[Twisted-web] Stopping an HTTPDownloader

[John Morrissey]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:38:27PM -0500, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:39:51 -0400, John Morrissey <jwm at horde.net> wrote:
> >I'm writing a small script to record an MP3 stream. It connects to a
> >remote host and accepts start/stop commands to control the recording.
> >
> >Everything's working, except I can't figure out how to stop the
> >HTTPDownloader. When I try to close the HTTP download connection (line
> >22, below), self.stream_factory.protocol (which is an HTTPPageDownloader)
> >has a None transport member.
> 
> self.stream_factory.protocol _isn't_ an HTTPPageDownloader.  It _is_
> HTTPPageDownloader.  Only connected instances have a transport attribute.
> 
> You'll need to get a reference to a connected instance and use that, rather
> than using the class object.  You may want to do this by overriding the
> connectionMade method on an HTTPPageDownloader subclass.

ach, I had completely missed that. Overriding connectionMade works well.
Thanks, Jean-Paul.

john
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