Open Source Python HTTP Clients for BSD

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. Thread safety, connection pooling. Client-side TLS/SSL verification. File uploads with multipart encoding. Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding. Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. 100% test coverage. Professional support for urllib3 is available as part of the Tidelift Subscription. Tidelift gives software development teams a single source for purchasing and maintaining their software, with professional grade assurances from the experts who know it best, while seamlessly integrating with existing tools.

An extension of the Python Library module 'asynchat' to support highly scaleable HTTP clients. We intend to learn from, and use pieces of, the excellent 'httplib' module.

A comprehensive HTTP client library for Python, httplib2 supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries such as HTTPS, caching, keep-alive, compression, redirects and authentication. Downloads are handled from the project home page.