A dependency free drop-in replacement for requests and requests-unixsocket for the common functions implemented using only Python 2 and 3 standard libraries.

• I have a project where I use requests because that's what everyone on stackoverflow tells me to do but I really only use simple GET/POST/PUT/DELETE functions.

• I want to communicate with my Docker daemon but I think it's ridiculous that I have to install requests AND requests-unixsocket just to send HTTP requests to a unix socket file.

• I have a project where the only dependency is requests and/or requests-unixsocket and I don't want to have to require users to install those just to use my project.

Well, if you find yourself thinking any of these when writing a project using request and/or requests-unixsocket then you should consider using this!

None, that's the point.

Just drop requests.py into your project directory!

Features and usage are the same as requests quickstart for the following:

• Make a Request link
• Passing Parameters In URLs link
• Response Content (except the encoding bit) link
• JSON Response Content link
• Custom Headers link
• More complicated POST requests link
• Response Status Codes (only the r.status_code bit) link
• Response Headers link
• Redirection and History (except the history bit) link

Unix socket usage is the same as requests-unixsocket documentation in regards to the scheme.

For example to send an HTTP request to /var/run/docker.sock you would use:

r = requests.get("http+unix://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/info")

I only implemented a subset of the features in requests which I found myself most commonly using. If there is interest for more of requests features I will implement them or feel free to make a PR if you want to add it yourself!

• Binary Response Content link
• Raw Response Content link
• POST a Multipart-Encoded File link
• Cookies link
• Timeouts link

Referenced https://github.com/docker/docker-py/blob/master/docker/transport/unixconn.py for Docker's socket HTTPConnection code.

Pull requests and contributions are welcomed!

For any questions or concerns, please create an issue or contact me.