RE: Integrating XP Into Web Infrastructure

All of the discussion about how simple it is to make a SOAP or
XMLRPC call is interesting, but of course, all of the examples
leave out the crucial and difficult part of any real program:
switching on all of the possible resulting states and dealing
with them appropriately.

For example, if you use HTTP, you need to decide what to do
if you get a 404 Not Found or a 500 Server Error or (more disturbingly)
a "301 Moved Permanently". How long do you wait if you do or
do not get a "100 Continue"?


> >     import xmlrpclib
> >     betty = xmlrpclib.Server("http://betty.userland.com")
> >     print betty.examples.getStateName(41)

But then what happens? How do the various libraries either support
or hide all of the possible returns & conditions?

Received on Friday, 12 January 2001 05:11:31 UTC