From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2008-12-30T00:49:35+09:00
Subject: [ANN] httpclient 2.1.3

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Hi all,

I posted httpclient/2.1.3.  This release includes performance
improvements and full RDoc documentation. (See below for more detail)

'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, streaming HTTP request.

 * by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
   * Cookies support
   * MT-safe
   * streaming POST (POST with File/IO)
   * Digest auth
   * Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/htlm module)
   * NTLM auth for Proxy-Authenticate (requires win32/sspi module)
   * extensible with filter interface
   * you don‘t have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient
     cares instead of you)

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

For more detail, see API document at http://dev.ctor.org/doc/httpclient/


Changes in 2.1.3:
 * Features
   * Proxy Authentication for SSL.
   * Performance improvements.
   * Full RDoc. Please tell me any English problem. Thanks in advance.
   * Do multipart file upload when a given body includes a File. You
     don't need to set 'Content-Type' and boundary String any more.
   * Added propfind and proppatch methods.

 * Changes
   * Avoid unnecessary memory consuming for get_content/post_content
     with block. get_content returns nil when you call it with a block.
   * post_content with IO did not work when redirect/auth cycle is
     required. (CAUTION: post_content now correctly follows redirection
     and posts the given content)
   * Exception handling cleanups.
     * Raises HTTPClient::ConfigurationError for environment problem
       (trying to do SSL without openssl installed for example)
     * Raises HTTPClient::BadResponse for HTTP response problem. you
       can get the response HTTPMessage returned via $!.res.
     * Raises SocketError for connection problem (as same as before).

 * Bug fixes
   * Avoid unnecessary negotiation cycle for Negotiate(NTLM)
     authentication. Thanks Rishav for great support for debugging
     Negotiate authentication.
   * get_content/post_content with block yielded unexpected message
     body during redirect/auth cycle.
   * Relative URI redirection should be allowed from 2.1.2 but it did
     not work... fixed.
   * Avoid unnecessary timeout waiting when no message body returned
     such as '204 No Content' for DAV.
   * Avoid blocking on socket closing when the socket is already closed
     by foreign host and the client runs under MT-condition.


Download:
  http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.3.tar.gz
  http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.3.zip

sha1sum:
  fd1a755927822573c67806626ffdc9077ae15322  httpclient-2.1.3.tar.gz
  f7733c7ec32a951a62d5bb7aa2c4ab876b405002  httpclient-2.1.3.zip

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

Regards,
// NaHi

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