Re: xmlrpc

2011-12-05 Thread Mani Shafa'atDoost
Josh,

About authentication method, I just noticed that OpenNebula uses parameters
to pass username and password:
http://opennebula.org/documentation:archives:rel2.0:api

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Mani Shafa'atDoost mani.do...@gmail.comwrote:

 Josh,

 Thank you. Problem is that I am using a test account from
 http://vcl.ncsu.edu/ and I can't disable SSL, but as far as I know you
 are using http requests not https:

 $context = stream_context_create(
 array(
 '*http*' = array(
 'method' = POST,
 'header' = $header,
 'content' = $request
 )
 )
 );

 I tried XML standard queries but I receive permission denied error, I
 don't know if the problem is with (http,https) or with my queries. I guess
 they have some more information in their request.
 By the way, do you know how can I know what this function sends to server :
 file_get_contents(self::VCLHOST.$location, false, $context)


 Best Regards
 Mani

 On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:

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 Mani,

 The frontend code is not using Cookie for anything when the XMLRPC API is
 used.

 I'm not actually sure about the XML part.  All of the XMLRPC code is just
 using php's built in XMLRPC stuff:

 http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.xmlrpc.php

 Almost all of the XMLRPC related code is in xmlrpcWrappers.php.  The only
 part
 that isn't in that file is in utils.php where the functions are registered
 (xmlrpccall) and called (xmlRPChandler).

 You may be able to disable SSL and do some packet captures to actually see
 what is getting passed back and forth.  To disable SSL, you at least need
 to
 remove the check and redirect for it in index.php.  I can't remember
 offhand
 if there is anything else you need to do.

 Another option would be to write some simple php XMLRPC code separate from
 VCL, but similar to it, and do packet captures with that.

 Josh

 On Thursday December 01, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
  Josh,
 
  ok, I am going to write  a wrapper class . but I need some information
  about your xml formating.
  as far as I know I should send something like this :
 
  Content-Type: text/xml
  X-User:  username .
  X-Pass: password
  Cookie: something
  X-APIVERSION: 2
 
 
  ?xml version=1.0?
  methodCall
 methodNameexample/methodName
 params
param
   valuei441/i4/value
   /param
/params
  /methodCall
 
  so these are my questions:
  should I send cookie or it is an optional thing?
  in method params, which kind of params do you have? it is just int, or
 you
  have boolean and string as well.
  also what about your answer XML. is it consists of Integer or it has
 some
  other things?
 
  Best Regards
  Mani
 
  On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu
 wrote:
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   Mani,
  
   - From what you described, it doesn't sound like you have the option
 to
   set additional http headers.  I remember running in to that with one
 of
   the perl
   XMLRPC libraries.  It didn't really expose a way to set additional
 http
   headers; so, I think I had to make a new class that inherited the
   provided one
   with some modified functions allowing the additional headers to be
 set.
  
   The problem here is that I couldn't find any way of doing
 authentication
   with
   XMLRPC other than basic auth, which wasn't an option in our (NCSU)
   environment.  So, I added the requirement of using additional http
   headers that provide the necessary authentication bits.
  Unfortunately,
   not all XMLRPC
   libraries expose a way to set additional http headers.
  
   If anyone knows of another way of doing XMLRPC authentication, please
 let
   me
   know.
  
   Josh
  
   On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
Josh,
   
In java for XMLRPC calls, you have one execute function that
 accepts 2
arguments. First one is the Method name  and second one is a list
 of
parameters that we need to pass to this function. so where should I
 put
this header? in parameter[0]?
Also there is a config that can be set before execute a method. this
  
   config
  
can set following things:
   
basicUserName
basicPassword
basicEncoding
contentLengthOptional
enabledForExceptions
enabledForExtensions
encoding
gzipCompressing
gzipRequesting
   
I know, we need to set up this header somewhere, but I am not sure
  
   where. I
  
will appreciate if you tell me which part of code is handling this
 RPC
request in VCL.
   
   
Best Regards
Mani
   
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Josh Thompson
  
   josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
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 Mani,


Re: xmlrpc

2011-12-02 Thread Josh Thompson
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Mani,

The frontend code is not using Cookie for anything when the XMLRPC API is 
used.

