On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:59 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: > Brad Douglas wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:32 -0400, William McKeehan wrote: > >> I don't think you're hearing exactly what I'm saying. > > > > Obviously, I'm not. ;-) > > > >> I would not expect the users to "install and run a web server". If you're > >> using Xastir, you have the option now of starting a "server"; I'm talking > >> about the same thing, only having it speak a standard protocol, http. > > > > How can you execute XML-RPC without a server to interpret it? > > The process and protocols have long been established, while SOAP/WSDL do > things in a poorly reproduced manner until forced to conform.
I'm an idiot. I implemented a secure httpd-less SOAP server several years ago and completely forgot about it. The only alternative for Linux at the time was libsoup. I can't begin to count how many bugs we discovered that were never resolved, so we forked it internally. If there are better (read: usable) alternatives today, I'd be in favor of a RESTful approach to client/server interaction. It would certainly give Xastir a good entry point for querying data from remote mapservers. -- 73, de Brad KB8UYR/6 <rez touchofmadness com> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
