[phpxmlrpc-devel] Interoperability

[Ryan H. <rh...@is...>]

Hi,

I am a user and rare contributor to the Apache group's XML-RPC library 
(http://xml.apache.org/xml-rpc).  I am upgrading the HTTP client in our 
code and decided to test against a server that is running your code. 
 Because the new HTTP client code is more strict in its interpretation 
of the server's response, we are unable to access XML-RPC servers using 
your code.  A link to the posts to the xml-rpc-dev mailing list at 
apache, where you can find a list of other sites that exhibited similar 
behavior:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=rpc-dev&m=103176693403852&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=rpc-dev&m=103179721532649&w=2

What follows is a transcript of a session, which I executed manually.

Cheers,
Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks

$ telnet xmlrpc.usefulinc.com 80
Trying 80.87.131.124...
Connected to usefulinc.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
POST /demo/server.php HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: ISIS Networks/0.2b (WinNT)
Host: xmlrpc.usefulinc.com:80
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-length: 211

<?xml version="1.0" 
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><methodCall><methodName>examples.addtwo</methodName><params><param><value><int>12</int></value></param><param><value><int>11</int></value></param></params></methodCall> 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:17:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.2.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-length: 121

79
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value><int>23</int></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>
0

Connection closed by foreign host.
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