better links

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Kenneth Reitz
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Requests: HTTP for Humans
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Release |version|.
Release v\ |version|. (`Installation <install>`_)
Requests is an :ref:`ISC Licensed <isc>` HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.
Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose
and cumbersome. Python's builtin :py:class:`urllib2` module provides most of
and cumbersome. Python's builtin :py:class:`urllib2 <library.urllib2>` module provides most of
the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly **broken**.
It reqires an *enormous* amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.