Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Friday, December 07, 2001

11:47h

  Just got an email from someone in Hawaii who's using the vcXMLRPC Library. I think it's very nice to get so many good response. I believe there are still a couple of bugs in the library concerning some old versions of IE 5.0 . Also This library hasn't been tested (to my knowledge) on a mac version of IE 5.x . If anyone has tested this, could you please drop me line.

I would like to build a list of sites that are using the library. So anyone who is implementing it on their site please LET ME KNOW.

When i have time I will place a forum on this site. :)

Monday, September 03, 2001

22:49h

  --- RELEASE OF Version 0.50 of the vcXMLRPC Server in PHP ---

Found a million bugs in version 0.40 so here is version 0.50 wich is tested extensively with multidimensional arrays, structs and all the other types except date, to wich i still have to find a solution since php doesn't have a native date datatype.

Sunday, September 02, 2001

23:40h

  ---- FIRST RELEASE of VCXMLRPC Server in PHP v0.40----

I almost lost my mind this weekend. Tried two PHP servers from the implementations list and they both used wrappers around native php objects. It drove me crazy, the tons of extra code that needs to be written. So i have written a PHP XMLRPC Server. It supports system.multicall and is totally compliant to the specification. It hasn't been tested yet with the validator, but i will do that anytime soon!

Also version 1.0 of the vcXMLRPC Library in javascript will be here soon. stay tuned.

Friday, August 31, 2001

03:43h

  TEST :

Could someone with IE on the mac (or *nix :)) at least a non-windows platform go to this test page. I need to know if the new gzip feature also works in IE on those platforms (it might not!) Please drop me a line with the browser version and the OS you are using and the result text (both if it failed or succeeded)!

Thanks

Ruben

00:41h

  NEW RELEASE Version 0.92

Thomas had a fantastic idea while struggling with the meerkat service. It sent a response of 64k. This took a long time to download 8-10 seconds (and he has a 2Mb connection). He found out that both IE and Mozilla support XML streams that are gzip-encoded. So now we have a new version of rpcroute.cgi, renamed to rpcproxy which automatically gzips the response of messages larger then 1k. The 64k meerkat response was reduced to 5k! The new version can be found on the download page.

Thursday, August 30, 2001

02:01h

  BTW: I have put the PHP xml-rpc server i use on the download page. I hacked it a bit to support system.multicall. But use only at your own risk!

00:23h

  NEW RELEASE Version 0.91

Ok i know, it's 23 minutes late, but it is fantastic. Check the new example it is now possible to make more than one calls per request (if the service supports this).

Also IE5 now can do aSync transfers! So IE won't stop propegation during transfer, wich is very usefull when you wan't to display a progress indicator of somesort.

Modules are coming soon!

Wednesday, August 29, 2001

09:42h

  Hi All. Just to let you know, version 0.91 is coming before the end of the day. Lots of mayor changes, bugfixes etc. It will contain:

- Modules support (at least 2 modules will be ready also)
- system.multicall support as described here
- Improved API
- lots of (small) bugs fixed.

Around the same time some new examples will also be posted!

STAY TUNED!!! :-)

Tuesday, August 28, 2001

09:10h

  Alright! Had some problems with HTML tags and sending them to the blogger services but this has been solved by encapsulating the string in a CDATA section! I am soooo happy. version 0.86 now at the download page

04:52h

  Version 0.85 is released. Several updates and bug fixes. One mayor that caused IE to crash while on a trusted site. vcXMLRPC is heavily tested on the XML-RPC server of www.blogger.com. Go see the example to amaze yourself by the speeds client-side xml-rpc has in store for you.

August 27 03.30h

vcXMLRPC 0.81 released. See the changelog for more information. the routing file is also updated. Go to the download page to download the new zip file.

August 26 17.00h

99 Hits Yesterday! Coming from 2 Hits the day before that's a BIG increase. Today already 55 Hits. I Hope this library will result in some nice web-applications. If you implemented the library, or changed it in any way; LET ME KNOW!. Version 0.81 coming soon with some improved functionality.

I updated the website, but there is still some work that needs to be done. The reference guide will be up and running monday(27th) evening.

August 26 01.44h

This site was posted on www.scripting.com
This XML-RPC implementation was placed on the official implementations list

August 25 17.00h

ROUTING

There has been some confusion about the routing feature of this library. Let me explain. MSIE and Mozilla have an http communication object called XMLHttpRequest. With this object a custom HTTP Message can be send to a server. Both browsers limit the server to wich a message can be send to the domain on which the file resides that wants to send the message. Therefore other XMLRPC services cannot receive message from that page. To fix this problem we supply a perl file which receives the XMLRPC Message send by the client-browser and routes it through the service on another domain. This however isn't always necessary. In IE it is possible to add a server to the trusted sites section and then no routing is necessary to talk to other domains. In mozilla this isn't possible. Only when you send a message to your own domain routing isn't required.

I hope this makes it clear. Else mail me.

August 25 15.30h

This is the website for the vcXMLRPC library current version 0.80.
A Library written in pure javascript for browsers.
No CGI is used. No Server-side scripting required!
(A Perl script for routing is available but optional)

The library currently supports Mozilla and Internet Explorer, Base64 decoding and Routing, for more information see the documentation and the changelog. There are some examples available but everything on this site is under construction.

This library is written by Virtual Cowboys, a dutch company. It is written by Ruben Daniels. Some features are build with the help of Thomas from Saltstorm