pecl_http 1.6.0

Extended HTTP Support

This HTTP extension aims to provide a convenient and powerful
set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications.

It eases handling of HTTP urls, headers and messages, provides
means for negotiation of a client's preferred content type,
language and charset, as well as a convenient way to send any
arbitrary data with caching and resuming capabilities.

It provides powerful request functionality with support for
parallel requests.

Documentation:
https://mdref.m6w6.name/http

License: BSD-2-Clause

Changes

+ Added HttpRequest::flushCookies() (libcurl >= 7.17.1)
+ Added constant HTTP_URL_FROM_ENV
+ Added 'retrycount' and 'retrydelay' request options
+ Added libevent support for libcurl (>= 7.16.0):
o added --with-http-curl-libevent configure option
o added HttpRequestPool::enableEvents()
* Fixed problems with cookiestore request option introduced with persistent handles
* Fixed crash on prematurely called HttpMessage::next()
* Fixed possible shutdown crash with http_parse_params() and PHP4
* Fixed a possible crash at module shutdown in the persistent handle API
(probably fixing bug #11509)
* Fixed test suite for PHP4
* Fixed missing PHP_LIBDIR definition in config.m4 for PHP4
* Fixed non-standard shell support in config.m4