refactor: switch to httpx client

[frostming]

Signed-off-by: Frost Ming [email protected]

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 75.78947% with 46 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 84.77%. Comparing base (fdefbe2) to head (95e72b7).

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src/pdm/models/candidates.py	55.55%	2 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
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[deronnax]

what is the rational behind this move?

[frostming]

@deronnax A Retrospective on Requests

[deronnax]

Thank you. TLDR for people: despite its fame, Requests has significant internal technical debt, is tedious to use for advanced use-cases and can't realistically be refactored and will probably never be.