diff --git a/reference/http/HttpMessage.xml b/reference/http/HttpMessage.xml
index b62f911e88..2ce42f0e21 100644
--- a/reference/http/HttpMessage.xml
+++ b/reference/http/HttpMessage.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
 <!-- Generated by xml_proto.php v2.4. Found in /scripts directory of phpdoc. -->
 <refentry id="http.HttpMessage">
  <refnamediv>
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@
    &reftitle.methods;
    <simplelist>
     <member><link linkend="function.HttpMessage-construct"><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::<function>construct</function></link></member>
+    <member><link linkend="function.HttpMessage-factory"><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::<function>factory</function></link></member>
+    <member><link linkend="function.HttpMessage-fromEnv"><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::<function>fromEnv</function></link></member>
     <member><link linkend="function.HttpMessage-fromString"><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::<function>fromString</function></link></member>
     <member><link linkend="function.HttpMessage-toString"><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::<function>toString</function></link></member>
     <member><link linkend="function.HttpMessage-toMessageTypeObject"><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::<function>toMessageTypeObject</function></link></member>
@@ -160,6 +162,8 @@
 </refentry>
 
 &reference.http.HttpMessage.construct;
+&reference.http.HttpMessage.factory;
+&reference.http.HttpMessage.fromEnv;
 &reference.http.HttpMessage.fromString;
 &reference.http.HttpMessage.toString;
 &reference.http.HttpMessage.toMessageTypeObject;
diff --git a/reference/http/HttpMessage/fromString.xml b/reference/http/HttpMessage/fromString.xml
index 4010929178..6cee886f7d 100644
--- a/reference/http/HttpMessage/fromString.xml
+++ b/reference/http/HttpMessage/fromString.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <!-- Generated by xml_proto.php v2.4. Found in /scripts directory of phpdoc. -->
 <refentry id="function.HttpMessage-fromString">
  <refnamediv>
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
   </methodsynopsis>
 
   <para>
-   Create an HttpMessage object from a string. Kind of a static constructor.
+   Create an HttpMessage object from a string.
   </para>
+  &info.function.alias.deprecated;
 
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1 role="parameters">
@@ -115,17 +116,14 @@ Use the PEAR Coding Standards
  -->
 
 
- <!-- Use when adding See Also links
  <refsect1 role="seealso">
   &reftitle.seealso;
   <para>
    <simplelist>
-    <member><function></function></member>
-    <member>Or <link linkend="somethingelse">something else</link></member>
+    <member><function><classname>HttpMessage</classname>::factory</function>.</member>
    </simplelist>
   </para>
  </refsect1>
- -->
 
