SQL Qeries via XMLRPC

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roger Binns wrote:

> The existing standard Python library XML-RPC works
> well, but has the limitation that it doesn't fully
> support HTTP authentication and it uses one connection
> per request.  The authentication issue can be solved
> by making authentication part of your exposed APIs,
> not the underlying XML-RPC transport.
>
> The one connection per request will presumably be
> solved in a future release of the Python library
> and generally is not an issue on a LAN.

the standard transport does this, yes.

it's fairly easy to plug in your own transports (just subclass Transport,
override as necessary, and pass an instance of your custom transport
to the ServerProxy class).

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