Legacy Application URL Structure#

Note: this is a brain dump, mostly written by Donald Stufft in early 2015.

It just lists the legacy structure and none of the intended new structure.

The following documents the current URLs in the legacy PyPI application.

URL	Purpose
/	Redirect to /pypi
/pypi	Legacy PyPI application. See below.
/daytime	Legacy mirroring support
/security	Page giving contact and other information regarding site security
/id	OpenID endpoint
/oauth	OAuth endpoint
/simple	Simple API as given in Legacy API
/packages	Serve up a package file
/mirrors	Page listing legacy mirrors (not to be retained)
/serversig	Legacy mirroring support (no-one uses it: not to be retained)
/raw-packages	nginx implementation specific hackery (entirely internal; not to be retained)
/stats	Web stats. Whatever. Probably dead.
/local-stats	Package download stats. All the legacy mirrors have this.
/static	Static files (CSS, images) in support of the web interface.

The legacy application has a bunch of different behaviours:

With no additional path, parameter or content-type information the app renders a “front page” for the site. TODO: keep this behaviour or redirect?
With a content-type of “text/xml” the app runs in an XML-RPC server mode.
With certain path information the app will render project information.
With an :action parameter the app will take certain actions and/or display certain information.

The :action parameters are typically submitted through GET URL parameters, though some actions are also POST actions.

could be nuked without fuss

display was used to display a package version but was replaced ages ago by the /<package>/<version> URL structure
all the user-based stuff like register_form, user, user_form, forgotten_password_form, login, logout, forgotten_password, password_reset, pw_reset and pw_reset_change will most likely be replaced by newer mechanisms in warehouse
openid_endpoint, openid_decide_post could also be replaced by something else.
home is the old home page thing and completely unnecessary
index is overwhelming given the number of projects now.
browse and search are probably only referenced by internal links so should be safe to nuke
submit_pkg_info and display_pkginfo probably aren’t used
submit_form and pkg_edit will be changing anyway
files, urls, role, role_form are old style and will be changing
list_classifiers .. this might actually only be used by Richard :)
claim, openid, openid_return, dropid are legacy openid login support and will be changing
clear_auth “clears” Basic Auth
addkey, delkey will be changing if we even keep supporting ssh submit
verify probably isn’t actually used by anyone
lasthour is a pubsubhubbub thing - does this even exist any longer?
json is never used as a :action invocation, only ever /<package>/json
gae_file I’m pretty sure this is not necessary
rss_regen manually regens the RSS cached files, not needed
about No longer needed.
delete_user No longer needed.
exception No longer needed.

will need to retain

can be deprecated carefully