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+ * Fix array params to be consistent with HTTP spec [gridaphobe]
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+ * traversal_to_params_hash should use the escape option [itsmeduncan]
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+ * Fix > 1024 open file descriptors [mschulkind]
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+ * Fixed a bug with internally queued requests being dropped [mschulkind]
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+ * Use gemspec in bundler to avoid duplication [mschulkind]
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+ * Run internally queued requests in FIFO order [mschulkind]
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+ * Moved Typhoeus::VERSION to a separate file, to fix rake build_native [mschulkind]
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+ * Fixed problems related to put requests with empty bodies [skaes, GH-84]
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+ * Added CURLOPT_INTERFACE option via Request#interface=. [spiegela]
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+ * Added Tempfile support to Form#process! [richievos]
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+ * Hydra won't forget to accept gzip/deflate encoding [codesnik]
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+ * Fix form POSTs to only use multipart for file uploads, otherwise use application/x-www-form-urlencoded [dbalatero]
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+ * Code duplication in Typhoeus::Form led to nested URL param errors on POST only. Fixed [dbalatero]
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+ * Fixed a problem with nested URL params encoding incorrectly [dbalatero]
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+ * Added extended proxy support [Zapotek, GH-46]
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+ * eliminated compile time warnings by using proper type declarations [skaes, GH-54]
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+ * fixed broken calls to rb_raise [skaes, GH-54]
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+ * prevent leaking of curl easy handles when exceptions are raised (either from typhoeus itself or user callbacks) [skaes, GH-54]
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+ * fixed Easy#timed_out? using curl return codes [skaes, GH-54]
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+ * provide curl return codes and corresponding curl error messages on classes Easy and Request [skaes, GH-54]
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+ * allow VCR to whitelist hosts in Typhoeus stubbing/mocking [myronmarston, GH-57]
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+ * added timed_out? documentation, method to Response [dbalatero, GH-34]
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+ * added abort to Hydra to prematurely stop a hydra.run [Zapotek]
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+ * added file upload support for POST requests [jtarchie, GH-59]
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+ * Fix warning in Request#headers from attr_accessor
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+ * Params with array values were not parsing into the format that rack expects
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+ [GH-39, smartocci]
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+ * Removed Rack as a dependency [GH-45]
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+ * Added integration hooks for VCR!
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+ * Fixed bug in setting compression encoding [morhekil]
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+ * Exposed authentication control methods through Request interface [morhekil]
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+ * Exposed CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS to Requests [balexis]
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+ * Added SSL cert options for Typhoeus::Easy [GH-25, gravis]
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+ * Ported SSL cert options to Typhoeus::Request interface [gravis]
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+ Copyright (c) 2011 David Balatero
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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+ "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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+ h1. Typhoeus
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+ "http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus/tree/master":http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus/tree/master
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+
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+ "the mailing list":http://groups.google.com/group/typhoeus
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+ Thanks to my employer "kgbweb":http://kgbweb.com for allowing me to release this as open source. Btw, we're hiring and we work on cool stuff like this every day. Get a hold of me if you rock at rails/js/html/css or if you have experience in search, information retrieval, and machine learning.
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+ I also wanted to thank Todd A. Fisher. I ripped a good chunk of the c libcurl-multi code from his update to Curb. Awesome stuff Todd!
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+ h2. Summary
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+ Like a modern code version of the mythical beast with 100 serpent heads, Typhoeus runs HTTP requests in parallel while cleanly encapsulating handling logic. To be a little more specific, it's a library for accessing web services in Ruby. It's specifically designed for building RESTful service oriented architectures in Ruby that need to be fast enough to process calls to multiple services within the client's HTTP request/response life cycle.
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+ Some of the awesome features are parallel request execution, memoization of request responses (so you don't make the same request multiple times in a single group), built in support for caching responses to memcached (or whatever), and mocking capability baked in. It uses libcurl and libcurl-multi to work this speedy magic. I wrote the c bindings myself so it's yet another Ruby libcurl library, but with some extra awesomeness added in.
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+ h2. Installation
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+ Typhoeus requires you to have a current version of libcurl installed. I've tested this with 7.19.4 and higher.
