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.