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  6. Known Bugs
  7. These are problems and bugs known to exist at the time of this release. Feel
  8. free to join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to
  9. check the changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these
  10. problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written!
  11. 1. HTTP
  12. 1.1 CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN in an array
  13. 1.2 Disabling HTTP Pipelining
  14. 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs
  15. 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding
  16. 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
  17. 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100
  18. 1.7 Deflate error after all content was received
  19. 1.9 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
  20. 1.10 Strips trailing dot from host name
  21. 1.11 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION not called with CURLFORM_STREAM
  22. 2. TLS
  23. 2.1 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support
  24. 2.2 DER in keychain
  25. 2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields
  26. 2.4 DarwinSSL won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
  27. 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
  28. 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
  29. 3. Email protocols
  30. 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
  31. 3.2 No disconnect command
  32. 3.3 SMTP to multiple recipients
  33. 3.4 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
  34. 4. Command line
  35. 4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
  36. 4.2 -J with -C - fails
  37. 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
  38. 4.4 --upload-file . hang if delay in STDIN
  39. 4.5 Improve --data-urlencode space encoding
  40. 5. Build and portability issues
  41. 5.1 tests not compatible with python3
  42. 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
  43. 5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
  44. 5.4 Cannot compile against a static build of OpenLDAP
  45. 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in Windows
  46. 5.6 cmake support gaps
  47. 5.7 Visual Studio project gaps
  48. 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
  49. 5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
  50. 6. Authentication
  51. 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
  52. 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
  53. 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
  54. 6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
  55. 6.5 NTLM doesn't support password with § character
  56. 6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
  57. 7. FTP
  58. 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response
  59. 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server
  60. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
  61. 7.4 FTP with ACCT
  62. 7.5 ASCII FTP
  63. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts
  64. 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL
  65. 7.8 Premature transfer end but healthy control channel
  66. 7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
  67. 7.10 Stick to same family over SOCKS proxy
  68. 8. TELNET
  69. 8.1 TELNET and time limitations don't work
  70. 8.2 Microsoft telnet server
  71. 9. SFTP and SCP
  72. 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
  73. 10. SOCKS
  74. 10.1 SOCKS proxy connections are done blocking
  75. 10.2 SOCKS don't support timeouts
  76. 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
  77. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS
  78. 11. Internals
  79. 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
  80. 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
  81. 11.3 c-ares deviates from stock resolver on http://1346569778
  82. 11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
  83. 11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
  84. 11.6 slow connect to localhost on Windows
  85. 12. LDAP and OpenLDAP
  86. 12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
  87. 13. TCP/IP
  88. 13.1 --interface for ipv6 binds to unusable IP address
  89. 14 DICT
  90. 14.1 DICT responses show the underlying protocol
  91. ==============================================================================
  92. 1. HTTP
  93. 1.1 CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN in an array
  94. It is not possible to pass a 64-bit value using CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN with
  95. CURLFORM_ARRAY, when compiled on 32-bit platforms that support 64-bit
  96. integers. This is because the underlying structure 'curl_forms' uses a dual
  97. purpose char* for storing these values in via casting. For more information
  98. see the now closed related issue:
  99. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/608
  100. 1.2 Disabling HTTP Pipelining
  101. Disabling HTTP Pipelining when there are ongoing transfers can lead to
  102. heap corruption and crash. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1411
  103. Similarly, removing a handle when pipelining corrupts data:
  104. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2101
  105. 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs
  106. Wrong STARTTRANSFER timer accounting for POST requests Timer works fine with
  107. GET requests, but while using POST the time for CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME
  108. is wrong. While using POST CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME minus
  109. CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME is near to zero every time.
  110. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/218
  111. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1213
  112. 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding
  113. When creating multipart formposts. The file name part can be encoded with
  114. something beyond ascii but currently libcurl will only pass in the verbatim
  115. string the app provides. There are several browsers that already do this
  116. encoding. The key seems to be the updated draft to RFC2231:
  117. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-02
  118. 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
  119. If an upload using Expect: 100-continue receives an HTTP 417 response, it
  120. ought to be automatically resent without the Expect:. A workaround is for
  121. the client application to redo the transfer after disabling Expect:.
