[Web-SIG] announcing 'httpmessage'
Matt Anderson
A few months ago I found myself wanting to write an HTTP proxy. I
surveyed the standard library and pypi for a good foundation on which
to build such a thing, and I didn't find (or failed to recognize)
anything particularly well suited to being that foundation.
Admittedly, I didn't really look *that* hard, as I wanted to better
learn low level network / web programming anyway.
After a couple of false starts, I've ended up with a package I called
'httpmessage'. I've made it available at:
http://code.google.com/p/httpmessage/
It's my first open source software release. I imagine it might be
useful to other people, so I spent some extra time putting a little
polish on the documentation.
It's essentially a low level http library, modeling an HTTP message as
a dict-like/file-like object hybrid. Dict-api for raw-header access,
file-like-api for raw entity access, and a plethora of descriptors for
higher-level header access. It knows how to read HTTP messages from a
file-like object or socket data source. It tries not to make an
assumption that you are programming a web client or a web server, just
that you want to communicate via HTTP.
It isn't extensively tested, isn't that mature, isn't covered by unit
tests (I'm starting to work on that now) and a few things are even
still missing. Yes, a glowing endorsement ;-). But it's developed to
the point where I find it to be useful. Others might too.
Comments, feedback, suggestions welcome.
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Matt Anderson
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Jim Fulton
If I understand what this is, a library for dealing with HTTP messages
*without* being tied to any particular networking approach or library,
then this is something I've been wanting to see someone do well for
some time.
Good luck!
Jim
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Jim Fulton