Paul Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are the options? > > The user to hits a web page, downloads code (Python I hope), execute it, > and be able to return the results. It needs to be able to go through > standard HTTP so that it could be run from behind a corporate firewall > without any other ports being opened. > > Am I stuck doing an ActiveX control? [...]
If you just need to talk on port 80, just go ahead and do that (module socket, module httplib, module urllib2, urllib.getproxies, etc), and write a normal desktop application. If it must run in a browser, here is some food for thought: Compile Python to JavaScript -- very cool http://www.aminus.org/blogs/index.php/phunt/2005/10/06/subway_s_new_ajax_framework http://www.aminus.org/blogs/index.php/phunt/2005/10/09/psst_crackajax_is_in_svn Plain old AJAX with Python on server side https://sourceforge.net/projects/json-py/ http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ajax+python&btnG=Search (um, ignore the 1st result) Write Java applets in Python http://www.jython.org/ Flash 'local storage' http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help02.html Sort-of AJAX-for-Flash stuff http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr04.shtml http://www.simonf.com/flap/ Flash itself (boo;-) http://www.macromedia.com/ XUL and PyXPCOM (Firefox only) http://www.xulplanet.com/ http://trac.nunatak.com.au/projects/nufox Firefox future capabilities in this direction (probably most of this is relevant) http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/gecko-1.9-roadmap.html http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2005_09.html John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
