# Contributions to the urllib3 project

## Creator & Maintainer

* Andrey Petrov <andrey.petrov@shazow.net>


## Contributors

In chronological order:

* victor.vde <http://code.google.com/u/victor.vde/>
  * HTTPS patch (which inspired HTTPSConnectionPool)

* erikcederstrand <http://code.google.com/u/erikcederstrand/>
  * NTLM-authenticated HTTPSConnectionPool
  * Basic-authenticated HTTPSConnectionPool (merged into make_headers)

* niphlod <niphlod@gmail.com>
  * Client-verified SSL certificates for HTTPSConnectionPool
  * Response gzip and deflate encoding support
  * Better unicode support for filepost using StringIO buffers

* btoconnor <brian@btoconnor.net>
  * Non-multipart encoding for POST requests

* p.dobrogost <http://code.google.com/u/@WBRSRlBZDhBFXQB6/>
  * Code review, PEP8 compliance, benchmark fix

* kennethreitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
  * Bugfixes, suggestions, Requests integration

* georgemarshall <http://github.com/georgemarshall>
  * Bugfixes, Improvements and Test coverage

* Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>
  * Python 3 support

* brandon-rhodes <http://rhodesmill.org/brandon>
  * Design review, bugfixes, test coverage.

* studer <theo.studer@gmail.com>
  * IPv6 url support and test coverage

* Shivaram Lingamneni <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>
  * Support for explicitly closing pooled connections

* hartator <hartator@gmail.com>
  * Corrected multipart behavior for params

* Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>
  * Support for TLS SNI
  * API unification of ssl_version/cert_reqs
  * SSL fingerprint and alternative hostname verification
  * Bugfixes in testsuite

* Sune Kirkeby <mig@ibofobi.dk>
  * Optional SNI-support for Python 2 via PyOpenSSL.

* Marc Schlaich <marc.schlaich@gmail.com>
  * Various bugfixes and test improvements.

* Bryce Boe <bbzbryce@gmail.com>
  * Correct six.moves conflict
  * Fixed pickle support of some exceptions

* Boris Figovsky <boris.figovsky@ravellosystems.com>
  * Allowed to skip SSL hostname verification

* Cory Benfield <http://lukasa.co.uk/about/>
  * Stream method for Response objects.
  * Return native strings in header values.
  * Generate 'Host' header when using proxies.

* Jason Robinson <jaywink@basshero.org>
  * Add missing WrappedSocket.fileno method in PyOpenSSL

* Audrius Butkevicius <audrius.butkevicius@elastichosts.com>
  * Fixed a race condition

* Stanislav Vitkovskiy <stas.vitkovsky@gmail.com>
  * Added HTTPS (CONNECT) proxy support

* Stephen Holsapple <sholsapp@gmail.com>
  * Added abstraction for granular control of request fields

* Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
  * Support for non-ASCII header parameters

* Kevin Burke <kev@inburke.com> and Pavel Kirichenko <juanych@yandex-team.ru>
  * Support for separate connect and request timeouts

* [Your name or handle] <[email or website]>
  * [Brief summary of your changes]