hpack provides a simple Python interface to the HPACK compression algorithm, used to compress HTTP headers in HTTP/2. Used by some of the most popular HTTP/2 implementations in Python, HPACK offers a great Python interface as well as optional upgrade to optimised C-based compression routines from nghttp2.
Using hpack is easy:
from hpack import Encoder, Decoder
e = Encoder()
encoded_bytes = e.encode(headers)
d = Decoder()
decoded_headers = d.decode(encoded_bytes)hpack will transparently use nghttp2 on CPython if it's available, gaining even better compression efficiency and speed, but it also makes available a pure-Python implementation that conforms strictly to RFC 7541.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 installation api security/index