This class implements an HTTP 1.1 client on top of Tornado's IOStreams.
It does not currently implement all applicable parts of the HTTP
- specification, but it does enough to work with major web service APIs
- (mostly tested against the Twitter API so far).
-
- This class has not been tested extensively in production and
- should be considered somewhat experimental as of the release of
- tornado 1.2. It is intended to become the default AsyncHTTPClient
- implementation in a future release. It may either be used
- directly, or to facilitate testing of this class with an existing
- application, setting the environment variable
- USE_SIMPLE_HTTPCLIENT=1 will cause this class to transparently
- replace tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient.
+ specification, but it does enough to work with major web service APIs.
Some features found in the curl-based AsyncHTTPClient are not yet
supported. In particular, proxies are not supported, connections