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John Szakmeister
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While debugging an issue I discovered requests was coming back with 200 response, when it really shouldn't have. It turns out this happened for two reasons: the jetty server running the app was rather lame and didn't fail the request as a Bad Request, and httplib was happy to let malformed data through and call it success. It turns out httplib's strict flag controls this behavior of whether or not to validate the status line. The underlying urllib3 supports the concept as well. There was a bug there to that is now fixed upstream. The last step is exposing this through requests. This introduces a supports_http0.9 flag to help control this behavior. It defaults to to True to preserve the current behavior. Setting it to False will allow the underlying HTTPConnection to validate the status line.
Requests: HTTP for Humans
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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