(Made it a goal to not require third-party libraries or tools for such a small task, but damn I totally get why nobody is using #Python's builtin HTTP client directly 😬)
• You have to split the URL into scheme, host, and path yourself.
• You have to choose whether to create an HTTPConnection or HTTPSConnection based on the scheme.
• You have to supply the Host header manually.
• Instead of .request() returning the response object, you have to get it using an additional .getresponse() call.
• There's no convenience method like requests' .raise_for_status().
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