Merge branch 'develop' into pushers

8 files changed, 373 insertions, 342 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/app/homeserver.py b/synapse/app/homeserver.py
index a5833b2910..d24c934b3f 100755
--- a/synapse/app/homeserver.py
+++ b/synapse/app/homeserver.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from twisted.web.server import Site
 from synapse.http.server import JsonResource, RootRedirect
 from synapse.http.content_repository import ContentRepoResource
 from synapse.http.server_key_resource import LocalKey
-from synapse.http.client import MatrixFederationHttpClient
+from synapse.http.matrixfederationclient import MatrixFederationHttpClient
 from synapse.api.urls import (
     CLIENT_PREFIX, FEDERATION_PREFIX, WEB_CLIENT_PREFIX, CONTENT_REPO_PREFIX,
     SERVER_KEY_PREFIX,
diff --git a/synapse/crypto/keyclient.py b/synapse/crypto/keyclient.py
index bb1f400b54..3f37c99261 100644
--- a/synapse/crypto/keyclient.py
+++ b/synapse/crypto/keyclient.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from twisted.web.http import HTTPClient
 from twisted.internet.protocol import Factory
 from twisted.internet import defer, reactor
-from synapse.http.endpoint import matrix_endpoint
+from synapse.http.endpoint import matrix_federation_endpoint
 from synapse.util.logcontext import PreserveLoggingContext
 import json
 import logging
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def fetch_server_key(server_name, ssl_context_factory):
     """Fetch the keys for a remote server."""
 
     factory = SynapseKeyClientFactory()
-    endpoint = matrix_endpoint(
+    endpoint = matrix_federation_endpoint(
         reactor, server_name, ssl_context_factory, timeout=30
     )
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def fetch_server_key(server_name, ssl_context_factory):
 
 
 class SynapseKeyClientError(Exception):
-    """The key wasn't retireved from the remote server."""
+    """The key wasn't retrieved from the remote server."""
     pass
 
 
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/login.py b/synapse/handlers/login.py
index 1204dc3b8f..c98ae2cfb5 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/login.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/login.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import synapse.util.emailutils as emailutils
 
 import bcrypt
 import logging
-import urllib
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -99,8 +98,14 @@ class LoginHandler(BaseHandler):
     def _query_email(self, email):
         httpCli = SimpleHttpClient(self.hs)
         data = yield httpCli.get_json(
-            'matrix.org:8090',  # TODO FIXME This should be configurable.
-            "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/lookup?medium=email&address=" +
-            "%s" % urllib.quote(email)
+            # TODO FIXME This should be configurable.
+            # XXX: ID servers need to use HTTPS
+            "http://%s%s" % (
+                "matrix.org:8090", "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/lookup"
+            ),
+            {
+                'medium': 'email',
+                'address': email
+            }
         )
         defer.returnValue(data)
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/register.py b/synapse/handlers/register.py
index 122bf065c9..48c326ebf0 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/register.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/register.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class RegistrationHandler(BaseHandler):
 
             if not threepid:
                 raise RegistrationError(400, "Couldn't validate 3pid")
-            logger.info("got threepid medium %s address %s",
+            logger.info("got threepid with medium '%s' and address '%s'",
                         threepid['medium'], threepid['address'])
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
@@ -167,8 +167,11 @@ class RegistrationHandler(BaseHandler):
                         'credentials', creds['idServer'])
             defer.returnValue(None)
         data = yield httpCli.get_json(
-            creds['idServer'],
-            "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/3pid/getValidated3pid",
+            # XXX: This should be HTTPS
+            "http://%s%s" % (
+                creds['idServer'],
+                "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/3pid/getValidated3pid"
+            ),
             {'sid': creds['sid'], 'clientSecret': creds['clientSecret']}
         )
 
