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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 subject of making wget deal with multiple simultanous connections/requests: The obvious solution to [...]

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 [...]

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 redirect to ftp ... [More] …but also included Patrick Monnerat’s cool internal re-arrange to use handler structs for the various protocols. Upcoming dates [...] [Less]

fscons.org went live Dan F’s call for internationalization The curl vs wget document and work on that The work-in-progress ABI document for what we “guarantee” in libcurl regarding to binary interface compatibility etc between releases. Preparing for ... [More] next release, feature freeze on October 14, likely release date for 7.17.1 somewhere around October 25-28 and more… [Less]

Since Henrik replied to my previous blog posts, I figured I better write a new one to simply state the fact: http://www.fscons.org/ …is now up and working. Go there and read all about it! And yeah, my curl talk is currently set for 15:00 on that Saturday.

Ok, since people truly and actually often ask me about what the differences are between curl and Wget, it might be suitable to throw in my garbage here and state the main differences as I see them. Please consider my bias towards curl since after all, curl is my baby - but I have contributed [...]

Gary Maxwell enlightened us that his build (of a slightly older libcurl) is way below 50KB on an ARM7 architecture, while Dan Fandrich could squeeze the latest libcurl release to at least below 100KB on x86. Of course these particular builds are fairly stripped down builds with only HTTP support left, but they are built from [...]

Christopher Smith blogged about improving curlpp and not only did Jean-Philippe react immediately, it also showed me how far away I am from these C guys and their ideas and views of the world. Not only I am not even aware of what functors and facets truly are (nor do I really care), but I find [...]

Ok, it seems the pricing for the entire conference (7-8 dec 2007) is going to be: Student: 60 euro Private: 120 euro Company: 240 euro The blurb for my particular talk (that is going to be held in English, mind you) that is scheduled for 13.00 on dec 8 is drafted like below: curl and libcurl is a free [...]

An example from the wild about how hard it can be to satisfy everyone when you’re writing and offering a library to the world: with the recent libcurl release suddenly open office doesn’t link fine with it. It turns out these guys have enabled our ... [More] help-define (CURL_NO_OLDIES) always. The define disables all our backwards compatibility defines/fix [...] [Less]