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Things to do in project curl. Please tell us what you think, contribute and
send us patches that improve things!
Be aware that these are things that we could do, or have once been considered
things we could do. If you want to work on any of these areas, please
consider bringing it up for discussions first on the mailing list so that we
all agree it is still a good idea for the project!
All bugs documented in the KNOWN_BUGS document are subject for fixing!
1. libcurl
1.2 More data sharing
1.3 struct lifreq
1.4 signal-based resolver timeouts
1.5 get rid of PATH_MAX
1.6 Modified buffer size approach
1.7 Support HTTP/2 for HTTP(S) proxies
1.8 CURLOPT_RESOLVE for any port number
1.9 Cache negative name resolves
1.10 auto-detect proxy
1.11 minimize dependencies with dynamically loaded modules
1.12 updated DNS server while running
1.13 c-ares and CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION
1.14 Typesafe curl_easy_setopt()
1.15 Monitor connections in the connection pool
1.16 Try to URL encode given URL
1.17 Add support for IRIs
1.18 try next proxy if one doesn't work
1.19 Timeout idle connections from the pool
1.20 SRV and URI DNS records
1.21 Have the URL API offer IDN decoding
1.22 CURLINFO_PAUSE_STATE
1.23 Offer API to flush the connection pool
1.24 TCP Fast Open for windows
1.25 Expose tried IP addresses that failed
1.26 CURL_REFUSE_CLEARTEXT
1.27 hardcode the "localhost" addresses
1.28 FD_CLOEXEC
3. Documentation
3.2 Provide cmake config-file
4. FTP
4.1 HOST
4.2 Alter passive/active on failure and retry
4.3 Earlier bad letter detection
4.4 REST for large files
4.5 ASCII support
4.6 GSSAPI via Windows SSPI
4.7 STAT for LIST without data connection
4.8 Option to ignore private IP addresses in PASV response
5. HTTP
5.1 Better persistency for HTTP 1.0
5.2 support FF3 sqlite cookie files
5.3 Rearrange request header order
5.5 auth= in URLs
5.6 Refuse "downgrade" redirects
5.7 QUIC
5.8 Leave secure cookies alone
6. TELNET
6.1 ditch stdin
6.2 ditch telnet-specific select
6.3 feature negotiation debug data
7. SMTP
7.1 Pipelining
7.2 Enhanced capability support
7.3 Add CURLOPT_MAIL_CLIENT option
8. POP3
8.1 Pipelining
8.2 Enhanced capability support
9. IMAP
9.1 Enhanced capability support
10. LDAP
10.1 SASL based authentication mechanisms
11. SMB
11.1 File listing support
11.2 Honor file timestamps
11.3 Use NTLMv2
11.4 Create remote directories
13. SSL
13.1 Disable specific versions
13.2 Provide mutex locking API
13.3 Support in-memory certs/ca certs/keys
13.4 Cache/share OpenSSL contexts
13.5 Export session ids
13.6 Provide callback for cert verification
13.7 improve configure --with-ssl
13.8 Support DANE
13.9 Configurable loading of OpenSSL configuration file
13.10 Support Authority Information Access certificate extension (AIA)
13.11 Support intermediate & root pinning for PINNEDPUBLICKEY
13.12 Support HSTS
13.13 Support HPKP
13.14 Support the clienthello extension
14. GnuTLS
14.1 SSL engine stuff
14.2 check connection
15. WinSSL/SChannel
15.1 Add support for client certificate authentication
15.3 Add support for the --ciphers option
16. SASL
16.1 Other authentication mechanisms
16.2 Add QOP support to GSSAPI authentication
16.3 Support binary messages (i.e.: non-base64)
19. Build
19.1 roffit
19.2 Enable PIE and RELRO by default
==============================================================================
1. libcurl
curl_share_* functions already exist and work, and they can be extended to
share more. For example, enable sharing of the ares channel.
Also, alarm() provides timeout resolution only to the nearest second. alarm
ought to be replaced by setitimer on systems that support it.
