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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. 1.3 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. 2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields
  25. 2.4 DarwinSSL won't import PKCS#12 client certificates without a password
  26. 2.5 Client cert handling with Issuer DN differs between backends
  27. 2.6 CURL_GLOBAL_SSL
  28. 2.7 Client cert (MTLS) issues with Schannel
  29. 2.8 Schannel disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and verify hostname
  30. 3. Email protocols
  31. 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
  32. 3.2 No disconnect command
  33. 3.3 SMTP to multiple recipients
  34. 3.4 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
  35. 4. Command line
  36. 4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
  37. 4.2 -J with -C - fails
  38. 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
  39. 4.4 --upload-file . hang if delay in STDIN
  40. 4.5 Improve --data-urlencode space encoding
  41. 5. Build and portability issues
  42. 5.1 USE_UNIX_SOCKETS on Windows
  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 Cannot compile against a static build of OpenLDAP
  46. 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in 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. 6. Authentication
  52. 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
  53. 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
  54. 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
  55. 6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
  56. 6.5 NTLM doesn't support password with § character
  57. 6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
  58. 6.7 Don't clear digest for single realm
  59. 7. FTP
  60. 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response
  61. 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server
  62. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
  63. 7.4 FTP with ACCT
  64. 7.5 ASCII FTP
  65. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts
  66. 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL
  67. 7.8 Premature transfer end but healthy control channel
  68. 7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
  69. 7.10 Stick to same family over SOCKS proxy
  70. 8. TELNET
  71. 8.1 TELNET and time limitations don't work
  72. 8.2 Microsoft telnet server
  73. 9. SFTP and SCP
  74. 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
  75. 10. SOCKS
  76. 10.1 SOCKS proxy connections are done blocking
  77. 10.2 SOCKS don't support timeouts
  78. 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
  79. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS
  80. 11. Internals
  81. 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
  82. 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
  83. 11.3 c-ares deviates from stock resolver on http://1346569778
  84. 11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
  85. 11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
  86. 11.6 slow connect to localhost on Windows
  87. 11.7 signal-based resolver timeouts
  88. 12. LDAP and OpenLDAP
  89. 12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
  90. 13. TCP/IP
  91. 13.1 --interface for ipv6 binds to unusable IP address
  92. 14 DICT
  93. 14.1 DICT responses show the underlying protocol
  94. ==============================================================================
  95. 1. HTTP
  96. 1.1 CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN in an array
  97. It is not possible to pass a 64-bit value using CURLFORM_CONTENTLEN with
  98. CURLFORM_ARRAY, when compiled on 32-bit platforms that support 64-bit
  99. integers. This is because the underlying structure 'curl_forms' uses a dual
  100. purpose char* for storing these values in via casting. For more information
  101. see the now closed related issue:
  102. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/608
  103. 1.3 STARTTRANSFER time is wrong for HTTP POSTs
  104. Wrong STARTTRANSFER timer accounting for POST requests Timer works fine with
  105. GET requests, but while using POST the time for CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME
  106. is wrong. While using POST CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME minus
  107. CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME is near to zero every time.
  108. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/218
  109. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1213
  110. 1.4 multipart formposts file name encoding
  111. When creating multipart formposts. The file name part can be encoded with
  112. something beyond ascii but currently libcurl will only pass in the verbatim
  113. string the app provides. There are several browsers that already do this
  114. encoding. The key seems to be the updated draft to RFC2231:
  115. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-02
  116. 1.5 Expect-100 meets 417
  117. If an upload using Expect: 100-continue receives an HTTP 417 response, it
  118. ought to be automatically resent without the Expect:. A workaround is for
  119. the client application to redo the transfer after disabling Expect:.
  120. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0043.html
  121. 1.6 Unnecessary close when 401 received waiting for 100
  122. libcurl closes the connection if an HTTP 401 reply is received while it is
  123. waiting for the the 100-continue response.
  124. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-08/0462.html
  125. 1.7 Deflate error after all content was received
  126. There's a situation where we can get an error in a HTTP response that is
  127. compressed, when that error is detected after all the actual body contents
  128. have been received and delivered to the application. This is tricky, but is
  129. ultimately a broken server.
  130. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2719
  131. 1.8 DoH isn't used for all name resolves when enabled
  132. Even if DoH is specified to be used, there are some name resolves that are
  133. done without it. This should be fixed. When the internal function
  134. `Curl_resolver_wait_resolv()` is called, it doesn't use DoH to complete the
  135. resolve as it otherwise should.
