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22. Project 3: File Sharing with XML-RPC

Magnus Lie Hetland¹   and Fabio Nelli²

(1)

Trondheim, Norway

(2)

ROMA, Roma, Italy

 

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 ...