Changes in 7.10.6 - July 28 2003

Changes:

• CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION allows a custom callback for SSL connections
• multiple patches lets curl build and run on DOS
• libcurl now deals with spaces in Location: redirects and URLifies them
• curl --version shows more detailed info
• curl_version_info() now returns info on NTLM, GSS-Negotiate and Debug
• curl_version() includes "GSS" in the string if built with GSSAPI available
• Pick-best-authentication option added (--anyauth, using the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH set to CURLAUTH_ANY)
• NTLM authentication support (--ntlm and CURLAUTH_NTLM)
• GSS-Negotiate authentication support (--negotiate and CURLAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE)
• Digest authentication support added (--digest and CURLAUTH_DIGEST)
• Allow curl to switch (back to) to Basic authentication (--basic)
• libcurl supports name and password in proxy environment variables

Bugfixes:

• double slash after the hostname on a FTP URL again points out the root dir
• obscure and rare DNS cache problem was fixed
• multiple FTP connections to the same host with different usernames didn't work properly
• no more CWD commands without arguments for ftp connections
• curl no longer uses setvbuf() due to portability problems
• VMS build fixes
• the curl tool has the -M manual compressed internally if built with libz
• url globbing syntax error could cause segfault
• Huge (>40-60KB) GET requests over HTTPS failed.
• Content-Length now overrides socket-closed as a means of knowing when the response body is complete.
• --progress-bar takes the initial size into account when doing resumed downloads
• work around SSL bugs better
• libcurl typically issues POST requests with less send() calls
• better main makefile
• external headers improved portability
• Listing FTP directories without contents could leak a socket
• Getting HTTP contents in one line without headers failed
• bugfixed the socks5-proxy usage (twice)
• h_aliases name-lookup rare crash fixed
• improved curl -M output
• curl_unescape() now only unescapes valid %HH codes

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