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Oct 3, 1999 5:11 am
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Timothy_Jarrett@...
Oct 4, 1999 5:02 am
I will be out of the office from 10/02/99 until 10/20/99. I will be unable to respond to pages, voicemails, or emails until I return. If you need to discuss a...
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LUCIO PICOLLI
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Oct 4, 1999 12:16 pm
Hi all, I have read the XMP-RPC spec and i am a little confused. How does a XML-RPC client tie up a out going request with a incoming response? I would have...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Oct 4, 1999 12:37 pm
It's just HTTP, so the response is the response to the HTTP request. It's like asking "How does a web browser know what's the response to the request it...
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LUCIO PICOLLI
lucio.piccoli@...
Oct 4, 1999 12:54 pm
... If i a have a multi-threaded client sharing a single HTTP session ( for whatever reason ) then by what you are saying is that the RPC call must be a serial...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Oct 4, 1999 1:00 pm
You got it. Each RPC call is a separate HTTP connection. It may be a little restrictive, but it's simple. Dave ... From: LUCIO PICOLLI...
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Chris Hanson
cmh@...
Oct 4, 1999 3:58 pm
... That's a lot of overhead for a simple procedure call, particularly if there's any sort of security involved....
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Oct 4, 1999 4:12 pm
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Oct 4, 1999 4:42 pm
To me, this is a failing in xml-rpc: it makes a number of omissions like this which tie it to http. Refer to last week's discussion of the possibilities of...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Oct 4, 1999 4:52 pm
... I disagree. It's a simplicity shell game. We take complexity out of the protocol and foist it onto the implementor who then must open and manage multiple...
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Kragen Sitaker
kragen@...
Oct 4, 1999 4:59 pm
... Well, going over a network is a lot of overhead for a simple procedure call, too. Typical kernel implementations impose a minimum one-way latency of...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Oct 4, 1999 5:15 pm
... transaction that conveniently happens to look like a procedure call. I suspect a lot of the complexity of CORBA, Sun-RPC, etc., comes from their designers...
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Kragen Sitaker
kragen@...
Oct 4, 1999 5:51 pm
... Every environment *I* care about does. Such simple wrappers are available for C, C++, Perl, Tcl, Frontier (obviously), Python, etc etc etc. ... Yes, it's...
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Oct 4, 1999 6:01 pm
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Oct 4, 1999 6:54 pm
... This way of thinking is inompoatible with the other stated goals of xml-rpc, which is, to connect up to everything. If you want adobe to embed some sort of...
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Ken MacLeod
ken@...
Oct 4, 1999 7:33 pm
... Having something to compare would be a good thing. One such project is Lightweight Distributed Objects (LDO) <http://casbah.org/LDO/>. -- Ken MacLeod ...
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Skip Montanaro
skip@...
Oct 4, 1999 7:45 pm
Jim> I'm sorry that you misunderstood me here. My point is that some Jim> things you might want to code would be better done if the HTTP Jim> request could...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Oct 4, 1999 7:47 pm
... An aside, this supports the (majority) position that the list should be re-formed as a more general light weight / xml remote procedure call list. jim...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Oct 4, 1999 7:54 pm
... My comparison to http was for the purposes of protocol negotiation. I do _not_ think keepalive is a good model for us to move to in xml-rpc. It solves the...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Oct 5, 1999 4:13 am
I blocked you a week or so ago when you copied the message from the XML-RPC list on the DG, promising to mirror the content of the mail list on the DG. I don't...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Oct 5, 1999 5:04 am
Apologies to everyone for Dave's Cc. If you're wondering what he's talking about, please see: http://www.egroups.com/group/xml-rpc/114.html?...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:21 pm
I think the chance of this list getting any work done with Hebert holding court here is nil. I wish he'd write some software or contribute something instead of...
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Oct 5, 1999 1:35 pm
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Edd Dumbill
edd@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:43 pm
... I believe ICE could help you here in this respect....
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Chris Hanson
cmh@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:44 pm
I don't understand what is meant by "Hebert holding court." So far as I can tell, except for a couple personal exchanges that have spilled over onto the list...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:52 pm
When he focuses on me, as he loves to do (and you too Chris) he misses the point that I only created one implementation of XML-RPC. He addresses me as if I am...
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Oct 5, 1999 1:58 pm
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Oct 5, 1999 2:05 pm
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Oct 5, 1999 2:05 pm
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