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1.8.0

• Security: implement standards compliant cookie handling by adding a dependency on http-cookie. This breaks compatibility, but was necessary to address a session fixation / cookie disclosure vulnerability. (#369 / CVE-2015-1820)

  Previously, any Set-Cookie headers found in an HTTP 30x response would be sent to the redirection target, regardless of domain. Responses now expose a cookie jar and respect standards compliant domain / path flags in Set-Cookie headers.

1.7.3

• Security: redact password in URI from logs (#349 / OSVDB-117461)
• Drop monkey patch on MIME::Types (added type_for_extension method, use the public interface instead.

1.7.2

• Ignore duplicate certificates in CA store on Windows

1.7.1

• Relax mime-types dependency to continue supporting mime-types 1.x series. There seem to be a large number of popular gems that have depended on mime-types '~> 1.16' until very recently.
• Improve urlencode performance
• Clean up a number of style points

1.7.0

• This release drops support for Ruby 1.8.7 and breaks compatibility in a few other relatively minor ways
• Upgrade to mime-types ~> 2.0
• Don't CGI.unescape cookie values sent to the server (issue #89)
• Add support for reading credentials from netrc
• Lots of SSL changes and enhancements: (#268)
  • Enable peer verification by default (setting VERIFY_PEER with OpenSSL)
  • By default, use the system default certificate store for SSL verification, even on Windows (this uses a separate Windows build that pulls in ffi)
  • Add support for SSL ca_path
  • Add support for SSL cert_store
  • Add support for SSL verify_callback (with some caveats for jruby, OS X, #277)
  • Add support for SSL ciphers, and choose secure ones by default
• Run tests under travis
• Several other bugfixes and test improvements
  • Convert Errno::ETIMEDOUT to RestClient::RequestTimeout
  • Handle more HTTP response codes from recent standards
  • Save raw responses to binary mode tempfile (#110)

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• 92bc04d Version 1.8.0
• 2038aa6 Add history notes for 1.8.0.
• d2b6247 Update version spec test.
• 07e5aff Version 1.8.0.rc1
• f468c5f Merge pull request #365 from rest-client/ab-cookies
• c215b22 Fix up cookie redirect functionality and tests.
• 12e9231 Add cookie jar for handling HTTP redirection.
• 37d92c0 Add dependency on http-cookie gem.
• 988d5a8 Tag version 1.7.3
• 778e1ea Import history from 2.0.x branch.
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