httpnet – HTTP content negotiation protocol.

Module contents

class pluggdapps.web.httpneg.HTTPNegotiator(pa, *args, **kwargs)

Bases: pluggdapps.plugin.Plugin

Plugin handle server side negotiation. Gather client side negotiable information using following rules,

• Use accept header from http request. If not available assume that any type of media encoding is acceptable by client.
• Use accept_charset from http request. If not available assume that any character encoding is acceptable by client.
• Use accept_encoding from http request. If not available assume identity coding.
• Use accept_language from http request. If not available assume any language is acceptable by client.

If a configured variant matches any of the combination supported by client, pick that variant and return the same. Otherwise return None.

negotiate(request, variants)

pluggdapps.plugin.ISettings.normalize_settings() interface method.