These are problems known to exist at the time of this release. Feel free to
join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the
changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems
may have been fixed since this was written!
78. curl and libcurl don't always signal the client properly when "sending"
zero bytes files - it makes for example the command line client not creating
any file at all. Like when using FTP.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3438362
77. CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE on a handle prevents NTLM from working since it
"absuses" the underlying connection re-use system and if connections are
forced to close they break the NTLM support.
76. The SOCKET type in Win64 is 64 bits large (and thus so is curl_socket_t on
that platform), and long is only 32 bits. It makes it impossible for
curl_easy_getinfo() to return a socket properly with the CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET
option as for all other operating systems.
75. NTLM authentication involving unicode user name or password.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-10/0024.html
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2944325
73. if a connection is made to a FTP server but the server then just never
sends the 220 response or otherwise is dead slow, libcurl will not
acknowledge the connection timeout during that phase but only the "real"
timeout - which may surprise users as it is probably considered to be the
connect phase to most people. Brought up (and is being misunderstood) in:
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2844077
72. "Pausing pipeline problems."
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-07/0214.html
70. Problem re-using easy handle after call to curl_multi_remove_handle
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-07/0249.html
68. "More questions about ares behavior".
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-08/0012.html
67. When creating multipart formposts. The file name part can be encoded with
something beyond ascii but currently libcurl will only pass in the verbatim
string the app provides. There are several browsers that already do this
encoding. The key seems to be the updated draft to RFC2231:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-02
66. When using telnet, the time limitation options don't work.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2818950
65. When doing FTP over a socks proxy or CONNECT through HTTP proxy and the
multi interface is used, libcurl will fail if the (passive) TCP connection
for the data transfer isn't more or less instant as the code does not
properly wait for the connect to be confirmed. See test case 564 for a first
shot at a test case.
63. When CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY is used, the handle cannot reliably be re-used
for any further requests or transfers. The work-around is then to close that
handle with curl_easy_cleanup() and create a new. Some more details:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-04/0300.html
61. If an upload using Expect: 100-continue receives an HTTP 417 response,
it ought to be automatically resent without the Expect:. A workaround is
for the client application to redo the transfer after disabling Expect:.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0043.html
60. libcurl closes the connection if an HTTP 401 reply is received while it
is waiting for the the 100-continue response.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-08/0462.html
58. It seems sensible to be able to use CURLOPT_NOBODY and
CURLOPT_FAILONERROR with FTP to detect if a file exists or not, but it is
not working: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0295.html
57. On VMS-Alpha: When using an http-file-upload the file is not sent to the
Server with the correct content-length. Sending a file with 511 or less
bytes, content-length 512 is used. Sending a file with 513 - 1023 bytes,
content-length 1024 is used. Files with a length of a multiple of 512 Bytes
show the correct content-length. Only these files work for upload.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2057858
56. When libcurl sends CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE commands when connected to a SFTP
server using the multi interface, the commands are not being sent correctly
and instead the connection is "cancelled" (the operation is considered done)
prematurely. There is a half-baked (busy-looping) patch provided in the bug
report but it cannot be accepted as-is. See
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2006544
55. libcurl fails to build with MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) due to KfW's
library header files exporting symbols/macros that should be kept private
to the KfW library. See ticket #5601 at http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/
52. Gautam Kachroo's issue that identifies a problem with the multi interface
where a connection can be re-used without actually being properly
SSL-negotiated:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0277.html
49. If using --retry and the transfer timeouts (possibly due to using -m or
-y/-Y) the next attempt doesn't resume the transfer properly from what was
downloaded in the previous attempt but will truncate and restart at the
original position where it was at before the previous failed attempt. See
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-01/0080.html and Mandriva bug report
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22565
48. If a CONNECT response-headers are larger than BUFSIZE (16KB) when the
connection is meant to be kept alive (like for NTLM proxy auth), the
function will return prematurely and will confuse the rest of the HTTP
protocol code. This should be very rare.
43. There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1720605
41. When doing an operation over FTP that requires the ACCT command (but not
when logging in), the operation will fail since libcurl doesn't detect this
and thus fails to issue the correct command:
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1693337
39. Steffen Rumler's Race Condition in Curl_proxyCONNECT:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-01/0045.html
38. Kumar Swamy Bhatt's problem in ftp/ssl "LIST" operation:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-01/0103.html
37. Having more than one connection to the same host when doing NTLM
authentication (with performs multiple "passes" and authenticates a
connection rather than a HTTP request), and particularly when using the
multi interface, there's a risk that libcurl will re-use a wrong connection
when doing the different passes in the NTLM negotiation and thus fail to
negotiate (in seemingly mysterious ways).
