[ANNOUNCEMENT] HTTP_Request-1.2 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package HTTP_Request-1.2 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Feature additions: * Support for multipart/form-data POST requests and file uploads (partly based on Christian Stocker's work) * Brackets [] after array variables are optional (on by default, controlled by useBrackets parameter) * HTTP_Request now implements a Subject-Observer design pattern. It is possible to add Listeners to the Request object to e.g. draw a progress bar when downloading a large file. This is partly based on Stefan Walk's work. A usage example for this is available. Migration to 1.2: * Redirect support is now OFF by default * Redirect support is DEPRECATED * Methods clearCookies(), clearPostData(), reset() are DEPRECATED Fixes: * Fixed PEAR bug #18 (Lowercased headers, fix by Dave Mertens) * Fixed PEAR bug #131 (Domain without trailing slash) * Fixed PHP bug #25486 (100 Continue handling) * Fixed PEAR bug #150 (Notices being generated) * Fixed problems with HTTP responses without bodies 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-changelog.php?package=HTTP_Request Download: http://pear.php.net/get/HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz Authors ------------- Richard Heyes <richard@phpguru.org> (lead) Alexey Borzov (lead)