This module is a connector library for the insanely fast HEXONET Backend API. For further informations visit our homepage and do not hesitate to contact us.
- Automatic IDN Domain name conversion to punycode (our API accepts only punycode format in commands)
- Allows nested associative arrays in API commands to improve for bulk parameters
- Connecting and communication with our API
- Several ways to access and deal with response data
- Getting the command again returned together with the response
- Sessionless communication
- Session based communication
- Possibility to save API session identifier in PHP session
- Configure a Proxy for API communication
- Configure a Referer for API communication
- High Performance Proxy Setup
Long distances to our main data center in Germany may result in high network latencies. If you encounter such problems, we highly recommend to use this setup, as it uses persistent connections to our API server and the overhead for connection establishments is omitted.
At least Apache version 2.2.9 is required.
The following Apache2 modules must be installed and activated:
proxy.conf
proxy.load
proxy_http.load
ssl.conf # for HTTPs connection to our API server
ssl.load # for HTTPs connection to our API server
An example Apache configuration with binding to localhost:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerSignature Off
SSLProxyEngine on
ProxyPass /api/call.cgi https://api.ispapi.net/api/call.cgi min=1 max=2
<Proxy *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from none
Allow from all
</Proxy>
</VirtualHost>
After saving your configuration changes please restart the Apache webserver.
from hexonet.apiconnector.apiclient import APIClient as AC
cl = AC()
cl.useOTESystem()
cl.useHighPerformanceConnectionSetup() # Default Connection Setup would be used otherwise by default
cl.setCredentials('test.user', 'test.passw0rd')
r = cl.request({"COMMAND" => "StatusAccount"})
So, what happens in code behind the scenes? We communicate with localhost (so our proxy setup) that passes the requests to the HEXONET API. Of course we can't activate this setup by default as it is based on Steps 1 and 2. Otherwise connecting to our API wouldn't work.
Just in case the above port or ip address can't be used, use function setURL instead to set a different URL / Port.
http://127.0.0.1/api/call.cgi
is the default URL for the High Performance Proxy Setup.
e.g. $cl->setURL("http://127.0.0.1:8765/api/call.cgi");
would change the port. Configure that port also in the Apache Configuration (-> Step 2)!
Don't use https
for that setup as it leads to slowing things down as of the https overhead
of securing the connection. In this setup we just connect to localhost, so no direct outgoing network traffic using http
. The apache configuration finally takes care passing it to https
for the final communication to the HEXONET API.
All you need to know, can be found here.
Please read our development guide for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
pip3 install -e .
List of responsible developers can be found here
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.