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Monday March 25, 2002
02:32 PM

XML-RPC Review

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I read the XML-RPC book. Ok, I only read chapters 1, 2, 4 and 8. I don't do Java, PHP, ASP or COM. I'll read those if I have to.

What I read, I liked. XML-RPC is fairly straightforward and simple stuff when you get right down to it. The information and examples were both friendly and useful.

I think that this book could be heavily expanded to include chapters on topics that were mentioned in Chapter 8. Specifically, logging, authentication and especially payloads (ssl, etc). A chapter that deals specifically with Apache/mod_perl could also be added, as it is brought up a couple of times (p.65,88).

Specifically, I'd like to see a setup (sample client and server) for XML-RPC using https.

Medium nit - The current release of Frontier::RPC that's out on CPAN is 0.06. I found 0.07b3 off of Ken MacLeod's home page. So, 0.07 is BETA. Might want to mention that.

Very, very minor nit - Page 71, first large paragraph - add the word "respectively" to the end of the 3rd sentence (after 'object').


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  • I only read chapters 1, 2, 4 and 8. I don't do Java, PHP, ASP or COM.

    So, you don't deal with 2-bit software (er, chapter numbers).
  • There is talk of a second edition and some of what you brought up is likely to be covered.

    For now, I'm finishing up one book (Unix PowerTools)
    and then I'm taking a long walk off a short pier. :-)

    Thanks again.
    • They're doing a second edition to Unix Power Tools? That's cool. That's one of my favorite ORA books, even if I don't use it so much any more.

      On a slightly different tangent, one thing I'm beginning to notice about a lot of bundles is that they tend to roll their own servers that provide only very basic server functionality, and Frontier::Daemon falls into the same category (which I realize is a subclass of HTTP::Daemon).

      I'd really like to see some sort of ultra-flexible & robust super class that

      • Oops, I meant 3rd edition.

      • /me opens can of worms

        There are good reasons to use a standalone HTTP server. Look at Samba's SWAT utility, for instance. However, the Apache project is such a great platform for serving dynamic content, it seems foolish to try to to reimpliment it in Perl. So, my preference is to show people how to exploit Apache with XML-RPC (or SOAP) and leave the standalone HTTP servers for "vertical" applications.

        Once again, I'm beginning to thing about what I'd show in the 2nd ed. of XML-RPC and I now I'd talk abo

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