Changes in 7.10 - October 1 2002

Changes:

• curl -x "" now disables proxy-usage completely
• The libcurl and thus the curl version string too are modified slightly
• added curl_version_info() for various runtime version info
• added curl_free() that allows freeing data libcurl malloced()
• CURLOPT_ENCODING added, supports decompression of compressed downloaded data This is used with 'curl --compressed'. This feature uses the libz library, if present.
• MIT-licensed only, no dual-stuff. That is history. Old. Gone. Forgotten.
• libcurl does peer certificate verification by default. This needs to be disabled if you need to talk to SSL servers in an insecure way! (-k does this). See further details in the UPGRADE document.
• SOCKS5-proxy support was added (somewhat flawed, see CHANGES for details)
• More SSL error codes was added
• CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL was added for multi-threaded programs to use
• --limit-rate is now supported
• CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE sets a desired read buffer size
• The FTP PORT command uses a better default IP address

Bugfixes:

• transfer after a failed connect when using the multi interface
• headerless HTTP downloads
• "-C -" on multiple file downloads
• resume on file:// downloads
• memory leak in libcurl on repeated resume http downloads
• crashes on 64bit machines solved
• IPv6 IP-address only URLs sent bad Host: headers
• --silent is more silent when doing URL globbing fetches
• *multi_perform() now returns control properly when waiting for connect
• curl_formadd manpage was corrected
• curl_escape() and curl_unescape() no longer deals with '+'
• improved performance on persistent transfers on windows
• no longer closes ftp connections unncessarily often
• -N works again
• the windows DLL now builds with the multi interface enabled
• the internal password prompt now uses stderr instead of stdout
• minor cookie parsing bug when no space came after the header colon
• better #ifdef conditions in the global curl header files
• the curl tool didn't allow POST of zero contents
• literal RFC2732-style IPv6 addresses didn't work

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