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# ``twisted`.`web`.`http``

module documentation
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HyperText Transfer Protocol implementation.

This is the basic server-side protocol implementation used by the Twisted Web server. It can parse HTTP 1.0 requests and supports many HTTP 1.1 features as well. Additionally, some functionality implemented here is also useful for HTTP clients (such as the chunked encoding parser).

Class | `HTTPChannel` | A receiver for HTTP requests.
Class | `HTTPClient` | A client for HTTP 1.0.
Class | `HTTPFactory` | Factory for HTTP server.
Class | `Request` | A HTTP request.
Class | `StringTransport` | I am a BytesIO wrapper that conforms for the transport API. I support the `writeSequence' method.
Exception | `PotentialDataLoss` | `PotentialDataLoss` may be raised by a transfer encoding decoder's `noMoreData` method to indicate that it cannot be determined if the entire response body has been delivered. This only occurs when making requests to HTTP servers which do not set ...
Function | `combinedLogFormatter` | No summary
Function | `datetimeToLogString` | Convert seconds since epoch to log datetime string.
Function | `datetimeToString` | Convert seconds since epoch to HTTP datetime string.
Function | `fromChunk` | Convert chunk to string.
Function | `parse_qs` | Like `cgi.parse_qs`, but with support for parsing byte strings on Python 3.
Function | `parseContentRange` | Parse a content-range header into (start, end, realLength).
Function | `proxiedLogFormatter` | No summary
Function | `stringToDatetime` | Convert an HTTP date string (one of three formats) to seconds since epoch.
Function | `timegm` | Convert time tuple in GMT to seconds since epoch, GMT
Function | `toChunk` | Convert string to a chunk.
Function | `urlparse` | Parse an URL into six components.
Constant | `ACCEPTED` | Undocumented
Constant | `BAD_GATEWAY` | Undocumented
Constant | `BAD_REQUEST` | Undocumented
Constant | `CACHED` | A marker value to be returned from cache-related request methods to indicate to the caller that a cached response will be usable and no response body should be generated.
Constant | `CONFLICT` | Undocumented
Constant | `CREATED` | Undocumented
Constant | `EXPECTATION_FAILED` | Undocumented
Constant | `FORBIDDEN` | Undocumented
Constant | `FOUND` | Undocumented
Constant | `GATEWAY_TIMEOUT` | Undocumented
Constant | `GONE` | Undocumented
Constant | `H2_ENABLED` | Undocumented
Constant | `HTTP_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED` | Undocumented
Constant | `INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE_SPACE` | Undocumented
Constant | `INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR` | Undocumented
Constant | `LENGTH_REQUIRED` | Undocumented
Constant | `MOVED_PERMANENTLY` | Undocumented
Constant | `MULTI_STATUS` | Undocumented
Constant | `MULTIPLE_CHOICE` | Undocumented
Constant | `NO_BODY_CODES` | Undocumented
Constant | `NO_CONTENT` | Undocumented
Constant | `NON_AUTHORITATIVE_INFORMATION` | Undocumented
Constant | `NOT_ACCEPTABLE` | Undocumented
Constant | `NOT_ALLOWED` | Undocumented
Constant | `NOT_EXTENDED` | Undocumented
Constant | `NOT_FOUND` | Undocumented
Constant | `NOT_IMPLEMENTED` | Undocumented
Constant | `NOT_MODIFIED` | Undocumented
Constant | `OK` | Undocumented
Constant | `PARTIAL_CONTENT` | Undocumented
Constant | `PAYMENT_REQUIRED` | Undocumented
Constant | `PERMANENT_REDIRECT` | Undocumented
Constant | `PRECONDITION_FAILED` | Undocumented
Constant | `PROXY_AUTH_REQUIRED` | Undocumented
Constant | `REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE` | Undocumented
Constant | `REQUEST_TIMEOUT` | Undocumented
Constant | `REQUEST_URI_TOO_LONG` | Undocumented
Constant | `REQUESTED_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE` | Undocumented
Constant | `RESET_CONTENT` | Undocumented
Constant | `RESPONSES` | Undocumented
Constant | `SEE_OTHER` | Undocumented
Constant | `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE` | Undocumented
Constant | `SWITCHING` | Undocumented
Constant | `TEMPORARY_REDIRECT` | Undocumented
Constant | `UNAUTHORIZED` | Undocumented
Constant | `UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE` | Undocumented
Constant | `USE_PROXY` | Undocumented
Variable | `maxChunkSizeLineLength` | Maximum allowable length of the CRLF-terminated line that indicates the size of a chunk and the extensions associated with it, as in the HTTP 1.1 chunked Transfer-Encoding (RFC 7230 section 4.1). This limits how much data may be buffered when decoding the line.
Variable | `monthname` | Undocumented
Variable | `monthname_lower` | Undocumented
Variable | `protocol_version` | Undocumented
Variable | `weekdayname` | Undocumented
Variable | `weekdayname_lower` | Undocumented
Interface | `_IDeprecatedHTTPChannelToRequestInterface` | The interface `HTTPChannel` expects of `Request`.
Class | `_ChunkedTransferDecoder` | Protocol for decoding chunked Transfer-Encoding, as defined by RFC 7230, section 4.1. This protocol can interpret the contents of a request or response body which uses the chunked Transfer-Encoding. ...
Class | `_GenericHTTPChannelProtocol` | A proxy object that wraps one of the HTTP protocol objects, and switches between them depending on TLS negotiated protocol.
Class | `_IdentityTransferDecoder` | Protocol for accumulating bytes up to a specified length. This handles the case where no Transfer-Encoding is specified.
Class | `_NoPushProducer` | A no-op version of `interfaces.IPushProducer`, used to abstract over the possibility that a `HTTPChannel` transport does not provide `IPushProducer`.
Class | `_XForwardedForAddress` | `IAddress` which represents the client IP to log for a request, as gleaned from an X-Forwarded-For header.
Class | `_XForwardedForRequest` | Add a layer on top of another request that only uses the value of an X-Forwarded-For header as the result of `getClientAddress`.
Exception | `_DataLoss` | `_DataLoss` indicates that not all of a message body was received. This is only one of several possible exceptions which may indicate that data was lost. Because of this, it should not be checked for by specifically; any unexpected exception should be treated as having caused data loss.
Exception | `_MalformedChunkedDataError` | `_ChunkedTransferDecoder` raises `_MalformedChunkedDataError` from its `dataReceived` method when it encounters malformed data. This exception indicates a client-side error. If this exception is raised, the connection should be dropped with a 400 error.
Function | `_escape` | Return a string like python repr, but always escaped as if surrounding quotes were double quotes.
Function | `_genericHTTPChannelProtocolFactory` | Returns an appropriately initialized _GenericHTTPChannelProtocol.
Function | `_getContentFile` | Get a writeable file-like object to which request content can be written.
Function | `_hexint` | Decode a hexadecimal integer.
Function | `_ishexdigits` | Is the string case-insensitively hexidecimal?
Function | `_parseHeader` | Undocumented
Constant | `_QUEUED_SENTINEL` | Undocumented
Constant | `_REQUEST_TIMEOUT` | Undocumented
Variable | `_chunkExtChars` | Characters that are valid in a chunk extension.
Variable | `_hostHeaderExpression` | Undocumented