  122. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0043.html
  123. 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100
  124. libcurl closes the connection if an HTTP 401 reply is received while it is
  125. waiting for the the 100-continue response.
  126. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-08/0462.html
  127. 1.7 Deflate error after all content was received
  128. There's a situation where we can get an error in a HTTP response that is
  129. compressed, when that error is detected after all the actual body contents
  130. have been received and delivered to the appliction. This is tricky, but is
  131. ultimately a broken server.
  132. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2719
  133. 1.9 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
  134. If the server sends HTTP/2 frames (like for example an HTTP/2 PING frame) to
  135. curl while the connection is held in curl's connection pool, the socket will
  136. be found readable when considered for reuse and that makes curl think it is
  137. dead and then it will be closed and a new connection gets created instead.
  138. This is *best* fixed by adding monitoring to connections while they are kept
  139. in the pool so that pings can be responded to appropriately.
  140. 1.10 Strips trailing dot from host name
  141. When given a URL with a trailing dot for the host name part:
  142. "https://example.com./", libcurl will strip off the dot and use the name
  143. without a dot internally and send it dot-less in HTTP Host: headers and in
  144. the TLS SNI field. For the purpose of resolving the name to an address
  145. the hostname is used as is without any change.
  146. The HTTP part violates RFC 7230 section 5.4 but the SNI part is accordance
  147. with RFC 6066 section 3.
  148. URLs using these trailing dots are very rare in the wild and we have not seen
  149. or gotten any real-world problems with such URLs reported. The popular
  150. browsers seem to have stayed with not stripping the dot for both uses (thus
  151. they violate RFC 6066 instead of RFC 7230).
  152. Daniel took the discussion to the HTTPbis mailing list in March 2016:
  153. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2016JanMar/0430.html but
  154. there was not major rush or interest to fix this. The impression I get is
  155. that most HTTP people rather not rock the boat now and instead prioritize web
  156. compatibility rather than to strictly adhere to these RFCs.
  157. Our current approach allows a knowing client to send a custom HTTP header
  158. with the dot added.
  159. In a few cases there is a difference in name resolving to IP addresses with
  160. a trailing dot, but it can be noted that many HTTP servers will not happily
  161. accept the trailing dot there unless that has been specifically configured
  162. to be a fine virtual host.
  163. If URLs with trailing dots for host names become more popular or even just
  164. used more than for just plain fun experiments, I'm sure we will have reason
  165. to go back and reconsider.
  166. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/716 for the discussion.
  167. 1.11 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION not called with CURLFORM_STREAM
  168. I'm using libcurl to POST form data using a FILE* with the CURLFORM_STREAM
  169. option of curl_formadd(). I've noticed that if the connection drops at just
  170. the right time, the POST is reattempted without the data from the file. It
  171. seems like the file stream position isn't getting reset to the beginning of
  172. the file. I found the CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION option and set that with a
  173. function that performs an fseek() on the FILE*. However, setting that didn't
  174. seem to fix the issue or even get called. See
  175. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/768
  176. 2. TLS
  177. 2.1 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support
  178. CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT is only implemented for the OpenSSL and NSS
  179. backends, so relying on this information in a generic app is flaky.
  180. 2.2 DER in keychain
  181. Curl doesn't recognize certificates in DER format in keychain, but it works
  182. with PEM. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1065
  183. 2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields
  184. libcurl calls gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn() with a fixed buffer size and if the
  185. field is too long in the cert, it'll just return an error and the field will
  186. be displayed blank.
  187. 2.4 DarwinSSL won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
  188. libcurl calls SecPKCS12Import with the PKCS#12 client certificate, but that
  189. function rejects certificates that do not have a password.
