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!

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[catness]

Meanwhile, I dunno about the challenge but I've succeeded to post with cleartext password just fine, with the following script (though it's my first attempt on using tcl so I don't really know what I'm doing, lol). You can see the result at http://catness.insanejournal.com/204215.html
(the server returns the url among the result data)

#!/usr/bin/tclsh

package require http;

set url "http://www.insanejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc"

set password "MYPASSWORD"
set username "catness"

set post "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>LJ.XMLRPC.postevent</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value><struct>
<member>
<name>day</name>
<value><int>7</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>event</name>
<value><string>This is a test. Please ignore.</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>hour</name>
<value><int>21</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>lineendings</name>
<value><string>unix</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>min</name>
<value><int>40</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>mon</name>
<value><int>4</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>props</name>
<value><struct>
<member>
<name>current_mood</name>
<value><string>awake</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>current_moodid</name>
<value><int>87</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>taglist</name>
<value><string>test</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>useragent</name>
<value><string>tcl</string></value>
</member>
</struct></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>security</name>
<value><string>public</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>subject</name>
<value><string>test, please ignore</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>username</name>
<value><string>$username</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>password</name>
<value><string>$password</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>ver</name>
<value><int>1</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>year</name>
<value><int>2010</int></value>
</member>
</struct></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>"

puts $post

puts $url

set post_response [http::geturl $url -query $post -type "text/xml" ]

puts [http::data $post_response]

[tonybaldwin]

Hmmm...
i'm getting this in the http::data response:
"Can't call method "is_validated" on an undefined value at /home/lj/cgi-bin/Apache/Livejournal.pm line 1814"

wonder what I'm still doing wrong...or why LJ is being a b1+ch when IJ works, or something...(I haven't tried IJ, but I'm doing nearly precisely what you did with IJ, only to LJ, with no joy)...