[Zope] Turning off xmlrpc handling (Is it right to assume that text/xml==xmlrpc?)

[John Ziniti]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
>>The more I look at this problem and the Zope code set up to
>>handle it, the more I think that hacking Zope is the only
>>way to accomplish what I want.  The question I keep coming
>>to, though, is "Is it right that Zope assumes that all POSTs
>>with a text/xml payload are xmlrpc calls?" and I can't help
>>but answering "no".
> 
> 
> And you are correct ;) Unfortunately, though, this misfeature has 
> been around for a long time and would break a lot of people if the 
> default were changed. That doesn't mean it shouldn't necessarily 
> be changed anyway, possibly with some sort of backward-compatibility 
> mode that would make the transition reasonable.

This sounds to me like it won't be getting changed any time soon. :-)

> Short of that though, its your lucky day, since I happen to have an 
> add-on product laying around that does exactly what you want ;)
> 
> The attached XmlFix product disables xml-rpc handling w/o having 
> to hack Zope (well, it hacks it from the outside, at least), which 
> lets you handle xml sent via POST. 

Thanks, Brian.  That's a nifty piece of code -- I never realized
that you could do something like this in a Product; but it makes
sense now that I see it (wooo Python!).

The Product version is definitely more supportable and upgrade-
proof than hacking the Zope code itself.

JZ