Python-cgi Web Cobrowsing app

[Giorgi Lekishvili]

Hi!

I would recommend you Slither... I am not quite sure that's what you
need:( Nevertheless, the book "Web Programming in Python" will be of
certain iterest to you:
ISBN 0-13-041065-9
The authors:
George K. Thiruvathukal, Thomas W. Christopher & John P. Shafaee

Grtz,
Giorgi

mlorfeld wrote:

> I posted this message earlier, but as it was on Christmas Eve, so
> apologies for those who have read, but still an urgent request for
> your thoughts.
>
> I am involved with a project that is developing a web based
> collaboration tool.  Currently we are using web-embedded voice over IP
> for classroom and other purposes (http://www.cu-hearme.com).  To
> better communicate we would like to enable everyone involved to be
> able to Cobrowse.  By cobrowse I mean when one person enters a url (in
> a frame for instance) everyone in that collaboration session would be
> pushed the same web page.  I have looked at java implementations
> (coldbeans java servlets) as well as integrated collaborations tools
> (www.blackboard.com).  These however don't quite fit the niche we are
> looking for.  I have also looked at Zope, yet as I'm posting this, I
> am still just browsing through the documentation so I don't know if it
> is even the right way to look.  Another approach to this that I've
> been tinkering with is using a python cgi script to call from an sql
> database the most recent url posted.  I desprately need another
> perspective, as I have a gut instinct I'm approaching this the wrong
> way.  I believe that python would be the best developement language as
> it lends itself nicely for rapid developement.  Any suggestions, code,
> directions would be greatly appreciated.  Again the goal is to allow
> for a member of a group to push a URL to others real time.  This needs
> to be done either server side, or within the browser as
> interoperability is essential.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Lorfeld