There have certainly been SMTP implementations which use the XML-RPC message format. There's a Jabber protocol which uses the format too (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0009.html).
John Wilson The Wilson Partnership http://www.wilson.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Hoegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: XML-RPC and HTTP > Hey that last piece on HTTP headers got me to thinking. The XML-RPC > spec says that an XML-RPC message is an HTTP-POST request. However when > I was looking around on the internet I remember seeing stuff about > possible other transports such as SMTP. Were these just ideas that were > being thrown around early on or are people still interested in doing it > this way? The actual messages don't seem to me to be reliant on HTTP.