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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Jul 20 11:03:17 2012 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> + + * 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 <drbrain@segment7.net> * lib/net/http.rb: Net::HTTP now automatically detects and uses @@ -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= |