[ misaddressed... ] ----- Forwarded message from Guido van Rossum <guido@zope.com> ----- From: Guido van Rossum <guido@zope.com> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: WebDAV in python 2.2? To: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:18:37 -0400 > My intent was to write a short PEP because there would be a couple modules > to add to the lib: > > 1) httpauth -- subclasses httplib.HTTPConnection to add authenticated > connections. Initially using the Basic auth method, but it could also be > expanded to Digest (and others) > > 2) davlib -- my existing module. needs a couple items of work: allow > alternate/fallback XML parsers (it uses Expat + qp_xml right now), and > use the authenticated HTTP connections. > > That is at least a start on what needs to happen. We can flesh it out with a > PEP or by checking in the modules. > (Moshe and I talked about httpauth a bit at the last Python Conference; I > know he is interested in working on something like that) Good! > I'm not sure how we normally write tests for network-based modules, but it > shouldn't be too hard to have them run against test.webdav.org. Can someone help Greg with his question about testing network modules? Generally the test suite doesn't assume internet access; network code is "tested" using a second thread and localhost. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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