[CentOS] Server to server communication

Tue Mar 18 14:41:38 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

D Steward wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:06 +0100, mouss wrote:
>   
>> it depends on what you want to exchange. you don't need to design server 
>> software. you can use http (if running an http server is ok), stunnel, 
>> ssh, ... you can even use mysql!
>>     
> Hi, the amount of data being exchanged is very small (<1k), but it
> *must* be low-latency. Communicating via http/mysql would mean both
> servers polling for changes to a database or flatfile db/logfile, which
> would be highly undesirable.
>   

you can pass 1K of info on a URL as arguments to a http 'page' which 
invokes your program in whatever web-language its written in.