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diff --git a/www/py-pendrell/DESCR b/www/py-pendrell/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9743184f190 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/py-pendrell/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Pendrell augments the twisted.web framework with an HTTP 1client that has +several advantages over prior art (or at least urllib2 and twisted.web.client): + + * HTTP 1.1 support: + * TE/transfer-encoding support for chunked, gzip, and deflate encodings + * Ability to simultaneously maintain multiple persistent connections. + * Transparent Gzip and Deflate Content-encoding support. + * Ability to stream data, by performing call-backs with data chunks, + alleviates the need to buffer large files. + * Advanced Gzip support accomdates incremental decoding of chunked streams. + * Asynchronous (twisted) API. + * Integration with cookielib, and compatibility with urllib2.Request API. + * Proxy Support. |