[ANNOUNCEMENT] pecl_http-0.22.0 (beta) Released.

The new PECL package pecl_http-0.22.0 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- + Added HTTP 'protocol' version request option. (Ilia) + Added optional class_name param to HttpMessage::fromString() + Added HttpMessage::toMessageTypeObject(), HttpMessage::detach(), HttpMessage::prepend() + Added Iterator interface to HttpMessage + Added http_get_request_body_stream() + Added HttpQueryString class - Don't pretend anylonger to understand 'compress' Content-Encoding - Sending an User-Agent can now be prevented by setting 'useragent' to NULL or empty string. (Ilia) - Changed http_redirect() to PHPs behaviour by default - Changed configure to enable curl and zlib functionality by default - Changed http_build_url() to accept a flag that defines what parts and how they are replaced/merged * Decreased the per-request calls to curl_easy_setopt() * Fixed gnutls ZTS build * Fixed openssl ZTS issues with other libraries using openssl * Fixed some issues with http_get_request_body() * Fixed bug #6645 - doesn't compile with zlib 1.2.2 (undefined Z_FIXED) Package Info ------------- This HTTP extension aims to provide a convenient and powerful set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications. It eases handling of HTTP urls, dates, redirects, headers and messages, provides means for negotiation of clients preferred language and charset, as well as a convenient way to send any arbitrary data with caching and resuming capabilities. It provides powerful request functionality, if built with CURL support. Parallel requests are available for PHP-5 and greater. PHP-5 classes: HttpUtil, HttpMessage, HttpRequest, HttpRequestPool, HttpDeflateStream, HttpInflateStream, HttpQueryString PHP-5.1 classes: HttpResponse 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-0.22.0.tgz Authors ------------- Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (lead)