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curl 7.19.5
I’m happy to say that we’ve just shipped our 111th public release of curl and libcurl: 7.19.5
Notable changes this time include:
libcurl now closes all dead connections whenever you attempt to open a new connection
libssh2’s
Dear Apple Inc
Dear Apple Inc,
As one of the primary authors of libcurl and curl, two parts that are included in every Mac OS X release since years back, I was only wondering if you would consider sponsoring me with a Mac, to make it easier for me to do (lib)curl development, tuning and bug-fixing on/for the Mac?
I [...]
Getting support to curl
The other day I read this blog post by Stormy Peters, talking about getting people to sponsor or support Open Source projects and she continued to describe the Gnome approach and a bunch of projects that accept donations etc etc.
It made me (not too surprising) think about the situation for our little project cURL. We’re [...]
Adding known hosts support
… to libcurl and libssh2!
I’m about to start this little mini adventure, so if you’re one of the guys out there who’s been looking forward to be able to do even more (Open)SSH-like things with curl and libcurl when we use SCP and SFTP then consider this a little notification to start listening!
This will require [...]
HTTP Status Report
Mark Nottingham held a very interesting one hour talk on the status of HTTP and the work on HTTPbis on a QCon conference recently, and luckily for us HTTP geeks there’s this great video/presentation from that.
curl is mentioned at least twice in the slides, unfortunately it has a wrong fact on the second mention [...]
Blabbing on curl
It’s now been confirmed and set in stone that I will do a 20 minute talk (in Swedish!) on curl and libcurl on April 27th on an event arranged by Dataföreningen Stockholm’s open source network.
My guess is that if you’re interested and involved enough to read this here on my blog, you already know just [...]
Code re-use is fun
Back in 2003 I wrote up support for the HTTP NTLM authentication method for libcurl. Happy with my achievement, I later that year donated a GPL licensed version of my code to the Wget project (which also was my first contact with the signed paper stuff with the GNU/FSF to waive my copyright claims and [...]
murl for extended curlness
I’m a firm believer in the old unix mantra of letting each tool do its job and do it well, and pass on the rest of the work to the next tool. I’ve always stated that curl should remain this way and that it should remain within its defined walls and not try to do [...]
curl 7.19.4
curl and libcurl 7.19.4 has just been released! This time I think the perhaps most notable fix is the CVS-2009-0037 security fix which this release addresses. A little over 600 days passed since the previous vulnerability was announced.
Other
A stream of streamings
I’m a last.fm fan. I love its ability to not only stream music without needing a dedicated client installed (yes a flash application I think suits a purpose) and I think it’s ability to provide music I might also like is amazingly nice. I’m a “random it all” kind of guy when I listen to [...]