jpayne@69: Metadata-Version: 2.1
jpayne@69: Name: h11
jpayne@69: Version: 0.14.0
jpayne@69: Summary: A pure-Python, bring-your-own-I/O implementation of HTTP/1.1
jpayne@69: Home-page: https://github.com/python-hyper/h11
jpayne@69: Author: Nathaniel J. Smith
jpayne@69: Author-email: njs@pobox.com
jpayne@69: License: MIT
jpayne@69: Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
jpayne@69: Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
jpayne@69: Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
jpayne@69: Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
jpayne@69: Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
jpayne@69: Classifier: Topic :: System :: Networking
jpayne@69: Requires-Python: >=3.7
jpayne@69: License-File: LICENSE.txt
jpayne@69: Requires-Dist: typing-extensions ; python_version < "3.8"
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: h11
jpayne@69: ===
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python-hyper/h11.svg?branch=master
jpayne@69: :target: https://travis-ci.org/python-hyper/h11
jpayne@69: :alt: Automated test status
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: .. image:: https://codecov.io/gh/python-hyper/h11/branch/master/graph/badge.svg
jpayne@69: :target: https://codecov.io/gh/python-hyper/h11
jpayne@69: :alt: Test coverage
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: .. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/h11/badge/?version=latest
jpayne@69: :target: http://h11.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
jpayne@69: :alt: Documentation Status
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: This is a little HTTP/1.1 library written from scratch in Python,
jpayne@69: heavily inspired by `hyper-h2 `_.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: It's a "bring-your-own-I/O" library; h11 contains no IO code
jpayne@69: whatsoever. This means you can hook h11 up to your favorite network
jpayne@69: API, and that could be anything you want: synchronous, threaded,
jpayne@69: asynchronous, or your own implementation of `RFC 6214
jpayne@69: `_ -- h11 won't judge you.
jpayne@69: (Compare this to the current state of the art, where every time a `new
jpayne@69: network API `_ comes along then someone
jpayne@69: gets to start over reimplementing the entire HTTP protocol from
jpayne@69: scratch.) Cory Benfield made an `excellent blog post describing the
jpayne@69: benefits of this approach
jpayne@69: `_, or if you like video
jpayne@69: then here's his `PyCon 2016 talk on the same theme
jpayne@69: `_.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: This also means that h11 is not immediately useful out of the box:
jpayne@69: it's a toolkit for building programs that speak HTTP, not something
jpayne@69: that could directly replace ``requests`` or ``twisted.web`` or
jpayne@69: whatever. But h11 makes it much easier to implement something like
jpayne@69: ``requests`` or ``twisted.web``.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: At a high level, working with h11 goes like this:
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: 1) First, create an ``h11.Connection`` object to track the state of a
jpayne@69: single HTTP/1.1 connection.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: 2) When you read data off the network, pass it to
jpayne@69: ``conn.receive_data(...)``; you'll get back a list of objects
jpayne@69: representing high-level HTTP "events".
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: 3) When you want to send a high-level HTTP event, create the
jpayne@69: corresponding "event" object and pass it to ``conn.send(...)``;
jpayne@69: this will give you back some bytes that you can then push out
jpayne@69: through the network.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: For example, a client might instantiate and then send a
jpayne@69: ``h11.Request`` object, then zero or more ``h11.Data`` objects for the
jpayne@69: request body (e.g., if this is a POST), and then a
jpayne@69: ``h11.EndOfMessage`` to indicate the end of the message. Then the
jpayne@69: server would then send back a ``h11.Response``, some ``h11.Data``, and
jpayne@69: its own ``h11.EndOfMessage``. If either side violates the protocol,
jpayne@69: you'll get a ``h11.ProtocolError`` exception.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: h11 is suitable for implementing both servers and clients, and has a
jpayne@69: pleasantly symmetric API: the events you send as a client are exactly
jpayne@69: the ones that you receive as a server and vice-versa.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: `Here's an example of a tiny HTTP client
jpayne@69: `_
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: It also has `a fine manual `_.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: FAQ
jpayne@69: ---
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: *Whyyyyy?*
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: I wanted to play with HTTP in `Curio
jpayne@69: `__ and `Trio
jpayne@69: `__, which at the time didn't have any
jpayne@69: HTTP libraries. So I thought, no big deal, Python has, like, a dozen
jpayne@69: different implementations of HTTP, surely I can find one that's
jpayne@69: reusable. I didn't find one, but I did find Cory's call-to-arms
jpayne@69: blog-post. So I figured, well, fine, if I have to implement HTTP from
jpayne@69: scratch, at least I can make sure no-one *else* has to ever again.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: *Should I use it?*
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: Maybe. You should be aware that it's a very young project. But, it's
jpayne@69: feature complete and has an exhaustive test-suite and complete docs,
jpayne@69: so the next step is for people to try using it and see how it goes
jpayne@69: :-). If you do then please let us know -- if nothing else we'll want
jpayne@69: to talk to you before making any incompatible changes!
