Introduce a limit on the concurrent connect attempts of 6:
- document this in CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT_MS
- close the oldest attempt before opening a new one that would
exceed the limit
- closing failed attempts early to avoid sockets use beyong their
usefulness
- add tests for limits in unit2600
These changes are externally visible as file descriptors will be
reassigned where we previously kept the old one around and started a
new socket, allocating always a new descriptor.
Closes#21252
via env `CURL_TEST_SSH_KEYALGO`, `rsa` (default), `ecdsa`, `ed25519`.
To ease debugging and testing and to make these code paths more
universal.
Closes#21223
Now the logic for handling name duplicates and picking the longest
expiry and strictest subdomain is the same for the callback as for when
reading from file.
Also strip trailing dots from the hostname added by the callback.
A minor side-effect is that the hostname provided by the callback can
now enable subdomains by starting the name with a dot, but we discourage
using such hostnames in documentation.
Amended test 1915 to verify.
Closes#21201
Up from 1K.
Reduces the risk that someone could flush the list by tricking a user to
do many transfers to new hostnames.
Document the limit.
Follow-up to 03a792b186Closes#21200
- allow to specify when they are wanted on starting a resolve
- match dns cache entries accordingly. An entry which never
tried to get HTTPS-RRs is no answer for a resolve that wants
it.
- fix late arrivals of resolve answers to match the "async"
records that started them - if it still exists.
- provide for multiple "async" resolves in a transfer at the
same time. We may need to resolve an IP interface while the
main connection resolve has not finished yet.
- allow lookup of HTTPS-RR information as soon as it is
available, even if A/AAAA queries are still ongoing.
For this, the "async" infrastructure is changed:
- Defined bits for DNS queries `CURL_DNSQ_A`, `CURL_DNSQ_AAAA`
and `CURL_DNSQ_HTTPS`. These replace `ip_version` which says
nothing about HTTPS.
Use them in dns cache entries for matching.
- enhance the `async->id` to be a unique `uint32_t` for
resolves inside one multi. This is weak, as the id may
wrap around. However it is combined with the `mid` of
the easy handle, making collisions highly unlikely.
`data->state.async` is only accessed in few places where
the mid/async-id match is performed.
- vtls: for ECH supporting TLS backends (openssl, rustls, wolfssl),
retrieve the HTTPS-RR information from the dns connection filter.
Delay the connect if the HTTPS-RR is needed, but has not
been resolved yet.
The implementation of all this is complete for the threaded
resolver. c-ares resolver and DoH do not take advantage of
all new async features yet. To be done in separate PRs.
Details:
c-ares: cleanup settings and initialisation. Any ares channel
is only being created on starting a resolve and propagating
operations in setopt.c to the channel are not helpful.
Changed threaded+ares pollset handling so that they do not
overwrite each others `ASYNC_NAME` timeouts.
Add trace name 'threads' for tracing thread queue and
pool used by threaded resolver.
Closes#21175
Prior to this patch code used either `HAVE_PTHREAD_H`, or
`HAVE_THREADS_POSIX`, or both, to decide if POSIX Threads support is
present. In effect requiring both to be defined for a consistent build.
Drop detecting and guarding for `pthread.h`, and assume it present when
`HAVE_THREADS_POSIX` is set.
OS/400 had `HAVE_PTHREAD_H` set, but not `HAVE_THREADS_POSIX`, which
possibly left threading disabled in most sources.
Ref: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/pthread.h.html
Ref: 930f2e8227#21144Closes#21158
Maximum filename length 64, of which 48 maximum for the filename part.
Allowed characters: `A-Za-z0-9/._-`.
Also:
- rename a file to pass the check.
- init max constants outside the loop.
- minor fix to an error message.
Follow-up to 62d77b12fc#21087Closes#21095
Use a thread queue and pool for asnyc threaded DNS resolves.
Add pytest test_21_* for verification.
Add `CURLMOPT_RESOLVE_THREADS_MAX` to allow applications to
resize the thread pool used.
Add `CURLMOPT_QUICK_EXIT` to allow applications to skip thread
joins when cleaning up a multi handle. Multi handles in
`curl_easy_perform()` inherit this from `CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT`.
Add several debug environment variables for testing.
Closes#20936
Verify if lines are not longer than 192 characters. Also verify if lines
have less than 79 repeat spaces (and fix one fallout).
To improve readability by avoiding long lines and to prevent adding
overly long lines with text that may go unnoticed in an editor or diff
viewer.
In addition to pre-existing line length limits: 79 for C, 132 for CMake
sources.
Also:
- spacecheck: fix/harden allowlist regexes.
- spacecheck: tidy-up quotes and simplify escaping.
- spacecheck: allow folding strings with repeat spaces.
- GHA: fix a suppressed shellcheck warning.
- GHA/macos: simplify by dropping brew bundle.
- test1119.pl: precompile a regex.
- FAQ.md: delete very long link to a Windows 7/2008 support article
that's lost it relevance.
Closes#21087
The previously documented version was based on version checks made in
the source. In practice though, curl doesn't build with <5.0.0.
Also:
- bump main internal version check.
- drop superfluous internal version checks.
