The new release of httpfs was renamed to httpf2 because it behaves slightly
differently from the older version.

You should be able to build and run httpfs2 on Linux (Debain Lenny or Squeeze)
and OS X (10.4).

You will need libfuse to build httpfs, asciidoc to build the man page and
fuse-utils to mount fuse filesystems as non-roor on Linux. SSL support is not
enabled by default because without verifying the server authenticity there is
no point in SSL.

Please note that the examples on the project home page apply to the old httpfs.
The syntax may differ slightly.