httplib2 A comprehensive HTTP client library in Python
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A comprehensive HTTP client library in Python httplib2 is a free and open source Python-based HTTP client library that supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries. Here are some key features of "httplib2": HTTP and HTTPS: · HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support. Keep-Alive: · Supports HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive, keeping the socket open and performing multiple requests over the same connection if possible. Authentication: · The following types of HTTP Authentication are supported. These can be used over both HTTP and HTTPS. · Digest · Basic · WSSE · HMAC Digest · Google Account Authentication Caching: · The module can optionally operate with a private cache that understands the Cache-Control: header and uses both the ETag and Last-Modified cache validators. All Methods: · The module can handle any HTTP request method, not just GET and POST. Redirects: · Automatically follows 3XX redirects on GETs. Compression: · Handles both 'deflate' and 'gzip' types of compression. Lost update support: · 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. Unit Tested: · A large and growing set of unit tests. Requirements: · Python 2.3 or later

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