KNOWN_BUGS 30 KB

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243244245246247248249250251252253254255256257258259260261262263264265266267268269270271272273274275276277278279280281282283284285286287288289290291292293294295296297298299300301302303304305306307308309310311312313314315316317318319320321322323324325326327328329330331332333334335336337338339340341342343344345346347348349350351352353354355356357358359360361362363364365366367368369370371372373374375376377378379380381382383384385386387388389390391392393394395396397398399400401402403404405406407408409410411412413414415416417418419420421422423424425426427428429430431432433434435436437438439440441442443444445446447448449450451452453454455456457458459460461462463464465466467468469470471472473474475476477478479480481482483484485486487488489490491492493494495496497498499500501502503504505506507508509510511512513514515516517518519520521522523524525526527528529530531532533534535536537538539540541542543544545546547548549550551552553554555556557558559560561562563564565566567568569570571572573574575576577578579580581582583584585586587588589590591592593594595596597598599600601602603604605606607608609610611612613614615616617618619620621622623624625626627628629630631632633634635636637638639640641642643644645646647648649650651652653654655656657658659660661662663664665666667668669670671672673674675676677678679680681682683684685686687688689690691692693694695696697698699700701702703704705706707708709710711712713714715716717718719720721722723724725726727728729730731732733734735736737738739740741742743744745746747748749750751752753754755756757758759760761762763764765766767768769770771772773774775776777778779780781782783784785786787788789790791792793794795796
  1. _ _ ____ _
  2. ___| | | | _ \| |
  3. / __| | | | |_) | |
  4. | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
  5. \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  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. 1.2 Multiple methods in a single WWW-Authenticate: header
  13. 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs
  14. 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding
  15. 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
  16. 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100
  17. 1.7 Deflate error after all content was received
  18. 1.8 DoH isn't used for all name resolves when enabled
  19. 1.9 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
  20. 1.11 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION not called with CURLFORM_STREAM
  21. 2. TLS
  22. 2.1 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support
  23. 2.2 DER in keychain
  24. 2.4 Secure Transport won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
  25. 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
  26. 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
  27. 2.7 Client cert (MTLS) issues with Schannel
  28. 2.8 Schannel disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and verify hostname
  29. 2.9 TLS session cache doesn't work with TFO
  30. 2.10 Store TLS context per transfer instead of per connection
  31. 3. Email protocols
  32. 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
  33. 3.2 No disconnect command
  34. 3.3 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
  35. 3.4 AUTH PLAIN for SMTP is not working on all servers
  36. 4. Command line
  37. 4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
  38. 4.2 -J with -C - fails
  39. 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
  40. 4.4 Improve --data-urlencode space encoding
  41. 5. Build and portability issues
  42. 5.1 OS400 port requires deprecated IBM library
  43. 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
  44. 5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
  45. 5.4 Build with statically built dependency
  46. 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in non-Unicode builds on Windows
  47. 5.6 cmake support gaps
  48. 5.7 Visual Studio project gaps
  49. 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
  50. 5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
  51. 5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
  52. 6. Authentication
  53. 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
  54. 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
  55. 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
  56. 6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
  57. 6.5 NTLM doesn't support password with § character
  58. 6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
  59. 6.7 Don't clear digest for single realm
  60. 6.8 RTSP authentication breaks without redirect support
  61. 7. FTP
  62. 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response
  63. 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server
  64. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
  65. 7.4 FTP with ACCT
  66. 7.5 ASCII FTP
  67. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts
  68. 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL
  69. 7.8 Premature transfer end but healthy control channel
  70. 7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
  71. 7.10 FTPS needs session reuse
  72. 8. TELNET
  73. 8.1 TELNET and time limitations don't work
  74. 8.2 Microsoft telnet server
  75. 9. SFTP and SCP
  76. 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
  77. 9.2 wolfssh: publickey auth doesn't work
  78. 10. SOCKS
  79. 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
  80. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS
  81. 11. Internals
  82. 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
  83. 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
  84. 11.3 c-ares deviates from stock resolver on http://1346569778
  85. 11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
  86. 11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
  87. 11.6 slow connect to localhost on Windows
  88. 11.7 signal-based resolver timeouts
  89. 11.8 DoH leaks memory after followlocation
  90. 11.9 DoH doesn't inherit all transfer options
  91. 11.10 Blocking socket operations in non-blocking API
  92. 12. LDAP and OpenLDAP
  93. 12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
  94. 12.2 LDAP on Windows does authentication wrong?
