# 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

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