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Hello,

I am proposing the community to discover a HTTP client that ideally is a drop-in replacement of the popular Requests.
Also opening that discussions to listen at what you would expect / need from such a client nowadays.

It is the only client to truly leverage HTTP/2 and 3 capabilities. And you can migrate your actual code base without effort.

Source: https://github.com/jawah/niquests

Here a partial extract of its features:

• DNS over HTTPS, DNS over QUIC, DNS over TLS, and DNS over UDP
  
• Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
  
• OS truststore by default, no more certifi!
  
• OCSP Certificate Revocation Verification
  
• Advanced connection timings inspection
  
• In-memory certificates (CAs, and mTLS)
  
• Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
  
• Sessions with Cookie Persistence
  
• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
  
• International Domains and URLs
  
• Automatic honoring of .netrc
  
• Basic & Digest Authentication
  
• Familiar dict–like Cookies
  
• Network settings fine-tuning
  
• Object-oriented headers
  
• Multi-part File Uploads
  
• Chunked HTTP Requests
  
• Fully type-annotated!
  
• SOCKS Proxy Support
  
• Connection Timeouts
  
• Streaming Downloads
  
• HTTP/2 by default
  
• HTTP/3 over QUIC
  
• Multiplexed!
  
• Thread-safe!
  
• DNSSEC!
  
• Async!
  

>>> import niquests
>>> s = niquests.Session(resolver="doh+google://", multiplexed=True)
>>> r = s.get('https://pie.dev/basic-auth/user/pass', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=utf8'
>>> r.oheaders.content_type.charset
'utf8'
>>> r.encoding
'utf-8'
>>> r.text
'{"authenticated": true, ...'
>>> r.json()
{'authenticated': True, ...}
>>> r
<Response HTTP/3 [200]>
>>> r.ocsp_verified
True
>>> r.conn_info.established_latency
datetime.timedelta(microseconds=38)

This project has potential, so I like to think.
I am asking to the community to interact with this project to increase its visibility if you will. It would be appreciated.

Then, the open subject is: "What are the pains you encounter? How would do have them resolved?"

Regards,