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# Examples

## twisted.web.client

- `getpage.py` - use `twisted.web.client.getPage` to download a web page.
- `dlpage.py` - add callbacks to `twisted.web.client.downloadPage` to display errors that occur when downloading a web page

## XML-RPC

- `xmlrpc.py` XML-RPC server with several methods, including echoing, faulting, returning deferreds and failed deferreds
- `xmlrpcclient.py` - use `twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy` to call remote XML-RPC methods
- `advogato.py` - use `twisted.web.xmlrpc` to post a diary entry to advogato.org; requires an advogato account

## Virtual hosts and proxies

- `proxy.py` - use `twisted.web.proxy.Proxy` to make the simplest proxy
- `logging-proxy.py` - example of subclassing the core classes of `twisted.web.proxy` to log requests through a proxy
- `reverse-proxy.py` - use `twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource` to make any HTTP request to the proxy port get applied to a specified website
- `rootscript.py` - example use of `twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost`
- `web.py` - an example of both using the `processors` attribute to set how certain file types are treated and using `twisted.web.vhost.VHostMonsterResource` to reverse proxy

## .rpys and ResourceTemplate

- `hello.rpy.py` - use `twisted.web.static` to create a static resource to serve
- `fortune.rpy.py` - create a resource that returns the output of a process run on the server
- `lj.rpy.py` - use `twisted.web.microdom`, `twisted.web.domhelpers`, and chained callbacks to extract and display parts of a livejournal user’s rss page
- `report.rpy.py` - display various properties of a resource, including path, host, and port
- `users.rpy.py` - use `twisted.web.distrib` to publish user directories as for a “community web site”
- `simple.rtl` - example use of `twisted.web.resource.ResourceTemplate`

## Miscellaneous

- `webguard.py` - pairing `twisted.web` with `twisted.cred` to guard resources against unauthenticated users
- `silly-web.py` - bare-bones distributed web setup with a master and slave using `twisted.web.distrib` and `twisted.spread.pb`
- `soap.py` - use `twisted.web.soap` to publish SOAP methods