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Posted by Jasen Betts on 02/15/06 10:32
On 2006-02-14, emielvl@yahoo.co.uk <emielvl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm developing a client/server architecture based on the XML-RPC
> implementation in php4. All works pretty well, except that in the
> response from the server there is no "Content-Length" in the header.
> Since the XML-RPC specification requires this header to be present in
> the server response, some libraries (notably: libxmlrpc++) choke on
> this. For clarity, here's a (simple) server (slightly altered from:
> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Using-XMLRPC-with-PHP/4/):
use output buffering ob_start(). measure the length of the output,
make the header, emit the buffered output.
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK.
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:20:21 GMT.
> Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1.
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2-1.
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked.
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1.
> .
> a7 .
> As you can see, there is no "Content-Length" in the response. Am I
> doing something wrong here,
No. it's using chunks instead.
> or could this be a bug in php? Btw. I tried
> this on different servers, with the same results.
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked." is a valid alternative to "Content-Length:..."
if XMLRPC doesn't support it it's lying where it claims HTTP/1.1
Bye.
Jasen
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