.. _aiohttp-glossary:


==========
 Glossary
==========

.. if you add new entries, keep the alphabetical sorting!

.. glossary::
   :sorted:

   aiodns

      DNS resolver for asyncio.

      https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aiodns

   asyncio

      The library for writing single-threaded concurrent code using
      coroutines, multiplexing I/O access over sockets and other
      resources, running network clients and servers, and other
      related primitives.

      Reference implementation of :pep:`3156`

      https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio/

   callable

      Any object that can be called. Use :func:`callable` to check
      that.

   chardet

       The Universal Character Encoding Detector

       https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet/

   cchardet

       cChardet is high speed universal character encoding detector -
       binding to charsetdetect.

       https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cchardet/

   gunicorn

       Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for
       UNIX.

       http://gunicorn.org/

   IDNA

       An Internationalized Domain Name in Applications (IDNA) is an
       industry standard for encoding Internet Domain Names that contain in
       whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet,
       such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, Hebrew or the Latin
       alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures, such as
       French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in
       multi-byte Unicode. Internationalized domain names are stored
       in the Domain Name System as ASCII strings using Punycode
       transcription.

   keep-alive

       A technique for communicating between HTTP client and server
       when connection is not closed after sending response but kept
       open for sending next request through the same socket.

       It makes communication faster by getting rid of connection
       establishment for every request.

   nginx

      Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail
      proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server.

      https://nginx.org/en/

   percent-encoding

      A mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource
      Locator (URL) if URL parts don't fit in safe characters space.

   requests

      Currently the most popular synchronous library to make
      HTTP requests in Python.

      https://requests.readthedocs.io

   requoting

      Applying :term:`percent-encoding` to non-safe symbols and decode
      percent encoded safe symbols back.

      According to :rfc:`3986` allowed path symbols are::

         allowed       = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims
                         / ":" / "@" / "/"

         pct-encoded   = "%" HEXDIG HEXDIG

         unreserved    = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~"

         sub-delims    = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")"
                         / "*" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="

   resource

      A concept reflects the HTTP **path**, every resource corresponds
      to *URI*.

      May have a unique name.

      Contains :term:`route`\'s for different HTTP methods.

   route

       A part of :term:`resource`, resource's *path* coupled with HTTP method.

   web-handler

       An endpoint that returns HTTP response.

   websocket

       A protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a
       single TCP connection. The WebSocket protocol was standardized
       by the IETF as :rfc:`6455`

   yarl

      A library for operating with URL objects.

      https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yarl
