Henrique Dante de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 19, 10:28?am, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I cannot predict "acceptable speed" requirements, but I can tell that > > there will be some clients downloading 100MB report files from the > > server, so I presume that I will need a progress bar. I think that I > > need to develop my own protocol for this, and probably the underlying > > Okay, so you need to wrap large binary files in some kind of message, > without pre processing them. I think developing your own protocol > using XDR is a safe bet.
You might want to consider using netstrings rather than XDR http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt They are very simple and would be minimal overhead if all you are passing is a file and a bit of metadata. You'll find several modules for python with a bit of searching. Also I believe twisted supports them directly or you could easily roll your own. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
