Small. Fast. Reliable.
Choose any three.
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  Perhaps using sockets is a better idea.     
       
  Any suggestions and ideas are welcome. 
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+ An alternative RPC mechanism for client server is to use XML, for example XML-RPC.  An XML document maps to an SQL dataset nicely, is human readable
+ and because of the tags is very robust.  It looks cumbersome, but actually works better than it looks.     
       
  Alex K.     
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