(e.g.. a global proxy, user agent header).
+Asynchronous Requests
+----------------------
+
+Requests has first-class support for non-blocking i/o requests, powered
+by gevent. This allows you to send a bunch of HTTP requests at the same
+
+First, let's import the async module. Heads up — if you don't have
+**gevent** installed, this will fail.::
+
+ from requests import async
+
+The ``async`` module has the exact same api as ``requests``, except it
+doesn't send the request immediately. Instead, it returns the ``Request``
+object.
+
+We can build a list of ``Request`` objects easily::
+
+ urls = [
+ 'http://python-requests.org',
+ 'http://httpbin.org',
+ 'http://python-guide.org',
+ 'http://kennethreitz.com'
+ ]
+
+ rs = [async.get(u) for u in urls]
+
+Now we have a list of ``Request`` objects, ready to be sent. We could
+send them one at a time with ``Request.send()``, but that would take a while.
+Instead, we'll send them all at the same time with ``async.map()``::
+
+ >>> async.map(rs)
+ [<Response [200]>, <Response [200]>, <Response [200]>, <Response [200]>]
+
+
Event Hooks
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