From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-12-11T14:16:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems transporting nil values using XMLRPC (net/http ?)

NAKAMURA, Hiroshi (nahi@keynauts.com) wrote:
>   if someone.let(you) { |use| use == "XML" }

Favorite line!

>   elsif !you.like?("XML")
>     require 'yaml'

      require 'okay/rpc' if you.read( "http://wiki.yaml.org/yamlwiki/OkayRpcProtocol" )

Comes with yaml.rb.  If you have yaml.rb, you can check out the demo
server via irb:

  require 'okay/rpc'
      ==>true
  c = Okay::RPC::Client.new( 'whytheluckystiff.net' )
      ==>#<Okay::RPC::Client:0x401ec8c0 @create=nil, @port=80,
          @http=#<Net::HTTP whytheluckystiff.net:80 open=false>, @timeout=30,
          @path="/okayRpc/", @parser=nil, @auth=nil, @use_ssl=false,
          @password=nil, @host="whytheluckystiff.net", @proxy_port=nil, @user=nil,
          @queue=#<YAML::Stream:0x401ec758 @options={:UseHeader=>true},
          @documents=[]>, @proxy_host=nil>
  c.call( 'system.listMethods' )
      ==>["currentTime.getCurrentTime", "examples.addtwo",
          "examples.addtwofloat", "examples.base64", "examples.echo",
          "examples.getStateName", "examples.invertBooleans",
          "examples.sortByAge", "examples.stringecho", "system.about",
          "system.getCapabilities", "system.listMethods", "system.methodBlank",
          "system.methodHelp", "system.methodSignature"]
  c.call( 'system.methodHelp', 'system.about' )
      ==>"Provides a short description of this !okay/rpc server's intent."

Yep.

_why