RE: xmlrpc, httplib and SSL

From: Brian Quinlan (brian_at_sweetapp.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:10:07 -0800
To: "'Roger Binns'" <rogerb@rogerbinns.com>, <python-list@python.org>

> - Connections are accepted over SSL

I don't know how much work it would take to make this happen.

> - Callbacks to verify incoming connections, certificates and
> credentials of the connections
> - Verification of HTTP authentication information

You don't need a callback to do this, just subclass
SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler, override do_POST, and do authentication before
calling the base implementation.

> - Connections are kept open/keep-alive (HTTP/1.1)

This is a one line patch. Feel free to submit it.

> - Use of a bounded thread pool that handles the connections

This is too tied to your implementation requirements. If you want something
like this then you should add a PooledThreadingTCPServer class to
SocketServer.py and then trivially subclass that in SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
as:

class PooledThreadingXMLRPCServer(
                         SocketServer.PooledThreadingTCPServer,
                         SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher)

Cheers,
Brian