Developers beware: Imposter HTTP libraries lurk on PyPI

[saikatsg]

https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/beware-impostor-http-libraries-lurk-on-pypi

[toyg]

Most of them are typosquatting, which is really a problem that shouldn't be so hard to solve in a largely-automated way.

[jbaber]

It's interesting, but feel free to skim through the hyper-verbose introduction.

[nubinetwork]

It seems like this happens quite often now... especially since these repositories aren't curated. I'd hate to have to rely on these repositories.