Hi, I am working on a thick-client application that serves a lot of content as locally generated and modified web pages.
I'm beginning to look at serving (and updating, via AJAX) these pages from a web server running within the client (mostly to provide a more natural and powerful way of interacting with the browser control). For a first cut I imagine just starting a web server within the client and serving the pages from localhost:<someport>. I have a couple questions for anyone with experience with this sort of architecture: * First, are there any existing open source libraries that exemplify this approach? I have a vague recollection that TurboGears started out based on a project with this kind of architecture, but I haven't been able to find anything so far. * Second, are there any gotchas you would point out? In particular I'm wondering if even this localhost connection will be a problem with many users' firewalls. In case it matters, the application is being developed in python 2.5.x with wxPython 2.8.x, aimed first at a Windows platform, but intended to be portable to Linux and Mac ASAP. Thanks for any pointers, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
