--- AnyEvent-HTTP/Changes 2010/09/06 05:30:54 1.38 +++ AnyEvent-HTTP/Changes 2011/01/04 08:17:59 1.59 @@ -1,16 +1,54 @@ Revision history for AnyEvent::HTTP TODO: provide lwp_request function that takes an lwp http requets and returns a http response. -TODO: http://efl20.com/wp-register.php refresh-header, instead of location -TODO: GET => POST like mozilla does it, not like the rfc does it? -TODO: maybe support broken Expires header? +TODO: download example -TODO: header liens end in \r +2.0 Tue Jan 4 09:16:56 CET 2011 + - hopefully fully upgraded to HTTP/1.1. + - support HTTP/1.1 persistent and HTTP/1.0 keep-alive connections. + - drop https-proxy-connection support. seems unused and ill-specified. + - use more differentiated status 59x codes. + - properly use url hostname to verify server certificate. + - much improved cookie implementation: + - properly implement cookie expiry (for new cookies). + - new function to expire cookies and sessions: cookie_jar_expire. + - add special exception to parse broken expires= keys in + set-cookie headers. + - do not quote cookie values when not strictly necessary, to + improve compatibility with broken servers. + - accept and send lots of invalid cookie values exactly as + they were received - this should not impact valid values. + - lowercase cookie parameter names for improved compatibility. + - support the max-age cookie parameter, used if expires is missing. + - support cookie dates (and a few others) in parse_date. + - suppoer value-less parameters (e.g. secure, httponly). + - do not send Host: header in a proxy CONNECT request. + - use common::sense. + - lowercase hostnames and schemes. + - ignore leading zeroes in http version. + - handle spaces in content-length headers more gracefully. + +1.5 Fri Dec 31 04:47:08 CET 2010 + - bugfix: after headers were received, if any error occured the wrong + (server-sent) Status and Reason fields would be passed to the callback. + - when an error occurs during transfer, preserve status/reason. + - add socks4a connect example. + - new "tcp_connect" parameter. + - new format_date and parse_date functions. + - diagnose unexpected eof as such when the length is known. + - add 205 to the responses without body. + +1.46 Mon Sep 6 08:29:34 CEST 2010 - some (broken) servers differentiate between empty search parts and nonexistant search parts, work around this (problem analyzed by Sergey Zasenko). - possibly increase robustness by always setting an on_error - callback ont he AnyEvent::Handle object. + callback on the AnyEvent::Handle object (especially in case + of user errors, such as nehative timeouts). + - we now always follow 301/302/303 redirects and mutate POST to GET. + - we now always follow 307 redirects, even for POST. + - header-less responses are not parsed correctly (at a negative + speed penatly :). 1.45 Wed Jun 16 21:15:26 CEST 2010 - fix a bug where the handle would go away directly after a successful