- bug report #2727981 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2727981) by Martin

Storsjo pointed out how setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to 0 could be downright
  confusing as it set the method to either GET or HEAD. The example he showed
  looked like:

   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);

  The new way doesn't alter the method until the request is about to start. If
  CURLOPT_NOBODY is then 1 the HTTP request will be HEAD. If CURLOPT_NOBODY is
  0 and the request happens to have been set to HEAD, it will then instead be
  set to GET. I believe this will be less surprising to users, and hopefully
  not hit any existing users badly.

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o Sun compilers specific preprocessor block removed from curlbuild.h.dist
  o allow creation of four way fat libcurl Mac OS X Framework
  o memory leaks in libcurl+NSS
+ o improved the CURLOPT_NOBODY set to 0 confusions
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -37,6 +38,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Daniel Fandrich, Yang Tse, David James, Chris Deidun, Bill Egert,
  Andre Guibert de Bruet, Andreas Farber, Frank Hempel, Pierre Brico,
- Kamil Dudka, Jim Freeman, Daniel Johnson, Toshio Kuratomi
+ Kamil Dudka, Jim Freeman, Daniel Johnson, Toshio Kuratomi, Martin Storsjö
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)