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mesahm

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    Comment #49125591

    it should work with Wasmer too, I presume, but I don't see anywhere compat with WASI p2/p3 sockets. I'll look into it asap. regards,

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    Comment #47674472

    Very stable actually. We've enabled it by default as such. regards,

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    Comment #47672931

    We've extensively worked the compat layer. And every adapters out there should work as is. But most of time, we've exposed better way to achieve that (e.g. mTLS in memory, network …

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    Comment #47672341

    Author here. I forked Requests in mid-2023 because it's effectively frozen, and Python's HTTP capabilities have fallen far behind what the protocols and the ecosystem allow today. …

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    Comment #47612110

    Hi HN, I am the original author of "rtls". For years now, the Python experts are arguing about OpenSSL mandatory aspect in the distribution, and many other went into compiling CPyt…

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    Comment #47517194

    I spend 3 years developing Niquests, and believe me, HTTP is far from easy. Being a client means you have to speak to everyone, and no one have to speak to you (RFC are nice, but i…

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    Comment #47516434

    yes, plenty! testing it extensively, finding edge bugs, (...) and of course: spread the word on other project to help increasing adoption.

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    Comment #47516417

    help for getting it working is appreciated, we have it in mind. duly noted about the sponsorship, we accept constructive criticism, and alternative can be considered.

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    Comment #47516406

    nice to hear :)

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    Comment #47515752

    Thank you. Appreciated, you're welcome here anytime.

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    Comment #47515328

    agreed. as I said, it was a mistake from my end. and clearly looking to better myself.

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    Comment #47515075

    it's the gitmoji thing, I really don't like it, it was a mistake. Thinking to stop it soon. I was inspired by fastapi in the early days. I prefer conventionalcommits.org

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    Comment #47515061

    nee-quests, I am French native.

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    Comment #47515016

    ahah, "en effet"! je m'en souviendrai. more seriously, all that is needed is our collective effort. I've done my part by scarifying a lot of personal time for it.

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    Comment #47514966

    aiohttp is an excellent library. very stable. I concurs, but! it's too heavily tied to HTTP/1, and well, I am not a fan of opening thousands of TCP conn just to keep up with HTTP/2…

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    Comment #47514844

    the http landscape is rather scary lately in Python. instead of forking join forces... See Niquests https://github.com/jawah/niquests I am trying to resolve what you've seen. For y…

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    Comment #47362478

    And most importantly, we managed to get almost every plugin/3rd party tool bound to Requests in a working condition with this fork.

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    Comment #47362465

    Hi HN, I'm the maintainer of Niquests. For years, Python's Requests library was the gold standard, but it has been under feature freeze. As the web moved on, the Python ecosystem f…

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