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+ <pre>
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+ gem install typhoeus
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+ </pre>
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+ If you're on Debian or Ubuntu and getting errors while trying to install, it could be because you don't have the latest version of libcurl installed. Do this to fix:
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+ <pre>
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+ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
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+ </pre>
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+ There's also something built in so that if you have a super old version of curl that you can't get rid of for some reason, you can install in a user directory and specify that during installation like so:
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+ <pre>
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+ gem install typhoeus --source http://gemcutter.org -- --with-curl=/usr/local/curl/7.19.7/
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+ </pre>
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+ -Another problem could be if you are running Mac Ports and you have libcurl installed through there. You need to uninstall it for Typhoeus to work! The version in Mac Ports is old and doesn't play nice. You should "download curl":http://curl.haxx.se/download.html and build from source. Then you'll have to install the gem again.- The current version of Mac Ports (7.21.2) works just fine.
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+ If you're still having issues, please let me know on "the mailing list":http://groups.google.com/group/typhoeus.
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+ There's one other thing you should know. The Easy object (which is just a libcurl thing) allows you to set timeout values in milliseconds. However, for this to work you need to build libcurl with c-ares support built in.
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+ h2. Usage
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+ *Deprecation Warning!*
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+ The old version of Typhoeus used a module that you included in your class to get functionality. That interface has been deprecated. Here is the new interface.
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+ The primary interface for Typhoeus is comprised of three classes: Request, Response, and Hydra. Request represents an HTTP request object, response represents an HTTP response, and Hydra manages making parallel HTTP connections.
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+ require 'rubygems'
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+ require 'typhoeus'
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+ request = Typhoeus::Request.new("http://www.pauldix.net",
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+ :body => "this is a request body",
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+ :headers => {:Accept => "text/html"},
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+ :timeout => 100, # milliseconds
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+ :cache_timeout => 60, # seconds
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+ :params => {:field1 => "a field"})
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+ # we can see from this that the first argument is the url. the second is a set of options.
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+ response.body # the response body
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+ </pre>
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+ *Making Quick Requests*
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+ The request object has some convenience methods for performing single HTTP requests. The arguments are the same as those you pass into the request constructor.
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+ response = Typhoeus::Request.put("http://localhost:3000/posts/1", :body => "whoo, a body")
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+ response = Typhoeus::Request.post("http://localhost:3000/posts", :params => {:title => "test post", :content => "this is my test"})
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+ A File object can be passed as a param for a POST request to handle uploading files to the server. Typhoeus will upload the file as the original file name and use Mime::Types to set the content type.
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+ The execution of that code goes something like this. The first and second requests are built and queued. When hydra is run the first and second requests run in parallel. When the first request completes, the third request is then built and queued up. The moment it is queued Hydra starts executing it. Meanwhile the second request would continue to run (or it could have completed before the first). Once the third request is done, hydra.run returns.
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+ Thanks for the authentication piece and this description go to Oleg Ivanov (morhekil). The major reason to start this fork was the need to perform NTLM authentication in Ruby, and other libcurl's authentications method were made possible as a result. Now you can do it via Typhoeus::Easy interface using the following API.
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+ The last one (CURLAUTH_AUTO) is really a combination of all previous methods and is provided by Typhoeus for convenience. When you set authentication to auto, Typhoeus will retrieve the given URL first and examine it's headers to confirm what auth types are supported by the server. The it will select the strongest of available auth methods and will send the second request using the selected authentication method.
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+ I set up a benchmark to test how the parallel performance works vs Ruby's built in NET::HTTP. The setup was a local evented HTTP server that would take a request, sleep for 500 milliseconds and then issued a blank response. I set up the client to call this 20 times. Here are the results:
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+ Running the specs requires the native extensions to be built and a couple of Sinatra servers to be booted. Do this:
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+ h2. Next Steps
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+ * Add support for automatic retry, exponential back-off, and queuing for later.
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+ h2. LICENSE
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+ (The MIT License)
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+ Copyright (c) 2009:
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+ "Paul Dix":http://pauldix.net
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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+ without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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+ distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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