  190. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1308
  191. 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
  192. When the specified client certificate doesn't match any of the
  193. server-specified DNs, the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends behave differently.
  194. The github discussion may contain a solution.
  195. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1411
  196. 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
  197. Since libcurl 7.57.0, the flag CURL_GLOBAL_SSL is a no-op. The change was
  198. merged in https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d661b0afb571a
  199. It was removed since it was
  200. A) never clear for applications on how to deal with init in the light of
  201. different SSL backends (the option was added back in the days when life
  202. was simpler)
  203. B) multissl introduced dynamic switching between SSL backends which
  204. emphasized (A) even more
  205. C) libcurl uses some TLS backend functionality even for non-TLS functions (to
  206. get "good" random) so applications trying to avoid the init for
  207. performance reasons would do wrong anyway
  208. D) never very carefully documented so all this mostly just happened to work
  209. for some users
  210. However, in spite of the problems with the feature, there were some users who
  211. apparently depended on this feature and who now claim libcurl is broken for
  212. them. The fix for this situation is not obvious as a downright revert of the
  213. patch is totally ruled out due to those reasons above.
  214. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2276
  215. 3. Email protocols
  216. 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
  217. IMAP "SEARCH ALL" truncates output on large boxes. "A quick search of the
  218. code reveals that pingpong.c contains some truncation code, at line 408, when
  219. it deems the server response to be too large truncating it to 40 characters"
  220. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1366
  221. 3.2 No disconnect command
  222. The disconnect commands (LOGOUT and QUIT) may not be sent by IMAP, POP3 and
  223. SMTP if a failure occurs during the authentication phase of a connection.
  224. 3.3 SMTP to multiple recipients
  225. When sending data to multiple recipients, curl will abort and return failure
  226. if one of the recipients indicate failure (on the "RCPT TO"
  227. command). Ordinary mail programs would proceed and still send to the ones
  228. that can receive data. This is subject for change in the future.
  229. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1116
  230. 3.4 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
  231. You have to tell libcurl not to expect a body, when dealing with one line
  232. response commands. Please see the POP3 examples and test cases which show
  233. this for the NOOP and DELE commands. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=740
  234. 4. Command line
  235. 4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
  236. -J/--remote-header-name doesn't decode %-encoded file names. RFC6266 details
  237. how it should be done. The can of worm is basically that we have no charset
  238. handling in curl and ascii >=128 is a challenge for us. Not to mention that
  239. decoding also means that we need to check for nastiness that is attempted,
  240. like "../" sequences and the like. Probably everything to the left of any
  241. embedded slashes should be cut off.
  242. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1294
  243. -O also doesn't decode %-encoded names, and while it has even less
  244. information about the charset involved the process is similar to the -J case.
  245. Note that we won't add decoding to -O without the user asking for it with
  246. some other means as well, since -O has always been documented to use the name
  247. exactly as specified in the URL.
  248. 4.2 -J with -C - fails
  249. When using -J (with -O), automatically resumed downloading together with "-C
  250. -" fails. Without -J the same command line works! This happens because the
  251. resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its
  252. pre-transfer size) has been figured out!
  253. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1169
  254. 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
  255. If using --retry and the transfer timeouts (possibly due to using -m or
  256. -y/-Y) the next attempt doesn't resume the transfer properly from what was
  257. downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the
  258. original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See
  259. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report
  260. https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565
  261. 4.4 --upload-file . hangs if delay in STDIN
  262. "(echo start; sleep 1; echo end) | curl --upload-file . http://mywebsite -vv"
  263. ... causes a hang when it shouldn't.
  264. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2051
  265. 4.5 Improve --data-urlencode space encoding
  266. ASCII space characters in --data-urlencode are currently encoded as %20
  267. rather than +, which RFC 1866 says should be used.
