From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T23:12:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] gem 'rufus-verbs' released

On Jan 18, 2008 10:31 AM, John Mettraux <jmettraux@openwfe.org> wrote:
> == 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

Do you plan on adding automatic cookie handling?

^ manveru