@provider(IAccessLogFormatter)
def combinedLogFormatter(timestamp, request): (source)

Returns
A combined log formatted log line for the given request.
See Also
`IAccessLogFormatter`

def datetimeToLogString(msSinceEpoch=None): (source)

Convert seconds since epoch to log datetime string.

Returns
`str` | Undocumented

def datetimeToString(msSinceEpoch=None): (source)

Convert seconds since epoch to HTTP datetime string.

Returns
`bytes` | Undocumented

def fromChunk(data): (source)

Convert chunk to string.

Note that this function is not specification compliant: it doesn't handle chunk extensions.

Parameters
data:`bytes` | Undocumented
Returns
`Tuple[bytes, bytes]` | tuple of (result, remaining) - both `bytes`.
Raises
`ValueError` | If the given data is not a correctly formatted chunked byte string.

def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=0, strict_parsing=0): (source)

Like `cgi.parse_qs`, but with support for parsing byte strings on Python 3.

Parameters
qs:`bytes` | Undocumented
keep_blank_values | Undocumented
strict_parsing | Undocumented

def parseContentRange(header): (source)

Parse a content-range header into (start, end, realLength).

realLength might be None if real length is not known ('*').

@provider(IAccessLogFormatter)
def proxiedLogFormatter(timestamp, request): (source)

Returns
A combined log formatted log line for the given request but use the value of the X-Forwarded-For header as the value for the client IP address.
See Also
`IAccessLogFormatter`

def stringToDatetime(dateString): (source)

Convert an HTTP date string (one of three formats) to seconds since epoch.

Parameters
dateString:`bytes` | Undocumented

def timegm(year, month, day, hour, minute, second): (source)

Convert time tuple in GMT to seconds since epoch, GMT

def toChunk(data): (source)

Convert string to a chunk.

Parameters
data:`bytes` | Undocumented
Returns
a tuple of `bytes` representing the chunked encoding of data

def urlparse(url): (source)

Parse an URL into six components.

This is similar to `urlparse.urlparse`, but rejects `str` input and always produces `bytes` output.

Parameters
url:`bytes` | Undocumented
Returns
`ParseResultBytes` | The scheme, net location, path, params, query string, and fragment of the URL - all as `bytes`.
Raises
`TypeError` | The given url was a `str` string instead of a `bytes`.