  136. See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3857 and
  137. https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3850
  138. 1.9 HTTP/2 frames while in the connection pool kill reuse
  139. If the server sends HTTP/2 frames (like for example an HTTP/2 PING frame) to
  140. curl while the connection is held in curl's connection pool, the socket will
  141. be found readable when considered for reuse and that makes curl think it is
  142. dead and then it will be closed and a new connection gets created instead.
  143. This is *best* fixed by adding monitoring to connections while they are kept
  144. in the pool so that pings can be responded to appropriately.
  145. 1.11 CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION not called with CURLFORM_STREAM
  146. I'm using libcurl to POST form data using a FILE* with the CURLFORM_STREAM
  147. option of curl_formadd(). I've noticed that if the connection drops at just
  148. the right time, the POST is reattempted without the data from the file. It
  149. seems like the file stream position isn't getting reset to the beginning of
  150. the file. I found the CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION option and set that with a
  151. function that performs an fseek() on the FILE*. However, setting that didn't
  152. seem to fix the issue or even get called. See
  153. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/768
  154. 2. TLS
  155. 2.1 CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT has limited support
  156. CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT is only implemented for the OpenSSL and NSS
  157. backends, so relying on this information in a generic app is flaky.
  158. 2.2 DER in keychain
  159. Curl doesn't recognize certificates in DER format in keychain, but it works
  160. with PEM. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1065
  161. 2.3 GnuTLS backend skips really long certificate fields
  162. libcurl calls gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn() with a fixed buffer size and if the
  163. field is too long in the cert, it'll just return an error and the field will
  164. be displayed blank.
  165. 2.4 DarwinSSL 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. 3. Email protocols
  199. 3.1 IMAP SEARCH ALL truncated response
  200. IMAP "SEARCH ALL" truncates output on large boxes. "A quick search of the
  201. code reveals that pingpong.c contains some truncation code, at line 408, when
  202. it deems the server response to be too large truncating it to 40 characters"
  203. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1366
  204. 3.2 No disconnect command
  205. The disconnect commands (LOGOUT and QUIT) may not be sent by IMAP, POP3 and
  206. SMTP if a failure occurs during the authentication phase of a connection.
  207. 3.3 SMTP to multiple recipients
  208. When sending data to multiple recipients, curl will abort and return failure
  209. if one of the recipients indicate failure (on the "RCPT TO"
  210. command). Ordinary mail programs would proceed and still send to the ones
  211. that can receive data. This is subject for change in the future.
  212. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1116
  213. 3.4 POP3 expects "CRLF.CRLF" eob for some single-line responses
  214. You have to tell libcurl not to expect a body, when dealing with one line
  215. response commands. Please see the POP3 examples and test cases which show
  216. this for the NOOP and DELE commands. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=740
  217. 4. Command line
  218. 4.1 -J and -O with %-encoded file names
  219. -J/--remote-header-name doesn't decode %-encoded file names. RFC6266 details
  220. how it should be done. The can of worm is basically that we have no charset
  221. handling in curl and ascii >=128 is a challenge for us. Not to mention that
  222. decoding also means that we need to check for nastiness that is attempted,
  223. like "../" sequences and the like. Probably everything to the left of any
  224. embedded slashes should be cut off.
  225. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1294
  226. -O also doesn't decode %-encoded names, and while it has even less
  227. information about the charset involved the process is similar to the -J case.
  228. Note that we won't add decoding to -O without the user asking for it with
  229. some other means as well, since -O has always been documented to use the name
  230. exactly as specified in the URL.
  231. 4.2 -J with -C - fails
  232. When using -J (with -O), automatically resumed downloading together with "-C
  233. -" fails. Without -J the same command line works! This happens because the
  234. resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its
  235. pre-transfer size) has been figured out!
  236. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1169
  237. 4.3 --retry and transfer timeouts
  238. If using --retry and the transfer timeouts (possibly due to using -m or
  239. -y/-Y) the next attempt doesn't resume the transfer properly from what was
  240. downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the
  241. original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See
  242. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report
  243. https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565
  244. 4.4 --upload-file . hangs if delay in STDIN
  245. "(echo start; sleep 1; echo end) | curl --upload-file . http://mywebsite -vv"
  246. ... causes a hang when it shouldn't.
  247. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2051
  248. 4.5 Improve --data-urlencode space encoding
  249. ASCII space characters in --data-urlencode are currently encoded as %20
  250. rather than +, which RFC 1866 says should be used.
