# Contributions to the urllib3 project
## Creator & Maintainer
* Andrey Petrov <andrey.petrov@shazow.net>
## Contributors
In chronological order:
* victor.vde <http://code.google.com/u/victor.vde/>
* HTTPS patch (which inspired HTTPSConnectionPool)
* erikcederstrand <http://code.google.com/u/erikcederstrand/>
* NTLM-authenticated HTTPSConnectionPool
* Basic-authenticated HTTPSConnectionPool (merged into make_headers)
* niphlod <niphlod@gmail.com>
* Client-verified SSL certificates for HTTPSConnectionPool
* Response gzip and deflate encoding support
* Better unicode support for filepost using StringIO buffers
* btoconnor <brian@btoconnor.net>
* Non-multipart encoding for POST requests
* p.dobrogost <http://code.google.com/u/@WBRSRlBZDhBFXQB6/>
* Code review, PEP8 compliance, benchmark fix
* kennethreitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
* Bugfixes, suggestions, Requests integration
* georgemarshall <http://github.com/georgemarshall>
* Bugfixes, Improvements and Test coverage
* Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>
* Python 3 support
* brandon-rhodes <http://rhodesmill.org/brandon>
* Design review, bugfixes, test coverage.
* studer <theo.studer@gmail.com>
* IPv6 url support and test coverage
* Shivaram Lingamneni <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>
* Support for explicitly closing pooled connections
* hartator <hartator@gmail.com>
* Corrected multipart behavior for params
* Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>
* Support for TLS SNI
* API unification of ssl_version/cert_reqs
* SSL fingerprint and alternative hostname verification
* Bugfixes in testsuite
* Sune Kirkeby <mig@ibofobi.dk>
* Optional SNI-support for Python 2 via PyOpenSSL.
* Marc Schlaich <marc.schlaich@gmail.com>
* Various bugfixes and test improvements.
* Bryce Boe <bbzbryce@gmail.com>
* Correct six.moves conflict
* Fixed pickle support of some exceptions
* Boris Figovsky <boris.figovsky@ravellosystems.com>
* Allowed to skip SSL hostname verification
* Cory Benfield <http://lukasa.co.uk/about/>
* Stream method for Response objects.
* Return native strings in header values.
* Generate 'Host' header when using proxies.
* Jason Robinson <jaywink@basshero.org>
* Add missing WrappedSocket.fileno method in PyOpenSSL
* Audrius Butkevicius <audrius.butkevicius@elastichosts.com>
* Fixed a race condition
* Stanislav Vitkovskiy <stas.vitkovsky@gmail.com>
* Added HTTPS (CONNECT) proxy support
* Stephen Holsapple <sholsapp@gmail.com>
* Added abstraction for granular control of request fields
* Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
* Support for non-ASCII header parameters
* Kevin Burke <kev@inburke.com> and Pavel Kirichenko <juanych@yandex-team.ru>
* Support for separate connect and request timeouts
* Peter Waller <p@pwaller.net>
* HTTPResponse.tell() for determining amount received over the wire
* Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn1313@gmail.com>
* Ignore default ports when comparing hosts for equality
* Danilo @dbrgn <http://dbrgn.ch/>
* Disabled TLS compression by default on Python 3.2+
* Disabled TLS compression in pyopenssl contrib module
* Configurable cipher suites in pyopenssl contrib module
* Roman Bogorodskiy <roman.bogorodskiy@ericsson.com>
* Account retries on proxy errors
* Nicolas Delaby <nicolas.delaby@ezeep.com>
* Use the platform-specific CA certificate locations
* Josh Schneier <https://github.com/jschneier>
* HTTPHeaderDict and associated tests and docs
* Bugfixes, docs, test coverage
* Tahia Khan <http://tahia.tk/>
* Added Timeout examples in docs
* Arthur Grunseid <http://grunseid.com>
* source_address support and tests (with https://github.com/bui)
* Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>
* PEP8 Compliance and Linting
* Add ability to pass socket options to an HTTP Connection
* Erik Tollerud <erik.tollerud@gmail.com>
* Support for standard library io module.
* Krishna Prasad <kprasad.iitd@gmail.com>
* Google App Engine documentation
* Aaron Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com>
* Added Url.url, which unparses a Url
* Evgeny Kapun <abacabadabacaba@gmail.com>
* Bugfixes
* Benjamen Meyer <bm_witness@yahoo.com>
* Security Warning Documentation update for proper capture
* Shivan Sornarajah <github@sornars.com>
* Support for using ConnectionPool and PoolManager as context managers.
* Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
* Updates to the default SSL configuration
* Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>
* Added connection pool keys by scheme
* [Your name or handle] <[email or website]>
* [Brief summary of your changes]