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Fresh CA Cert Bundle Anyone?
The popular ca extract service on the curl web site converts the Firefox ca certs into a PEM file suitable for use with curl, wget or anything else OpenSSL-based that likes PEM formatted CA cert bundles.
The main script was fixed yesterday as it was previously getting a nightly source code snapshot to get the “magic” [...]
Crashing Firefox Goes libcurl
I guess I haven’t been paying attention lately, but I stumbled over the Breakpad project, which incidentally is gonna be used as crash reporting tool for Firefox 3, and it uses libcurl: “On Linux, libcurl is used for this function, as it is the closest thing to a standard HTTP library available on that platform.“
The [...]
libcurl DNS resolve problems on Leopard
I found this article by Jungle Dave titled Leopard DNS Issues (and work-around), which explains how libcurl built with IPv6 support may cause trouble on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard).
According to him, that’s because getaddrinfo() causes a SRV lookup
aget compared to curl
As you should know, we maintain this curl comparison table on the curl web site, and it lists a set of free tools and how they compare against curl and each other in various aspects. If you want more features compared or other tools included, please tell. Also if you disagree with any of the [...]
curl turns ten next March
I’m open for and interested in ideas around how we should celebrate the curl ten year anniversary around March 20 2008.
curl and libcurl 7.17.1
7.17.1 - the 102nd release of curl is out, with less than 5 months left to our ten year anniversary!
The previous release (7.17.0) included a few larger internal changes and unfortunately that had the backside that it brought a whole array of new bugs in, that we now have spent almost two months polishing off.
Apart [...]
curl references
I amuse myself by occasionally reading up on articles and posts “out there” that talk about curl and libcurl, and I often find interesting snippets and data well worth reading. Here’s a few of the ones I’ve stumbled upon recently:
Ryan Boyd of Google posted an article on how to use curl to interact with Google’s [...]
wget going libcurl?
Micah Cowan is the current maintainer of GNU Wget, and he recently posted a long mail to the wget mailing list titled “Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0“.
Two fun quotes for the curious who don’t feel like reading the whole post:
1. On the
curl work towards release #102
This is a bug fix week in curl land, trying to get everything sorted and fine to be able to release a really fine 7.17.1 release within a week or so. We got some nasty memory-related problems with changed protocols re-using the same easy handle, but it was good that they crept up and I [...]
this week in curl land
It has been another busy week, and this time people brought up a range of stupid and annoying bugs:
impossible to post binary data with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
libcurl can use wrong connection, when using https
invalid free after an http