[Twisted-web] Question regarding custom contextFactory for twisted.web.client.Agent

[Glyph]

> On May 22, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Jason Litzinger <jlitzingerdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for spotting it - please submit a PR to fix it :)
> Copy that, was planning on it, though originally the context was in
> comparison to an existing benchmark.
> 
> I assume the process/coding policies match submissions for Twisted
> Proper?  I briefly searched for docs specific to benchmark updates but
> didn't see anything glaring.

It's a bit less formal, but largely similar.  The main difference is that you should just file a Github issue rather than a Trac ticket.

> I'm sure I'll need some guidance as to the best way to do this in a
> fully isolated environment.  For example, the host cert is somewhat
> tricky.  The simplest thing would be to serve up a self-signed cert, but
> I think a realistic benchmark needs to validate a full chain and do
> hostname verification.  Is a PR discussion the best place for these
> questions?

You can keep asking questions here.

The benchmark could use the Cryptography x509 layer to do setup for a custom CA cert, similar to the way many unit tests in Twisted already do...

-glyph