XML-RPC server via xinetd

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:07:37AM +0200, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:

> If I understood it correctly you want the python server bind be 
> depending on whatever is configured in xinetd.conf and not be defined in 
> the your program itself?
> 
> I tested a bit around with my FreeBSD machine but indeed the OS 
> environment gives me nothing interesting back, leaving that option out 
> but I do can specify command line arguments so you could pick them up 
> with sys.argv.
> 
> I looked up how you can specify arguments in xinetd and according to 
> various resources I filtered out (gotta over these gnu type 
> documentation...) that you can use "server_args" in the per service 
> configuration to specify arguments.
> 
> Although not really elegant it is doable to do an on the fly port binding.
> 
> Now I just hope I understood your problem :-)

No, you didn't :-).  I could add these options or even write an
xinetd-only program, that's all fine with me.

The problem is that I do not see how to let an SimpleXMLRPCServer
instance *not* bind to a port or what other class I can use to just
build a XML-RPC request handler reading/writing from stdin/stdout,
i.s.o.  carrying all the server class stuff with it.

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