Re: Redirects and invalid endpoints

On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Bill Moseley wrote:

> What do most client libraries do if the HTTP response is not 200?   
> Will
> they not parse the body?  Or does it depend on the content-type of the
> response?

The central concept of XML-RPC over HTTP is "RPC".  The other two have  
not been important in the past, and it's unlikely there is any  
particular care about HTTP correctness in implementations (especially  
given the weird abstraction-breaking of the "Connection: close"  
requirement.)

In an ideal world, everybody is using a modern HTTP library that holds  
persistent redirects and cookies and auth and etc before the XML-RPC  
layer gets into action, but I don't think any of the three  
implementations I did got this right.  (On the server side, you can  
throw Apache in front of things and get a lot of this handling for  
free, and on the client side browsers do actually have world-class  
HTTP clients.)

Jay

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