I'm not actually sure about the XML part.  All of the XMLRPC code is just 
using php's built in XMLRPC stuff:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.xmlrpc.php

Almost all of the XMLRPC related code is in xmlrpcWrappers.php.  The only part 
that isn't in that file is in utils.php where the functions are registered 
(xmlrpccall) and called (xmlRPChandler).

You may be able to disable SSL and do some packet captures to actually see 
what is getting passed back and forth.  To disable SSL, you at least need to 
remove the check and redirect for it in index.php.  I can't remember offhand 
if there is anything else you need to do.

Another option would be to write some simple php XMLRPC code separate from 
VCL, but similar to it, and do packet captures with that.

Josh

On Thursday December 01, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
 Josh,
 
 ok, I am going to write  a wrapper class . but I need some information
 about your xml formating.
 as far as I know I should send something like this :
 
 Content-Type: text/xml
 X-User:  username .
 X-Pass: password
 Cookie: something
 X-APIVERSION: 2
 
 
 ?xml version=1.0?
 methodCall
methodNameexample/methodName
params
   param
  valuei441/i4/value
  /param
   /params
 /methodCall
 
 so these are my questions:
 should I send cookie or it is an optional thing?
 in method params, which kind of params do you have? it is just int, or you
 have boolean and string as well.
 also what about your answer XML. is it consists of Integer or it has some
 other things?
 
 Best Regards
 Mani
 
 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
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  Mani,
  
  - From what you described, it doesn't sound like you have the option to
  set additional http headers.  I remember running in to that with one of
  the perl
  XMLRPC libraries.  It didn't really expose a way to set additional http
  headers; so, I think I had to make a new class that inherited the
  provided one
  with some modified functions allowing the additional headers to be set.
  
  The problem here is that I couldn't find any way of doing authentication
  with
  XMLRPC other than basic auth, which wasn't an option in our (NCSU)
  environment.  So, I added the requirement of using additional http
  headers that provide the necessary authentication bits.  Unfortunately,
  not all XMLRPC
  libraries expose a way to set additional http headers.
  
  If anyone knows of another way of doing XMLRPC authentication, please let
  me
  know.
  
  Josh
  
  On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
   Josh,
   
   In java for XMLRPC calls, you have one execute function that accepts 2
   arguments. First one is the Method name  and second one is a list of
   parameters that we need to pass to this function. so where should I put
   this header? in parameter[0]?
   Also there is a config that can be set before execute a method. this
  
  config
  
   can set following things:
   
   basicUserName
   basicPassword
   basicEncoding
   contentLengthOptional
   enabledForExceptions
   enabledForExtensions
   encoding
   gzipCompressing
   gzipRequesting
   
   I know, we need to set up this header somewhere, but I am not sure
  
  where. I
  
   will appreciate if you tell me which part of code is handling this RPC
   request in VCL.
   
   
   Best Regards
   Mani
   
   On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Josh Thompson
  
  josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
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Mani,

I'm not clear on what you are saying you are passing a first and
second argument to.

For every API call (except when calling XMLRPCaffiliations), you'll
  
  need
  
to have X-User, X-Pass, and X-APIVERSION added to the HTTP headers to
provide authentication to the vcl frontend.

Josh

On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
 Josh,
 
 As far as I understood, I need to pass the function name as first

argument

 and for second one I need to add a list of parameters. For first

parameter,

 I need to pass Header which consist of following things:
 $header  = Content-Type: text/xml\r\n;
 
 $header .= X-User:  . $this-username . \r\n;
 $header .= X-Pass:  . $this-password . \r\n;
 $header .= Cookie:  . $_SERVER[HTTP_COOKIE] . \r\n;
 $header .= X-APIVERSION: 2;
 
 so, is it necessary to add all of these things to header?
 
 Best Regards
 Mani
 
 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Josh Thompson

josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
  Mani,
  
  I forgot that there is a third http header that is always
  required
  
  -
  
  X-APIVERSION.  You'd even need that set when calling

  

Re: xmlrpc

2011-12-01 Thread Josh Thompson
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Mani,

- From what you described, it doesn't sound like you have the option to set 
additional http headers.  I remember running in to that with one of the perl 
XMLRPC libraries.  It didn't really expose a way to set additional http 
headers; so, I think I had to make a new class that inherited the provided one 
with some modified functions allowing the additional headers to be set.

