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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.

The major tool that manages Twisted applications is a command-line utility called twistd. twistd is cross platform, and is the recommended tool for running Twisted applications. The core component of the Twisted Application infrastructure is the twisted.application.service.Application() object – an object which represents your application ...

Run python-m twisted.trial--help-reporters to see a list of reporters. The tests can be run by Trial in multiple ways: python-m twisted.trial calculus: run all the tests for the calculus package. python-m twisted.trial calculus.test: run using Python’s import notation. python-m twisted.trial calculus.test.test_base_1: as above, for a specific ...

Installing Twisted; Twisted Core; Twisted Conch (SSH and Telnet) Twisted Mail (SMTP, POP, and IMAP) Twisted Names (DNS) Twisted Pair; Twisted Web; Twisted Words (IRC and XMPP) API Reference; Development of Twisted; Quick links. Report a security issue; Security Procedure for Developers; Security Audit; Twisted Community; API Reference; GitHub; PyPI

Along with connection to servers across the internet, Twisted also connects to local processes with much the same API. The API is described in more detail in the documentation of: twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorProcess

Twisted Internet. A brief overview of the twisted.internet package. Reactor basics. The event loop at the core of your program. Using SSL in Twisted. Add some security to your network transport. UDP Networking. How to use Twisted’s UDP implementation, including multicast and broadcast functionality. Using processes. Launching sub-processes ...

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.

testlogging.py - use twisted.python.log to log errors to standard out. rotatinglog.py - example of log file rotation. POSIX Specific Tricks¶ sendfd.py, recvfd.py - send and receive file descriptors over UNIX domain sockets. Miscellaneous¶ shaper.py - example of rate-limiting your web server

This document describes the Twisted release process. Although it is still incomplete, every effort has been made to ensure that it is accurate and up-to-date. If you want to make changes to the release process, follow the normal Twisted development process (contribute release automation software that has documentation and unit tests ...