v0.0.45 - `v0.0.45` requests `HEADERS` constant (#374)

🌟 Summary

v0.0.45 focuses on enhancing URL validation, processing, and performance through optimized HTTP request handling, reusable headers, and streamlined code structure. 🚀

📊 Key Changes

• Introduced REQUESTS_HEADERS, a reusable default header for HTTP requests, improving consistency across operations.
• Refactored the is_url function to include optional session usage for performance gains.
• Enhanced URL-checking logic to better handle HTTP methods like HEAD and GET with smarter error filtering.
• Upgraded multi-threaded link-checking to utilize sessions, improving reliability and connection stability.
• Updated test coverage with new URLs for validation and consistency checks.
• Standardized URL formatting in documentation/tests by ensuring accurate, redirect-free links.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 📈 Improved Performance: Reduced redundant HTTP initialization with reusable headers and sessions, boosting request efficiency.
• 🔒 Increased Reliability: Smarter error handling and session usage help maintain consistent link-checking even with complex URLs.
• 🛠️ Simplified Maintenance: Centralized header definitions make future updates easier and more scalable.
• ✅ Better Compatibility: Compliance with site restrictions (like blocking automated requests) ensures smoother functionality.
• 🚀 Enhanced User Experience: Standardized URLs eliminate navigation issues, while robust testing assures high confidence in correctness.

Overall, this update ensures faster, more reliable interactions for both developers and end-users when working with URLs. 🌐

What's Changed

• Update URLs to redirects by @glenn-jocher in #373
• v0.0.45 requests HEADERS constant by @glenn-jocher in #374

Full Changelog: v0.0.44...v0.0.45