Changes in 7.10.4 - April 2 2003

Changes:

• the curl tool now "clears" sensitive commands line args
• no more emacs local variables in the source files
• script for distributed, automatic, multi-platform testing added. Please join up and help us test the bleeding edge curl on various platforms!
• the "scratch buffer" is now only allocated when actually needed
• removed the strequal and strnequal macros from curl/curl.h
• added CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH / --location-trusted

Bugfixes:

• "curl -O" only, now outputs an error message accordingly
• builds fine on Redhat Linux 9 (configure fix)
• the CA cert bundle included a demo cert now removed
• changing some attributes between two transfers when re-using a connection did not "take effect" properly
• the test suite runs faster and hopefully a bit more reliably
• improved configure check for presence of functions, needed for HPUX
• the curl tool now makes a correct URL escaping when appending to the URL when using -T and the filename is appended to the URL.
• configure --enable-libgcc now explicitly add -lgcc to the linker
• better configure checks for headers (since some platforms got nasty warnings output previously)
• configure --help looks nicer
• data transfer bug on HP-UX systems
• improved random seeding for systems without a reliable random source
• 64bit Sparc compiler warnings removed
• a case where a connect failure didn't return an error string
• DNS cache problem in AIX 4.3 and later was fixed
• a POST-then-GET problem when re-using the same handle in libcurl
• extra precaution added for FTP servers returning 0 bytes to SIZE commands
• looping issue in the receive function (i.e badly updated progress meter)
• Fixed the 'Expect: 100-continue' behavior
• CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS segfault fixed
• multi-interface connecting on Windows to non-listening ports fixed
• Curl_base64_encode() now encodes zero-bytes too properly
• fixed the infamous SSL error:00000000 outputs
• zlib build fix in the mingw makefile
• don't check for ca cert env variable if --insecure is used
• always use strict cert name check unless --insecure is used
• content-type extracting fixed
• DEBUGFUNCTION could be called with wrong arguments in uploads
• ftp downloads could wrongly return CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE in some conditions
• the fopen.c example code didn't work
• content-type extracting memory leak fixed
• curl/multi.h was fixed for C++ compiles
• .netrc file scanning for names+passwored fixed
• curl-config --cflags works even when include dirs isn't /usr/include
• CURLINFO_PRIVATE can return NULL properly

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