From: "PEAR Announce" on
The new PEAR package HTTP_Request2-0.5.2 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* magic_quotes_runtime PHP setting could be incorrectly enabled after
performing the request (bug #16440)
* Unit tests fixes (bugs #17079, #17106, #17326)
* Observer_Log now appends to the log file rather than rewrites it (thanks to
troelskn at gmail dot com for reporting)

Package Info
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PHP5 rewrite of HTTP_Request package. Provides cleaner API and pluggable
Adapters. Currently available are:
* Socket adapter, based on old HTTP_Request code,
* Curl adapter, wraps around PHP's cURL extension,
* Mock adapter, to use for testing packages dependent on HTTP_Request2.
Supports POST requests with data and file uploads, basic and digest
authentication, cookies, proxies, gzip and deflate encodings, redirects,
monitoring the request progress with Observers...

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2/download/0.5.2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2-0.5.2.tgz

Authors
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Alexey Borzov (lead)