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Re: http://dreid.org/2010/12/why-i-still-trust-tor-wikileaks-and.html

Guest — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:08:55 -0000

To say that Jacob Appelbaum would secretly compromise the Tor source is absurd for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that he doesn't write code and so wouldn't know how to.

Re: http://dreid.org/2010/02/mimicing-source-virtualenvbinactivate.html

David Reid — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:58:33 -0000

No problem, glad you found it useful.

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

carton — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:02:42 -0000

@DAn @agc partly disagree. You can certainly call into the Twisted reactor's main thread from Django using reactor.callInThread (and threads.blockingCallFromThread if you need to get from Twisted a deffered's callback value into Django).

It's also harder but not TOO difficult to use Django models outside the WSGI container. This is what Nick Moffitt's Yardbird does. You still need to start Django in a thread so the reactor isn't stalled by waiting for the database, but I think you don't necessarily need WSGI nor a 'request' object just to use the Django ORM 'models.py'.

@agc serving static files is not quite that easy because WSGIResource's do not accept putChild, so I have been using the approach at http://www.clemesha.org/blo... though there's a slight mistake in his comment with favicon---it should be just 'return self.favicon' because I think the .write() .finish() is only used when you return NOT_DONE_YET.

Re: http://dreid.org/2010/02/mimicing-source-virtualenvbinactivate.html

pygabriel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:06:10 -0000

Thank you very much for the hint, it works like a charm and it's a must to have!

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

David Underhill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:55:49 -0000

This is pretty useful -- I suggest looking at this blog entry by Alex Clemesha for all the details (and example code) that you'll need to implement this.

Re: http://dreid.org/2009/04/mcafee-apparently-sends-passwords-to.html

Tim Jarratt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:12:37 -0000

If that person's password is not 'sweethomealabama' then my name isn't Josh Groban.

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

agc — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:56:32 -0000

@orospakr To handle media files just use "static.File" from "twisted.web" like so: staticrsrc = static.File(os.path.join(os.path.abspath("."), "mydjangosite/media")) and then add that resource to your root resource like so: root.putChild("media", staticrsrc)

@DAn the latter solution is probably the way you want to go, i.e. "handle urls that require xmpp access with twisted, and all other views with django". See here for an example of exactly how to do this: http://github.com/clemesha/...

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

DAn — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:45:00 -0000

I am trying to use twisted words xmpp with django. I need my django views to make requests to the xmpp server, wait for the reply in a deferred callback, and then return a response. This is easy to do with twisted web resources, but how do you do it with django views?

If it's not possible my current plan is to handle urls that require xmpp access with twisted, and all other views with django. But I'd much rather serve all views with django.

Thanks!

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

orospakr — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:29:00 -0000

Hey, how does one handle /media for the admin interface (and other static files) with this arrangement?

I am not too familiar with Twisted Web, but the documentation for WSGIResource suggests that there may be no subresources, as everything is passed to the WSGI app...

Re: http://dreid.org/2009/04/mcafee-apparently-sends-passwords-to.html

hashname — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:09:00 -0000

I've had the same experience. I was stunned to see my password in plain text and that too coming from McAfee!!!

Re: http://dreid.org/2009/04/mcafee-apparently-sends-passwords-to.html

Eric TF Bat — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:26:00 -0000

@Lock Bumping: storing a password using reversible encryption is no different than storing it in plaintext; either way it can be accessed if the server is compromised. And that pales in significance compared to the fact that they send it by email; that's just dumb. Don't make excuses for big stupid companies.

Re: http://dreid.org/2009/04/mcafee-apparently-sends-passwords-to.html

Brenton — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:56:00 -0000

I don't use my @gmail address for that very reason. I also think there's someone named Bob Simpson somewhere who would really like his Google Analytics data, if he didn't manage to attach it to my account.

-bsimpson@g

Re: http://dreid.org/2009/04/mcafee-apparently-sends-passwords-to.html

Lock Bumping — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:18:00 -0000

Just because e-mail provides the password in plaintext, it does not mean McAfee stores it on their server's that way.

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

agc — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:21:00 -0000

@Drew Yes, twistd --wsgi is using threads. If you look in the Twisted source in "twisted/web/tap.py", you can see "opt_wsgi" (the method that gives twistd the --wsgi functionality) is utilizing twisted.web.wsgi.WSGIResource, which, in turn, takes a threadpool.ThreadPool() instance as it's second argument.

@Cornbread The reason that I find this new wsgi very exciting is that now you can run Django *together* with several other Twisted Services, all running under one single Twisted Application. Your other Twisted Service may be some cool XMPP app - and combining Twisted's great XMPP functionality with Django leads to some awesome possibilities. People probably have many other useful use-cases as well.

-Alex Clemesha

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

Cornbread — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:20:00 -0000

Looks like a great post. Can you elaborate more on the configuration. Do you host your entire project on wsgi?

I'm a bit unsure how this fits in with the project as a whole whether you're running a single twisted app with a regular django project or the whole project is run on twisted. TIA

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2009/03/twisted-django-it-wont-burn-down-your.html

Drew Perttula — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:41:00 -0000

How does this work with respect to concurrent requests? I bet django page calls don't return deferreds.

Is django expecting long requests to be run in separate threads or something? Does twistd --wsgi actually use multiple threads?

Re: http://blog.dreid.org/2008/12/i-given-up.html

pix — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:53:00 -0000

So, does this mean that you're going to be blogging here?