When making a request through ...
import urllib3 urllib3.request("GET", "https://httpbin.org/robots.txt")
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This should not be the case. The README.md and the official documentation have this introductory example as well.

Info:

My Python version: 3.10.10

Steps to Reproduce

Just try to execute the urllib3.request() in any 1.26x version.

Expected Behavior

The request should do its job as demonstrated in the example.

Bounty requirements

• Raise a better error message when 1.26.x users call urllib3.request() #3046 (comment)
• Raise a better error message when 1.26.x users call urllib3.request() #3046 (comment)