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Easy way to perform multiple HTTP requests and process their results

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License: BSD

Description

The HTTP_Client class wraps around HTTP_Request and provides a higher level interface
for performing multiple HTTP requests.

Features:
* Manages cookies and referrers between requests
* Handles HTTP redirection
* Has methods to set default headers and request parameters
* Implements the Subject-Observer design pattern: the base class sends
events to listeners that do the response processing.

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

• Alexey Borzov (avb) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.3.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.4.3)
• HTTP_Request (>= 1.4.0)

Releases

• 1.2.1 (stable, 2008-10-25)
  Release notes

  License: BSD

  Cookies set by sub.example.com for example.com were incorrectly rejected.
  Thanks to Dylan Doxey (hyperion at doxey dot org) for report and initial patch.

• 1.2.0 (stable, 2008-10-16)
  Release notes

  License: BSD

  * Proper dependencies' versions
  * Implemented put() and delete() methods (request #2073 and numerous others)
  * Implemented methods to iterate over the responses (see request #12322)
  * Perform GET request when redirecting via <meta> tag after POST (bug #13487)
  * Handle the case of quoted redirect url in <meta> tag (bug #13903)

• 1.1.1 (stable, 2007-05-19)
  Release notes

  License: BSD

  * Switched to package.xml 2.0
  * Switched to BSD license
  * Proper header comment blocks and various phpdoc fixes
  * Added a switch controlling serialization of session cookies to CookieManager
  class, use serializeSessionCookies(true) to enable their serialization. The
  default behaviour is still to delete them (request #8778, also #9142)

• 1.1.0 (stable, 2006-06-03)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Fixes:
  * Fixed PHP warning if cookie path was empty (bug #1987)
  * Fixed fatal PHP error on empty URL, PEAR_Error is returned now (bug #2933)
  * Do not try to follow redirects to non-HTTP URLs (bug #5759)

  Feature additions:
  * It is possible to define a constant HTTP_CLIENT_QUIRK_MODE in your script,
  if it is present then HTTP_Client will follow common browser behaviour
  rather than RFC 2616. Currently this means: always do a GET request
  on a 301 redirect (request #1854).
  * HTTP_Client now analyzes the response body for <meta http-equiv="Refresh">
  tags and follows the redirects defined in them (request #5734)
  * Added possibility to send extra headers with requests (request #7552)
  * It is now much easier to store permanent cookies received by HTTP_Client:
  added magic __sleep() and __wakeup() methods to CookieManager class to aid
  in its (un)serialization, added getCookieManager() method to HTTP_Client,
  added possibility to pass CookieManager object to HTTP_Client's
  constructor (request #7578).

• 1.0.0 (stable, 2004-06-11)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Since no problems were discovered with release 1.0.0beta1, the same code
  is now re-released with "stable" status.

• 1.0.0beta1 (beta, 2004-04-30)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  * REMOVED deprecated HTTP_Client_Listener
  * Applied patch from #1151, cookies with empty values are now deleted
  * Added method enableHistory() allowing to enable/disable saving of history,
  suggested by Matthew Feinberg

• 0.2 (beta, 2004-01-18)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  * Depend on most recent version of HTTP_Request
  - HTTP_Client_Listener is deprecated in favor of HTTP_Request_Listener
  - Added possibilty to attach Listeners to created HTTP_Request objects
  - Added support for file uploads in post() method
  * Better handling of secure cookies (thanks to Denis Malinovsky)
  * Added setMaxRedirects() method

• 0.1 (beta, 2003-06-05)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Initial PEAR release

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