  95. 12.3 LDAP on Windows doesn't work
  96. 13. TCP/IP
  97. 13.1 --interface for ipv6 binds to unusable IP address
  98. 14 DICT
  99. 14.1 DICT responses show the underlying protocol
  100. ==============================================================================
  101. 1. HTTP
  102. 1.2 Multiple methods in a single WWW-Authenticate: header
  103. The HTTP responses headers WWW-Authenticate: can provide information about
  104. multiple authentication methods as multiple headers or as several methods
  105. within a single header. The latter way, several methods in the same physical
  106. line, is not supported by libcurl's parser. (For no good reason.)
  107. 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs
  108. Wrong STARTTRANSFER timer accounting for POST requests Timer works fine with
  109. GET requests, but while using POST the time for CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME
  110. is wrong. While using POST CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME minus
  111. CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME is near to zero every time.
  112. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/218
  113. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1213
  114. 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding
  115. When creating multipart formposts. The file name part can be encoded with
  116. something beyond ascii but currently libcurl will only pass in the verbatim
  117. string the app provides. There are several browsers that already do this
  118. encoding. The key seems to be the updated draft to RFC2231:
  119. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-02
  120. 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
  121. If an upload using Expect: 100-continue receives an HTTP 417 response, it
  122. ought to be automatically resent without the Expect:. A workaround is for
  123. the client application to redo the transfer after disabling Expect:.
  124. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0043.html
  125. 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100
  126. libcurl closes the connection if an HTTP 401 reply is received while it is
  127. waiting for the 100-continue response.
  128. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-08/0462.html
  129. 1.7 Deflate error after all content was received
  130. There's a situation where we can get an error in a HTTP response that is
  131. compressed, when that error is detected after all the actual body contents
  132. have been received and delivered to the application. This is tricky, but is
  133. ultimately a broken server.
  134. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2719
  135. 1.8 DoH isn't used for all name resolves when enabled
  136. Even if DoH is specified to be used, there are some name resolves that are
  137. done without it. This should be fixed. When the internal function
  138. `Curl_resolver_wait_resolv()` is called, it doesn't use DoH to complete the
  139. resolve as it otherwise should.
  140. See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3857 and
  141. https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3850
  142. 1.9 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
  143. If the server sends HTTP/2 frames (like for example an HTTP/2 PING frame) to
  144. curl while the connection is held in curl's connection pool, the socket will
  145. be found readable when considered for reuse and that makes curl think it is
  146. dead and then it will be closed and a new connection gets created instead.
  147. This is *best* fixed by adding monitoring to connections while they are kept
  148. in the pool so that pings can be responded to appropriately.
  149. 1.11 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION not called with CURLFORM_STREAM
  150. I'm using libcurl to POST form data using a FILE* with the CURLFORM_STREAM
  151. option of curl_formadd(). I've noticed that if the connection drops at just
  152. the right time, the POST is reattempted without the data from the file. It
  153. seems like the file stream position isn't getting reset to the beginning of
  154. the file. I found the CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION option and set that with a
  155. function that performs an fseek() on the FILE*. However, setting that didn't
  156. seem to fix the issue or even get called. See
  157. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/768
  158. 2. TLS
  159. 2.1 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support
  160. CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT is only implemented for the OpenSSL, NSS and
  161. GnuTLS backends, so relying on this information in a generic app is flaky.
  162. 2.2 DER in keychain
  163. Curl doesn't recognize certificates in DER format in keychain, but it works
  164. with PEM. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1065
  165. 2.4 Secure Transport won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
  166. libcurl calls SecPKCS12Import with the PKCS#12 client certificate, but that
  167. function rejects certificates that do not have a password.
  168. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1308
  169. 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
  170. When the specified client certificate doesn't match any of the
  171. server-specified DNs, the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends behave differently.
  172. The github discussion may contain a solution.
  173. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1411
  174. 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
  175. Since libcurl 7.57.0, the flag CURL_GLOBAL_SSL is a no-op. The change was
  176. merged in https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d661b0afb571a
  177. It was removed since it was
  178. A) never clear for applications on how to deal with init in the light of
  179. different SSL backends (the option was added back in the days when life
  180. was simpler)
  181. B) multissl introduced dynamic switching between SSL backends which
  182. emphasized (A) even more
  183. C) libcurl uses some TLS backend functionality even for non-TLS functions (to
  184. get "good" random) so applications trying to avoid the init for
  185. performance reasons would do wrong anyway
  186. D) never very carefully documented so all this mostly just happened to work
  187. for some users
  188. However, in spite of the problems with the feature, there were some users who
  189. apparently depended on this feature and who now claim libcurl is broken for
  190. them. The fix for this situation is not obvious as a downright revert of the
  191. patch is totally ruled out due to those reasons above.