The problem here is that I couldn't find any way of doing authentication with 
XMLRPC other than basic auth, which wasn't an option in our (NCSU) 
environment.  So, I added the requirement of using additional http headers 
that provide the necessary authentication bits.  Unfortunately, not all XMLRPC 
libraries expose a way to set additional http headers.

If anyone knows of another way of doing XMLRPC authentication, please let me 
know.

Josh

On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
 Josh,
 
 In java for XMLRPC calls, you have one execute function that accepts 2
 arguments. First one is the Method name  and second one is a list of
 parameters that we need to pass to this function. so where should I put
 this header? in parameter[0]?
 Also there is a config that can be set before execute a method. this config
 can set following things:
 
 basicUserName
 basicPassword
 basicEncoding
 contentLengthOptional
 enabledForExceptions
 enabledForExtensions
 encoding
 gzipCompressing
 gzipRequesting
 
 I know, we need to set up this header somewhere, but I am not sure where. I
 will appreciate if you tell me which part of code is handling this RPC
 request in VCL.
 
 
 Best Regards
 Mani
 
 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Josh Thompson 
josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
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  Mani,
  
  I'm not clear on what you are saying you are passing a first and second
  argument to.
  
  For every API call (except when calling XMLRPCaffiliations), you'll need
  to have X-User, X-Pass, and X-APIVERSION added to the HTTP headers to
  provide authentication to the vcl frontend.
  
  Josh
  
  On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
   Josh,
   
   As far as I understood, I need to pass the function name as first
  
  argument
  
   and for second one I need to add a list of parameters. For first
  
  parameter,
  
   I need to pass Header which consist of following things:
   $header  = Content-Type: text/xml\r\n;
   
   $header .= X-User:  . $this-username . \r\n;
   $header .= X-Pass:  . $this-password . \r\n;
   $header .= Cookie:  . $_SERVER[HTTP_COOKIE] . \r\n;
   $header .= X-APIVERSION: 2;
   
   so, is it necessary to add all of these things to header?
   
   Best Regards
   Mani
   
   On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Josh Thompson
  
  josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
Mani,

I forgot that there is a third http header that is always required -
X-APIVERSION.  You'd even need that set when calling
  
  XMLRPCaffiliations.
  
Josh

On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Josh Thompson wrote:
 Mani,
 
 I haven't done much with java, and what I have done was many years
  
  ago.
  
 Given that, it doesn't look like you are providing the additional
 custom authentication http headers X-User and X-Pass anywhere.
 
 Those two additional headers are not needed for the
  
  XMLRPCaffiliations
  
 call. So, you could try calling that to see if the authentication
 headers are your only problem.
 
 Josh
 
 On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
  I am trying to use Java to use your system. but the problem is
  
  when I
  
try

  to execute something like client.execute( XMLRPCtest, params );
  
  , I
  
  receive errors.
  Can you tell me what should I pass to this function.I just
  attached my java class.
  
  Best Regards
  Mani
  
  On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Aaron Coburn
  acob...@amherst.edu

wrote:
   Mani,

   there is documentation for the XML RPC located here:
http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/xmlrpcdocs/xmlrpcWrappers_8php.htm
l

   I have been using the remote API for some time now, and it
   works very well. To make things easier for me, I wrote a php
   class that encapsulates some of these functions (see
   attached). This class doesn't implement any of the group
   management features, but they

would

   be easy to add.
   
   You can then use the class like this (if, for instance, you
  
  wanted
  
   to list the reservations for a particular user):
   
   $vcl = new VCL($userid, $password);
   
   if ($reservations = $vcl-getReservations()){
   foreach ($reservations as $r){
   print p;
   print b{$r['imagename']}/b ;
   if ($status = $vcl-getRequestStatus($r['requestid'])){
   switch ($status['status']){
   ...
  

Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-30 Thread Aaron Coburn
Mani,there is documentation for the XML RPC located here:http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/xmlrpcdocs/xmlrpcWrappers_8php.htmlI have been using the remote API for some time now, and it works very well. To make things easier for me, I wrote a php class that encapsulates some of these functions (see attached). This class doesn't implement any of the group management features, but they would be easy to add.You can then use the class like this (if, for instance, you wanted to list the reservations for a particular user):$vcl = new VCL($userid, $password);if ($reservations = $vcl-getReservations()){	foreach ($reservations as $r){		print "p";		print "b{$r['imagename']}/b ";		if ($status = $vcl-getRequestStatus($r['requestid'])){			switch ($status['status']){...			}	}		print "/p";	}}The authentication piece is handed off to the appropriate affiliation function in the VCL code, so if you are using LDAP, the user's password would be verified in that way. Since we use Shibboleth with our VCL installation, the web application (neither the VCL nor any remote webapp) will know anything about what constitutes a valid password, so I ended up modifying the 'checkAccess()' function in .ht-inc/utils.php. If this is relevant for your installation, I can explain further how this is done.The remote API allows me, for instance, to embed the VCL inside other web applications (such as our campus learning management system), without requiring students to login to the main VCL site when they want to make and connect to their reservations.Best regards,Aaron?php

class VCL {

const VCLHOST = YOUR VCL HOST LOCATION HERE;

public $errcode = 0;
public $errmsg = ;
public $message = ;
private $username = ;
private $password = ;


public function __construct($username, $password){
$this-username = $username;
$this-password = $password;
}


public function getImages(){
if($images = $this-rpc('XMLRPCgetImages', array()))
if( count($images) )
return $images;
return 0;
}


public function addReservation($imageid, $time, $duration){
if( $rc = $this-rpc('XMLRPCaddRequest', array($imageid, $time, $duration))){
$this-message = Successfully added reservation.;
return 1;
} else {
return 0;
}
}

public function extendReservation($id, $duration){
$this-reset();
if( $rc = $this-rpc(XMLRPCextendRequest, array($id, $duration))){
$this-message = Reservation successfully extended.;
return 1;
} else {
return 0;
}
}

public function deleteReservation($id){
$this-reset();
if( $rc = $this-rpc(XMLRPCendRequest, array($id))){ 
$this-message = Reservation successfully deleted.;
return 1;
} else {
return 0;
}
}


public function getRequestStatus($id){
$this-reset();
if( $rc = $this-rpc(XMLRPCgetRequestStatus, array($id)))
return $rc;
else
return 0;
}


public function getConnectData($requestid, $remote_addr){
$this-reset();
if( $rc = $this-rpc(XMLRPCgetRequestConnectData, array($requestid,
$remote_addr))){
if( $rc[status] == ready ){
return array( serverIP = $rc[serverIP],
  user = $rc[user],
  password = $rc[password] );
} else {
$this-message = The connection is not yet ready.;
}
}
return 0;
}

public function affiliations(){
$this-reset();
if($response = $this-rpc(XMLRPCaffiliations, array())){
if(count($response)){
return $response;
}
}
return 0;
}

public function getReservations(){
$this-reset();
if($response = $this-rpc('XMLRPCgetRequestIds', array()))
if( count( $response[requests] ) )
return $response[requests];
return 0;
}


private function reset(){
$this-errcode = 0;
$this-errmsg = ;
$this-message = ;
}


private function rpc($method, $args) {
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request($method, $args);
$header  = Content-Type: text/xml\r\n;
$header .= X-User:  . $this-username . \r\n;
$header .= X-Pass:  . $this-password . \r\n;
$header .= Cookie:  . $_SERVER[HTTP_COOKIE] . \r\n;
$header .= X-APIVERSION: 2;
$context = stream_context_create(
array(
'http' = array(
'method' = POST,
'header' = $header,
'content' = $request
)
)
);
$location = ?mode= . ($method == XMLRPCaffiliations ? 

Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-30 Thread Josh Thompson
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Mani,

I forgot that there is a third http header that is always required - 
X-APIVERSION.  You'd even need that set when calling XMLRPCaffiliations.

