features philosophy

docs/user/quickstart.rst

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 Feature Overview
 ================
 
+Requests is designed to solve a 90% use case — making simple requests. While most
+HTTP libraries are extremely extensible, they often attempt to support the entire HTTP Spec.
+This often leads to extremely messy and cumbersome APIs, as is the case with urllib2. Requests abandons support for edge-cases, and focuses on the essentials.
+
 
 .. _features:
 
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 - Add Request headers (with a simple dictionary)
 - URLEncode your Form Data (with a simple dictionary)
 - Add Multi-part File Uploads (with a simple dictionary)
-- Add CookieJars
-- Automatically decompress of GZipped responses
-- Support Unicode URLs
+- Handle CookieJars (with a single parameter)
+- Add HTTP Authentication (with a single parameter)
 - Handle redirects (with history)
+- Automatically decompress GZip'd responses
+- Support Unicode URLs
 - Gracefully timeout
 - Interface with Eventlet & Gevent