  268. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3229
  269. 5. Build and portability issues
  270. 5.1 tests not compatible with python3
  271. The smb test server still needs python2.
  272. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3289
  273. 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
  274. "curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is
  275. run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config
  276. --cflags suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
  277. 5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
  278. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2905
  279. 5.4 Cannot compile against a static build of OpenLDAP
  280. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2367
  281. 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in Windows
  282. If a URL or filename can't be encoded using the user's current codepage then
  283. it can only be encoded properly in the Unicode character set. Windows uses
  284. UTF-16 encoding for Unicode and stores it in wide characters, however curl
  285. and libcurl are not equipped for that at the moment. And, except for Cygwin,
  286. Windows can't use UTF-8 as a locale.
  287. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=345
  288. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=731
  289. 5.6 cmake support gaps
  290. The cmake build setup lacks several features that the autoconf build
  291. offers. This includes:
  292. - use of correct soname for the shared library build
  293. - support for several TLS backends are missing
  294. - the unit tests cause link failures in regular non-static builds
  295. - no nghttp2 check
  296. - unusable tool_hugehelp.c with MinGW, see
  297. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3125
  298. 5.7 Visual Studio project gaps
  299. The Visual Studio projects lack some features that the autoconf and nmake
  300. builds offer, such as the following:
  301. - support for zlib and nghttp2
  302. - use of static runtime libraries
  303. - add the test suite components
  304. In addition to this the following could be implemented:
  305. - support for other development IDEs
  306. - add PATH environment variables for third-party DLLs
  307. 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
  308. When the configure script checks for third-party libraries, it adds those
  309. directories to the LDFLAGS variable and then tries linking to see if it
  310. works. When successful, the found directory is kept in the LDFLAGS variable
  311. when the script continues to execute and do more tests and possibly check for
  312. more libraries.
  313. This can make subsequent checks for libraries wrongly detect another
  314. installation in a directory that was previously added to LDFLAGS by another
  315. library check!
  316. A possibly better way to do these checks would be to keep the pristine LDFLAGS
  317. even after successful checks and instead add those verified paths to a
  318. separate variable that only after all library checks have been performed gets
  319. appended to LDFLAGS.
  320. 5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
  321. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/864
  322. 6. Authentication
  323. 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
  324. NTLM authentication involving unicode user name or password only works
  325. properly if built with UNICODE defined together with the WinSSL/Schannel
  326. backend. The original problem was mentioned in:
  327. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-10/0024.html
  328. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=896
  329. The WinSSL/Schannel version verified to work as mentioned in
  330. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0073.html
  331. 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
  332. libcurl fails to build with MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) due to KfW's
  333. library header files exporting symbols/macros that should be kept private to
  334. the KfW library. See ticket #5601 at https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/
  335. 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
  336. NTLM authentication using SSPI (on Windows) when (lib)curl is running in
  337. "system context" will make it use wrong(?) user name - at least when compared
  338. to what winhttp does. See https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=535
  339. 6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
  340. In order to get Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication to work in HTTP or Kerberos
  341. V5 in the e-mail protocols, you need to provide a (fake) user name (this
  342. concerns both curl and the lib) because the code wrongly only considers
  343. authentication if there's a user name provided by setting
  344. conn->bits.user_passwd in url.c https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=440 How?
  345. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html A possible solution is to
  346. either modify this variable to be set or introduce a variable such as
  347. new conn->bits.want_authentication which is set when any of the authentication
  348. options are set.
  349. 6.5 NTLM doesn't support password with § character
  350. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2120
  351. 6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
  352. When connecting via a proxy using --proxy-any, a failure to establish an
  353. authentication will cause libcurl to abort trying other options if the
  354. failed method has a higher preference than the alternatives. As an example,
  355. --proxy-any against a proxy which advertise Negotiate and NTLM, but which
  356. fails to set up Kerberos authentication won't proceed to try authentication
  357. using NTLM.
