jayvdb created this task. jayvdb added subscribers: jayvdb, Ricordisamoa, Beta16, pywikipedia-bugs, VcamX, valhallasw. jayvdb added projects: pywikibot-core, Pywikibot-network. Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. TASK DESCRIPTION python-requests is a candidate alternative for httplib2. A proof of concept has been created: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/189821/ To smooth the transition to python-requests, it would be good for 'http' to support both httplib2 and requests, selected via a config variable. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98439 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jayvdb Cc: valhallasw, VcamX, Beta16, Ricordisamoa, jayvdb, Aklapper, pywikipedia-bugs