On Mon, Oct 18 2010, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
[...] > the gps program sends the info with a php url - I need to collect the > info and massage it before sending it to the webserver for display. So > I need a small python program to listen on that port and collect > whatever comes (is it socket programming or something like that?) >From your description, it sounds like a you need a simple program that listens on this port which will accept anything that comes in, process it and then send it to your actual web application. So, yes. this is a program that uses a socket. This is a simple proxy that will listen on a local port and then use some HTTP client library to send it to the web application. The pages in the Python docs which discuss 'SocketServer' has a small example which you can alter to suit your needs I think. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