  358. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/876
  359. 7. FTP
  360. 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response
  361. If a connection is made to a FTP server but the server then just never sends
  362. the 220 response or otherwise is dead slow, libcurl will not acknowledge the
  363. connection timeout during that phase but only the "real" timeout - which may
  364. surprise users as it is probably considered to be the connect phase to most
  365. people. Brought up (and is being misunderstood) in:
  366. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=856
  367. 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server
  368. When doing FTP over a socks proxy or CONNECT through HTTP proxy and the multi
  369. interface is used, libcurl will fail if the (passive) TCP connection for the
  370. data transfer isn't more or less instant as the code does not properly wait
  371. for the connect to be confirmed. See test case 564 for a first shot at a test
  372. case.
  373. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
  374. It seems sensible to be able to use CURLOPT_NOBODY and CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
  375. with FTP to detect if a file exists or not, but it is not working:
  376. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0295.html
  377. 7.4 FTP with ACCT
  378. When doing an operation over FTP that requires the ACCT command (but not when
  379. logging in), the operation will fail since libcurl doesn't detect this and
  380. thus fails to issue the correct command:
  381. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=635
  382. 7.5 ASCII FTP
  383. FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data
  384. accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1
  385. clearly describes how this should be done:
  386. The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to
  387. the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet
  388. specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard
  389. form to his own internal form.
  390. Since 7.15.4 at least line endings are converted.
  391. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts
  392. FTP URLs passed to curl may contain NUL (0x00) in the RFC 1738 <user>,
  393. <password>, and <fpath> components, encoded as "%00". The problem is that
  394. curl_unescape does not detect this, but instead returns a shortened C string.
  395. From a strict FTP protocol standpoint, NUL is a valid character within RFC
  396. 959 <string>, so the way to handle this correctly in curl would be to use a
  397. data structure other than a plain C string, one that can handle embedded NUL
  398. characters. From a practical standpoint, most FTP servers would not
  399. meaningfully support NUL characters within RFC 959 <string>, anyway (e.g.,
  400. Unix pathnames may not contain NUL).
  401. 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL
  402. libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
  403. such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument). The
  404. only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the empty
  405. part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to indicate that
  406. the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL remain even when
  407. this bug is fixed).
  408. 7.8 Premature transfer end but healthy control channel
  409. When 'multi_done' is called before the transfer has been completed the normal
  410. way, it is considered a "premature" transfer end. In this situation, libcurl
  411. closes the connection assuming it doesn't know the state of the connection so
  412. it can't be reused for subsequent requests.
  413. With FTP however, this isn't necessarily true but there are a bunch of
  414. situations (listed in the ftp_done code) where it *could* keep the connection
  415. alive even in this situation - but the current code doesn't. Fixing this would
  416. allow libcurl to reuse FTP connections better.
  417. 7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
  418. When doing FTP operations through a proxy at localhost, the reported spotted
  419. that curl only tried to connect once to the proxy, while it had multiple
  420. addresses and a failed connect on one address should make it try the next.
  421. After switching to passive mode (EPSV), curl should try all IP addresses for
  422. "localhost". Currently it tries ::1, but it should also try 127.0.0.1.
  423. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1508
  424. 7.10 Stick to same family over SOCKS proxy
  425. When asked to do FTP over a SOCKS proxy, it might connect to the proxy (and
  426. then subsequently to the remote server) using for example IPv4. When doing
  427. the second connection, curl should make sure that the second connection is
  428. using the same IP protocol version as the first connection did and not try
  429. others, since the remote server will only accept the same.
  430. See https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2018-07/0000.html
  431. 8. TELNET
  432. 8.1 TELNET and time limitations don't work
  433. When using telnet, the time limitation options don't work.
  434. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=846
  435. 8.2 Microsoft telnet server
  436. There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server.
  437. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=649
  438. 9. SFTP and SCP
  439. 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
  440. When libcurl sends CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE commands when connected to a SFTP server
  441. using the multi interface, the commands are not being sent correctly and
  442. instead the connection is "cancelled" (the operation is considered done)
  443. prematurely. There is a half-baked (busy-looping) patch provided in the bug
  444. report but it cannot be accepted as-is. See
  445. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=748
  446. 10. SOCKS
  447. 10.1 SOCKS proxy connections are done blocking
  448. Both SOCKS5 and SOCKS4 proxy connections are done blocking, which is very bad
  449. when used with the multi interface.
