in reply to RPC

Well a natural RPC protocol to use is called http. Really. I would suggest a simple CGI script for this task. That is a well-known protocol. Perl is able to be the client, or you can view what you want from any machine using a regular old browser...

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RE: RE (tilly) 1: RPC
by extremely (Priest) on Nov 08, 2000 at 07:31 UTC
    Yeah, I gotta one up this. jeffa and I chatted about this on the phone (welcome to Louisville, Jeff =) and I pointed out that he was lucky merlyn was infiltrating the Java types. Normally we leave it to him to shout HTTP eq instant_solution in these cases.

    To add to what tilly is saying here when you are simply invoking a process on a remote box with real simple arguements or none at all why throw IPC and the like at the problem? And as he said, the benefit of HTTP is that you can use all kinds of handy toys with it. And most, if you want a slightly more strict data-markup, throw XML::Simple into the mix.

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(jeffa) RE: RE (tilly) 1: RPC
by jeffa (Bishop) on Nov 08, 2000 at 19:36 UTC
    Thanks for the input tilly and extremely - I totally agree, and at some point I will probably drop this RPC solution and use HTTP. I think the boss-man wanted to give me a project to help me understand how networking and sockets work in general, while at the same time helping me to understand how our servers are set up (and get on the good side of the sysadmins).