Integrate functionality into urllib3

[sethmlarson]

👋 Hey, thanks for creating this project! When PyScript was announced at PyCon US 2022 I immediately tried to add support for synchronous HTTP requests w/ PyScript into urllib3 but was unfortunately unsuccessful at the time. I can see that support for this has grown since that time 🚀

I wanted to ask what you were thinking long-term for this project, if you'd like to land support for PyScript into urllib3 natively (and thus, many packages depending on urllib3/Requests would immediately be able to take advantage) versus the current patching approach. Let me know your thoughts on this.

Again, thanks much!

[koenvo]

Hi Seth! Thanks for the kind works!

With the release of PyScript.com the adoption of PyScript / Pyodide seems to be better and better. This is an awesome development as it makes it easier for people to start learning Python in an environment that doesn't require all kind of ops skills ("it's not working in my venv" etc).

A logical step forward was to make network requests possible. My idea was to create a patch so people can get start going without updating core libraries (like urllib3). The patch approach makes it also possible to use older installations/packages that won't get updates often.

Nevertheless I believe the next step would be to update the core libraries like urllib3 to be compatible with PyScript. It would be a great step forwards when people don't have to use the pyodide-http package, but "it just works". Happy to help where possible.

Thanks for your message!

[dberardo-com]

thanks for the work you are all doing ... i am indeed using this package somewhere else, and i get this error at one point:

File "/lib/python3.11/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 186, in _new_conn
    raise NewConnectionError(
urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x46e6e70>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 50] Protocol not available

i am assuming that this has the same cause of what is highlighted in this issue right ?

[sethmlarson]

@dberardo-com That is indeed the error message for this feature request.

[dberardo-com]

i am looking forward to see that fixed, i am using pyodide no nodejs backend and where i cannot get with it, i would like to "outsource" the tasks to a docker container. but docker python API relies on HTTP / urllib calls (same goes for k8s btw) and so i am kinda stuck ...

that would be a great "bridge-solution" while awaiting for more and more pyodide functionalities to come, and perhaps no need of using docker anymore for such use cases