x2gobroker.web.json module

class x2gobroker.web.json.X2GoBrokerWeb(application: Application, request: HTTPServerRequest, **kwargs: Any)[source]

Bases: _RequestHandler

HTTP request handler that provides the JSON web frontend of the X2Go Session Broker.

Currently, Python X2Go and all derived X2Go Client applications use this web frontend / communication protocol format..

Raises:

tornado.web.HTTPError – on authentication failure a 401 error is raised

get(path)[source]

Implementation of the JSON based broker communication protocol as used by Python X2Go (via POST requests).

In debug mode you can test the broker’s functionality using a normal web browser via GET requests.

Parameters:

path (str) – URL path

http_header_items = {'Content-Type': 'text/json; charset=utf-8', 'Expires': '+1h'}
post(path)[source]

Implementation of the JSON based broker communication protocol as used by Python X2Go (via POST requests).

Parameters:

path (str) – URL path