Changes in 7.10.8 - November 1 2003

Changes:

• --head now works on file:// URLs too
• file: URLs with only one initial slash now works too
• RELEASE-NOTES document added to the release archive to summarize the big and visible changes and bugfixes
• CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE was added, and --max-filesize
• CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION and CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA are no longer supported
• IPv6 is now supported on Windows builds too
• CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE lets you select pure IPv6 or IPv4 resolved addresses (offers the command line options -4/--ipv4 and -6/--ipv6)
• GSS-Negotiate works fine with the MIT kerberos library
• SPNEGO support added, if libcurl is built with the FBopenssl libraries, curl_version_info() can return a feature bit for it and curl -V displays SPNEGO as a feature if libcurl is built with it enabled
• easy handles added to a multi handle now share DNS cache automatically
• CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_AVAIL were added
• CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT was added
• NTLM, Digest and GSS-Negotiate authentications also work for HTTPS over proxies
• curl supports multiple -T flags to allow several uploaded files using a single command line
• CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE can return the last FTP response code

Bugfixes:

• added work-around for a name resolve problem on some glibc versions
• a rare ERRORBUFFER single-byte overflow was fixed
• HTTP-resuming an already downloaded file works better
• builds better on Solaris 8+ with gcc
• --disable-eprt works now
• improved CA cert verification
• --anyauth could bug when the first response had no body contents
• double password prompting when doing NTLM fixed
• improved performance when used multi-threaded on windows
• share-locking during DNS lookups was modified
• resume was not possible to switch off properly once enabled
• fixed the ipv4 connect code when a DNS entry has multiple IPs
• now checks subjectAltNames when matching certs
• HTTP POST using read callback works again
• builds fine on BeOS now
• CURLOPT_COOKIE set to NULL no longer sends the previously set cookie
• if an FTP transfer used a bad path, the next transfer could fail too
• ares-built libcurl resolves IP-only names properly
• changed the curl_lock_function proto to prevent warnings on some compilers
• builds fine on QNX 6.2.x now
• PUT with --digest works now
• --anyauth that picks NTLM and then follows a redirect (and does NTLM again) works now
• asynch resolves now work on NT4 too
• a DNS cache trash (possible segfault) was fixed
• runtests.pl clears all proxy environment variables before the test is run
• Microsoft's "Negotiate" authentication is now supported by the existing GSSNEGOTIATE option
• A set zero-length proxy name confused libcurl
• Digest authentication works again without OpenSSL on 64bit architectures
• configure --enable-thread works now
• buffer problems in the test suite's web server were fixed
• improved proxy password handling
• LDAP is again working nicely with the current OpenLDAP
• asynch name lookup for non-resolving hosts now return a proper error message
• CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1 no longer aborts if no CN field is obtainable, it will merely warn about it
• name resolve segfault with uClibc fixed
• multi interface and multi-part/formpost could end in segfault
• curl_multi_info_read() sets the msgs_in_queue to 0 when returning NULL
• multi interface, ares and non-resolving host caused a segfault
• minor single SSL memory leak fixed
• Setting CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or CURLOPT_READFUNCTION to NULL resets them to default

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