From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T12:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: xmlrpc and charset=utf-8



--- Phil Tomson <rubyfan@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm needed to interact with an XMLRPC server written
> using the
> xmlrpc-c library for C/C++.  I was using Ruby 1.8.4
> and found that I
> could not get a simple xmlrpc client written in Ruby
> that would
> communicate with the xmlrpc-c server.
> 
> I kept getting the following error:
>   /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:547:in
> `do_rpc':
> HTTP-Error: 400 Bad Request   (RuntimeError)
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:420:in
> `call2'
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:410:in
> `call'
>         from littleclient.rb:7
> 
> 
> I tried downgrading to Ruby 1.8.2 and it worked
> fine.
> 
> When I investigated the difference I found the
> following in the
> xmlrpc/client.rb file that comes with Ruby 1.8.4:
>     def do_rpc(request, async=false)
>       header = {
>        "User-Agent"     =>  USER_AGENT,
>        "Content-Type"   => "text/xml;
> charset=utf-8",
>        "Content-Length" => request.size.to_s,
>        "Connection"     => (async ? "close" :
> "keep-alive")
>       }
> 
> This differs from the client.rb included with Ruby
> 1.8.2:
> 
>       def do_rpc(request, async=false)
>         header = {
>          "User-Agent"     =>  USER_AGENT,
>          "Content-Type"   => "text/xml ",
>          "Content-Length" => request.size.to_s,
>          "Connection"     => (async ? "close" :
> "keep-alive")
>         }
> 
> so I changed the code in the 1.8.4 version of
> client.rb to remove the
> "charset=utf-8" - after that the ruby client
> interacted fine with the
> xmlrpc-c server.
> 
> I'm wondering if utf-8 should be the default charset
> for Ruby's xmlrpc
> client implementation?  Also, I'm wondering if
> perhaps it could be
> selectable by adding an accessor method to the
> client to the Client
> class?
> 
> Phil

Was this ever addressed?  I vote for both a default of
utf8 and an accessor method.

Regards,

Dan


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