Re: Letting a Python application phone home
Am Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 15:26 schrieb Dieter Vanderelst:
This is surely possible. You need to define a protocol for the communication
between client and server. As you are planning to send data over the internet
you should build it on top of tcp. Look at the python module "socket" resp.
"SocketServer" for low level tcp functions.
As the data should not be visible to everyone you need some kind of
encryption. Either you rely on the ssl capabilities of the "socket" module,
this way securing the transport layer (tcp) or you build encryption into your
newly designed application layer protocol. For the latter have a look at the
"python cryptography toolkit". Sorry I have no url at hand, simply google.
Concerning the question of stopping the program when the internet connection
breaks: let your program contact the server periodically. If this fails quit
the program.
Regards
Nils
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