tests: replace hard-coded `/dev/null` with variable

- add variable for the null device filename and use that in Perl code.
- initialize this variable with `NUL` on native Windows.
-

tests: replace hard-coded `/dev/null` with variable

- add variable for the null device filename and use that in Perl code.
- initialize this variable with `NUL` on native Windows.
- add `%DEV_NULL` variable and use it in tests.

Fixes `The system cannot find the path specified.` messages seen when
running `runtests.pl` with native Windows Perl.

Also adjust code to not break mcedit syntax highlighting.

Cherry-picked from #14949
Closes #15098

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tests: remove leading spaces from some tags

The threee tags `<name>`, `</name>` and `<command>` were frequently used
with a leading space that this removes. The reason this habbit is so

tests: remove leading spaces from some tags

The threee tags `<name>`, `</name>` and `<command>` were frequently used
with a leading space that this removes. The reason this habbit is so
widespread in testcases is probably that they have been copy and pasted.

Hence, fixing them all now might curb this practice from now on.

Closes #12028

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misc: better random strings

Generate alphanumerical random strings.

Prior this change curl used to create random hex strings. This was
mostly okay, but having alphanumerical ran

misc: better random strings

Generate alphanumerical random strings.

Prior this change curl used to create random hex strings. This was
mostly okay, but having alphanumerical random strings is better: The
strings have more entropy in the same space.

The MIME multipart boundary used to be mere 64-bits of randomness due
to being 16 hex chars. With these changes the boundary is 22
alphanumerical chars, or little over 130 bits of randomness.

Closes #11838

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tests: skip mime/form tests when mime is not built-in

Closes #9596

tests: use %TESTNUMBER instead of fixed number

This makes the tests easier to copy and relocate to other test numbers
without having to update content.

Closes #6738

tests: fixup several tests

missing CRs and modified %hostip

lib556/test556: use a real HTTP version to make test reuse more convenient

make sure the weekday in Date headers

tests: fixup several tests

missing CRs and modified %hostip

lib556/test556: use a real HTTP version to make test reuse more convenient

make sure the weekday in Date headers matches the date

test61: replace stray "^M" (5e 4d) at the end of a cookie with a '^M' (0d)

Gets the test working with external proxies like Privoxy again.

Closes #6463

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runtests: provide curl's version string as %VERSION for tests

... so that we can check HTTP requests for User-Agent: curl/%VERSION

Update 600+ test cases accordingly.

Close

runtests: provide curl's version string as %VERSION for tests

... so that we can check HTTP requests for User-Agent: curl/%VERSION

Update 600+ test cases accordingly.

Closes #6037

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cli tool: reimplement stdin buffering in -F option.

If stdin is not a regular file, its content is memory-buffered to enable
a possible data "rewind".
In all cases, stdin data size i

cli tool: reimplement stdin buffering in -F option.

If stdin is not a regular file, its content is memory-buffered to enable
a possible data "rewind".
In all cases, stdin data size is determined before real use to avoid
having an unknown part's size.

--libcurl generated code is left as an unbuffered stdin fread/fseek callback
part with unknown data size.

Buffering is not supported in deprecated curl_formadd() API.

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mime: remove support "-" stdin pseudo-file name in curl_mime_filedata().

This feature is badly supported in Windows: as a replacement, a caller has
to use curl_mime_data_cb() with fread,

mime: remove support "-" stdin pseudo-file name in curl_mime_filedata().

This feature is badly supported in Windows: as a replacement, a caller has
to use curl_mime_data_cb() with fread, fseek and possibly fclose
callbacks to process opened files.

The cli tool and documentation are updated accordingly.

The feature is however kept internally for form API compatibility, with
the known caveats it always had.

As a side effect, stdin size is not determined by the cli tool even if
possible and this results in a chunked transfer encoding. Test 173 is
updated accordingly.

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mime: tests and examples.

Additional mime-specific tests.
Existing tests updated to reflect small differences (Expect: 100-continue,
data size change due to empty lines, etc).
Op

mime: tests and examples.

Additional mime-specific tests.
Existing tests updated to reflect small differences (Expect: 100-continue,
data size change due to empty lines, etc).
Option -F headers= keyword added to tests.
test1135 disabled until the entry point order change is resolved.
New example smtp-mime.
Examples postit2 and multi-post converted from form API to mime API.

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Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in form posting

It was introduced in commit eeb2cb05 along with the -F type=
change. Also fixed a typo in the name of the magic filename=
parameter.

Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in form posting

It was introduced in commit eeb2cb05 along with the -F type=
change. Also fixed a typo in the name of the magic filename=
parameter. Tweaked tests 39 and 173 to better test this path.

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Replaced 127.0.0.1 with %HOSTIP where possible

Convert (most of) the test data files into genuine XML. A handful still
are not, due mainly to the lack of support for XML character entities
(e.g. & => &amp; ). This will make it easier to

Convert (most of) the test data files into genuine XML. A handful still
are not, due mainly to the lack of support for XML character entities
(e.g. & => &amp; ). This will make it easier to validate test files using
tools like xmllint, as well as edit and view them using XML tools.

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Venkat Akella found out that libcurl did not like HTTP responses that simply
responded with a single status line and no headers nor body. Starting now, a
HTTP response on a persistent connect

Venkat Akella found out that libcurl did not like HTTP responses that simply
responded with a single status line and no headers nor body. Starting now, a
HTTP response on a persistent connection (i.e not set to be closed after the
response has been taken care of) must have Content-Length or chunked
encoding set, or libcurl will simply assume that there is no body.

To my horror I learned that we had no less than 57(!) test cases that did bad
HTTP responses like this, and even the test http server (sws) responded badly
when queried by the test system if it is the test system. So although the
actual fix for the problem was tiny, going through all the newly failing test
cases got really painful and boring.

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Modified the default HTTP headers used by libcurl:

A) Normal non-proxy HTTP:

- no more "Pragma: no-cache" (this only makes sense to proxies)

B) Non-CONNECT HTTP request ov

Modified the default HTTP headers used by libcurl:

A) Normal non-proxy HTTP:

- no more "Pragma: no-cache" (this only makes sense to proxies)

B) Non-CONNECT HTTP request over proxy:

- "Pragma: no-cache" is used (like before)
- "Proxy-Connection: Keep-alive" (for older style 1.0-proxies)

C) CONNECT HTTP request over proxy:

- "Host: [name]:[port]"
- "Proxy-Connection: Keep-alive"

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Now the test servers and test cases can run on a custom port number. There's
no fixed port numbers in use anymore. Starting now, the default ports the
servers use are 8990 - 8993. There's no

Now the test servers and test cases can run on a custom port number. There's
no fixed port numbers in use anymore. Starting now, the default ports the
servers use are 8990 - 8993. There's no option to modify these yet, but
changing the $base option in the top of the runtests.pl script.

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test 173 added: HTTP RFC1867-formpost a file from stdin with "faked" filename