On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:33:22 -0700, Ron Garret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ron Garret wrote: >> > I don't understand why socketserver calling select should matter. (And >> > BTW, there are no calls to select in SocketServer.py. I'm using >> > Python2.5.) >> >> You don't *need* a select at all. > >Yes I do, because what I'm really writing is a dispatching proxy that >has to serve many simultaneous connections.
Calling select() in a while loop doesn't give you this. > [snip] > >I have not been able to find a proxy server that can proxy to unix >sockets, so I need to write my own. Conceptually its a very simple >thing: read the first line of an HTTP request, parse it with a regexp to >extract the sandbox name, connect to the appropriate unix server socket, >and then bidirectionally pipe bytes back and forth. But it has to do >this for multiple connections simultaneously, which is why I need select. Twisted does this out of the box, for what it's worth. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
