# aioweb Async HTTP session wrapper over `aiohttp`. Adds session-level proxies, header overwrites, ephemeral (per-request generated) headers, domain rewriting, request previews / cURL export, and retry-with-backoff. The byte-sending is isolated behind one overridable method (`_raw_request`), so a TLS-fingerprinting backend can subclass and swap the HTTP client while inheriting everything else. ## Install `requirements.txt`: ``` aioweb @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aioweb.git@v1.0.2 ``` Direct: ```bash pip install "aioweb @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aioweb.git@v1.0.2" ``` Requires `aiohttp` and `yarl` (pulled transitively), plus the sibling `commons` library (a private `git+ssh` package — the install needs access to the `rethink-public` org). Drop the `@v1.0.2` suffix from the line above to install the latest unpinned. ## Usage ```python from aioweb import ExtendedSession async with ExtendedSession(proxies={"https": "http://user:pass@host:port"}, timeout=15) as s: resp = await s.request_with_retries("GET", "https://example.com") if resp: # FailureResponse is falsy data = resp.json() # or resp.text(), resp.content ``` Sessions must be closed explicitly — use `async with` or `await s.close()`. There is no `__del__` auto-close (unsafe for async resources); leaking a session emits a `ResourceWarning`. ## Responses `request`/`request_with_retries` return a `Response` (success or non-retryable status) or a falsy `FailureResponse` (all retries failed). Both expose the same surface as **properties**, so callers branch uniformly: - `status_code`, `headers`, `url`, `reason`, `cookies`, `history`, `redirect_chain` - `is_success` (2xx), `is_redirect` - `content` (bytes), `text(encoding=None)`, `json()` (None if not JSON) - `raise_for_status()` raises `AiowebError` on non-2xx - `bool(resp)` / `if resp:` is `is_success` ## Retries `request_with_retries` retries on exceptions **and** retryable statuses (429, 500, 502, 503, 504 by default), with exponential backoff (`backoff_base ** attempt`). ```python resp = await s.request_with_retries( "GET", url, attempts=5, backoff_base=2.0, retry_statuses={429, 503}, # override which statuses retry ) ``` Returns a `FailureResponse` (falsy) if every attempt fails. `request()` (the non-retrying call) raises on failure: a total timeout raises `aiohttp.ServerTimeoutError`, and any other network/protocol failure raises its real `aiohttp.ClientError` subtype as-is (`ClientConnectorError`, `ClientProxyConnectionError`, `ClientResponseError` with `.status`/`.headers`, `TooManyRedirects`, ...) — it is not flattened into the base `ClientError`, so direct callers can branch by type or read subtype attributes. `request_with_retries` catches the base `aiohttp.ClientError` (and `asyncio.TimeoutError`) across all attempts and returns a falsy `FailureResponse` instead of raising. ## Header overwrites & ephemeral headers ```python s.overwrite_header("User-Agent", "custom") # replace per request s.overwrite_inject(True) # also add when absent s.set_ephemeral("X-Time", lambda: str(time.time())) # generated fresh each request ``` With `inject=False` (default) overwrites only replace headers already present in a request; with `inject=True` they're added regardless. ## Domain rewriting ```python s.overwrite_domain("internal.local", "127.0.0.1") # host-substring rewrite ``` ## Preview / debug ```python print(s.preview("POST", url, json={"a": 1}).as_curl()) # equivalent cURL command ``` `preview()` is synchronous and never touches the backend session — it works before any event loop is running (e.g. building a preview at import/setup time), not just inside `asyncio.run()`. Its default cookie lookup only reads cookies from an already-built session; if the session hasn't been built yet there are no cookies to read, so it returns none by default (pass `cookies=` explicitly to preview cookies for a session that hasn't sent a request yet). `as_curl()` renders `params` (merged into the url's query string) and `timeout` (as `--max-time`) as well as headers/body/proxy, so the emitted command is faithful to what `request()` actually sends. Pass `debug=True` to `request_with_retries` to