Fedora 8 Update: curl-7.17.1-2.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-0952
2008-02-15 21:20:51
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Name        : curl
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 7.17.1
Release     : 2.fc8
URL         : http://curl.haxx.se/
Summary     : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
Description :
cURL is a tool for getting files from HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, LDAPS,
DICT, TELNET and TFTP servers, using any of the supported protocols.
cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of
interactivity. cURL 5;3~offers many useful capabilities, like proxy
support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer
resume.

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Update Information:

* Tue Jan 22 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 7.17.1-2  - do not attempt to
close a bad socket (#427966),    thanks to Caolan McNamara  - enable LDAPS
support (#225671)  - update description to contain complete supported servers
list (#393861)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 22 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 7.17.1-2
- do not attempt to close a bad socket (#427966),
  thanks to Caolan McNamara
- enable LDAPS support (#225671)
- update description to contain complete supported servers list (#393861)
* Sun Nov 18 2007 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 7.17.1-1
- update to curl 7.17.1
- include patch to enable SSL usage in NSS when a socket is opened
  nonblocking, thanks to Rob Crittenden (rcritten at redhat.com) (#387991)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #427966 - OpenOffice.org crashes on close of ftp:// url
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427966
  [ 2 ] Bug #225671 - Merge Review: curl
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225671
  [ 3 ] Bug #393861 - curl package description has wrong protocol support
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393861
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update curl' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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