To formalize they are now XML-compliant (with some asterisks.)
Also to help syntax highlighters work on them to make their content more
readable.
Also:
- Delete empty comment decorations.
- GHA/checksrc: simplify XML check.
- runtests: fail to load test data with XML prolog missing.
Follow-up to bfe6eb1c06#19927
Follow-up to 87ba80a6dfCloses#19946
- `reply/data*`, `verify/stdout`, `verify/stderr`, `verify/file*`,
`verify/proxy`:
- make `crlf="yes"` force CRLF to all lines, instead of just applying
to HTTP protocol headers.
- add support for `crlf="headers"` that only converts HTTP protocol
header lines to CRLF. (previously done via `crlf="yes"`.)
- use `crlf="headers"` where possible.
- `reply/connect*`:
- add support for `crlf="yes"` and `crlf="headers"`.
- use them where possible.
- `client/file*`, `client/stdin`:
- add support for `crlf="yes"`.
- use it where possible.
- `reply/data*`, `verify/protocol`:
- replace existing uses of `crlf="yes"` with `crlf="headers`" where it
does not change the result.
Reducing the number of `tests/data/test*`:
- CRLF newlines from 10295 to 1985. (119985 lines total)
- files with mixed newlines from 656 to 113. (1890 files total)
After this patch there remain 141 sections with mixed newlines, where
the mixing is not split between headers/non-headers. There is no obvious
pattern here. Some of the CRLF uses might be accidental, or
non-significant. They will be tackled in a future patch.
Follow-up to 6cf3d7b1b1#19318
Follow-up to 4d2a05d3fe#19284Closes#19313
To make special newlines more explicit and visible.
Mostly in `<protocol>` sections, some in `<data*>` and `<upload>`.
Reducing the number of `tests/data/test*`:
- CRLF newlines from 21535 to 11337.
- files with mixed newlines from 1335 to 707.
Also delete empty `<protocol>` sections.
Closes#19284
When a specific hostname matched, and only a password is set before
another machine is specified in the netrc file, the parser would not be
happy and stop there and return the password-only state. It instead
continued and did not return a match.
Add test 2005 to verify this case
Regression from e9b9bba, shipped in 8.11.1.
Reported-by: Ben Zanin
Fixes#15767Closes#15768
Warning: this will make existing curl command lines that use metalink to
stop working.
Reasons for removal:
1. We've found several security problems and issues involving the
metalink support in curl. The issues are not detailed here. When
working on those, it become apparent to the team that several of the
problems are due to the system design, metalink library API and what
the metalink RFC says. They are very hard to fix on the curl side
only.
2. The metalink usage with curl was only very briefly documented and was
not following the "normal" curl usage pattern in several ways, making
it surprising and non-intuitive which could lead to further security
issues.
3. The metalink library was last updated 6 years ago and wasn't so
active the years before that either. An unmaintained library means
there's a security problem waiting to happen. This is probably reason
enough.
4. Metalink requires an XML parsing library, which is complex code (even
the smaller alternatives) and to this day often gets security
updates.
5. Metalink is not a widely used curl feature. In the 2020 curl user
survey, only 1.4% of the responders said that they'd are using it. In
2021 that number was 1.2%. Searching the web also show very few
traces of it being used, even with other tools.
6. The torrent format and associated technology clearly won for
downloading large files from multiple sources in parallel.
Cloes #7176
