A wrapper around Python's httplib for streaming, chunk-encoded HTTP requests. As used in the Plotly-Python API for streaming, real-time graphing in the browser: https://plot.ly/python/streaming.

from chunked_requests import Stream

stream = Stream('127.0.0.1', 8080)

stream.write('some data')

# take a break, go on a walk

stream.write('some more data') # reconnects if disconnected

response = stream.close()

See more in this IPython notebook: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/chriddyp/chunked_requests/blob/master/usage.ipynb?create=1

• s = Stream(addr, port=80, headers={})

  Initializes a connection to addr:port with headers.

• s.write(data, reconnect_on=(200, '', ))

  Write chunk-encoded data, and reconnect depending on the status code.

• response = s.close()

  Close connection and return a HTTPResponse object

• int s.maxtries

  Max number of times to attempt re-connecting before raising an error