[TECH DEBT] Replace pycurl/tornado with requests in salt.utils.http

[dwoz]

Having pycurl as a dependency for making web requests behind a proxy causes issues under our onedir packaging approach. Pycurl has no plans of releasing wheels meaning users will have to compile against libcurl. We have plans to migrate away from tornado anyway so it makes sense to replace pycurl and tornado with the python requests library.

[dwoz]

See also #64299 and #62949

[Zpell82]

if this is implemented do a piece of news about it in good time, we have built proxy-minion tools using the "native" solution that would require a lot of rebuilding if implemented

[dwoz]

if this is implemented do a piece of news about it in good time, we have built proxy-minion tools using the "native" solution that would require a lot of rebuilding if implemented

Can you explain more. If the proxy functionality in salt.utils.http works the same as it did before, why will that break things for you?

[dwoz]

My understanding is that proxy support is now fully working again (as of 3006.8) the last issue as fixed by #66163.