for the password. Tricky. How would you
  specify you want the prompt otherwise?

- Made the netrc parse result possible to use for other protocols than FTP and
  HTTP (such as the upcoming TELNET fixes).

- The previously mentioned "MSVC++ problems" turned out to be a non-issue.

- Added a HTTP file upload code example in the docs/examples/ section on
  request.

- Adjusted the FTP response fix slightly.

Version 7.6.1-pre3

Daniel (7 February 2001)
- S. Moonesamy found a flaw in the response reading function for FTP that
  could make libcurl not get out of the loop properly when it should, if
  libcurl got -1 returned when reading the socket.

- I found a similar mistake in http.c when using a proxy and reading the
  results from the proxy connection.

Daniel (6 February 2001)
- S. Moonesamy pointed out that the VC makefile in src/ needed the libpath set
  for the debug build to work.

- Daniel Gehriger stepped in to assist with the VC++ stuff Robert Weaver
  brought up yesterday.

Daniel (5 February 2001)
- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino brought a big patch that brings IPv6-awareness to
  a bunch of different areas within libcurl.

- Robert Weaver told me about the problems the MS VC++ 6.0 compiler has with
  the 'static' keyword on a number of libcurl functions. I might need to add a
  patch that redefines static when libcurl is compiled with that compiler.
  How do I know when VC++ compiles, anyone?

Daniel (4 February 2001)
- curl_getinfo() was extended with two new options:
  CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD. They
  return the full assumed content length of the transfer in the given
  direction. The CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD will be the Content-Length:
  size of a HTTP download. Added descriptions to the man page as well. This
  was done after discussions with Bob Schader.

Daniel (3 February 2001)
- Ingo Ralf Blum provided another fix that makes curl build under the more
  recent cygwin installations. It seems they've changed the preset defines to
  not include WIN32 anymore.

Version 7.6.1-pre2

Daniel (31 January 2001)
- Curl_read() and curl_read() now return a ssize_t for the size, as it had to
  be able to return -1. The telnet support crashed due to this and there was a
  possibility to weird behavior all over. Linus Nielsen Feltzing helped me
  find this.

- Added a configure.in check for a working getaddrinfo() if IPv6 is requested.
  I also made the configure script feature --enable-debug which sets a couple
  of compiler options when used. It assumes gcc.

Daniel (30 January 2001)
- I finally took a stab at the long-term FIXME item I've had on myself, and
  now libcurl will properly work when doing a HTTP range-request that follows
  a Location:. Previously that would make libcurl fail saying that the server
  doesn't seem to support range requests.

Daniel (29 January 2001)
- I added a test case for the HTTP PUT resume thing (test case 33).

Version 7.6.1-pre1

Daniel (29 January 2001)
- Yet another Content-Range change. Ok now? Bob Schader checks from his end 
  and it works for him.

Daniel (27 January 2001)
- So the HTTP PUT resume fix wasn't good. There should appearantly be a
  Content-Range header when resuming a PUT.

- I noticed I broke the download-check that verifies that a resumed HTTP
  download is actually resumed. It got broke because my new 'httpreq' field
  in the main curl struct. I should get slapped. I added a test case for
  this now, so I won't be able to ruin this again without noticing.

- Added a test case for content-length verifying when downloading HTTP.

- Made the progress meter title say if the transfer is being transfered. It
  makes the output slightly better for resumes.

- When dealing with Location: and HTTP return codes, libcurl will not attempt
  to follow the spirit of RFC2616 better. It means that when POSTing to a
  URL that is being following to a second place, the standard will judge on
  what to do. All HTTP codes except 303 and 305 will cause curl to make a
  second POST operation. 303 will make a GET and 305 is not yet supported.

  I also wrote two test cases for this POST/GET/Location stuff.

Version 7.6

Daniel (26 January 2001)
- Lots of mails back and forth with Bob Schader finally made me add a small
  piece of code in the HTTP engine so that HTTP upload resume works. You can
  now do an operation like 'curl -T file -C <offset> <URL>' and curl will PUT
  the ending part of the file starting at given offet to the specified URL.

Version 7.6-pre4

Daniel (25 January 2001)
- I took hold of Rick Jones' question why we don't use recv() and send() for
  reading/writing to the sockets and I've now modified the sread() and
  swrite() macros to use them instead. If nothing else, they could be tested
  in the next beta-round coming right up.

- Jeff Morrow found a problem with libcurl's usage of SSL_read() and supplied
  his research results in how to fix this. It turns out we have to invoke the
  function several times in some cases. The same goes for the SSL_write().

  I made some rather drastic changes all over libcurl to make all writes and
  reads get done on one single place so that this repeated-attempts thing
  would only have to be implemented at one point.

- Rick Jones spotted that the 'total time' counter really didn't measure the
  total time very accurate on subsecond levels.

