{"id":5964,"date":"2014-06-19T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2014-06-19T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:19:04","slug":"curl-the-next-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/curl-the-next-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"curl the next few years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roadmap of things Daniel Stenberg and Steve Holme want to work on next. It is intended to serve as a guideline for others for information, feedback and possible participation.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you agree, disagree or would like to add stuff you want to work on, please join us on the curl-library list<\/a>! This “roadmap” is likely to change over time. We’ll keep the updated ROADMAP<\/a> in git.<\/p>\n

New stuff – libcurl<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. \n

    http2 test suite<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    http2 multiplexing\/pipelining<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    SPDY<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    SRV records<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    HTTPS to proxy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    make sure there’s an easy handle passed in to curl_formadd(), curl_formget() and curl_formfree() by adding replacement functions and deprecating the old ones to allow custom mallocs and more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    HTTP Digest authentication via Windows SSPI<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. \n

    GSSAPI authentication in the email protocols<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  9. \n

    add support for third-party SASL libraries such as Cyrus SASL – may need to move existing native and SSPI based authentication into vsasl folder after reworking HTTP and SASL code<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  10. \n

    SASL authentication in LDAP<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  11. \n

    Simplify the SMTP email interface so that programmers don’t have to construct the body of an email that contains all the headers, alternative content, images and attachments – maintain raw interface so that programmers that want to do this can<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  12. \n

    Allow the email protocols to return the capabilities before authenticating. This will allow an application to decide on the best authentication mechanism<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  13. \n

    Allow Windows threading model to be replaced by Win32 pthreads port<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  14. \n

    Implement a dynamic buffer size to allow SFTP to use much larger buffers and possibly allow the size to be customizable by applications. Use less memory when handles are not in use?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    New stuff – curl<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. \n

      Embed a language interpreter (lua?). For that middle ground where curl isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough and a libcurl binding feels \u00e2\u20ac\u0153too much\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Build-time conditional of course.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. \n

      Simplify the SMTP command line so that the headers and multi-part content don’t have to be constructed before calling curl<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Improve<\/h2>\n
        \n
      1. \n

        build for windows (considered hard by many users)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      2. \n

        curl -h output (considered overwhelming to users)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      3. \n

        we have \u00c2\u00a0> 160 command line options, is there a way to redo things to simplify or improve the situation as we are likely to keep adding features\/options in the future too<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      4. \n

        docs (considered “bad” by users but how do we make it better?)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      5. \n

        authentication framework (consider merging HTTP and SASL authentication to give one API for protocols to call)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      6. \n

        Perform some of the clean up from the TODO document, removing old definitions and such like that are currently earmarked to be removed years ago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Remove<\/h2>\n
          \n
        1. \n

          cmake support (nobody maintains it)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

        2. \n

          makefile.vc files as there is no point in maintaining two sets of Windows makefiles. Note: These are currently being used by the Windows autobuilds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Roadmap of things Daniel Stenberg and Steve Holme want to work on next. It is intended to serve as a guideline for others for information, feedback and possible participation. If you agree, disagree or would like to add stuff you want to work on, please join us on the curl-library list! This “roadmap” is likely … Continue reading curl the next few years<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","category-floss","tag-curl-and-libcurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}