[Twisted-Python] XML-RPC over Unix Sockets?
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Sun Jul 5 19:30:23 MDT 2009
On 5 Jul, 10:32 pm, kristian at spritelink.net wrote:
>I'm trying to build a client / server setup using
>XML-RPC run over UNIX sockets.
>Now, on the client on the other hand I've
>basically copied this example:
>http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/web/documentation/howto/xmlrpc.html#auto5
>
>but replaced the Proxy connection string with:
> proxy = Proxy('file:///tmp/my_socket')
>Am I insane? Is XML-RPC over UNIX domain sockets
>just plain crazy, or is there even some flaw that
>makes it impossible?
>
>Any suggestions are most welcome. Thank you.
It may be possible to do, but there are a number of ugly details that
you've ignored. For example, when one has an URL like
'http://example.com/my/custom/site/RPC2', it's very clear where the host
(network endpoint) is and where the path (thing that you send to that
network endpoint to identify the resource) is.
But if you have 'file:///tmp/example_com/my/custom/site/RPC2' it's not
at a all clear which of those things is a directory, which is a socket,
and which is a path for the HTTP part which isn't present in the
filesystem at all.
This would certainly require some reworking of Twisted's HTTP internals
and the creation of a new URL scheme so that those things could be
identified. I wouldn't say that these changes would be rejected out of
hand, necessarily, but you would have to have pretty good test coverage,
good documentation and an explanation of why such a thing would be a
better idea than an HTTP server listening only on localhost :).
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