Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Features:

 * International Domains and URLs
 * Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
 * Sessions with Cookie Persistence
 * Browser-style SSL Verification
 * Basic/Digest Authentication
 * Elegant Key/Value Cookies
 * Automatic Decompression
 * Unicode Response Bodies
 * Multipart File Uploads
 * Connection Timeouts
 * Thread-safety
 * HTTP(S) Proxy Support

WWW: http://python-requests.org