Over time it has become increasingly clear that httplib/http.client are a liability to requests/urllib3. Given that we'll need a HTTP/1.1 stack and that httplib is a liability, we should look into writing a new one.

This issue is a long-term goal, but is open to track the desired features from such a rewrite. This should be a list of mistakes that httplib has made that we should not make.

Initial list:

• Configurable file-like-object streaming size. httplib streams file objects much slower than cURL does because it uses quite small chunks. We should make this faster.
• Support for 1XX responses.
• Better API.
• Support for not ruining file-objects when connections fall apart.
• No support for HTTP/1.0 or earlier.
• A clean mechanism for Upgrade:, such that the socket is provided in a known-good state along with information about the connection.
• Better separation of socket and parser logic.

/cc @sigmavirus24 @shazow for more ideas.