From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2007-09-23T08:32:02+09:00
Subject: [ANN] httpclient/2.1.2

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Hi all,

httpclient/2.1.2 is out.  The release for negotiate auth support + a
workaround for Ubuntu + SonicWALL timeout problem.

'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(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc.
 * asynchronous HTTP request

 * by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
   o Cookies support
   o MT-safe
   o streaming POST
   o Digest auth
   o NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate
   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 in 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
 * implemented Negotiate authentication with a support from exterior
   modules. 'rubyntlm' module is required for Negotiate auth with IIS.
   'win32/sspi' module is required for Negotiate auth with ISA. (#23)
 * a workaround for Ubuntu + SonicWALL timeout problem. try to send HTTP
   request in one chunk. (#171)
 * create new self-signing dist-cert which has serial number 0x01 and
   embed it in httpclient.rb. (#169)
 * update cacert.p7s. certificates are imported from cacerts in JRE 6
   Update 2. 1 expired CA certificate
   'C=US, O=GTE Corporation, CN=GTE CyberTrust Root' is removed.
 * [BUG] Reason-Phrase of HTTP response status line can be empty
   according to RFC2616. (#170)
 * [BUG] domain string match for cookies should be case insensitive.
   thanks to Brian for the patch. (#163)
 * [BUG] before calling SSLSocket#post_connection_check, check if
   RUBY_VERSION > "1.8.4" for CN based wildcard certificate. when
   RUBY_VERSION <= "1.8.4", it fallbacks to the post_connection_check
   method in HTTPClient so httpclient should run on 1.8.4 fine as
   before. (#164)
 * added HTTPClient#test_loopback_http_response which accepts test
   loopback response which contains HTTP header. (#165)

Download:
  http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.2.tar.gz
  http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.2.zip

sha1sum:
  2ff19c102bff7131c60a1a3debcc894c5bd50adc  httpclient-2.1.2.tar.gz
  7272a3daafcee80b6cbef1876cf829b75db0c00c  httpclient-2.1.2.zip

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

Regards,
// NaHi

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