- protocol version and answer from server from HTTP status line - try to mimic all options of check_http - implement full ranges in -c and -w (used by anybody?) - provide FTP functionality - make gengetopt stderr handling and plugin first line stdout work together (error handling is bad currently if the plugins is called with illegal arguments) - make use of bandwith measurement functions of libcurl for QoS checking options - drop-in replacement for strsep, where it is missing - handle error codes and set nagios plugin status accordingly