I use python to simply call api.github.gist. I have tried urllib2 at first which cost me about 10 seconds!. The requests takes less than 1 senond
I am under a cooperation network, using a proxy. Do these two libs have different default behavior under a proxy?
And I use fiddler to check the network. In both situation, the http request finished in about 40ms. So where urllib spends the time on?