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diff --git a/net/py-geventhttpclient/DESCR b/net/py-geventhttpclient/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..34e13a5f0e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/py-geventhttpclient/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +A high performance, concurrent HTTP client library for python using gevent. + +gevent.httplib support was removed in gevent 1.0, geventhttpclient now provides +that missing functionality. + +geventhttpclient uses a fast http parser, written in C, originating from nginx, +extracted and modified by Joyent. + +geventhttpclient has been specifically designed for high concurrency, streaming +and support HTTP 1.1 persistent connections. More generally it is designed for +efficiently pulling from REST APIs and streaming APIs like Twitter's. + +Safe SSL support is provided by default. geventhttpclient depends on the +certifi CA Bundle. This is the same CA Bundle which ships with the Requests +codebase, and is derived from Mozilla Firefox's canonical set. |