jsierles/net-http

This repo contains a number of experimental modifications to the version of Net::HTTP that ships with Ruby 1.9. TODOs:

• Porting the code to work on Ruby 1.8
• Fixed gzip in GET requests when using a block as iterator
• Support for gzip and deflate responses from any request
• Support for incremental gzip and deflate with chunked encoding
• Support for leaving the socket open when making a request, so it's possible to make requests that do not block on the body being returned
• Cleaned up tests so that it's possible to combine tests for features, instead of using brittle checks for specific classes
• Support for Net::HTTP.get(path), instead of needing to pass a URI or deconstruct the URL yourself
• In keepalive situations, make sure to read any remaining body from the socket before initiating a new connection.
• Support for partial reads from the response
• Clean up the semantics of when #body can be called after a request. Specifically, if a block form is used, decide whether to buffer the outputted String and make it available as #body or to leave it up to the consumer to store a String if they want one. Either way, fomalize and document the semantics.
• The body method should never return an Adapter. It should either return a String or nil (if well-defined semantics justify a nil)
• Support for read_nonblock to BufferedIO. This simply proxies to the underlying read_nonblock and make it easy to support HTTP-level read_nonblock
• Support for read_nonblock on Net2::HTTP::Response
• Other features as I think of them