Question

I’m trying to write my own protocol so that multiple servers can pass data and connect with each other, kind of like mongo://. I have been looking at TCP & I understand ports, but how do I write something so that people can just do something like connect(“proto://example.com:6767/”) ?

Also, I’m writing in python.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe you need to look into urllib2 and writing a subclass of BaseHandler, specifically the functions protocol_request and protocol_response.

Whether the way urllib2 handles request/response cycles suits your application is up to you to decide — it may or may not be exactly what you want.