Olle Jonsson's blog » curl http://ollehost.dk/blog A human weblog about Web technology and other ephemera Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:22:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Calling an XML-RPC method (PHP, Ruby) http://ollehost.dk/blog/2006/09/15/calling-an-xml-rpc-method-php-ruby/ http://ollehost.dk/blog/2006/09/15/calling-an-xml-rpc-method-php-ruby/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:21:07 +0000 olleolleolle http://olle.ter.dk/blog/?p=300 Continue reading →]]> Calling web services. Great fun when it works. Thanks to XML-RPC’s simplicity, it’s quite easy to cobble together a working client. Here is me using the Technorati “ping” service, which tells them about the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade’s weblog being updated. And then, prints the result.

My PHP take on this looks klutzy. But the request gets encoded smartly. cURL takes a lot parameters to get running. I write the appropriate headers myself, there.

Simple XML-RPC in PHP

In Ruby’s standard library, there is a library to do these things. Exciting.

Even simpler XML-RPC in Ruby

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