HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more
Development/Languages/Python
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.
Works with AppEngine, gevent, and eventlib.
Tested on Python 2.6+ and Python 3.3+, 100% unit test coverage.
Small and easy to understand codebase perfect for extending and building upon.
For a more comprehensive solution, have a look at
Requests which is also powered by urllib3.