From: Michael Taras <michaeltaras@...>
Date: 2008-07-08T12:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: XMLRPC Question

Michael Neumann wrote:
> Michael Taras wrote:
>>     <transit>0.089925</transit>
>> So after that, I set out to see if I could get the same information from
>> 
>>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1032:in `request'
>> not sure.  This is my first time messing with any xmlrpc stuff.
> I think your analysis is correct. The server is returning the plain XML
> and not a HTTP request. Btw, what did you enter in telnet? And what did
> you got as a result from telnet?
> 
> XML-RPC is usually served via HTTP. IIRC it is even required. If you use
> XML-RPC not over HTTP, then you need to fetch the response yourself (you
> can use plain sockets) and then invoke the parser on it yourself. But
> it's probably easier to take a look at the server, because it's very
> uncommon to not use HTTP!
> 
> And btw, are you sure that the XML shown above is valid XML-RPC? AFAIK
> it's not! Yeah, it's not XML-RPC ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Michael


Thank you very much for the response.

So what I entered into telnet was just: <ping></ping>
And I got out exactly what I posted in the original post, which 
apparently isn't even valid XML-RPC :)  I will definitely check that 
stuff out and see what's up.

In case I'm not able to get anything on the server side changed, how 
exactly would i go about making an XML-RPC call using sockets?  I'm not 
really sure how to encode the xml in the request or anything of that 
sort.  So some general direction would be greatly appreciated.


@Eric

I broke out tcpdump and examined the request. From what I could tell it 
was just an HTTP POST.  I really have no experience with tcpdump so I 
could have been wrong.


Thanks everyone for all the help so far.

-Michael
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