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Summary: A comprehensive HTTP client library.
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Home-page: http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/
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Author-email: joe@bitworking.org
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Download-URL: http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/dist/httplib2-0.2.0.tar.gz
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A comprehensive HTTP client library, ``httplib2`` supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries.
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HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support.
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Supports HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive, keeping the socket open and performing multiple requests over the same connection if possible.
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The following three types of HTTP Authentication are supported. These can be used over both HTTP and HTTPS.
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The module can optionally operate with a private cache that understands the Cache-Control:
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header and uses both the ETag and Last-Modified cache validators. Both file system
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and memcached based caches are supported.
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The module can handle any HTTP request method, not just GET and POST.
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Automatically follows 3XX redirects on GETs.
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Handles both 'deflate' and 'gzip' types of compression.
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**Lost update support**
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Automatically adds back ETags into PUT requests to resources we have already cached. This implements Section 3.2 of Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout
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A large and growing set of unit tests.
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Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
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Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
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Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
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Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
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Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries