New features and bug fixes

[fdmanana]

Hi Oscar,

The following commits add the following features:

1. Automatic support for HTTP basic auth;

2. Support IPv6;

3. Support HTTP proxies;

4. Support for a limit in the pool (lhttpc_manager);

5. Allow clients to use different pools (lhttpc_manager instances)

6. and 2) also fix and enhance lhttpc_lib:parse_url/1.

Best regards, Filipe Manana

[zaa]

Hello Filipe,

Really nice modifications. I guess it would get better chances of a merge if the pull request was split into several smaller ones (for example, one per each separate modification).

Oscar, do you have any comments on the mods?

[oscarh]

Hi,

I saw that you sent this to ESL. That's probably for the better, since I've been really busy with other things. I was intending to have a look during the holidays :)

I did have some initial thoughts about the connection limit when we developed lhttpc. My idea was to have that as a separate module, kind of like a seaphore, so that it wouldn't make lhttpc_manager more complex. I haven't looked too much at your changes but as far as I can see you've implemented the changes for connection limits in lhttpc_manager.

/Oscar

[fdmanana]

That's an interesting idea Oscar. Thanks

[astro]

+1 for merging

[fdmanana]

@astro All those changes were merged into Erlang Solutions' lhttpc repository:

https://github.com/esl/lhttpc

regards

[astro]

That is great. I hope they will tag a release some day.

Thanks.