Simple https client in standard library

[Kwpolska (Chris Warrick)]

@blhsing

I think it isn’t unreasonable for students to be taught how to run pip install requests as well.

If it only were as easy as pip install requests… Teaching about virtual environments and enough of the packaging ecosystem to successfully install packages would take a lot of time that can be spent more productively, especially if the students are not going to be working much with Python specifically after the course.

@Rosuav

And nobody noticed. That’s how often it’s actually relevant. In fact, when I made that post, I started out by saying “I mean, until recently, you could still use HTTP 0.9 with most servers”, then did a few spot checks… and… yeah, it still works. But I haven’t actually used it since, uhh… I don’t even know.

Speaking of old HTTP versions, I was yesterday years old when I learned most modern HTTP servers will respond with HTTP/1.1 if you make a request with HTTP/1.0.