[Twisted-web] HTTPClient vs. HTTPClientFactory
Jean-Paul Calderone
exarkun at divmod.com
Fri Apr 18 07:55:47 EDT 2008
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:32:03 -0600, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:
>I'm still a little new to Twisted, so I was wondering if some kind soul
>might be willing to help make sure I'm looking at things correctly.
>
> [snip]
>
>I was also confused about why HTTPClientFactory would set
>`self.protocol.followRedirect = followRedirect` in its __init__ method.
>Since `self.protocol` is the HTTPPageGetter class, it appears that the
>client factory is setting the followRedirect attribute for all
>connections (associated with all HTTPClientFactories). I was surprised
>that HTTPClientFactory wouldn't set `self.followRedirect =
>followRedirect`, in which case HTTPClient would look at
>`self.factory.followRedirect`.
You're right. This seems to be a bug. Could you file a ticket?
Jean-Paul
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