From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2003-10-04T21:58:42+09:00
Subject: [ANN] http-access/2.0.1 (was Re: http-access2 POSTing)

Hi,

> From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp>
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:27 PM

> > finally showed me how it was 
> > done: posting "network=151&number=12345678&msg=#{text}" to the site does 
> > seem to have the desired result. Thank you for your attention :)
> 
> I'm sorry for your trouble...  I seem to break the POSTing code
> when I added streaming POST feature to http-access2.
> I think your original code should work.

I fixed it and released 2.0.1 on RAA.
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=http-access2

http-access2 gives something like the functionality of
libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. (Though I've never used LWP :-)

Features;
- methods like GET/HEAD/POST via HTTP/1.1.
- asynchronous HTTP request
- HTTPS(SSL)
- by contrast with net/http in standard distribution; 
  - you don't have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection
    (http-access2 cares instead of you).
  - MT-safe
  - streaming POST
  - Cookies handling

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