req2 0.1.0

Requests-compatible HTTP client powered by pycurl with timing metrics

req2

A proof-of-concept drop-in style replacement for the popular requests HTTP client that uses pycurl as the transport layer. The library aims to mimic the surface level API of Requests while providing additional timing data sourced from libcurl metrics.

Features

• Familiar top-level helpers like get, post, and request.
• A Session object with persistent cookies, basic authentication helpers, and redirect handling.
• Response helpers for accessing JSON bodies, streaming content, cookies, and raising for HTTP errors.
• A new Response.timings mapping exposing DNS lookup, connection, TLS handshake, TTFB, content transfer, and total times.

Example

import req2 as requests

response = requests.get("https://httpbin.org/get")
print("Status:", response.status_code)
print("Total time:", response.timings["total"])
print("Body:", response.text[:60])

This project is in an early stage and currently focuses on providing the timing API while covering the most commonly used request options including query parameters, JSON payloads, cookies, redirects, and basic authentication.