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There’s talk in the Debian camp about dropping libwww as it is over 5 years since its last release and over a year since the last CVS commit in that project. It is also abandoned by the W3C these days. It seems there are just about two remaining packages depending on it, Amaya and [...]

As I mentioned before, the curl site was a bit unstable for a while recently but now the hardware’s been replaced, the software updated and everything should now be back up and running fine. If you see anything that still isn’t fine on the site, please let me know and I’ll make sure it gets fixed! Now, [...]

During the last week or so, we’ve experienced major problems on some of the main servers at work, and I happen to host a bunch of services on them. Thus, I not only get problems to access my regular mail, but also the primary curl web site gets shaky! Unfortunately, this is holiday season so most [...]

This info was also posted to the curl-library list today. I previously thought of releasing 7.18.0 in December but since there are still outstanding topics in the list and since there’s no pressure due to any serious bug fixes or anything, I decided we can just as wait until January. I want January 13th to be [...]

Only days after I wrote about the pacparser, another and in many ways more complete approach to detecting what proxy to use for accessing various internet resources emerge: libproxy. One of the main authors of it, Alex Panit, already submitted a feature-request for libcurl to support this. but I’m not at all convinced that is a [...]

Today I just casually noticed the NetBSD 4.0 release, but what really caught my interest was the dedication of the release. It is dedicated to Jun-Ichiro “itojun” Hagino, who apparently passed away in October this year only 37 years old. See also this “memorial”. Anyway, the reason I noticed is because I remember him and his [...]

I got a question on the #curl IRC channel and I have to admit that the curl and libcurl icons are a bit hard to find on the curl web site, so I thought I’d paste them here too to put the lights on them a bit more. If you use (lib)curl in your projects or [...]

Since a long time companies all over have found it suitable to use “PAC” (proxy auto-config) scripts to control browsers and tell them what proxy to use for what particular URL and more, and this has been a major nuisance for people who use other (automated) means to go through the proxy than one of [...]

Just in the last few days we modified curl to enable the SO_KEEPALIVE option on connections it creates. It basically means that curl will now detect connections that are idle after a certain amount of time, even if that time is something around two hours by default and that’s what most systems will have it [...]

I took the X2000 train to Gothenburg from Stockholm at 08:10 so I was at the conference place first at almost 11:30. SELF This meant I got to listen in on the end of Jonas Öberg’s speech on SELF (an FSF Europe and others project on e-learning and a lot of related matters). This wasn’t really my [...]