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Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
For some TLS connections you want the secrets you exchange over them to remain private for decades to come. So what if someone in the future produces a computer system that can crack all the common current encryption algorithms in no time and they ... [More] already have past secret communications stored? Such a possible future computer … Continue reading Post-Quantum curl → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
I work a lot on my own. I mean, I plan a lot of what to do on a daily basis myself, I execute a lot of it myself and I push my code and changes to various git repositories, often solo. I work quite a lot. In a lot of the cases, I work … Continue reading My weekly reports →
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
I’ve been traveling this road for a while. Here’s my collection of 15 of the most common mistakes and issues people will run into when writing applications and services that use libcurl. I’ve also done recorded presentations on this topic that you ... [More] can watch if you prefer that medium. Most of these issues are shared … Continue reading Common mistakes when using libcurl → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
September 25, 2001 is the official release date for Mac OS X 10.1. Exactly twenty years ago today. Mac OS X 10.1 This was the first macOS release from Apple that bundled curl. It was a complete surprise to me as well when I realized this had happened. Nobody had told me about it ahead … Continue reading curl’s first twenty years on the mac →
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
In April 2019 we launched the current curl bug-bounty program under the Hackerone umbrella and from my point of view it has been nothing but a raging success. Until today we’ve paid almost 17,000 USD in rewards and and the average payment amount has ... [More] been increasing all the time. The reward money in this program … Continue reading curl joins the reborn IBB bug-bounty program → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
Within 24 hours of the previous release, 7.79.0, we got a bug-report filed that identified a pretty serious regression in the HTTP/2 code that we deemed required a fairly quick fix instead of waiting a full release cycle for it. So here’s 7.79.1 with ... [More] several bug-fixes that we managed to queue up and merge in … Continue reading curl 7.79.1 – patched up and ready → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
WebSockets has been one of the most requested features and protocol to add to curl and libcurl in the annual user survey. Repeatedly, over the last few years. WebSockets is not perfectly suitable to be done by libcurl since it’s not really an upload ... [More] or download transfer protocol, but is more something like “a TCP … Continue reading You wanted WebSockets? → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
The curl factory has once again cranked out a new curl release. Release presentation Numbers the 202nd release3 changes56 days (total: 8,580)128 bug-fixes (total: 7,270)186 commits (total: 27,651)0 new public libcurl function (total: 85)0 new ... [More] curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 290)0 new curl command line option (total: 242)62 contributors, 25 new (total: 2,484)41 authors, 16 new (total: … Continue reading curl 7.79.0 – secure local cookies → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
The curl factory has once again cranked out a new curl release. Release presentation At 08:00 UTC – today September 15, 2021 – I will do a release presentation over at twitch. The recording will be made available here after the fact. Numbers the ... [More] 202nd release3 changes56 days (total: 8,580)128 bug-fixes (total: 7,270)186 commits (total: … Continue reading curl 7.79.0 – secure local cookies → [Less]
Posted over 2 years ago by Daniel Stenberg
There’s plan for version 8 being forged! Let me just take you back a bit in time first.. The early days When we first created libcurl, we bumped the major version number of the project from the previous version 6 to version 7. In late summer of 2000 we shipped curl and libcurl 7.1 as … Continue reading Heading towards curl eight →