Changes in 7.17.0 - September 13 2007

Changes:

• support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library
• curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it
• SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later
• LDAP libraries are now linked "regularly" and not with dlopen
• HTTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
• FTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
• builds and runs on OS/400
• several error codes and options were marked as obsolete and subject to future removal (set CURL_NO_OLDIES to see if your application is using them)
• SFTP errors can return more specific error codes

Bugfixes:

• test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
• problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
• transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
• CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
• CONNECT endless loop
• krb5 support builds with Heimdal
• added returned error string for connection refused case
• reuse of dead FTP control connections
• login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the USER command
• bad free of memory from libssh2
• the SFTP PWD command works
• HTTP Digest auth on a reused connection
• FTPS data connection close
• AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets
• small POST with NTLM
• resumed file:// transfers
• CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit "clean"
• memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers
• no NTLM unicode response
• resume HTTP PUT using Digest authentication
• FTP NOBODY requests on directories sent "SIZE (null)"
• FTP NOBODY request on file crash
• excessively long FTP server responses and response lines
• file:// upload then FTP:// upload crash
• TFTP error 0 is no longer treated as success
• uploading empty file over FTP on reused connection
• superfluous CWD command on reused FTP connections without subdirs used

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