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…IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. https://github.com/encode/httpx/blob/master/LICENSE.md The contributors provided the source of the project under these terms, which are stated…

comment by duskdozer · 2026-08-29 · in Migrating to HTTPX2

Biggest problem with httpx I see is authors sanity https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784 . I do not even understand what is his problem (too much or too little woke internet?).

comment by jelenzelen · 2026-08-28 · in Migrating to HTTPX2

Read for yourself: https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784 They also effectively killed off MkDocs: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/3677

comment by t098i3 · 2026-08-28 · in Migrating to HTTPX2

…against. I wrote a pretty long comment about my concerns for the breaking 1.0 version last year - https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3344#discussionc... - in that comment I recommended the HTTPX project release their 1.0 as a…

comment by simonw · 2026-08-28 · in Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784 > I've closed off access to issues and discussions. > I don't want to continue allowing an online environment with such an absurdly skewed gender representation. I find it intensely…

comment by ddorian43 · 2026-08-28 · in Migrating to HTTPX2

> I made a PR to fix it but the maintainers haven't applied it. :-( https://github.com/encode/httpx/pull/3733 Unfortunately, you may be the wrong gender to contribute to Encode repositories like httpx: > I've closed off access to issues…

comment by JimDabell · 2026-05-14 · in Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

…caused by a reference cycle. I made a PR to fix it but the maintainers haven't applied it. :-( https://github.com/encode/httpx/pull/3733 The reference cycle httpx creates is kind of a worst-case scenario for the incremental GC issue. Both…

comment by nas · 2026-05-13 · in Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

…It looks like 3 weeks ago a similar change happened in httpx - github discussions were disabled. https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784 >I don't want to continue allowing an online environment with such an absurdly skewed gender…

comment by localuser13 · 2026-03-23 · in The Slow Collapse of MkDocs

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story by luismedel · 2026-03-11 · 1 comment

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Httpx: Closing off access to issues and discussions

story by maqnius · 2026-03-05 · 1 comment

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Httpx closing down issues and discussions due to "skewed gender representation"

story by ZeroAurora · 2026-02-28 · 14 comments

Httpx/httpcore are abandoned and their connection pooling etc implementations are completely broken https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/3215 Many PRs trying to fix varying issues https://github.com/encode/httpcore/pulls But…

comment by mmmaantu · 2025-12-14 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Show HN: Pyreqwest – Powerful and fast Rust-reqwest based HTTP client for Python

story by mmmaantu · 2025-10-12 · 0 comments

…to deploy and run on the server. With only uv installed, i can: uv tool run "httpx[cli] @ git+https://github.com/encode/httpx" To be clear in this example i'm not pulling a package published on pypi, i'm running the HEAD of that git repo…

comment by CraigJPerry · 2025-10-09 · in Talk Python in Production

…asking why page X does not work in scraping mechanisms. https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi https://github.com/encode/httpx https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy https://github.com/apify/crawlee

comment by renegat0x0 · 2025-10-03 · in How I block all 26M of your curl requests

Miguel has reported the problem here https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/3348 -- good man!

comment by gjvc · 2024-10-25 · in Python Httpx Fails Under High Concurrency: Why Aiohttp Is the Better Choice?

There is a quick list here: https://github.com/encode/httpx/?tab=readme-ov-file#features Of these, I use the ability to make requests directly to ASGI applications (i.e. FastAPI) extensively when writing tests. I also appreciate that it…

comment by jessekv · 2024-05-20 · in Httpx – next-generation HTTP client for Python

For reference, it's a butterfly, not a moth. Source: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/834

comment by oasisaimlessly · 2024-02-28 · in A retrospective on Requests

see also https://github.com/encode/httpx/ for examples and comand-line screenshots

comment by gjvc · 2023-04-01 · in httpx – a next-generation HTTP client for Python

I really enjoy reading Python code from https://github.com/encode/starlette and https://github.com/encode/httpx

comment by simonw · 2023-01-01 · in Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?

…supports client-side caching, and HTTP/1.1 & HTTP/2, and here's the issue for HTTP/3 support: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/275

comment by westurner · 2022-09-08 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default

…package? Look at this httpx code, and obviously playing around with a simple web client can be fun https://github.com/encode/httpx/blob/master/httpx .

comment by ralston3 · 2021-12-27 · in Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Python fast?

…allows modern project to provides a sync and async API with the same protocol implementation. E.G: https://github.com/encode/httpx Also, I'm pretty glad gevent has not been adopted: - it's very hard to know if you are doing something wrong…

comment by BiteCode_dev · 2021-05-10 · in Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ https://github.com/encode/httpx

comment by karanbhangui · 2020-10-26 · in Web Scraping with JavaScript

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httpx: Next generation HTTP client for Python

story by tosh · 2020-10-02 · 0 comments

If it would be really hypermodern, it would use httpx instead of requests: https://github.com/encode/httpx

comment by kissgyorgy · 2020-05-28 · in Hypermodern Python

Thoughts on this one [0]? :-) [0]: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/752

comment by florimondmanca · 2020-01-11 · in Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python