New to the technology

[Damon Hill <da...@ifworld.com>]

Good day.
I am new to using XML-RPC, however, it appears to fit a niche for a
current project I am developing.
The project is a wireless, handheld, data-gathering, java application.
The application will gather data on the handheld as well as images,
compile those into XML format, and then send them to a central server
over cellular modem for processing.
The server will accept simple HTTP requests.
The server will also, upon request, send XML data back to the handheld
for processing.
XML-RPC appears to be exactly what we are looking for to perform this
send/receive procedure.
Now, the questions I have are few and may become more and I read through
the spec for XML-RPC.
To begin:
    1) All of the examples I see for XML-RPC include the calling of a
method to perform some action and return a result for that action. In
    my example, I am just curious if instead of sending some arguments
to process, I simply want to send files as my arguments for the server 
    to handle. I would assume this is quite easy to perform, but just
wanted to know if others had done this. Thoughts?
    2) In correlation to #1 I am looking to send across images as well
that would relate to information in the XML file. I would assume once 
    again that this is quite similar if not identical to the
implementation above. Has anyone had experience using XML-RPC for this
type of 
    procedure?
 
Thanks in advance for any insight and advice.
 
Sincerely,
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Re: New to the technology

[Bret McMillan <br...@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:04:02AM -0500, Damon Hill wrote:

>     1) All of the examples I see for XML-RPC include the calling of a
> method to perform some action and return a result for that action. In
>     my example, I am just curious if instead of sending some arguments
> to process, I simply want to send files as my arguments for the server 
>     to handle. I would assume this is quite easy to perform, but just
> wanted to know if others had done this. Thoughts?

We've done xmlrpc over http(s), and have a utility that used to
transfer some files in that fashion.  It was terribly slow.  Much
better to use xmlrpc for file metadata, and send the file via a normal
http post request or something.  But, YMMV.

--Bret