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SCP and SFTP with libcurl on Windows
We’ve gotten a fair amount of questions on the libcurl mailing list about how to do the SSH-based protocols SCP and SFTP with libcurl on Windows, and here comes Andrei Jakab bursting in and provides us with this fancy PDF:
Using libcurl with SSH support in Visual Studio 2008
I’m convinced a user or two will find [...]
Solaris 10 ships libcurl
I fell over this document named “What’s New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release” and it includes this funny little quote towards the end:
C-URL - The C-URL Wrappers Library
C-URL is a utility library that provides programmatic access
curl presentation video
I held a 38 minute talk (in English) at the FSCONS conference 2007 about curl and libcurl, and now I’ve realized that the recording from that event is available online in various forms and ways.
You can get the pure Ogg Theora video files by using these URLs:
154MB video download via bittorrent or http 640 x [...]
What is this yassl really?
yassl is said to be Yet Another SSL library and I’ve been told that for example it is the preferred library used by the mysql camp. I got interested in this several years ago when I learned about it since I thought it was fun to see an alternative implementation of OpenSSL that still offers [...]
curl 7.19.2
Especially the guys who use libcurl’s multi interface to get HTTPS pages, and if you use OpenSSL for the SSL layer will suffer from the stupid regression bug we added in 7.19.1 and that was the primary reason we shipped curl and libcurl 7.19.2 today.
There were also two other bugs fixed. Enjoy!
…and when I say [...]
Metalink in curl bounty
The Metalink guys host a list of project ideas and one of those ideas is to add metalink support to curl, and I recently bumped the stakes a bit by raising the bounty with an additional 200 USD so that the offer is now 500 USD for the person or team that brings the feature [...]
curl 7.19.1
Trying hard to maintain the bimonthly release schedule we’ve been keeping up with for quite some time by now, we therefore now proudly announce the release of curl and libcurl 7.19.1
This release includes at least 24 bug fixes and the following
Another curl scan shows work to do
The nice guys on Coverity did a new scan on curl (the 7.19.0 source code) and they dug a bunch of new flaws. The previous version they checked was 7.16.1, release some 20 months before. The new changes are not only because of how the code has changed in the mean time, but it seems [...]
Curl Cyclomatic Complexity
I was at the OWASP Sweden meeting last night and spoke about Open source and security. One of the other speakers present was Simon Josefsson who in his talk showed a nice table listing functions in his project sorted by “complexity“. Functions above a certain score are then considered “high risk” as they are hard [...]
Security and Open Source
OWASP Sweden is arranging an event on October 6th in Stockholm Sweden to talk about security in the open source process.
I will be there doing talk about security in open source projects, in particular then how we work with security in the curl project. If you think of anything particular you would like me to [...]