I'm currently implementing an XML-RPC service in Python where binary data is sent to the server via URLs. However, some clients that need to access the server may not have access to a web server, and I need to find a solution. I came up with the idea of embedding a simple HTTP server in the XML-RPC clients so that files can be sent in the following way:
1. Start an HTTP server on the client using e.g SImpleHTTPServer on a user allowed port 2. Call XML-RPC server with the URL to the file on the client to upload 3. Get XML-RPC server response, then shut down HTTP server on client Does this sound reasonable? I know that XML-RPC can send binary data, but I presume that the URL method would be faster because the XML parser could skip reading the binary file (is it base64 encoded as a string like in SOAP?). Anyway, I'm unsure of how to implement this in Python. In particular, how do I shut down a web server once I've started it with server_forever()? Should I run the server in a separate thread or run it asynchronously? Since I'm only uploading one file I don't really need to handle multiple clients; I just need to be able to shut the server down once remote call has finished. Any help would be appreciated since I'm new to network programming. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
