urllib3 versus requests

[janetcgreen]

Hi, this is a request to use the requests module instead of just urllib3.PoolManager() to connect. For those of us who have to work with security issues and connect through a proxy server the urllib3.PoolManager does not work. The requests module handles all that.

[rweigel]

Would you post at #82 how you use requests, in particular the proxy configuration that you must pass it?

Related: #70

Would using the method there work? If so, I'll quickly make a release that adds a proxy keyword argument (should have done two years ago ...). Switching to requests is ideal, but will take development of new tests to ensure backwards compatability.