Provides an easy way to perform HTTP requests

 PHP5 rewrite of HTTP_Request package (with parts of HTTP_Client). Provides
 cleaner API and pluggable Adapters:
   * Socket adapter, based on old HTTP_Request code,
   * Curl adapter, wraps around PHP's cURL extension,
   * Mock adapter, to use for testing packages dependent on HTTP_Request2.
 Supports POST requests with data and file uploads, basic and digest
 authentication, cookies, managing cookies across requests, proxies, gzip
 and
 deflate encodings, redirects, monitoring the request progress with
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