Re: [Zope] POST from Zope to external server and receive RESPONSE

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hello Michael and Paul,

This one would have to be an external method since
the external server doesn't offer XMLRPC. It's
also made more difficult by the fact that ssl
will have to be involved. I'm going hunting for
a better way but I will certainly be using XMLRPC
for some other functionality that's required.

cheers and thanks,

David


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Re: [Zope] POST from Zope to external server and receive RESPONSE

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:42:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've inherited a project that now needs to post an XML
 packet to an ecommerce gateway, ie a user submits, via
 a form, credit card details which are posted to a Zope
 server. The Zope server then builds an XML packet and
 wants to POST to an external server which will send a
 RESPONSE.
 
 Can I capture that RESPONSE in Zope or must I use external
 methods and something like Python's httplib.
 
 I've done similar things with curl lib and C++, php curl
 lib and php.
 
 Any hints folks?

You'll need to use an external method (or write a simple product).
Then you can use httplib or urllib2, or the python wrappers for curl
(I found curl worked in some weird firewall configurations
that httplib didn't).

But you mention XML. If the remote system is XML-RPC, you'll
want to use python's excellent xmlrpclib, which makes
rpc calls look just like local calls:

remote = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://somewhere/something')
result = remote.someMethod('param1', 'param2')

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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
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