# Contributions to the urllib3 project

## Creator & Maintainer

* Andrey Petrov <andrey.petrov@shazow.net>


## Patches

* HTTPS patch (which inspired HTTPSConnectionPool)
  * victor.vde <http://code.google.com/u/victor.vde/>

* NTLM-authenticated HTTPSConnectionPool
  * erikcederstrand <http://code.google.com/u/erikcederstrand/>

* Basic-authenticated HTTPSConnectionPool (merged into make_headers)
  * erikcederstrand <http://code.google.com/u/erikcederstrand/>

* Client-verified SSL certificates for HTTPSConnectionPool
  * niphlod <niphlod@gmail.com>

* Response gzip and deflate encoding support
  * niphlod <niphlod@gmail.com>

* Better unicode support for filepost using StringIO buffers
  * niphlod <niphlod@gmail.com>

* Non-multipart encoding for POST requests
  * btoconnor <brian@btoconnor.net>

* Code review, PEP8 compliance, benchmark fix.
  * p.dobrogost <http://code.google.com/u/@WBRSRlBZDhBFXQB6/>

* Bugfixes, Suggestions, Requests integration.
  * kennethreitz <me@kennethreitz.com>