Closes#21080
The two bitmask constants for *CLEAR_DNS and *CLEAR_CONNS were
duplicates (both set to 1), so they cannot be distinguished and both
actions fire.
This shipped in public releases since 8.16.0 to and include 8.19.0.
This fix adds CURLMNWC_CLEAR_ALL to be the new 1, and it now implies all
bits. The DNS and CONNS defines get two new bits (2, 4).
Follow-up to 55c045c863
Found by Codex Security
Closes#20968
... and apply the CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE limit (if set) on that as well.
This effectively protects the user against "zip bombs".
Test case 1618 verifies using a 14 byte brotli payload that otherwise
explodes to 102400 zero bytes.
Closes#20787
After limiting `find_package()`/`find_dependency()` calls to curl local
Find modules via the `MODULES` keyword, it became possible to detect
dependencies via CMake Configs from within those local Find modules, by
calling `find_package()` again with the `CONFIG` keyword. This patch
implements this. Then maps detection results to the result variables and
curl-specific imported targets the rest of the build expects.
Also honor recently introduced `*_USE_STATIC_LIBS` (experimental) flags
to map to the static target when requested.
This adds CMake Configs as an alternative to the existing `pkg-config`
and `find_path()`/`find_library()` auto-detection methods.
Enabled by default for MSVC, outside vcpkg and when not cross-building.
To enable for other cases, or override the default, you can use
`-DCURL_USE_CMAKECONFIG=ON` or `OFF`.
When enabled, Config detection happens after `pkg-config` and before
`find_path()`/`find_library()`. Using CMake's built-in options, you may
also manually point to the absolute directory holding Config files:
`Libssh2_DIR`, `MbedTLS_DIR`, `NGHTTP2_DIR`, `NGHTTP3_DIR`,
`NGTCP2_DIR` v1.19.0+ (with non-fork OpenSSL only), `Zstd_DIR` v1.4.5+
E.g. `-DMbedTLS_DIR=/path/to/mbedtls/lib/cmake/MbedTLS`
These dependencies typically need to be built with CMake to support
this.
Tagged as experimental.
Refs:
#20013#19156#19117https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20784#issuecomment-3984318492
Depends-on: fad1ebaecc#20840
Follow-up to 91e06fde1b#20784
Follow-up to 26c39d8df1#20015Closes#20814
- librtmp has no test cases, makes no proper releases and has not had a
single commit within the last year
- librtmp parses the URL itself and requires non-compliant URLs for this
- we have no RTMP tests
- RTMP was used by 2.2% of curl users (self-identified in the 2025
survey)
Closes#20673
Replace the `volatile int dirty` with a reference counter
protected by a mutex when available.
Solve the problem of when to call application's lock function
by adding a volatile flag that indicates a share has been added
to easy handles in its lifetime. That flag ever goes from
FALSE to TRUE, so volatile might work (in the absence of a mutex).
(The problem is that the lock/unlock functions need 2-3
`curl_share_setopt()` invocations to become usable and there
is no way of telling if the third will ever happen. Calling
the lock function before the 3rd setopt may crash the
application.)
When removing a share from an easy handle (or replacing it with
another share), detach the easy connection on a share with a
connection pool.
When cleaning up a share, allow this even if it is still used in
easy handles. It will be destroyed when the reference count
drops to 0.
Closes#20870
Require CMake 3.18 (2020-07-15) or newer, up from 3.7 (2016-11-11)
prior to this patch.
This requirement also applies to the distributed `curl-config.cmake`.
To allow dropping compatibility code maintained for old versions, and to
use features which were unpractical in separate code paths. Also to make
testing, documentation and development easier, CI builds faster due to
CMake performance improvements over time. (e.g. integration tests on
macOS run 8x faster (10 minutes is now under 1.5m) in CI, 2.5x faster on
Windows.)
CMake offers pre-built binaries for major platforms. They work without
an install step, just by unpacking and pointing the cmake command to
them. Making upgrades easy in many cases:
https://cmake.org/download/https://cmake.org/files/https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases
CMake 3.18 brings these feature as generally available when building or
consuming curl/libcurl:
LTO support, improved performance, `pkg-config` and interface target
support, `OBJECT` target (for faster libcurl builds), modern invocation
with `-S`/`-B` options, better support for custom linker options,
FetchContent, `GnuTLS::GnuTLS` target, `--verbose` and `--install`
options, `CMAKE_GENERATOR` env, last but not least unity mode and Ninja
generator.
For maximum build speed, use:
`-DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCURL_DROP_UNUSED=ON`
As for deprecations, C++11 is required to build CMake itself, which may
be a limit on some platforms. autotools continues to cover them.
Follow-up to 9bcdfb3809#20408
Follow-up to a7c974e038#19902
Follow-up to dfbe035c8b#10161
Discussion: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/18704Closes#20407
- Rename `Curl_resolv_unlink()` to `Curl_dns_entry_unlink()`.
- Change `Curl_dnscache_get()` to return CURLcode result. Returns
now `CURLE_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST` for "negative" cache entries.
- Add `Curl_dnscache_add_negative()` to put a "negative" entry
into the cache.
Closes#20864