Currently the SSH based code uses it a bit, but to remove PATH_MAX from there
we need libssh2 to properly tell us when we pass in a too small buffer and
its current API (as of libssh2 1.2.7) doesn't.
Current libcurl allocates a fixed 16K size buffer for download and an
additional 16K for upload. They are always unconditionally part of the easy
handle. If CRLF translations are requested, an additional 32K "scratch
buffer" is allocated. A total of 64K transfer buffers in the worst case.
First, while the handles are not actually in use these buffers could be freed
so that lingering handles just kept in queues or whatever waste less memory.
Secondly, SFTP is a protocol that needs to handle many ~30K blocks at once
since each need to be individually acked and therefore libssh2 must be
allowed to send (or receive) many separate ones in parallel to achieve high
transfer speeds. A current libcurl build with a 16K buffer makes that
impossible, but one with a 512K buffer will reach MUCH faster transfers. But
allocating 512K unconditionally for all buffers just in case they would like
to do fast SFTP transfers at some point is not a good solution either.
Support for doing HTTP/2 to HTTP and HTTPS proxies is still missing.
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1264
A name resolve that has failed is likely to fail when made again within a
short period of time. Currently we only cache positive responses.
libcurl could be made to detect the system proxy setup automatically and use
that. On Windows, macOS and Linux desktops for example.
The pull-request to use libproxy for this was deferred due to doubts on the
reliability of the dependency and how to use it:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/977
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2251
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2734
One of the most common problems in libcurl using applications is the lack of
type checks for curl_easy_setopt() which happens because it accepts varargs
and thus can take any type.
libcurl's connection cache or pool holds a number of open connections for the
purpose of possible subsequent connection reuse. It may contain a few up to a
significant amount of connections. Currently, libcurl leaves all connections
as they are and first when a connection is iterated over for matching or
reuse purpose it is verified that it is still alive.
Those connections may get closed by the server side for idleness or they may
get a HTTP/2 ping from the peer to verify that they're still alive. By adding
monitoring of the connections while in the pool, libcurl can detect dead
connections (and close them) better and earlier, and it can handle HTTP/2
pings to keep such ones alive even when not actively doing transfers on them.
Given a URL that for example contains spaces, libcurl could have an option
that would try somewhat harder than it does now and convert spaces to %20 and
perhaps URL encoded byte values over 128 etc (basically do what the redirect
following code already does).
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/514
IRIs (RFC 3987) allow localized, non-ascii, names in the URL. To properly
support this, curl/libcurl would need to translate/encode the given input
from the input string encoding into percent encoded output "over the wire".
To make that work smoothly for curl users even on Windows, curl would
probably need to be able to convert from several input encodings.
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/896
Offer support for resolving SRV and URI DNS records for libcurl to know which
server to connect to for various protocols (including HTTP!).
1.22 CURLINFO_PAUSE_STATE
Sometimes applications want to flush all the existing connections kept alive.
An API could allow a forced flush or just a forced loop that would properly
close all connections that have been closed by the server already.
libcurl supports the CURLOPT_TCP_FASTOPEN option since 7.49.0 for Linux and
Mac OS. Windows supports TCP Fast Open starting with Windows 10, version 1607
and we should add support for it.
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2126
1.26 CURL_REFUSE_CLEARTEXT
An environment variable that when set will make libcurl refuse to use any
cleartext network protocol. That's all non-encrypted ones (FTP, HTTP, Gopher,
etc). By adding the check to libcurl and not just curl, this environment
variable can then help users to block all libcurl-using programs from
accessing the network using unsafe protocols.
The variable could be given some sort of syntax or different levels and be
used to also allow for example users to refuse libcurl to do transfers with
HTTPS certificate checks disabled.
There's this new spec getting adopted that says "localhost" should always and
unconditionally be a local address and not get resolved by a DNS server. A
fine way for curl to fix this would be to simply hard-code the response to
127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 (depending on what IP versions that are requested). This
is what the browsers probably will do with this hostname.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220810
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-let-localhost-be-localhost-02
1.28 FD_CLOEXEC
It sets the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor, which causes the file
descriptor to be automatically (and atomically) closed when any of the
exec-family functions succeed. Should probably be set by default?
