Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > shovel huge amounts of data
That right there basically takes XML-RPC off the table as a viable solution. No matter how much fine tuning you try large amounts of data don't bode well using XML-RPC. The other posted alternatives are certainly worth a shot. From CORBA to cPickle to even a basic TCP socket connection would be more efficient. I have used XML-RPC for very small recordset transfers but I wouldn't use it for anything large. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list