get and other methods does not support using host name instead of ip

[panjacek]

In my test environment IP's might change so I prefer to use host names. Is there a way to get this working without extra layer on my side?

At the moment I am getting:
ValueError: 'server_name.mydomain.local' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address

[exhuma]

This was a design-decision. Resolving IP-Addresses can sometimes be non-deterministic (round-robin DNS for example). And I wanted to keep the library free of any such things.

But I have to agree that it would be a nice convenience. And given that socket.gethostbyname('the.hostname') is essentially a no-op for IP-addresses I'm not opposed to adding it.

Should also be a fairly quick change to do as it's only a simple call to add.

I'll add it.