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jldupont
jldupont

Reputation: 96716

twisted http client

I am after an example describing the usage of Twisted's HTTP Client.

After reading the excellent blog post on the internals of Twisted, I understand how the "Factory" and "Protocol" components play their role but I am unclear on how to introduce "Request" in the overall Client flow.

More specifically, I need to be able to perform HTTP GET and POST requests to a remote server using Twisted.

Updated: after a discussion on irc #twisted / #python, it seems that twisted.web2 is fading away in favor of beefing up functionality on twisted.web e.g. Agent.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 13054

Answers (3)

Reshad user2701173
Reshad user2701173

Reputation: 477

I started using treq with twisted. treq has an API which is very similar to Requests. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/treq/0.2.0

Upvotes: 2

Clad
Clad

Reputation: 1561

As of Twisted 10, you may want to use the Agent class.

Please follow this link: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.2.0/web/howto/client.html

Upvotes: 1

Jean-Paul Calderone
Jean-Paul Calderone

Reputation: 48325

As of Twisted 9.0, there are actually two HTTP clients available. The older one has quite a few features, such as automatically following redirects, interpreting cookie headers, etc. You can find an example of its usage here:

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/examples/

(getpage.py and dlpage.py)

Unfortunately, the interface presented by the older client makes a number of common tasks difficult. For example, using getPage, you cannot examine arbitrary response headers.

The newer HTTP client isn't yet as featureful as the old one, but it presents an interface intended to eliminate the limitations of getPage. It is also intended to be more easily extended and customized. You can find a document describing its usage here:

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/client.html

Upvotes: 18

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