[Zope-dev] xmlrpc: Syntax error at line 34: illegal character in content --> Look at what I found out

[Ulrich Eck]

Hi chris, hi dieter,

I also have this problem with using xmlrpc from a python client
with zope.

> > RuntimeError: Syntax error at line 34: illegal character in content
>
> This was the bane of one of our projects to the point where Andy re-wrote
> ZMailIn to no-longer use XML-RPC.
>
> It's to do with stuff-which-should-probably-be-entities but we never
tracked
> down what wasn't encoding something when it should have done.
> I'd blame the marshalling code in xmlrpclib.py myself.
>
> If you ever fix this, do let us know :-)
>

I have a Zope 2.3.1 server running as well as a Zope 2.3.2.
I developed an Service-Framework on the first and then
tried to install it on the 2.3.2 .. it failed

I printed out the raw data of the transmission and they differ:

When I call the function on Zope-2.3.1 i get this response:
---------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value><string>OK</string></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>
---------------------------------------------------------

when I call the same function on the same backend on Zope-2.3.2 I get the
following:
---------------------------------------------------------
X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
Content-Length: 128
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value><string>OK</string></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>
---------------------------------------------------------

There is some header-information in the body (that perhaps shoudn't be
there)

Where there any changes in Zope 2.3.1 -> 2.3.2 in the Publishing part ??

With the second response the xmllib-parser won't work as we see.

any suggestions to that ??

did you guy's updated to Zope-2.3.2 recently ??

thanks for any response and hope this helps a bit ..

Ulrich Eck
net-labs