[Tutor] Question about socket connections

[Ashish Shrestha]

Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
 > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 14:36, Ashish Shrestha wrote:
 >
 >
 >>I have done Gui apps with xmlrpc. Here's my logic.
 >>
 >>I implement xmlrpc client and xmlrpc server in both side (client and 
server)
 >>
 >>so client has a xmlrpc server + client and server has xmlrpc 
server+client
 >>
 >>when the client starts it registers with the server with its url
 >>(address and port)
 >>
 >>i then have a two way channel for communication.
 >
 >
 > Thats essentially what I had started, except that I had the client ask
 > the server for a port number, that way allowing more than one client to
 > operate on the same machine.
 >
 > How were you handling the actual server class in your apps?
 >

i had the client try to start the its xmlrpc server at say port 9000 if 
there is a
bind exception i then try 9001 and so on till 9050 (another arbitary limit)

when it is successful it registers with the server with ip:port!

by the way i am using multicast to locate the server instead of giving
the server address in client!

so my clients are autoconfiguring.


ashish