Curb Ruby libcurl Bindings: Changelog for Versions 1.3.3-1.3.5
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Summary
This is a changelog entry for the Curb library (version 1.3.3-1.3.5), which provides Ruby bindings for libcurl. The changelog documents several bug fixes including: skipping NTLM-specific assertions when libcurl is built without NTLM support, fixing Curl::Easy#put_data= for non-String payloads, guarding Curl::Easy#clone against allocation failures, and guarding Curl::Multi lifecycle during active perform calls to prevent crashes.
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Fix Curl::Easy#put_data= with non-String to_s payloads so upload length calculation does not read non-String objects as Ruby strings.
Guard Curl::Easy#clone against curl_easy_duphandle allocation failure so clone raises NoMemError instead of dereferencing a NULL handle.
Guard Curl::Multi lifecycle during active perform calls so closing a multi handle from callbacks or perform blocks raises instead of freeing an i
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