From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2012-02-01T08:59:02+09:00
Subject: [ANN] net-http-persistent 2.4 Released

net-http-persistent version 2.4 has been released!

* http://docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent
* https://github.com/drbrain/net-http-persistent

Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby 1.8.
It's thread-safe too!

Using persistent HTTP connections can dramatically increase the speed of HTTP.
Creating a new HTTP connection for every request involves an extra TCP
round-trip and causes TCP congestion avoidance negotiation to start over.

Net::HTTP supports persistent connections with some API methods but does not
handle reconnection gracefully.  Net::HTTP::Persistent supports reconnection
and retry according to RFC 2616.

=== 2.4 / 2012-01-31

* Minor Enhancement
  * net-http-persistent now complains if OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER is equal to
    OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE.  If you have a platform that is broken this way
    you must define the constant:

      I_KNOW_THAT_OPENSSL_VERIFY_PEER_EQUALS_VERIFY_NONE_IS_WRONG = nil

    at the top level of your application to disable the warning.

* Bug fix
  * Fix persisting SSL sessions through HTTP proxies.  Mechanize issue #178 by
    Robert Poor, net-http-persistent issues #10, #11.