[Twisted-web] HTTP authentication for twisted.web.client.Agent (#5148)

[Glyph]

On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Matt Behrens <matt at zigg.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking into Twisted for some projects at work and believe I may be able to work on #5148 <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5148> to add HTTP authentication to twisted.web.client.Agent, since I need at least Basic support (and will probably just add Digest too while I'm at it.)

Great!

> I took a look at the branch changeset <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/changeset?new=32269%40branches%2Fhttp-client-auth-5148-2&old=32267%40trunk> and it looks like what's been done so far is the addition of a basic agent that will eventually talk to an as-of-yet-uninvented responder that will provide the authentication.  Is there any more than this at this point?  Did anyone have ideas that they felt would work better?

None off the top of my head.  I reserve the right to raise some during review, but assuming the strategy you are describing works, it sounds fine :).

> I'm pretty new to actually using Twisted, but I think I get it.  I may need some help making the end result fit well, since I'm discovering a lot of new things as I dig into the source.  (Obviously, step 1 is bring that work up to the trunk… my merge attempt was a disaster, so I might just hand-apply the changes for now.)

Feel free to ask for help early and often.  The more specific the questions, the better, of course.

> P.S. I'm zigg on IRC and Trac, but I'm not necessarily online or responsive most of the time.

I haven't seen you around much - make sure to hang out on #twisted-dev if you're talking about developing Twisted itself; #twisted is more a support channel for people *using* Twisted now.

-glyph
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