[ANNOUNCEMENT] pecl_http-1.7.0b1 (beta) Released.

The new PECL package pecl_http-1.7.0b1 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- * Implement Request #14408 (Add a customizable timeout for HttpRequestPool::socketSelect) * Implement Request #15775 (recursive http_request_body_encode) * Added request options: - postredir: enforcing RFC conformig POST after redirect (libcurl >= 7.17.1) - address_scope: RFC4007 zone_id (libcurl >= 7.19.0) - ssl->issuercert: validate peer certificate issuer (libcurl >= 7.19.0) - ssl->crlfile: require CRL check (libcurl >= 7.19.0 with openssl) - ssl->certinfo: enable the certinfo gatherer (libcurl >= 7.19.1 with openssl) * Added proxytype request option constants: - HTTP_PROXY_SOCKS4A - HTTP_PROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME * Added request info members: - redirect_url (libcurl >= 7.18.2) - primary_ip (libcurl >= 7.19.0) - appconnect_time (libcurl >= 7.19.0) - certinfo (libcurl >= 7.19.1 with openssl) 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. 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-1.7.0b1.tgz Authors ------------- Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> (lead)