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This directory contains working examples of uses of XML-RPC-c. There
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are XML-RPC servers and XML-RPC clients that use the Xmlrpc-c libraries.
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The simplest example is the 'query-meerkat' program, which contacts an
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XML-RPC server that O'Reilly operates on the Internet called Meerkat.
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Meerkat provides an RPC that returns a list of new articles that match
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a specified search pattern. Run 'query-meerkat' like this example:
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$ ./query-meerkat Linux
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This responds with a list of new articles that contain the work "Linux",
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according to O'reilly's Meerkat service.
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The simplest server program is 'xmlrpc_sample_add_server'. This
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implements a single XML-RPC method called 'sample.add'. All it does is
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add two numbers and return the sum. You can run such a server like
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this:
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$ ./xmlrpc_sample_add_server 8080
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The server this runs is based on the Abyss HTTP server. file. The
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argument tell it to listen on TCP Port 8080 for RPCs. It puts log
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information in /tmp, so be sure to look there.
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A client program that goes along with this server is
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'xmlrpc_sample_add_client'. All this client does is make an XML-RPC
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request to Port 8080 of 'localhost' to add the numbers 5 and 7 and
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print the result on Standard Output.
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You can run such a client like this:
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$ ./xmlrpc_sample_add_client
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