[Twisted-Python] confusion with general web serving

[Phil Mayers]

Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> i'm missing a key piece of connectivity here:
> 
> i'm building a twisted daemon to serve files.  right now it will serve 
> off a local structure, in the future it will do that + handle proxying 
> to s3.
> 
> I stripped out all the app specific code below.  my issue is that i 
> can't figure out how to display a file on the system for a url, short of 
> slurping it
> 
> i thought static.File would have soemthing to do with it, but I can't 
> figure out how to get it into the http.Request.process routine.

You're asking on the wrong list really - you should ask on twisted-web

Your problem is that you're trying to implement the HTTP protocol. Don't 
do that, it's not needed. You need to hook the protocol up to a "site" 
into which you can put components.

This is well documented. See:

http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/web/documentation/howto/using-twistedweb.html#auto2