Just wondering what solutions people have found to be the easiest when it comes to connecting a Processing applet to a high scores database (or high scores files, or whatever - I've done SQL stuff in the past, but I'm just as happy to avoid it if it would be easier).  Usually I would use an http GET request to send the scores, but in the situation I'm in now I also need to send quite a bit more data (each score report will also send a recording of the level play, so will likely have too much data to pass in the URL).  Has anyone dealt with similar things, and if so, what was the least painful method that ended up working?  For example, did you leave a socket server running, or do it using POST, did you send stuff as binary and decompress on the server, or just send flat files, etc.  Any advice would be appreciated - last time I did something like this (in Flash) it was a much bigger headache than I'd expected, and that was a bit simpler than what I'm looking at now, so this time I figure I'll ask before driving myself crazy!