  251. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3229
  252. 5. Build and portability issues
  253. 5.1 USE_UNIX_SOCKETS on Windows
  254. Due to incorrect CMake checks for the presense of the feature, it will never
  255. be enabled for windows in a cmake build.
  256. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4040
  257. 5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
  258. "curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is
  259. run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config
  260. --cflags suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
  261. 5.3 curl compiled on OSX 10.13 failed to run on OSX 10.10
  262. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2905
  263. 5.4 Cannot compile against a static build of OpenLDAP
  264. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2367
  265. 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in Windows
  266. If a URL or filename can't be encoded using the user's current codepage then
  267. it can only be encoded properly in the Unicode character set. Windows uses
  268. UTF-16 encoding for Unicode and stores it in wide characters, however curl
  269. and libcurl are not equipped for that at the moment. And, except for Cygwin,
  270. Windows can't use UTF-8 as a locale.
  271. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=345
  272. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=731
  273. 5.6 cmake support gaps
  274. The cmake build setup lacks several features that the autoconf build
  275. offers. This includes:
  276. - use of correct soname for the shared library build
  277. - support for several TLS backends are missing
  278. - the unit tests cause link failures in regular non-static builds
  279. - no nghttp2 check
  280. - unusable tool_hugehelp.c with MinGW, see
  281. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3125
  282. 5.7 Visual Studio project gaps
  283. The Visual Studio projects lack some features that the autoconf and nmake
  284. builds offer, such as the following:
  285. - support for zlib and nghttp2
  286. - use of static runtime libraries
  287. - add the test suite components
  288. In addition to this the following could be implemented:
  289. - support for other development IDEs
  290. - add PATH environment variables for third-party DLLs
  291. 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
  292. When the configure script checks for third-party libraries, it adds those
  293. directories to the LDFLAGS variable and then tries linking to see if it
  294. works. When successful, the found directory is kept in the LDFLAGS variable
  295. when the script continues to execute and do more tests and possibly check for
  296. more libraries.
  297. This can make subsequent checks for libraries wrongly detect another
  298. installation in a directory that was previously added to LDFLAGS by another
  299. library check!
  300. A possibly better way to do these checks would be to keep the pristine LDFLAGS
  301. even after successful checks and instead add those verified paths to a
  302. separate variable that only after all library checks have been performed gets
  303. appended to LDFLAGS.
  304. 5.9 Utilize Requires.private directives in libcurl.pc
  305. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/864
  306. 6. Authentication
  307. 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode
  308. NTLM authentication involving unicode user name or password only works
  309. properly if built with UNICODE defined together with the WinSSL/Schannel
  310. backend. The original problem was mentioned in:
  311. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-10/0024.html
  312. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=896
  313. The WinSSL/Schannel version verified to work as mentioned in
  314. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0073.html
  315. 6.2 MIT Kerberos for Windows build
  316. libcurl fails to build with MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) due to KfW's
  317. library header files exporting symbols/macros that should be kept private to
  318. the KfW library. See ticket #5601 at https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/
  319. 6.3 NTLM in system context uses wrong name
  320. NTLM authentication using SSPI (on Windows) when (lib)curl is running in
  321. "system context" will make it use wrong(?) user name - at least when compared
  322. to what winhttp does. See https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=535
  323. 6.4 Negotiate and Kerberos V5 need a fake user name
  324. In order to get Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication to work in HTTP or Kerberos
  325. V5 in the e-mail protocols, you need to provide a (fake) user name (this
  326. concerns both curl and the lib) because the code wrongly only considers
  327. authentication if there's a user name provided by setting
  328. conn->bits.user_passwd in url.c https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=440 How?
  329. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html A possible solution is to
  330. either modify this variable to be set or introduce a variable such as
  331. new conn->bits.want_authentication which is set when any of the authentication
  332. options are set.
  333. 6.5 NTLM doesn't support password with § character
  334. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2120
  335. 6.6 libcurl can fail to try alternatives with --proxy-any
  336. When connecting via a proxy using --proxy-any, a failure to establish an
  337. authentication will cause libcurl to abort trying other options if the
  338. failed method has a higher preference than the alternatives. As an example,
  339. --proxy-any against a proxy which advertise Negotiate and NTLM, but which
  340. fails to set up Kerberos authentication won't proceed to try authentication
  341. using NTLM.
