pendrell 0.3.0

HTTP 1.1 user agent for the programmable web.

Pendrell augments the twisted.web framework with an HTTP 1client that has several advantages over prior art (or at least urllib2 and twisted.web.client):

• HTTP 1.1 support:

  • TE/transfer-encoding support for chunked, gzip, and deflate encodings

  • Ability to simultaneously maintain multiple persistent connections.

• Transparent Gzip and Deflate Content-encoding support.

• Ability to stream data, by performing call-backs with data chunks, alleviates the need to buffer large files.

  • Advanced Gzip support accomdates incremental decoding of chunked streams.

• Asynchronous (twisted) API.

• Integration with cookielib, and compatibility with urllib2.Request API.

• Proxy Support.

Changelog

Version 0.3.0

• Allow multiple Authenticators to be installed into Agent.authenticators.

• Modify errors.UnauthorizedResponse to handle multiple WWW-Authenticate header values.

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Oliver V. Gould

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