HTTP_Request

Provides an easy way to perform HTTP requests

Supports GET/POST/HEAD/TRACE/PUT/DELETE, Basic authentication, Proxy, Proxy Authentication, SSL, file uploads etc. richard Richard Heyes richard@php.net lead avb Alexey Borzov avb@php.net lead 1.2.4 2004-12-30 BSD stable * Notice was raised when processing a response containing secure cookies (bug #2741) * Warning was raised when processing a response with empty body and chunked Transfer-encoding (bug #2792) * Improved inline documentation on constructor parameters (bug #2751) Net_URL Net_Socket 1.2.3 2004-10-01 BSD stable * Auth information is properly extracted from URLs of the form http://user:pass@host/ (bug #1507) * Connection to server is closed after performing request (bug #1692) * Use correct argument separator for generated query stings (bug #1857, see also bug #704 for Net_URL) * Do not use gzip encoding if certain string functions are overloaded by mbstring extension (bug #1781) * addPostData() now properly handles multidimensional arrays (bug #2233) 1.2.2 2004-05-19 BSD stable Bug fixes: * Fixed #1037 (unable to connect to port 80 through HTTPS). This relies on fix for Net_URL bug #1036, thus Net_URL 1.0.12 is now required. * Fixed #1333 (sending POST data on non-POST requests). * Fixed #1433 (overwriting the variable name when adding multiple files for upload). 1.2.1 2004-04-29 BSD stable Additions and changes: * Applied patch from #851 (First parameter of constructor is now optional) * Implemented #526 (It is now possible to set timeout on socket, via parameter readTimeout) * Implemented #1141 (It is now possible to pass options to socket via parameter socketOptions, Net_Socket 1.0.2 is needed for this functionality) Fixes: * Fixed #842 (Doc comments incorrectly described the possible return values) * Fixed #1152 (Incorrect handling of cookies with '=' in value) * Fixed #1158 (Cookie parameters are not necessarily lowercase) * Fixed #1080 (Cookies should not be urlencoded/urldecoded) 1.2 2003-10-27 BSD stable Feature additions: * Support for multipart/form-data POST requests and file uploads (partly based on Christian Stocker's work) * Brackets [] after array variables are optional (on by default, controlled by useBrackets parameter) * HTTP_Request now implements a Subject-Observer design pattern. It is possible to add Listeners to the Request object to e.g. draw a progress bar when downloading a large file. This is partly based on Stefan Walk's work. A usage example for this is available. Migration to 1.2: * Redirect support is now OFF by default * Redirect support is DEPRECATED * Methods clearCookies(), clearPostData(), reset() are DEPRECATED Fixes: * Fixed PEAR bug #18 (Lowercased headers, fix by Dave Mertens) * Fixed PEAR bug #131 (Domain without trailing slash) * Fixed PHP bug #25486 (100 Continue handling) * Fixed PEAR bug #150 (Notices being generated) * Fixed problems with HTTP responses without bodies 1.1.1 2003-01-30 BSD stable Added redirect support. Net_URL 1.0.7 is now required. 1.1.0 2003-01-20 BSD stable Added SSL support as long as you have PHP 4.3.0+ and the OpenSSL extension. Net_URL 1.0.6 is now required. 1.0.2 2002-09-16 BSD stable Added cookie support 1.0.1 2002-07-27 BSD stable License change 1.0 2002-02-17 stable Initial release of the HTTP_Request package.