  342. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/876
  343. 6.7 Don't clear digest for single realm
  344. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3267
  345. 7. FTP
  346. 7.1 FTP without or slow 220 response
  347. If a connection is made to a FTP server but the server then just never sends
  348. the 220 response or otherwise is dead slow, libcurl will not acknowledge the
  349. connection timeout during that phase but only the "real" timeout - which may
  350. surprise users as it is probably considered to be the connect phase to most
  351. people. Brought up (and is being misunderstood) in:
  352. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=856
  353. 7.2 FTP with CONNECT and slow server
  354. When doing FTP over a socks proxy or CONNECT through HTTP proxy and the multi
  355. interface is used, libcurl will fail if the (passive) TCP connection for the
  356. data transfer isn't more or less instant as the code does not properly wait
  357. for the connect to be confirmed. See test case 564 for a first shot at a test
  358. case.
  359. 7.3 FTP with NOBODY and FAILONERROR
  360. It seems sensible to be able to use CURLOPT_NOBODY and CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
  361. with FTP to detect if a file exists or not, but it is not working:
  362. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0295.html
  363. 7.4 FTP with ACCT
  364. When doing an operation over FTP that requires the ACCT command (but not when
  365. logging in), the operation will fail since libcurl doesn't detect this and
  366. thus fails to issue the correct command:
  367. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=635
  368. 7.5 ASCII FTP
  369. FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data
  370. accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1
  371. clearly describes how this should be done:
  372. The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to
  373. the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet
  374. specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard
  375. form to his own internal form.
  376. Since 7.15.4 at least line endings are converted.
  377. 7.6 FTP with NULs in URL parts
  378. FTP URLs passed to curl may contain NUL (0x00) in the RFC 1738 <user>,
  379. <password>, and <fpath> components, encoded as "%00". The problem is that
  380. curl_unescape does not detect this, but instead returns a shortened C string.
  381. From a strict FTP protocol standpoint, NUL is a valid character within RFC
  382. 959 <string>, so the way to handle this correctly in curl would be to use a
  383. data structure other than a plain C string, one that can handle embedded NUL
  384. characters. From a practical standpoint, most FTP servers would not
  385. meaningfully support NUL characters within RFC 959 <string>, anyway (e.g.,
  386. Unix pathnames may not contain NUL).
  387. 7.7 FTP and empty path parts in the URL
  388. libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
  389. such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument). The
  390. only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the empty
  391. part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to indicate that
  392. the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL remain even when
  393. this bug is fixed).
  394. 7.8 Premature transfer end but healthy control channel
  395. When 'multi_done' is called before the transfer has been completed the normal
  396. way, it is considered a "premature" transfer end. In this situation, libcurl
  397. closes the connection assuming it doesn't know the state of the connection so
  398. it can't be reused for subsequent requests.
  399. With FTP however, this isn't necessarily true but there are a bunch of
  400. situations (listed in the ftp_done code) where it *could* keep the connection
  401. alive even in this situation - but the current code doesn't. Fixing this would
  402. allow libcurl to reuse FTP connections better.
  403. 7.9 Passive transfer tries only one IP address
  404. When doing FTP operations through a proxy at localhost, the reported spotted
  405. that curl only tried to connect once to the proxy, while it had multiple
  406. addresses and a failed connect on one address should make it try the next.
  407. After switching to passive mode (EPSV), curl should try all IP addresses for
  408. "localhost". Currently it tries ::1, but it should also try 127.0.0.1.
  409. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1508
  410. 7.10 Stick to same family over SOCKS proxy
  411. When asked to do FTP over a SOCKS proxy, it might connect to the proxy (and
  412. then subsequently to the remote server) using for example IPv4. When doing
  413. the second connection, curl should make sure that the second connection is
  414. using the same IP protocol version as the first connection did and not try
  415. others, since the remote server will only accept the same.
  416. See https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2018-07/0000.html
  417. 8. TELNET
  418. 8.1 TELNET and time limitations don't work
  419. When using telnet, the time limitation options don't work.
  420. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=846
  421. 8.2 Microsoft telnet server
  422. There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server.
  423. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=649
  424. 9. SFTP and SCP
  425. 9.1 SFTP doesn't do CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE correct
  426. When libcurl sends CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE commands when connected to a SFTP server
  427. using the multi interface, the commands are not being sent correctly and
  428. instead the connection is "cancelled" (the operation is considered done)
  429. prematurely. There is a half-baked (busy-looping) patch provided in the bug
  430. report but it cannot be accepted as-is. See
  431. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=748
  432. 10. SOCKS
  433. 10.1 SOCKS proxy connections are done blocking
  434. Both SOCKS5 and SOCKS4 proxy connections are done blocking, which is very bad
  435. when used with the multi interface.
