[Twisted-Python] web2 -> web ToDo List

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Sat Feb 6 12:23:45 EST 2010


On 05:06 pm, valeriy.zamarayev at gmail.com wrote:
>On 6 Feb 2010, 17:34, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>>On 4 Feb, 09:16 pm, ssteinerx at gmail.com wrote:
>>>While I see tickets in the tracker for web2 and others for web, I
>>>couldn't find a 'cherry pick' list of things to be moved from web2
>>>back
>>>into web.
>>>
>>>Is there one?
>>
>>Not really.  It'd be great to have such a list.  Any time anyone
>>brings
>>up their use of web2, I ask them what features it provides that caused
>>them to select it or prevent them from switching to Twisted Web.  One
>>answer that a lot of people give is streaming access to uploads (which
>>Twisted Web indeed makes very inconvenient now).  There's a ticket for
>>this, #288.  The other answers people tend to give are "I don't
>>know" or
>>"nothing in particular".  Sometimes they also say "HTTP/1.1 support",
>>but when further questioned about this, they can't actually explain
>>what
>>that means.
>
>I also depend on 100-Continue support. This is somehow related to
>#288, but not
>explicitly mentioned. If one wants to stream POST data, it's better to
>have 'expect/continue' working. It allows to check various conditions,
>including
>authentication before allowing the client to proceed.

Awesome, thanks for adding to the list. :)  Now that there are two items 
on it, I've added a section to the end of 
<http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedWebPlan>.  I encourage anyone 
with interest in this area to suggest more items for this list.

Jean-Paul



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