Utilities ========= Useful methods for working with :mod:`http.client`, completely decoupled from code specific to **urllib3**. At the very core, just like its predecessors, :mod:`urllib3` is built on top of :mod:`http.client` -- the lowest level HTTP library included in the Python standard library. To aid the limited functionality of the :mod:`http.client` module, :mod:`urllib3` provides various helper methods which are used with the higher level components but can also be used independently. .. automodule:: urllib3.util :members: :show-inheritance: