urllib3 VS pycurl

I've had a good experience doing a couple of bug fix bounties for urllib3 https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues . I'd be interested in how the maintainers how found running the bug bounty and if it's given them more useful fixes or if it just adds more noise to deal with

> Could not import extension sphinx.builders.linkcheck (exception: urllib3 v2.0 only supports OpenSSL 1.1.1+, currently the 'ssl' module is compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017. See: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/2168)

This error is coming from Python, it's telling us Python is failing to import the urllib3 library, these lines here are important:

Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to urllib3.

Judging projects based on stars is really immature. for example everyone knows requests https://github.com/psf/requests the python package that is used in every python project out there. it has 47k star too WOW. but the thing that less people know is urllib3. https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3. it has only 3k stars. It basically does the heavy lifting for requests!!

urllib3 – Python HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, user friendly, and more

I'm not really clear on how to find out what issues have currently active bounties attached to them. I followed some links to this github query: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ai...

but all I see there are issues that appear to have already been paid for.

(I've chopped it down a bit to emphasise the important bits)

But then I looked at upstream and I notice they've added type annotations, which do greatly improve things:

https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/e16beb210c03c6f5ce4e...

    def _new_conn(self) -> socket.socket:

You have somehow installed an extremely old version of urllib3. It looks like the selectors module was deleted in 2018.

I've found httpx to be very approachable for my API consumption tasks and less wordy than urllib3.

pycurl is less popular as a Python library, but interfaces with the well-known libcurl.