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diff --git a/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e04fb53df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ + _ _ ____ _ + ___| | | | _ \| | + / __| | | | |_) | | + | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ + \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| + + How cURL Became Like This + + +In the second half of 1997, Daniel Stenberg came up with the idea to make +currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) +users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to +automate their retrieval. + +Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that +Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written. After a few minor adjustments, it did +just what he needed. + +Soon, he found currencies on a GOPHER site, so support for that had to go in, +and not before long FTP download support was added as well. The name of the +project was changed to urlget to better fit what it actually did now, since +the http-only days were already passed. + +The project slowly grew bigger. When upload capabilities were added and the +name once again was misleading, a second name change was made and on March 20, +1998 curl 4 was released. (The version numbering from the previous names was +kept.) + +(Unrelated to this project a company called Curl Corporation registered a US +trademark on the name "CURL" on May 18 1998. That company had then already +registered the curl.com domain back in November of the previous year. All this +was revealed to us much later.) + +SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library. + +August 1998, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net. + +October 1998, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie +support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000 +lines of code, we switched over to the MPL license to restrict the effects of +"copyleft". + +November 1998, configure script and reported successful compiles on several +major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and +curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added. + +Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man +page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it. + +January 1999, DICT support added. + +OpenSSL took over where SSLeay was abandoned. + +May 1999, first Debian package. + +August 1999, LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 +visits weekly. + +Released curl 6.0 in September. 15000 lines of code. + +December 28 1999, added the project on Sourceforge and started using its +services for managing the project. + +Spring 2000, major internal overhaul to provide a suitable library interface. +The first non-beta release was named 7.1 and arrived in August. This offered +the easy interface and turned out to be the beginning of actually getting +other software and programs to get based on and powered by libcurl. Almost +20000 lines of code. + +August 2000, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly. + +The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third +party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since +the release of PHP 4.0.2. This would soon get followers. More than 16 +different bindings exist at the time of this writing. + +September 2000, kerberos4 support was added. + +In November 2000 started the work on a test suite for curl. It was later +re-written from scratch again. The libcurl major SONAME number was set to 1. + +January 2001, Daniel released curl 7.5.2 under a new license again: MIT (or +MPL). The MIT license is extremely liberal and can be used combined with GPL +in other projects. This would finally put an end to the "complaints" from +people involved in GPLed projects that previously were prohibited from using +libcurl while it was released under MPL only. (Due to the fact that MPL is +deemed "GPL incompatible".) + +curl supports HTTP 1.1 starting with the release of 7.7, March 22 2001. This +also introduced libcurl's ability to do persistent connections. 24000 lines of +code. The libcurl major SONAME number was bumped to 2 due to this overhaul. + +The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001. + +August 2001. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more +and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD +ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation +contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have +never since got in touch again. + +September 2001, libcurl 7.9 introduces cookie jar and curl_formadd(). During +the forthcoming 7.9.x releases, we introduced the multi interface slowly and +without much whistles. + +June 2002, the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is +35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations +of CPUs and operating systems. + +To estimate number of users of the curl tool or libcurl library is next to +impossible. Around 5000 downloaded packages each week from the main site gives +a hint, but the packages are mirrored extensively, bundled with numerous OS +distributions and otherwise retrieved as part of other software. + +September 2002, with the release of curl 7.10 it is released under the MIT +license only. + +January 2003. Started working on the distributed curl tests. The autobuilds. + +February 2003, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given +moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site. + +Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June) +and Negotiate (June). + +November 2003: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique +visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors. + +December 2003, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported. + +January 2004: curl 7.11.0 introduced large file support. + +June 2004: + + curl 7.12.0 introduced IDN support. 10 official web mirrors. + + This release bumped the major SONAME to 3 due to the removal of the + curl_formparse() function + +August 2004: + Curl and libcurl 7.12.1 + + Public curl release number: 82 + Releases counted from the very beginning: 109 + Available command line options: 96 + Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 120 + Number of public functions in libcurl: 36 + Amount of public web site mirrors: 12 + Number of known libcurl bindings: 26 + +April 2005: + + GnuTLS can now optionally be used for the secure layer when curl is built. + +September 2005: + + TFTP support was added. + + More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors. + +December 2005: + + security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow + +January 2006: + + We dropped support for Gopher. We found bugs in the implementation that + turned out having been introduced years ago, so with the conclusion that + nobody had found out in all this time we removed it instead of fixing it. + +March 2006: + + security vulnerability: libcurl TFTP Packet Buffer Overflow + +April 2006: + + Added the multi_socket() API + +September 2006: + + The major SONAME number for libcurl was bumped to 4 due to the removal of + ftp third party transfer support. + +November 2006: + + Added SCP and SFTP support + +February 2007: + + Added support for the Mozilla NSS library to do the SSL/TLS stuff + +July 2007: + + security vulnerability: libcurl GnuTLS insufficient cert verification + +November 2008: + + Command line options: 128 + curl_easy_setopt() options: 158 + Public functions in libcurl: 58 + Known libcurl bindings: 37 + Contributors: 683 + + 145,000 unique visitors. >100 GB downloaded. + +March 2009: + + security vulnerability: libcurl Arbitrary File Access + +August 2009: + + security vulnerability: libcurl embedded zero in cert name + +December 2009: + + Added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP + +January 2010: + + Added support for RTSP + +February 2010: + + security vulnerability: libcurl data callback excessive length + +March 2010: + + The project switched over to use git instead of CVS for source code control + +May 2010: + + Added support for RTMP + + Added support for PolarSSL to do the SSL/TLS stuff + +August 2010: + + Public curl releases: 117 + Command line options: 138 + curl_easy_setopt() options: 180 + Public functions in libcurl: 58 + Known libcurl bindings: 39 + Contributors: 808 + + Gopher support added (re-added actually) |