Explain differences between urllib3 and requests backends

Fixes #402
2016-06-09 11:23:26 +02:00
parent 40db4b6228
commit b7cba71be6
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@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ For example to use the ``requests``-based connection just import it and use it::
    from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, RequestsHttpConnection
    es = Elasticsearch(connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection)
 The default connection class is based on ``urllib3`` which is more performant
 and lightweight than the optional ``requests``-based class. Only use
 ``RequestsHttpConnection`` if you have need of any of ``requests`` advanced
 features like custom auth plugins etc.
 .. py:module:: elasticsearch.connection