Commit 89ee0d2
Kenneth Reitz
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@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@ Network Applications | |||
| 6 | 6 | HTTP | |
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| 9 | + The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. | ||
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| 10 | 11 | Requests | |
| 11 | 12 | -------- | |
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| 13 | - Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings. | ||
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| 15 | 14 | Python’s standard urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you need, but the API is thoroughly broken. It was built for a different time — and a different web. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks. | |
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| 17 | 16 | Requests takes all of the work out of Python HTTP — making your integration with web services seamless. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, powered by urllib3, which is embedded within Requests | |
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