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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Re: success, at last!

[tonybaldwin]

That's weird, because using the same xmlrpc process for scribbld that I used for LJ, IJ, and DW successfully, I received the same response from scibbld that I got from Izi, instead of http::status being "ok", it was just "eof", end of file, and not post showed.
I've only posted to inksome, so far, with flatpost.
I'll see about fixing ink and scrib later...probably just need to take another minute detailed look at the process again, might have altered something somewhere inadvertently...
oddly, I released with izi, ink and scrib all on flat posting, still, with everything else using xmlrpc (which means the user has to be careful about thei r html tags...but I have implemented a conversion in both directions at the flick of a menu item).
I've got the wordpress working, but can't post to my own wordpress installation without disabling my spam protection (bad behavior plugin), oddly.
Bad Behavior blocks tcl http requests...
I'm in communication with the bad behavior folks.
Doesn't make sense to block a whole language.
I'm sure they're not blocking python urllib request, php, perl, cURL, etc.