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Tomas Hoger
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Python PEP 476 (Enabling certificate verification by default for stdlib http clients) recommends the use of SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR environment variables to point the OpenSSL library used by Python to use specific non-default bundle of trusted CA certificates. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0476/#trust-database These variables could not have been used to point scripts using requests to a different CA bundle. A different variable, REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, is read by requests. CURL_CA_BUNDLE is also used for compatibility with cURL. This commit makes requests also look at SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR. They are handled as equivalent to REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE. As REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE can point to either certificate file or certificate directory, SSL_CERT_* can also point to a file or directory. There's no attempt to ensure SSL_CERT_FILE can only point to a file and SSL_CERT_DIR to a directory. This is similar to how CURL_CA_BUNDLE is handled - requests allows it to specify certificate directory, while cURL only allows it to specify certificate file. Fixes requests issue #2899: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2899
Requests: HTTP for Humans
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Requests is an Apache2 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.
.. code-block:: 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
- HTTP(S) proxy support
Installation
------------
To install Requests, simply:
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install requests
Documentation
-------------
Documentation is available at http://docs.python-requests.org/.
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 **master** 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/master/AUTHORS.rst
.. _Contributor Friendly: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues?direction=desc&labels=Contributor+Friendly&page=1&sort=updated&state=open