[ANNOUNCEMENT] pecl_http-0.18.0 (beta) Released.

The new PECL package pecl_http-0.18.0 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- + Added INI setting http.force_exit which can be used to disable script termination in case of redirects and positive cache hits (instead, standard output will be discarded) + Classes HttpMessage and HttpRequestPool implement Countable if PHP >= 5.1 with SPL is available + Class HttpMessage implements Serializable if PHP >= 5.1 is available + Added experimental http.chunked_encode and chunked_decode stream filter * Fixed a bug that caused a warning about an invalid curl handle at HttpRequestPool destruction * Fixed a bug with http_get_request_headers() modifying $_SERVER array * Fixed a bug which required "=" in Content-Range response message headers * Fixed a bug with directly setting HttpMessage property values Package Info ------------- * Building absolute URLs * 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-0.18.0.tgz Authors ------------- Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (lead)