  192. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2276
  193. 2.7 Client cert (MTLS) issues with Schannel
  194. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3145
  195. 2.8 Schannel disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and verify hostname
  196. This seems to be a limitation in the underlying Schannel API.
  197. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3284
  198. 2.9 TLS session cache doesn't work with TFO
  199. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4301
  200. 2.10 Store TLS context per transfer instead of per connection
  201. The GnuTLS `backend->cred` and the OpenSSL `backend->ctx` data and their
  202. proxy versions (and possibly other TLS backends), could be better moved to be
  203. stored in the Curl_easy handle instead of in per connection so that a single
  204. transfer that makes multiple connections can reuse the context and reduce
  205. memory consumption.
  206. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5102
  207. 3. Email protocols
  208. 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
  209. IMAP "SEARCH ALL" truncates output on large boxes. "A quick search of the
  210. code reveals that pingpong.c contains some truncation code, at line 408, when
  211. it deems the server response to be too large truncating it to 40 characters"
  212. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1366
  213. 3.2 No disconnect command
  214. The disconnect commands (LOGOUT and QUIT) may not be sent by IMAP, POP3 and
  215. SMTP if a failure occurs during the authentication phase of a connection.
  216. 3.3 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
  217. You have to tell libcurl not to expect a body, when dealing with one line
  218. response commands. Please see the POP3 examples and test cases which show
  219. this for the NOOP and DELE commands. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=740
  220. 3.4 AUTH PLAIN for SMTP is not working on all servers
  221. Specifying "--login-options AUTH=PLAIN" on the command line doesn't seem to
  222. work correctly.
  223. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4080
  224. 4. Command line
  225. 4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
  226. -J/--remote-header-name doesn't decode %-encoded file names. RFC6266 details
  227. how it should be done. The can of worm is basically that we have no charset
  228. handling in curl and ascii >=128 is a challenge for us. Not to mention that
  229. decoding also means that we need to check for nastiness that is attempted,
  230. like "../" sequences and the like. Probably everything to the left of any
  231. embedded slashes should be cut off.
  232. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1294
  233. -O also doesn't decode %-encoded names, and while it has even less
  234. information about the charset involved the process is similar to the -J case.
  235. Note that we won't add decoding to -O without the user asking for it with
  236. some other means as well, since -O has always been documented to use the name
  237. exactly as specified in the URL.
  238. 4.2 -J with -C - fails
  239. When using -J (with -O), automatically resumed downloading together with "-C
  240. -" fails. Without -J the same command line works! This happens because the
  241. resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its
  242. pre-transfer size) has been figured out!
  243. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1169
  244. 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
  245. If using --retry and the transfer timeouts (possibly due to using -m or
  246. -y/-Y) the next attempt doesn't resume the transfer properly from what was
  247. downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the
  248. original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See
  249. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report
  250. https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565
  251. 4.4 Improve --data-urlencode space encoding
  252. ASCII space characters in --data-urlencode are currently encoded as %20
  253. rather than +, which RFC 1866 says should be used.
  254. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3229
  255. 5. Build and portability issues
  256. 5.1 OS400 port requires deprecated IBM library
  257. curl for OS400 requires QADRT to build, which provides ASCII wrappers for
  258. libc/POSIX functions in the ILE, but IBM no longer supports or even offers
  259. this library to download.
  260. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5176
  261. 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
  262. "curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is
  263. run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config
  264. --cflags suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
  265. 5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
  266. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2905
  267. 5.4 Build with statically built dependency
  268. The build scripts in curl (autotools, cmake and others) are primarily done to
  269. work with shared/dynamic third party dependencies. When linking with shared
  270. libraries, the dependency "chain" is handled automatically by the library
  271. loader - on all modern systems.
  272. If you instead link with a static library, we need to provide all the
  273. dependency libraries already at the link command line.
  274. Figuring out all the dependency libraries for a given library is hard, as it
  275. might also involve figuring out the dependencies of the dependencies and they
  276. may vary between platforms and even change between versions.
