David Montgomery wrote: > 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
If I understand you correctly, I did something like this recently. I wanted to monitor a long running process via web browser. I used twisted to create simplehttpserver and ran the long running process in another process. Periodically I would update information in a python dictionary that was visible to the httpserver to generate a proper HTML page by merging a template and the progress data upon a request from web browser. Does this sound at all like what you are looking for? No firewall issues and I even tunneled ports securely over ssh and it worked flawlessly. -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
