[Twisted-Python] Re: Disabling PB (de)serialization

[Nicola Larosa]

>> if you don't want to go as low level as to rewrite a custom serialization
>> protocol for pb, why don't you use two channels, like in good old ftp?
>> One for control, and the other for data?

> That's what I did for my application -- I had a similar need, so I set
> up another protocol to listen on another port, use the control channel
> (PB) to coordinate the connections, generate random tokens to provide
> some means of verifying that the connecting client is who I think it is,
> and so on.

You had to serialize and deserialize data manually anyway. What did you
use? The array module? Pickle? Banana?


> It works quite well, but it certainly would be sweet if PB had the
> ability to, say, declare certain methods to send and receive raw
> data only.

Some methods should be asymmetric: some should serialize only, and others
deserialize only, if I'm not mistaken.

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