[Mono-list] IPC Scenario between a service and a web page

[Vasili Sviridov]

Service is Mono as well as we wanted maximal portability.

Also, can you post those init differences? I don't want to be stepping 
on same rakes...

V.

Amc Gmail wrote:
> We are using simple .NET Remoting with tcp channel and that works
> nicely under both MS.NET and Mono. Only the initialization is slightly
> different, but it's one line of code under #ifdef.
> In other projects we have sockets or WebRequest/WebResponse exchange,
> which you may also consider if your service is not a .NET-based but
> rather plain c/c++ I did not personally test those on Mono but pretty
> sure it's OK.
> -- amc
>
>
> On 11/2/07, Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> Vasili Sviridov wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have a service which performs TCP/IP data exchange with multiple clients.
>>> I also have a web page, on which I'd like to have a "ping" button, that
>>> should tell the service to send a certain packet to the client and
>>> return a response.
>>>
>>> My question is - what's the best way to implement this?
>>> I've found an implementation of named pipes by Ivan Latunov, but it
>>> looks like its windows only. Currently that's OK, but i know for sure
>>> that the project will be moved to linux entirely.
>>>
>>> Is there an implementation that's lightweight and works on both runtimes?
>>>       
>> You could use .NET Remoting with IPC channels. That's .NET 2.0 only,
>> though. See System.Runtime.Remoting.IpcChannel on MSDN.
>>
>> OTOH, since you already have a  TCP/IP service, why don't you access
>> it via localhost?
>>
>> Robert
>>
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