[ANNOUNCEMENT] pecl_http-0.8.0 (beta) Released.

The new PECL package pecl_http-0.8.0 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- * renamed ob_httpetaghandler to ob_etaghandler * http_chunked_decode() now silently passes through apparently not encoded data * added HttpMessage class and HttpException (PHP5 only) * added http.cache_log INI directive * added throttling capability to http_send()/HttpResponse * added hooks for custom request methods * added PUT support * added http_match_request_header() * added clean_ob parameter to HttpResponse::send() Package Info ------------- * Building absolute URIs * RFC compliant HTTP redirects * RFC compliant HTTP date handling * Parsing of HTTP headers and messages * Caching by "Last-Modified" and/or ETag (with 'on the fly' option for ETag generation from buffered output) * Sending data/files/streams with (multiple) ranges support * Negotiating user preferred language/charset * Convenient request functions built upon libcurl * HTTP auth hooks (Basic) * PHP5 classes: HttpUtil, HttpResponse, HttpRequest, HttpMessage Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http Changelog: http://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=pecl_http Download: http://pecl.php.net/get/pecl_http-0.8.0.tgz Authors ------------- Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (lead)