Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Scenario?

Author:A.M. Kuchling
Posted:1/22/1999; 9:00:01 AM
Topic:XML-RPC Spec Revised
Msg #:2387 (In response to 2381)
Prev/Next:2386 / 2388

Jim's posting is archived here: http://www.egroups.com/list/zope/1362.html

He suggests that the publishing component of Zope could recognize an XML-RPC request and handle it. In other words, the server could handle both mysite.com/object/method?parameter=1&otherparameter=name as it does now, or an HTTP POST operation to mysite.com/object/method, with the parameters marshalled as XML. But you wouldn't want this to misfire if someone uploads an XML file to a method, in which case you're doing a POST and the type is text/xml, but it's not actually an XML-RPC operation.

I don't think it's correct to say that the type should be text/xml just because the body is in an XML-based format. It's in a specific format, not any random DTD. Web servers may serve up MathML, PGML, and SMIL files, yet they shouldn't all be indicated as text/xml.

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