What is the fastest way to do 400 HTTP requests using requests library?

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:
>> Maybe they're stress-testing a web server, or they just want to download
>> things in a rush.
>
> They're stress-testing a web server through a tor proxy?  This sounds
> abusive to me.
>
> I also wonder whether 400 referred to the HTTP 400 error code rather
> than the number of requests to be sent.  As in:
>
>     - Layer 7 (“400 bad request”) attacks toward our web and application
>       servers, causing Linode Manager outages
>
> from http://status.linode.com/incidents/mmdbljlglnfd
> regarding a big DDOS attack that's been running against Linode.com
> (a VPS host) over the past couple weeks.

I had the same initial thought about the status code but dismissed it,
since why would somebody intentionally send a request that will return
a 400 status? I was not thinking about abuse though, so the DDoS
scenario did not occur to me.