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diff --git a/Utilities/cmcurl-7.19.0/docs/HISTORY b/Utilities/cmcurl-7.19.0/docs/HISTORY deleted file mode 100644 index 00d5d6b..0000000 --- a/Utilities/cmcurl-7.19.0/docs/HISTORY +++ /dev/null @@ -1,153 +0,0 @@ - _ _ ____ _ - ___| | | | _ \| | - / __| | | | |_) | | - | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ - \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| - - 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. - -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 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. - -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. |