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This repo contains a number of experimental modifications to the version of Net::HTTP that ships with Ruby 1.9. TODOs:

Porting the code to work on Ruby 1.8
Fixed gzip in GET requests when using a block as iterator
Support for gzip and deflate responses from any request
Support for incremental gzip and deflate with chunked encoding
Support for leaving the socket open when making a request, so
it's possible to make requests that do not block on the body being
returned
Cleaned up tests so that it's possible to combine tests for
features, instead of using brittle checks for specific classes
Support for Net::HTTP.get(path), instead of needing to pass a
URI or deconstruct the URL yourself
In keepalive situations, make sure to read any remaining body from the
socket before initiating a new connection.
Support for partial reads from the response
Clean up the semantics of when #body can be called after a request.
Specifically, if a block form is used, decide whether to buffer the
outputted String and make it available as #body or to leave it up
to the consumer to store a String if they want one. Either way,
fomalize and document the semantics.
The body method should never return an Adapter. It should either
return a String or nil (if well-defined semantics justify a nil)
Support for read_nonblock to BufferedIO. This simply proxies to the
underlying read_nonblock and make it easy to support HTTP-level
read_nonblock
Support for read_nonblock on Net2::HTTP::Response
Other features as I think of them