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Section 3 Recap & Course Conclusion

Making HTTP Requests With Python Christopher Bailey 00:48

This lesson is a recap of the third section. You learned about:

Authentication
SSL Certificate Verification
Performance
- Timeouts
- The Session Object
- Max Retries

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Congratulations, you made it to the end of the course! What’s your #1 takeaway or favorite thing you learned? How are you going to put your newfound skills to use? Leave a comment in the discussion section and let us know.

00:00 This is the end of Section 3 and the end of this tutorial series. In Section 3, you worked on authentication, and you learned about a couple of different authentication methods.

00:14 Next, you learned that SSL Certificate verification is built into requests with the package certifi. And lastly, you worked through enhancing performance by looking at timeouts,

00:30 exploring the Session object, and talking about max_retries. It’s been great having you along for this tutorial series, and I look forward to seeing you again later on realpython.com. Thanks!

Chris Bailey RP Team on April 6, 2020

Hi @Ganesh Pai, Requests by default uses SSL. There is a method to turn verification off, which is covered in the previous video lesson “SSL Certificate Verification”. Here is a link to the Request Docs with more information regarding using SSL and how it is on by default. Requests uses a package called Certifi that will be installed when using pip, but may be a good practice to look for updates as certificates and such change. I hope this helps with what you are looking for.

mikesult on May 5, 2020

Thanks Chris, great course. I expecially liked how you explained concepts using the REPL before getting to writing the scripts. It’s a great way to learn and experiment, I’m going to add more of that to my workflow.

Chris Bailey RP Team on May 5, 2020

Thanks @mikesult, It has become my practice now. Also I’m learning a few other tricks from the other authors and course creators. The workflow will always be evolving, which really is a good thing.

Stanley Ndagi on June 2, 2020

Awesome content

I noted unanswered questions in the intermediate slides that I think the users would appreciate answers. All the same. Thanks

WoBa on June 9, 2020

Hey, thanks! Few things: - what is the reason for putting “requests.get” inside “try:” statement ? - isn’t it better to use github.com/psf/requests/blob/master/requests/status_codes.py like “if r.ok:” ? - it would be good to introduce pprint(json) - no example for verify

Abderraouf Z on Dec. 11, 2020

Excellent course. You explain well a lot of content. Just a remark, for me you went a little too fast concerning session. I did not fully understand that concept.

Mark on July 5, 2021

My first web scraping intro. I’m a blank slate. Having said that, I know this isn’t intended to be intense teaching material, but man, that was a flyby. But I have a base of sorts to continue learning.

jramirez857 on Dec. 31, 2021

Great course! I had used requests before briefly and enjoyed filling in some gaps about its features.

Sandhya on Jan. 2, 2023

Hi, how we can handle ‘Resetting dropped connection:’ with

session?

sftfkatc on May 22, 2024

Even standing up - it went over my head. I will scout out a more project-based introduction and circle back for another attempt at this set of lessons soon (I’m looking forward to coming up to speed) I will check and see if there is another in the archives here at RP.

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