[Web-SIG] announcing 'httpmessage'

[Jim Fulton]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Matt Anderson <manders2k.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all --
>
> A few months ago I found myself wanting to write an HTTP proxy.  I surveyed
> the standard library and pypi for a good foundation on which to build such a
> thing, and I didn't find (or failed to recognize) anything particularly well
> suited to being that foundation.  Admittedly, I didn't really look *that*
> hard, as I wanted to better learn low level network / web programming
> anyway.
>
> After a couple of false starts, I've ended up with a package I called
> 'httpmessage'.  I've made it available at:
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/httpmessage/
>
> It's my first open source software release. I imagine it might be useful to
> other people, so I spent some extra time putting a little polish on the
> documentation.
>
> It's essentially a low level http library, modeling an HTTP message as a
> dict-like/file-like object hybrid.  Dict-api for raw-header access,
> file-like-api for raw entity access, and a plethora of descriptors for
> higher-level header access.  It knows how to read HTTP messages from a
> file-like object or socket data source.  It tries not to make an assumption
> that you are programming a web client or a web server, just that you want to
> communicate via HTTP.
>
> It isn't extensively tested, isn't that mature, isn't covered by unit tests
> (I'm starting to work on that now) and a few things are even still missing.
>  Yes, a glowing endorsement ;-).  But it's developed to the point where I
> find it to be useful.  Others might too.
>
> Comments, feedback, suggestions welcome.

If I understand what this is, a library for dealing with HTTP messages
*without* being tied to any particular networking approach or library,
then this is something I've been wanting to see someone do well for
some time.

Good luck!

Jim

-- 
Jim Fulton