[ANNOUNCEMENT] pecl_http-0.15.0 (beta) Released.

The new PECL package pecl_http-0.15.0 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- + Updated documentation (a lot) + Added optional third parameter to HttpRequest::__construct() accepting an array with options + Added compression functions gzencode/gzdecode, deflate/inflate, compress/uncompress + Added http_support() for probing features that depend on external libraries - Renamed http_absolute_uri() to http_build_uri() (complements with http_build_query()) - Changed the signature of the negotiator to fill the second parameter with the results array * Fixed several ETag issues * Fixed HttpRequestPools detach() and attach() methods when the iterator is active * Fixed parsing messages with Content-Range headers * Fixed parsing messages with another Transfer-Encoding header value than chunked 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 functionality built upon libcurl * PHP5 classes: HttpUtil, HttpResponse (PHP-5.1), HttpRequest, HttpRequestPool, 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-0.15.0.tgz Authors ------------- Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (lead)