httpclient

'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. 'httpclient' formerly known as 'http-access2'.

• Project name: httpclient
• Version: 2.1.2
• Author: NAKAMURA, Hiroshi a.k.a. NaHi?

• License: Ruby's
• RAA: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/httpclient/

Features;

• methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1.
• HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc.
• asynchronous HTTP request

• by contrast with net/http in standard distribution;
  • Cookies support
  • MT-safe
  • streaming POST
  • Digest auth
  • NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate
  • extensible with filter interface
  • you don't have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you).

• Not supported now
  • Cache
  • Rather advanced HTTP/1.1 usage such as Range, deflate, etc. (of course you can set it in header by yourself

Bug report or Feature request

Please file a ticket.

1. find a similar ticket from http://dev.ctor.org/http-access2/search?ticket=on
2. login as an anonymous user (user/user for username and password) from http://dev.ctor.org/http-access2/login
3. create a new ticket from http://dev.ctor.org/http-access2/newticket

Thanks in advance.

News

2007-09-22: httpclient/2.1.2

httpclient/2.1.2 is out. The release for negotiate auth support + a workaround for Ubuntu + SonicWALL timeout problem.

Thanks to all of httpclient users for their support.

Have fun!

-> OldNews

Download

• stable: http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.2.tar.gz (tar + gzip)
• stable: http://dev.ctor.org/download/httpclient-2.1.2.zip (ZIP)

• older versions: http://dev.ctor.org/download/archive/

• svn: http://dev.ctor.org/svn/http-access2/trunk/

Gem

You can install httpclient with rubygems.

% gem install httpclient --source http://dev.ctor.org/download/

Changes

version 2.1.2

• wiki:Changes-212

version 2.1.1

• wiki:Changes-211

version 2.1.0

• wiki:Changes-210

version 2.0.9 (as http-access2)

• wiki:Changes-209

version 2.0.8 (as http-access2)

• wiki:Changes-208

version 2.0.7 (as http-access2)

• wiki:Changes-207

version 2.0.6 (as http-access2)

• wiki:Changes-206

version 2.0.5 (as http-access2)

• Connect/Send/Receive timeout cannot be configured. fixed.
• IPSocket#addr caused SocketError?? on Mac OS X 10.3.6 + ruby-1.8.1 GA. fixed.
• There is a server which does not like 'foo.bar.com:80' style Host header. The server for http://rubyforge.org/export/rss_sfnews.php seems to dislike HTTP/1.1 Host header "Host: rubyforge.net:80". It returns HTTP 302: Found and redirects to the page again, causes HTTPAccess2::Client to raise "retry count exceeded". Keat found that the server likes "Host: rubyforge.net" (not with port number).

version 2.0.4 (as http-access2)

• add Client#redirect_uri_callback interface.
• refactorings and bug fixes found during negative test.
• add SSL test.

version 2.0.3 (as http-access2)

• no_proxy was broken in 2.0.2.
• do not dump 'Host' header under protocol_version == 'HTTP/1.0'

version 2.0.2 (as http-access2)

• do not trust HTTP_PROXY environment variable. set proxy server manually. http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/libwww-perl/archive/2001h1/0072.html http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/libwww-perl/archive/2001h1/0241.html http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2001-12/0034.html
• follow ossl2 change.

version 2.0.1 (as http-access2)

• Query was not escaped when query was given as an Array or a Hash. Fixed.
• Do not use http_proxy defined by ENVhttp_proxy? or ENVHTTP_PROXY? if the destination host is 'localhost'.
• Hosts which matches ENVno_proxy? or ENVNO_PROXY? won't be proxyed.
  • [,:] separated. ("ruby-lang.org:rubyist.net")
  • No regexp. (give "ruby-lang.org", not "*.ruby-lang.org")
  • If you want specify hot by IP address, give full address. ("192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2")

version 2.0 (as http-access2)

• CamelCase to non_camel_case.
• SSL support (requires Ruby/OpenSSL).
• Cookies support. lib/http-access2/cookie.rb is redistributed file which is originally included in Webagent by TAKAHASHI `Maki' Masayoshi. You can download the entire package from http://www.rubycolor.org/arc/.

version J (as http-access2)

• Ruby/1.8 support.

version H (as http-access2)

• HTTP proxy support of version G was broken. Fixed.

version G (as http-access2)

• Changed HTTPAccess2::Client API. Take care.
• Added streaming request API.
• Added WebDAV client sample. No XML related functions for now. i.e, you can PUT/GET files. No PROPGET/PROPPATCH? No versioning? Is this a DAV?

version F (as http-access2)

• Removed dependency to delegate.rb. Kernel.methods in delegate.rb is rather slow...