[ale] Implementing XML-RPC

[Jeff Hubbs]

Might this be a job for a native XML database?

Jeff

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:00 -0600, Denny Chambers wrote:
> The client and server both send XML data to each other. The client does 
> a POST request. The content should be set to "text/xml". But you really 
> don't need to know all of this info, the XML-RPC takes care of the 
> transport of information. What you do need is a XML-RPC client that can 
> handle Cookies, and 401 authenications request. I am not sure what 
> language you are coding this in, but the XML-RPC java code from jakarta 
> has a SecureXmlRpcClient that I believe will handle all of your needs. 
> You can check out http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/. Look at the javadocs for 
> this. I have done a little XML-RPC using the XML-RPC-c 
> (http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/), but I am not sure they support 
> Cookies or authenications. I don't remember seeing any examples of those.
> 
> 
> Denny
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> >I'm starting a project to implement XML-RPC on our embedded device. 
> >I've looked at the XML-RPC HOWTO and it seem to have left out some
> >details.  I need to know how the actual XML-RPC communications is done
> >between the client and the server over HTTP.
> >
> >Questions:
> >
> >1.  Does the client post a form where data in that form is the actual
> >XML-RPC code?  
> >
> >2.  What does the server send back?  Pure XML or HTML.  
> >
> >I've looked at the various API's and they do not seem to address
> >authentication.  Our device requires a user to loing via a form at
> >http://ip/login.  After the client receives a cookie they can then easiy
> >get to http://ip/xml-rpc and the start sending and receiving data.  
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris
> >
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