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TODO TODO
Things to do in project cURL. Please tell me what you think, contribute and Things to do in project cURL. Please tell us what you think, contribute and
send me patches that improve things! Also check the http://curl.haxx.se/dev send us patches that improve things! Also check the http://curl.haxx.se/dev
web section for various development notes. web section for various technical development notes.
LIBCURL LIBCURL
* Consider an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to * Introduce an interface to libcurl that allows applications to easier get to
know what cookies that are sent back in the response headers. know what cookies that are received. Pushing interface that calls a
callback on each received cookie? Querying interface that asks about
existing cookies? We probably need both.
* Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system. * Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system.
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less copy of data and thus a faster operation. less copy of data and thus a faster operation.
[http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt] [http://curl.haxx.se/dev/no_copy_callbacks.txt]
* Run-time querying about library characterics. What protocols do this
running libcurl support? What is the version number of the running libcurl
(returning the well-defined version-#define). This could possibly be made
by allowing curl_easy_getinfo() work with a NULL pointer for global info,
but perhaps better would be to introduce a new curl_getinfo() (or similar)
function for global info reading.
* Add asynchronous name resolving (http://daniel.haxx.se/resolver/). This * Add asynchronous name resolving (http://daniel.haxx.se/resolver/). This
should be made to work on most of the supported platforms, or otherwise it should be made to work on most of the supported platforms, or otherwise it
isn't really interesting. isn't really interesting.
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implement, libcurl will merely call 'getmutex' and 'leavemutex' callbacks. implement, libcurl will merely call 'getmutex' and 'leavemutex' callbacks.
Part of the sharing suggestion at: http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sharing.txt Part of the sharing suggestion at: http://curl.haxx.se/dev/sharing.txt
* No-faster-then-this transfers. Many people have limited bandwidth and they
want the ability to make sure their transfers never use more bandwith than
they think is good.
* Set the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option to make libcurl notice and disconnect * Set the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option to make libcurl notice and disconnect
very long time idle connections. very long time idle connections.
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* CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE. Prevent downloads that are larger than the specified * CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE. Prevent downloads that are larger than the specified
size. CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED would then be returned. Gautam Mani size. CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED would then be returned. Gautam Mani
requested. requested. That is, the download should even begin but be aborted
immediately.
DOCUMENTATION DOCUMENTATION