Re: [Openinteract-dev] XML server

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 05:30, Ben Avery wrote:
> hi again. happy easter!
> 
> The project I'm developing will serve data in two ways: for one group of
> users through a browser, and all this content I'm going to manage with OI,
> no problemo.
> But another group of users will be posting/receiving information to and from
> the central DB from (don't laugh - I didn't write the spec :-)  a PC
> application written in VB6. The data will be sent as XML, with the
> information and the transactions required, sent over HTTP. 
> So really I want OI to also work as an XML application server. Can anyone
> see any problems with this? Could I just use blank templates, with my
> package creating the XML structures?

Not a problem. You'll probably need to set in your handler the proper
content type, which you can do with something like:

  $R->{page}{content_type} = 'text/xml';

Icky, yes. It will be fixed :-)

Chris

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