[BangPypers] Https and http difference in behaviour urllib2

[Baiju M]

(Reply to an old thread)

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Gora Mohanty <gora at mimirtech.com> wrote:
> > On 3 March 2012 09:41, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Sometimes features are very important.  I stared using requests for one
> >> work, but later I found that it is not thread safe, then I switched to
> urllib3:
> >> http://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
> >
> > Sorry, but I am confused. Is requests not built on top of
> > urllib3? The following link would seem to indicate so:
> > http://pydoc.net/requests/0.8.5/requests.packages.urllib3.request
>
> I used some old version. which doesn't have urllib3 as a dependency:
> https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/tree/v0.7.6/requests/packages
>
> May be I need to reconsider requests again.
>
> However I noticed that, the requests documentation is not advertising
> it is thread safe.
>

Just few hours ago they mentioned it for first time!
https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/6fd03d5f20fcac1e85517d3cde27349612022de2

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Baiju M