So that's why I couldn't get it to work—have a look at this[1]. Thanks for teaching me what the documentation failed to—it's neither in the front page example,

So that's why I couldn't get it to work—have a look at this[1]. Thanks for teaching me what the documentation failed to—it's neither in the front page example, or in the API documentation for Response. [1] https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/105 https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/105