[Zope] Getting on Zope to "talk" to another?

[Dunigan, Craig]

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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