cURL 7.15.5 review

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 125K Developer: cURL Price: $0.00 Updated: 11 Aug 2006

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curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

What's New:
Changes:
added --ftp-ssl-reqd
modified the prototype for the socket callback set with CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION
added curl_multi_assign()
added CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER and --ftp-alternative-to-user
added a vcproj file for building libcurl
added curl_formget()
added CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE and CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE
added configure --enable-hidden-symbols
Made -K on a file that couldn't be read cause a warning to be displayed

Bugfixes:
chunked encoding when custom header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is set
Curl_strerror() crash on unknown errors
changing Content-Type when doing formposts
added CURL_EXTERN to a few recent multi functions that lacked them
splay-tree related problems for internal expire time handling
FTP ASCII CRLF counter reset
cookie parser now compares paths case sensitive
an easy handle with shared DNS cache added to a multi handle caused a crash
couldn't override the Proxy-Connection: header for non-CONNECT requests
curl_multi_fdset() could wrongly return -1 as max_fd value.