Changes in 7.5 - December 1 2000

Changes:

• new --max-redirs option and corresponding CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS libcurl option.
• libcurl now supports getting the time of a remote file
• --head on a ftp file shows the modification time if available
• --cacert lets you specify a CA certificate to verify peer certificates against when doing HTTPS connections
• curl_formfree() added to libcurl
• added --url to allow URLs to be specified easier in the config file

Bugfixes:

• the shared libcurl library gets a proper version number now
• the MSVC++ makefiles are updated to work
• the test suite is much extended and enhanced
• supports any URL lengths
• ftp CWD could use wrong directory name (with trailing slash)
• ftp transfer failure could leak memory
• curl_unescape() could return a too long string
• deals with lowercase environment variables for proxy settings
• corrected spelling in a few error messages
• memory leaks removed
• improved config file parser
• config file parser crash fixed
• § in HTTP usernames or passwords made bad authorization headers.

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