[ANNOUNCEMENT] HTTP_Request-1.4.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package HTTP_Request-1.4.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- * Added Keep-Alive support (request #4806), thanks to Justin Patrin for the initial patch. Please note that "Connection: close" header is still added by default, you need to explicitly add "Connection: Keep-Alive" header or remove "Connection" header if using HTTP 1.1 * A new disconnect() method was added which forces disconnection from the server if Keep-Alive is used. Also two new events are sent to the Listeners: "connect" and "disconnect" * Added getUrl() method (request #6589) * Added method to properly parse header of gzip-encoded data (see RFC 1952). This takes care of situations when the server adds some additional data to the header (bug #8245) or sends data that is not gzip-encoded when "Content-Encoding: gzip" header is present (bug #8213) * "Proxy-Authorization" header is now properly set by constructor (bug #5913) * Fixed doc comments mentioning addBody() method instead of proper setBody() (bug #5969) * Fixed erroneous removal of "Content-Type" header from request (bug #7922) * Bogus HTTP headers are now ignored (bug #8214) * Path is set to "/" if an URL without path (http://www.example.com) is given (bug #8662) * Moved to package.xml version 2.0 Package Info ------------ Supports GET/POST/HEAD/TRACE/PUT/DELETE, Basic authentication, Proxy, Proxy Authentication, SSL, file uploads etc. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request/download/1.4.0 Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request-1.4.0.tgz Authors ------- Alexey Borzov (lead)