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 should use the requests library. It uses urllib3 but makes things like adding cookies trivial.

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

import requests
r1 = requests.get(url, cookies={'somename':'somevalue'})
print(r1.content)