Simple XML-RPC server/client for remote execution of system calls.

xmlrpcclient.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*

"""
Client for demonstrating XML-RPC Python calls.
"""

import xmlrpclib, sys

server_url = 'http://localhost:8888'
server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(server_url)

print server.getListings(sys.argv[1])

xmlrpcserver.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Simple XML-RPC server for remote execution of system calls.
"""

import subprocess, SimpleXMLRPCServer

server_host = 'localhost'
server_port = 8888

# Methods go here.
class SystemCalls:
    def getListings(self, curr_dir):
        listing = subprocess.Popen([r'ls','-l',curr_dir], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
        print listing

"""Instantiate object"""
syscall_obj = SystemCalls()
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer((server_host, server_port))
server.register_instance(syscall_obj)

print "Listening on %s, port %s" % (server_host, server_port)
"""Loop until killed"""
server.serve_forever()