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Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://2h ago

@Tenzer the challenge is that the trailing dots are legal and accepted in the URL, and in the past people have used sites for which the dot had to be there or it wouldn't work ..

(I fixed the weird phrasing, thanks!)

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@andrybak good point, it is certainly just a snapshot in time that *will* change
daniel:// stenberg://4h ago

Trailing dots are the worst:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/25/trailing-dots-are-the-worst/

#curl

Trailing dots are the worst

Trailing dots after hostnames in URLs remain my worst enemies. I wrote about several problems with them in the past that involved those nasty things. They are still painful. When we shipped curl 8.21.0 on June 24 2026 we fixed at least three brand new problems that involved trailing dots. C'mon, follow me down the … Continue reading Trailing dots are the worst →

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Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://4h ago
@kura we had them set fairly early on, but yes we have gone back and retroactively added a lot of additional details on the old ones, for science. Or perhaps for better graphs.
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@barubary don't ask me, I know nothing about how their tools work
daniel:// stenberg://4h ago
The #curl vulnerability mountain. A visualization I like. https://curl.se/dashboard1.html#vulnerabilities-in-code
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The full presentation (at a fairly bad quality)

https://youtu.be/t4wqREXVEAc

Hunting for zero days with AI with Stanislav Fort

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A snapshot favorite of mine from curl up Prague earlier this year when Stanslav Fort from Aisle did his presentation:
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@adamshostack I'd call them bugs
daniel:// stenberg://5h ago
Welcome Samuel Dainard as #curl commit author 1490: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/22159
sws: allow connection-monitor to log all disconnects by sdainard-AL · Pull Request #22159 · curl/curl

Remove the suppression of connmon after the first disconnect event. The connmon flag is set per-test via the 'connection-monitor' server command and should remain active for the lifetime of...

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