What is XML-RPC? It's a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet.

Discoverability. We wanted a clean, extensible format that's very simple. It should be possible for an HTML coder to be able to look at a file containing an XML-RPC procedure call, understand what it's …

The new JavaScript toolkit for XML-RPC supports a JSON syntax. Below are five examples first showing the standard XML-RPC syntax followed by the experimental JavaScript syntax.

Applications should use the fault-response scheme defined by XML-RPC. For example, trying to create, get, or edit a post without a valid username-password should generate a fault.

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But back then I didn't have a website to document this stuff, and I didn't have "XML-RPC" as a great insurance policy against this kind of misbehavior. All they can do is screw SOAP, they can't screw …

It's remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, …

5. If Google asks us to turn this off, we will do it, quickly. 6. UserLand does not keep a copy of the keys that pass through this server. We don't use this information in any way, and will not do so in the …

Behind the scenes In addition to its HTML interface, Manila has a SOAP and an XML-RPC interface, much as Mac and Windows applications have scripting interfaces thru Apple Events and COM.

I don't choose to argue that point, I'll concede that anything you could do with XML-RPC or SOAP could also be done with REST. However my conclusion is different from Prescod's, I think it's fantastic, …