Revision history for AnyEvent::HTTP

TODO: provide lwp_request function that takes an lwp http requets and returns a http response. TODO: httpbis: $location = URI->new_abs($location, "$scheme://$host:$port$path_query")->as_string;

2.12 Tue Jun 14 07:22:54 CEST 2011

• fix a possible 'Can't call method "destroyed"' error (which would have been reported by Carl Chambers).

2.11 Tue May 10 14:33:28 CEST 2011

• the keepalive session cache wouldn't take port and scheme into account when reusing connection - potentially causing information leaks (reported by Nick Kostirya).
• bump AnyEvent dependency version (reported by Richard Harris).

2.1 Thu Feb 24 13:11:51 CET 2011

• the keepalive and persistent parameters were actually named differently in the code - they now work as documented.
• fix a bug where callbacks would sometimes never be called when the request timeout is near or below the persistent connection timeout (testcase by Cindy Wang).
• destroying the guard would have no effect when a request was recursing or being retired.

2.04 Sat Feb 19 07:45:24 CET 2011

• "proxy => undef" now overrides any global proxy when specified.
• require scheme in urls, also use a stricter match to match urls, leading or trailing garbage is no longer tolerated.
• EXPERIMENTAL: allow '=' in cookie values.

2.03 Tue Jan 18 18:49:35 CET 2011

• dummy reupload, file gone from cpan somehow.

2.02 Wed Jan 12 04:29:37 CET 2011

• do not lowercase cookie names, only parameter names.

2.01 Tue Jan 11 07:38:15 CET 2011

• add missing dependency on common::sense.
• add a resume download example.

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 59x status codes.
• properly use url (not proxy) 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  • do not quote cookie values when not strictly necessary, to improve compatibility with broken servers.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, overrides expires.
  • support cookie dates (and a few others) in parse_date.
  • properly support 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 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 connect (analyzed and patch by Maxim Dounin).
• due to popular demand, introduce the Redirect pseudo response header.
• document URL pseudo-header better.
• explain how to implement DNS caching.

1.44 Sat Dec 5 16:36:20 CET 2009

• do not generate content-length on get requests (if the body is empty), as there are even more broken servers out there.
• allow set_proxy to clear the proxy again.
• set_proxy will now croak on invalid urls.
• support overriding the Host-header (requested by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).

1.43 Fri Aug 14 17:02:02 CEST 2009

• provide on_prepare callback on common request.

1.42 Wed Aug 5 18:43:01 CEST 2009

• allow suppression of auto-supplied header fields by specifying undef (requested by Mr Guest).
• allow proxy scheme to be missing, as documented (reported by Mr Guest).
• do not follow redirects if we do not have a location header (requested by Mr Guest).

1.41 Sat Jul 25 03:27:05 CEST 2009

• correctly parse completely headerless responses (e.g. by gatling). (analysed by Robin Redeker).

1.4 Tue Jul 7 02:14:53 CEST 2009

• http_request would not instantly clear the connection slot on tcp_connect failures, potentially leading to deadlocks.
• fix a bug where a connection error is wrongly reported as EINPROGRESS.
• new parameters: on_header, on_body, want_body_handle.
• redirects will be followed when recurse is enabled whether or not the body dowload was successful or not.
• include :port in Host header when given in the url (many sites break when it's always there, and many break if it's missing...).
• pass the empty string, not undef, when there is no body but no error occured.
• allow passing of tls_ctx, predefine two https security profiles.
• ucfirst all error messages generated internally.
• include "U" token in User-Agent.
• document $AnyEvent::HTTP::MAX_PER_HOST.
• allow empty field names in response headers (microsoft hits. microsoft hits. microsoft hits. you die).

1.12 Thu Jun 11 14:45:18 CEST 2009

• $scheme wasn't optional in the proxy specification (reported by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann).

1.11 Fri Nov 21 09:18:11 CET 2008

• work around a perl core bug not properly refcounting function arguments, causing "200 OK" with random body results (reported by Дмитрий Шалашов).

1.1 Thu Oct 30 04:46:27 CET 2008

• work around different behaviour of AnyEvent::Handle in TLS mode.
• cleanup cookie implementation, many examples and comments were provided by Дмитрий Шалашов.
• document the return values of http_* functions better.
• separate multiple header values by "," not "\x00" (this does not break correctly written users of the old API).
• improve Set-Cookie: parsing.
• add experimental https-over-http-proxy support.
• downgrade https-over-https proxy to https-over-http.
• ignore spurious CR characters in headers, they show up in the weirdest of places.
• ucfirst the request headers, for a slightly less weird look.
• work around (some) memleaks in perl regarding qr.

1.05 Mon Sep 29 15:49:58 CEST 2008

• fix a regex when parsing cookie domains (patch by Дмитрий Шалашов).

1.04 Thu Jul 24 08:00:46 CEST 2008

• parse reason-less http status responses.
• parse more forms of broken location headers.

1.03 Thu Jul 3 03:47:58 CEST 2008

• fix http_post, which was totally broken (patch by Pedro Melo).
• do not recurse on POST requests, as per HTTP/1.[01] (this might change as the recommendation isn't followed by anybody else).
• implement preliminary support for 303/307 redirects.

1.02 Thu Jun 12 13:50:08 CEST 2008

• make the request URL available in the callback of http_request.
• export http_post, http_head.

1.01 Fri Jun 6 14:56:37 CEST 2008

• fixed prototypes for http_* functions

1.0 Thu Jun 5 20:41:43 CEST 2008

• original version, an AnyEvent::AIO clone.