Reactor Overview This HOWTO introduces the Twisted reactor, describes the basics of the reactor and links to the various reactor interfaces. Reactor Basics The reactor is the core of the event loop within Twisted – the loop which drives applications using Twisted. The event loop is a programming construct that waits for and dispatches events or messages in a program. It works by calling some ...
Writing Servers Overview This document explains how you can use Twisted to implement network protocol parsing and handling for TCP servers (the same code can be reused for SSL and Unix socket servers). There is a separate document covering UDP. Your protocol handling class will usually subclass twisted.internet.protocol.Protocol. Most protocol handlers inherit either from this class or from ...
Twisted includes an event-driven web server. Here's a sample web application; notice how the resource object persists in memory, rather than being recreated on each request:
Welcome to the Twisted documentation! Installing Twisted Hard dependencies Optional Dependencies Twisted Core Developer Guides Examples Specifications Twisted Conch (SSH and Telnet) Developer Guides Examples Twisted Mail (SMTP, POP, and IMAP) Examples Developer Guides Twisted Mail Tutorial: Building an SMTP Client from Scratch Twisted Names ...
Using the Twisted Web Client Overview This document describes how to use the HTTP client included in Twisted Web. After reading it, you should be able to make HTTP and HTTPS requests using Twisted Web. You will be able to specify the request method, headers, and body and you will be able to retrieve the response code, headers, and body. A number of higher-level features are also explained ...