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mulk Changelog

What's new in mulk 0.7.0 Beta

Dec 29, 2012
  • New features:
  • new option to make links relative when downloading HTML pages in order to use them locally
  • new options to manage HTTP cookies (loadcookies, savecookies and cookie)
  • new options to print full lists of valid countries and continents for Metalink files
  • new option to execute an external program to filter URLs to download
  • Bug fixes:
  • urls without protocol are supposed to be HTTP
  • changes in libmulk didn't cause a mulk recompilation and shared library was compiled with a wrong define
  • correct parameters printed out when resuming metalink file download
  • avoid compiling MD2 checksum when not present in openssl library
  • enable warnings as error on compilation when debug flag is true
  • compile on 64bit machine

New in mulk 0.6.0 Beta (Aug 26, 2011)

  • New features:
  • large file support (LFS) has been added
  • new option to read, from an external text file, a list of metalink urls to download
  • new option to set HTTP proxy and port to use
  • new option to avoid downloading of html dependencies (images, CSS, etc.)
  • new option to save the report files progressively. It's possible to specify the number of lines (downloads) to be saved each time.
  • depth option with value 0 now means infinite recursion
  • new parameters have been added to report files (error code, http code, local filename and mime-type filename)
  • new functions to rationalise the process of inserting options
  • static and dynamic libraries creation has been added to configure
  • static and dynamic libraries creation has been added to MSVC's solution
  • new --with-libmetalink option in configure in order to specify different path for libmetalink library
  • new arguments (--with-libcurl and --with-uriparser) in configure in order to specify different paths for libcurl and uriparser libraries.
  • gcc's visibility option has been managed in "include/mulk/mulk.h"
  • check in configure.ac for malloc, calloc, free and vsnprintf has been added
  • Mulk license has been changed to LGPL, in order to lead to wider use of libmulk
  • m_malloc.c has been totally rewritten for license compatibility
  • a short notice about license has been added. It is visible with version option
  • the options can be evaluated by callbacks
  • the option directories are now evaluated only once at startup
  • dependency between new metalink urls and related options has been removed. The options are evaluated when download process is running
  • specific Mulk return codes have been added to the library functions
  • unique DEBUG compilation flag has been created
  • MSVC solution has been revisited and rationalised
  • Bug fixes:
  • some URL strings were not released in case of error
  • when creating a directory in Windows using an absolute path, there was a wrong behaviour
  • in configure, where tidy.h and openssl/sha.h were requested even if they were disabled
  • the total number of downloaded files was wrong if an error occurred
  • Metalink download, when the filesize was missing and the URLs were wrong, Mulk tried anyway to control the checksum
  • Metalink download, FTP protocol was used erroneously to find the missing filesize
  • downloading Metalink file size, under some circumstances not all the possible URLs were tried
  • downloading Metalink file size, with a 200 HTTP code the size was considered valid also if not sent correctly
  • whole checksum of a file sometimes was miscomputed due to unsynchronised file
  • http://www.example.com and http://www.example.com/ have to be considered the same url
  • correct behaviour in accepted domains if the the host is represented as an IP
  • a "(null)" string was printed to reports when a not HTTP protocol was used
  • avoid recursive calls in option file
  • several fixes made in order to assure that the library's functions can called more than once for each instance

New in mulk 0.5.1 Beta (Feb 1, 2010)

  • i18n gettext internationalisation has been added
  • new options to go to foreign hosts, accept and reject specific domains
  • new options to specify username and password for the connections
  • new options to follow FTP links in HTML documents
  • new option to change temporary directory
  • new output directory to save downloaded files
  • Italian translation has been added
  • main process simplified and functions moved to a new file
  • new declarations to include code as static library
  • configuration flag to disable recursion in HTML documents
  • new macro for debugging purposes
  • code to debug dynamic memory allocation and find memory leaks
  • options initialisation revisited

New in mulk 0.5.0 Beta (Nov 2, 2009)

  • Metalink option added to resume download of a file
  • Metalink support for FTP added
  • Metalink max number of connections per file parameter supported new option to follow Metalink in HTML documents
  • option to change default user agent identity
  • save URLs with specified mime-type to output directory
  • output data and temporary directories are now separated
  • new HTML tags are parsed in order to download whole site. The new tags are FRAME, IFRAME, AREA, MAP, LINK, and SCRIPT.
  • each file has an extension assigned when saved to the output directory
  • bug fix, when an url doesn't have a filename in the path, a name is automatically added in order to save the file locally
  • better parsing of mime types present in HTTP header
  • all strings are now dynamically allocated
  • created new macros for printing messages
  • off_t data type used for file size
  • check for a recent curl version to avoid a bug when performing intensive downloads

New in mulk 0.4.1 (May 25, 2009)

  • Metalink location option added
  • Metalink OS option added
  • Metalink preference parameter supported
  • Metalink max number of connections per resource parameter supported
  • code cleaned in order to follow GNU coding standards

New in mulk 0.4.0 (May 11, 2009)

  • Metalink feature with segmented download added to the project
  • Metalink library added to the source code
  • ability to read a list of options from a text file
  • option to write to a text file a brief report
  • option to write to a csv file a brief report
  • quiet option to avoid printing messages
  • DEBUG compilation flag inserted
  • fixed a bug, under particular conditions some URLs in download queue were skipped
  • fixed a compilation problem when tidy header isn't

New in mulk 0.3.0 (Mar 30, 2009)

  • uri static library added to the project
  • saving and filtering of GIF and PNG images by width and height
  • JPEG library removed, no more needed
  • user manual added to the software installation