I'm afraid I cannot use the zlib library provided by Python, since the ZIP files I'm supposed to send must be password-protected, and I haven't been able to find a method in the library that let me zip a file with a password. I could be wrong though...
As for the HTTP server instead of the XML-RPC one... you are totally right. However, in the specification I was handled to perform my task, it said explicitely to use the XML-RPC protocol; maybe it has to do because there is also some data-bases issues in our application, and using XML-RPC would be more appropiate. For example, the text file I'm supposed to zip has its information extracted from a database table.
Anyway, since those are the constraints I'm facing, I thought handling the files issue the way I did would be more appropiate. Since I have never done network programming till now, I'm having difficulties dealing with it, and I want to know if the solution I chose is acceptable.
Thank you very much.
Cheers,
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