Client-server architecture

[Olivier Dagenais]

Yes, I'm answering my own post, but it's more of an FYI that might be nice
in the FAQ, if it isn't, already...  Anyway, I found this, after a long,
long search:

http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/index.html

It seems to do a lot of what I was asking.  The main page is rather sketchy,
but the documentation provided helps illustrate a bit more how it works, at
the high level.  (esp. data_flow.html)

I also found something else, called "WebDav", but I don't think it would
suit my purposes all that much.

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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III


"Olivier Dagenais" wrote in message
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> What modules [or references] are there that explain or implement
> simultaneous, __secure__ operations on a server?
>
> I looked through http://www.python.org/topics/web/  and it seems to only
> cover HTTP, not HTTPS (using SSL or some other, secure protocol).
>
> I want to implement seemingly concurrent, remote database access and if I
> can queue the requests to the server, the server could then process
> requests, one at a time, and then "call back" each client with the
results.
>
> I'm thinking I don't want to write the server side software using a CGI
> script, since the database package I'm looking into using (Gadfly) isn't
> designed for concurrent access, unless I don't understand how CGI works
and
> it is synchronous?  (I have only written very simple CGI scripts in Perl
and
> C, so I'm sort of new to this)
>
> Any help (including corrections in my thinking of CGI or hints on handling
> many, simultaneous requests) would be appreciated.  I'd like to write both
> the client and the server in Python.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III
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