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TODO
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For the future
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Ok, this is what I wanna do with Curl. Please tell me what you think, and
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please don't hesitate to contribute and send me patches that improve this
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product! (Yes, you may add things not mentioned here, these are just a
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few teasers...)
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* Improve the command line option parser to accept '-m300' as well as the '-m
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300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be
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space separated to the next option.
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* Make the curl tool support URLs that start with @ that would then mean that
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the following is a plain list with URLs to download. Thus @filename.txt
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reads a list of URLs from a local file. A fancy option would then be to
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support @http://whatever.com that would first load a list and then get the
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URLs mentioned in the list. I figure -O or something would have to be
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implied by such an action.
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* Make curl with multiple URLs, even outside of {}-letters. I could also
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imagine an optional fork()ed system that downloads each URL in its own
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thread. It should of course have a maximum amount of simultaneous fork()s.
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* Improve the regular progress meter with --continue is used. It should be
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noticable when there's a resume going on.
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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. This requires some fiddling on FTP but comes
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almost free for HTTP.
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* Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as
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an alternative to OpenSSL:
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
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* Make sure the low-level interface works. highlevel.c should basically be
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possible to write using that interface. Document the low-level interface
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* Add asynchronous name resolving, as this enables full timeout support for
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fork() systems.
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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 support for other languages than C. C++ (rumours have been heard about
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something being worked on in this area) and perl (we have seen the first
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versions of this!) comes to mind. Python anyone?
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* "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib"
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HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get and decode compressed documents. There
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is the zlib that is pretty good at decompressing stuff. This work was
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started in October 1999 but halted again since it proved more work than we
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thought. It is still a good idea to implement though.
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* Authentication: NTLM. It would be cool to support 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.
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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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* Multiple Proxies?
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Is there anyone that actually uses serial-proxies? I mean, send CONNECT to
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the first proxy to connect to the second proxy to which you send CONNECT to
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connect to the remote host (or even more iterations). Is there anyone
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wanting curl to support it? (Not that it would be hard, just confusing...)
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* Other proxies
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Ftp-kind proxy, Socks5, whatever kind of proxies are there?
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* IPv6 Awareness and support
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Where ever it would fit. configure search for v6-versions of a few
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functions and then use them instead is of course the first thing to do...
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RFC 2428 "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" will be interesting. PORT
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should be replaced with EPRT for IPv6, and EPSV instead of PASV.
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* SSL for more protocols, like SSL-FTP...
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(http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-05.txt)
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* HTTP POST resume using Range:
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