12 Sep
2006
12 Sep
'06
5:40 p.m.
--On 12. September 2006 12:34:38 -0400 Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> wrote:
Been doing web services (XML-RPC) stuff lately. What suggestions do people have for troubleshooting a zope-based XML-RPC application?
Access and trace logs are totally useless, since even the method name is hidden in the POST payload, so I feel like I'm flying blind; when a client developer tells me he gets occasional hangs, I have no idea what kind of request triggers the hang.
Ethereal aka Wireshark how it is called now works perfectly for any kind of network analysis like that. It has a functionality "Follow TCP stream" and is able to decode nearly every protocol. -aj