Changelog of @hackage/HTTP 4000.0.8

Version 4004.0.8: release 2009-08-05

• Incorporated proxy setting lookup and parsing contribution by Eric Kow; provided in Network.HTTP.Proxy

• Factor out HTTP Cookies and Auth handling into separate modules Network.HTTP.Cookie, Network.HTTP.Auth

• new Network.Browser functionality for hooking up the proxy detection code in Network.HTTP.Proxy:

  setCheckForProxy :: Bool -> BrowserAction t () getCheckForProxy :: BrowserAction t Bool

  If you do 'setCheckForProxy True' within a browser session, the proxy-checking code will be called upon. Use 'getCheckForProxy' to get the current setting for this flag.

• Network.Browser: if HTTP Basic Auth is allowed and server doesn't 401-challenge with an WWW-Authenticate: header, simply assume / realm and proceed. Preferable than failing, even if server is the wrong.

Version 4004.0.7: release 2009-05-22

• Minor release.

• Added Network.TCP.openSocketStream :: (BufferType t) => String {-host-} -> Socket -> IO (HandleStream t)

  for interfacing to pre-existing @Socket@s. Contributed and suggested by http://trac.haskell.org/http/ticket/7.

Version 4004.0.6: release 2009-04-21; changes from 4004.0.5

• Network.Browser: use HTTP.HandleStream.sendHTTP_notify, not HTTP.sendHTTP_notify when issuing requests. The latter runs the risk of undoing request normalization.
• Network.HTTP.Base.normalizeRequest: when normalizing proxy-bound requests, insert a Host: header if none present. Set it to the destination server authority, not the proxy.
• Network.Browser: don't fail on seeing invalid cookie values, but report them as errors and continue.

Version 4004.0.5: release 2009-03-30; changes from 4004.0.4

• Get serious about comments and Haddock documentation.

• Cleaned up normalization of requests, fixing bugs and bringing together previous disparate attempts at handling this.

• RequestMethod now supports custom verbs; use the (Custom String) constructor

• Beef up Network.HTTP.Base's support for normalizing requests and URIs:

  • added splitRequestURI which divides a URI into two; the Authority portion (as a String) and the input URI sans the authority portion. Useful when wanting to split up a request's URI into its Host: and abs_path pieces.
  • added normalizeRequest :: Bool -> Request ty -> Request ty, which fixes up a requests URI path and Host: info depending on whether it is destined for a proxy or not (controlled by the Bool.)
  • moved defaultRequest, defaultRequest_, libUA from Network.Browser to Network.HTTP.Base
  • added mkRequest :: RequestMethod -> URI -> Bool -> Request ty for constructing normalized&sane Request bases on top of which you can add custom headers, body payload etc.