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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Why I forked httpx published on 2026-03-25 · tagged with #httpx, #httpxyz and #python Yesterday I forked httpx. The new fork is called httpxyz. Reasons for the fork HTTPX is a very popular HTTP client for Python. There is lots of code depending on it.

https://viralpique.com/why-i-forked-httpx-blog/

I Forked Httpx

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/httpxyz.html

#HackerNews #I #Forked #Httpx #Httpx #OpenSource #Forking #WebDevelopment #HackerNews

Why I forked httpx - the popular python package:

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/httpxyz.html

#python #httpx #httpxyz

There's a new piece explaining "The Slow Collapse of #MkDocs": "How personality clashes, an absent founder, and a controversial redesign fractured one of Python's most popular projects."

https://fpgmaas.com/blog/collapse-of-mkdocs/

Well, that says a lot. But what's really interesting is that MkDocs 2.x is being developed as part of the "encode" organization. That's great, right? The people who gave us such great libraries as #httpx?

Well, turns out no, not at all. It looks like encode has already crumbled and became immensely toxic.

httpx is not allowing bug reports anymore, apparently because of "absurdly skewed gender representation", whatever that means.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260228113715/https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784

That also explained why starlette moved out of the organization a while back:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260323042730/https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/issues/3180

There's a great rot in #OpenSource.

#FreeSoftware #Python

Hey, in light of https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784 , does anyone know of how to get in touch or give feedback?

I guess there's a stackoverflow tag

#Python #HTTPX

Does the concept behind #python #httpx.Auth make sense?

Auth instances are responsible for setting up an Authorization header (or equivalent) but in some cases they might need to refresh their tokens or make other HTTP requests. httpx facilitates this by making Auth instances generators, and treating all but last yielded values as auth-related requests, and only the last one is the authorized user request.

Except I haven’t seen a library using this mechanism - all of them have their own inner httpx.Client instances

#programming

Ok, I got a #Python #HTTPX problem.

I have a few custom httpx.Auth implementations, but I want them to pull from some common flows--namely GitHub Actions get-an-OIDC.

In the standard form, you can just use `yield from`, and then requests and responses get shuffled around correctly, and you can just be like `token = yield from do_github()`

but then I need to do non-http async things, and it all gets messy.

because async generator can't use `yield from`, and all i've got is manual pumping.

HTTPX is a nice Python HTTP client. Here is a comparison of HTTPX synchronous and asynchronous clients.

https://gavinw.me/notes/python/httpx-sync-async.html

#python #httpx #async