TPCServer and xdrlib

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> wrote:
>  I'm trying to write a multi threaded TPC server. I have used xmlrpc 
>  before for many purposes, but in this case this would not be efficient:
> 
>  - I have to send larger amounts of data, the overhead of converting to 
>  XML and parsing XML back would be too much pain
>  - I have no clue how to do keep-alive with simplexmlrpcserver and it is 
>  slow to open a new connection for each RPC
>  - I would like to do session management (authentication, then store 
>  session info on server site) which is also hard with xmlrpc.
> 
>  I have looked at various solutions including:
> 
>  - PyOrbit - too heavy weight
>  - Pyro - uses pickle, I do not trust it

It is possible to change the serialization used by Pyro

  http://pyro.sourceforge.net/manual/9-security.html#pickle

to the the 'gnosis' XML Pickler.

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