Pickled objects over the network

[Steve Holden]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>  Walker Lindley  wrote:
> 
>> Right, I could use Pyro, but I don't need RPC, I just wanted an easy way to
> send objects across the network. I'm sure >both Pyro and Yami can do that and I
> may end up using one of them. For the initial version pickle will work because
> we >have the networking issues figured out with it, just not the security
> problem. So we may end up just sending strings back >and forth that will let us
> fill out an object's member variables on the other end. It's much less cool, but
> it seems like it'd >be more secure.
> 
> This passing of a pickled structure is so handy for simple things like lists of
> parameters, and so on, that I wonder if it would not be worth while to somehow
> beef up the security of the pickle stuff.
> 
Hmm, I suspect I detect the sounds of the square wheel being reinvented.

regards
  Steve
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