sven we are planning to use it for pharo in the core :). I was just starting to do it when you got some reports so I waited a bit. I imagine that I will do that tomorrow evening. Thanks for your excellent job!
Stef On May 1, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Hi, > > It has been quite a while, but here is another progress report on the Zinc > HTTP Components project. > > First of all, Zinc HTTP Components has found a new home: > > http://zn.stfx.eu > > and more importantly, it is now self hosted, i.e. the pages you see are > served by Zn, and all testing and debugging handlers are now available live. > For more information regarding this production quality deploy, please see > > http://zn.stfx.eu/#livedemo > > The documentation pages have been updated a bit to better reflect the current > status of the project. > > Second, I thank all people who contributed by testing Zn, giving feedback as > well as for some of them actual code. Thank you, Cédrick Béler, Philippe > Marschall, Esteban Lorenzano, Jan van de Sandt, Stéphane Ducasse, Andy > Burnett, Norbert Hartl, Paul DeBruicker, Hernán Morales Durand and Tony > Fleig. (I hope I didn't forget anyone). Thanks Lukas Renggli and Marcus > Denker for adding Zn to their continuous integration servers. > > Sven > > Here is a list of changes since January of this year: > > - introduction of ZnUrl class > - improved ZnStaticFileServerDelegate > - introduced #asZnMimeType on ZnMimeType, MIMEType & String > - Zinc-AWS proof of concept client > - added lots of comments > - several fixes to Zinc's Seaside adaptor, ZnZincServerAdaptor (encoding > issues) > - split of ZnNetworkingUtils from ZnUtils to separate related functionality > - fixed ZnClient class>>#getImageOfType:usingParser:fromUrl: to correctly > report responses with unexpected mime types > - promoted ZnFixedClient>>#fixedUrl: to public status and changed it to > accept ZnUrl objects as well for more flexibility > (allowing users to add query/fragment URL elements in addition to the path) > - ZnUserAgent (and ZnHttpClient) now can follow relative redirect locations > - introduced ZnMultiValueDictionary to allow multiple values to be stored > under one key as an array, > using it for queries and headers > - changed the redirect behavior for POST/PUT requests: the common practice is > to turn these into GET request, > see ZnUserAgent>>#method:for:headers:data:imit: and > ZnUserAgent>>#prepareRedirect: > - added simple ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents > - added ZnByteEncoder to handle single byte encodings that do not map > directly to the lower Unicode section > (for example Latin2, ISO-8859-2) by reusing the mapping tables from > ByteTextConverter > - added #handlesEncoding: and #newForEncoding: protocol to class side of > ZnCharacterEncoding hierarchy > - added proper content length computation to ZnMultiPartFormDataEntity > (bugfix) > - some code cleanup to ZnEntity content length computation > - added ZnUrl>>#queryDo: ZnApplicationForUrlEncodedEntity>>#fieldsDo: > - added ZnMessage>>#resetEntity: to allow overwriting content type and length > when these are already set > - fixed a typo in the ZnMimePart instance creation methods (formdata should > be form-data) > - added ZnResponse>>#serverError: > - implemented ZnHTTPSocketFacade > class>>#httpPostMultipart:args:accept:request: > - added ZnHTTPSocketFacade class>>#constructMultiPartFormDataEntity: > - extended ZnZincServerAdaptor to handle multipart formdata posts (including > file uploads) > - introducing exception hierarchy in Zinc-HTTP-Exceptions > - added ZnResponse>>#isNotModified > - bugfix to Base64 encoding that introduced newlines > - changed ZnZincServerAdaptor>>#defaultCodec to GRNullCodec > - added new logging framework in Zinc-HTTP-Logging, consisting of ZnLogEvent > (an Announcment), > ZnLogSupport and ZnLogListener and subclasses ZnTranscriptLogger, > ZnMemoryLogger and ZnFileLogger > - now using the new logging facilities in Zn[Single|Multi]ThreadedServer, > ZnFixedClient and ZnUserAgent > - now using the new logging facilities in Zn[Single|Multi]ThreadedServer, > ZnFixedClient and ZnUserAgent > - small fix to ZnUrl>>#printPathOn: to deal with cases where forward slashes > are encoded in URLs > - various small changes related to the Gemstone port (byte array literals, > Unicode creation) > - fixed an important bug related to reading entities upToEnd > > The latest version now is: > > Name: Zinc-HTTP-SvenVanCaekenberghe.150 > Author: SvenVanCaekenberghe > Time: 1 May 2011, 7:19:13 pm > UUID: 8fe0b470-7728-454d-bc90-fa42d8330817 > Ancestors: Zinc-HTTP-SvenVanCaekenberghe.149 > > >
