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hpack: HTTP/2 Header Compression for Python
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hpack provides a simple Python interface to the `HPACK`_ compression algorithm,
used to compress HTTP headers in HTTP/2. Used by some of the most popular
HTTP/2 implementations in Python, HPACK offers a great Python interface as well
as optional upgrade to optimised C-based compression routines from `nghttp2`_.
Using hpack is easy:
.. code-block:: python
from hpack import Encoder, Decoder
e = Encoder()
encoded_bytes = e.encode(headers)
d = Decoder()
decoded_headers = d.decode(encoded_bytes)
hpack will transparently use nghttp2 on CPython if it's available, gaining even
better compression efficiency and speed, but it also makes available a
pure-Python implementation that conforms strictly to `RFC 7541`_.
Contents
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
installation
api
security/index
.. _HPACK: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541
.. _nghttp2: https://nghttp2.org/
.. _RFC 7541: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541
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