Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Frank Millman
Frank Millman wrote: > Hi all > > This is not strictly a Python question, but as the system to which > relates is written in Python, hopefully it is not too off-topic. > [...] > I now want to add the capability of displaying images on the client. > For example, if the application deals with proper

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul McNett
Calvin Spealman wrote: > On 7/22/07, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Rubin wrote: >> > Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Any suggestions will be much appreciated. >> > >> > Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of >> > a special protocol? Th

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 7/22/07, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Any suggestions will be much appreciated. > > > > Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of > > a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Jorge Godoy
Paul McNett wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: >> Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Any suggestions will be much appreciated. >> >> Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of >> a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images >> into the relevant pa

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul McNett
Paul Rubin wrote: > Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Any suggestions will be much appreciated. > > Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of > a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images > into the relevant pages. I believe he has a ful

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul McNett
Frank Millman wrote: > I guess the point of all this rambling is that my thought process is > leading me towards my third option, but this would be a bit of work to > set up, so I would appreciate any comments from anyone who has been > down this road before - do I make sense, or are there better w

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Rubin
Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Why on earth don't you write the whole thing as a web app instead of a special protocol? Then just use normal html tags to put images into the relevant pages. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: Advice on sending images to clients over network

2007-07-22 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Frank Millman wrote: > My question is, what is the best way to get the image to the > client? IMHO, HTTP would be most painless. Either incorporate a little HTTP server into your server application, or use a seperate daemon and let the server only output HTTP links. > My third thought was to se