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"__main__", mod_spec)

"openssl_version": "",

$ python2.7 test_requests.py

$ python3 main.py

(req2) nwani@dockerub01:~/requests$ export https_proxy=http:/my.proxy.com:3128

... (truncated) ...

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Adapter is eating MaxRetriesError's and throwing other errors

Aug 14, 2015 7:32:38 PM org.apache.tika.server.resource.TikaResource parse

CaseInsensitiveDict problem with python3 result in duplicated Content-Type/Length headers

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Possible Memory Leak

#1685 · psf/requests

_encode_params return bytes that break urlencode

#2844 · psf/requests

URL proxy auth with empty passwords doesn't emit auth header.

#3659 · psf/requests

Making requests to URLs with username and password does not respect no_proxy evironment settings

#4158 · psf/requests

SSLError -> ConnectionError in 2.18.2: intended?

#4209 · psf/requests

Doctest fails (7 out of 11)

#4986 · psf/requests

Running requests in parallel from a zip archive can create race condition when unpacking the cacerts.pem file

#5223 · psf/requests

Session requests are ~70% slower in version 2.26.0

#5891 · psf/requests

[BUG] JSONDecodeError can't be deserialized - invalid JSON raises a BrokenProcessPool and crashes the entire process

#6628 · psf/requests

SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE after upgrade from 2.31.0 to 2.32.2

#6715 · psf/requests

Test regressions with urllib3 2.4.0 on Python 3.13

#6934 · psf/requests

Adapter is eating MaxRetriesError's and throwing other errors

#6301 · psf/requests

netrc reading does not respect NETRC environment variable

#4318 · psf/requests

IOError when making https requests from executable zip archive

#4369 · psf/requests

cannot use json() on request in python 3.7 (TypeError: must be str, not bytes)

#4879 · psf/requests

Website and documentation are offline

#5214 · psf/requests

Two Host header are being sent when doing chunk transfer with Session

#5274 · psf/requests

Getting http://.example.com raises UnicodeError

#5367 · psf/requests

Preparing a request body without headers throws a TypeError

#5504 · psf/requests

GHA: Tests fail with ubuntu-20.04

#5662 · psf/requests

TestRequests.test_pyopenssl_redirect is broken in CI

#5846 · psf/requests

parsing of proxy url broken with requests 2.27.0

#6030 · psf/requests

Breaking change in 2.28.0 when using string enums as Headers (working in v2.27.1)

#6159 · psf/requests