* SSL verification. (Done)
* Proxy support. (Not done)
* HTTP/2 support. (Not done)
-* Support *both* async and sync operations. (Sync will be lightweight shim on top of async. Not done.)
+* Support *both* async and sync operations. (Done.)
## Motivation
...
```
+Thread-synchronous requests:
+
+```python
+http = httpcore.SyncConnectionPool()
+response = http.request('GET', 'http://example.com')
+assert response.status_code == 200
+assert response.body == b'Hello, world'
+```
+
## Building a Gateway Server
The level of abstraction fits in really well if you're just writing at