@@ -178,16 +181,21 @@ class RegistrationHandler(BaseHandler):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _bind_threepid(self, creds, mxid):
+        yield
+        logger.debug("binding threepid")
         httpCli = SimpleHttpClient(self.hs)
         data = yield httpCli.post_urlencoded_get_json(
-            creds['idServer'],
-            "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/3pid/bind",
+            # XXX: Change when ID servers are all HTTPS
+            "http://%s%s" % (
+                creds['idServer'], "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/3pid/bind"
+            ),
             {
                 'sid': creds['sid'],
                 'clientSecret': creds['clientSecret'],
                 'mxid': mxid,
             }
         )
+        logger.debug("bound threepid")
         defer.returnValue(data)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
@@ -215,10 +223,7 @@ class RegistrationHandler(BaseHandler):
         # each request
         client = CaptchaServerHttpClient(self.hs)
         data = yield client.post_urlencoded_get_raw(
-            "www.google.com:80",
-            "/recaptcha/api/verify",
-            # twisted dislikes google's response, no content length.
-            accept_partial=True,
+            "http://www.google.com:80/recaptcha/api/verify",
             args={
                 'privatekey': private_key,
                 'remoteip': ip_addr,
diff --git a/synapse/http/client.py b/synapse/http/client.py
index 6361ac55f9..048a428905 100644
--- a/synapse/http/client.py
+++ b/synapse/http/client.py
@@ -15,168 +15,45 @@
 
 
 from twisted.internet import defer, reactor
-from twisted.internet.error import DNSLookupError
 from twisted.web.client import (
-    _AgentBase, _URI, readBody, FileBodyProducer, PartialDownloadError
+    Agent, readBody, FileBodyProducer, PartialDownloadError
 )
 from twisted.web.http_headers import Headers
 
-from synapse.http.endpoint import matrix_endpoint
-from synapse.util.async import sleep
-from synapse.util.logcontext import PreserveLoggingContext
-
-from syutil.jsonutil import encode_canonical_json
-
-from synapse.api.errors import CodeMessageException, SynapseError
-
-from syutil.crypto.jsonsign import sign_json
-
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
 import json
 import logging
 import urllib
-import urlparse
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-class MatrixHttpAgent(_AgentBase):
-
-    def __init__(self, reactor, pool=None):
-        _AgentBase.__init__(self, reactor, pool)
-
-    def request(self, destination, endpoint, method, path, params, query,
-                headers, body_producer):
-
-        host = b""
-        port = 0
-        fragment = b""
-
-        parsed_URI = _URI(b"http", destination, host, port, path, params,
-                          query, fragment)
-
-        # Set the connection pool key to be the destination.
-        key = destination
-
-        return self._requestWithEndpoint(key, endpoint, method, parsed_URI,
-                                         headers, body_producer,
-                                         parsed_URI.originForm)
-
-
-class BaseHttpClient(object):
-    """Base class for HTTP clients using twisted.
+class SimpleHttpClient(object):
+    """
+    A simple, no-frills HTTP client with methods that wrap up common ways of
+    using HTTP in Matrix
     """
-
     def __init__(self, hs):
-        self.agent = MatrixHttpAgent(reactor)
         self.hs = hs
