Looking for host with MySQL, Python with non-standard port

[rpalmer68]

I have a fairly specific request;

I need to run a very simple python script that looks up a url in a MySQL database opens this url and then outputs the resulting text to my browser.

All sounds simple I know, but the issue is the url I need to open from my script is using a non-standard port and all hosts I've tried won't open the port for "security reasons".

The URL I would want to open is something like (the long number at the end dynamically changes at random times - hence the SQL DB to keep track of it);
http://sim5587.agni.lindenlab.com:12...e-e82fe341569e

(For those who want to know, it's a inworld HTTP server within Second Life.)

All I do is read a max of 1kb of text from the URL and then parse this in my script.

So is there anybody willing to let me use your hosting service with basically no storage requirements, and bugger all bandwidth but allow port 12046 to be open for my outbound requests?


Thanks
Richard

[Schmarvin]

Originally Posted by rpalmer68

I have a fairly specific request;

I need to run a very simple python script that looks up a url in a MySQL database opens this url and then outputs the resulting text to my browser.

All sounds simple I know, but the issue is the url I need to open from my script is using a non-standard port and all hosts I've tried won't open the port for "security reasons".

The URL I would want to open is something like (the long number at the end dynamically changes at random times - hence the SQL DB to keep track of it);
http://sim5587.agni.lindenlab.com:12...e-e82fe341569e

(For those who want to know, it's a inworld HTTP server within Second Life.)

All I do is read a max of 1kb of text from the URL and then parse this in my script.

So is there anybody willing to let me use your hosting service with basically no storage requirements, and bugger all bandwidth but allow port 12046 to be open for my outbound requests?


Thanks
Richard

I'm in agreement with other hosts who won't open the port. It is a security risk to open any ports. Besides, what would you need an outbound request for? You just need to read information from a url, right?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, you want the following:
- Grab information URL
- Read the info
- Show the information to your browser

No, for the last one, do you mean that you want it displayed on a page? Or do you want it displayed on the browser itself, like a Firefox plugin?

[kkwin]

Em, i had answered this question as provider. No one will open special port for you unless you host your own server.

[rpalmer68]

Originally Posted by Schmarvin

Please correct me if I'm wrong, you want the following:
- Grab information URL
- Read the info
- Show the information to your browser

No, for the last one, do you mean that you want it displayed on a page? Or do you want it displayed on the browser itself, like a Firefox plugin?

Just display the information on a page.

Minus the MySQL stuff, this is all my script is doing...

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, string, sys, urllib
from cgi import *

def Main():

      url="http://sim5587.agni.lindenlab.com:12046/cap/12c2ea33-2ff2-af64-0442-2e900833ea11"
      sock=urllib.urlopen(url) # Open HTTP-IN URL data
      htmldata=sock.read()   # Read data        
      sock.close()
      print("<center><font face=Arial><h1>Online Web Service</h1>")
      print("<hr>")
      if htmldata !="":
          ar=htmldata.split(',')
          print(ar[0] + "<br>")
          print("Last Updated on " + ar[1] + "</h2></center>")
          print("<hr>")
          print("<h2>Currently Online</h2>")
          for x in range(2,len(ar)):
              print(ar[x] + "<br>")
              
      else:
          print("Unable to retrieve data from in-world.")
          print("<hr>")
           

Main()

The issue is the url only retuens text not html, so there is no formatting so it displays as one line of text on a page... I just want to display it nicely.

Richard

[EDIT] I'm happy to put a text link at the bottom of the page. At this stage I have over 700 users which a good percentage will access the script at least once a day, and users grow by about 20 a month so there will be some potential exposure.

[Schmarvin]

Well, I would host you, but I cannot open a port on my server. Sorry.