Release notes for HTTP-Tiny

0.014     2011-10-20 13:54:13 America/New_York

  [NEW FEATURES]

  - Adds additional shorthand methods for all common HTTP verbs
    (HEAD, PUT, POST, DELETE) [David Golden]

  - post_form() method for POST-ing x-www-form-urlencoded data
    [David Golden]

  - www_form_urlencode() utility method [David Golden]

0.013     2011-07-17 23:14:22 America/New_York

  [NEW FEATURES]

  - $ENV{http_proxy} support added [Claes Jakobsson]

  [OTHER]

  - Internal/private errors converted from "croak" to "die" as internal
    errors are caught by "eval"

0.012     2011-03-31 15:48:02 America/New_York

  [BUG FIXES]

  - mirror() now uses binmode during output (RT #67118) [Serguei Trouchelle]

  [DOCUMENTATION]

  - noted that SSL certificates are not verified against CA's
    (RT #66907)

0.011     2011-03-19 20:48:39 America/New_York

  [BUG FIXES]

  - Made t/000_load.t less verbose under harness (RT#65507) [Dave Mitchell]

  - Removed 'Errno' as an explicit prefix (it is a core module, but not
    indexed by PAUSE, which might confuse some installers)

0.010     2011-02-04 02:45:31 EST5EDT

  [BUG FIXES]

  - Fixed test errors on VMS (RT#65430) [Craig Berry]

0.009     2011-01-17 16:29:22 EST5EDT

  - Added workaround for IO::Socket::SSL certificate verification bug

  - Minor documentation improvements

  - POST example added to the eg/ directory in the distribution tarball

0.008     2011-01-14 06:34:55 EST5EDT

  - Added support for direct 'https' connections if IO::Socket::SSL
    is installed

  - Added support for a callback to provide trailing headers for
    chunked transfer encoding

  - Data callbacks receive the response hashref as a second argument
    for greater flexibility

  - Additional limitations documented

0.007     2011-01-12 04:56:16 EST5EDT

  - Added support for redirecting 303 and 307 response codes

  - Retry (once) a request that fails due to a closed socket
    (per RFC2616 8.1.4)

  - Automatically sets request Content-Type to 'application/octet-stream'
    if there is content the user has not defined its type

  - Trailing headers from chunked transfer encoding are now merged
    into the response headers instead of ignored

  - Improved handling of malformed or unsupported HTTP protocols

  - Expanded http:///.../ as http://localhost/.../ and set Host header

  - Documented that URL's must be escaped/encoded

  - Documented that the headers hash option may contain an array reference
    to output multiple values of the same header field

  - Improved documentation of limitations

  - Added numerous new tests to ensure compliance with the HTTP/1.1 spec

0.006     2011-01-10 07:28:11 EST5EDT

  - Transfer-Encodings are case insensitive

  - Add additional test for proper behavior when both Content-Length
    and Transfer-Encoding headers are received

0.005     2011-01-08 06:32:05 EST5EDT

  - Fixed bug getting content for servers which do not sent Content-Length

  - Add test coverage for get(), mirror() and request()

  - Add test coverage for requests with static and generated content

0.004     2010-12-15 22:53:59 EST5EDT

  - Renamed 'ok' response field to 'success'

  - Handle all required HTTP/1.1 date formats

  - Documented how callbacks are supposed to work

0.003     2010-12-15 12:30:42 EST5EDT

  - Added 'ok' response field to simplify checking success

  - Added a 'mirror' method mirror content to a file, but shortcut
    if not modified

0.002     2010-12-13 21:59:39 EST5EDT

  - Added some initial documentation

  - Skips utf8::* code on Perls older than 5.8

0.001     2010-12-11 07:59:16 EST5EDT

  - Initial CPAN release

