On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:32, Maas-Maarten Zeeman wrote: > Hello, > > It looks like PEP 268 Extended HTTP functionality and WebDAV > (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0268.html) is dead. Personally I have > run into a couple of situations where it is just not possible to use > urllib or urllib2 (e.g adding more efficient Digest authentication, > Negotiate authentication, gzip encoding, etc). The idea explained in the > PEP looks good.
Regarding the WebDAV stuff, I note that the davlib module was supposedly developed - I suppose it provided the material for that part of the PEP. I'm tempted to look into this a bit further, having recently experimented with making WebDAV services. > It looks like no one is interested in completing/implementing/finishing > this PEP. Is this the case? I think that the urllib, urllib2, httplib modules (and so on) really need reviewing and a more coherent package structure introduced, possibly with more accessible classes for cases where one needs to change the default behaviour, especially in the simple cases. Perhaps there'll be a sprint at EuroPython around such things... Paul _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