Josh

On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Josh Thompson wrote:
 Mani,
 
 I haven't done much with java, and what I have done was many years ago. 
 Given that, it doesn't look like you are providing the additional custom
 authentication http headers X-User and X-Pass anywhere.
 
 Those two additional headers are not needed for the XMLRPCaffiliations
 call. So, you could try calling that to see if the authentication headers
 are your only problem.
 
 Josh
 
 On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
  I am trying to use Java to use your system. but the problem is when I try
  to execute something like client.execute( XMLRPCtest, params ); , I
  receive errors.
  Can you tell me what should I pass to this function.I just attached my
  java class.
  
  Best Regards
  Mani
  
  On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu wrote:
   Mani,
   there is documentation for the XML RPC located here:
   http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/xmlrpcdocs/xmlrpcWrappers_8php.html
   
   I have been using the remote API for some time now, and it works very
   well. To make things easier for me, I wrote a php class that
   encapsulates some of these functions (see attached). This class
   doesn't implement any of the group management features, but they would
   be easy to add.
   
   You can then use the class like this (if, for instance, you wanted to
   list the reservations for a particular user):
   
   $vcl = new VCL($userid, $password);
   
   if ($reservations = $vcl-getReservations()){
   foreach ($reservations as $r){
   print p;
   print b{$r['imagename']}/b ;
   if ($status = $vcl-getRequestStatus($r['requestid'])){
   switch ($status['status']){
   ...
   }
   }
   print /p;
   }
   }
   
   The authentication piece is handed off to the appropriate affiliation
   function in the VCL code, so if you are using LDAP, the user's password
   would be verified in that way. Since we use Shibboleth with our VCL
   installation, the web application (neither the VCL nor any remote
   webapp) will know anything about what constitutes a valid password, so
   I ended up modifying the 'checkAccess()' function in
   .ht-inc/utils.php. If this is relevant for your installation, I can
   explain further how this is done.
   
   The remote API allows me, for instance, to embed the VCL inside other
   web applications (such as our campus learning management system),
   without requiring students to login to the main VCL site when they
   want to make and connect to their reservations.
   
   Best regards,
   Aaron
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   On Nov 29, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
   
   Josh,
   
   Thank you. Do you have any proper documentation for functions that you
   provided by XML RPC?
   
   Best Regards
   Mani
   
   On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Josh Thompson
 
 josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
   
   Mani,
   
   Unfortunately, the example code is way out of date and uses API
   version 1 which is no longer supported.
   
   A more current example, though in python, is available here:
   
   
   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/sandbox/useful_scripts/
   ma nagegroups.py
   
   Josh
   
   On Sunday November 20, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
Hello,

I just used your sample file to use VCL through XMLRPC, but I
received following error :

*Notice*:  xmlrpc: Unsupported API version, cannot continue.

I just modified username and password in your sample PHP file. I
will appreciate if you could guide me.


Best Regards

Mani
   
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Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-30 Thread Mani Shafa'atDoost
Josh,

As far as I understood, I need to pass the function name as first argument
and for second one I need to add a list of parameters. For first parameter,
I need to pass Header which consist of following things:
$header  = Content-Type: text/xml\r\n;
$header .= X-User:  . $this-username . \r\n;
$header .= X-Pass:  . $this-password . \r\n;
$header .= Cookie:  . $_SERVER[HTTP_COOKIE] . \r\n;
$header .= X-APIVERSION: 2;

so, is it necessary to add all of these things to header?

Best Regards
Mani

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:

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 Hash: SHA1

 Mani,

 I forgot that there is a third http header that is always required -
 X-APIVERSION.  You'd even need that set when calling XMLRPCaffiliations.

 Josh

 On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Josh Thompson wrote:
  Mani,
 
  I haven't done much with java, and what I have done was many years ago.
  Given that, it doesn't look like you are providing the additional custom
  authentication http headers X-User and X-Pass anywhere.
 
  Those two additional headers are not needed for the XMLRPCaffiliations
  call. So, you could try calling that to see if the authentication headers
  are your only problem.
 
  Josh
 
  On Wednesday November 30, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
   I am trying to use Java to use your system. but the problem is when I
 try
   to execute something like client.execute( XMLRPCtest, params ); , I
   receive errors.
   Can you tell me what should I pass to this function.I just attached my
   java class.
  
