Feature Request: HTTPS by default about python-twitter HOT 7 CLOSED

I'm working on extending this great library and i'm almost done (now finishing 
with
implementation search lib to twitter api). I added your suggestion to this 
code, but
not via kwarg, coz i don't think, that you need to have option choose if this
connection will be via ssl or not. i just added it as option,
  USE_SSL = True
and you can change it in code. i think it will be better to have it like this, 
but
i've no problem include it to api as option. i hope that dewitt will publish my
changed lib, if not, what can i do :)

I agree that https support should be an option.  We need to make the HTTP module
pluggable anyway, and this should fit right into that refactoring.

I've added an argument for base url to point to any twitter compatible api 
endpoint,
eg. identi.ca. The default base url is 'http://twitter.com'. If you want to 
enable
SSL, just change base url to 'https://twitter.com'

Also, I've also added support for verify_credentials in the patch

Just a quick note on this -- after I finish up version 0.6, I need to do a major
overhaul of the HTTP layer to support OAuth, so I will work on incorporating 
these
changes at that time.

patch applied to default branch

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/detail?r=dca94e8bd269bd56d93b6dc8
c0634e7ad0c82729

Issue 128 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 89 has been merged into this issue.