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Version 1.8
 - Breaking transports.Transport.request() into smaller pieces
 - Added factories for the transport classes in the Server object
 - Fixed a bug in File.__del__ (if close is called twice, it tried to call
   None)
 - Fixed a bug in SSL.read() (on an open stream, read() would block instead of
   returning with the amount of data available).
 - The previous fix in SSL.read uncovered a nastier bug in httplib:
   http://python.org/sf/988120
   Fixed it in our HTTPResponse subclass
 - The internal _httplib did not have a _read_chunked
   (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/128008)

Version 1.7
 - Renamed _xmlrpclib.py to _internal_xmlrpclib.py to avoid _xmlrpclib from
   self-importing (bug #119876)
 - Added a User-Agent header for CONNECTION tunnels.
 - Fixed lookupEncoding

Version 1.6
 - GET methods have empty bodies, so rpclib.GETServer._req_body should return
   empty string not None
 - Properly convert chunk sizes in python 1.5.2

Version 1.5
 - Added iterator for the UserDictCase objects. Easier than subclassing
   IterableUserDict since the code has to work with python 1.5.2.
 - rhn/transports.py: one can pass to an Input object a stream that doesn't
   have a close() method.
 - rpclib exposes File now too
 - rhn/transports.py: the Output object now sets Content-Length
   (which will be cleared when sent upstream)

Version 1.3
 - work on HTTP/HTTPS redirection support at the Server class level in
   rhnlib.py:
   - new data in the instance to keep setting made to the underlying transport
   - new methods to control and check redirection: allow_redirect() and
     redirected() which returns the redirected URL or None
   - separated the initialization code to provide a default transport as an
     new method default_transport()
   - added redirection handling in _request() with some associated checking
     like https->http redirection being forbidden
   - at the transport level, request() checks redirection, position a
     redirection flag and returns None if redirected.
 - Added some flexibility on the way to specify proxy informations, the
   get_proxy_info() function of rhnlib.py is used to extract host, port,
   username and password information from the proxy URL or old host:port
   format.
 - Fixed an error related to decoding the tuples that XMLRPC returns back.

Version 1.2
 - Changed the ugly way of passing around InputStream as an exception
 - The transport flags are now more generic, allowing for future extensibility
 - Added a transport flag 'allow_partial_content' which will prevent the
   transport from raising an exception if a 206 status code is received
 - New Server methods:  get_response_headers, get_response_status and
   get_response_reason; you can now inspect the headers even for successful
   connections
 - Changed the GETServer method calls to accept offset and amount
 - Added get_content_range, to parse the interesting values out of the HTTP
   headers
 - Added accept_ranges, a function that returns true if the server accepts
   ranges. Note that even though the server doesn't advertise itself as
   accepting ranges, it's still possible for the client to issue a range
   request; depending on the response status code, the client can see if the
   server supports ranges (206) or not (200)
 - set_header and add_header are now different and doing what they are
   supposed to do
 - added get_transport_flags() as a Server method
 - fixed an instance when Input.io was not rewound

Version 1.1
 - Minor bugfixes
 - Building the rpm with distutils is too painful; switching to a
   human-maintained spec file instead.

Version 1.0
 - More or less 0.9 for public consumption

Version 0.9
 - SSL.py: use load_verify_locations multiple times. This function seems to do
   more than my poor method of getting the cert store and adding certs by 
   hand, probably because load_certificate from a buffer can only handle one
   certificate at the time.
 - With the addition of SmartIO, the memory usage should be limited to 16k,
   after which the objects will be dumped on the disk in temporary files.
 - Fixed yet another file descriptor leak (and still in SSL).

Version 0.8
 - User-Agent, X-Info and X-Client-Version were not present in the HTTP
   headers; fixed
 - Completely deprecating rhnHTTPlib: swallowed reportError
 - Fixed stupid typo introduced when fixing the previous bug.
 - Fixed #69518 (up2date seems to never properly reauthenticate after a auth
   timeout)
 - Fixed #69311 (leaking file descriptors over SSL connections).
 - Fixed #68911 (and some other bugs that were related to this one).
 - Fixed a proxy related bug. Thanks to Gil Chilton <Gil.Chilton@capitalone.com>
   for helping me discover and test it.

Version 0.7
 - More careful distutils packaging.