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requests: HTTP/1.1 response bodies and max_body limit
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Description
Summary
Extend the requests package with essential HTTP/1.1 client behaviour:
- Send requests as HTTP/1.1 (default), keep Connection: close
- Read response bodies with Content-Length and chunked Transfer-Encoding
- Case-insensitive response headers
- Fix relative Location in redirects (closes #931)
- Default max response size 32 KiB (
max_bodykwarg to override/disable)
Out of scope (follow-up PRs)
- TLS certificate verification (#838)
- Real stream=True / incremental body read (#777)
- gzip Content-Encoding, keep-alive pool, cookies
Testing
Unix port + ESP32 with fork mip index; extend test_requests.py socket mocks.
PR will follow from branch requests-http11-essentials.
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Research direction
Start with the requests package and the socket mocks in test_requests.py, then run the existing request tests on the Unix port. Done means the tests cover HTTP/1.1 requests, response body length and chunked transfer, case-insensitive headers, relative redirects, and the max_body limit on Unix and ESP32.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100