My XML-RPC library is just about done

My XMl-RPC library is just about done. I started originally with pinging weblogs.com by sending the straight XML. Since I started with the goal of making my own library, I keep abstracting more and more of it until I can just ping weblogs.com with one function call. This is the first test of it "in the wild". In other words, the first test (of the full level of abstraction) where I ping a server other than my own

And it worked!

"Bing!"

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22:02 (utc-4)
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$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA

What the (censored)?! I need to get the raw post data from a PHP script, and there's no documented way to do it. The usefulinc XML-RPC library uses $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, and if you search on the PHP site that variable was documented, but it's not anymore since they created the "superglobals" and reorganized the documentation.

Oh yeah, the main reason I'm upset is that I'm trying to use $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA because that's what the XML-RPC library uses, but it's not working for me... aaaargh!!

Hey, it turns out that $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA does work, it's just that it doesn't show up if the type of data you send is plain =application/x-www-form-urlencoded=, but it does show up if you use something like =text/xml=

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Want to read this later, via Slashdot. Too tired to even blog about it... maybe later.

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10:30 (utc-4)

 

OpenOffice almost ready

Looks like OpenOffice 1.0 is almost ready for release: "641d is our final release before OpenOffice.org 1.0. It is stable and it is by and large bug-free. But we want to make sure."

After Word crashed again on me the other day and made me lose a little of what I was working on (it's the frustration more than anything, as well as anger that Microsoft can put such buggy software in the hands of millions), I've decided to stop using Microsoft Word altogether... I'm downloading AbiWord right now to try that out.

Hey, AbiWord is neat. It's 'snappy' - much faster than Word. The very worst thing about it, and why I probably can't make the move to it, is that it doesn't have tables, which is their number one request for enhancement set for milestone 1.2 (argh!).

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09:45 (utc-4)
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StructuredText parser almost ready for release

As part of that, I've been documenting it. Check out everything you can do The code is slowly getting cleaner too, so I'll be releasing it on my software page soon.

I need something to call it. I mean, can I do any better than "my StructuredText parser"?

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09:24 (utc-4)

 

"Whats the thing about this weblogs"

Hosting Matters support forum: Whats the thing about this weblogs.

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