From daf167644143fcfc69b3a30a30888bd360072cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: drbrain Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:05:27 +0000 Subject: * 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 --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') 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= -- cgit v1.2.3