Support requests-http-signature

[max-tet]

HTTPX tries to be compatible with the requests package, including the use of callables for custom authentication. However, it is incompatible with requests_http_signature. When trying to sign a request, this is the error: AttributeError: 'Request' object has no attribute 'body'

requests_http_signature expects the body attribute here, but the Request object does not have the attribute because it is called content.

What I don't understand is that the Request object of the Requests library also seems to have no attribute called body. Why does it work here then?

[lovelydinosaur]

What I don't understand is that the Request object of the Requests library also seems to have no attribute called body

It doesn't have a body parameter in the constructor. It does have a body attribute on the instance.

(I can't find that documented, but I can see it in the source.)

HTTPX tries to be compatible with the requests package, including the use of callables for custom authentication.

"broadly compatible". You can't use requests auth classes interchangeably with httpx, no.

[max-tet]

Thanks for the explanation. Seems like making the two packages compatible is not as easy as I thought. I'll have to stick to Requests then.