[Texas] Sending data over tcp

[Vikram Chhatre]

I have figured out how to do this, albeit through a hack.  Thank you
for reading any way.

Vikram



On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Vikram Chhatre
<crypticlineage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently wrote a python script which generates some bash scripts for
> data analysis.  Apart from this, I want this script to ask the user
> for their name and email address and send it over to my server over a
> tcp connection.
>
> There are some example server and client scripts available online and
> I was trying to follow this one:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/TcpCommunication
>
> There are several questions I have about this:
>
> 1. Where would the server side script reside on the server?
> 2. How do I set my webserver to listen at a particular port number?
> 3. When a connection comes in, what will trigger the execution of the
> server side script?
>
> I realize that this particular example is only sending some message
> back to the client.  But what I want to do is write the incoming
> information to a file on the server (in a secure place of course) and
> send a message back to the client that their information has been
> recorded.
>
> If you have any advice on how to accomplish this, I would highly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
> Vikram
>