add mechanism to modify outgoing http request #23
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The purpose of this PR is to allow users of this library to modify the outgoing request. It is useful as it allows you to set authentication headers without having to write a custom http client (ref. shurcooL#28 (comment))
The mechanism implemented for this has two purposes:
You can see a silly proof of concept below to illustrate how different requests can tweak the header slightly different while reusing the same TCP socket for performance reasons: