Changes in 7.8.1 - August 20 2001

Changes:

• added CURLOPT_HTTPGET

Bugfixes:

• the configure script now sets up socklen_t properly
• added the -G option that converts -d posts to use GET requests
• bugfix: CURLOPT_POST without postfields caused libcurl crash
• bugfixed the URL parser for IPv6 IP addresses (RFC 2732)
• corrected some minor size_t mixups in the code
• rfc1867-style form posts no longer has any size-limit
• bugfixed the redirected stderr feature
• more test cases added
• libcurl now verifies the CN name of server certificates when SSLing
• curl -E supports filenames with driver letters now on windows
• curl-config --libs now includes the path to the installed libcurl
• file:// with "relative" paths now work like other tools/libs
• curl builds under RISC OS and OpenVMS now
• libcurl groks the NCSA httpd 1.5.x weirdo (non-standard) replies
• curl_escape() no longer tries to skip already encoded data
• progress callback minor bugfix
• bugfixed the main transfer select() loop!
• corrected FTP range downloads
• better treatment of cut off FTP transfers
• corrected the libcurl shared library version number
• improved configure --with-ssl handling
• multiple file download with resume works better
• formpost with field names containing space works now
• the ftp tests now run OK on IPv6 enabled hosts
• verifying certificates bugfixed

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