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What's the practical usage scenario for this? Would it be only used by http client library developers, or is there a broader audience?

I started work on pathod to improve the testing of mitmproxy (http://mitmproxy.org). It's since become a very capable Swiss army knife with many creative uses. I now routinely use it in pen tests (it's great for exploit delivery), and pathoc has become quite a capable tool for simple fuzzing and stress testing. I'm working on the next release docs as we speak, and I'll try to document a range of different use cases there.

Or you could hand examples of your favorite rogue web bot a whole pile of confusing chunder.

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