[Python-Dev] new httplib?

[Guido van Rossum]

> I've been using my HTTP/1.1 httplib for quite a while now. It seems quite
> stable in everything that I've tried. I need to port over the recent
> changes for SSL stuff, but it is ready to go.
> 
> The library contains a deprecated, backwards-compat class (HTTP), and its
> replacement: HTTPConnection. Responses are now handled through
> HTTPResponse class.
> 
> Doc for the new class will also be needed, but (of course) the old doc
> still applies.
> 
> Any comments on the module and/or its inclusion into 1.6?

Doesn't Jeremy have one too?

I would suggest putting the new classes in a new module,
e.g. httplib2.py, and leaving the old httplib unchanged.

BTW, where can we look at this code?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)