[Zope] does xml-rpc work with zope and pcgi/apache?

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:00:13 +0100

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:00:17AM -0600, Roman Milner wrote:
> I'm having problem getting xml-rpc calls to work with zope running on
> apache/pcgi.  I'm using the python xml-rpc module to send an xml-rpc
> request that looks like this (when captured at the socket level):
> 
> POST /asdf/1/ HTTP/1.0
> User-Agent: xmlrpclib.py/0.9.5
> Host: localhost:8888
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-Length: 107
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <methodCall>
> <methodName>listServices</methodName>
> <params>
> </params>
> 
> </methodCall>
> 
> 
> What I get back from a zope running zserver only is:
> 
> 
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Server: Zope/Zope 2.3.0a2 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2) ZServer/1.1b1
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:44:21 GMT
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-Length: 229
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <methodResponse>
> <params>
> <param>
> <value><array><data>
> <value><string>troubleTickets</string></value>
> <value><string>openTicket</string></value>
> </data></array></value>
> </param>
> </params>
> 
> </methodResponse>
> 
> When I send the exact same request through the same zope server
> running with apache/pcgi the response I get is a 404 (not found)
> error. I have an apache rewrite rule set up that works fine - I can
> go to /manage and so forth, and it works.
> 
> The 404 makes a little sense, as the above posts to /asdf/1 which
> doesn't have an index_html in it, so in apache land this would be a
> bit like posting to a directory, but I thought that zope would have
> taken care of this some how.
> 
> I have included the full error message sent back from the zope/apache
> below.  We are working on a flash application that we were planning on
> having talk to zope via xml-rpc, but if xml-rpc won't work through
> apache, I guess we'll have to come up with some other way of talking
> to zope.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> ^Roman
> 
> 
> 
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:46:45 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_snake/0.4.1
> Bobo-Exception-File: /home/Zope2/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py
> Bobo-Exception-Line: 528
> Bobo-Exception-Type: NotFound
> Bobo-Exception-Value: <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>asdf</TITLE></HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFF
> F">   <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Zope Error</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE BORDER="0" WID
> TH="100%"> <TR VALIGN="TOP">  <TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="CENTER"> &nbsp; </TD>  <TD W
> IDTH="90%">   <H2>Zope Error</H2> 
> X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
> Content-Length: 1591
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
> 
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>asdf</TITLE></HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
> 
>  <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>Zope Error</TITLE></HEAD>
> <BODY>
> 
> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%">
> <TR VALIGN="TOP">
> 
> <TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="CENTER">
> &nbsp;
> 
> blah blah blah...

Are you sure your RewriteRule handles trailing slashes properly? I seem to
recall something about that... 't has been a while since I used PCGI.

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