Hi there. I'm very interested in xml-rpc
and I think it'll be a big winner. Haven't
seen much about it lately. I understand
Microsoft is working on an rfc...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 10, 1998 12:27 am
Perhaps someone can help clear up some confusion I have:
From yesterday at http://nirvana.userland.com/discussiongroup.root/public/msgReader$280
> Our...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Nov 10, 1998 12:45 am
Come on Jim it's really simple. If a new group changed things then we'd
support that too, if we can, alongside the XML-RPC spec that we currently
support,...
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Jim Roepcke
jroepcke@...
Nov 10, 1998 12:46 am
Jim H, I don't really know the answer to your question about if it's open or proprietary. Perhaps Dave will say. But a couple of months ago, I had a ...
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Jim Roepcke
jim@...
Nov 10, 1998 9:24 am
... Okay, the pages aren't pretty, the UI is crummy, but it's there for you to read. The main thread is called "XML-RPC with other apps?", started by Leonard...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Nov 10, 1998 3:23 pm
There were some good ideas in that discussion, like getting an XML parser INIT into the Mac OS so that AppleScript people could do XML too. BTW, the main...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 12:20 pm
... Jim, Great job showing up with the archive. It was just what I needed. I remember now seeing the parts that made it to scripting.com coverage. My take: I...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 12:51 pm
Hate to followup to myself, but another point fromthe original thread I'd like to answer: the idea that "there's no port shortage." You have to be able to...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 1:15 pm
Argh, followup to myself again, but Windows Terminal server (and the predecessor Citrix products) is another case of a multiuser system you'll want to...
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@...
Nov 11, 1998 1:46 pm
... OK...As good a place to start as any... ... Or on 80 for Dave ;). ... Sounds pretty reasonable.... Do we also want to provide an option to specify if the...
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@...
Nov 11, 1998 1:52 pm
... Hey - I had that in my response too ;). ... Or have two installation (like a 4.0 and a 5.0, or a beta version...) ... Basically, you are correct. For...
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@...
Nov 11, 1998 1:54 pm
... I think Windows terminal server (or whatever it's called this week) along with the X problem is a situation that is much harder to handle and address than...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Nov 11, 1998 2:24 pm
... http://www.userland.com/directory.html ... Free Web-based e-mail groups -- http://www.eGroups.com...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 2:31 pm
... Perhaps it's representative of our relative comfort levels working within an X11 style environment (or not, maybe you're a clost X11 geek, I don't know!),...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Nov 11, 1998 2:56 pm
... http://www.userland.com/directory.html ... Free Web-based e-mail groups -- http://www.eGroups.com...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 2:59 pm
... I disagree, however, because of the case of the multiuser system, like WTS or a unix machine. You say you'd like a solution that's viable across platforms...
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:02 pm
... A filespec IS guaranteed to be unique - a pathname (which is NOT how you specify files/folders on the Mac) is not, however. ... However, that's a good...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:05 pm
... I'm not entirely grasping the point, so I'll say I don't have a pref? ;-P ... Totally, that's the more obvious use of "service moved" that I hadn't even ...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:05 pm
... pbblt. I said it first. ;-P ... Good point. [snip] ... re: X being funky I talked a bit about that in the mail I just sent. I don't see why it needs to be...
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Chuck Shotton
cshotton@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:06 pm
I'm going to make comments to the original and the replies. Hope I keep it straight. ... Namespace management should happen outside the scope of the XML RPC ...
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Chuck Shotton
cshotton@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:08 pm
This is a copy of a note I sent to Dave Winer on 8/16/98 about the XML RPC ... Dave, I had a couple of comments on the XML RPC spec that I have been meaning to...
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Jim Hebert
jhebert@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:37 pm
Ken MacLeod pointed me at this url: http://www.srvloc.org/ I haven't had time to digest it, but Ken says this is a good place to look for the answer. His one...
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Nov 11, 1998 3:58 pm
http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/features/xmi.html Dave ... http://www.userland.com/directory.html ... Free Web-based e-mail groups -- http://www.eGroups.com...
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Ken MacLeod
ken@...
Nov 11, 1998 6:51 pm
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Dave Winer
dave@...
Nov 11, 1998 8:36 pm
... can be handled outside of XML-RPC. It sounds really interesting. I went looking for the spec. I'd like to have a server like that on my LAN. It would give...
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Wesley Felter
wesf@...
Nov 11, 1998 10:48 pm
It's nice to find something that srvloc is useful for after following it for so long. FWIW, Apple's putting SLP into MacOS and calling it NSL: ...
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Chris Hanson
cmh@...
Nov 11, 1998 10:55 pm
I believe the Network Services Location Manager in MacOS 8.5 (and the corresponding Network Browser application) support SLP already. ... Free Web-based e-mail...
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Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@...
Nov 12, 1998 12:32 am
... That's all fine and dandy, but it does NOT address the issues that Jim and I have been hashing about concerning a "XML-RPC redirection server". Somethign...
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Jim Roepcke
jim@...
Nov 12, 1998 7:43 am
... What's the difference between a port server/redirection server, as we discussed previously, and this "service location protocol"? Couldn't SLP *be* the...
