encode/httpx

Features

• HTTP Client Libraries - Provides a comprehensive library for making synchronous and asynchronous HTTP requests with support for connection pooling and HTTP/2.
• HTTP Client Libraries - A comprehensive toolkit for interacting with web services, handling complex authentication, and managing low-level transport configurations in Python.
• HTTP Clients - Acts as a high-performance HTTP client library for both synchronous and asynchronous network communication.
• RESTful API Clients - Provides a comprehensive framework for interacting with RESTful web services and managing complex API communication.
• Asynchronous Request Execution - Sends HTTP requests using an asynchronous interface for concurrent operations within a single event loop.
• Request Timeout Configurations - Enforces strict time limits on network operations to prevent requests from hanging indefinitely.
• Asynchronous Networking - Executes high-concurrency network operations within event-driven applications without blocking the main thread.
• Middleware-Based Request Pipelines - Features a middleware-based hook system for injecting custom logic into the request-response lifecycle.
• Connection Pooling - Reuses underlying TCP connections across multiple requests to the same host to reduce latency.
• WebSocket Clients - Supports persistent connections for real-time data streaming and bidirectional messaging over standard web protocols.
• Asynchronous Runtime Adapters - Provides native support for multiple asynchronous runtimes by automatically detecting and utilizing the underlying event loop.
• Certificate Verification - Enables or disables server certificate verification to ensure secure communication.
• Client Certificate Authentication - Provides local certificate files to verify client identity during the handshake process.
• Request Dispatchers - Sends HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 requests using synchronous or asynchronous interfaces across different network environments.
• HTTP Response Handling - Automatically decodes compressed responses and manages character encoding to simplify data exchange.
• HTTP Clients - Next-generation HTTP client for Python.
• Developer Tools - Next-generation HTTP client.
• HTTP Clients - Next-generation HTTP client for Python.
• Networking - HTTP client with an API compatible with standard requests.
• Web and API Tools - Next-generation HTTP client for Python.
• Request Retries - Automatically re-executes network requests that fail due to transient errors to improve reliability.
• Response Streaming - Downloads large payloads incrementally using iterators to minimize memory usage.
• Connection Management - Maintains long-lived connections and supports HTTP/2 to improve performance for sequential requests.
• HTTP/2 Protocol Implementations - Implements binary-formatted transport with request multiplexing and header compression to improve network efficiency.
• HTTP Request Builders - Provides tools to define methods, URLs, headers, and payloads to build precise HTTP requests for any web service.
• HTTP Request Customizations - Performs common HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE with support for custom headers and request body formats.
• Asynchronous Runtime Compatibility - Operates natively across different asynchronous runtimes by automatically detecting the underlying event loop.
• API Request Authentication - Applies standard security schemes like Basic or Digest to outgoing requests for identity verification.
• Client Session Persistence - Groups multiple requests under a single client instance to reuse connections and configuration settings.
• Request Body Handling - Uploads large payloads using asynchronous generators to avoid loading entire content into memory.
• Hook Registration - Allows the injection of custom logic into the request-response lifecycle via a middleware-based hook system.
• Cookie Management - Persists cookies across multiple requests at the client level for consistent state tracking.
• Binary Protocols - Supports binary-formatted communication and request multiplexing via HTTP/2 for improved efficiency.
• Real-Time Data Streams - Maintains persistent connections to consume server-sent events or bidirectional WebSocket traffic.
• Traffic Proxying - Directs network requests through specified proxy servers, supporting both HTTP and SOCKS protocols with optional authentication.
• Certificate Authority Configurations - Configures the client to validate server identities against specific trusted certificate authorities.
• TLS/SSL Configurations - Defines encryption and certificate verification parameters at the client level for consistent security.
• SSRF Protections - Validates destination addresses to prevent unauthorized requests to internal or sensitive infrastructure.
• API Request Mocking - Intercepts outgoing network requests to return pre-defined responses for testing without performing actual network operations.
• Network Transport Customizers - Provides interfaces for customizing low-level network behavior, including local addresses and connection retry logic.
• Transport Injection - Supports injecting custom transport instances to manage low-level connection settings and protocol handling.
• Request Lifecycle Managers - Configures automatic redirection, network timeouts, and structured exception handling for the request-response pipeline.
• Incremental Data Streaming - Handles large request and response bodies as incremental byte chunks to maintain low memory usage.
• SNI Overrides - Specifies a custom hostname for certificate verification when connecting to a server via an IP address.
• HTTP Client Configurations - Enables setting default headers, proxies, and authentication parameters on a client instance for consistent request behavior.
• Synchronous Request Handlers - Supports standard blocking calls for simple scripts where high concurrency is not required.
• Custom Transport Protocols - Allows extending base transport classes to implement custom request handling and protocol logic.
• Network Proxies - Routes traffic through intermediate servers and manages custom certificate validation for secure communication.
• Network Traffic Analyzers - Inspects and logs the details of outgoing requests and incoming responses to troubleshoot connectivity or data issues.
• Server-Sent Events - Maintains persistent connections to receive real-time data streams pushed from a server over a single channel.
• Custom Authentication Providers - Enables bespoke authentication flows by intercepting requests and responses for complex token management.
• Exception Hierarchies - Categorizes network, protocol, and status-related failures into a structured hierarchy for precise error handling.
• Local Network Event Loggers - Outputs internal network events and request-response lifecycle details to standard logging streams to assist with debugging.
• Transfer Monitoring Tools - Tracks byte-by-byte progress of large uploads and downloads in real time.
• HTTP Interaction Recording - Captures network interactions into persistent files to enable deterministic replay during test runs.
• Response Character Encoding - Converts raw response bytes into readable text using header information or character set overrides.
• Multipart Upload Utilities - Supports multipart-encoded requests with streaming for large files to maintain low memory usage.
• Request Routing - Directs outgoing requests to specific transport handlers based on target URL schemes or domains.

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