From daf167644143fcfc69b3a30a30888bd360072cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: drbrain Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:05:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Updated net/http for automatic proxy detection (#6546) and automatic gzip and deflate compression (#6492, #6494). git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@36477 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0908cfa1fc..f7721c0f2f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Jul 20 11:03:17 2012 Eric Hodel + + * NEWS: Updated net/http for automatic proxy detection (#6546) and + automatic gzip and deflate compression (#6492, #6494). + Fri Jul 20 10:55:38 2012 Eric Hodel * lib/net/http.rb: Net::HTTP now automatically detects and uses diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dbf0c292b8..30e44679d7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file. * Fiber#resume cannot resume a fiber which invokes "Fiber#transfer". * net/http + * new features: + * Proxies are now automatically detected from the http_proxy environment + variable. See Net::HTTP::new for details. + * gzip and deflate compression are now requested for all requests by + default. See Net::HTTP for details. * new methods: * Net::HTTP#local_host * Net::HTTP#local_host=