Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Frank Millman
Hi all This is not strictly a Python question, but as the system to which relates is written in Python, hopefully it is not too off-topic. I have an accounting/business application, written in client/server mode. The server makes a connection to a database, and then runs a continuous loop

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Frank Millman wrote: My question is, what is the best way to get the image to the client? IMHO, HTTP would be most painless. Either incorporate a little HTTP server into your server application, or use a seperate daemon and let the server only output HTTP links. My third thought was to set

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Rubin
Frank Millman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images into the relevant pages. --

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul McNett
Frank Millman wrote: I guess the point of all this rambling is that my thought process is leading me towards my third option, but this would be a bit of work to set up, so I would appreciate any comments from anyone who has been down this road before - do I make sense, or are there better ways

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul McNett
Paul Rubin wrote: Frank Millman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images into the relevant pages. I believe he has a full

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Jorge Godoy
Paul McNett wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: Frank Millman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images into the relevant pages. I

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 7/22/07, Paul McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: Frank Millman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul McNett
Calvin Spealman wrote: On 7/22/07, Paul McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: Frank Millman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of a special protocol? Then just use normal

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Frank Millman
Frank Millman wrote: Hi all This is not strictly a Python question, but as the system to which relates is written in Python, hopefully it is not too off-topic. [...] I now want to add the capability of displaying images on the client. For example, if the application deals with properties,