Library 5.1 Release Notes

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The main features in this release are:

• Full HTTP/1.1 sample implementation
• Advanced use of HTTP/1.1 Pipelining and persistent connections
• Persistent cache manager

The focus for version 5.1 was to implement a high-performance HTTP/1.1 client used as a testbed for the "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG" paper. Note that this code is sample code so please take it as that and nothing more!

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Release 5.1 February 18 1997

New Features and APIs

• Added support  pipelining
• Support for zlib based decompression in content encoding

Bugfixes

• A whole bunch of them...