Course: HTTP Requests with HTTPX

Experience making and processing HTTP requests using HTTPX will help you integrate such requests into your web applications. In this entirely hands-on course, you'll dive into the mechanics of HTTP requests and responses using the HTTPX library.

You'll begin by invoking basic GET requests to request data from a remote server. You'll then explore the different possible forms of responses - ranging from HTML content and structured JSON data to binary data, such as images and videos.

Moving on, you'll learn to use POST requests to submit information to a remote server. Lastly, you'll cover a host of other HTTP requests that can be invoked with HTTPX, namely HEAD requests to retrieve headers, OPTIONS requests to get communication information, PUT requests to create or update resources, and DELETE requests to remove them.

Various HTTPX features are used to optimize the processing of HTTP requests. This course introduces you to some advanced techniques that use HTTPX to send and process HTTP requests.

You'll start by looking at HTTPX streams, which allow the processing of large responses in chunks to reduce the load on memory resources. You'll then examine the HTTP response content that can determine how our application's subsequent actions are defined, including HTTP status codes, HTTP headers, and cookie usage.

Next, you'll configure requests to handle redirects on the server side, set timeout values to prevent long waits due to network or server issues, and touch upon the compatibility of the Python Requests library with HTTPX.

Finally, you'll focus on an essential feature of HTTPX - sending and asynchronously processing HTTP requests, which can significantly improve app performance.