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urllib3 is a powerful,user-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of thePython ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too.urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Pythonstandard libraries:

• Thread safety.
• Connection pooling.
• Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
• File uploads with multipart encoding.
• Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
• Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding.
• Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
• 100% test coverage.

urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:

>>>importurllib3>>>resp=urllib3.request("GET","http://httpbin.org/robots.txt")>>>resp.status200>>>resp.datab"User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"

urllib3 can be installed withpip:

$ python -m pip install urllib3

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code fromGitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git$cd urllib3$ pip install.

urllib3 has usage and reference documentation aturllib3.readthedocs.io.

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urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see ourcontributing documentationfor some tips on getting started.

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