From 89ee0d2cc510ca37690c655972d93a15bb91b9a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:09:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] there we go --- docs/scenarios/client.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/scenarios/client.rst b/docs/scenarios/client.rst index c3b88ae..db0d28a 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/client.rst +++ b/docs/scenarios/client.rst @@ -6,12 +6,11 @@ Network Applications HTTP :::: +The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Requests -------- -Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings. - Python’s standard urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you need, but the API is thoroughly broken. It was built for a different time — and a different web. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks. Requests takes all of the work out of Python HTTP — making your integration with web services seamless. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, powered by urllib3, which is embedded within Requests