... and allow single quotes to be used "normally" in the .d files.
Makes the output curl.1 use better nroff.
Reported-by: Sergio Durigan Junior
Ref: #7928Closes#7933
tool_listhelp.c is now a separate file with only the command line --help
output, exactly as generated by gen.pl. This makes it easier to generate
updates according to what's in the docs/cmdline-opts docs.
cd $srcroot/docs/cmdline-opts
./gen.pl listhelp *.d > $srcroot/src/tool_listhelp.c
With a configure build, this also works:
make -C src listhelp
Closes#7787
Follow-up to 15910dfd14
The previous strftime format used didn't work correctly on Windows, so
change to %B %d %Y which today looks like "September 29 2021".
Reported-by: Gisle Vanem
Bug: #7782Closes#7793
Since "too old" versions are no longer included in the generated man
page, this field is now mandatory so that it won't be forgotten and then
not included in the documentation.
Closes#7786
To make the man page more readable, this change removes all references
to changes in support/versions etc that happened before 7.30.0 from the
curl.1 output file. 7.30.0 was released on Apr 12 2013. This particular
limit is a bit arbitrary but was fairly easy to grep for.
It is handled like this: the 'Added' keyword is only used in output if
it refers to 7.30.0 or later. All occurances of "(Added in $VERSION)" in
description will be stripped out if the mentioned $VERSION is from
before 7.30.0. It is therefore important that the "Added in..."
references are always written exactly like that - and on a single line,
not split over two.
This change removes about 80 version number references from curl.1, down
to 138 from 218.
Closes#7786
The file format for each option now features a "Example:" header that
can provide one or more examples that get rendered appropriately in the
output. All options MUST have at least one example or gen.pl complains
at build-time.
This fix also does a few other minor format and consistency cleanups.
Closes#7654
Since this option is also used for FTP, it needs to work to set for
applications even if hyper doesn't support it for HTTP. Verified by test
1137.
Updated docs to specify that the option doesn't work for HTTP when using
the hyper backend.
Closes#7614
Mention options that are "global". A global command line option is one
that doesn't get reset at --next uses and therefore don't need to be
used again.
Reported-by: Josh Soref
Fixes#7457Closes#7510
- Add protocols field to max-filesize.d.
- Revert wording on unknown file size caveat and do not discuss specific
protocols in that section.
Partial revert of ecf0225. All max-filesize options now have the list of
protocols and it's clearer just to have that list without discussing
specific protocols in the caveat.
Reported-by: Josh Soref
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7453#issuecomment-884128762
Also make it clearer that the caveat 'if the file size is unknown it
the option will have no effect' may apply to protocols other than FTP
and HTTP.
Reported-by: Josh Soref
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7453
Since --cookie-jar is the preferred way to store cookies, no longer
suggest using --dump-header to do so.
Co-authored-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7414
Write out directories rather than using the dirs abbrevation. Also
use plural form consistently, even if the code in the end might just
create a single directory.
Closes#7406
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
When using curl with the option `--etag-save` I expected it to save the
ETag without its surrounding quotes, as stated by the documentation in
the repository and by the generated man pages.
My first endeavour was to fix the program, but while investigating the
history of the relevant parts, I discovered that curl once saved the
ETag without the quotes. This was undone by Daniel Stenberg in commit
`98c94596f5928840177b6bd3c7b0f0dd03a431af`, therefore I decided that in
this case the documentation should be adjusted to match the behaviour of
curl.
The changed save behaviour also made parts of the `--etag-compare`
documentation wrong or superfluous, so I adjusted those accordingly.
Closes#7429
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
