On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Matt Behrens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking into Twisted for some projects at work and believe I may be able
> to work on #5148 <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5148> to add HTTP
> authentication to twisted.web.client.Agent, since I need at least Basic
> support (and will probably just add Digest too while I'm at it.)
Great!
> I took a look at the branch changeset
> <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/changeset?new=32269%40branches%2Fhttp-client-auth-5148-2&old=32267%40trunk>
> and it looks like what's been done so far is the addition of a basic agent
> that will eventually talk to an as-of-yet-uninvented responder that will
> provide the authentication. Is there any more than this at this point? Did
> anyone have ideas that they felt would work better?
None off the top of my head. I reserve the right to raise some during review,
but assuming the strategy you are describing works, it sounds fine :).
> I'm pretty new to actually using Twisted, but I think I get it. I may need
> some help making the end result fit well, since I'm discovering a lot of new
> things as I dig into the source. (Obviously, step 1 is bring that work up to
> the trunk… my merge attempt was a disaster, so I might just hand-apply the
> changes for now.)
Feel free to ask for help early and often. The more specific the questions,
the better, of course.
> P.S. I'm zigg on IRC and Trac, but I'm not necessarily online or responsive
> most of the time.
I haven't seen you around much - make sure to hang out on #twisted-dev if
you're talking about developing Twisted itself; #twisted is more a support
channel for people *using* Twisted now.
-glyph
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