+        # The default context factory in Twisted 14.0.0 (which we require) is
+        # BrowserLikePolicyForHTTPS which will do regular cert validation
+        # 'like a browser'
+        self.agent = Agent(reactor)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def _create_request(self, destination, method, path_bytes,
-                        body_callback, headers_dict={}, param_bytes=b"",
-                        query_bytes=b"", retry_on_dns_fail=True):
-        """ Creates and sends a request to the given url
-        """
-        headers_dict[b"User-Agent"] = [b"Synapse"]
-        headers_dict[b"Host"] = [destination]
-
-        url_bytes = urlparse.urlunparse(
-            ("", "", path_bytes, param_bytes, query_bytes, "",)
-        )
-
-        logger.debug("Sending request to %s: %s %s",
-                     destination, method, url_bytes)
-
-        logger.debug(
-            "Types: %s",
-            [
-                type(destination), type(method), type(path_bytes),
-                type(param_bytes),
-                type(query_bytes)
-            ]
-        )
-
-        retries_left = 5
-
-        endpoint = self._getEndpoint(reactor, destination)
-
-        while True:
-
-            producer = None
-            if body_callback:
-                producer = body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict)
-
-            try:
-                with PreserveLoggingContext():
-                    response = yield self.agent.request(
-                        destination,
-                        endpoint,
-                        method,
-                        path_bytes,
-                        param_bytes,
-                        query_bytes,
-                        Headers(headers_dict),
-                        producer
-                    )
-
-                logger.debug("Got response to %s", method)
-                break
-            except Exception as e:
-                if not retry_on_dns_fail and isinstance(e, DNSLookupError):
-                    logger.warn("DNS Lookup failed to %s with %s", destination,
-                                e)
-                    raise SynapseError(400, "Domain specified not found.")
-
-                logger.exception("Got error in _create_request")
-                _print_ex(e)
-
-                if retries_left:
-                    yield sleep(2 ** (5 - retries_left))
-                    retries_left -= 1
-                else:
-                    raise
-
-        if 200 <= response.code < 300:
-            # We need to update the transactions table to say it was sent?
-            pass
-        else:
-            # :'(
-            # Update transactions table?
-            logger.error(
-                "Got response %d %s", response.code, response.phrase
-            )
-            raise CodeMessageException(
-                response.code, response.phrase
-            )
-
-        defer.returnValue(response)
-
-
-class SimpleHttpClient(BaseHttpClient):
-    """
-    A simple, no-frills HTTP client with methods that wrap up common ways of using HTTP in Matrix
-    """
-    def _getEndpoint(self, reactor, destination):
-        return matrix_endpoint(reactor, destination, timeout=10)
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def post_urlencoded_get_json(self, destination, path, args={}):
+    def post_urlencoded_get_json(self, uri, args={}):
         logger.debug("post_urlencoded_get_json args: %s", args)
         query_bytes = urllib.urlencode(args, True)
 