  277. When using static dependencies, the build scripts will mostly assume that
  278. you, the user, will provide all the necessary additional dependency libraries
  279. as additional arguments in the build. With configure, by setting LIBS/LDFLAGS
  280. on the command line.
  281. We welcome help to improve curl's ability to link with static libraries, but
  282. it is likely a task that we can never fully support.
  283. 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in non-Unicode builds on Windows
  284. If a URL or filename can't be encoded using the user's current codepage then
  285. it can only be encoded properly in the Unicode character set. Windows uses
  286. UTF-16 encoding for Unicode and stores it in wide characters, however curl
  287. and libcurl are not equipped for that at the moment except when built with
  288. _UNICODE and UNICODE defined. And, except for Cygwin, Windows can't use UTF-8
  289. as a locale.
  290. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=345
  291. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=731
  292. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=3747
  293. 5.6 cmake support gaps
  294. The cmake build setup lacks several features that the autoconf build
  295. offers. This includes:
  296. - use of correct soname for the shared library build
  297. - support for several TLS backends are missing
  298. - the unit tests cause link failures in regular non-static builds
  299. - no nghttp2 check
  300. - unusable tool_hugehelp.c with MinGW, see
  301. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3125
  302. 5.7 Visual Studio project gaps
  303. The Visual Studio projects lack some features that the autoconf and nmake
  304. builds offer, such as the following:
  305. - support for zlib and nghttp2
  306. - use of static runtime libraries
  307. - add the test suite components
  308. In addition to this the following could be implemented:
  309. - support for other development IDEs
  310. - add PATH environment variables for third-party DLLs
  311. 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
  312. When the configure script checks for third-party libraries, it adds those
  313. directories to the LDFLAGS variable and then tries linking to see if it
  314. works. When successful, the found directory is kept in the LDFLAGS variable
  315. when the script continues to execute and do more tests and possibly check for
  316. more libraries.
  317. This can make subsequent checks for libraries wrongly detect another
  318. installation in a directory that was previously added to LDFLAGS by another
  319. library check!
  320. A possibly better way to do these checks would be to keep the pristine LDFLAGS
  321. even after successful checks and instead add those verified paths to a
  322. separate variable that only after all library checks have been performed gets
  323. appended to LDFLAGS.
  324. 5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
  325. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/864
  326. 5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
  327. ... unless you also pass --with-gssapi-libs
  328. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3841
  329. 6. Authentication
  330. 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
  331. NTLM authentication involving unicode user name or password only works
  332. properly if built with UNICODE defined together with the WinSSL/Schannel
  333. backend. The original problem was mentioned in:
  334. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-10/0024.html
  335. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=896
  336. The WinSSL/Schannel version verified to work as mentioned in
  337. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0073.html
  338. 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
  339. libcurl fails to build with MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) due to KfW's
  340. library header files exporting symbols/macros that should be kept private to
  341. the KfW library. See ticket #5601 at https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/
  342. 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
  343. NTLM authentication using SSPI (on Windows) when (lib)curl is running in
  344. "system context" will make it use wrong(?) user name - at least when compared
  345. to what winhttp does. See https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=535
  346. 6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
  347. In order to get Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication to work in HTTP or Kerberos
  348. V5 in the e-mail protocols, you need to provide a (fake) user name (this
  349. concerns both curl and the lib) because the code wrongly only considers
  350. authentication if there's a user name provided by setting
  351. conn->bits.user_passwd in url.c https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=440 How?
  352. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html A possible solution is to
  353. either modify this variable to be set or introduce a variable such as
  354. new conn->bits.want_authentication which is set when any of the authentication
  355. options are set.
  356. 6.5 NTLM doesn't support password with § character
  357. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2120
  358. 6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
  359. When connecting via a proxy using --proxy-any, a failure to establish an
  360. authentication will cause libcurl to abort trying other options if the
  361. failed method has a higher preference than the alternatives. As an example,
  362. --proxy-any against a proxy which advertise Negotiate and NTLM, but which
  363. fails to set up Kerberos authentication won't proceed to try authentication
  364. using NTLM.
  365. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/876
  366. 6.7 Don't clear digest for single realm
  367. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3267
  368. 6.8 RTSP authentication breaks without redirect support
  369. RTSP authentication broke in 7.66.0. A work-around is to enable RTSP in
  370. CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS. Authentication should however not be considered an
  371. actual redirect so a "proper" fix needs to be different and not require users
  372. to allow redirects to RTSP to work.
