Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python’s builtin urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.

Things shouldn’t be this way. Not in Python.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro- and macro-level benchmarks. The three distinguishing characteristics of httperf are its robustness, which includes the ability to generate and sustain server overload, support for the HTTP/1.1 and SSL protocols, and its extensibility to new workload generators and performance measurements.

These days, language detection is really simple in most cases – just use the “Accept-Language” HTTP header, which pretty much every client on the planet passes to you.

Punjab is a HTTP jabber client interface. It is a BOSH or XEP-0124 connection manager that allows persistent client connections to a XMPP server. Supporting XMPP over BOSH or XEP-0206

Node is an easy way to build scalable network programs with Javascript

Alice is a RESTful interface to the RabbitMQ server that talks directly through erlang’s native interface, epmd. The purely RESTful server responds to the same interface as the RabbitMQ’s command-line interface and presents a native HTTP interface to the data.

Like the HTML Validator but for your server’s HTTP headers

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