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Project Summary
urllib3 is a powerful, sanity-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries:
•Thread safety.
•Connection pooling.
•Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
•File uploads with multipart encoding.
•Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
•Support for gzip and deflate encoding.
•Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
•100% test coverage.
In a Nutshell, urllib3...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 6 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 9 days ago
Quick Reference
https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3
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