log the cURL preview and request flow. ## Custom backends The `_raw_request(method, url, **kwargs) -> Response` method is the only place that touches the HTTP client. To use a different backend (e.g. a TLS-fingerprinting client like curl_cffi), subclass `ExtendedSession` and override just `_raw_request`, building a `Response` from that backend's primitives: ```python class MySession(ExtendedSession): async def _raw_request(self, method, url, **kwargs): r = await my_client.request(method, url, **kwargs) return Response( status_code=r.status, headers=r.headers, content=await r.read(), url=str(r.url), reason=r.reason, ) ``` Everything else — header overwrites, ephemeral headers, domain rewriting, proxy resolution, retries, previews — is inherited. `Response` is built from primitives (status, headers, content, url, history) precisely so any backend can produce one. ## Migrating from the original Back-compat shims are in place for the common path: - `aiowebResponse` is aliased to `Response` (the class was renamed) — old imports work. - `request_retries(session, ...)` and `test_proxies(session)` remain as module functions. - `raise_for_status` now raises `AiowebError` (a subclass of `Exception`), so `except Exception` still catches it. Two changes can't be shimmed without re-introducing the bugs they fix: - **`is_success` is now a property on `FailureResponse`, not a method.** Code that *called* `failure.is_success()` must drop the parens to `failure.is_success`. (Code that wrote `if failure.is_success` was previously always-truthy — a bug — and now behaves correctly.) - **No `__del__` auto-close.** Sessions must be closed via `async with` or `await s.close()`; a leaked session emits a `ResourceWarning`. The old finalizer-based auto-close was unsafe and was removed. ## Changelog ### v0.1.13 - **Session-default timeout no longer poisons pooled keep-alive connections.** The default `ClientTimeout` set `sock_read=timeout/2` alongside `total`. Under `aiohttp>=3.14`, that read timer re-arms on every request dispatched over a pooled protocol, including idle connections between requests; when it fires it permanently poisons the pooled connection (`SocketTimeoutError` on the next use, instantly, without contacting the server) — a real error from the server (e.g. a 503) could come back as a client-side `FailureResponse(status=0, reason='timeout')` instead. `sock_read` is now dropped from the session default; `total` (and `connect`/`sock_connect`) still bound every request, and the per-call `timeout=N` path (`ClientTimeout(total=N)`, no `sock_read`) was already unaffected. ### v0.1.12 - **Docstring-only.** Restored one-line docstrings on `FailureResponse`'s `redirect_chain`, `text()`, `json()`, and `raise_for_status()` — a prior de-bloat pass stripped them below the public tier while the `Response` twins kept theirs. No behavior change. ### v0.1.11 - **`preview()` no longer requires a running event loop.** Its default cookie lookup (`cookies=` not passed) previously called `_cookies_for_url()`, which reached the backend session and built it if absent — under aiohttp>=3.14 that needs a running loop, so `preview()` raised `RuntimeError('no running event loop')` when called before the loop starts, defeating its own pre-loop build/inspect use case (v0.1.7). Now the default cookie lookup is skipped entirely when the session hasn't been built yet (nothing could have been set on a session that doesn't exist); `cookies={}` and in-loop calls are unaffected. - **`set_cookie(domain=None)` now honors `path`.** The `domain=None` branch returned right after `update_cookies()`, before the line that sets the morsel's `path` — so a shared cookie (`set_cookie(name, value, path="/api")`, no `domain=`) always stored the `SimpleCookie` default `path="/"` instead. The morsel's `path` is now set before the `domain=None` early return. The domain-bound branch was already correct and is unchanged. ### v0.1.10 - Docs-only pass: compressed module/method docstrings and comments that restated README/CLAUDE prose, replaced em-dashes with hyphens. No behavior change. ### v0.1.9 - **`_get_proxy()`/`request()` proxy resolution now checks `is None`, not truthiness.