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+**pathod** is a collection of pathological tools for testing and torturing HTTP
+clients and servers. The project has three components:
+
+- **pathod**, an pathological HTTP daemon.
+- **pathoc**, a perverse HTTP client. 
+- **libpathod.test**, an API for easily using pathod and pathoc in unit tests.
+
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+The pathod documentation is self-hosted. Just fire up pathod, like so:
+    
+    ./pathod 
+
+And then browse to:
+
+    http://localhost:9999
+
+You can always view the documentation for the latest release at the pathod
+website:
+    
+    http://pathod.net
+
+
+Installing
+----------
+
+If you already have **pip** on your system, installing **pathod** and its
+dependencies is dead simple:
+    
+    pip install pathod
+
+The project has the following dependencies:
+
+* netlib_
+* requests_
+
+The project's test suite uses the nose_ unit testing framework.
+
+.. _netlib: https://github.com/mitmproxy/netlib
+.. _requests: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html 
+.. _nose: http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/