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How cURL Became Like This
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Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg came up with the idea to make
Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg was spending time writing an IRC bot
for an Amiga related channel on EFnet. He then came up with the idea to make
currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to
automate their retrieval.
Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that
Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently release version 0.1 of. After
a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. HttpGet 1.0 was released
on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support.
a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed.
1997
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HttpGet 1.0 was released on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support.
We soon found and fixed support for getting currencies over GOPHER. Once FTP
download support was added, the name of the project was changed and urlget 2.0
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SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library.
August 1998, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net.
1998
----
October 1998, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie
support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000
lines of code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of
August, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net.
October, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie support,
curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 lines of
code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of
"copyleft".
November 1998, configure script and reported successful compiles on several
November, configure script and reported successful compiles on several
major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and
curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added.
Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man
page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it.
January 1999, DICT support added.
1999
----
January, DICT support added.
OpenSSL took over where SSLeay was abandoned.
May 1999, first Debian package.
May, first Debian package.
August 1999, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300
visits weekly.
August, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits
weekly.
Released curl 6.0 in September. 15000 lines of code.
December 28 1999, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its
services for managing the project.
December 28, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its services
for managing the project.
2000
----
Spring 2000, major internal overhaul to provide a suitable library interface.
The first non-beta release was named 7.1 and arrived in August. This offered
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other software and programs to get based on and powered by libcurl. Almost
20000 lines of code.
August 2000, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly.
August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly.
The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third
party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since
the release of PHP 4.0.2. This would soon get followers. More than 16
different bindings exist at the time of this writing.
September 2000, kerberos4 support was added.
September, kerberos4 support was added.
In November 2000 started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later
re-written from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1.
In November started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later re-written
from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1.
January 2001, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or
2001
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January, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or
MPL). The MIT license is extremely liberal and can be used combined with GPL
in other projects. This would finally put an end to the "complaints" from
people involved in GPLed projects that previously were prohibited from using
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The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001.
August 2001. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more
and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD
August. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and
more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD
ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation
contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have
never since got in touch again.
September 2001, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During
the forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and
September, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During the
forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and
without much whistles.
June 2002, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is
2002
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June, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is
35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations
of CPUs and operating systems.
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a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS
distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software.
September 2002, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT
license only.
September, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT license
only.
January 2003. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds.
2003
----
February 2003, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given
moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site.
January. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds.
February, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given moment,
there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site.
Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June)
and Negotiate (June).
November 2003: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique
visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors.
November: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique visitors
to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors.
December 2003, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported.
December, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported.
January 2004: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support.
2004
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June 2004:
January: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support.
curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors.
June: curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors.
This release bumped the major SONAME to 3 due to the removal of the
curl_formparse() function
August 2004:
Curl and libcurl 7.12.1
August: Curl and libcurl 7.12.1
Public curl release number: 82
Releases counted from the very beginning: 109
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Amount of public web site mirrors: 12
Number of known libcurl bindings: 26
April 2005:
2005
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GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is built.
April. GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is
built.
September 2005:
TFTP support was added.
September: TFTP support was added.
More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors.
December 2005:
December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow
security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow
2006
----
January 2006:
We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation that
turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that
January. We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation
that turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that
nobody had found out in all this time we removed it instead of fixing it.
March 2006:
March: security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow
security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow
April: Added the multi_socket() API
April 2006:
September: The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the
removal of ftp third party transfer support.
Added the multi_socket() API
November: Added SCP and SFTP support
September 2006:
2007
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The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the removal of
ftp third party transfer support.
February: Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff
November 2006:
July: security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification
Added SCP and SFTP support
2008
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February 2007:
Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff
July 2007:
security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification
November 2008:
November:
Command line options: 128
curl_easy_setopt() options: 158
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145,000 unique visitors. >100 GB downloaded.
March 2009:
2009
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security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access
March: security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access
August 2009:
August: security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name
security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name
December: Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
December 2009:
2010
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Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
January: Added support for RTSP
January 2010:
February: security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length
Added support for RTSP
March: The project switched over to use git (hosted by github) instead of CVS
for source code control
February 2010:
security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length
March 2010:
The project switched over to use git instead of CVS for source code control
May 2010:
Added support for RTMP
May: Added support for RTMP
Added support for PolarSSL to do the SSL/TLS stuff
August 2010:
August:
Public curl releases: 117
Command line options: 138
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Contributors: 808
Gopher support added (re-added actually)
2012
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July: Added support for Schannel (native Windows TLS backend) and Darwin SSL
(Native Mac OS X and iOS TLS backend).
Supports metalink
October: SSH-agent support.
2013
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February: Cleaned up internals to always uses the "multi" non-blocking
approach internally and only expose the blocking API with a wrapper.
September: First small steps on supporting HTTP/2 with nghttp2.
October: Removed krb4 support.
December: Happy eyeballs.