1) Set Content-Length to 0 for empty PUT and POST requests (necessary for some proxies);

2) Use iolist_size/1 instead of size/1 or length/1 because the body can be an iolist

encoding/decoding code in ibrowse_lib.erl and ibrowse_http_client.erl.

OTP's base64 module is also more efficient (C implementation):

1> Data = crypto:rand_bytes(4096).
<<205,174,13,169,97,159,110,161,71,43,226,153,42,101,243,
  83,11,96,23,161,253,251,129,240,163,216,58,175,190,...>>
2>
2> timer:tc(ibrowse_lib, encode_base64, [Data]).
{2920,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
3> timer:tc(ibrowse_lib, encode_base64, [Data]).
{1221,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
4> timer:tc(ibrowse_lib, encode_base64, [Data]).
{1436,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
5> timer:tc(ibrowse_lib, encode_base64, [Data]).
{1195,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
6>
6> timer:tc(base64, encode, [Data]).
{1846,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
7> timer:tc(base64, encode, [Data]).
{743,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
8> timer:tc(base64, encode, [Data]).
{737,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}
9> timer:tc(base64, encode, [Data]).
{656,
 <<"za4NqWGfbqFHK+KZKmXzUwtgF6H9+4Hwo9g6r77h2EF1/Xk1oKOIOmnAkgtv41LPXg37fp2dlr45C8qCA9/8zrcc9F5zr2JT0eVPTrh5aahl"...>>}

being deleted which led to the node not being able to create
               any more ETS tables if queries were made to many number of
               webservers. ibrowse now deletes the ETS table it creates once the
               last connection to a webserver is dropped.
               Reported by Seth Falcon.
             * Spurious data being returned at end of body in certain cases of
               chunked encoded responses from the server.
               Reported by Chris Newcombe.