urllib3
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urllib3 is a powerful, *sanity-friendly* HTTP client for Python. Much of the
Python ecosystem :ref:`already uses <who-uses>` urllib3 and you should too.
urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python
standard 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 and deflate encoding.
- Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
- 100% test coverage.

urllib3 is powerful and easy to use::

    >>> import urllib3
    >>> http = urllib3.PoolManager()
    >>> r = http.request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/robots.txt')
    >>> r.status
    200
    >>> r.data
    'User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n'

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Installing
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urllib3 can be installed with `pip <https://pip.pypa.io>`_::

    $ pip install urllib3

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from `GitHub <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3>`_::

    $ git clone git://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
    $ python setup.py install

Usage
-----

The :doc:`user-guide` is the place to go to learn how to use the library and
accomplish common tasks. The more in-depth :doc:`advanced-usage` guide is the place to go for lower-level tweaking.

The :doc:`reference/index` documentation provides API-level documentation.

.. _who-uses:

Who uses urllib3?
-----------------

* `Requests <http://python-requests.org/>`_
* `Pip <https://pip.pypa.io>`_
* & more!

License
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urllib3 is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see `LICENSE.txt <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/master/LICENSE.txt>`_.

Contributing
------------

We happily welcome contributions, please see :doc:`contributing` for details.