? about web services

[D]

You know how on some programs such as virus scanners you might have the
option to update your virus file via the program and it'll connect to some
server and download an update?

What do you supposed is the method used to connect to the home server, rpc
or ftp or .... ? Would web services work well for that ?

Also if you have thousands of users how would you scale it out so that their
clients don't all connect to one machine, maybe that's on the server farm
side of things, I don't know.

Thanks

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

D <Da**@nothing.net> wrote:

You know how on some programs such as virus scanners you might have the
option to update your virus file via the program and it'll connect to some
server and download an update?

What do you supposed is the method used to connect to the home server, rpc
or ftp or .... ? Would web services work well for that ?
I suspect most will use HTTP or FTP just to get round firewall
problems. Web services would be okay, although you would take a
bandwidth hit if you use a normal XML encoding rather than a binary
format.
Also if you have thousands of users how would you scale it out so
that their clients don't all connect to one machine, maybe that's on
the server farm side of things, I don't know.

A load balancer on the server side would work fine for that, I'd
expect.

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[Cor Ligthert]

Dave,

I would use the webservice to see if there is/are (a) new update(s).

Than use the information from that to get the files and procedures using
either HTTP or FTP (normally HTTP webclient.downloadfile because that is so
easy to use).

Just my thought,

Cor