Transfer-Encoding: chunked; API to get trailers?

[davidabarrett]

Is there a way to process trailers using Requests?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-4.1.2

Adding a trailer, (e.g. Content-MD5) is
especially useful to detect incomplete
streamed reponses from an apache server,
otherwise its difficult (impossible?) to write
a robust client for large server responses.

[Lukasa]

I'm afraid httplib, upon which requests is built, provides no API for obtaining trailers. This means we can't provide one either.

We are thinking of rewriting httplib, which would enable us to provide such support. In the meantime, I recommend you request the feature from the CPython developers.

Sorry we can't be of more help!

[davidabarrett]

Is there an existing thread somewhere on the status of
chunked trailers support for httplib in CPython and where
to post the request for it?

[Lukasa]

I did a quick search but found nothing. Trailers are a relatively uncommon feature, and I could find no request for the feature absolutely anywhere.

I recommend opening it on bugs.python.org, or possibly sending a mail to python-list.