About Requests ++++++++++++++ Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings. Requests takes all of the work out of Python HTTP/1.1 — making your integration with web services seamless. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, powered by urllib3.
2.6.0 (2015-03-14) ++++++++++++++++++ **Bugfixes** - Fix handling of cookies on redirect. Previously a cookie without a host value set would use the hostname for the redirected URL exposing requests users to session fixation attacks and potentially cookie stealing. This was disclosed privately by Matthew Daley of `BugFuzz <https://bugfuzz.com>`_. An CVE identifier has not yet been assigned for this. This affects all versions of requests from v2.1.0 to v2.5.3 (inclusive on both ends). - Fix error when requests is an ``install_requires`` dependency and ``python setup.py test`` is run. (#2462) - Fix error when urllib3 is unbundled and requests continues to use the vendored import location. - Include fixes to ``urllib3``'s header handling. - Requests' handling of unvendored dependencies is now more restrictive. **Features and Improvements** - Support bytearrays when passed as parameters in the ``files`` argument. (#2468) - Avoid data duplication when creating a request with ``str``, ``bytes``, or ``bytearray`` input to the ``files`` argument. (Release notes are also available http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/updates/#software-updates ) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/