Python urllib3 and how to handle cookie support?

Question

So I\'m looking into urllib3 because it has connection pooling and is thread safe (so performance is better, especially for crawling), but the documentation is... minimal to

Answer 1

You're correct, there's no immediately better way to do this right now. I would be more than happy to accept a patch if you have a congruent improvement.

One thing to keep in mind, urllib3's HTTPConnectionPool is intended to be a "pool of connections" to a specific host, as opposed to a stateful client. In that context, it makes sense to keep the tracking of cookies outside of the actual pool.

• shazow (the author of urllib3)