On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:20 AM, vishwanath b wrote: > thanx for the reply...peter i am new to django so i am a bit confused > regarding implementing this...will i have to write python socket > client code in views which would interact with server c code rite? > > On Apr 11, 7:11 pm, Peter Herndon <tphern...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Apr 11, 2010, at 5:52 AM, vishwanath b wrote: >> >>> I have developed an application in django which has to send or receive >>> requests from/to a server.These requests have to be sent or received >>> through sockets.how do i achieve this? >> >> Python socket programming:http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html >> >> An amazingly good book on the >> subject:http://www.complete.org/FoundationsOfPythonNetworkProgramming
Django is a web framework, that is, HTTP. As such, it abstracts the mechanisms of connecting via TCP/IP sockets, so that you, the web application developer, do not need to deal with low-level socket programming. However, it does so only for HTTP, not for any other kind of network protocol. If you, as you said in your original email, need to connect to network sockets to transmit data that are *not* HTTP protocol, you will need to implement that functionality yourself. Yes, it can go in a view, if that's the appropriate place for the code. But at that point, you are working beyond Django's scope, and will need to either implement your solution using Python's socket library, or perhaps using a third-party library that implements a client for whatever network service you are using. In short, you haven't described your problem very well. Tell us about the services with which you need to communicate, and perhaps we can point you in the right direction. Better yet, search Google for "python <network_service>", where network_service is whatever you are trying to use. You will likely find that higher-level libraries exist to facilitate your work for just about every network protocol. On the other hand, if you are interfacing with custom code, well, you'll likely have to write your own Python client library yourself, and then call that library from within your views. ---Peter Herndon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
