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

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Re: wish: email gateway for xml-rpc

Author:	Eric Soroos
Posted:	3/2/2000; 10:04:03 AM
Topic:	wish: email gateway for xml-rpc
Msg #:	15377 (In response to 15375)
Prev/Next:	15376 / 15378

Actually, there are many applications for asynchronous RPC, particularly for batch processing.

Frontier does implement Asynch RPC on the client end.

Unfortunately SMTP does not have guaranteed delivery.

UDP doesn't either, but it's still a useful constuct. In fact, it could be useful to have a udp based xml-rpc for tasks such as logging.

It would be reasonably trivial to map an xml-rpc message to an SMTP message. Path == username, the body of the message could be the method call. The sending machine would not get acknolegement except through side effects.

eric

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