Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed - crossing borders between web apps and traditional clients

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Dienstag 15 Juni 2010, 12:12:56 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:
> Hi all,
> 
> There is a company looking into what it takes to implement billing for
> GNUmed through Lx-Office. I doubt they will do it for free but it is too
> early to tell.
> 
> The question that arose was this. In the wiki we have documented how to
> interact with lx-office on the command line. Now that means each client
> would have a local installation of Lx-Office. This is  a support
> nightmare. I guess it would be possible to make all those local instances
> connect to a central database but still this calls for trouble.
> 
> The other option is to use the http based interface but bypassing the
> browser. Python ships a library called httplib.
> 
> Can anyone comment on what is the best way to proceed ?
> 

Or maybe urllib2 ?
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml

Sebastian