-        def body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict):
-            return FileBodyProducer(StringIO(query_bytes))
-
-        response = yield self._create_request(
-            destination.encode("ascii"),
+        response = yield self.agent.request(
             "POST",
-            path.encode("ascii"),
-            body_callback=body_callback,
-            headers_dict={
+            uri.encode("ascii"),
+            headers=Headers({
                 "Content-Type": ["application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]
-            }
+            }),
+            bodyProducer=FileBodyProducer(StringIO(query_bytes))
         )
 
         body = yield readBody(response)
@@ -184,134 +61,11 @@ class SimpleHttpClient(BaseHttpClient):
         defer.returnValue(json.loads(body))
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def get_json(self, destination, path, args={}, retry_on_dns_fail=True):
+    def get_json(self, uri, args={}):
         """ Get's some json from the given host and path
 
         Args:
-            destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request to.
-            path (str): The HTTP path.
-            args (dict): A dictionary used to create query strings, defaults to
-                None.
-                **Note**: The value of each key is assumed to be an iterable
-                and *not* a string.
-
-        Returns:
-            Deferred: Succeeds when we get *any* HTTP response.
-
-            The result of the deferred is a tuple of `(code, response)`,
-            where `response` is a dict representing the decoded JSON body.
-        """
-        logger.debug("get_json args: %s", args)
-
-        query_bytes = urllib.urlencode(args, True)
-        logger.debug("Query bytes: %s Retry DNS: %s", args, retry_on_dns_fail)
-
-        response = yield self._create_request(
-            destination.encode("ascii"),
-            "GET",
-            path.encode("ascii"),
-            query_bytes=query_bytes,
-            retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail,
-            body_callback=None
-        )
-
-        body = yield readBody(response)
-
-        defer.returnValue(json.loads(body))
-
-
-class MatrixFederationHttpClient(BaseHttpClient):
-    """HTTP client used to talk to other homeservers over the federation protocol.
-    Send client certificates and signs requests.
-
-    Attributes:
-        agent (twisted.web.client.Agent): The twisted Agent used to send the
-            requests.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, hs):
-        self.signing_key = hs.config.signing_key[0]
-        self.server_name = hs.hostname
-        BaseHttpClient.__init__(self, hs)
-
-    def sign_request(self, destination, method, url_bytes, headers_dict,
-                     content=None):
-        request = {
-            "method": method,
-            "uri": url_bytes,
-            "origin": self.server_name,
-            "destination": destination,
-        }
-
-        if content is not None:
-            request["content"] = content
-
-        request = sign_json(request, self.server_name, self.signing_key)
-
-        auth_headers = []
-
-        for key, sig in request["signatures"][self.server_name].items():
-            auth_headers.append(bytes(
-                "X-Matrix origin=%s,key=\"%s\",sig=\"%s\"" % (
-                    self.server_name, key, sig,
-                )
-            ))
-
-        headers_dict[b"Authorization"] = auth_headers
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def put_json(self, destination, path, data={}, json_data_callback=None):
-        """ Sends the specifed json data using PUT
-
-        Args:
-            destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request
-                to.
-            path (str): The HTTP path.
-            data (dict): A dict containing the data that will be used as
-                the request body. This will be encoded as JSON.
-            json_data_callback (callable): A callable returning the dict to
-                use as the request body.
-
-        Returns:
-            Deferred: Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The result
-            will be the decoded JSON body. On a 4xx or 5xx error response a
-            CodeMessageException is raised.
-        """
-
-        if not json_data_callback:
-            def json_data_callback():
-                return data
-
-        def body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict):
-            json_data = json_data_callback()
-            self.sign_request(
-                destination, method, url_bytes, headers_dict, json_data
-            )
-            producer = _JsonProducer(json_data)
-            return producer
-
-        response = yield self._create_request(
-            destination.encode("ascii"),
-            "PUT",
-            path.encode("ascii"),
-            body_callback=body_callback,
-            headers_dict={"Content-Type": ["application/json"]},
-        )
-
-        logger.debug("Getting resp body")
-        body = yield readBody(response)
-        logger.debug("Got resp body")
-
-        defer.returnValue((response.code, body))
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def get_json(self, destination, path, args={}, retry_on_dns_fail=True):
-        """ Get's some json from the given host homeserver and path
-
-        Args:
-            destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request
-                to.
-            path (str): The HTTP path.
+            uri (str): The URI to request, not including query parameters
             args (dict): A dictionary used to create query strings, defaults to
                 None.
                 **Note**: The value of each key is assumed to be an iterable
@@ -323,71 +77,46 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(BaseHttpClient):
             The result of the deferred is a tuple of `(code, response)`,
             where `response` is a dict representing the decoded JSON body.
         """
-        logger.debug("get_json args: %s", args)
-
-        encoded_args = {}
-        for k, vs in args.items():
-            if isinstance(vs, basestring):
-                vs = [vs]
-            encoded_args[k] = [v.encode("UTF-8") for v in vs]
 
-        query_bytes = urllib.urlencode(encoded_args, True)
-        logger.debug("Query bytes: %s Retry DNS: %s", args, retry_on_dns_fail)
+        yield
+        if len(args):
+            query_bytes = urllib.urlencode(args, True)
+            uri = "%s?%s" % (uri, query_bytes)
 
-        def body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict):
-            self.sign_request(destination, method, url_bytes, headers_dict)
-            return None
-
-        response = yield self._create_request(
-            destination.encode("ascii"),
+        response = yield self.agent.request(
             "GET",
-            path.encode("ascii"),
-            query_bytes=query_bytes,
-            body_callback=body_callback,
-            retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail
+            uri.encode("ascii"),
         )
 
         body = yield readBody(response)
 
         defer.returnValue(json.loads(body))
 
-    def _getEndpoint(self, reactor, destination):
-        return matrix_endpoint(
-            reactor, destination, timeout=10,
-            ssl_context_factory=self.hs.tls_context_factory
-        )
-
 
