Re: Webmin RPC

[Wil C. <wc...@na...>]

Also Sprach Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:=
26:06PM PST
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> That's a good solution .. as long as callers are willing to
> convert all structures into this format, then I can't see any
> problems with it.  What someone needs to do is write a gateway
> of some kind between webmin-RPC and XML-RPC .. or even add
> XML-RPC support directly to webmin. I wouldn't want to get rid
> of the existing RPC right away, in order to preserve backwards
> compatibility, but there is no reason why they both cannot
> exist side-by-side.

Well, that's the thing--they don't have to; the conversions can be
made within the remote_foreign_* calls and be done transparently
to the modules.  I'm sorta interested in this issue, and if my
schedule allows it, I'll take a hack it at.

> What kind of network transport does XML-RPC use? Does it make
> an HTTP connection for each function call, or use some other
> special protocol?

It uses HTTP to transfer the XML back and forth; it's a lot like
SOAP AFAICT.  I need to read up on it a bit.

Wil
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