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Requests

HttpClient

The request is specified in the arguments to HttpClient.

The first argument is the url. The remaining are keyword arguments:

Keyword arguments:

  • method (str, optional): The HTTP method. Defaults to 'GET'.
  • headers (Optional[List[Header]], optional): The headers. Defaults to None.
  • content (Optional[Content], optional): The body content. Defaults to None.
  • loop (Optional[AbstractEventLoop], optional): The optional asyncio event loop. Defaults to None.
  • h11_bufsiz (int, optional): The HTTP/1 buffer size. Defaults to 8096.
  • cafile (Optional[str], optional): The path to a file of concatenated CA certificates in PEM format. Defaults to None.
  • capath (Optional[str], optional): The path to a directory containing several CA certificates in PEM format. Defaults to None.
  • cadata (Optional[str], optional): Either an ASCII string of one or more PEM-encoded certificates or a bytes-like object of DER-encoded certificates. Defaults to None.
  • decompressors (Optional[Mapping[bytes, Type[Decompressor]]], optional): The decompressors. Defaults to None.
  • protocols (Optional[List[str]], optional): The protocols. Defaults to None.

HttpSession

For an HttpSession there is a request method which takes the following arguments:

The first argument is the path. The remaining are keyword arguments:

Keyword arguments:

  • method (str, optional): The HTTP method. Defaults to 'GET'.
  • headers (Optional[List[Header]], optional): The headers. Defaults to None.
  • content (Optional[Content], optional): The body content. Defaults to None.