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@renchap renchap commented Jul 28, 2023

This method is not defined in an RFC, but the HTTP RFC allows custom methods to be defined.

The PURGE method is often used in HTTP caching servers, for example:

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This method is used by several caching servers, like Squid, Varnish or Fastly.
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This method is used by several caching servers, like Squid, Varnish or Fastly.
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Changelog:
## [5.3.1] - 2025-06-09

### Changed

- Revert switch to the native llhttp on MRI, as it's not compatible with
  standalone bundles
  ([#802](httprb/http#802))


## [5.3.0] - 2025-06-09

### Added

- (backported) Add .retriable feature to Http
- (backported) Add more specific ConnectionError classes
- (backported) New feature: RaiseError

### Changed

- (backported) Drop depenency on base64
- (backported) Cache header normalization to reduce object allocation
- (backported) Use native llhttp on MRI


## [5.2.0] - 2024-02-05

### Added

- Add `Connection#finished_request?`
  ([#743](httprb/http#743))
- Add `Instrumentation#on_error`
  ([#746](httprb/http#746))
- Add `base64` dependency (suppresses warnings on Ruby 3.0)
  ([#759](httprb/http#759))
- Add `PURGE` HTTP verb
  ([#757](httprb/http#757))
- Add Ruby-3.3 support

### Changed

- **BREAKING** Process features in reverse order
  ([#766](httprb/http#766))
- **BREAKING** Downcase Content-Type charset name
  ([#753](httprb/http#753))
- **BREAKING** Make URI normalization more conservative
  ([#758](httprb/http#758))

### Fixed

- Close sockets on initialize failure
  ([#762](httprb/http#762))
- Prevent CRLF injection due to broken URL normalizer
  ([#765](httprb/http#765))

[unreleased]: httprb/http@v5.3.0...5-x-stable
[5.3.0]: httprb/http@v5.2.0...v5.3.0
[5.2.0]: httprb/http@v5.1.1...v5.2.0

## 5.1.1 (2022-12-17)

* [#731](httprb/http#731)
  Strip brackets from IPv6 addresses in `HTTP::URI`.
  ([@jeraki])

* [#722](httprb/http#722)
  Add `on_redirect` callback.
  ([@benubois])

## 5.1.0 (2022-06-17)

* Drop ruby-2.5 support.

* [#715](httprb/http#715)
  Set default encoding to UTF-8 for `application/json`.
  ([@drwl])

* [#712](httprb/http#712)
  Recognize cookies set by redirect.
  ([@tkellogg])

* [#707](httprb/http#707)
  Distinguish connection timeouts.
  ([@YuLeven])

## 5.0.4 (2021-10-07)

* [#698](httprb/http#698)
  Fix `HTTP::Timeout::Global#connect_ssl`.
  ([@tarcieri])

## 5.0.3 (2021-10-06)

* [#695](httprb/http#695)
  Revert DNS resolving feature.
  ([@PhilCoggins])

* [#694](httprb/http#694)
  Fix cookies extraction.
  ([@flosacca])

## 5.0.2 (2021-09-10)

* [#686](httprb/http#686)
  Correctly reset the parser.
  ([@bryanp])

* [#684](httprb/http#684)
  Don't set Content-Length for GET, HEAD, DELETE, or CONNECT requests without a BODY.
  ([@jyn514])

* [#679](httprb/http#679)
  Use features on redirected requests.
  ([@nomis])

* [#678](httprb/http#678)
  Restore `HTTP::Response` `:uri` option for backwards compatibility.
  ([@schwern])

* [#676](httprb/http#676)
  Update addressable because of CVE-2021-32740.
  ([@matheussilvasantos])

* [#653](httprb/http#653)
  Avoid force encodings on frozen strings.
  ([@bvicenzo])

* [#638](httprb/http#638)
  DNS failover handling.
  ([@midnight-wonderer])


## 5.0.1 (2021-06-26)

* [#670](httprb/http#670)
  Revert `Response#parse` behavior introduced in [#540].
  ([@DannyBen])

* [#669](httprb/http#669)
  Prevent bodies from being resubmitted when following unsafe redirects.
  ([@odinhb])

* [#664](httprb/http#664)
  Bump llhttp-ffi to 0.3.0.
  ([@bryanp])


## 5.0.0 (2021-05-12)

* [#656](httprb/http#656)
  Handle connection timeouts in `Features`
  ([@semenyukdmitry])

* [#651](httprb/http#651)
  Replace `http-parser` with `llhttp`
  ([@bryanp])

* [#647](httprb/http#647)
  Add support for `MKCALENDAR` HTTP verb
  ([@meanphil])

* [#632](httprb/http#632)
  Respect the SSL context's `verify_hostname` value
  ([@colemannugent])

* [#625](httprb/http#625)
  Fix inflator with empty responses
  ([@LukaszMaslej])

* [#599](httprb/http#599)
  Allow passing `HTTP::FormData::{Multipart,UrlEncoded}` object directly.
  ([@ixti])

* [#593](httprb/http#593)
  [#592](httprb/http#592)
  Support informational (1XX) responses.
  ([@ixti])

* [#590](httprb/http#590)
  [#589](httprb/http#589)
  Fix response headers paring.
  ([@Bonias])

* [#587](httprb/http#587)
  [#585](httprb/http#585)
  Fix redirections when server responds with multiple Location headers.
  ([@ixti])

* [#581](httprb/http#581)
  [#582](httprb/http#582)
  Add Ruby 2.7.x support.
  ([@janko])

* [#577](httprb/http#577)
  Fix `Chainable#timeout` with frozen Hash.
  ([@antonvolkoff])

* [#576](httprb/http#576)
  [#524](httprb/http#524)
  **BREAKING CHANGE**
  Preserve header names casing.
  ([@joshuaflanagan])

* [#540](httprb/http#540)
  [#538](httprb/http#538)
  **BREAKING CHANGE**
  Require explicit MIME type for Response#parse
  ([@ixti])

* [#532](httprb/http#532)
  Fix pipes support in request bodies.
  ([@ixti])

* [#530](httprb/http#530)
  Improve header fields name/value validation.
  ([@Bonias])

* [#506](httprb/http#506)
  [#521](httprb/http#521)
  Skip auto-deflate when there is no body.
  ([@Bonias])

* [#489](httprb/http#489)
  Fix HTTP parser.
  ([@ixti], [@fxposter])

* [#546](httprb/http#546)
  **BREAKING CHANGE**
  Provide initiating `HTTP::Request` object on `HTTP::Response`.
  ([@joshuaflanagan])

* [#571](httprb/http#571)
  Drop Ruby 2.3.x support.
  ([@ixti])

* [3ed0c31](httprb/http@3ed0c31)
  Drop Ruby 2.4.x support.
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