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A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

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Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 2, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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151 open issues indexed

Docstring examples in `from_key_val_list` show the pre-3.12 OrderedDict repr Open

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psf/requests#7627 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
PR 5410 got merged but is not in fact merged Open

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psf/requests#7620 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
OpenSSL 4 removed built-in logic for SKID and AKID Open

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psf/requests#7617 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Drop the versionless `License ::` classifier now that `license` is a valid SPDX expression Open

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psf/requests#7610 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Documentation for stream parameter is ambiguous Open

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psf/requests#7599 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Support for HTTP Query Method Open

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psf/requests#7574 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2026
raise FileNotFoundError for missing TLS material Open

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psf/requests#7564 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Documentation suggestion: Add troubleshooting guidance for common SSL verification errors Open

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psf/requests#7547 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 29, 2026
mypy warns about invalid types for json argument Open

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psf/requests#7443 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 14, 2026
documentation for requests.session.request(verify=...) duplicates requests.request() even where it is different Open

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psf/requests#7399 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Localization of The Requests Documentation Open

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psf/requests#7357 · Opened Apr 13, 2026
[Docs] Clarify behavior of timeout parameter in requests.get Open

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psf/requests#7350 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Documentation for ChunkedEncodingError is either incorrect or very misleading Open

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psf/requests#7341 · 11 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2026
Chardet is used, when it is available, not when `[use-chardet-on-py3]`-extra is installed Open

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psf/requests#7223 · 11 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 24, 2026
DMTF Redfish fails with 2.32 request module Open

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psf/requests#7188 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Request for clarification: URL parsing behavior in Requests (RFC 3986 vs WHATWG) Open

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psf/requests#7141 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Unable to override cookie policy in Session.prepare_request Open

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psf/requests#7122 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2025
2.32.5 breaks passing custom SSL context Open

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psf/requests#7040 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 6, 2025
POST Multipart-Encoding does not work if the Content-Type header has been previously defined in the session Open

Breaking API Change

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psf/requests#6992 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2025
`uri` field of digest authentication incorrectly filled when the URL contains semicolons in path Open

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psf/requests#6990 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2025
Incorrect Content-Length header with StringIO body Open

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psf/requests#6917 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2025
Unable to request a private URL endpoint with custom SNI and self-signed CA when the proxy is set Open

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psf/requests#6900 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Incorrect Handling of Escaped Quotes in Cookie Values Open

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psf/requests#6890 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2025
Unexpected `SSLEOFError` when Receiving Redirect (307) Response with Large Data Payload Open

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psf/requests#6885 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2025
PreparedRequests can't bypass URL normalization when proxies are used Open

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psf/requests#6830 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 18, 2024
Double-digit link-local IPv6 zone id raises ValueError Open

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psf/requests#6808 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Doc: missing example Open

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psf/requests#6782 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2024
requests 2.32.3 with IPv6 link local address fails with error: [Errno -2] Name or service not known Open

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psf/requests#6735 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 6, 2024
requests 2.32.3 & urllib3 1.26.18 issue with unicode put Open

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psf/requests#6734 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2024
Document which exceptions request() might raise Open

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psf/requests#6653 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 27, 2024
"Recommended Packages and Extensions" page asyncio recommendations are outdated Open

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psf/requests#6582 · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Requests are not retried when received body length is shorter than Content-Length Open

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psf/requests#6512 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2023
requests ignores no_proxy which contains a IPv6 CIDR Open

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psf/requests#6313 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 21, 2022
PUT requests for zero-byte files get 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked' header Open

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psf/requests#6294 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 23, 2022
IPv6 Zone Identifiers are not correctly parsed (still) Open

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psf/requests#6282 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2022
[Feature request or doc oversight?] Apparently, there's still no way to read uncompressed content as file-like object #465 Open

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psf/requests#6275 · Opened Nov 4, 2022
Mention pickling in the docs for creating custom Transport Adapters Open

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psf/requests#6255 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 8, 2022
apparent_encoding should be cached since chardet can be slow Open

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psf/requests#6250 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2022
Cookie having a Domain cookie-attribute with empty string fails to be added to the cookie jar Open

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psf/requests#6245 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 22, 2022
LookupDict does not implement full contract of the dict class Open

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psf/requests#6238 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2022
Transport adapters not honored with proxy Open

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psf/requests#6205 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 27, 2022
requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar: popitem() does not work Open

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psf/requests#6190 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2022
InvalidHeader exception when trying to add a ":method" header field (breaking change in 2.28.0) Open

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psf/requests#6167 · 16 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2022
2.28.0: sphinx warnings `reference target not found` Open

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psf/requests#6158 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2022
Incorrectly strips trailing dot from absolute hostnames, causing TooManyRedirects Open

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psf/requests#6131 · 1 comment · Opened May 11, 2022
`proxies` input argument is mutated Open

Breaking API Change

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psf/requests#6118 · 5 comments · Opened May 3, 2022
Still cannot prevent requests library from encoding Open

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psf/requests#6115 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 29, 2022
Cookies that include a port flag set to 443 aren't stored if they came from an https location without the 443 port in the URI Open

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psf/requests#6110 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2022
HTTPS proxy certificate is not validated Open

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psf/requests#6103 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2022
HTTPDigestAuth fails on non-latin credentials Open

Bug

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psf/requests#6102 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2022

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