This is a job for XML-RPC. Fortunately, somebody did a lot of the work for you already. :) Take a look at http://www.zope.org/Members/dshaw/XMLRPCProxy. Craig Dunigan Web Programmer Esker Software - Extending the Reach of Information mailto:craig.dunigan@esker.com Ph. 608.273.6000 Fax 608.273.8227 http://www.esker.com

-----Original Message----- From: Etienne Labuschagne [mailto:etiennel@geospace.co.za] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:41 AM To: Zope user list (E-mail) Subject: [Zope] Getting on Zope to "talk" to another?

Hi all

I have two external Python methods A and B. Python method A receives it's input from a posted form. Python method A must use Python method B to calculate some stuff for it. The only problem is that Python method B sits on another Zope machine.

eg. http://myzopeserver/A?name=myName&surname=mySurname is the string that gets generated by the post form

Now A does some of it's stuff, but is must get results from http://anotherzopeserver/B?personage=28 .

I can probably build a string like the one above in method A and then use RESPONSE.redirect to "invoke" the method above, but what if the data that I must send to B is too big to fit in a GET type query (like above) and I must rather put it in a POST (it's actually an XML string that I want to send to the other server, it will respond with an XML string as answer.). How do I get the "form variables" generated by A into the POST, send it to B, get the response back from B and the do something with the response received from B?

Any ideas on the best way to tackle this?

Thanks Etienne

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