[Twisted-Python] Twisted IPv6 + SSL - fixed, or todo?
Glyph
glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Fri Aug 24 15:06:45 MDT 2012
On Aug 24, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Erik Forsberg <forsberg at opera.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/IPv6 mentions:
>
> "SSL (but this might be automatic when IReactorTCP supports it)"
>
> IReactorTCP now has IPv6 support, so did twisted get SSL + IPv6 support
> automatically? It seems to me from twisted.internet.endpoints that
> there's work to do there (there's SSL4ServerEndpoint and
> SSL4ClientEndpoint, but no SSL6ServerEndpoint/SSL6ClientEndpoint).
>
> My use case is to be able to connect to https servers over IPv6 with
> twisted.web.client.Agent. Can I do that? If so, how?
Sort of. Agent is currently hard-coded to use TCP4ClientEndpoint or SSL4ClientEndpoint; the factory that it uses to generate these endpoints is not publicly exposed.
However, Agent passes a reactor, so you can implement your own reactor (probably a wrapper) that implements connectTCP and connectSSL to resolve and connect IPv6 names, and that will work just fine, and you will be using only public APIs, so it's supported :).
Does that make sense?
At some point, Agent should be modified to use <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4859>, once that's done and committed to trunk. I don't know if a ticket exists to do that yet. If you have already checked and there isn't, please feel free to file one.
-glyph
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