Hi Liu, You're correct - you can't open sockets on App Engine. You need to have the remote service send the data to your app over HTTP. If this isn't possible, you'll need a proxy running on another machine that can receive the data and proxy it to your app over HTTP.
-Nick Johnson On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM, liu <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > > I am currently facing a bottleneck problem in which I am trying to > implement socket in python application for tcp/ip data streaming. > Specifically, I need to open a socket connection between a remote > server (sending data stream) and python app residing on google app > engine (receiving data stream in xml). The question is Google App > Engine doesn't support the socket programming, am I right? > > If this is the case, are there any possible ways to work around this > please? > > Any helps or hints are really appreciated! > > Regards, > > Liu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
