2 title: PECL HTTP, lap 12
8 Today I released [PECLs HTTP extension version 0.12](http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http/0.12.0)
10 A lot of work and fixes have gone into it, and I hope it's becoming stable
13 Major changes are a general API cleanup where AuthBasic hooks have been
14 removed and many HttpRequest methods have been sanitized.
16 The HttpResponse class should now work with PHP5 as a webserver module as well
17 and should not any longer have hard dependencies on ext/session and ext/zlib.
19 Additionally, if you have libmhash (note: not necessarily ext/mhash) you can
20 choose a hashing algorithm provided by libmhash to generate your ETags, which
21 is done through the following INI setting: http.etag_mode = MHASH_SHA256
22 (MHASH_SHA256 is an example and can be replaced by any MHASH constant **if**
25 The message and header parsers have been vastly improved to be able to parse
26 (in principle invalid) messages and headers that only have a single LF instead
29 And last but not least it should again flawlessly build for PHP4.
31 So far, have fun and be sure to check it out! :)