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PEP: 267
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Title: Extended HTTP functionality and WebDAV
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: gstein@lyra.org (Greg Stein)
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Status: Draft
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Type: Standards Trap
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Created: 20-Aug-2001
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Python-Version: 2.2
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Post-History:
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Abstract
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This PEP discusses new modules and extended functionality for
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Python's HTTP support. Notably, the addition of authenticated
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requests, proxy support, authenticated proxy usage, and WebDAV [1]
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capabilities.
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Rationale
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Python has been quite popular as a result of its "batteries
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included" positioning. One of the most heavily used protocols,
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HTTP, has been included with Python for years (httplib). However,
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this support has not kept up with the full needs and requirements
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of many HTTP-based applications and systems. In addition, new
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protocols based on HTTP, such as WebDAV and XML-RPC, are becoming
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useful and are seeing increasing usage. Supplying this
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functionality meets Python's "batteries included" role and also
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keeps Python at the leading edge of new technologies.
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While authentication and proxy support are two very notable
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features missing from Python's core HTTP processing, they are
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minimally handled as part of Python's URL handling (urllib and
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urllib2). However, applications that need fine-grained or
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sophisticated HTTP handling cannot make use of the features while
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they reside in urllib. Refactoring these features into a location
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where they can be directly associated with an HTTP connection will
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improve their utility for both urllib and for sophisticated
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applications.
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The motivation for this PEP was from several people requesting
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these features directly, and from a number of feature requests on
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SourceForge. Since the exact form of the modules to be provided
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and the classes/architecture used could be subject to debate, this
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PEP was created to provide a focal point for those discussions.
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Specification
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more info here...
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Reference Implementation
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reference imp will probably go into /nondist/sandbox/...
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References
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[1] http://www.webdav.org/
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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