[Zope] Re: Sending XML straight down to a zope

[Tres Seaver]

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Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote at 2006-10-12 08:35 +0100:
>> Peter Bengtsson wrote:
>>> xml_content = open('validxmlfile.xml').read()
>>> http = httplib.HTTP("localhost", 8080)
>>> http.putrequest("POST", "/uploadExpenseXML")
>> That's not really a valid transaction...
> 
> Why not?
> 
> 
> The real problem is that Zope wrongfully assumes that each
> "POST" with content type "text/xml" is an XML-RPC request.
> 
> That's wrong at least since XML is more widely used on the browser
> side (e.g. XForms).

I think XForms uses PUT to save the model back to the server, rather
than POST.

WRT my proposed earlier solution:  Adding a custom server type does not
necessarily require deploying a hacked version of ZPublisher:  it is
possible to register new server types in Zope2 products (e.g., the
original ClockServer product).


Tres.
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