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Name: h11 |
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Version: 0.14.0 |
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Summary: A pure-Python, bring-your-own-I/O implementation of HTTP/1.1 |
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Home-page: https://github.com/python-hyper/h11 |
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Author: Nathaniel J. Smith |
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Author-email: njs@pobox.com |
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License: MIT |
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Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha |
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Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers |
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Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7 |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8 |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 |
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10 |
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Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP |
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Classifier: Topic :: System :: Networking |
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Requires-Python: >=3.7 |
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License-File: LICENSE.txt |
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Requires-Dist: typing-extensions ; python_version < "3.8" |
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h11 |
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.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python-hyper/h11.svg?branch=master |
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:target: https://travis-ci.org/python-hyper/h11 |
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:alt: Automated test status |
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.. image:: https://codecov.io/gh/python-hyper/h11/branch/master/graph/badge.svg |
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:target: https://codecov.io/gh/python-hyper/h11 |
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:alt: Test coverage |
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.. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/h11/badge/?version=latest |
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:target: http://h11.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest |
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:alt: Documentation Status |
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This is a little HTTP/1.1 library written from scratch in Python, |
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heavily inspired by `hyper-h2 <https://hyper-h2.readthedocs.io/>`_. |
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It's a "bring-your-own-I/O" library; h11 contains no IO code |
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whatsoever. This means you can hook h11 up to your favorite network |
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API, and that could be anything you want: synchronous, threaded, |
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asynchronous, or your own implementation of `RFC 6214 |
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<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6214>`_ -- h11 won't judge you. |
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(Compare this to the current state of the art, where every time a `new |
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network API <https://trio.readthedocs.io/>`_ comes along then someone |
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gets to start over reimplementing the entire HTTP protocol from |
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scratch.) Cory Benfield made an `excellent blog post describing the |
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benefits of this approach |
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<https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/10/The_New_Hyper/>`_, or if you like video |
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then here's his `PyCon 2016 talk on the same theme |
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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cC3_jGwl_U>`_. |
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This also means that h11 is not immediately useful out of the box: |
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it's a toolkit for building programs that speak HTTP, not something |
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that could directly replace ``requests`` or ``twisted.web`` or |
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whatever. But h11 makes it much easier to implement something like |
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``requests`` or ``twisted.web``. |
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At a high level, working with h11 goes like this: |
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1) First, create an ``h11.Connection`` object to track the state of a |
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single HTTP/1.1 connection. |
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2) When you read data off the network, pass it to |
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``conn.receive_data(...)``; you'll get back a list of objects |
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representing high-level HTTP "events". |
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3) When you want to send a high-level HTTP event, create the |
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corresponding "event" object and pass it to ``conn.send(...)``; |
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this will give you back some bytes that you can then push out |
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through the network. |
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For example, a client might instantiate and then send a |
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``h11.Request`` object, then zero or more ``h11.Data`` objects for the |
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request body (e.g., if this is a POST), and then a |
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``h11.EndOfMessage`` to indicate the end of the message. Then the |
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server would then send back a ``h11.Response``, some ``h11.Data``, and |
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its own ``h11.EndOfMessage``. If either side violates the protocol, |
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you'll get a ``h11.ProtocolError`` exception. |
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h11 is suitable for implementing both servers and clients, and has a |
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pleasantly symmetric API: the events you send as a client are exactly |
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the ones that you receive as a server and vice-versa. |
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`Here's an example of a tiny HTTP client |
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<https://github.com/python-hyper/h11/blob/master/examples/basic-client.py>`_ |
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It also has `a fine manual <https://h11.readthedocs.io/>`_. |
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FAQ |
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*Whyyyyy?* |
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I wanted to play with HTTP in `Curio |
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<https://curio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html>`__ and `Trio |
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<https://trio.readthedocs.io>`__, which at the time didn't have any |
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HTTP libraries. So I thought, no big deal, Python has, like, a dozen |
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different implementations of HTTP, surely I can find one that's |
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reusable. I didn't find one, but I did find Cory's call-to-arms |
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blog-post. So I figured, well, fine, if I have to implement HTTP from |
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scratch, at least I can make sure no-one *else* has to ever again. |
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*Should I use it?* |
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Maybe. You should be aware that it's a very young project. But, it's |
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feature complete and has an exhaustive test-suite and complete docs, |
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so the next step is for people to try using it and see how it goes |
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:-). If you do then please let us know -- if nothing else we'll want |
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to talk to you before making any incompatible changes! |
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*What are the features/limitations?* |
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Roughly speaking, it's trying to be a robust, complete, and non-hacky |
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implementation of the first "chapter" of the HTTP/1.1 spec: `RFC 7230: |
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HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing |
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<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230>`_. That is, it mostly focuses on |
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implementing HTTP at the level of taking bytes on and off the wire, |
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and the headers related to that, and tries to be anal about spec |
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conformance. It doesn't know about higher-level concerns like URL |
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routing, conditional GETs, cross-origin cookie policies, or content |
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negotiation. But it does know how to take care of framing, |
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cross-version differences in keep-alive handling, and the "obsolete |
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line folding" rule, so you can focus your energies on the hard / |
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interesting parts for your application, and it tries to support the |
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full specification in the sense that any useful HTTP/1.1 conformant |
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application should be able to use h11. |
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It's pure Python, and has no dependencies outside of the standard |
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library. |
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It has a test suite with 100.0% coverage for both statements and |
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branches. |
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Currently it supports Python 3 (testing on 3.7-3.10) and PyPy 3. |
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The last Python 2-compatible version was h11 0.11.x. |
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(Originally it had a Cython wrapper for `http-parser |
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<https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser>`_ and a beautiful nested state |
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machine implemented with ``yield from`` to postprocess the output. But |
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I had to take these out -- the new *parser* needs fewer lines-of-code |
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than the old *parser wrapper*, is written in pure Python, uses no |
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exotic language syntax, and has more features. It's sad, really; that |
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old state machine was really slick. I just need a few sentences here |
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to mourn that.) |
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I don't know how fast it is. I haven't benchmarked or profiled it yet, |
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so it's probably got a few pointless hot spots, and I've been trying |
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to err on the side of simplicity and robustness instead of |
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micro-optimization. But at the architectural level I tried hard to |
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avoid fundamentally bad decisions, e.g., I believe that all the |
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parsing algorithms remain linear-time even in the face of pathological |
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input like slowloris, and there are no byte-by-byte loops. (I also |
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believe that it maintains bounded memory usage in the face of |
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arbitrary/pathological input.) |
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The whole library is ~800 lines-of-code. You can read and understand |
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the whole thing in less than an hour. Most of the energy invested in |
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this so far has been spent on trying to keep things simple by |
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minimizing special-cases and ad hoc state manipulation; even though it |
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is now quite small and simple, I'm still annoyed that I haven't |
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figured out how to make it even smaller and simpler. (Unfortunately, |
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HTTP does not lend itself to simplicity.) |
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The API is ~feature complete and I don't expect the general outlines |
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to change much, but you can't judge an API's ergonomics until you |
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actually document and use it, so I'd expect some changes in the |
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details. |
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*How do I try it?* |
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.. code-block:: sh |
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$ pip install h11 |
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$ git clone git@github.com:python-hyper/h11 |
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$ cd h11/examples |
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$ python basic-client.py |
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and go from there. |
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*License?* |
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MIT |
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*Code of conduct?* |
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Contributors are requested to follow our `code of conduct |
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<https://github.com/python-hyper/h11/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>`_ in |
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all project spaces. |
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