[Twisted-Python] HTTPClientFactory's deferred never finishing download on .vcf (vcard file) link

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 29 Oct, 11:34 pm, listsin at integrateddevcorp.com wrote:
>On Oct 10, 2009, at 5:15 PM, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>>>Where might that be hiding?  I'd love to have something that does
>>>deferreds like Twisted and also implements all of urllib2.  I find
>>>the
>>>info() from urlopen() particularly helpful when debugging issues like
>>>this.
>>
>>  http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/886
>>  http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3987
>>
>>As I understand the "info" method, it gives you access to the response
>>headers.  The new API definitely exposes that information.
>>
>>You'll notice that neither of these tickets is closed.  #3987 is
>>presently up for review.  If you want to help out, you could take a
>>look
>>at the code and point out any problems you notice.
>>
>>Jean-Paul
>
>Well...I've now spent some actual time with 886 (-2,-3,and -4), and
>also with 3987.
>
>While there is some very nice stuff in there, I'm really not sure how
>one would actually put it to use since the back-end and the front-end
>seem to have been split into separate branches.

They're not really split.  The 3987 branch is complete and usable on its 
own.  You don't need a checkout of the 886 branch.

Jean-Paul