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 sprockets.mixins.http
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-HTTP Client Mixin for Tornado RequestHandlers.
+HTTP Client Mixin for Tornado RequestHandlers. Automatically retries on errors, sleep when rate limited, and handles content encoding and decoding using `MsgPack <http://msgpack.org>`_ and JSON.
 
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