dugong 2.0

A HTTP 1.1 client module supporting asynchronous IO, pipelining and `Expect: 100-continue`. Designed for RESTful protocols.

The Python Dugong module provides an API for communicating with HTTP 1.1 servers. It is an alternative to the standard library’s http.client (formerly httplib) module. In contrast to http.client, Dugong:

• allows you to send multiple requests right after each other without having to read the responses first.

• supports waiting for 100-continue before sending the request body.

• raises an exception instead of silently delivering partial data if the connection is closed before all data has been received.

• raises one specific exception (ConnectionClosed) if the connection has been closed (while http.client connection may raise any of BrokenPipeError, ~http.client.BadStatusLine, ConnectionAbortedError, ConnectionResetError, ~http.client.IncompleteRead or simply return '' on read)

• supports non-blocking, asynchronous operation and is compatible with the asyncio module.

• is not compatible with old HTTP 0.9 or 1.0 servers.

All request and response headers are represented as str, but must be encodable in latin1. Request and response body must be bytes-like objects or binary streams.

Dugong requires Python 3.3 or newer.

Installation

As usual: download and extract the tarball, then run

# python3 setup.py install [--user]

To run the self-tests, install py.test and run

# py.test-3 test/

Getting Help

The documentation can be read online and is also included in the doc/html directory of the dugong tarball.

Please report any bugs on the issue tracker. For discussion and questions, please subscribe to the dugong mailing list.

Development Status

The Dugong API is not yet stable and may change from one release to the other.