greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An X server connection is *much* more stateful than > an HTTP one. It persists throughout the entire use > session of the application, for one thing, and there > is heaps of state being kept on both sides of the > connection. There's also a very high communication > bandwidth between them. There's really no comparison.
The high bandwidth and persistence is not needed for an http connection, which just gets a form submission once in a while. The persistence and bandwidth is instead present in the X connection between the window system and the browser. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list