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Michael Komitee
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Since response objects for failures (4xx/5xx responses) evaluate to False in a boolean context, any hook which returns such a failure response will evaluate to False. The way hooks were setup, any failure response resulting from a hook would be ignored, and the initial response before it got processed by the hook would be substituted in its place. This commit changes that logic to test for None so that hooks that return failures can do so.
Requests: HTTP for Humans
=========================
.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/kennethreitz/requests.png?branch=develop
Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human
beings.
Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely
verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of
the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken.
It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to
perform the simplest of tasks.
Things shouldn't be this way. Not in Python.
::
>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
204
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json'
>>> r.text
...
See `the same code, without Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_.
Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data,
multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the
response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib and `urllib3
<https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_, but it does all the hard work and crazy
hacks for you.
Features
--------
- International Domains and URLs
- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
- Browser-style SSL Verification
- Basic/Digest Authentication
- Elegant Key/Value Cookies
- Automatic Decompression
- Unicode Response Bodies
- Multipart File Uploads
- Connection Timeouts
- Thread-safety
Installation
------------
To install requests, simply: ::
$ pip install requests
Or, if you absolutely must: ::
$ easy_install requests
But, you really shouldn't do that.
Contribute
----------
#. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
#. Fork `the repository`_ on Github to start making your changes to the **develop** branch (or branch off of it).
#. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
.. _`the repository`: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/develop/AUTHORS.rst