I appreciate your response. It turns out that the problem is with the Ruby URI library. The URI lib I was using to parse the location returned by the Simpy...
Hi Ryan, Before I forget - your emails bounce (yahoo and the other one and another one I found on the web). This looks good, definitely moving in the...
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Jun 2, 2006 3:57 am
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Another thing Ryan, From what I can tell, you are not setting your User-Agent anywhere. You should do that, so your Ruby Simpy client can be identified...
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Jun 2, 2006 4:39 am
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I've been working on putting together a library, and I'm making relatively good progress. Unless I lose momentum or something, I think it will be ready for...
Hi, ... Sure. ... I chose ASL only because I'm the most familiar with it from my work at ASF. I think dual-licensing it, ASL+BSD, is fine. ... It exists, it's...
Otis Gospodnetic
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Jun 3, 2006 8:06 am
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Hi all, A rudimentary version of the Simpy API for Perl is now available via CPAN. From unix shell: "~> cpan simpy" The POD doc needs some fixing (argh --...
Hi Beads, ... Cool, I'll install it in a bit. ... Should be working now. ... I removed DTD references, so IE should stop giving you trouble with that. Otis -- ...
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Jun 3, 2006 7:00 pm
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Hmm... IE really is a cranky old so-and-so of a program... The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error...
Okay, this is the last time folks. Simpy API for perl is now a Registered Module in the CPAN namespace: http://search.cpan.org/search%3fmodule=WWW::Simpy From...
Symbols that have syntactic significance in xml don't appear to get properly encoded when included in the note associated with a simpy link. I made a note that...
Hi, That's a Simpy bug. I put all free-text fields in <![CDATA[ .... ]]>. Does that help? Otis ... -- Simpy -- http://www.simpy.com/ -- Tag. Search. Share....
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Jun 3, 2006 8:55 pm
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... Nifty. Thanks for adding it to the docs. ... Yeah, that's a good solution. It works perfectly with my ruby library now. ... Perfect. I'm ready to...
... I think that was my invalid XML for a little bit. I replaced it with: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> Does that help now? It displays nicely in...
Otis Gospodnetic
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Jun 4, 2006 2:07 am
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Hi, ... Excellent. I think there are two ways to go about it: 1. you would like to put the Simpy Ruby lib in SimpyTools@SF and maintain it there (the API on...
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Jun 4, 2006 2:21 am
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Hi Otis, Yes, that did the trick. Meanwhile, I've added a trap for errors from XML::Parser, just in case anything unexpected happens with the XML result sets...
I don't mind maintaining it, so lets go with option number one. I'm already registered at sourceforge as segphault. Let me know when you have it set up, and...
"Finally, regarding the redirect mechanism: I'm not terribly in love with it, and am certainly not married to it, so if there are better ways of handling...
Hello, This may be a good time for somebody who wants good exposure, especially in the "Web 2.0 community", to play with Flock (http://www.flock.com/). In...
Otis Gospodnetic
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Jun 6, 2006 4:33 pm
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Hello, For those of you working on API clients, please keep this in mind: 1. When writing clients, make it easy to change URIs for API calls. That probably...
Otis Gospodnetic
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Jun 7, 2006 5:44 pm
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Hi Otis, Okay, I'm doing some testing under LWP::UserAgent, and am finding that I am unable to get the JSESSIONID to work. I've set up a method that calls...
Hi Beads, I think the problem might be that the client is not sending the auth credentials on every call, since auth is done via the basic HTTP auth. This is...
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Jun 8, 2006 5:34 am
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Hi Otis, "I think the problem might be that the client is not sending the auth credentials on every call, since auth is done via the basic HTTP auth." Yes,...
"You mentioned passing u/p on every call the other night. I thought you were talking about the internal calls (method/sub calls), but now I realize you might...
Hi Otis, Given my new-found understanding of how authentication is working for the REST API, I'm going to add an session accessor method in the Perl module...
... What about the attributes? One of my tags is "Q&A" and since that part is not encoded it comes out as: ... <tag name="ie" count="1"/> <tag name="Q&A"...
The url tag could use some entitization (or CDATA enclosure, like the other tags). For instance, this tag: ...
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Jun 17, 2006 8:18 pm
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Hi Beads, I didn't have the chance to make any changes to this yet, but I think I am convinced that I should fix the authentication to work as follows: -...
Otis Gospodnetic
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Jun 19, 2006 7:02 pm
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Hi Caleb, Good point! Data inside <url></url> and all other elements and attributes with "free text" should now either be "entity-escaped" (attributes), or...
Otis Gospodnetic
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Jun 20, 2006 5:29 am
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Hi Krishna, ... Thanks for the catch. All "free-text" attribute values should now be entity-escaped. This means that Q&A should now show up as Q&A, which...