  373. See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4750
  374. 7. FTP
  375. 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response
  376. If a connection is made to a FTP server but the server then just never sends
  377. the 220 response or otherwise is dead slow, libcurl will not acknowledge the
  378. connection timeout during that phase but only the "real" timeout - which may
  379. surprise users as it is probably considered to be the connect phase to most
  380. people. Brought up (and is being misunderstood) in:
  381. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=856
  382. 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server
  383. When doing FTP over a socks proxy or CONNECT through HTTP proxy and the multi
  384. interface is used, libcurl will fail if the (passive) TCP connection for the
  385. data transfer isn't more or less instant as the code does not properly wait
  386. for the connect to be confirmed. See test case 564 for a first shot at a test
  387. case.
  388. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
  389. It seems sensible to be able to use CURLOPT_NOBODY and CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
  390. with FTP to detect if a file exists or not, but it is not working:
  391. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0295.html
  392. 7.4 FTP with ACCT
  393. When doing an operation over FTP that requires the ACCT command (but not when
  394. logging in), the operation will fail since libcurl doesn't detect this and
  395. thus fails to issue the correct command:
  396. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=635
  397. 7.5 ASCII FTP
  398. FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data
  399. accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1
  400. clearly describes how this should be done:
  401. The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to
  402. the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet
  403. specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard
  404. form to his own internal form.
  405. Since 7.15.4 at least line endings are converted.
  406. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts
  407. FTP URLs passed to curl may contain NUL (0x00) in the RFC 1738 <user>,
  408. <password>, and <fpath> components, encoded as "%00". The problem is that
  409. curl_unescape does not detect this, but instead returns a shortened C string.
  410. From a strict FTP protocol standpoint, NUL is a valid character within RFC
  411. 959 <string>, so the way to handle this correctly in curl would be to use a
  412. data structure other than a plain C string, one that can handle embedded NUL
  413. characters. From a practical standpoint, most FTP servers would not
  414. meaningfully support NUL characters within RFC 959 <string>, anyway (e.g.,
  415. Unix pathnames may not contain NUL).
  416. 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL
  417. libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
  418. such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument). The
  419. only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the empty
  420. part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to indicate that
  421. the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL remain even when
  422. this bug is fixed).
  423. 7.8 Premature transfer end but healthy control channel
  424. When 'multi_done' is called before the transfer has been completed the normal
  425. way, it is considered a "premature" transfer end. In this situation, libcurl
  426. closes the connection assuming it doesn't know the state of the connection so
  427. it can't be reused for subsequent requests.
  428. With FTP however, this isn't necessarily true but there are a bunch of
  429. situations (listed in the ftp_done code) where it *could* keep the connection
  430. alive even in this situation - but the current code doesn't. Fixing this would
  431. allow libcurl to reuse FTP connections better.
  432. 7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
  433. When doing FTP operations through a proxy at localhost, the reported spotted
  434. that curl only tried to connect once to the proxy, while it had multiple
  435. addresses and a failed connect on one address should make it try the next.
  436. After switching to passive mode (EPSV), curl should try all IP addresses for
  437. "localhost". Currently it tries ::1, but it should also try 127.0.0.1.
  438. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1508
  439. 7.10 FTPS needs session reuse
  440. When the control connection is reused for a subsequent transfer, some FTPS
  441. servers complain about "missing session reuse" for the data channel for the
  442. second transfer.
  443. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4654
  444. 8. TELNET
  445. 8.1 TELNET and time limitations don't work
  446. When using telnet, the time limitation options don't work.
  447. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=846
  448. 8.2 Microsoft telnet server
  449. There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server.
  450. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=649
  451. 9. SFTP and SCP
  452. 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
  453. When libcurl sends CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE commands when connected to a SFTP server
  454. using the multi interface, the commands are not being sent correctly and
  455. instead the connection is "cancelled" (the operation is considered done)
  456. prematurely. There is a half-baked (busy-looping) patch provided in the bug
  457. report but it cannot be accepted as-is. See
  458. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=748
  459. 9.2 wolfssh: publickey auth doesn't work
  460. When building curl to use the wolfSSH backend for SFTP, the publickey
  461. authentication doesn't work. This is simply functionality not written for curl
  462. yet, the necessary API for make this work is provided by wolfSSH.