 
 </refentry>
diff --git a/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles.xml b/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ac20f7817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+&reference.http.functions.persistenthandles.http-persistent-handles-count;
+&reference.http.functions.persistenthandles.http-persistent-handles-ident;
diff --git a/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles/http-persistent-handles-count.xml b/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles/http-persistent-handles-count.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..62e7deec21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles/http-persistent-handles-count.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+<refentry id="function.http-persistent-handles-count">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>http_persistent_handles_count</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Stat persistent handles</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <type>object</type><methodname>http_persistent_handles_count</methodname>
+   <void/>
+  </methodsynopsis>
+
+  <para>
+   List statistics about persistent handles usage.
+  </para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  <para>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+   Returns persistent handles statistics as stdClass object on success or &false; on failure.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <!-- Use when ERRORS exist
+ <refsect1 role="errors">
+  &reftitle.errors;
+  <para>
+   When does this function throw E_* level errors, or exceptions?
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ -->
+
+
+ <!-- Use when a CHANGELOG exists
+ <refsect1 role="changelog">
+  &reftitle.changelog;
+  <para>
+   <informaltable>
+    <tgroup cols="2">
+     <thead>
+      <row>
+       <entry>&Version;</entry>
+       <entry>&Description;</entry>
+      </row>
+     </thead>
+     <tbody>
+      <row>
+       <entry>Enter the PHP version of change here</entry>
+       <entry>Description of change</entry>
+      </row>
+     </tbody>
+    </tgroup>
+   </informaltable>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ -->
+
+
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <para>
+   <example>
+    <title>A <function>http_persistent_handles_count</function> example</title>
+    <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+print_r(http_persistent_handles_count());
+?>
+]]>
+    </programlisting>
+    &example.outputs;
+    <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+stdClass Object
+(
+    [http_request] => Array
+        (
+            [GLOBAL] => Array
+                (
+                    [used] => 0
+                    [free] => 1
+                )
+
+        )
+
+    [http_request_datashare] => Array
+        (
+            [GLOBAL] => Array
+                (
+                    [used] => 1
+                    [free] => 0
+                )
+
+        )
+
+    [http_request_pool] => Array
+        (
+        )
+
+)
+]]>
+    </screen>
+   </example>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+
+ <!-- Use when adding See Also links
+ <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <para>
+   <simplelist>
+    <member><function></function></member>
+    <member>Or <link linkend="somethingelse">something else</link></member>
+   </simplelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ -->
+
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"../../../../manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
diff --git a/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles/http-persistent-handles-ident.xml b/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles/http-persistent-handles-ident.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b981605bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/http/functions/persistenthandles/http-persistent-handles-ident.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+<refentry id="function.http-persistent-handles-ident">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>http_persistent_handles_ident</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Get/set ident of persistent handles</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <type>string</type><methodname>http_persistent_handles_ident</methodname>
+   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>ident</parameter></methodparam>
+  </methodsynopsis>
+
+  <para>
+   Query or define the ident of persistent handles.
+  </para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  <para>
+   <variablelist>
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><parameter>ident</parameter></term>
+     <listitem>
+      <para>
+       the identification string
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+   Returns the prior ident as string on success or &false; on failure.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <!-- Use when ERRORS exist
+ <refsect1 role="errors">
+  &reftitle.errors;
+  <para>
+   When does this function throw E_* level errors, or exceptions?
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ -->
+
+
+ <!-- Use when a CHANGELOG exists
+ <refsect1 role="changelog">
+  &reftitle.changelog;
+  <para>
+   <informaltable>
+    <tgroup cols="2">
+     <thead>
+      <row>
+       <entry>&Version;</entry>
+       <entry>&Description;</entry>
+      </row>
+     </thead>
+     <tbody>
+      <row>
+       <entry>Enter the PHP version of change here</entry>
+       <entry>Description of change</entry>
+      </row>
+     </tbody>
+    </tgroup>
+   </informaltable>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ -->
+
+
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <para>
+   <example>
+    <title>A <function>http_persistent_handles_ident</function> example</title>
+    <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+print_r(http_persistent_handles_ident());
+?>
+]]>
+    </programlisting>
+    &example.outputs;
+    <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+stdClass Object
+(
+    [http_request] => Array
+        (
+            [GLOBAL] => Array
+                (
+                    [used] => 0
+                    [free] => 1
+                )
+
+        )
+
+    [http_request_datashare] => Array
+        (
+            [GLOBAL] => Array
+                (
+                    [used] => 1
+                    [free] => 0
+                )
+
+        )
+
+    [http_request_pool] => Array
+        (
+        )
+
+)
+]]>
+    </screen>
+   </example>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+
+ <!-- Use when adding See Also links
+ <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <para>
+   <simplelist>
+    <member><function></function></member>
+    <member>Or <link linkend="somethingelse">something else</link></member>
+   </simplelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ -->
+
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"../../../../manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
diff --git a/reference/http/reference.xml b/reference/http/reference.xml
index 03e8077396..6f8ef997c1 100644
--- a/reference/http/reference.xml
+++ b/reference/http/reference.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.19 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.20 $ -->
 <!-- Purpose: basic.php -->
 <!-- Membership: pecl -->
 
@@ -157,6 +157,13 @@
      <member><function>http_build_url</function></member>
     </simplelist>
    </section>
+   <section>
+    <title>Persistent Handles</title>
+    <simplelist>
+     <member><function>http_persistent_handles_count</function></member>
+     <member><function>http_persistent_handles_ident</function></member>
+    </simplelist>
+   </section>
   </section>
 
  </partintro>