   Best Regards
   Mani
  
   On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Aaron Coburn acob...@amherst.edu
 wrote:
Mani,
there is documentation for the XML RPC located here:
   
 http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/xmlrpcdocs/xmlrpcWrappers_8php.html
   
I have been using the remote API for some time now, and it works very
well. To make things easier for me, I wrote a php class that
encapsulates some of these functions (see attached). This class
doesn't implement any of the group management features, but they
 would
be easy to add.
   
You can then use the class like this (if, for instance, you wanted to
list the reservations for a particular user):
   
$vcl = new VCL($userid, $password);
   
if ($reservations = $vcl-getReservations()){
foreach ($reservations as $r){
print p;
print b{$r['imagename']}/b ;
if ($status = $vcl-getRequestStatus($r['requestid'])){
switch ($status['status']){
...
}
}
print /p;
}
}
   
The authentication piece is handed off to the appropriate affiliation
function in the VCL code, so if you are using LDAP, the user's
 password
would be verified in that way. Since we use Shibboleth with our VCL
installation, the web application (neither the VCL nor any remote
webapp) will know anything about what constitutes a valid password,
 so
I ended up modifying the 'checkAccess()' function in
.ht-inc/utils.php. If this is relevant for your installation, I can
explain further how this is done.
   
The remote API allows me, for instance, to embed the VCL inside other
web applications (such as our campus learning management system),
without requiring students to login to the main VCL site when they
want to make and connect to their reservations.
   
Best regards,
Aaron
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
On Nov 29, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
   
Josh,
   
Thank you. Do you have any proper documentation for functions that
 you
provided by XML RPC?
   
Best Regards
Mani
   
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Josh Thompson
 
  josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
   
Mani,
   
Unfortunately, the example code is way out of date and uses API
version 1 which is no longer supported.
   
A more current example, though in python, is available here:
   
   
   
 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/sandbox/useful_scripts/
ma nagegroups.py
   
Josh
   
On Sunday November 20, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
 Hello,

 I just used your sample file to use VCL through XMLRPC, but I
 received following error :

 *Notice*:  xmlrpc: Unsupported API version, cannot continue.

 I just modified username and password in your sample PHP file. I
 will appreciate if you could guide me.


 Best Regards

 Mani
   
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VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
   
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Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-29 Thread Josh Thompson
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Mani,

Unfortunately, the example code is way out of date and uses API version 1 
which is no longer supported.

A more current example, though in python, is available here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/sandbox/useful_scripts/managegroups.py

Josh

On Sunday November 20, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I just used your sample file to use VCL through XMLRPC, but I received
 following error :
 
 *Notice*:  xmlrpc: Unsupported API version, cannot continue.
 
 I just modified username and password in your sample PHP file. I will
 appreciate if you could guide me.
 
 
 Best Regards
 
 Mani
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Josh Thompson
VCL Developer
North Carolina State University

my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
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Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-29 Thread Mani Shafa'atDoost
Josh,

Thank you. Do you have any proper documentation for functions that you
provided by XML RPC?

Best Regards
Mani

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.eduwrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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 Mani,

 Unfortunately, the example code is way out of date and uses API version 1
 which is no longer supported.

 A more current example, though in python, is available here:


 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/sandbox/useful_scripts/managegroups.py

 Josh

 On Sunday November 20, 2011, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I just used your sample file to use VCL through XMLRPC, but I received
  following error :
 
  *Notice*:  xmlrpc: Unsupported API version, cannot continue.
 
  I just modified username and password in your sample PHP file. I will
  appreciate if you could guide me.
 
 
  Best Regards
 
  Mani
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 VCL Developer
 North Carolina State University

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Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-21 Thread Andy Kurth
Try changing the X-APIVERSION line from 1 to 2:
$header .= X-APIVERSION: 2;

-Andy

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Mani Shafa'atDoost
mani.do...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I just used your sample file to use VCL through XMLRPC, but I received
 following error :

 Notice:  xmlrpc: Unsupported API version, cannot continue.

 I just modified username and password in your sample PHP file. I will
 appreciate if you could guide me.

 Best Regards

 Mani