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These are problems known to exist at the time of this release. Feel free to
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join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the
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changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems
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may have been fixed since this was written!
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* When connecting to a SOCKS proxy, the (connect) timeout is not properly
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  acknowledged after the actual TCP connect (during the SOCKS "negotiate"
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  phase). Pointed out by Lucas
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* Using configure --disable-[protocol] may cause 'make test' to fail for
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  tests using the disabled protocol(s).
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* To get HTTP Negotiate authentication to work fine, you need to provide a
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  (fake) user name (this concerns both curl and the lib) because the code
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  wrongly only considers authentication if there's a user name provided.
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  Bug report #1004841.
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* If you use a very large amount of file descriptors (more than FD_SETSIZE)
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  and then use libcurl, it might crash on its use of select() which then
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  stores data out of bounds. Bug report #948950.
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* --limit-rate using -d or -F does not work. This is because the limit logic
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  is provided by the curl app in its read/write callbacks, and when doing
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  -d/-F the callbacks aren't used! Bug report #921395.
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* Doing resumed upload over HTTP does not work with '-C -', because curl
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  doesn't do a HEAD first to get the initial size. This needs to be done
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  manually for HTTP PUT resume to work, and then '-C [index]'.
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* CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD have no way of providing user names
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  that contain a colon. This can't be fixed easily in a backwards compatible
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  way without adding new options (and then, they should most probably allow
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  setting user name and password separately).
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* libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
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  such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument).
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  The only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the
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  empty part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to
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  indicate that the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL
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  remain even when this bug is fixed).
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* libcurl doesn't treat the content-length of compressed data properly, as
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  it seems HTTP servers send the *uncompressed* length in that header and
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  libcurl thinks of it as the *compressed* lenght. Some explanations are here:
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  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2003-06/0146.html
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* Downloading 0 (zero) bytes files over FTP will not create a zero byte file
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  locally, which is because libcurl doesn't call the write callback with zero
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  bytes. Explained here: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2003-04/0143.html
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* IPv6 support on AIX 4.3.3 doesn't work due to a missing sockaddr_storage
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  struct. It has been reported to work on AIX 5.1 though.
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* GOPHER transfers seem broken
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* If a HTTP server responds to a HEAD request and includes a body (thus
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  violating the RFC2616), curl won't wait to read the response but just stop
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  reading and return back. If a second request (let's assume a GET) is then
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  immediately made to the same server again, the connection will be re-used
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  fine of course, and the second request will be sent off but when the
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  response is to get read, the previous response-body is what curl will read
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  and havoc is what happens.
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  More details on this is found in this libcurl mailing list thread:
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  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2002-08/0000.html
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