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2252
If a name resolve has been initiated for name NN and a second easy handle
wants to resolve that name as well, make it wait for the first resolve to end
up in the cache instead of doing a second separate resolve. This is
especially needed when adding many simultaneous handles using the same host
name when the DNS resolver can get flooded.
The multi interface has a few API calls that assume a blocking behavior, like
add_handle() and remove_handle() which limits what we can do internally. The
multi API need to be moved even more into a single function that "drives"
everything in a non-blocking manner and signals when something is done. A
remove or add would then only ask for the action to get started and then
multi_perform() etc still be called until the add/remove is completed.
2.4 Split connect and authentication process
The multi interface treats the authentication process as part of the connect
phase. As such any failures during authentication won't trigger the relevant
QUIT or LOGOFF for protocols such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
The multi_socket API should work with edge-triggered socket events. One of
the internal actions that need to be improved for this to work perfectly is
the 'maxloops' handling in transfer.c:readwrite_data().
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3199
3. Documentation
4. FTP
4.1 HOST
HOST is a command for a client to tell which host name to use, to offer FTP
servers named-based virtual hosting:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7151
Make the detection of (bad) %0d and %0a codes in FTP URL parts earlier in the
process to avoid doing a resolve and connect in vain.
REST fix for servers not behaving well on >2GB requests. This should fail if
the server doesn't set the pointer to the requested index. The tricky
(impossible?) part is to figure out if the server did the right thing or not.
FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data
accordingly.
Some FTP servers allow STAT for listing directories instead of using LIST,
and the response is then sent over the control connection instead of as the
otherwise usedw data connection: https://www.nsftools.com/tips/RawFTP.htm#STAT
Some servers respond with and some other FTP client implementations can
ignore private (RFC 1918 style) IP addresses when received in PASV responses.
To consider for libcurl as well. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1455
5. HTTP
For example:
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/226
5.7 QUIC
The standardization process of QUIC has been taken to the IETF and can be
followed on the [IETF QUIC Mailing
list](https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/quic). I'd like us to get on the
bandwagon. Ideally, this would be done with a separate library/project to
handle the binary/framing layer in a similar fashion to how HTTP/2 is
implemented. This, to allow other projects to benefit from the work and to
thus broaden the interest and chance of others to participate.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-cookie-alone-01
6. TELNET
Reading input (to send to the remote server) on stdin is a crappy solution for
library purposes. We need to invent a good way for the application to be able
to provide the data to send.
Move the telnet support's network select() loop go away and merge the code
into the main transfer loop. Until this is done, the multi interface won't
work for telnet.
Add telnet feature negotiation data to the debug callback as header data.
7. SMTP
7.1 Pipelining
Add the ability, for an application that uses libcurl, to obtain the list of
capabilities returned from the EHLO command.
Rather than use the URL to specify the mail client string to present in the
HELO and EHLO commands, libcurl should support a new CURLOPT specifically for
specifying this data as the URL is non-standard and to be honest a bit of a
hack ;-)
8. POP3
8.1 Pipelining
Add the ability, for an application that uses libcurl, to obtain the list of
capabilities returned from the CAPA command.
9. IMAP
Add the ability, for an application that uses libcurl, to obtain the list of
capabilities returned from the CAPABILITY command.
10. LDAP
11. SMB
Add support for listing the contents of a SMB share. The output should probably
be the same as/similar to FTP.
The timestamp of the transferred file should reflect that of the original file.
12.1 RSYNC
There's no RFC for the protocol or an URI/URL format. An implementation
should most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync.
13. SSL
Provide an option that allows for disabling specific SSL versions, such as
SSLv2 https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1767276
Provide a libcurl API for setting mutex callbacks in the underlying SSL
library, so that the same application code can use mutex-locking
independently of OpenSSL or GnutTLS being used.
