3. Advanced Usage

This document covers some of Requests more advanced features.

Contents

• 3.1. Session Objects
• 3.2. Request and Response Objects
• 3.3. Prepared Requests
• 3.4. SSL Cert Verification
• 3.5. CA Certificates
• 3.6. Body Content Workflow
• 3.7. Keep-Alive
• 3.8. Streaming Uploads
• 3.9. Chunk-Encoded Requests
• 3.10. POST Multiple Multipart-Encoded Files
• 3.11. Event Hooks
• 3.12. Custom Authentication
• 3.13. Streaming Requests
• 3.14. Proxies
  • 3.14.1. SOCKS
• 3.15. Compliance
  • 3.15.1. Encodings
• 3.16. HTTP Verbs
• 3.17. Link Headers
• 3.18. Transport Adapters
  • 3.18.1. Example: Specific SSL Version
• 3.19. Blocking Or Non-Blocking?
• 3.20. Header Ordering
• 3.21. Timeouts