Changes in 7.12.0 - June 2 2004

Changes:

• added ability to "upload" to file:// URLs
• added curl_global_init_mem()
• removed curl_formparse()
• the MSVC project file in the release archive is automatically built
• curl --proxy-digest is a new command line option
• the Windows version of libcurl can use wldap32.dll for LDAP
• added curl_easy_strerror(), curl_multi_strerror() and curl_share_strerror()
• IPv6-enabled Windows hosts now resolves names threaded/asynch as well
• configure --with-libidn can be used to point out the root dir of a libidn installation (version 0.4.5 or later) for curl to use, then libcurl can resolve and use IDNA names (domain names with "international" letters)

Bugfixes:

• incoming cookies with domains set with a prefixed dot now works better
• CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIE can be used in the same request
• improved peer certificate name verification
• allocation failures cause no leaks nor crashes
• the progress meter display now handles file sizes up to full 8 exabytes (which is as high a signed 64 bit number can reach)
• general HTTP authentication improvements
• HTTP Digest authentication with the proxy works
• mulipart formposting with -F and filenames with spaces work again
• curl_easy_duphandle() now works when ares-enabled
• HTTP Digest authentication works a lot more like the RFC says
• curl works with telnet and stdin properly on Windows
• configure --without-ssl works even when pkg-config has OpenSSL details
• src/hugehelp.c builds correct again in non-configure build environments

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