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@@ -27,16 +27,18 @@ See `the same code, without Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_. Requests allow you to send **HEAD**, **GET**, **POST**, **PUT**, **PATCH**, and **DELETE** HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the -response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib, but it does -all the hard work and crazy hacks for you. +response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib and `urllib3 +<https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_, but it does all the hard work and crazy +hacks for you. Features -------- +- Browser standard SSL verification. - Extremely simple HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE Requests. - Gevent support for Asyncronous Requests. -- Sessions with cookie persistience. +- Sessions with cookie persistence. - Basic, Digest, and Custom Authentication support. - Automatic form-encoding of dictionaries - A simple dictionary interface for request/response cookies. @@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ Features Usage ----- -It couldn't be simpler. :: +It couldn't be simpler:: >>> import requests >>> r = requests.get('http://google.com') |