--- Gianugo Rabellino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> grenoml wrote:
> > Ok, yes, client would not know this.  Is there no way in which the
> > context could be advertised by the server or discovered by the
> client? 
> > LDAP?  Hardcoding the name just seems really rigid.
> 
> 
> I cannot agree more on the principle. But somewhere you need a fixed 
> point, so I can't think of any better solution other than hardcoding
> the 
> "fulcrum" in the code. The problem is that the client doesn't know a 
> thing about the server, all it has is a IP and possibly a port. We
> can 
> think of some advertising mechanism, but it seems to me that any 
> solution (do you really want an LDAP server just to know the relative
> 
> location of the XML-RPC endpoint) would mean overengineering and 
> complicate.
> 
> But suggestions on this are really most welcome.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> -- 
> Gianugo Rabellino
> 

  I see it as the "fulcrum" is a *relatively-fixed* point and that
somewhere you just need to have a mutually agreed-upon point not
necessarily a fixed absolute point.  A fixed absolute point is just one
possible subset of mutually agreed-upon points and could certainly be
used for a default.  The problem of course is how can the client
discover/negotiate a mutually agreed-upon point in a way that is not
overly complicated.  Any ideas out there? :-)

Regards,

Gerry Reno



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