LibSoup is an HTTP client/server library for GNOME. LibSoup library uses GObjects and the glib main loop, to integrate well with GNOME applications.


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Here are some key features of "LibSoup":

· Both asynchronous (GMainLoop and callback-based) and synchronous APIs
· Automatically caches connections
· SSL Support using GnuTLS
· Proxy support, including authentication and SSL tunneling
· Client support for Digest, NTLM, and Basic authentication
· Server support for Digest and Basic authentication

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed up the output of SoupDirectoryInputStream, thus improving the display of local directories in WebKit-based browsers. [#662266, Sergio]
· Fixed a bug introduced in 2.37.1 that caused some cancelled SoupMessages to be leaked. [#662847, Sergio]
· Added new SoupSession properties "http-aliases" and "https-aliases" that allow you to configure more explicitly what URL protocols are treated as aliases for http (eg, "dav:", "webcal:", etc), and which should be recognized as meaning something else, (eg, "ftp:") [Dan]
· Added soup_session_would_redirect() and soup_session_redirect_message(), to help users that want to handle some or all redirects themselves. Added soup_message_set_redirect() to make it easier to return redirection responses from a SoupServer. [Dan]
· Added the SoupSession "use-thread-context" property, which tells it to use GMainContexts in a gio-compliant way (and in particular, allows having different messages running in different GMainContexts on the same SoupSession, though only to a limited extent since SoupSessionAsync is still not thread-safe). In particular, this was added in order to address WebKit bug 68238. [Dan]
· Made SoupURI %-encode non-ASCII characters when parsing URIs, in particular to fix a problem with certain servers sending syntactically invalid redirects that they would then only interpret correctly if you fixed the syntax for them. (@$!@#! Although the new code is probably more correct than the old code anyway, so...) [#662806, Dan]
· Fixed a connection-handling bug that could cause problems with servers that requested authentication and then timed out the connection while the application was waiting for the user to enter a password. [#660057, Dan]
· Made NTLM and Basic authentication handle some non-ASCII usernames and passwords. (NTLM should handle most. It's impossible to fix Basic in the general case.) [#576838, Joachim Breitner, "sponsored by ITOMIG GmbH and the City of Böblingen"]
· Added support for "deflate" Content-Encoding, so that we can work with broken servers that insisted on using it even though we explicitly indicated in the request headers that we didn't support it. (@$#!#) [#661682, Sergio]