Web functions idea

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Carter
I was musing recently about how one could, for example, set up a really simple mailing subscription list. It occurred to me that a really simple way to implement it would be to use xmlrpc. So there could be a function subscribe(emailAddress), which would send an email for confirmation, and anothe

Re: Web functions idea

2005-11-29 Thread bruno at modulix
Mark Carter wrote: > I was musing recently about how one could, for example, set up a really > simple mailing subscription list. It occurred to me that a really simple > way to implement it would be to use xmlrpc. > So there could be a function > subscribe(emailAddress), > which would send an email

Re: Web functions idea

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Carter
bruno at modulix wrote: > Mark Carter wrote: > Congratulations, you've just rediscovered REST !-) Huzzah! > Turbogears is probably what you're looking for (if not quite what you > describe). Thanks. It looks quite interesting. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web functions idea

2005-11-29 Thread Larry Bates
The client software can be written in JavaScript that makes xmlrpc calls to the server (AJAX). That way there is no installation required. But there are loads of free, debugged mailing list programs out there that use email as the interface. You should take a look there first. -Larry Bates Mar