Tag Archives: SOAP

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-10

By Dougal | Published: December 10, 2007
  • Watching the baby while my wife is at a job interview. #
  • Finally made to the the office a little while ago. Had to drop my car off at the dealership for "Check Engine" diagnosis. :-/ #
  • Need help getting PHP PEAR SOAP client to talk to a .NET service. The server end doesn’t seem to see the parameters my client is sending. [...]
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links for 2006-03-16

By Dougal | Published: March 15, 2006
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Putting the “Simple” back in SOAP

By Dougal | Published: October 21, 2004

I’ve never been too big on SOAP. It’s nice that there are lots of toolkit implementations out there, but for most of my projects, it just seems like overkill. Many developers joke about the acronym being an oxymoron, because SOAP can quickly lose its simplicity. XML-RPC has its faults, but it’s easier to test and debug, in my experience. [...]

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SOAP::Lite web site updated

By Dougal | Published: December 3, 2003

If you use Perl for programming web services, you might be interested to know that the website for SOAP::Lite has been updated. Looks like it’s now a MovableType blog, which should hopefully mean that the developers intend to make more frequent updates.

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Bees, Beavers, and Other Busy People

By Dougal | Published: April 23, 2002

Yeah, yeah…. No updates in a while. I’ve been in the zone at work, and haven’t had time to get online from home.

Over the last week or so, I’ve spent a lot of time hacking my way through some SOAP::Lite and XMLRPC::Lite voodoo. After converting one of my perl libraries into a proper module, I was able to implement an XML-RPC server in about 7 lines of code (20 lines, if you include blank lines, comments, and some unnecessary stuff). [...]

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Remote Scripting with IFRAME

By Dougal | Published: January 28, 2002

Eric Costello (of glish.com fame) has an excellent article on Remote Scripting with IFRAME. . [...]

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XML-RPC and other TLAs

By Dougal | Published: November 9, 2001

I have finally gotten around to learning a little about XML-RPC and SOAP.

In case you aren’t familiar with these buzzwords, they are basically protocols for getting data from remote programs. They use HTTP as the transport protocol, and XML for encapsulating the data. [...]

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