-class CaptchaServerHttpClient(BaseHttpClient):
+class CaptchaServerHttpClient(SimpleHttpClient):
     """
     Separate HTTP client for talking to google's captcha servers
     Only slightly special because accepts partial download responses
     """
 
-    def _getEndpoint(self, reactor, destination):
-        return matrix_endpoint(reactor, destination, timeout=10)
-
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def post_urlencoded_get_raw(self, destination, path, args={}):
+    def post_urlencoded_get_raw(self, url, args={}):
         query_bytes = urllib.urlencode(args, True)
 
-        def body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict):
-            return FileBodyProducer(StringIO(query_bytes))
-
-        response = yield self._create_request(
-            destination.encode("ascii"),
+        response = yield self.agent.request(
             "POST",
-            path.encode("ascii"),
-            body_callback=body_callback,
-            headers_dict={
+            url.encode("ascii"),
+            bodyProducer=FileBodyProducer(StringIO(query_bytes)),
+            headers=Headers({
                 "Content-Type": ["application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]
-            }
+            })
         )
 
         try:
             body = yield readBody(response)
             defer.returnValue(body)
         except PartialDownloadError as e:
+            # twisted dislikes google's response, no content length.
             defer.returnValue(e.response)
 
 
@@ -397,24 +126,3 @@ def _print_ex(e):
             _print_ex(ex)
     else:
         logger.exception(e)
-
-
-class _JsonProducer(object):
-    """ Used by the twisted http client to create the HTTP body from json
-    """
-    def __init__(self, jsn):
-        self.reset(jsn)
-
-    def reset(self, jsn):
-        self.body = encode_canonical_json(jsn)
-        self.length = len(self.body)
-
-    def startProducing(self, consumer):
-        consumer.write(self.body)
-        return defer.succeed(None)
-
-    def pauseProducing(self):
-        pass
-
-    def stopProducing(self):
-        pass
diff --git a/synapse/http/endpoint.py b/synapse/http/endpoint.py
index 7018ee3458..9c8888f565 100644
--- a/synapse/http/endpoint.py
+++ b/synapse/http/endpoint.py
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ import random
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def matrix_endpoint(reactor, destination, ssl_context_factory=None,
-                    timeout=None):
+def matrix_federation_endpoint(reactor, destination, ssl_context_factory=None,
+                               timeout=None):
     """Construct an endpoint for the given matrix destination.
 
