Ann TclCurl 7.17.1

[Andrés García]

Hi,

I have just released a new version of TclCurl updated for libcurl 7.17.1,
with TclCurl you can download and upload files using protocols like
ftp, ftps, tftp, http, https, scp, sftp, tftp, ldap, telnet, dict and file.

The main changes since the last version are:

* New configure options:

* post301: A non-zero parameter tells TclCurl to respect
RFC 2616/10.3.2 and not convert POST requests into GET
requests when following a 301 redirection like browsers
usually do.

* sshhostpublickeymd5: Pass a string containing 32 hexadecimal
digits. The string should be the 128 bit MD5 cheksum of the
remote host public key, and TclCurl will reject the connection
to the host unless the md5sums match.

* If you pass the magic string 'FLUSH' to the '-cookielist'
option all known cookies will be written to the file
specified by '-cookiejar'.

* Renamed options:

Some configure options have been renamed so they get more general
names, the old names are deprecated even if they may be supported
forever.

* sslpasswd => keypasswd
* ftpappend => append
* ftplistonly => dirlistonly
* ftpssl => usessl

* Internal changes:

Up until the current version when we wanted libcurl to use a value
in a string, like the URL to download, we had to keep the string as
long as libcurl could use it. Since 7.17.0 libcurl keeps it own
copies, so I no longer make TclCurl do it.

This means that this is a handle-with-care release, please report
any problems you may have.

Since the last TclCurl, there has been many changes in libcurl which
you can check at:

http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html

For more information, please visit:

http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/index.html

Share the wonders,
Andres

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On Nov 1, 7:42 pm, Andrés García <fan...@spamme.telefonica.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just released a new version of TclCurl updated for libcurl 7.17.1,
> with TclCurl you can download and upload files using protocols like
> ftp, ftps, tftp, http, https, scp, sftp, tftp, ldap, telnet, dict and file.
>

I checked the website but could not find any examples. Do you have a
tutorial or some sample programs to help someone get started using
http, ftp, etc.?

[Andrés García]

Hi,

> I checked the website but could not find any examples. Do you have a
> tutorial or some sample programs to help someone get started using
> http, ftp, etc.?

There are a couple of basic examples in the web page:

http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/examples.html

And, if you download the tarball, you get a directory named 'test'
with test scripts that can be used as examples.

You may also want to read The art of http scripting:

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

It is writting for the cURL command tool, but it should give
and idea of what you can do using TclCurl

Andres