Python Python Manual, 7.0pl5 manual 105

Table of Contents

Service Lookup	44
Service Reports	47
Publishing Reports	48
Monitoring Reports	48
Lifetime of Reports	50
Identity of Subscribers	52
Existence of Publishers	54
Service Requests	57
Sending a Request	57
Handling a Response	59
Identifying a Response	60
Detecting a Failure	61
Lack of Response	63
Servicing a Request	64
Generating a Failure	65
Delaying a Response	66
Identity of the Sender	68
Invalid Request Method	69
Local Service Requests	69
Message Exchange	71
Exchange Initialisation	72
Service Availability	72
Connection Announcements	74
Authorisation of Clients	75
Distributed Exchange Server	75
Multiple Exchange Groups	76
Scalability of the Framework	78
Message Encoding	79
Supported Data Types	80
Mapping of Scalar Types	81
User Defined Types	83
Adding New Mappings	83

Handling Structured Types	.............. 85
Servlet Framework	87
Framework Overview	87
The HTTP Daemon	88
The File Server	89
Client Authorisation	90
User Authorisation	91
HTTP Server Objects	91
The Error Servlet	92
The Redirect Servlet	93
The Echo Servlet	93
The File Servlet	93
Logging of Requests	94
Servlet Objects	95
Processing a Request	95
Persistent Connections	96
Delaying a Response	97
Destruction of Servlets	98
Processing Content	99
The Form Servlet	100
Slow HTTP Clients	101
Servlet Plugins	105
Python Plugin	105
Module Caching	107
Writing a Plugin	108
Plugin Aliasing	108
Remote Access	111
The RPC Gateway	112
The Client Application	113
Restricting Client Access	113
Duplicate Services	114
User Defined Types	115

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