Monkey patch socket.

[kevin1024]

Monkey patch socket.

[bryanhelmig]

Mentioned HTTPretty issue: gabrielfalcao/HTTPretty#10

[colonelpanic8]

@kevin1024 I know that this could take a ridiculous amount of work, and what essentially amounts ot a complete refactor, but have you ever thought about trying to use httppretty as the patching backend for vcrpy?

[kevin1024]

Yup that would be amazing. I would love for vcrpy to work at a lower level instead of patching httplib. It would certainly make the maintenance easier!

Of course patching at the socket layer means we need to parse HTTP to support some features. There are some nice HTTP parsing libraries out there these days.

[twolfson]

As a heads up, we took a different approach and made a vcrpy-based dynamic callback to use on HTTPretty in #224.

[neozenith]

A lot of changes have happened to VCRpy since this ticket was opened. As this ticket has become stale, would you mind closing it if it is no longer needed / relevant?

If I haven't heard anything in a week I'll mark it as closed as we have a lot of old tickets that need to be groomed to make it easier to see what is still relevant.

However if it is still needed, please feel free to re-open or create a new ticket.

Thanks! 🙏