urllib3

Python urllib3 and how to handle cookie support?

So I'm looking into urllib3 because it has connection pooling and is thread safe (so performance is better, especially for crawling), but the documentation is... minimal to say the least. urllib2 has build_opener so something like: #!/usr/bin/python import cookielib, urllib2 cj = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener(urlli...

Make urllib retry multiple times

My Python application makes a lot of HTTP requests using the urllib2 module. This application might be used over very unreliable networks where latencies could be low and dropped packets and network timeouts might be very common. Is is possible to override a part of the urllib2 module so that each request is retried an X number of times ...

example urllib3 and threading in python

Hi Everyone, I am trying to use urllib3 in simple thread to fetch several wiki pages. The script will Create 1 connection for every thread (I don't understand why) and Hang forever. Any tip, advice or simple example of urllib3 and threading import threadpool from urllib3 import connection_from_url HTTP_POOL = connection_from_url(url...