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<font size="+1">hello,<br>
<br>
in my python desktop applications,<br>
I'ld like to implement a crash reporter.<br>
By redirecting the sys.excepthook,<br>
I can detect a crash and collect the necessary data.<br>
Now I want that my users sends this information to me,<br>
and I can't find a good way of doing this.<br>
<br>
The following solutions came into my mind:<br>
(most of my users are on Windows, and the programs are written in
Python 2.6)<br>
<br>
1. mailto:<br>
doesn't work if the the user didn't install a default email client,<br>
or if the user uses a portable email client (that isn't started yet)<br>
Besides this limits the messages to small amounts of data.<br>
<br>
2.other mail options: smtp<br>
AFAIK such a solution needs smtp authorization, and therefor I've to
put my username and password in the desktop application.<br>
<br>
3. http-post<br>
Although post is also limited in size,<br>
I could store information in cookies (don't know yet how), and cookies
are sent parallel to the post message.<br>
On the server site I can use a small php script, that stores the
post-data, cookies and/or send's a (long) email.<br>
<br>
are there better options ?<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
Stef Mientki<br>
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