Changes in version 3.2ΒΆ

Universal Feed Parser 3.2 was released on July 3, 2004.

  • use cjkcodecs and iconv_codec if available

  • always convert feed to UTF-8 before passing to XML parser

  • completely revamped logic for determining character encoding and attempting XML parsing (much faster)

  • increased default timeout to 20 seconds

  • test for presence of Location header on redirects

  • added tests for many alternate character encodings

  • support various EBCDIC encodings

  • support UTF-16BE and UTF16-LE with or without a BOM

  • support UTF-8 with a BOM

  • support UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE with or without a BOM

  • fixed crashing bug if no XML parsers are available

  • added support for Content-encoding: deflate

  • send blank Accept-encoding header if neither gzip nor zlib modules are available