Goals

• Implement a method/lambda to handle the response body as JSON.
• Implement support for HTTP headers.
• Implement cookie handling.
• Add support for request bodies (with various encodings).
• Support receiving responses with Transfer-Encoding: Chunked.
• Add support for sending requests with Transfer-Encoding: Chunked.
• Implement support for handling redirects (with an option to allow or disallow redirects) and maintain a history as List(Response).
• Implement requests through HTTP proxies.
• Support sending POST requests with URL-encoded data.
• Support URL-encoding params (key-value pairs) and appending them as query parameters.
• Support sending data (key-value pairs) as URL-encoded body content (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) or as plain text.
• Implement default cookie management (set default path/host even if not sent by the server).
• Add support for socket timeouts.
• Write comprehensive tests.
• Implement session management (see Python Requests Sessions).
• Build requests individually and send them when ready.
• Test downloading files.