hyper 0.1.1

HTTP/2 Client for Python

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Hyper: HTTP/2 Client for Python
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HTTP is changing under our feet. HTTP/1.1, our old friend, is being
supplemented by the brand new HTTP/2 standard. HTTP/2 provides many benefits:
improved speed, lower bandwidth usage, better connection management, and more.

``hyper`` provides these benefits to your Python code. How? Like this::

from hyper import HTTP20Connection

conn = HTTP20Connection('twitter.com:443')
conn.request('GET', '/')
resp = conn.getresponse()

print(resp.read())

Simple.

Caveat Emptor!
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Please be warned: ``hyper`` is in a very early alpha. You *will* encounter bugs
when using it. In addition, there are very many rough edges. With that said,
please try it out in your applications: I need your feedback to fix the bugs
and file down the rough edges.

Versions
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``hyper`` provides support for drafts 14, 15, and 16 of the HTTP/2 draft
specification and draft 9 of the HPACK draft specification. As further drafts
are released, ``hyper`` will be updated to support them.

Compatibility
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``hyper`` is intended to be a drop-in replacement for ``http.client``, with a
similar API. However, ``hyper`` intentionally does not name its classes the
same way ``http.client`` does. This is because most servers do not support
HTTP/2 at this time: I don't want you accidentally using ``hyper`` when you
wanted ``http.client``.

Contributing
============

``hyper`` welcomes contributions from anyone! Unlike many other projects we are
happy to accept cosmetic contributions and small contributions, in addition to
large feature requests and changes.

Before you contribute (either by opening an issue or filing a pull request),
please `read the contribution guidelines`_.

.. _read the contribution guidelines: http://hyper.readthedocs.org/en/development/contributing.html

License
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``hyper`` is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see the
``LICENSE`` file in the repository.

Authors
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``hyper`` is maintained by Cory Benfield, with contributions from others. For
more details about the contributors, please see ``CONTRIBUTORS.rst``.


Release History
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0.1.1 (2015-02-06)
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*Minor Changes*

- Support for HTTP/2 draft 15, and 16. No drop of support for draft 14.
- Updated bundled certificate file.

*Bugfixes *

- Fixed ``AttributeError`` being raised when a PING frame was received, thanks
to @t2y. (`Issue #79`_)
- Fixed bug where large frames could be incorrectly truncated by the buffered
socket implementation, thanks to @t2y. (`Issue #80`_)

.. _Issue #79: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/79
.. _Issue #80: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/80

0.1.0 (2014-08-16)
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*Regressions and Known Bugs*

- Support for Python 3.3 has been temporarily dropped due to features missing
from the Python 3.3 ``ssl`` module. PyOpenSSL has been identified as a
replacement, but until NPN support is merged it cannot be used. Python 3.3
support *will* be re-added when a suitable release of PyOpenSSL is shipped.
- Technically this release also includes support for PyPy and Python 2.7. That
support is also blocked behind a suitable PyOpenSSL release.

For more information on these regressions, please see `Issue #37`_.

*Major Changes*

- Support for HPACK draft 9.
- Support for HTTP/2 draft 14.
- Support for Sever Push, thanks to @alekstorm. (`Issue #40`_)
- Use a buffered socket to avoid unnecessary syscalls. (`Issue #56`_)
- If `nghttp2`_ is present, use its HPACK encoder for improved speed and
compression efficiency. (`Issue #60`_)
- Add ``HTTP20Response.gettrailer()`` and ``HTTP20Response.gettrailers()``,
supporting downloading and examining HTTP trailers. (Discussed in part in
`Issue #71`_.)

*Bugfixes*

- ``HTTP20Response`` objects are context managers. (`Issue #24`_)
- Pluggable window managers are now correctly informed about the document size.
(`Issue #26`_)
- Header blocks can no longer be corrupted if read in a different order to the
one in which they were sent. (`Issue #39`_)
- Default window manager is now smarter about sending WINDOWUPDATE frames.
(`Issue #41`_ and `Issue #52`_)
- Fixed inverted window sizes. (`Issue #27`_)
- Correct reply to PING frames. (`Issue #48`_)
- Made the wheel universal, befitting a pure-Python package. (`Issue #46`_)
- HPACK encoder correctly encodes header sets with duplicate headers.
(`Issue #50`_)

.. _Issue #24: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/24
.. _Issue #26: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/26
.. _Issue #27: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/27
.. _Issue #33: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/33
.. _Issue #37: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/37
.. _Issue #39: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/39
.. _Issue #40: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/40
.. _Issue #41: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/41
.. _Issue #46: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/46
.. _Issue #48: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/48
.. _Issue #50: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/50
.. _Issue #52: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/52
.. _Issue #56: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/56
.. _Issue #60: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/60
.. _Issue #71: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/71
.. _nghttp2: https://nghttp2.org/

0.0.4 (2014-03-08)
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- Add logic for pluggable objects to manage the flow-control window for both
connections and streams.
- Raise new ``HPACKDecodingError`` when we're unable to validly map a
Huffman-encoded string.
- Correctly respect the HPACK EOS character.

0.0.3 (2014-02-26)
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- Use bundled SSL certificates in addition to the OS ones, which have limited
platform availability. (`Issue #9`_)
- Connection objects reset to their basic state when they're closed, enabling
them to be reused. Note that they may not be reused if exceptions are thrown
when they're in use: you must open a new connection in that situation.
- Connection objects are now context managers. (`Issue #13`_)
- The ``HTTP20Adapter`` correctly reuses connections.
- Stop sending WINDOWUPDATE frames with a zero-size window increment.
- Provide basic functionality for gracelessly closing streams.
- Exhausted streams are now disposed of. (`Issue #14`_)

.. _Issue #9: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/9
.. _Issue #13: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/13
.. _Issue #14: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/14

0.0.2 (2014-02-20)
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- Implemented logging. (`Issue #12`_)
- Stopped HTTP/2.0 special headers appearing in the response headers.
(`Issue #16`_)
- `HTTP20Connection` objects are now context managers. (`Issue #13`_)
- Response bodies are automatically decompressed. (`Issue #20`_)
- Provide a requests transport adapter. (`Issue #19`_)
- Fix the build status indicator. (`Issue #22`_)


.. _Issue #12: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/12
.. _Issue #16: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/16
.. _Issue #13: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/13
.. _Issue #20: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/20
.. _Issue #19: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/19
.. _Issue #22: https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper/issues/22

0.0.1 (2014-02-11)
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- Initial Release
- Support for HTTP/2.0 draft 09.
- Support for HPACK draft 05.
- Support for HTTP/2.0 flow control.
- Verifies TLS certificates.
- Support for streaming uploads.
- Support for streaming downloads.