From: John Mettraux <jmettraux@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T10:31:39+09:00
Subject: [ANN] gem 'rufus-verbs' released

== what is it ?

'rufus-verbs' is an extended HTTP client library (gem). It provides
the four main HTTP "verbs" as Ruby methods : get, put, post and
delete.

It wraps a certain number of techniques that make it a decent tool for
manipulating web resources.


== features

currently :

* follows redirections
* automatically adds _method={post|put} in the request parameters with
the option :fake_put => true
* HTTPS aware ('verify none' by default)
* HTTP basic authentication
* doesn't propagate auth credentials in case of redirection to different host
* advertises and uses gzip compression
* proxy-aware (HTTP_PROXY env var or :proxy option)
* conditional GET (via ConditionalEndPoint class)
* request body built via a block (post and put) or the :data option

maybe later :

* retry on failure
* greediness (automatic parsing for content like JSON or YAML)
* http digest authentication
* cache awareness
* head, options

more at http://rufus.rubyforge.org/rufus-verbs/


Best regards,

-- 
John Mettraux   -///-   http://jmettraux.openwfe.org