  450. 10.2 SOCKS don't support timeouts
  451. The SOCKS4 connection codes don't properly acknowledge (connect) timeouts.
  452. According to bug #1556528, even the SOCKS5 connect code does not do it right:
  453. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=604
  454. When connecting to a SOCK proxy, the (connect) timeout is not properly
  455. acknowledged after the actual TCP connect (during the SOCKS "negotiate"
  456. phase).
  457. 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
  458. libcurl doesn't support FTPS over a SOCKS proxy.
  459. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS
  460. libcurl doesn't support active FTP over a SOCKS proxy
  461. 11. Internals
  462. 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
  463. Curl sends DNS requests for hostnames with a .onion TLD. This leaks
  464. information about what the user is attempting to access, and violates this
  465. requirement of RFC7686: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686
  466. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/543
  467. 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
  468. If you ask libcurl to resolve a hostname like example.com to IPv6 addresses
  469. only. But you only have IPv4 connectivity. libcurl will correctly fail with
  470. CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT. But the error buffer set by CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
  471. remains empty. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/544
  472. 11.3 c-ares deviates from stock resolver on http://1346569778
  473. When using the socket resolvers, that URL becomes:
  474. * Rebuilt URL to: http://1346569778/
  475. * Trying 80.67.6.50...
  476. but with c-ares it instead says "Could not resolve: 1346569778 (Domain name
  477. not found)"
  478. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/893
  479. 11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
  480. The 'connection-monitor' feature of the sws HTTP test server doesn't work
  481. properly if some tests are run in unexpected order. Like 1509 and then 1525.
  482. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/868
  483. 11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
  484. CURLINFO_LOCAL_PORT (and possibly a few other) fails when TCP Fast Open is
  485. enabled.
  486. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1332
  487. 11.6 slow connect to localhost on Windows
  488. When connecting to "localhost" on Windows, curl will resolve the name for
  489. both ipv4 and ipv6 and try to connect to both happy eyeballs-style. Something
  490. in there does however make it take 200 milliseconds to succeed - which is the
  491. HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT define exactly. Lowering that define speeds up the
  492. connection, suggesting a problem in the HE handling.
  493. If we can *know* that we're talking to a local host, we should lower the
  494. happy eyeballs delay timeout for IPv6 (related: hardcode the "localhost"
  495. addresses, mentioned in TODO). Possibly we should reduce that delay for all.
  496. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2281
  497. 12. LDAP and OpenLDAP
  498. 12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
  499. By configuration defaults, openldap automatically chase referrals on
  500. secondary socket descriptors. The OpenLDAP backend is asynchronous and thus
  501. should monitor all socket descriptors involved. Currently, these secondary
  502. descriptors are not monitored, causing openldap library to never receive
  503. data from them.
  504. As a temporary workaround, disable referrals chasing by configuration.
  505. The fix is not easy: proper automatic referrals chasing requires a
  506. synchronous bind callback and monitoring an arbitrary number of socket
  507. descriptors for a single easy handle (currently limited to 5).
  508. Generic LDAP is synchronous: OK.
  509. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/622 and
  510. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-01/0101.html
  511. 13. TCP/IP
  512. 13.1 --interface for ipv6 binds to unusable IP address
  513. Since IPv6 provides a lot of addresses with different scope, binding to an
  514. IPv6 address needs to take the proper care so that it doesn't bind to a
  515. locally scoped address as that is bound to fail.
  516. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/686
  517. 14. DICT
  518. 14.1 DICT responses show the underlying protocol
  519. When getting a DICT response, the protocol parts of DICT aren't stripped off
  520. from the output.
  521. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1809