On 10/12/05, Alan Milligan <alan@balclutha.org> wrote:
And you are allowed to be. It is a bit strange in an XML-RPC dialog to drop out to http occasionally ...
Actually, I'd expect large files over XML-RPC to be handled by sending a URL, and have the client GET the file separately. But then, I have weird ideas sometimes.
This has absolutely nothing on them actually implementing a lot of their XML-RPC using HTTP GET, when the protocol clearly states it must be an HTTP POST ...
(I imagine this is a performance enhancement in that you needn't xml-parse the payload ...)
Unless you can make the server a simple front-end to a pile-o-files on disk, I don't see any benefit. There's no issue for the client, only the server, since they want to limit the number of machines they stick behind the load-balancer. Ok, I think we've agreed this isn't an Expat issue, but a bug in RedHat code that's unrelated to using XML in Zope. The Expat-based minidom-builder in recent versions of Python is pretty well tested in practice. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless." --B.F. Skinner