Net-http-persistent 1.9 and 2.0 Released

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net-http-persistent versions 1.9 and 2.0 has been released!

Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby
1.8.
It’s thread-safe too!

Using persistent HTTP connections can dramatically increase the speed of
HTTP.
Creating a new HTTP connection for every request involves an extra TCP
round-trip and causes TCP congestion avoidance negotiation to start
over.

Net::HTTP supports persistent connections with some API methods but does
not
handle reconnection gracefully. net-http-persistent supports
reconnection
and retry according to RFC 2616.

Changes:

=== 2.0 / 2011-08-26

  • Incompatibility
    • Net::HTTP::Persistent#verify_mode now defaults to
      OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER. This may cause HTTPS request failures if
      your
      default certificate store lacks the correct certificates.

=== 1.9 / 2011-08-26

  • Minor Enhancement

    • Added Net::HTTP::Persistent#cert_store to set an SSL certificate
      store
      which defaults to the OpenSSL default certificate store.

      HTTPS server certificates will be validated when this option is
      combined
      with setting Net::HTTP::Persistent#verify_mode to
      OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER.