Examples¶

twisted.web.client¶

httpclient.py - use twisted.web.client.Agent to download a web page.
(deprecated) getpage.py - use twisted.web.client.getPage to download a web page.
(deprecated) dlpage.py - add callbacks to twisted.web.client.downloadPage to display errors that occur when downloading a web page

xmlrpcserver.py XML-RPC server with several methods, including echoing, faulting, returning deferreds and failed deferreds
xmlrpcclient.py - use twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy to call remote XML-RPC methods
xmlrpc-debug.py - use xmlrpc.Proxy’s queryFactory to debug raw XML-RPC traffic
advogato.py - use twisted.web.xmlrpc to post a diary entry to advogato.org; requires an advogato account

proxy.py - use twisted.web.proxy.Proxy to make the simplest proxy
logging-proxy.py - example of subclassing the core classes of twisted.web.proxy to log requests through a proxy
reverse-proxy.py - use twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource to make any HTTP request to the proxy port get applied to a specified website
rootscript.py - example use of twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost
web.py - an example of both using the processors attribute to set how certain file types are treated and using twisted.web.vhost.VHostMonsterResource to reverse proxy

hello.rpy - use twisted.web.static to create a static resource to serve
fortune.rpy - create a resource that returns the output of a process run on the server
report.rpy - display various properties of a resource, including path, host, and port
users.rpy - use twisted.web.distrib to publish user directories as for a “community web site”
simple.rtl - example use of twisted.web.resource.ResourceTemplate

webguard.py - pairing twisted.web with twisted.cred to guard resources against unauthenticated users
silly-web.py - bare-bones distributed web setup with a master and slave using twisted.web.distrib and twisted.spread.pb
soap.py - use twisted.web.soap to publish SOAP methods