Changes in 7.15.2 - February 27 2006

Changes:

• Support for SOCKS4 proxies (added --socks4)
• CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY and CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET added
• CURLOPT_LOCALPORT and CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE (--local-port) added
• Dropped support for the LPRT ftp command
• Gopher is now officially abandoned as a protocol (lib)curl tries to support
• curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup() are now using a refcount so that it is now legal to call them multiple times. See updated info for details

Bugfixes:

• two bugs concerning using curl_multi_remove_handle() before the transfer was complete
• multi-pass authentication and compressed content
• minor format string mistake in the GSS/Negotiate code
• cached DNS entries could remain in the cache too long
• improved GnuTLS check in configure
• re-used FTP connections when the second request didn't do a transfer
• plain --limit-rate [num] means bytes
• re-creating a dead connection is no longer counted internally as a followed redirect and thus prevents a weird error that would occur if a FTP connection died on an attempted re-use
• Try PASV after failing to connect to the port the EPSV response contained
• -P [IP] with non-local address with ipv6-enabled curl
• -P [hostname] with ipv6-disabled curl
• libcurl.m4 was updated
• configure no longer warns if the current path contains a space
• test suite kill race condition
• FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP and FTP_USE_EPSV when doing FTP over HTTP proxy
• Doing a second request with FTP on the same bath path, would make libcurl confuse what current working directory it had
• FTP over HTTP proxy now sends the second CONNECT properly
• numerous compiler warnings and build quirks for various compilers have been addressed
• supports name and passwords up to 255 bytes long, embedded in URLs
• the HTTP_ONLY define disables the TFTP support

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