On 2004.07.04 09:40:32 +0000, Sergio Trejo wrote:

Hi, I'm new to Twisted and just discovered it today. It looks to be amazing and versatile. I want to use the Twisted Web server to receive an HTTP POST and when the POST comes in, I want to relay a message to another object that happens to be running on the same physical machine (although in the future it may not be running on the same machine). The message that will be sent will contain some basic data. To do this, should I use Spread with the Perspective Broker for interobject communication (can I even do this from, say, a cgi application in Twisted Web server), or should I do something a bit more fancier such as using SOAP?

PB is excellent, within its range of applicability. If you control both sides, can choose Python, and prefer async operation, I highly recommend it. Yeah, it should be easy to integrate with other Twisted bits. XML-RPC is reasonable, if you need cross-language support or more buzzword compliance. SOAP is XML-RPC attacked by Microsoft and a committee. It's hard to read the specs without laughing, and harder to try to interoperate with someone using Microsoft's broken^Wenhanced implementation of it without crying. But what did you expect to hear on a Twisted list? -- David Ripton dripton@ripton.net