[Twisted-Python] confusion with general web serving

[Jonathan Vanasco]

On Apr 15, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Phil Mayers wrote:

> 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


Thanks, I''ll check out the other list.

I hadn't read that howto -- just the oreilley book and the overall  
design of the daemn seemed more inline with using the protocol ( as  
I'll mixing up proxy , static, and dynamic files ) than the web  
examples in the book.



// Jonathan Vanasco

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