#pythonrequests — Public Fediverse posts

83% of requests (globally) to our apex homepages (bbc.co.uk/ and bbc.com/) are from "Python Requests".

That's 84 million requests per day.

In the words of Bricktop...

#BBC #WebStats #PythonRequests #BrickTop

State of client side HTTP in #python

- stdlib http.client - HTTP/1.1 only, docs recommend to use requests instead.
- requests - poorly maintained, in 2020 stopped working when servers deprecated older TLS versions. HTTP/1.1 only, sync only
- #httpx - comparatively slow and API design is driven by compatibility with browsers. Some users plug-in aiohttp for better performance. Supports HTTP/2 but it's discouraged as not optimized.
- #aiohttp - good API, both client and server but seems more focused on the server side; HTTP/1.1 only.
- #niquests - async fork of requests with HTTP/2, but uses forked urllib3 with the same package name as the original, which messes up deployment.
- #aioquic - client & server, HTTP/3 only

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#pythonRequests #programming

Tak, tak, zdecydowanie należy sforkować #PythonRequests, i przy okazji kilka innych ważnych bibliotek Pythona jako zależności, i jeszcze dodać kilka własnych wynalazków. No i zdecydowanie należy przy tym nadpisywać oryginalne biblioteki. Co może pójść nie tak?

https://pypi.org/project/niquests/

#Python

Yes, yes, please fork #PythonRequests and a bunch of other high-profile #Python libraries as its dependencies, and add some more #NIH dependencies to that. Oh, yes, and definitely overwrite the original packages in the process! What could possibly go wrong?

https://pypi.org/project/niquests/

#packaging

While reviewing a merge request from a coworker who was debugging a mysterious behavior where we would get decompressed tar.gz files from some origins when using #PythonRequests, I've figured out that:

• The default #Apache2 config serves gzip files without touching them, but setting both Content-Encoding: gzip and Content-Type: application/x-gzip on the response;
• The #HTTP RFCs should make conforming clients interpret that as "this is a gzipped representation (Content-Encoding) of a gzip file (Content-Type). You should gunzip it before presenting it to the user";
• #Firefox hardcodes a workaround;
• This was already reported as a dubious behavior upstream in 2002!

At this point this seems so entrenched that I guess all HTTP client libraries should really be implementing the workaround...