v2.0 Wishlist

Not sure we’ll do this, but if we ever get a v2.0 release, some major changes that would be nice to see:

• Deprecate/remove outdated APIs
  • pool.urlopen(...) (in favour of consuming a pre-configured request object; the rest of the RequestMethod helpers will probably remain backwards-compatible)
  • response.data (in favour of .read())
  • Default response.read(preload_content=False) https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/issues/436
  • (What else am I forgetting?)
• More context managers as a default API! (To allow block-based closing/release, and possibly async-ness) https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/issues/809
• Request history
  • We’ll need a pre-configurable request object (instead of using a few dozen keyword params).
• Autoconfig for AppEngine/Proxy settings/SSL (certifi)/others?
  • We’ll need a Session-like class in front of PoolManager that is more implicit. Ideally any new feature we add which can get auto-configured based on env should happen magically here.
• More configurable security?
  • I forget what we were doing for this, I remember we were working on some SSLContext abstraction?
• No exposed dict registries, switch to callables. (Related: #828)
• Return proper types on .read() (should this be bytes? or header-sensitive encoding?)
• Unlikely long shots:
  • Get rid of httplib dependence.
    • Add trailing header support (#804)
  • Async by default
  • http/2 support
  • Drop a Python, any Python. (Probably the 2nd Python) #883

TODO: Cross-link existing issue refs.

[haikuginger]

@yan12125, I think a lot of the people who work on the project have had other commitments so work has somewhat slowed down a bit. Obviously we all want to get there, but unless I’m mistaken, we don’t currently have anyone on the team working on OSS full-time like we’ve been lucky enough to have in the past.

[yan12125]

Hello, is there any further plan or progress on this topic? I’m looking forward to an urllib3 not depending on Python’s built-in http.client so that more features are possible. An example is https://github.com/requests/toolbelt/issues/136.