[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib + proxy support followup

[Bill Bumgarner]

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     I'm in the midst of implementing the Proxy support in xmlrpclib's 
Transport pattern and have a [minor] patch that seems to be necessary 
to my implementation.  I say 'seems' because I'm not that far in yet 
and may discover something else that makes this particular path of 
implementation invalid [but I don't think so].

     In particular, my goal is to implement a subclass of Transport that 
leverages the capabilities of urllib2 to provide Proxy support, HTTPs 
support, etc.. in a single class.   The goal is to provide the 
implementation entirely through the methods provided for creating and 
sending the request.  That is, through make_connection(), 
send_request(), send_host(), send_user_agent(), and send_content().

     However, I need a sixth method -- get_reply().

     I patched the Transport class in xmlrpclib as such:

     def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
         # issue XML-RPC request
         ....
         errcode, errmsg, headers = self.get_reply(h)

     ....

     def get_reply(self, connection):
         return connection.getReply()

	This would seem to be a trivial change to the existing xmlrpclib that 
greatly increases the ability to modify its behavior via subclassing, 
etc...

     Onwards,
     b.bum