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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 0e91a33..5a98539 100755..100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ <!--#include virtual="titlebar.html" --> <div class="content"> - + <div> <h2>Httplib2</h2> - <p>A comprehensive HTTP client library, <code>httplib2.py</code> + <p>A comprehensive HTTP client library, <code>httplib2.py</code> supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries. </p> <dl> @@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ </dd> <dt>Keep-Alive</dt> - <dd>Supports HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive, keeping the socket + <dd>Supports HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive, keeping the socket open and performing multiple requests over the same connection if possible. </dd> <dt>Authentication</dt> - <dd>The following types of HTTP Authentication are supported. + <dd>The following types of HTTP Authentication are supported. These can be used over both HTTP and HTTPS. <ul> <li><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2617.html">Digest</a></li> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ <dt>Lost update support</dt> <dd>Automatically adds back ETags into PUT requests to resources - we have already cached. This implements Section 3.2 of + we have already cached. This implements Section 3.2 of <a href="http://www.w3.org/1999/04/Editing/#Table">Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout</a></dd> <dt>Unit Tested</dt> @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ and Basic authentication:</p> <pre><code>import httplib2 h = httplib2.Http(".cache") h.add_credentials('name', 'password') -resp, content = h.request("https://example.org/chap/2", - "PUT", body="This is text", +resp, content = h.request("https://example.org/chap/2", + "PUT", body="This is text", headers={'content-type':'text/plain'} ) </code></pre> @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ resp, content = h.request("https://example.org/chap/2", h = httplib2.Http(".cache") resp, content = h.request("http://bitworking.org/") ... -resp, content = h.request("http://bitworking.org/", +resp, content = h.request("http://bitworking.org/", headers={'cache-control':'no-cache'}) </code></pre> -<p>The first request will be cached and since this is a request to +<p>The first request will be cached and since this is a request to bitworking.org it will be set to be cached for two hours, because that is how I have my server configured. Any subsequent GET to that URI will return the value from the @@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ any libraries beyond what is found in the core library.</p> <h3>Download/Installation</h3> -<p>The latest release of httplib2 is 0.3.0 and -can be <a href="dist">downloaded from the from +<p>The latest release of httplib2 is 0.3.0 and +can be <a href="dist">downloaded from the from the dist directory</a>. See the <a href="CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a> for what's new in this version.</p> @@ -139,13 +139,13 @@ command:</p> subversion repository.</p> <pre>svn co https://httplib2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/httplib2/trunk httplib2</pre> - + <h3>Documentation</h3> <p>In addition to the <a href="ref/">Python library style documentation</a> there are also two articles on XML.com, <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/02/01/doing-http-caching-right-introducing-httplib2.html"> - Doing HTTP Caching Right: Introducing httplib2</a> and + Doing HTTP Caching Right: Introducing httplib2</a> and <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/03/29/httplib2-http-persistence-and-authentication.html"> httplib2: HTTP Persistence and Authentication </a>. @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ httplib2: HTTP Persistence and Authentication </a>. <h3>Feedback</h3> -<p>Bugs and enhancement requests are handled through +<p>Bugs and enhancement requests are handled through <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/httplib2/">SourceForge</a>, and anything is up for discussion on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=161082">httplib2 mailing list</a>. </p> @@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=161082">httplib2 mailing l <p>This module is not perfect and needs the following:</p> <ul> <li>Support for Proxies</li> - <li>A pluggable store for the cache is in place, with plugins for - flat files and memcached. + <li>A pluggable store for the cache is in place, with plugins for + flat files and memcached. I eventually want to have plugins that allow keeping the cache in Berkeley DB, MySQL, etc.</li> <li>More unit tests</li> </ul> @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=161082">httplib2 mailing l <dd> (Your Name Here) </dd> </dl> </p> - + <p style="font-size: small">This page last updated on: $LastChangedDate$.</p> </div> |