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- The "DONE" operation (post transfer protocol-specific actions) for the
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protocols SFTP, SMTP, FTP. Fixing Curl_done() for this is a worthy task.
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return the easy handle's return code. This will thus make everything
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internally use and assume the multi interface. The select()-loop should use
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serial requests and currently libcurl only supports that for HEAD and GET
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authentication mechanisms can be more secure. As such, support should be
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Currently the LDAP module only supports ldap_simple_bind_s() in order to bind
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to an LDAP server. However, this function sends username and password details
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using the simple authentication mechanism (as clear text). However, it should
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be possible to use ldap_bind_s() instead specifing the security context
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information ourselves.
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There's no RFC for the protocol or an URI/URL format. An implementation
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should most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync.
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Add support for gssapi to SMTP, POP3 and IMAP.
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"curl --sync http://example.com/feed[1-100].rss" or
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remote file is newer than the local file. A Last-Modified HTTP date header
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should also be used to set the mod date on the downloaded file.
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existing). So that index.html becomes first index.html.1 and then
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index.html.2 etc.
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then just make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one
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connection to the same remote host. This would require the client to use the
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multi interface. http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595
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the ';type=foo' syntax as it is and adding an extra tag (headers) which
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which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text,
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command line. Possibly by letting ':' separate options between URLs,
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-g) for it to support IPv6 numerical addresses. This is a rather silly flaw
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that should be corrected. It probably involves a smarter detection of the
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'[' and ']' letters.
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and FTP-SSL tests without the stunnel dependency, and it could allow us to
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provide test tools built with either OpenSSL or GnuTLS
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but explain something nice why it doesn't.
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or http operations (for which we have test servers).
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Make the test suite work on more platforms. OpenBSD and Mac OS. Remove
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fork()s and it should become even more portable.
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from being output in NOBODY requests over ftp
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numbering should not be changed, and the old identifiers would be
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CURLE_TFTP_PERM => CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED
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The current prototype only provides 'purpose' that tells what the
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connection/socket is for, but not any protocol or similar. It makes it hard
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for applications to differentiate on TCP vs UDP and even HTTP vs FTP and
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CURLMcode. These should be changed to be the same.
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make several functions use size_t instead of int in their APIs
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internally. Let the app judge success or not for itself.
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Remove support for a global DNS cache. Anything global is silly, and we
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Basically no application wants it (apart from curl) but instead applications
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variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work
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curl_formadd() was made to fill in a public struct, but the fact that the
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struct is public is never really used by application for their own advantage
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argument, but both can use a callback that is set in the easy handle, and
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