[PR #10301/77f25a0a backport][3.12] Update docs for aiohttp.request (#10308)

**This is a backport of PR #10301 as merged into master
(77f25a0).**

Co-authored-by: Cycloctane <[email protected]>

Author: patchback[bot]

docs/client_reference.rst

@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ The client session supports the context manager protocol for self closing.
          .. versionadded:: 3.0
 
       :param str server_hostname: Sets or overrides the host name that the
-         target server’s certificate will be matched against.
+         target server's certificate will be matched against.
 
          See :py:meth:`asyncio.loop.create_connection` for more information.
 
@@ -854,14 +854,21 @@ certification chaining.
 
 .. function:: request(method, url, *, params=None, data=None, \
                         json=None,\
-                        headers=None, cookies=None, auth=None, \
+                        cookies=None, headers=None, skip_auto_headers=None, auth=None, \
                         allow_redirects=True, max_redirects=10, \
-                        encoding='utf-8', \
-                        version=HttpVersion(major=1, minor=1), \
-                        compress=None, chunked=None, expect100=False, raise_for_status=False, \
+                        compress=False, chunked=None, expect100=False, raise_for_status=None, \
+                        read_until_eof=True, \
+                        proxy=None, proxy_auth=None, \
+                        timeout=sentinel, ssl=True, \
+                        server_hostname=None, \
+                        proxy_headers=None, \
+                        trace_request_ctx=None, \
                         read_bufsize=None, \
-                        connector=None, loop=None,\
-                        read_until_eof=True, timeout=sentinel)
+                        auto_decompress=None, \
+                        max_line_size=None, \
+                        max_field_size=None, \
+                        version=aiohttp.HttpVersion11, \
+                        connector=None)
    :async:
 
    Asynchronous context manager for performing an asynchronous HTTP
@@ -874,8 +881,20 @@ certification chaining.
                be encoded with :class:`~yarl.URL` (see :class:`~yarl.URL`
                to skip encoding).
 
-   :param dict params: Parameters to be sent in the query
-                       string of the new request (optional)
+   :param params: Mapping, iterable of tuple of *key*/*value* pairs or
+                  string to be sent as parameters in the query
+                  string of the new request. Ignored for subsequent
+                  redirected requests (optional)
+
+                  Allowed values are:
+
+                  - :class:`collections.abc.Mapping` e.g. :class:`dict`,
+                     :class:`multidict.MultiDict` or
+                     :class:`multidict.MultiDictProxy`
+                  - :class:`collections.abc.Iterable` e.g. :class:`tuple` or
+                     :class:`list`
+                  - :class:`str` with preferably url-encoded content
+                     (**Warning:** content will not be encoded by *aiohttp*)
 
    :param data: The data to send in the body of the request. This can be a
                 :class:`FormData` object or anything that can be passed into
@@ -885,28 +904,46 @@ certification chaining.
    :param json: Any json compatible python object (optional). *json* and *data*
                 parameters could not be used at the same time.
 
+   :param dict cookies: HTTP Cookies to send with the request (optional)
+
    :param dict headers: HTTP Headers to send with the request (optional)
 
-   :param dict cookies: Cookies to send with the request (optional)
+   :param skip_auto_headers: set of headers for which autogeneration
+      should be skipped.
+
+      *aiohttp* autogenerates headers like ``User-Agent`` or
+      ``Content-Type`` if these headers are not explicitly
+      passed. Using ``skip_auto_headers`` parameter allows to skip
+      that generation.
+
+      Iterable of :class:`str` or :class:`~multidict.istr`
+      (optional)
 
    :param aiohttp.BasicAuth auth: an object that represents HTTP Basic
                                   Authorization (optional)
 
    :param bool allow_redirects: Whether to process redirects or not.
-         When ``True``, redirects are followed (up to ``max_redirects`` times)
-         and logged into :attr:`ClientResponse.history` and ``trace_configs``.
-         When ``False``, the original response is returned.
-         ``True`` by default (optional).
+      When ``True``, redirects are followed (up to ``max_redirects`` times)
+      and logged into :attr:`ClientResponse.history` and ``trace_configs``.
+      When ``False``, the original response is returned.
+      ``True`` by default (optional).
 
