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Basic Usage

• Making Requests: getting started making basic requests
• Passing Parameters: send query string arguments, bodies, forms, and files in requests
• Response Handling: handle responses from requests
• Headers: add headers to your request
  • Authorization Header: authorize your request using basic auth or bearer tokens
• Cookies: send and receive cookies with requests
• HTTPS: use HTTP securely!
• Redirects: automatically follow redirects

Advanced Features

• Persistent Connections (keep-alive): reuse a connection for multiple requests
• Timeouts: ensure requests complete in a timely manner
• Proxy Support: send requests through an HTTP(S) proxy
• Thread Safety: notes on multithreaded operation
• Compression: compress and decompress sent and received data