OK before I send this patch I'd like to run some things by you folks.
My new version of XmlRpcClient passes the ClientServerRpcTest fine.
However, it fails with an ugly:
java.lang.Error
at
sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$CharsetSD.readBytes(StreamDecoder.java:417)
when I access the usefulinc PHP XML-RPC server demos.
I think the problem is that URLConnection allows the response body to be
longer than the response Content-Length, while HttpClient does not. I
decided to do some more testing. Results are at the end of the message.
It looks like the PHP XML-RPC server is to blame. Should this be
reported as a bug to HttpClient or the PHP XML-RPC server? I think
HttpClient is behaving correctly.
Cheers,
Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
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Dave Winer's time app at http://time.xmlrpc.com/RPC2 method:
currentTime.getCurrentTime worked. Its Server header is Server:
UserLand Frontier/7.0.1-WinNT.
StuffedDog's Speller app at
http://www.stuffeddog.com/speller/doc/rpc.html method:
speller.spellCheck worked (I think, even though it isn't very good at
catching misspellings). Ken MacLeod's Perl XML-RPC
Syndic8's app at http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php method
syndic8.GetFeedCount FAILED, I think its the same server software as
usefulinc.
The Covers Project at http://covers.wiw.org:80/RPC.php method
system.listMethods FAILED, and its running PHP too.
