Twisted makes it easy to implement custom network applications. Here's a TCP server that echoes back everything that's written to it:

Twisted Web provides an abstraction of this browser-tracking behavior called the Session object . Calling request.getSession () checks to see if a session cookie has been set; if not, it creates a …

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:

It is a common mistake to think that because Twisted can manage multiple connections at once, things are happening in multiple threads, and so you need to carefully manage locks. Lucky for you, …

This document is for readers new to Twisted who are familiar with the Python programming language and, at least conceptually, with core networking concepts such as servers, clients and sockets.

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 …

Using TLS in Twisted requires that you have pyOpenSSL installed. A quick test to verify that you do is to run from OpenSSL import SSL at a python prompt and not get an error. Twisted provides TLS …

A Resource can either return a response as bytes or write to the request object. Session objects allow you to store information across multiple requests. Each individual browser using the system has a …

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 demonstrating that it …

Using the Twisted Application Framework Writing code that twistd can run. Writing Twisted Application Plugins for twistd More powerful twistd deployment method.