You can specify the private and public keys for SSH/SSL as file paths. Some
programs want to avoid using files and instead just pass them as in-memory
data blobs. There's probably a challenge to make this work across the
plethory of different TLS and SSH backends that curl supports.
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2310
"Look at SSL cafile - quick traces look to me like these are done on every
request as well, when they should only be necessary once per SSL context (or
once per handle)". The major improvement we can rather easily do is to make
sure we don't create and kill a new SSL "context" for every request, but
instead make one for every connection and re-use that SSL context in the same
style connections are re-used. It will make us use slightly more memory but
it will libcurl do less creations and deletions of SSL contexts.
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1110
make the configure --with-ssl option first check for OpenSSL, then GnuTLS,
then NSS...
13.8 Support DANE
Björn Stenberg wrote a separate initial take on DANE that was never
completed.
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2724
AIA can provide various things like CRLs but more importantly information
about intermediate CA certificates that can allow validation path to be
fulfilled when the HTTPS server doesn't itself provide them.
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2793
Adding this feature would make curls pinning 100% compatible to HPKP and allow
more flexible pinning.
Doc: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Web/Security/HTTP_strict_transport_security
RFC 6797: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6797
13.13 Support HPKP
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning
OWASP: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Certificate_and_Public_Key_Pinning
Doc: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/Security/Public_Key_Pinning
RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-21
Certain stupid networks and middle boxes have a problem with SSL handshake
pakets that are within a certain size range because how that sets some bits
that previously (in older TLS version) were not set. The clienthello
extension adds padding to avoid that size range.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7685
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2299
14. GnuTLS
15. WinSSL/SChannel
Therefore support for the existing -E/--cert and --key options should be
implemented by supplying a custom certificate to the SChannel APIs, see:
- Getting a Certificate for Schannel
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375447.aspx
Currently the GSSAPI authentication only supports the default QOP of auth
(Authentication), whilst Kerberos V5 supports both auth-int (Authentication
with integrity protection) and auth-conf (Authentication with integrity and
privacy protection).
17.1 Multiplexing
To fix this, libcurl would have to detect an existing connection and "attach"
the new transfer to the existing one.
libcurl's SFTP transfer performance is sub par and can be improved, mostly by
the approach mentioned in "1.6 Modified buffer size approach".
The two other QUOTE options are supported for SFTP, but this was left out for
unknown reasons!
18.1 sync
Add an option that prevents curl from overwriting existing local files. When
used, and there already is an existing file with the target file name
(either -O or -o), a number should be appended (and increased if already
existing). So that index.html becomes first index.html.1 and then
index.html.2 etc.
The client could be told to use maximum N simultaneous parallel transfers and
then just make sure that happens. It should of course not make more than one
connection to the same remote host. This would require the client to use the
multi interface. https://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1558595
Using the multi interface would also allow properly using parallel transfers
with HTTP/2 and supporting HTTP/2 server push from the command line.
RFC 6266 documents how UTF-8 names can be passed to a client in the
Content-Disposition header, and curl does not support this.
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1888
By offering different color output on the header name and the header
contents, they could be made more readable and thus help users working on
HTTP services.
When using braces to download a list of URLs and you use complicated names
in the list of alternatives, it could be handy to allow curl to use other
names when saving.
Consider a way to offer that. Possibly like
{partURL1:name1,partURL2:name2,partURL3:name3} where the name following the
colon is the output name.
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/221
If you pull the scrollbar when transferring with curl in a Windows console
window, the transfer is interrupted and can get disconnected. This can
probably be improved. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/322
Provide an option that makes curl not exit after the last URL (or even work
without a given URL), and then make it read instructions passed on a pipe or
over a socket to make further instructions so that a second subsequent curl
invoke can talk to the still running instance and ask for transfers to get
done, and thus maintain its connection pool, DNS cache and more.
Curl has support for downloading a metalink xml file, processing it, and then
downloading the target of the metalink. This is done via the --metalink option.
