Changes in 7.1 - August 7 2000

Changes:

• CURLOPT_PROXYPORT added to curl_easy_setopt() in the lib
• Now features an 'auto referer' so that curl can set the "correct" referer when following location:
• removed CURLOPT_PROGRESSMODE from the lib
• libcurl offers a progress meter callback
• Lots of symbol renamings in the libcurl public stuff.

Bugfixes:

• builds libcurl as a shared library with libtool
• JavaWebServer's incorrect Content-Range headers are supported
• localtime_r() is now used if available instead of localtime()
• 'make install' installs the include files properly
• Replacing an internal HTTP header with one that has no content removes the header
• user+password is now restricted and sent only to the first host when Location: is followed to another host
• FTP command response reading now times out properly, even on win32
• rfc1867 form-posting was extended for use with large text posts
• FTP transferring (converted) ASCII could make curl wrongly believe the transfer was only partial, there is no way can tell the expected size of a file downloaded in FTP ASCII
• various manual corrections
• FTP transfers now accept 250 as well as 226 as a positive end-of-transfer result
• The configure check for requiring the nsl and socket lib at once was re-added
• Host: was not displaying the port number as supposed on non-standard ports
• HTTPS connection failures could slip through and make curl attempt reading at a dead socket
• Using -F, -I or -d in any weird mix now causes the curl client to alert
• FTP PORT command bug fixed
• HTTP POST and then following Location: now causes all except the first requests to become GET.
• win32 now sends data binary to stdout unless -B / --use-ascii is specified
• added a README.win32 file
• Custom headers when doing location: works again
• libcurl is much more threadsafe
• Many portability issues have been smoothened out
• The FTP range support were buggy and is now corrected
• Major re-organisation of all library internals to allow for a new library interface.
• A buffer overflow (with URLs larger than 4096 characters) was fixed
• The FTP sessions are slightly modified and now they're using CWD to change to the directory where the operation is requested.
• FTP URLs are now treated more like the RFC specifies (minor change)
• now sends user agent string when talking ftp through a http proxy
• made the progress meter nicer for sizes between 10 and 100 megabytes
• no longer checks for install twice in the configure script
• improved win32 headers for VC++ compiling
• minor fix when using libcurl in a multi-threaded program
• the OS/2 port was slightly adjusted
• location following through a http proxy on a specified non-default port didn't work
• location following to an absolute URL on a different port didn't work

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