[Zope-dev] Zope client? (invitation for developers)

[Chris McDonough]

> 
> That's a Zope security issue, really.  Client would most 
> likely have the
> same problem.  But let me explain why I used XML-RPC:  
> ZPublisher.Client
> always returns it's results a string, while XML-RPC pickles 
> Python objects
> into XML and then unpickles them back into Python objects.  

While I understand what you mean, this isn't entirely accurate.  XML-RPC
doesn't use the pickle module.  It marshals return values into one of
its known datatypes.  It likewise can't handle arbitrary objects
transparently.