Asynchronous HTTP client

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 06:53 am, ping.nsr.yeh at gmail.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to find a way to create an asynchronous HTTP client so I
>can get responses from web servers in a way like
>
>  async_http_open('http://example.com/', callback_func)
>  # immediately continues, and callback_func is called with response
>as arg when it is ready
>
>It seems twisted can do it, but I hesitate to bring in such a big
>package as a dependency because my client should be light. Asyncore
>and asynchat are lighter but they don't speak HTTP. The asynchttp
>project on sourceforge is a fusion between asynchat and httplib, but
>it hasn't been updated since 2001 and is seriously out of sync with
>httplib.

Why should it be "light"?  In what way would using Twisted cause 
problems for you?

Jean-Paul