Show HN: We made a full-featured Python HTTP client work inside WASI

Category: library

Tags: http-client, wasi, webassembly, python, async

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

Niquests is a Python HTTP client that supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3, with a requests-compatible API. It now runs inside WASI, enabling Python HTTP clients in WebAssembly environments. This innovation expands the reach of Python applications into sandboxed and edge environments.

Target audience: backend developers, Python developers, edge computing developers

Repository: https://niquests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/quickstart.html#running-as-a-wasi-component

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