Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: urllib3
Version: 1.0.2
Summary: HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
Home-page: http://urllib3.readthedocs.org/
Author: Andrey Petrov
Author-email: andrey.petrov@shazow.net
License: MIT
Description: Highlights
        ==========
        
        - Re-use the same socket connection for multiple requests
          (``HTTPConnectionPool`` and ``HTTPSConnectionPool``)
          (with optional client-side certificate verification).
        - File posting (``encode_multipart_formdata``).
        - Built-in redirection and retries (optional).
        - Supports gzip and deflate decoding.
        - Thread-safe and sanity-safe.
        - Small and easy to understand codebase perfect for extending and building upon.
          For a more comprehensive solution, have a look at
          `Requests <http://python-requests.org/>`_.
        
        What's wrong with urllib and urllib2?
        =====================================
        
        There are two critical features missing from the Python standard library:
        Connection re-using/pooling and file posting. It's not terribly hard to
        implement these yourself, but it's much easier to use a module that already
        did the work for you.
        
        The Python standard libraries ``urllib`` and ``urllib2`` have little to do
        with each other. They were designed to be independent and standalone, each
        solving a different scope of problems, and ``urllib3`` follows in a similar
        vein.
        
        Why do I want to reuse connections?
        ===================================
        
        Performance. When you normally do a urllib call, a separate socket
        connection is created with each request. By reusing existing sockets
        (supported since HTTP 1.1), the requests will take up less resources on the
        server's end, and also provide a faster response time at the client's end.
        With some simple benchmarks (see `test/benchmark.py
        <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/blob/master/test/benchmark.py>`_
        ), downloading 15 URLs from google.com is about twice as fast when using
        HTTPConnectionPool (which uses 1 connection) than using plain urllib (which
        uses 15 connections).
        
        This library is perfect for:
        
        - Talking to an API
        - Crawling a website
        - Any situation where being able to post files, handle redirection, and
          retrying is useful. It's relatively lightweight, so it can be used for
          anything!
        
        Examples
        ========
        
        Go to `urllib3.readthedocs.org <http://urllib3.readthedocs.org>`_
        for more nice syntax-highlighted examples.
        
        But, long story short::
        
          import urllib3
        
          http = urllib3.PoolManager()
        
          r = http.request('GET', 'http://google.com/')
        
          print r.status, r.data
        
        The ``PoolManager`` will take care of reusing connections for you whenever
        you request the same host. For more fine-grained control of your connection
        pools, you should look at
        `ConnectionPool <http://urllib3.readthedocs.org/#connectionpool>`_.
        
        
        Run the tests
        =============
        
        Running the test command will install the necessary dependencies and run the
        tests. ::
        
          $ python setup.py test
          ...................................
        
        Success! Tests can also be run using ``nosetests`` for cleaner output.
        
        
        Contributing
        ============
        
        #. `Check for open issues <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/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 `urllib3 repository on Github <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_
           to start making your changes.
        #. 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 ``CONTRIBUTORS.txt``.
        
        
        Changes
        =======
        
        1.0.2 (2011-11-04)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Fixed typo in ``VerifiedHTTPSConnection`` which would only present as a bug if
          you're using the object manually. (Thanks pyos)
        
        * Made RecentlyUsedContainer (and consequently PoolManager) more thread-safe by
          wrapping the access log in a mutex. (Thanks @christer)
        
        * Made RecentlyUsedContainer more dict-like (corrected ``__delitem__`` and
          ``__getitem__`` behaviour), with tests. Shouldn't affect core urllib3 code.
        
        
        1.0.1 (2011-10-10)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Fixed a bug where the same connection would get returned into the pool twice,
          causing extraneous "HttpConnectionPool is full" log warnings.
        
        
        1.0 (2011-10-08)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Added ``PoolManager`` with LRU expiration of connections (tested and
          documented).
        * Added ``ProxyManager`` (needs tests, docs, and confirmation that it works
          with HTTPS proxies).
        * Added optional partial-read support for responses when
          ``preload_content=False``. You can now make requests and just read the headers
          without loading the content.
        * Made response decoding optional (default on, same as before).
        * Added optional explicit boundary string for ``encode_multipart_formdata``.
        * Convenience request methods are now inherited from ``RequestMethods``. Old
          helpers like ``get_url`` and ``post_url`` should be abandoned in favour of
          the new ``request(method, url, ...)``.
        * Refactored code to be even more decoupled, reusable, and extendable.
        * License header added to ``.py`` files.
        * Embiggened the documentation: Lots of Sphinx-friendly docstrings in the code
          and docs in ``docs/`` and on urllib3.readthedocs.org.
        * Embettered all the things!
        * Started writing this file.
        
        
        0.4.1 (2011-07-17)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Minor bug fixes, code cleanup.
        
        
        0.4 (2011-03-01)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Better unicode support.
        * Added ``VerifiedHTTPSConnection``.
        * Added ``NTLMConnectionPool`` in contrib.
        * Minor improvements.
        
        
        0.3.1 (2010-07-13)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Added ``assert_host_name`` optional parameter. Now compatible with proxies.
        
        
        0.3 (2009-12-10)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Added HTTPS support.
        * Minor bug fixes.
        * Refactored, broken backwards compatibility with 0.2.
        * API to be treated as stable from this version forward.
        
        
        0.2 (2008-11-17)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Added unit tests.
        * Bug fixes.
        
        
        0.1 (2008-11-16)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * First release.
        
Keywords: urllib httplib threadsafe filepost http https ssl pooling
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