35. Both SOCKS5 and SOCKS4 proxy connections are done blocking, which is very
bad when used with the multi interface.
34. The SOCKS4 connection codes don't properly acknowledge (connect) timeouts.
Also see #12. According to bug #1556528, even the SOCKS5 connect code does
not do it right: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1556528,
31. "curl-config --libs" will include details set in LDFLAGS when configure is
run that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config
--cflags suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
30. You need to use -g to the command line tool in order to use RFC2732-style
IPv6 numerical addresses in URLs.
29. IPv6 URLs with zone ID is not nicely supported.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fenner-literal-zone-02.txt (expired)
specifies the use of a plus sign instead of a percent when specifying zone
IDs in URLs to get around the problem of percent signs being
special. According to the reporter, Firefox deals with the URL _with_ a
percent letter (which seems like a blatant URL spec violation).
libcurl supports zone IDs where the percent sign is URL-escaped (i.e. %25).
See http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1371118
26. NTLM authentication using SSPI (on Windows) when (lib)curl is running in
"system context" will make it use wrong(?) user name - at least when compared
to what winhttp does. See http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1281867
23. SOCKS-related problems:
A) libcurl doesn't support SOCKS for IPv6.
B) libcurl doesn't support FTPS over a SOCKS proxy.
E) libcurl doesn't support active FTP over a SOCKS proxy
We probably have even more bugs and lack of features when a SOCKS proxy is
used.
22. Sending files to a FTP server using curl on VMS, might lead to curl
complaining on "unaligned file size" on completion. The problem is related
to VMS file structures and the perceived file sizes stat() returns. A
possible fix would involve sending a "STRU VMS" command.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1156287
21. FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data
accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1
clearly describes how this should be done:
The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to
the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet
specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard
form to his own internal form.
Since 7.15.4 at least line endings are converted.
16. FTP URLs passed to curl may contain NUL (0x00) in the RFC 1738 <user>,
<password>, and <fpath> components, encoded as "%00". The problem is that
curl_unescape does not detect this, but instead returns a shortened C
string. From a strict FTP protocol standpoint, NUL is a valid character
within RFC 959 <string>, so the way to handle this correctly in curl would
be to use a data structure other than a plain C string, one that can handle
embedded NUL characters. From a practical standpoint, most FTP servers
would not meaningfully support NUL characters within RFC 959 <string>,
anyway (e.g., UNIX pathnames may not contain NUL).
14. Test case 165 might fail on a system which has libidn present, but with an
old iconv version (2.1.3 is a known bad version), since it doesn't recognize
the charset when named ISO8859-1. Changing the name to ISO-8859-1 makes the
test pass, but instead makes it fail on Solaris hosts that use its native
iconv.
13. curl version 7.12.2 fails on AIX if compiled with --enable-ares.
The workaround is to combine --enable-ares with --disable-shared
12. When connecting to a SOCKS proxy, the (connect) timeout is not properly
acknowledged after the actual TCP connect (during the SOCKS "negotiate"
phase).
10. To get HTTP Negotiate authentication to work fine, you need to provide a
(fake) user name (this concerns both curl and the lib) because the code
wrongly only considers authentication if there's a user name provided.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1004841. How?
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-08/0182.html
8. Doing resumed upload over HTTP does not work with '-C -', because curl
doesn't do a HEAD first to get the initial size. This needs to be done
manually for HTTP PUT resume to work, and then '-C [index]'.
6. libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument).
The only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the
empty part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to
indicate that the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL
remain even when this bug is fixed).
5. libcurl doesn't treat the content-length of compressed data properly, as
it seems HTTP servers send the *uncompressed* length in that header and
libcurl thinks of it as the *compressed* length. Some explanations are here:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2003-06/0146.html
2. If a HTTP server responds to a HEAD request and includes a body (thus
violating the RFC2616), curl won't wait to read the response but just stop
reading and return back. If a second request (let's assume a GET) is then
immediately made to the same server again, the connection will be re-used
fine of course, and the second request will be sent off but when the
response is to get read, the previous response-body is what curl will read
and havoc is what happens.
More details on this is found in this libcurl mailing list thread:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2002-08/0000.html