- As found out and reported by Dan Petitt, libcurl didn't show progress/call

the progress callback for the first (potentially huge) piece of body data
  sent together with the POST request headers in the initial send().

CHANGES

@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (27 Mar 2008)
+- As found out and reported by Dan Petitt, libcurl didn't show progress/call
+  the progress callback for the first (potentially huge) piece of body data
+  sent together with the POST request headers in the initial send().
+
 Daniel Stenberg (25 Mar 2008)
 - Made setting the CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION option return a failure in case
   libcurl wasn't built to use OpenSSL as that is a prerequisite for this

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -73,6 +73,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Dan Fandrich, Mike Hommey, Pooyan McSporran, Jerome Muffat-Meridol,
  Kaspar Brand, Gautam Kachroo, Zmey Petroff, Georg Lippitsch, Sam Listopad,
  Anatoli Tubman, Mike Protts, Michael Calmer, Brian Ulm, Dmitry Popov,
- Jes Badwal
+ Jes Badwal, Dan Petitt
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

TODO-RELEASE

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ To be addressed before 7.18.1 (planned release: April 2008)
 
 [feature freeze entered, no new features!]
 
-127 - Dan Petitt's Progress During Large Posts problem
-
 128 - Phil Blundell's ares and ipv6 fix
 
 129 - Pierre Reiss' libcurl + https + multi = lost information

lib/http.c

@@ -1929,6 +1929,10 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
   Curl_HttpReq httpreq = data->set.httpreq;
   char *addcookies = NULL;
   curl_off_t included_body = 0;
+  const char *httpstring;
+  send_buffer *req_buffer;
+  curl_off_t postsize; /* off_t type to be able to hold a large file size */
+
 
   /* Always consider the DO phase done after this function call, even if there
      may be parts of the request that is not yet sent, since we can deal with
@@ -2299,13 +2303,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
     }
   }
 
-  {
   /* Use 1.1 unless the use specificly asked for 1.0 */
-    const char *httpstring=
+  httpstring= data->set.httpversion==CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0?"1.0":"1.1";
-      data->set.httpversion==CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0?"1.0":"1.1";
-
-    send_buffer *req_buffer;
-    curl_off_t postsize; /* off_t type to be able to hold a large file size */
 
   /* initialize a dynamic send-buffer */
   req_buffer = add_buffer_init();
@@ -2773,8 +2772,15 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
   }
   if(result)
     return result;
+
+  if(http->writebytecount) {
+    /* if a request-body has been sent off, we make sure this progress is noted
+       properly */
+    Curl_pgrsSetUploadCounter(data, http->writebytecount);
+    if(Curl_pgrsUpdate(conn))
+      result = CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK;
   }
 
-  return CURLE_OK;
+  return result;
 }
 #endif