Bug fixes and changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [#2021] Fix issue with HTTP handling (#2180)
• [#2111] Fix specific bug addressed in this release (#2179)
• [#366] Resolve issue #366
• [#1264] Resolve issue #1264

⚠️ Changes

• Chang #error to #warning for the 32-bit environment check except 32-bit Windows

Bug fixes, New features, Breaking changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• #2167 - Fix #1601: Fix getaddrinfo stalling issue when network is down
• #2165 - Proxy problems: Fix proxy-related issues
• a636a09 - Fix #1656: Improve logging before compression

✨ New Features

• #2170 - Fix #2082: Add URL encoding helpers for user input in GET requests
• #2169 - Fix #1416: Add SSL error access functionality
• #2166 - Cleaner API: API improvements
• cfb56c0 - Fix #1818: Add POST with content receiver feature
• b2bf172 - Fix #1551: Add Params support for PUT/DELETE methods

🚨 Breaking Changes

• #2177 - Complete removal of Windows 8 or lower support
• #2173 - Removal of 32-bit environment support (64-bit only)
• #2171 - Fix #1578: Improve form field access methods

Bug fixes

• Fix #2157 Ranges that are not in the form 0-n do not work.
• Fix #1777 Windows req/res very slow compared to Linux
• Add CPPHTTPLIB_HEADER_MAX_COUNT

Bug fixes and new features

• Windows ::isdigit compilation error #2135
• Specify version in meson.build #2139
• Detect if afunix.h exists #2145
• Feature request: let the Request& know which route matched #2101
• Feature/multipart headers #2152

Bug fixes

• Add AF_UNIX support on windows #2115
• Support zstd also via pkg-config #2121
• Fix #2113
• Fix "Unbounded Memory Allocation in Chunked/No-Length Requests"

Bug fixes and a new feature

• server_certificate_verifier extended to reuse built-in verifier #2064
• Assertion failed when destroying httplib::Client
  #2068
• Spaces incorrectly allowed in header field names #2096
• build(meson): copy MountTest.MultibytesPathName files #2098
• Remove SSLInit #2102
• Add zstd support #2088
• Question the behavior of method read_content_without_length #2109
• Crash when calling std::exit while server running or client requests in flight #2097

Bug fix and new feature

• Global timeout feature (same as "--max-time" curl option) #2034
• Fix check for URI length to prevent incorrect HTTP 414 errors

Bug fix

• Potential memory corruption in stream_line_reader #2028

v0.18.6

• Resolve #2033

Bug fixes and new feature

• Port/Address re-use #2011
• Invalid Content-Length values should be rejected #2014
• Feature request: ability to check if the connection is still alive #2017