Re: soup, glib2/libxml2

Hi,

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 16:52, Scott Hutton wrote:
> Today, Alex Graveley wrote:
> | On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 14:19, Scott Hutton wrote:
> | > Today, Joe Shaw wrote:
> | > | Yep.  My patch (and the latest tarball of xmlrpc-c) are here:
> | > | 
> | > |         http://primates.ximian.com/~joe/xmlrpc-c
> | > 
> | > Speaking of patches, I sent in some patches and raised some issues with
> | > faulty fault handling back in May.  Has Soup development resumed or moved
> | > on to another maintainer at Ximian (Alex appears to have disappeared on
> | > the list)?  Should I resubmit those patches?
> | 
> | Feel free to resubmit, but you mention that your patch was very broken
> | with regards to modifying resultcode values, so it won't go in until its
> | fixed correctly.  The xml child handling changes seem broken as well. 
> 
> It was broken with respect to the way that Soup handles HTTP responses.
> Soup treats all 500 responses from the server as server errors.  However,
> faults are legitimately 500's with an XML payload.  I indicated that some
> "big picture" folks (i.e., Ximian) needed to address that issue before
> this could be patched properly.  That's pretty much where the discussion
> stopped.  As a stopgap, my patch allowed 500's to be treated as valid,
> worth-examining responses, whether or not they contained a valid SOAP
> response.

Indeed, but that is a bug in the code that checks the message response
for SOAP success/fault, not in the interpretation of response codes.

-Alex

-- 
 on the canvass of life, incompetence is my paintbrush.


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