- Johan Nilsson pointed out the need to more clearly specify that the timeout
  value you set for a download is for the *entire* download. There's currently
  no option available that sets a timeout for the connection phase only.

Daniel (24 January 2001)
- Ingo Ralf Blum submitted a series of patches required to get curl to compile
  properly with cygwin.

- Robert Weaver posted a fix for the win32 section of the curl_getenv() code
  that corrected a potential memory leak.

- Added comments in a few files in a sudden attempt to make the sources more
  easy to read and understand!

Daniel (23 January 2001)
- Added simple IPv6 detection in the configure script and made the version
  string add 'ipv6' to the enable section in that case. ENABLE_IPV6 will be
  set if curl is compiled with IPv6 support enabled.

- Added a parser for IPv6-style specified IP-addresses in a URL. Thus, when
  IPv6 gets enabled soon, we can use URLs like '[0::1]:80'...

- Made the URL globbing in the client possible to fail silently if there's an
  error in the globbing. It makes it almost intuitive, so when you don't
  follow the syntax rules, globbing is simply switched off and the raw string
  is used instead.

  I still think we'll get problems with IPv6-style IP-addresses when we *want*
  globbing on parts of the URL as the initial part of the URL will for sure
  seriously confuse the globber.

Daniel (22 January 2001)
- Bj<42>rn Stenberg supplied a progress meter patch that makes it look better even
  during slow starts. Previously it made some silly assumptions...

- Added two FTP tests for -Q and -Q - stuff since it was being discussed on
  the mailing list. Had to correct the ftpserver.pl too as it bugged slightly.

Daniel (19 January 2001)
- Made the Location: parsers deal with any-length URLs. Thus I removed the last
  code that restricts the length of URLs that curl supports.

- Added a --globoff test case (#28) and it quickly identified a memory problem
  in src/main.c that I took care of.

Version 7.6-pre3

Daniel (17 January 2001)
- Made the two former files lib/download.c and lib/highlevel.c become the new
  lib/transfer.c which makes more sense. I also did the rename from Transfer()
  to Curl_Transfer() in the other source files that use the transfer function
  in the spirit of using Curl_ prefix for library-scoped global symbols.

Daniel (11 January 2001)
- Added -g/--globoff that switches OFF the URL globbing and thus enables {}[]
  letters to be part of the URL. Do note that RFC2396 section 2.4.3 explicitly
  mention these letters to be escaped. This was posted as a feature request by
  Jorge Gutierrez and as a bug by Terry.

- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without
  having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as
  -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter
  options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with
  space from their parameters.

Daniel (8 January 2001)
- Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling
  curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef
  HAVE_GETPASS_R in an attempt to please the SCO systems.

- Made some minor corrections to get the client to cleanup properly and I made
  the separator work again when getting multiple globbed URLs to stdout.

- Worked with Loic Dachary to get the make dist and make distcheck work
  correctly. The 'maketgz' script is now using the automake generated 'make
  dist' when creating release archives. Loic successfully made 'make rpms'
  automatically build RPMs!

Loic Dachary (6 January 2001)
- Automated generation of rpm packages, no need to be root.

- make distcheck generates a proper distribution (EXTRA_DIST
  in all Makefile.am modified to match FILES).

Daniel (5 January 2001)
- Huge client-side hack: now multiple URLs are supported. Any number of URLs
  can be specified on the command line, and they'll all be downloaded. There
  must be a corresponding -o or -O for each URL or the data will be written to
  stdout. This needs more testing, time to release a 7.6-pre package.

- The krb4 support was broken in the release. Fixed now.

- Huge internal symbol rename operation. All non-static but still lib-internal
  symbols should now be prefixed with 'Curl_' to prevent collisions with other
  libs. All public symbols should be prefixed with 'curl_' and the rest should
  be static and thus invisible to the outside world. I updated the INTERNALS
  document to say this as well.

Version 7.5.2

Daniel (4 January 2001)
- As Kevin P Roth suggested, I've added text to the man page for every command
  line option and what happens when you specify that option more than
  once. That hasn't been exactly crystal clear before.

- Made the configure script possible to run from outside the source-tree. For
  odd reasons I can't build curl properly outside though. It has to do with
  curl's dependencies on libcurl...

- Cut off all older (dated 1999 and earlier) CHANGES entries from this file.
  The older piece is named CHANGES.0 and is added to the CVS repository in
  case anyone would need it.

- I added another file 'CVS-INFO' to the CVS. It contains information about
  files in the CVS that aren't included in release archives and how to build
  curl when you get the sources off CVS.

- Updated CONTRIBUTE and FAQ due to the new license.

Daniel (3 January 2001)
- Renamed README.libcurl to LIBCURL

- Changed headers in all sources files to the new dual license concept of
  curl: use the MIT/X derivate license *or* MPL. The LEGAL file was updated
  accordingly and the MPL 1.1 and MIT/X derivate licenses are now part of the
  release archive.