     Args:
diff --git a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..510f07dd7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2014 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+from twisted.internet import defer, reactor
+from twisted.internet.error import DNSLookupError
+from twisted.web.client import readBody, _AgentBase, _URI
+from twisted.web.http_headers import Headers
+
+from synapse.http.endpoint import matrix_federation_endpoint
+from synapse.util.async import sleep
+from synapse.util.logcontext import PreserveLoggingContext
+
+from syutil.jsonutil import encode_canonical_json
+
+from synapse.api.errors import CodeMessageException, SynapseError
+
+from syutil.crypto.jsonsign import sign_json
+
+import json
+import logging
+import urllib
+import urlparse
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class MatrixFederationHttpAgent(_AgentBase):
+
+    def __init__(self, reactor, pool=None):
+        _AgentBase.__init__(self, reactor, pool)
+
+    def request(self, destination, endpoint, method, path, params, query,
+                headers, body_producer):
+
+        host = b""
+        port = 0
+        fragment = b""
+
+        parsed_URI = _URI(b"http", destination, host, port, path, params,
+                          query, fragment)
+
+        # Set the connection pool key to be the destination.
+        key = destination
+
+        return self._requestWithEndpoint(key, endpoint, method, parsed_URI,
+                                         headers, body_producer,
+                                         parsed_URI.originForm)
+
+
+class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
+    """HTTP client used to talk to other homeservers over the federation
+    protocol. Send client certificates and signs requests.
+
+    Attributes:
+        agent (twisted.web.client.Agent): The twisted Agent used to send the
+            requests.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, hs):
+        self.hs = hs
+        self.signing_key = hs.config.signing_key[0]
+        self.server_name = hs.hostname
+        self.agent = MatrixFederationHttpAgent(reactor)
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def _create_request(self, destination, method, path_bytes,
+                        body_callback, headers_dict={}, param_bytes=b"",
+                        query_bytes=b"", retry_on_dns_fail=True):
+        """ Creates and sends a request to the given url
+        """
+        headers_dict[b"User-Agent"] = [b"Synapse"]
+        headers_dict[b"Host"] = [destination]
+
+        url_bytes = urlparse.urlunparse(
+            ("", "", path_bytes, param_bytes, query_bytes, "",)
+        )
+
+        logger.debug("Sending request to %s: %s %s",
+                     destination, method, url_bytes)
+
+        logger.debug(
+            "Types: %s",
+            [
+                type(destination), type(method), type(path_bytes),
+                type(param_bytes),
+                type(query_bytes)
+            ]
+        )
+
+        retries_left = 5
+
+        endpoint = self._getEndpoint(reactor, destination)
+
+        while True:
+            producer = None
+            if body_callback:
+                producer = body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict)
+
+            try:
+                with PreserveLoggingContext():
+                    response = yield self.agent.request(
+                        destination,
+                        endpoint,
+                        method,
+                        path_bytes,
+                        param_bytes,
+                        query_bytes,
+                        Headers(headers_dict),
+                        producer
+                    )
+
+                logger.debug("Got response to %s", method)
+                break
+            except Exception as e:
+                if not retry_on_dns_fail and isinstance(e, DNSLookupError):
+                    logger.warn("DNS Lookup failed to %s with %s", destination,
+                                e)
+                    raise SynapseError(400, "Domain specified not found.")
+
+                logger.exception("Got error in _create_request")
+                _print_ex(e)
+
+                if retries_left:
+                    yield sleep(2 ** (5 - retries_left))
+                    retries_left -= 1
+                else:
+                    raise
+
+        if 200 <= response.code < 300:
+            # We need to update the transactions table to say it was sent?
+            pass
+        else:
+            # :'(
+            # Update transactions table?
+            logger.error(
+                "Got response %d %s", response.code, response.phrase
+            )
+            raise CodeMessageException(
+                response.code, response.phrase
+            )
+
+        defer.returnValue(response)
+
+    def sign_request(self, destination, method, url_bytes, headers_dict,
+                     content=None):
+        request = {
+            "method": method,
+            "uri": url_bytes,
+            "origin": self.server_name,
+            "destination": destination,
+        }
+
+        if content is not None:
+            request["content"] = content
+
+        request = sign_json(request, self.server_name, self.signing_key)
+
+        auth_headers = []
+
+        for key, sig in request["signatures"][self.server_name].items():
+            auth_headers.append(bytes(
+                "X-Matrix origin=%s,key=\"%s\",sig=\"%s\"" % (
+                    self.server_name, key, sig,
+                )
+            ))
+
+        headers_dict[b"Authorization"] = auth_headers
