Dear Jeff and other sudsers,

Since I started using suds some months ago I found out about the integrated urllib2 transport in suds, which doesn't have a keepalive (limitation of urllib2). Like others, I also wanted decompression and some other things. And I wrote my own transport too.

Some other custom transports have been shared over the mailing list and suggestions about using urllib3 and httplib2 as the underlying libraries.

Since I saw limitations in both approaches and wanted a different approach, I engaged into developing a library that could give me the desired transport for suds.

I have finally today uploaded the library to a googlecode site (although development happens using git over gitorious if you want to clone the repository)

The project is called *HttxLib* and hosted at http://code.google.com/p/httxlib/

http://code.google.com/p/httxlib/In the download section ( http://code.google.com/p/httxlib/downloads/list) you will find:

- Source code + doc - Source code only - Doc only

The source code includes:

- The library - A suds transport called HttxTrans - Some basic examples

The transport supports out of the box:

- Compression - Authentication (Basic tested, I would gracefully have Digest tested by someone with access to digest authenticating servers) - Cookies - Client Certificates and Server Certificate validation if wished - Redirection (to external sites too) - Multithread safe - Multiple transparent simultaneous connections to the same site

The library is an attempt to take where other libraries have left

I would welcome any feedback (you can of course use the googlecode issue tracker)

Best regards

Daniel