XML-RPC

The homepage for this project is now at http://aspxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/

Recent improvements include:

• Server-safe xmlhttp
• validation against validation suite
• list of legal server functions
• significant speed enhancements

There is both a client and a server.

What's the big deal?

• http://www.xmlrpc.com/
• Jon Udell in Byte
• XML-RPC for Newbies

It's a standard protocol for distributed computing. It's rides on top of the HTTP protocol (yes, it's relatively "expensive", but it works) kind of like CGI, except you get back standard, readable, platform appropriate values. There are clients and servers for most of the major scripting languages. You don't need to know anything about XML for it to work; XML is the underlying communication protocol, but should be essentially invisible.

• Try out some client examples.
• Learn how easy it is to implement the server
• Download the code
• Unless otherwise stated, my scripts are issued under David Carter-Tod's Scripts Public License