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> Then I found out it was broken. I contributed a fix. The fix was ignored and there was never any release since November 2024.
This seems like a pretty good reason to fork to me.
> Sending HTTP requests is a basic capability in the modern world, the standard library should include a friendly, fully-featured, battle-tested, async-ready client. But not in Python,
Or Javascript (well node), or golang (http/net is _worse_ than urllib IMO), Rust , Java (UrlRequest is the same as python's), even dotnet's HttpClient is... fine.
Honestly the thing that consistently surprises me is that requests hasn't been standardised and brought into the standard library