[Twisted-web] Setting the twcgi header?

[Donovan Preston]

On Jul 12, 2004, at 4:12 AM, Sergio Trejo wrote:

>
> I'm quite new to Twisted and Twisted.web but have been playing around 
> with it the past several days and enjoying my new learning experience. 
> Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just write out 
> the Content-Type, etc. to a Resource instance by overriding its 
> render_GET() method (e.g., request.write())?
>
> from twisted.web.resource import Resource
>
> class myResource(Resource):
>   isLeaf = True
>   def render_GET(self, request):
>
>    # see API documentation for:
>    #  write(self,  data)
>    #  Write some data as a result of an HTTP request.

request.write is for writing the body of the request, not the headers. 
To affect the headers, see below.

>> class PythonCGI(twcgi.FilteredScript):
>>         filter = '/usr/local/bin/python'
>>
>> I wish to set the following header for my PythonCGI:
>>
>> print "Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash\n\n"
>>
>> But, instead the script renders:
>>
>> Connection: close
>> Content-type: text/html
>> Server: TwistedWeb/1.3.0rc1
>>
>> How do I change the header?

Override render_GET, and then call setHeader('content-type', 
'application/x-shockwave-flash'). There may also be some sort of 
attribute you can set which will cause FilteredScript to do this for 
you, I'm not sure. Examine the source code.

dp