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TODO
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Things to do in project cURL. Please tell me what you think, contribute and
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send me patches that improve things! Also check the http://curl.haxx.se/dev
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web section for various development notes.
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To do in a future release (random order):
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* Make curl deal with cookies better. libcurl should be able to maintain a
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"cookie jar". Updating it with cookies that is received, and using it to
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pass cookies to the servers that have matching cookies in the jar.
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http://curl.haxx.se/dev/cookie-jar.txt
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* Consider an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to
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know what cookies that are sent back in the response headers.
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* The win32_init() and win32_cleanup() functions that are present in
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src/main.c (and docs/examples/win32sockets.c) would probably be fine to
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add to curl_global_init() and performed if the correct flag is set. Makes
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it easier for windows people.
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* Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same
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host is requested. http://curl.haxx.se/dev/SSL_session_id.txt
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* HTTP PUT for files passed on stdin. Requires libcurl to send the file
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with chunked content encoding. http://curl.haxx.se/dev/HTTP-PUT-stdin.txt
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* Introduce another callback interface for upload/download that makes one
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less copy of data and thus a faster operation.
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http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt
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* Suggested on the mailing list: CURLOPT_FTP_MKDIR...!
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* Add configure options that disables certain protocols in libcurl to
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decrease footprint. '--disable-[protocol]' where protocol is http, ftp,
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telnet, ldap, dict or file.
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* Extend the test suite to include telnet. The telnet could just do ftp or
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http operations (for which we have test servers).
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* Make TELNET work on windows!
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* Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time
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stamp as the remote file. libcurl already is capable of fetching the remote
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file's date.
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* Make curl's SSL layer option capable of using other free SSL libraries.
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Such as the Mozilla Security Services
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(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/) and GNUTLS
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(http://gnutls.hellug.gr/)
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* Add asynchronous name resolving, as this enables full timeout support for
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fork() systems. http://curl.haxx.se/dev/async-resolver.txt
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* Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl
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application to a separate "portability lib".
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* Add libcurl support/interfaces for more languages. C++ wrapper perhaps?
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* "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib" HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get
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and decode compressed documents. There is the zlib that is pretty good at
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decompressing stuff. This work was started in October 1999 but halted again
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since it proved more work than we thought. It is still a good idea to
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implement though.
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* Authentication: NTLM. Support for that MS crap called NTLM
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authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that
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protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network
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sniffing. This should however be a library-based functionality. There are a
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few different efforts "out there" to make open source HTTP clients support
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this and it should be possible to take advantage of other people's hard
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work. http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ is one. There's a web page at
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http://www.innovation.ch/java/ntlm.html that contains detailed reverse-
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engineered info.
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* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication"
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A valid test page seem to exist at:
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http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/
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And some friendly person's server source code is available at
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http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html
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Then there's the Apache mod_digest source code too of course. It seems as
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if Netscape doesn't support this, and not many servers do. Although this is
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a lot better authentication method than the more common "Basic". Basic
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sends the password in cleartext over the network, this "Digest" method uses
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a challange-response protocol which increases security quite a lot.
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* Other proxies
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Ftp-kind proxy, Socks5, whatever kind of proxies are there?
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* Full IPv6 Awareness and support. (This is partly done.) RFC 2428 "FTP
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Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" is interesting. PORT should be replaced with
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EPRT for IPv6 (done), and EPSV instead of PASV.
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