  463. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4820
  464. 10. SOCKS
  465. 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
  466. libcurl doesn't support FTPS over a SOCKS proxy.
  467. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS
  468. libcurl doesn't support active FTP over a SOCKS proxy
  469. 11. Internals
  470. 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
  471. Curl sends DNS requests for hostnames with a .onion TLD. This leaks
  472. information about what the user is attempting to access, and violates this
  473. requirement of RFC7686: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686
  474. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/543
  475. 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
  476. If you ask libcurl to resolve a hostname like example.com to IPv6 addresses
  477. only. But you only have IPv4 connectivity. libcurl will correctly fail with
  478. CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT. But the error buffer set by CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
  479. remains empty. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/544
  480. 11.3 c-ares deviates from stock resolver on http://1346569778
  481. When using the socket resolvers, that URL becomes:
  482. * Rebuilt URL to: http://1346569778/
  483. * Trying 80.67.6.50...
  484. but with c-ares it instead says "Could not resolve: 1346569778 (Domain name
  485. not found)"
  486. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/893
  487. 11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
  488. The 'connection-monitor' feature of the sws HTTP test server doesn't work
  489. properly if some tests are run in unexpected order. Like 1509 and then 1525.
  490. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/868
  491. 11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
  492. CURLINFO_LOCAL_PORT (and possibly a few other) fails when TCP Fast Open is
  493. enabled.
  494. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1332 and
  495. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4296
  496. 11.6 slow connect to localhost on Windows
  497. When connecting to "localhost" on Windows, curl will resolve the name for
  498. both ipv4 and ipv6 and try to connect to both happy eyeballs-style. Something
  499. in there does however make it take 200 milliseconds to succeed - which is the
  500. HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT define exactly. Lowering that define speeds up the
  501. connection, suggesting a problem in the HE handling.
  502. If we can *know* that we're talking to a local host, we should lower the
  503. happy eyeballs delay timeout for IPv6 (related: hardcode the "localhost"
  504. addresses, mentioned in TODO). Possibly we should reduce that delay for all.
  505. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2281
  506. 11.7 signal-based resolver timeouts
  507. libcurl built without an asynchronous resolver library uses alarm() to time
  508. out DNS lookups. When a timeout occurs, this causes libcurl to jump from the
  509. signal handler back into the library with a sigsetjmp, which effectively
  510. causes libcurl to continue running within the signal handler. This is
  511. non-portable and could cause problems on some platforms. A discussion on the
  512. problem is available at https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-09/0197.html
  513. Also, alarm() provides timeout resolution only to the nearest second. alarm
  514. ought to be replaced by setitimer on systems that support it.
  515. 11.8 DoH leaks memory after followlocation
  516. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4592
  517. 11.9 DoH doesn't inherit all transfer options
  518. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4578
  519. 11.10 Blocking socket operations in non-blocking API
  520. The list of blocking socket operations is in TODO section "More non-blocking".
  521. 12. LDAP and OpenLDAP
  522. 12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
  523. By configuration defaults, openldap automatically chase referrals on
  524. secondary socket descriptors. The OpenLDAP backend is asynchronous and thus
  525. should monitor all socket descriptors involved. Currently, these secondary
  526. descriptors are not monitored, causing openldap library to never receive
  527. data from them.
  528. As a temporary workaround, disable referrals chasing by configuration.
  529. The fix is not easy: proper automatic referrals chasing requires a
  530. synchronous bind callback and monitoring an arbitrary number of socket
  531. descriptors for a single easy handle (currently limited to 5).
  532. Generic LDAP is synchronous: OK.
  533. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/622 and
  534. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-01/0101.html
  535. 12.2 LDAP on Windows does authentication wrong?
  536. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3116
  537. 12.3 LDAP on Windows doesn't work
  538. A simple curl command line getting "ldap://ldap.forumsys.com" returns an
  539. error that says "no memory" !
  540. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4261
  541. 13. TCP/IP
  542. 13.1 --interface for ipv6 binds to unusable IP address
  543. Since IPv6 provides a lot of addresses with different scope, binding to an
  544. IPv6 address needs to take the proper care so that it doesn't bind to a
  545. locally scoped address as that is bound to fail.
  546. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/686
  547. 14. DICT
  548. 14.1 DICT responses show the underlying protocol
  549. When getting a DICT response, the protocol parts of DICT aren't stripped off
  550. from the output.
  551. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1809