[Twisted-web] web2 vs. access.log

[James Y Knight]

On Apr 15, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
>> Also, how do you feel the date and time generation and parsing
>> in t.w.http should be done? I need to be able to generate
>
> This is still ugly. Currently, a log of the things have an
> explicit .close() you need to call, or they leave a timer
> running (also making trial complain).
>
> Current starting the timer (incrementing the reference count)
> is implicit in object creation; I'm currently thinking of making
> it be an explicit operation. That would make it an unnecessary
> detail for any code that runs while a NevowSite factory is running,
> only leaving the start/stop in things that use timestamp/log
> outside of a real webserver -- mostly unit tests, that is.

I'd note that there are a bunch of other places where twisted.web[2] 
use the current time, so, it's probably not particularly worth it to 
put in a special hack to not call time.time in log, while doing nothing 
about all the other uses of time.time. You could use the response Date 
header as the log time, if you like.

James