Hi folks. I've spent a few years using Perl, and have a coupla stable services under my belt. I now have a new task, and I'm getting lost....
SO, I know what I want to do, and I've worked out that POE is the way to do it, but I'm reading all this documentation, with lots of almost solutions, and I'm starting to lose site of the wood for the trees! Basically what I want to set up is a server (a POE-based script) that accepts connections, recieves a sessional identity, possibly with some instructions, and returns an image. (I can build in a timeout easily enough :) Thus, a seperate series of (lets say, CGI) scripts can connect to the server, specifying an image file - and the script recieves that file. It can reconnect (with it's sessional ID), asking for a version (maybe zoomed in, possibly with a new center-point), and the server will already know the image to use. I am making the server operate in this (slightly strange) way because I want to demonstrate that the same technology can be used as an intermediary between a multi-user (stateless) web server and multiple (state-requiring) Z30.50 databases. I *think* I want to base it on the objsessions.pl sample, but I'm getting bogged down with PoCo::HTTPD interfaces, wheels, Filters and recogising existing sessions... Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction here? Many thanks.. -- --==++ Ian Stuart: Edinburgh University Data Library. People seem to think that a man with a six-pack is a man to be admired. Personally, I have a WHOLE KEG. I think this is better. Personal web site: http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