It would be nice if metalink also supported downloading via metalink
information that is stored in HTTP headers (RFC 6249). Theoretically this could
also be supported with the --metalink option.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249
... --fail must treat 3xx responses as failures too. The least problematic
way to implement this is probably to add that new logic in the command line
tool only and not in the underlying CURLOPT_FAILONERROR logic.
When --retry is used and curl actually retries transfer, it should use the
already transferred data and do a resumed transfer for the rest (when
possible) so that it doesn't have to transfer the same data again that was
already transferred before the retry.
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1084
When the user only wants to send a small piece of the data provided with
--data or --data-binary, like when that data is a huge file, consider a way
to specify that curl should only send a piece of that. One suggested syntax
would be: "--data-binary @largefile.zip!1073741823-2147483647".
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1200
When a user gives a URL and uses -O, and curl follows a redirect to a new
URL, the file name is not extracted and used from the newly redirected-to URL
even if the new URL may have a much more sensible file name.
This is clearly documented and helps for security since there's no surprise
to users which file name that might get overwritten. But maybe a new option
could allow for this or maybe -J should imply such a treatment as well as -J
already allows for the server to decide what file name to use so it already
provides the "may overwrite any file" risk.
This is extra tricky if the original URL has no file name part at all since
then the current code path will error out with an error message, and we can't
*know* already at that point if curl will be redirected to a URL that has a
file name...
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1241
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1603
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2317
19. Build
19.1 roffit
Consider extending 'roffit' to produce decent ASCII output, and use that
instead of (g)nroff when building src/tool_hugehelp.c
Especially when having programs that execute curl via the command line, PIE
renders the exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities a lot more
difficult. This can be attributed to the additional information leaks being
required to conduct a successful attack. RELRO, on the other hand, masks
different binary sections like the GOT as read-only and thus kills a handful
of techniques that come in handy when attackers are able to arbitrarily
overwrite memory. A few tests showed that enabling these features had close
to no impact, neither on the performance nor on the general functionality of
curl.
Make our own version of stunnel for simple port forwarding to enable HTTPS
and FTP-SSL tests without the stunnel dependency, and it could allow us to
provide test tools built with either OpenSSL or GnuTLS
If perl wasn't found by the configure script, don't attempt to run the tests
but explain something nice why it doesn't.
Extend the test suite to include more protocols. The telnet could just do FTP
or http operations (for which we have test servers).
Make the test suite work on more platforms. OpenBSD and Mac OS. Remove
fork()s and it should become even more portable.
Tests 836, 882 and 938 were designed to verify that separate connections aren't
used when using different login credentials in protocols that shouldn't re-use
a connection under such circumstances.
A test suite made for HTTP cookies (RFC 6265) by Adam Barth is available at
https://github.com/abarth/http-state/tree/master/tests
It'd be really awesome if someone would write a script/setup that would run
curl with that test suite and detect deviances. Ideally, that would even be
incorporated into our regular test suite.
LD_RELOAD doesn't work on macOS, but there are tests which require it to run
properly. Look into making the preload support in runtests.pl portable such
that it uses DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES on macOS.
The current prototype only provides 'purpose' that tells what the
connection/socket is for, but not any protocol or similar. It makes it hard
for applications to differentiate on TCP vs UDP and even HTTP vs FTP and
similar.
22.3 size_t
curl_strequal
curl_strnequal
They will instead become curlx_ - alternatives. That makes the curl app
still capable of using them, by building with them from source.
curl_multi_socket
curl_multi_socket_all
Remove support for CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, it has gotten too kludgy and weird
internally. Let the app judge success or not for itself.
The internally provided progress meter output doesn't belong in the library.
Basically no application wants it (apart from curl) but instead applications
can and should do their own progress meters using the progress callback.
The progress callback should then be bumped as well to get proper 64bit
variable types passed to it instead of doubles so that big files work
correctly.
curl_formadd() was made to fill in a public struct, but the fact that the
struct is public is never really used by application for their own advantage
but instead often restricts how the form functions can or can't be modified.
Changing them to return a private handle will benefit the implementation and
allow us much greater freedoms while still maintaining a solid API and ABI.