# Buildsheet autogenerated by ravenadm tool -- Do not edit. NAMEBASE= python-h11 VERSION= 0.14.0 KEYWORDS= python VARIANTS= v12 v13 SDESC[v12]= HTTP/1.1 implementation (3.12) SDESC[v13]= HTTP/1.1 implementation (3.13) HOMEPAGE= https://github.com/python-hyper/h11 CONTACT= Python_Automaton[python@ironwolf.systems] DOWNLOAD_GROUPS= main SITES[main]= PYPIWHL/95/04/ff642e65ad6b90db43e668d70ffb6736436c7ce41fcc549f4e9472234127 DISTFILE[1]= h11-0.14.0-py3-none-any.whl:main DIST_SUBDIR= python-src DF_INDEX= 1 SPKGS[v12]= single SPKGS[v13]= single OPTIONS_AVAILABLE= PY312 PY313 OPTIONS_STANDARD= none VOPTS[v12]= PY312=ON PY313=OFF VOPTS[v13]= PY312=OFF PY313=ON DISTNAME= h11-0.14.0.dist-info GENERATED= yes [PY312].USES_ON= python:v12,wheel [PY313].USES_ON= python:v13,wheel [FILE:4042:descriptions/desc.single] h11 === :alt: Automated test status :alt: Test coverage :alt: Documentation Status This is a little HTTP/1.1 library written from scratch in Python, heavily inspired by `hyper-h2 `_. It's a "bring-your-own-I/O" library; h11 contains no IO code whatsoever. This means you can hook h11 up to your favorite network API, and that could be anything you want: synchronous, threaded, asynchronous, or your own implementation of [RFC 6214 ] -- h11 won't judge you. (Compare this to the current state of the art, where every time a [new network API] comes along then someone gets to start over reimplementing the entire HTTP protocol from scratch.) Cory Benfield made an [excellent blog post describing the benefits of this approach ], or if you like video then here's his [PyCon 2016 talk on the same theme ]. This also means that h11 is not immediately useful out of the box: it's a toolkit for building programs that speak HTTP, not something that could directly replace requests or ``twisted.web`` or whatever. But h11 makes it much easier to implement something like requests or ``twisted.web``. At a high level, working with h11 goes like this: 1) First, create an ``h11.Connection`` object to track the state of a single HTTP/1.1 connection. 2) When you read data off the network, pass it to ``conn.receive_data(...)``; you'll get back a list of objects representing high-level HTTP "events". 3) When you want to send a high-level HTTP event, create the corresponding "event" object and pass it to ``conn.send(...)``; this will give you back some bytes that you can then push out through the network. For example, a client might instantiate and then send a ``h11.Request`` object, then zero or more ``h11.Data`` objects for the request body (e.g., if this is a POST), and then a ``h11.EndOfMessage`` to indicate the end of the message. Then the server would then send back a ``h11.Response``, some ``h11.Data``, and its own ``h11.EndOfMessage``. If either side violates the protocol, you'll get a ``h11.ProtocolError`` exception. h11 is suitable for implementing both servers and clients, and has a pleasantly symmetric API: the events you send as a client are exactly the ones that you receive as a server and vice-versa. [Here's an example of a tiny HTTP client ] It also has [a fine manual]. FAQ --- *Whyyyyy?* I wanted to play with HTTP in [Curio ] and [Trio ], which at the time didn't have any HTTP libraries. So I thought, no big deal, Python has, like, a dozen different implementations of HTTP, surely I can find one that's reusable. I didn't find one, but I did find Cory's call-to-arms blog-post. So I figured, well, fine, if I have to implement HTTP from scratch, at least I can make sure no-one *else* has to ever again. *Should I use it?* Maybe. You should be aware that it's a very young project. But, it's feature complete and has an exhaustive test-suite and complete docs, so the next step is for people to try using it and see how it goes :-). If you do then please let us know -- if nothing else we'll want to talk to you before making any incompatible changes! *What are the features/limitations?* Roughly speaking, it's trying to be a robust, complete, and non-hacky implementation of the first "chapter" of the HTTP/1.1 spec: `RFC 7230: HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing `_. That is, it mostly focuses on implementing HTTP at the level of taking bytes on and off the wire, and the headers related to that, and tries to be anal about spec conformance. It doesn't know about higher-level concerns like URL routing, conditional GETs, cross-origin cookie policies, or content negotiation. But it does know how to take care of framing, cross-version differences in keep-alive handling, and the "obsolete line folding" rule, so you can focus your energies on the hard / interesting parts for your application, and it tries to support the full specification in the sense that any useful HTTP/1.1 conformant [FILE:117:distinfo] e3fe4ac4b851c468cc8363d500db52c2ead036020723024a109d37346efaa761 58259 python-src/h11-0.14.0-py3-none-any.whl