Actually, the apidocs say "Undocumented", so I think you could make it return u"The 🌕 is made of green 酪 " and still be in spec.
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/14.0.0/api/twisted.web.http.Request.html#getClient Dustin On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > twisted.web.http.Request.getClient has a terrible implementation. It does > blocking network I/O (DNS). Fortunately it is only used in one place in > Twisted - the CGI implementation. Unfortunately this makes the CGI > implementation somewhat unsuited for real-world use. > > `Request.getClient` has always been allowed to return `None` under certain > circumstances. I propose making it always return `None` and deprecating it. > > This is implemented in the branch linked to <https://tm.tl/2252>. > > Chris Armstrong suggested that this change might not be strictly keeping > with our backwards compatibility policy. > > I suggest that either it is - because `None` was always a possible return > value - or that removing the possibility of blocking I/O from applications > that are mistakenly using this API makes it worth the not- > strictly-compatible change. > > A minor adjustment might be to make it always return the IP address instead, > as this was another behavior it previously had. > > Please comment. Thanks. > > Jean-Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > [email protected] > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
