Rollback changes from PR #657

[laszlof]

This change rolls back a bug fix from PR #657. This PR contained no test's, and no real documentation what the issue was it was trying to solve. As a result, this change has broken updates (amongst other things) on at least anyone using curl 7.29.

See Issue #838 for more details.

Pull Request Type

• [X] I have checked there is no other PR open for the same change.

This is a:

• [X] Bug fix
• [ ] New feature
• [ ] Documentation improvement
• [ ] Code quality improvement

Context

Roll back a bug fix from PR #657.

Detailed Description

Quality assurance

• [X] This change does NOT contain a breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change).
• [X] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas.
• [ ] I have added unit tests to accompany this PR.
• [ ] The (new/existing) tests cover this PR 100%.
• [X] I have (manually) tested this code to the best of my abilities.
• [X] My code follows the style guidelines of this project.

Documentation

For new features:

• [ ] I have added a code example showing how to use this feature to the examples directory.
• [ ] I have added documentation about this feature to the docs directory. If the documentation is in a new markdown file, I have added a link to this new file to the Docs folder README.md file.

[jrfnl]

For the record: the underlying issue #656 contains information on what #657 solves.