ACCEPTED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    202

BAD_GATEWAY: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    502

BAD_REQUEST: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    400

CACHED: `str` = (source)

A marker value to be returned from cache-related request methods to indicate to the caller that a cached response will be usable and no response body should be generated.

Value

    '''Magic constant returned by http.Request methods to set cache
    validation headers when the request is conditional and the value fails
    the condition.'''

CONFLICT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    409

CREATED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    201

EXPECTATION_FAILED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    417

FORBIDDEN: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    403

FOUND: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    302

GATEWAY_TIMEOUT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    504

GONE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    410

H2_ENABLED: `bool` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    True

HTTP_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    505

INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE_SPACE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    507

INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    500

LENGTH_REQUIRED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    411

MOVED_PERMANENTLY: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    301

MULTI_STATUS: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    207

MULTIPLE_CHOICE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    300

NO_BODY_CODES: `tuple[int, ...]` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    (204, 304)

NO_CONTENT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    204

NON_AUTHORITATIVE_INFORMATION: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    203

NOT_ACCEPTABLE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    406

NOT_ALLOWED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    405

NOT_EXTENDED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    510

NOT_FOUND: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    404

NOT_IMPLEMENTED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    501

NOT_MODIFIED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    304

OK: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    200

PARTIAL_CONTENT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    206

PAYMENT_REQUIRED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    402

PERMANENT_REDIRECT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    308

PRECONDITION_FAILED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    412

PROXY_AUTH_REQUIRED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    407

REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    413

REQUEST_TIMEOUT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    408

REQUEST_URI_TOO_LONG: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    414

REQUESTED_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    416

RESET_CONTENT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    205

RESPONSES = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    {_CONTINUE: b'Continue',
     SWITCHING: b'Switching Protocols',
     OK: b'OK',
     CREATED: b'Created',
     ACCEPTED: b'Accepted',
     NON_AUTHORITATIVE_INFORMATION: b'Non-Authoritative Information',
     NO_CONTENT: b'No Content',
    ...

SEE_OTHER: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    303

SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    503

SWITCHING: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    101

TEMPORARY_REDIRECT: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    307

UNAUTHORIZED: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    401

UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    415

USE_PROXY: `int` = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    305

maxChunkSizeLineLength: `int` = (source)

Maximum allowable length of the CRLF-terminated line that indicates the size of a chunk and the extensions associated with it, as in the HTTP 1.1 chunked Transfer-Encoding (RFC 7230 section 4.1). This limits how much data may be buffered when decoding the line.

monthname: `list` = (source)

Undocumented

monthname_lower = (source)

Undocumented

protocol_version: `str` = (source)

Undocumented

weekdayname: `list[str]` = (source)

Undocumented

weekdayname_lower = (source)

Undocumented

def _escape(s): (source)

Return a string like python repr, but always escaped as if surrounding quotes were double quotes.

Parameters
s:`bytes` or `str` | The string to escape.
Returns
`str` | An escaped string.

def _genericHTTPChannelProtocolFactory(self): (source)

Returns an appropriately initialized _GenericHTTPChannelProtocol.

def _getContentFile(length): (source)

Get a writeable file-like object to which request content can be written.

def _hexint(b): (source)

Decode a hexadecimal integer.

Unlike `int(b, 16)`, this raises `ValueError` when the integer has a prefix like `b'0x'`, `b'+'`, or `b'-'`, which is desirable when parsing network protocols.

Parameters
b:`bytes` | Undocumented
Returns
`int` | Undocumented

def _ishexdigits(b): (source)

Is the string case-insensitively hexidecimal?

It must be composed of one or more characters in the ranges a-f, A-F and 0-9.

Parameters
b:`bytes` | Undocumented
Returns
`bool` | Undocumented

def _parseHeader(line): (source)

Undocumented

_QUEUED_SENTINEL = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    object()

_REQUEST_TIMEOUT = (source)

Undocumented

Value

    1*60

_chunkExtChars: `bytes` = (source)

Characters that are valid in a chunk extension.

See RFC 7230 section 4.1.1:

         chunk-ext      = *( ";" chunk-ext-name [ "=" chunk-ext-val ] )

         chunk-ext-name = token
         chunk-ext-val  = token / quoted-string

And section 3.2.6:

         token          = 1*tchar

         tchar          = "!" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "&" / "'" / "*"
                        / "+" / "-" / "." / "^" / "_" / "`" / "|" / "~"
                        / DIGIT / ALPHA
                        ; any VCHAR, except delimiters

         quoted-string  = DQUOTE *( qdtext / quoted-pair ) DQUOTE
         qdtext         = HTAB / SP /%x21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-7E / obs-text
         obs-text       = %x80-FF

We don't check if chunk extensions are well-formed beyond validating that they don't contain characters outside this range.

_hostHeaderExpression = (source)

Undocumented