http2

HTTP/2 client for tornado

Features

• connect_timeout & request_timeout supporting
• push streams
• h2 & h2c supporting
• auto-reconnect to server with back-off
• stream multiplexing
• stream concurrency negotiating
• SNI supporting in tornado2
• gzip supporting
• flow control support
• DON't reset stream for nginx

Non-features

• web server, dispatcher, cookie, etc
• HTTP/2 upgrade
• follow redirections

WIP

• RST_STREAM in body producer
• RST_STREAM after timeout
• close client connection
• pushed streams as future
• healthy check
• support HTTPRequest.body_producer

Dependencies

• h2>=2.4.0
• tornado>=4.0 or tornado==2.4.1
• CPython>=2.7.10 (not required for h2c, as secure=False)
• certifi for tornado==2.4.1
• backports.ssl_match_hostname for tornado==2.4.1

Example Usage

import tornado.ioloop
from tornado.httpclient import HTTPRequest

from http2 import SimpleAsyncHTTP2Client

client = SimpleAsyncHTTP2Client(
    host='h2o.examp1e.net', enable_push=True,
    connect_timeout=1, defaults={'request_timeout': 1}
)

resp = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().run_sync(lambda: client.fetch('/'))

print resp
for pushed_response in resp.pushed_responses:
    print pushed_response.effective_url

Credits

A big thanks to the great library hyper-h2 from Cory Benfield. :P