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requests vs urllib3: What are the differences?
requests: Python HTTP for Humans. Python HTTP for Humans; urllib3: HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling. HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
requests and urllib3 can be categorized as "PyPI Packages" tools.
requests and urllib3 are both open source tools. requests with 45.3K GitHub stars and 8.29K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than urllib3 with 2.68K GitHub stars and 842 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, requests has a broader approval, being mentioned in 217 company stacks & 90 developers stacks; compared to urllib3, which is listed in 95 company stacks and 28 developer stacks.
requests Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 10.7K
urllib3 Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 1.1K
requests Vulnerabilities
- Insufficiently Protected Credentials in RequestsHigh
- Python Requests Session FixationModerate
- Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header in requestsModerate
urllib3 Vulnerabilities
- Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in urllib3Critical
- Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser when passed URL containing many @ charactersHigh
- Improper Certificate Validation in urllib3High
requests Release info
Latest version
2.31.0
Apache-2.0
urllib3 Release info
Latest version
2.2.1
MIT
What is requests?
Python HTTP for Humans.
What is urllib3?
HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
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