web front-end, Python back end?

[Max Khesin]

Steve,
(i am probably missing somehting, but) what's the advantage of having
Twisted in the loop at all? Python can start a standalone XMLPRC server
using xmlrpclib, no?
As a side issue, what are the security implications of running xmlrpc? Is
there a way to make sure the protocol cannot be accessed from the 'outside'?

thanks,

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"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
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> "Heiko Wundram" <heiko at ph0enix.homelinux.org> wrote in message
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> Quoting Guy Middleton <guy at obstruction-no-spam.com>:
>
> > The system on which it is running already has PHP installed, so I
thought
> I
> > could write some kind of PHP front end.  Is this a common approach?  We
> are
> > favouring PHP because the maintenance issues, so that we can have the
same
> > person (who is not familiar with Python) support this and the existing
PHP
> > applications.
>
> I'm doing the same thing here too... We have a PHP program, which I
recently
> extended in ways that seemed undoable in Python, and that's why I wrote a
> Python backend for the PHP program. The Python backend runs using Twisted,
> and serves pages as XMLRPC, which the PHP program can query. In case you
> [...]
> I'd be very surprised if Python can't do whatever you chose PHP for. Would
> you maybe tell us what you found Python incapable of?
>
> regards
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