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def put_json(self, destination, path, data={}, json_data_callback=None):
+        """ Sends the specifed json data using PUT
+
+        Args:
+            destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request
+                to.
+            path (str): The HTTP path.
+            data (dict): A dict containing the data that will be used as
+                the request body. This will be encoded as JSON.
+            json_data_callback (callable): A callable returning the dict to
+                use as the request body.
+
+        Returns:
+            Deferred: Succeeds when we get a 2xx HTTP response. The result
+            will be the decoded JSON body. On a 4xx or 5xx error response a
+            CodeMessageException is raised.
+        """
+
+        if not json_data_callback:
+            def json_data_callback():
+                return data
+
+        def body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict):
+            json_data = json_data_callback()
+            self.sign_request(
+                destination, method, url_bytes, headers_dict, json_data
+            )
+            producer = _JsonProducer(json_data)
+            return producer
+
+        response = yield self._create_request(
+            destination.encode("ascii"),
+            "PUT",
+            path.encode("ascii"),
+            body_callback=body_callback,
+            headers_dict={"Content-Type": ["application/json"]},
+        )
+
+        logger.debug("Getting resp body")
+        body = yield readBody(response)
+        logger.debug("Got resp body")
+
+        defer.returnValue((response.code, body))
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def get_json(self, destination, path, args={}, retry_on_dns_fail=True):
+        """ Get's some json from the given host homeserver and path
+
+        Args:
+            destination (str): The remote server to send the HTTP request
+                to.
+            path (str): The HTTP path.
+            args (dict): A dictionary used to create query strings, defaults to
+                None.
+                **Note**: The value of each key is assumed to be an iterable
+                and *not* a string.
+
+        Returns:
+            Deferred: Succeeds when we get *any* HTTP response.
+
+            The result of the deferred is a tuple of `(code, response)`,
+            where `response` is a dict representing the decoded JSON body.
+        """
+        logger.debug("get_json args: %s", args)
+
+        encoded_args = {}
+        for k, vs in args.items():
+            if isinstance(vs, basestring):
+                vs = [vs]
+            encoded_args[k] = [v.encode("UTF-8") for v in vs]
+
+        query_bytes = urllib.urlencode(encoded_args, True)
+        logger.debug("Query bytes: %s Retry DNS: %s", args, retry_on_dns_fail)
+
+        def body_callback(method, url_bytes, headers_dict):
+            self.sign_request(destination, method, url_bytes, headers_dict)
+            return None
+
+        response = yield self._create_request(
+            destination.encode("ascii"),
+            "GET",
+            path.encode("ascii"),
+            query_bytes=query_bytes,
+            body_callback=body_callback,
+            retry_on_dns_fail=retry_on_dns_fail
+        )
+
+        body = yield readBody(response)
+
+        defer.returnValue(json.loads(body))
+
+    def _getEndpoint(self, reactor, destination):
+        return matrix_federation_endpoint(
+            reactor, destination, timeout=10,
+            ssl_context_factory=self.hs.tls_context_factory
+        )
+
+
+def _print_ex(e):
+    if hasattr(e, "reasons") and e.reasons:
+        for ex in e.reasons:
+            _print_ex(ex)
+    else:
+        logger.exception(e)
+
+
+class _JsonProducer(object):
+    """ Used by the twisted http client to create the HTTP body from json
+    """
+    def __init__(self, jsn):
+        self.reset(jsn)
+
+    def reset(self, jsn):
+        self.body = encode_canonical_json(jsn)
+        self.length = len(self.body)
+
+    def startProducing(self, consumer):
+        consumer.write(self.body)
+        return defer.succeed(None)
+
+    def pauseProducing(self):
+        pass
+
+    def stopProducing(self):
+        pass
diff --git a/synapse/rest/register.py b/synapse/rest/register.py
index 5c15614ea9..f25e23a158 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/register.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/register.py
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ class RegisterRestServlet(RestServlet):
 
         threepidCreds = register_json['threepidCreds']
         handler = self.handlers.registration_handler
+        logger.debug("Registering email. threepidcreds: %s" % (threepidCreds))
         yield handler.register_email(threepidCreds)
         session["threepidCreds"] = threepidCreds  # store creds for next stage
         session[LoginType.EMAIL_IDENTITY] = True  # mark email as done
@@ -232,6 +233,7 @@ class RegisterRestServlet(RestServlet):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _do_password(self, request, register_json, session):
+        yield
         if (self.hs.config.enable_registration_captcha and
                 not session[LoginType.RECAPTCHA]):
             # captcha should've been done by this stage!
@@ -259,6 +261,9 @@ class RegisterRestServlet(RestServlet):
         )
 
         if session[LoginType.EMAIL_IDENTITY]:
+            logger.debug("Binding emails %s to %s" % (
+                session["threepidCreds"], user_id)
+            )
             yield handler.bind_emails(user_id, session["threepidCreds"])
 
         result = {