• Removed package:meta as direct dependency.
• Fixed null-aware operator.

• Migrated to null safety.

• Support POST method in CurlClient. (#9 by rbandres98)

• Support all SOCKS type with curl. (#6 by utopicnarwhal)

• Updated code to use latest Dart style guide.
• Support to ignore bad certificates with ConsoleClient(ignoreBadCertificates: true).

• Fixed header handling in PkgHttpAdapter.

• PkgHttpAdapter to enable drop-in replacement for package:http Client uses.

• Fix NPE in UpdatingClient.

• Fix NPE.

• Simplify timeout code in ConsoleClient and BrowserClient.
• Separate cleanup with Timer in UpdatingClient.

• Fix timeout handling in ConsoleClient.

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES

• Headers forces keys to be lowercase (part of the HTTP/2 spec).
• Request validates arguments differently, may not throw exception where previously thrown (e.g. allows Stream<List<int>> as body).

New features:

• Request constructor now accepts:
  • form (url-encoded body and also sets content-type header)
  • json (json-encoded body and also sets content-type header)
  • cookies (sets cookie header)

• Updated sources: removed new keyword.
• Request.timeout for limiting the timeout at the lowest level of the network, other framework-related operations do not count against it.

• Request.change to override url, headers or body. addHeader to extend current headers.

• CloseClientFn in UpdatingClient.

• Class-level invalidateOnError and forceCloseOnError for UpdatingClient.
• TrackingClient.toString() forwards to delegate client.

• Automatic Content-Length header when body is specified (in ConsoleClient).

• Fix: cleanup of past clients in UpdatingClient.

BREAKING CHANGES

• Request.body is used instead of bodyStream and bodyBytes.
• Stream<List<int>> inputs are no longer supported, use restartable FutureOr<Stream<List<int>>> StreamFn() instead.
• Single Response constructor, body become an untyped holder (use bodyAsStream if migrating uses).

Other updates

• Explicit expiration, and optional on-exception expiration in UpdatingClient.
• Support form-encoded values as request body.
• Support File with Request.body on ConsoleClient.
• Support native request types with Request.body and Response.body on BrowserClient.

• Support close({bool force}) on the API (and on console).
• Support Response.done to indicate when the underlying input stream has been read and completed.
• TrackingClient to keep track of ongoing and completed request count (with content read support).
• UpdatingClient to automatically recreate client resources (or rotate proxies) after some use.

• Code update: Dart 2.1(-dev) lints.

• Dart 2

• Fix header override bug.

• Record redirect info (when available).
• Response.requestAddress to have the address where the request was opened at.
• BREAKING: Response.remoteAddress renamed to responseAddress.

• Better Headers handling.
• Request properties: persistentConnection, followRedirects, maxRedirects.
• ConsoleClient properties: idleTimeout, maxConnectionsPerHost, autoUncompress, userAgent.
• Response.remoteAddress (in ConsoleClient).

• Enabled Dart2 Preview for analysis.

• Fix deprecated API use.
• Fix header wrapping in requests.
• Default header values in ConsoleClient.

• Added http proxy option to the console client.

• Removed dependency on http package.

• Add executor support to rate-limit the clients.

• Add curl support.

Breaking changes:

• instead of exporting the http package, http_client provides its own API

  • console and browser clients continue to use the http package
  • preparation to support node_io for apps that want to be packaged as a single binary (e.g. .exe)
  • preparation to support the Fetch API (e.g. in service workers)

• removed the awkward newHttpClient() methods.

• Exporting classes from the http package (version: ^0.1.13).

• Exporting streaming request and response.