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   2 title: Some cool new features of pecl/http
   3 author: m6w6
   4 tags:
   5 - PHP
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   7
   8 [PECL::HTTP](http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http) version 0.22 has been
   9 released this morning, and I want to point at some features which have been
  10 added to the extension since I last blogged about it.
  11
  12 Incremental zlib (de)compressors were added in form of two classes,
  13 [HttpDeflateStream](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpDeflateStream) and
  14 [HttpInflateStream](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpInflateStream). I hope the names say it all ;)
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  16 Another class, that might seem a bit odd at a quick glance, is
  17 [HttpQueryString](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpQueryString). It's a great tool to realize "paging" or
  18 sites with lots of rewrite rules AKA "pretty urls".
  19
  20 The class [HttpMessage](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpMessage) has finally got its iterator interface to move
  21 up the message chain in a more convenient way. Messages can now be
  22 [detached](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpMessage_detach) and
  23 [prepended](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpMessage_prepend) from/to the message chain.
  24
  25 Thanks to [Ilia](http://ilia.ws) you can now retrieve the raw request and
  26 response messages sent resp. received by an
  27 [HttpRequest](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpRequest) instance.
  28
  29 The function [http_build_url](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#http_build_url) is now the most versatile and powerful
  30 utility to handle URLs (sorry for the lack of docs). Please [tell
  31 me](mailto:mike@iworks.at) if you don't think so ;)
  32