"zope.app.application.HTTPPublicationRequestFactory" interprets "text/xml" requests as XML-RPC (was: [Zope] Hard-coded "Content-type:text/xml" as xmlrpc in Zope (2.8.1))

John Ziniti wrote at 2005-11-21 15:04 -0500:

... Zope-2.8.1 now additionally has the zope.app.publication. HTTPPublicationRequestFactory class, which also assumes that "text/xml" means xmlrpc (in fact, it assumes that anything that startswith('text/xml') is an xmlrpc call).

"zope.app" is part of Zope 3. You should complain about this misfeature on "zope3-dev@zope.org". Definitely, there should not be a fixed (not configurable) association between "text/xml" requests and "XML-RPC" as "text/xml" can be interesting for the application and for SOAP.

Not fixing old code which acts in strange hard-coded ways is something I understand, but adding new code that also acts that way seems like it is getting further away from "good" :)

-- Dieter