> Subject: Issuing Fetch Request from a Web Server > > Dear Smart Guys and Gals, > > We want to send data from a server-side script to another machine. > The Web server is running IIS on Windows 2000 Server, and we are using ASP. > > We coud not find a free COM component that creates a TCP connection, > so we decided to use HTTP to send data from the Web-server > to another machine. > The optimum solution is going to depend on the size of the request and how long it takes for the remote machine to act on it.
A fairly good solution might be XML-RPC for which information can be found at http://xmlrpc.org > We first thought that Redirect may work, but we could not > make it work among different machines. > Can you output the raw headers from your server? if not you might try <META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://your.remote.server.net;";> > Is there any good way to solve our problem. > python can be used as the procedural language for ASP, can it not? in which case the solution would be #!/usr/bin/env python from socket import * s = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM) s.connect("your.remote.server.net",8080) #host and port s.send(somedata) answer = s.recv(NUM_BYTES) #NUM_BYTES being the maximum size s.close() > Thank you in advance. > > Toshi > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
