standalone process to interact with the web

Wed Aug 1 04:50:49 EDT 2007

beginner wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am looking for a way to allow a standalone python process to easily
> interactive with a few web pages. It has to be able to easily receive
> requests from the web and post data to the web.
> 
> I am thinking about implementing a standalone soap server, but I am
> not sure which library is good.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Forget SOAP. Use XMLRPC. SOAP is bloated, not to interoperable and the last
time I checked (has been a while though) the python-implementations were
troublesome.

http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple

Diez