-   :param aiohttp.protocol.HttpVersion version: Request HTTP version (optional)
+   :param int max_redirects: Maximum number of redirects to follow.
+      :exc:`TooManyRedirects` is raised if the number is exceeded.
+      Ignored when ``allow_redirects=False``.
+      ``10`` by default.
 
    :param bool compress: Set to ``True`` if request has to be compressed
-                         with deflate encoding.
-                         ``False`` instructs aiohttp to not compress data.
+                         with deflate encoding. If `compress` can not be combined
+                         with a *Content-Encoding* and *Content-Length* headers.
                          ``None`` by default (optional).
 
    :param int chunked: Enables chunked transfer encoding.
-                       ``None`` by default (optional).
+      It is up to the developer
+      to decide how to chunk data streams. If chunking is enabled, aiohttp
+      encodes the provided chunks in the "Transfer-encoding: chunked" format.
+      If *chunked* is set, then the *Transfer-encoding* and *content-length*
+      headers are disallowed. ``None`` by default (optional).
 
    :param bool expect100: Expect 100-continue response from server.
                           ``False`` by default (optional).
@@ -920,28 +957,60 @@ certification chaining.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.4
 
-   :param aiohttp.BaseConnector connector: BaseConnector sub-class
-      instance to support connection pooling.
-
    :param bool read_until_eof: Read response until EOF if response
                                does not have Content-Length header.
                                ``True`` by default (optional).
 
+   :param proxy: Proxy URL, :class:`str` or :class:`~yarl.URL` (optional)
+
+   :param aiohttp.BasicAuth proxy_auth: an object that represents proxy HTTP
+                                        Basic Authorization (optional)
+
+   :param timeout: a :class:`ClientTimeout` settings structure, 300 seconds (5min)
+        total timeout, 30 seconds socket connect timeout by default.
+
+   :param ssl: SSL validation mode. ``True`` for default SSL check
+               (:func:`ssl.create_default_context` is used),
+               ``False`` for skip SSL certificate validation,
+               :class:`aiohttp.Fingerprint` for fingerprint
+               validation, :class:`ssl.SSLContext` for custom SSL
+               certificate validation.
+
+               Supersedes *verify_ssl*, *ssl_context* and
+               *fingerprint* parameters.
+
+   :param str server_hostname: Sets or overrides the host name that the
+      target server's certificate will be matched against.
+
+      See :py:meth:`asyncio.loop.create_connection`
+      for more information.
+
+   :param collections.abc.Mapping proxy_headers: HTTP headers to send to the proxy
+      if the parameter proxy has been provided.
+
+   :param trace_request_ctx: Object used to give as a kw param for each new
+      :class:`TraceConfig` object instantiated,
+      used to give information to the
+      tracers that is only available at request time.
+
    :param int read_bufsize: Size of the read buffer (:attr:`ClientResponse.content`).
                             ``None`` by default,
                             it means that the session global value is used.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.7
 
-   :param timeout: a :class:`ClientTimeout` settings structure, 300 seconds (5min)
-        total timeout, 30 seconds socket connect timeout by default.
+   :param bool auto_decompress: Automatically decompress response body.
+      May be used to enable/disable auto decompression on a per-request basis.
 
-   :param loop: :ref:`event loop<asyncio-event-loop>`
-                used for processing HTTP requests.
-                If param is ``None``, :func:`asyncio.get_event_loop`
-                is used for getting default event loop.
+   :param int max_line_size: Maximum allowed size of lines in responses.
 
-      .. deprecated:: 2.0
+   :param int max_field_size: Maximum allowed size of header fields in responses.
+
+   :param aiohttp.protocol.HttpVersion version: Request HTTP version,
+      ``HTTP 1.1`` by default. (optional)
+
+   :param aiohttp.BaseConnector connector: BaseConnector sub-class
+      instance to support connection pooling. (optional)
 
    :return ClientResponse: a :class:`client response <ClientResponse>` object.