  436. 10.2 SOCKS don't support timeouts
  437. The SOCKS4 connection codes don't properly acknowledge (connect) timeouts.
  438. According to bug #1556528, even the SOCKS5 connect code does not do it right:
  439. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=604
  440. When connecting to a SOCK proxy, the (connect) timeout is not properly
  441. acknowledged after the actual TCP connect (during the SOCKS "negotiate"
  442. phase).
  443. 10.3 FTPS over SOCKS
  444. libcurl doesn't support FTPS over a SOCKS proxy.
  445. 10.4 active FTP over a SOCKS
  446. libcurl doesn't support active FTP over a SOCKS proxy
  447. 11. Internals
  448. 11.1 Curl leaks .onion hostnames in DNS
  449. Curl sends DNS requests for hostnames with a .onion TLD. This leaks
  450. information about what the user is attempting to access, and violates this
  451. requirement of RFC7686: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686
  452. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/543
  453. 11.2 error buffer not set if connection to multiple addresses fails
  454. If you ask libcurl to resolve a hostname like example.com to IPv6 addresses
  455. only. But you only have IPv4 connectivity. libcurl will correctly fail with
  456. CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT. But the error buffer set by CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER
  457. remains empty. Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/544
  458. 11.3 c-ares deviates from stock resolver on http://1346569778
  459. When using the socket resolvers, that URL becomes:
  460. * Rebuilt URL to: http://1346569778/
  461. * Trying 80.67.6.50...
  462. but with c-ares it instead says "Could not resolve: 1346569778 (Domain name
  463. not found)"
  464. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/893
  465. 11.4 HTTP test server 'connection-monitor' problems
  466. The 'connection-monitor' feature of the sws HTTP test server doesn't work
  467. properly if some tests are run in unexpected order. Like 1509 and then 1525.
  468. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/868
  469. 11.5 Connection information when using TCP Fast Open
  470. CURLINFO_LOCAL_PORT (and possibly a few other) fails when TCP Fast Open is
  471. enabled.
  472. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1332
  473. 11.6 slow connect to localhost on Windows
  474. When connecting to "localhost" on Windows, curl will resolve the name for
  475. both ipv4 and ipv6 and try to connect to both happy eyeballs-style. Something
  476. in there does however make it take 200 milliseconds to succeed - which is the
  477. HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT define exactly. Lowering that define speeds up the
  478. connection, suggesting a problem in the HE handling.
  479. If we can *know* that we're talking to a local host, we should lower the
  480. happy eyeballs delay timeout for IPv6 (related: hardcode the "localhost"
  481. addresses, mentioned in TODO). Possibly we should reduce that delay for all.
  482. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2281
  483. 11.7 signal-based resolver timeouts
  484. libcurl built without an asynchronous resolver library uses alarm() to time
  485. out DNS lookups. When a timeout occurs, this causes libcurl to jump from the
  486. signal handler back into the library with a sigsetjmp, which effectively
  487. causes libcurl to continue running within the signal handler. This is
  488. non-portable and could cause problems on some platforms. A discussion on the
  489. problem is available at https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-09/0197.html
  490. Also, alarm() provides timeout resolution only to the nearest second. alarm
  491. ought to be replaced by setitimer on systems that support it.
  492. 12. LDAP and OpenLDAP
  493. 12.1 OpenLDAP hangs after returning results
  494. By configuration defaults, openldap automatically chase referrals on
  495. secondary socket descriptors. The OpenLDAP backend is asynchronous and thus
  496. should monitor all socket descriptors involved. Currently, these secondary
  497. descriptors are not monitored, causing openldap library to never receive
  498. data from them.
  499. As a temporary workaround, disable referrals chasing by configuration.
  500. The fix is not easy: proper automatic referrals chasing requires a
  501. synchronous bind callback and monitoring an arbitrary number of socket
  502. descriptors for a single easy handle (currently limited to 5).
  503. Generic LDAP is synchronous: OK.
  504. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/622 and
  505. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-01/0101.html
  506. 13. TCP/IP
  507. 13.1 --interface for ipv6 binds to unusable IP address
  508. Since IPv6 provides a lot of addresses with different scope, binding to an
  509. IPv6 address needs to take the proper care so that it doesn't bind to a
  510. locally scoped address as that is bound to fail.
  511. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/686
  512. 14. DICT
  513. 14.1 DICT responses show the underlying protocol
  514. When getting a DICT response, the protocol parts of DICT aren't stripped off
  515. from the output.
  516. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1809