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: *What are the features/limitations?*
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: Roughly speaking, it's trying to be a robust, complete, and non-hacky
jpayne@69: implementation of the first "chapter" of the HTTP/1.1 spec: `RFC 7230:
jpayne@69: HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing
jpayne@69: `_. That is, it mostly focuses on
jpayne@69: implementing HTTP at the level of taking bytes on and off the wire,
jpayne@69: and the headers related to that, and tries to be anal about spec
jpayne@69: conformance. It doesn't know about higher-level concerns like URL
jpayne@69: routing, conditional GETs, cross-origin cookie policies, or content
jpayne@69: negotiation. But it does know how to take care of framing,
jpayne@69: cross-version differences in keep-alive handling, and the "obsolete
jpayne@69: line folding" rule, so you can focus your energies on the hard /
jpayne@69: interesting parts for your application, and it tries to support the
jpayne@69: full specification in the sense that any useful HTTP/1.1 conformant
jpayne@69: application should be able to use h11.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: It's pure Python, and has no dependencies outside of the standard
jpayne@69: library.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: It has a test suite with 100.0% coverage for both statements and
jpayne@69: branches.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: Currently it supports Python 3 (testing on 3.7-3.10) and PyPy 3.
jpayne@69: The last Python 2-compatible version was h11 0.11.x.
jpayne@69: (Originally it had a Cython wrapper for `http-parser
jpayne@69: `_ and a beautiful nested state
jpayne@69: machine implemented with ``yield from`` to postprocess the output. But
jpayne@69: I had to take these out -- the new *parser* needs fewer lines-of-code
jpayne@69: than the old *parser wrapper*, is written in pure Python, uses no
jpayne@69: exotic language syntax, and has more features. It's sad, really; that
jpayne@69: old state machine was really slick. I just need a few sentences here
jpayne@69: to mourn that.)
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: I don't know how fast it is. I haven't benchmarked or profiled it yet,
jpayne@69: so it's probably got a few pointless hot spots, and I've been trying
jpayne@69: to err on the side of simplicity and robustness instead of
jpayne@69: micro-optimization. But at the architectural level I tried hard to
jpayne@69: avoid fundamentally bad decisions, e.g., I believe that all the
jpayne@69: parsing algorithms remain linear-time even in the face of pathological
jpayne@69: input like slowloris, and there are no byte-by-byte loops. (I also
jpayne@69: believe that it maintains bounded memory usage in the face of
jpayne@69: arbitrary/pathological input.)
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: The whole library is ~800 lines-of-code. You can read and understand
jpayne@69: the whole thing in less than an hour. Most of the energy invested in
jpayne@69: this so far has been spent on trying to keep things simple by
jpayne@69: minimizing special-cases and ad hoc state manipulation; even though it
jpayne@69: is now quite small and simple, I'm still annoyed that I haven't
jpayne@69: figured out how to make it even smaller and simpler. (Unfortunately,
jpayne@69: HTTP does not lend itself to simplicity.)
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: The API is ~feature complete and I don't expect the general outlines
jpayne@69: to change much, but you can't judge an API's ergonomics until you
jpayne@69: actually document and use it, so I'd expect some changes in the
jpayne@69: details.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: *How do I try it?*
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: .. code-block:: sh
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: $ pip install h11
jpayne@69: $ git clone git@github.com:python-hyper/h11
jpayne@69: $ cd h11/examples
jpayne@69: $ python basic-client.py
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: and go from there.
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: *License?*
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: MIT
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: *Code of conduct?*
jpayne@69:
jpayne@69: Contributors are requested to follow our `code of conduct
jpayne@69: `_ in
jpayne@69: all project spaces.