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27. Project 8: File Sharing with XML-RPC

Magnus Lie Hetland

(1)Trondheim, Norway

This chapter’s project is a simple file sharing application. You may be familiar with the concept of file sharing from such applications as the (in)famous Napster (no longer downloadable in its original form), Gnutella (see http://www.gnutellaforums.com for discussions about available clients), BitTorrent (available from http://www.bittorrent.com ), and many others. What we’ll be writing is in many ways similar to these, although quite a bit simpler.

The main technology we’ll be using is XML-RPC. As mentioned in Chapter 15, this is a protocol for calling procedures (functions) ...

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