requests

• verify ssl is default.

• Packaging fix.

• SSL CERT VERIFICATION!
• Release of Cerifi: Mozilla's cert list.
• New 'verify' argument for SSL requests.
• Urllib3 update.

• iter_lines last-line truncation fix
• Force safe_mode for async requests
• Handle safe_mode exceptions more consistently
• Fix iteration on null responses in safe_mode

• Socket timeout fixes.
• Proxy Authorization support.

• Response.iter_lines!

• Prefetch bugfix.
• Added license to installed version.

• Converted auth system to use simpler callable objects.
• New session parameter to API methods.
• Display full URL while logging.

• New Unicode decoding system, based on over-ridable Response.encoding.
• Proper URL slash-quote handling.
• Cookies with [, ], and _ allowed.

• URL Request path fix
• Proxy fix.
• Timeouts fix.

• Keep-alive support!
• Complete removal of Urllib2
• Complete removal of Poster
• Complete removal of CookieJars
• New ConnectionError raising
• Safe_mode for error catching
• prefetch parameter for request methods
• OPTION method
• Async pool size throttling
• File uploads send real names
• Vendored in urllib3

• Digest authentication bugfix (attach query data to path)

• Response.content = None if there was an invalid response.
• Redirection auth handling.

• Session Hooks fix.

• Digest Auth fix.

• PATCH Fix.

• Move away from urllib2 authentication handling.
• Fully Remove AuthManager, AuthObject, &c.
• New tuple-based auth system with handler callbacks.

• Sessions are now the primary interface.
• Deprecated InvalidMethodException.
• PATCH fix.
• New config system (no more global settings).

• Session parameter bugfix (params merging).

• Offline (fast) test suite.
• Session dictionary argument merging.

• Automatic decoding of unicode, based on HTTP Headers.
• New decode_unicode setting.
• Removal of r.read/close methods.
• New r.faw interface for advanced response usage.*
• Automatic expansion of parameterized headers.

• Beautiful requests.async module, for making async requests w/ gevent.

• GET/HEAD obeys allow_redirects=False.

• Enhanced status codes experience \o/
• Set a maximum number of redirects (settings.max_redirects)
• Full Unicode URL support
• Support for protocol-less redirects.
• Allow for arbitrary request types.
• Bugfixes

• New callback hook system
• New persistent sessions object and context manager
• Transparent Dict-cookie handling
• Status code reference object
• Removed Response.cached
• Added Response.request
• All args are kwargs
• Relative redirect support
• HTTPError handling improvements
• Improved https testing
• Bugfixes

• International Domain Name Support!
• Access headers without fetching entire body (read())
• Use lists as dicts for parameters
• Add Forced Basic Authentication
• Forced Basic is default authentication type
• python-requests.org default User-Agent header
• CaseInsensitiveDict lower-case caching
• Response.history bugfix

• PATCH Support
• Support for Proxies
• HTTPBin Test Suite
• Redirect Fixes
• settings.verbose stream writing
• Querystrings for all methods
• URLErrors (Connection Refused, Timeout, Invalid URLs) are treated as explicitly raised r.requests.get('hwe://blah'); r.raise_for_status()

• Improved Redirection Handling
• New 'allow_redirects' param for following non-GET/HEAD Redirects
• Settings module refactoring

• Response.history: list of redirected responses
• Case-Insensitive Header Dictionaries!
• Unicode URLs

• Urllib2 HTTPAuthentication Recursion fix (Basic/Digest)
• Internal Refactor
• Bytes data upload Bugfix

• Request timeouts
• Unicode url-encoded data
• Settings context manager and module

• Automatic Decompression of GZip Encoded Content
• AutoAuth Support for Tupled HTTP Auth

• Cookie Changes
• Response.read()
• Poster fix

• Automatic Authentication API Change
• Smarter Query URL Parameterization
• Allow file uploads and POST data together

New Authentication Manager System

:   -   Simpler Basic HTTP System
    -   Supports all built-in urllib2 Auths
    -   Allows for custom Auth Handlers

• Python 2.5 Support
• PyPy-c v1.4 Support
• Auto-Authentication tests
• Improved Request object constructor

New HTTPHandling Methods

:   -   Response.\_\_nonzero\_\_ (false if bad HTTP Status)
    -   Response.ok (True if expected HTTP Status)
    -   Response.error (Logged HTTPError if bad HTTP Status)
    -   Response.raise\_for\_status() (Raises stored HTTPError)

• Still handles request in the event of an HTTPError. (Issue #2)
• Eventlet and Gevent Monkeypatch support.
• Cookie Support (Issue #1)

• Added file attribute to POST and PUT requests for multipart-encode file uploads.
• Added Request.url attribute for context and redirects

• Birth!

• Frustration
• Conception