[DM] Making XMLRPC protocol selection smarter

[Andreas Jung]

2. Introduction

Zope seems very proud of its embedded xmlrpc implementation. Whenever it receives a POST request with a content type starting with text/xml it is convinced that this cannot be something else than an xmlrpc request. Of course, it is wrong. There are many non xmlrpc request types that look like this, e.g. SOAP requests.

3. Feature

Define a new interface ZPublisher.interfaces.IXmlrpcChecker with method __call__.

When a request might be an xmlrpc request (according to the criteria above), check for an IXmlrpcChecker utility and call it with the current request to determine whether the request should be interpreted as an xmlrpc request. If there is no such utility, interpret the request as xmlrpc.

4. Example Use Cases

Essential to handle SOAP requests, e.g. the SOAP requests of the XStandard editor.

[Dieter Maurer (d.maurer)]

Workaround published on PyPI: "dm.zopepatches.xmlrpc"

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The zope2 project on Launchpad has been archived at the request of the Zope developers (see https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/683589 and https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/685285). If this bug is still relevant, please refile it at https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope2.