[Twisted-Python] typed mktap usage.Options parameters

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On 06 Sep 2002 21:27:32 -0700, Kevin Turner <acapnotic at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> just jotting down this note so it gets saved someplace:
> 
> There are some very common types of parameters mktap uses -- remote host
> or IP, port number, local interface to bind to, password.  We should
> have some sort of typed optParameters for this, so that any tap
> constructor that takes a port can just say "wordsPort isa port" and get
> back a number instead of having to int() the string and/or look it up in
> /etc/services, etc.  Another idea being that password-type options
> should be prompted for rather than specified on the command line, as
> command line parameters are all too visible in the system process table
> on many systems.

My thought on this is that Reactor and Application should both have
"listenString" and "connectString" methods which take a host/port/transport in
some sort of string syntax which we can specify on command lines.  So you could
say... connectString("tcp:8080:localhost") or listenString("ssl:8080").  I
haven't fully thought it out and I didn't want to try to rush it in before 1.0
and then change it around lots later, but I think this approach in general is a
necessary one (otherwise we'll end up implementing this mktap functionality you
describe everywhere that you want to open a socket).

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