Revision history for Uniform-HTTP

0.03  2026-10-04
    - Add optional request scheme and authority metadata without inference.
    - Define exact HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 ordinary CONNECT mapping by exposing the
      source :authority bytes as the semantic authority-form target.
    - Keep authority handling deliberately minimal and byte-oriented instead of
      turning Uniform into a URI parser or protocol validator.
    - Keep is_complete() and is_mutable() as portable adapter capabilities.
    - Add canonical-only freeze(), mark_incomplete(), and mark_complete()
      helpers for detached Uniform message objects.
    - Freeze all represented message values, including a buffered body, while
      allowing canonical completeness state to advance independently.
    - Keep message state changes free of parsing, serialization, I/O, event-loop,
      transaction, stream, or framework response commitment.
    - Simplify the README and public module documentation around normal use,
      while keeping detailed adapter and contract documents for implementers.
    - Add standard CPAN, CI, license, and Perl badges to the README.
    - Keep repository-only metadata out of the release tarball.

0.02  2026-09-13
    - Rename the distribution from Uniform-HTTP-Auth to Uniform-HTTP.
    - Preserve the Uniform::HTTP::Auth module name and its 0.01 public API.
    - Add canonical Uniform::HTTP::Message, Request, and Response objects.
    - Preserve duplicate headers, original field names, and message order.
    - Add explicit body, completeness, mutability, target-fidelity, and
      header-fidelity capability methods for framework adapters.
    - Define byte-string validation without implicit character encoding.
    - Let prepare_authentication() consume a Uniform request contract while
      retaining explicit method, request_target, and entity_body arguments.
    - Keep transports, parsing, serialization, streaming, retries, and
      framework lifecycle outside the distribution boundary.
    - Add a normative message specification, adapter guide, and comprehensive
      canonical-object and Auth integration tests.

0.01  2026-09-13
    - Initial release as Uniform-HTTP-Auth.
    - Add transport-, framework-, and event-loop-agnostic HTTP authentication.
    - Add challenge parsing, malformed-input reporting, and scheme selection.
    - Add prepare_authentication() to prepare authentication field values without
      performing network I/O or request retry.
    - Add a simple origin-bound stored-credentials constructor for normal
      applications, plus callback-based dynamic credential lookup for reusable
      HTTP stacks and credential stores.
    - Add Basic authentication per RFC 7617, including UTF-8 charset handling.
    - Add Bearer authentication construction per RFC 6750.
    - Add Digest authentication per RFC 7616, including MD5, SHA-256,
      SHA-512/256, session variants, qop=auth/auth-int, UTF-8, userhash,
      cryptographically secure cnonce generation, and nonce-count state.
    - Isolate Digest state by HTTP protection space so unrelated origins do not
      share nonce counts or cnonces.
    - Preserve unknown authentication schemes for caller introspection.
    - Represent malformed remote challenges as data rather than exceptions.
    - Add complete public API POD, release documentation, distribution
      packaging, and CI/disttest coverage for Perl 5.16 and current Perl.