On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Matt Anderson <manders2k....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all -- > > 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.
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 -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ 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
