The main pain points for us were: thread-safety issues (httpx claims to be thread-safe but we hit race conditions in production), no HTTP/3 support, and the redirect behavior requiring explicit opt-in everywhere. Also the multiplexing story in httpx is quite limited compared to what niquests offers out of the box. On top of that, httpx maintenance has been slow to acknowledge valid bug reports, the thread-safety issue took over a year to even be acknowledged...
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The main pain points for us were: thread-safety issues (httpx claims to be thread-safe but we hit race conditions in production), no HTTP/3 support, and the redirect behavior requiring explicit opt-in everywhere. Also the multiplexing story in httpx is quite limited compared to what niquests offers out of the box. On top of that, httpx maintenance has been slow to acknowledge valid bug reports, the thread-safety issue took over a year to even be acknowledged...