5.6.8-RELEASE: HTTP, FTP, features and bugfixes

This release features quite a bit of revamp in the peer.http API's backings - though nothing should change from the outside except for the new proxy feature, numerous fixes to the FTP support, and a couple of nice-to-have features.

To use 5.6.8:

1. Open a shell window
2. Type wget http://xp-framework.net/downloads/releases/5.6.8/setup -O - | php
3. Add the path shown at the end to your PATH environment setting

ChangeLog

• Completely refactored the peer.http API to be able to nicely implement RFC #0162. (friebe)

• Implemented RFC #0162: HTTP proxy (friebe)

• Fixed peer.ftp API to be able to cope with numerous FTP servers (friebe)
  
• Fixed fatal error when XPClass::isEnum() had been used before lang.Enum has actually been loaded (kiesel)
  
• Fixed off-by-one error when reading chunked http response bodies and added a unittest for this (kiesel, hinckel)
  
• Added missing function rdbms.Peer::getTable() which is used in rdbms.DataSet class (hinckel)
  
• Made lang.ClassLoader::loadClass() raise a ClassFormatException in case the included file does not declare the class. (friebe)
  

• Added lang.reflect.Field::set() method (friebe)
  
• Made peer.Socket instances cloneable (friebe)
  
• Made peer.URL constructor parameter optional (friebe)
  
• Extended util.MimeType class to include types for various programming languages. (friebe)
  
• Added 503 error page to scriptlet SAPI (friebe)
  
• Added pushBack() method to text.Tokenizer class and its implementations (friebe)
  

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