Urllib3 supports features left out of urllib and urllib2 libraries.

- Re-use the same socket connection for multiple requests (HTTPConnectionPool and HTTPSConnectionPool) (with optional client-side certificate verification). - File posting (encode_multipart_formdata). - Built-in redirection and retries (optional). - Supports gzip and deflate decoding. - Thread-safe and sanity-safe. - Small and easy to understand codebase perfect for extending and building upon.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.