Changes in 7.12.3 - December 20 2004

Changes:

• PKCS12 certificate support added
• added CURLINFO_SSL_ENGINES (and "--engine list")
• new configure options: --disable-cookies, --disable-crypto-auth and --disable-verbose
• persistent ftp request improvements
• CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA added. If your app uses HTTP Digest, NTLM or Negotiate authentication, you will most likely want to use these
• -w time_redirect and num_redirects
• no longer uses libcurl.def for building on Windows, OS/2 and Netware
• builds on Windows CE
• request retrying, --retry and family added
• FTP 3rd party transfers with source and dest on the same host now works
• added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS

Bugfixes:

• curl -E on windows accepts "c:/path" with forward-slash
• several improvements for large file support on windows
• file handle leak in aborted multipart formpost file upload
• -T upload multiple files with backslashes in filenames
• modified credentials between two requests on a persistent http connection
• large file file:// resumes on Windows
• URLs with username and IPv6 numerical addresses
• configure works better with SSL libs in a "non-standard ld.so dir"
• curl-config --vernum zero prefixed
• bad memory access in the NTLM code
• EPSV on multi-homed servers now works correctly
• chunked-encoded transfers could get closed pre-maturely without error
• proxy CONNECT now default timeouts after 3600 seconds
• disabling EPSV or EPRT is ignored when connecting to an IPv6 FTP server
• no extra progress meter newline output after each Location: followed
• HTTP PUT/POST with Digest, NTLM or Negotiate no longer uses HEAD
• works with or gracefully bails out when exceeding FD_SETSIZE file descriptors
• CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME works
• building with gssapi libs and hdeaders in the default dirs
• curl_getdate() parsing of dates later than year 2037 with 32 bit time_t
• curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket
• build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older
• huge POSTs on VMS
• configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles
• potential gzip decompress memory leak
• "-C - --fail" on an HTTP page already downloaded
• formposting a zero byte file
• use setlocale() for better IDN functionality by default

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