connect via http instead of using websockets

[dale-wahl]

I am trying to use your package to connect via http instead of the ws:// protocal. Is that possible? I have tried using the get_default_client() or directly passing as the api_host, however it always prepends the ws:// to my requests.

I have found that I can use curl or requests and interact with LM Studio via http, but it would be nice to use your package. Am I missing something?

[ncoghlan]

While there are HTTP endpoints available on the API server, they're focused on providing OpenAI client compatibility: https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app/api/endpoints/openai

The dedicated LM Studio Python SDK instead uses the server's native websocket API to support features like streaming of model prediction result fragments, and progress reporting for model downloads, as well as the management of server resources that are linked to specific clients (such as prepared file handles). All of the communications with each relevant server component then occur over the corresponding multiplexed websocket connection rather than using separate HTTP requests.

If the question is based on the LM Studio GUI suggesting connecting to http://127.0.0.1:1234, the relevant piece of that URL for the Python SDK is the 127.0.0.0:1234 part.