httplib2 0.7.1

httplib2 is a free and open source Python-based HTTP client library that supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries.

Note: HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support.

Here are some key features of "httplib2":

HTTP and HTTPS:
· HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support.

Keep-Alive:
· Supports HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive, keeping the socket open and performing multiple requests over the same connection if possible.

Authentication:
· The following types of HTTP Authentication are supported. These can be used over both HTTP and HTTPS.
· Digest

· Basic
· WSSE
· HMAC Digest
· Google Account Authentication

Caching:
· The module can optionally operate with a private cache that understands the Cache-Control: header and uses both the ETag and Last-Modified cache validators.

All Methods:
· The module can handle any HTTP request method, not just GET and POST.

Redirects:
· Automatically follows 3XX redirects on GETs.

Compression:
· Handles both `deflate` and `gzip` types of compression.

Lost update support:
· Automatically adds back ETags into PUT requests to resources we have already cached. This implements Section 3.2 of Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout.

Unit Tested:
· A large and growing set of unit tests.

Requirements:

· Python 2.3 or later