Warning: This is a work in progress. It's not ready for general use yet.

conn = httpnext.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
conn.request("GET", "/index.html")
r1 = conn.getresponse()
print(r1.status, r1.reason)
while not r1.closed:
    print(r1.read(200))

• RFC7230 - HTTP/1.1: Message Syntax and Routing - low-level message parsing and connection management

• RFC7231 - HTTP/1.1: Semantics and Content - methods, status codes and headers

• RFC7232 - HTTP/1.1: Conditional Requests - e.g., If-Modified-Since

• RFC7233 - HTTP/1.1: Range Requests - getting partial content

• RFC7234 - HTTP/1.1: Caching - browser and intermediary caches

• RFC7235 - HTTP/1.1: Authentication - a framework for HTTP authentication

• https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp/blob/master/aiohttp/client.py

• https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/http/client.py

• https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/_http_client.js

• https://github.com/lukasa/hyper - SPDY, HTTP2

• https://idea.popcount.org/2014-04-03-bind-before-connect/

Features

• Early error support (HTTP/1.1 8.2.3 Expect: 100-continue)
• Mid-stream error support
• Chunked i/o, event support
• Zero-length chunk keepalive
• asyncio.IncompleReadError.expected is the total expected size, not the remaining size
• HTTP parsing without establishing a connection
• Incremental HTTP parsing
• Raw socket control
• backpressure tests
• Perf regression tests
• Defined extensibility strategy, mixins/plugins
• pyOpenSSL integration