xmlrpc posting with Xpostulate

[tonybaldwin]

Okay...I've started to hack up the xmlrpc functions.
First, I had to replace all "<" and ">" in html tags in a post with"&lt;" and "&gt;",
and then, I have basically just handwritten out a relevant xml file.
Which looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?><methodCall><methodName>LJ.XMLRPC.postevent</methodName><params><param><value><struct><member><name>username</name><value><string>tonytraductor</string></value></member><member><name>password</name><value><string>XXXXXXXX</string></value></member><member><name>subject</name><value><string>xmlrpc posting</string></value></member><member><name>lineendings</name><value><string>pc</string><value></member><member><name>year</name><value><int>2010</int></value></member><member><name>mon</name><value><int>04</int></value></member><member><name>day</name><value><int>06</int></value></member><member><name>hour</name><value><int>10</int></value></member><member><name>min</name><value><int>46</int></value></member><member><name>prop_current_location</name><value><string>127.0.0.1</string></value></member><member><name>propr_current_mood</name><value><string>focused</string></value></member><member><name>prop_taglist</name><value><string>xmlrpc, xpostulate, wordpress, livejournal, dreamwidth, insanejournal</string></value></member><member><name>prop_currentmusic</name><value><string>none</string></value></member><member><name>userjournal</name><value><string>which journal?</string></value></member><member><name>event</name><value><string>Okay...I've started to hack up the xmlrpc functions.
First, I had to replace all "<" and ">" in html tags in a post with "&lt;" and "&gt;",
and then, I have basically just handwritten out a relevant xml file.


</string></value></member></struct></value></param></params></methodCall>


What I haven't done is tried to send such a file to a server, yet...
I'm not sure if the posting method has to be different from a flat post, in terms of simply sending this file as the post data...
More work...
But, hey, I'm working on it!

Comments

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

wait...
does $getchal actually need something in the params/param/value/struct?
Because, I just copied from your post http://catness.dreamwidth.org/61674.html
Do I need to include username/password or something in that struct?
let me try that...maybe I'll get a valid response.
Although, I think I'm just feeding tdom the wrong thing...not sure.

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

nope...still keep getting an error from the parser
syntax error on line 1 col 0

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

I'm up on #tcl @freenode trying to sort this out

Re: curioser and curioser

[catness]

No, getchallenge does NOT need username/password (that's why it's secure ;) You can see exactly what it needs:
http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.xml-rpc.getchallenge.html

re:base64, cyrillic characters certainly require encoding, not sure about European languages, I think German characters worked without it...

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

well then, if ß works, ç should be fine.

Content-Length: 97
this should basically be static, right?
I don't need to fish that var out of anywhere, since, it appears the very same text/xml is sent for every challenge.

Re: curioser and curioser

[catness]

Can you print out the full response from the server (before parsing it)?

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

AHA!
I get this:

Date {Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:26:57 GMT} Server Apache Set-Cookie {ljuniq=ZodqxpGlhZ3WN4C:1270657617:pgstats0:m0; expires=Sunday, 06-Jun-2010 16:26:57 GMT; domain=.livejournal.com; path=/} Content-Length 510 Content-Type text/xml SOAPServer SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.60 Connection close


is ljuniq= the value I need?

I was expecting an xml response

Re: curioser and curioser

[catness]

No, it's a cookie. You need a xml response, just like in the documentation. Yes, content length can be static.

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

But I didn't ask for a cookie, darn it!
I'll continue trying to sort this out later...
gotta get ready to take my nephew to NY City to see Opeth (death metal from Sweden, or something...fun fun!)

Re: curioser and curioser

[tonybaldwin]

My nephew is a real hacker, but he hates xml and doesn't write tcl.
I gave him is first Linux (suse) about 7 years ago.
You probably knew that...I beam and brag about the kid all over the place.

Re: curioser and curioser

[catness]

ok, here's how you print the response from the server.

set url "http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc"
set getchallenge [http::geturl $url -query $getchal -type "text/xml" ]
puts [http::data $getchallenge]

Yay death metal! :D