From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T16:15:17+09:00
Subject: [ANN] httpclient/2.1.0

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Hi all,

httpclient/2.1.0 is out.  The program/project renamed from
'http-access2' to 'httpclient'.  Now program name, gem name, and module
namespace are the same: 'httpclient'.

'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP)
in Ruby. 'httpclient' formerly known as 'http-access2'.

Features;

 * methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1.
 * HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication, etc.
 * asynchronous HTTP request

 * by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
   o Cookies support
   o MT-safe
   o streaming POST
   o DigestAuth?
   o extensible with filter interface
   o you don't have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient
     cares instead of you).

 * Not supported now
   o Cache
   o Rather advanced HTTP/1.1 usage such as Range, deflate, etc.
     (of course you can set it in header by yourself)

changes:
 * There's compatibility layer included so existing programs for
   http-access2 which uses HTTPAccess2::Client should work with
   httpclient/2.1.0 correctly.

 * install.rb did not install cacerts.p7s. Thanks to knu.

 * now HTTPClient loads http_proxy/HTTP_PROXY and no_proxy/NO_PROXY
   environment variable at initialization time. bear in mind that it
   doesn't load http_proxy/HTTP_PROXY when a library is considered to be
   running under CGI environment (checked by ENVREQUEST_METHOD
   existence). cgi_http_proxy/CGI_HTTP_PROXY is loaded instead.

download:
  http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.0.tar.gz
  http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.0.zip

sha1sum:
  2a89d4d8cc02864cdf119d4ceb0cdf7a367659de  httpclient-2.1.0.tar.gz
  297cae83ff3ea58a7792dcfa093ce88e3df24d37  httpclient-2.1.0.zip

gem repository:
  'httpclient' at http://dev.ctor.org/download/

// NaHi

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