** A per-call `proxies={}` previously fell back to the session's configured proxies instead of disabling them for that call. `request()` also no longer clobbers a native `proxy=` kwarg with the resolved session/`proxies=` value (a real IP-unmasking leak) — passing both now raises `ValueError` instead of silently picking one. - **`Response.text(encoding=...)` no longer returns a stale cached decode.** A second call with an explicit `encoding=` previously still returned the first (possibly differently-encoded) cached decode; an explicit encoding now bypasses the cache. - **`preview()` now rewrites the url before resolving cookies**, matching what `request()` actually sends — previously cookies were resolved against the pre-rewrite host, which could miss or misattribute host-bound cookies. - **`request_with_retries(attempts=0)` now floors to 1 attempt**, not silently `DEFAULT_ATTEMPTS` (3). `attempts` is checked with `is None`, not truthiness. ### v0.1.8 - **`request()` no longer flattens `aiohttp.ClientError` subtypes.** Every failure (connect errors, proxy errors, `raise_for_status()`-style response errors, redirect limits, ...) was re-raised as a bare `aiohttp.ClientError`, losing the real subtype and its attributes (`.os_error`, `.status`, `.headers`, ...) — a direct caller doing `except ClientProxyConnectionError:` or `if e.status == 401` would silently never match. Now the original exception is re-raised as-is (its subtype, attributes, and `__cause__` all preserved). `request_with_retries` still catches the base `aiohttp.ClientError` across attempts, so its behavior (and its `FailureResponse` return on exhaustion) is unchanged. - **`as_curl()` now renders `params` and `timeout`.** Previously a preview built with `params=` silently omitted the query string (and a `timeout=` omitted `--max-time`), so a `debug=True` cURL replay of a params-driven request hit a different URL than the one actually sent. `params` are now merged into the url's query string (via `yarl`) and `timeout` is emitted as `--max-time`. ### v0.1.7 - **`get_cookies()` now returns real cookies.** Previously called `filter_cookies()` with no URL, which only ever returns domain-less shared cookies — every normal domain-bound cookie (including ones set by a real `Set-Cookie` response) was silently omitted. Now iterates the jar directly. - **`set_cookie()` no longer leaks a shared cookie to every host.** A bare hostname (`domain="example.com"`) built a schemeless URL, which aiohttp's jar treats as a domain-less "shared" cookie sent with every request the session makes, including unrelated hosts. A scheme is now added when missing so the cookie is scoped to that host. - **`set_cookie()` now honors `path`** (previously ignored — the cookie always landed at `path="/"`). `domain=None` is unchanged in meaning but now stores a truly shared cookie (sent to every host) instead of one silently bound to `localhost` only, which made `set_cookie(name, value)` (no domain) a silent no-op for any real request. - **The backend session is built lazily**, not in `__init__`. Under aiohttp 3.14, constructing `aiohttp.ClientSession` requires a running event loop; eager construction crashed the common host pattern of attaching a session before the loop starts (e.g. `bot.http = ExtendedSession(...)` in `Bot.__init__`). The session (and any subclass's `_create_session` override) now builds on first access instead. ### v0.1.2 - Pinned `commons` to v0.2.1 (retry `attempts` floor fix). ### v0.1.1 - **JSON list bodies** now route to `json=` (were wrongly form-encoded via `data=` — only dicts went to `json=` before). - **Exhausted retries return the real last response.** When every attempt hit a retryable status (429/5xx), the loop discarded it and returned a synthetic `FailureResponse` (status 0); now the real last 4xx/5xx `Response` is returned (only a pure-exception failure yields `FailureResponse`). - Retry/backoff moved onto `commons.aretry` (shared engine); backoff schedule unchanged. Adds a `commons` dependency. ## Versioning Releases are tagged `vX.Y.Z`. The install line above pins a release; drop the `@vX.Y.Z` suffix to install the latest unpinned. Pin deliberately for reproducible installs.