vshivam / unirest-python

Unirest in Python: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

This repository is a fork of Unirest Python.

So, what's new ? Better exception handling.

• When making unirest requests, clients can provide a callback method to receive the response. Whenever a callback is provided, unirest creates a new thread to execute the request. By default, unirest only handles urllib2.HTTPError when making these requests, so in case of a urllib2.URLError, the program execution simply stops. This is especially difficult to catch when things are happening in another thread.
• This fork adds the urllib2.URLError except clause to the try block. Since this exception does not have any HTTP Response code, the UnirestResponse object returned as a result has a response code of 0, an empty dict for headers and the error message from the exception.
• If you wish to have a different response, update the UnirestResponse object here.
• To be super safe, you can also add an except clause for ValueError. This exception will be thrown when the url is invalid e.g. no http:// prefix or blank.