{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2181","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2181/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2181/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2181/events","html_url":"https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2181","id":41200903,"number":2181,"title":"Requests is slow to upload large files","user":{"login":"Tech356","id":446219,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/446219?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356","html_url":"https://github.com/Tech356","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tech356/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kennethreitz/requests/labels/Propose+Close","name":"Propose Close","color":"f7c6c7"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":12,"created_at":"2014-08-26T17:46:30Z","updated_at":"2015-01-19T09:20:41Z","closed_at":"2015-01-19T09:20:41Z","body":"I am using requests to POST data to a server. In testing with a 14.4 MB file, `requests` took 16.5 seconds and `cURL` took 3.3 seconds. The following image shows the 3 tests I ran. The first bump is using `requests` with `MultipartEncoder` from `requests-toolbelt`. The second bump is just using `requests`. The last bump is `cURL`. \r\n![request_speed](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/446219/4048836/621e85ea-2d47-11e4-8fbc-1bc5f07e50c3.PNG)\r\n\r\nI am using Python 3.4.0, requests 2.3.0, and requests-toolbelt 0.3.1 on Windows 7 x64.\r\n\r\nAre there any settings I can tune to speed up `requests`? \r\n\r\n"}}