Thanks Its an interesting solution but I need a more closely coupled solution, with real time events, so the communication really has to be 2 ways, and not by polling. Thanks for putting the time and though. Gary
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > While not sure of the behavior you are trying to achieve, XML-RPC comes > to mind. But it's based on HTTP protocol in which the client puts > request to the server which has to respond. The server cannot initiate > interactions. > XML-RPC is both widely avalaible, and very easy to implement. > > NOTE: in order for the server to raise events in the client, the client > needs only raise periodically a *need-anything-from-me* type of request > which permits the server to return its request in response to the > client. Naturally this solution makes superfluous calls takes some > bandwidth, so it might not be appropriate in every circumstance. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
