Hi all, I have to connect to a secure website every second to get the data and then post to it. I have been investigating on many web clients in python, but nothing fits the bill properly. The ones I tried implementing are: 1. httplib based - I created myself. (I cannot use urllib2 since I have to transfer files, and urllib2 doesnt have multipart content-type support) 2. Twisted web client. I also looked at mechanize etc too.
The problems I face are - 1. I liked twisted a lot, but when I implemented it, I found that client support is there only for twisted.web and not twisted.web2. Since I connect to the same website every time, I would like to have persistent connections and since twisted.web is HTTP/1.0, persistent connection support is not yet there. Without persistent connections, I would have to have TCP connection handshake everytime and it is taking too much time. 2. Since I connect to the website every second, I have to have many connections running at the same time. I am worried that creating threads for each connection is going to be a big problem (esp if the server response is slow), since the processor will get swamped - especially since there are many other activities going on in the machine. 3. I would also like to pipe line the requests - esp if the response is slow. Other requirements: 1. HTTPS Support 2. Connection through proxy. Is there any good web client which I can use straight up? Or would I have to implement the whole thing myself? It looks like a big beast and I was wondering whether python provides it straight up. Regards K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list