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pingback I manually managed to pingback an entry on Sams blog, is there a pingback client for Radio, I couldn't spot one. I think all the hooks are there to add one myself, I might have a go. Hmmmm, thought about for another minute or so, when I send the pingback, the pingback server is going to check the URL I give it for a link, so I can't pingback until Radio has finished upstreaming to the server. I wonder if there are post upstreaming callbacks ? update: there are.
Test Endpoints for the Axis Jabber Transport
Ok, the Interop Echo test services should be up and running ... [snellspace] Hmmmm, no luck so far, I send this
<iq type='set' to='JamesMSnell@jabber.org/echoA' id='{AFA70458-1B8F-4616-A011-F5A47D98A4B0}' from='psserver@jabber.org/pocketSOAP'>
<S:Envelope
S:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:a="http://soapinterop.org/"
xmlns:XS="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:XI="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<S:Body><a:echoString><inputString XI:type="XS:string">pocketSOAP</inputString>
</a:echoString>
</S:Body></S:Envelope>
</iq>
but get it bounced back with a <error code='405'>Not Allowed</error> message. Oh well, job for next year!
OSX Coder blogs So, where do the OSX coder's hang out ?, I only know of Brent's blog. I haven't been able to find anywhere good to ask Mac programming questions yet (and I have lots!)
Monday, December 30, 2002
Experimental Jabber Transport for Apache Axis 1.0 James has this up and running. One comment is the unnecessary element gave a place to transport around a SOAPAction, useful if you're planning to bridge to/from HTTP. I have both PocketSOAP and .NET remoting code floating around that I could get up and running with the tweak pretty easily, James, do you have a test service i can hit ?
hunt Brad has pictures of his CD storage solution, neat, but not very renter friendly!, the hunt remains on [as does the hunt for a 22"x44" poster frame]
the 1-2 song Is this thing on?. Testing 1, 2, 3... [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] it certainly looks that way!
Cold blert!, this cold is killin' me!, how are you suposed to code with a jack hammer going in the back of your head????
Sunday, December 29, 2002
SOAP Do Groove Web Services really need a local web server? Wouldn’t it be better to do SOAP over standard input and standard output when you just need to integrate on a single machine? [matt.griffith] Well, I've yet to see a SOAP toolkit that doesn't ship with a HTTP transport, whilst SOAP::Lite it the only one i know that ships with stdin/out support. In addition certain platforms (*cough*cough* asp.net), are overly tied to HTTP.
storage My CD collection has massively overrun the shelves it currently lives on, so I've been looking at CD racks, the AV Mechanica ones look great, but ouch, are expensive, the boltz ones look more reasonably priced, anyone got any recommendations ?
Million dollar markup Google applies their algorithms to millions of web pages for a single purpose: keyword search. I want to be able to reuse my own content in millions of ways, including things nobody has thought of yet. They need million-dollar code; I need million-dollar markup. (810 words) [dive into mark] Good stuff (as usual) from Mark, I particularly liked IE 5: the Netscape 4 of a new generation.
chunky The fix for the chunked transfer problem i ran into last night, is now checked in to CVS.
portability ..... Personally, I'm interested in seeing how Mac OS X handles the binary portability problem that seems to be endemic to C/C++ in the *nix world as it continues to evolve. [IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development] I've built Carbon based executables on OSX 10.2 that run on MacOS 9.0.4 and up.
/fixImports Christian Weyer emailed me because the WSDL Wizard chokes on the Google API WSDL. This is actually because there's a problem with the WSDL, its missing an xsd:import that imports the SOAP encoding namespace, as this is a fairly common issue, you can work around it with the command line version of the tool by using the /fixImports options, i.e. run
wsdl-cl http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl /fixImports
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Rss Validator
I patched my copy of PocketSOAP to workout the chunked problem below, so I could finish the sample. I ran the WSDL through the RC1 tool [a local copy of the WSDL with a couple of fixes in], then added the DOMElement serializer class, which is just a class with
Implements ISoapSerializer
Private Sub ISoapSerializer_Serialize(Val As Variant, _
ByVal ctx As PocketSOAP.ISerializerContext, _
ByVal dest As PocketSOAP.ISerializerOutput)
Dim n As MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement
Set n = Val
dest.WriteTextNoEncoding n.xml
End SubTweaked the generated configuration code by removing the code it generated for the request class, and added a line to register the new serializer m_sf.Serializer "{2933BF86-7B36-11D2-B20E-00C04F983E60}", "", "", "Rss.s_DOMElement"and finally tweaked the generated method stub, so that it was a bit smarter, you can pass a DOM, or a fileName/URL and it'll load it for you. That wraps up the proxy object. The calling app is then straightfoward enough Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim v As New Rss.Validator
Dim vr As Rss.Response
Set vr = v.Validate(tFile.Text)
Dim i As Long
List1.Clear
On Error GoTo emptyArray
For i = LBound(vr.Message) To UBound(vr.Message)
printMsg vr.Message()(i), i
Next
Exit Sub
emptyArray:
List1.AddItem "No Errors !"
End SubWhen the chunked encoding issue is resolved one way or the other, I'll post all the code to the samples site.Chunked encoding Almost have the RSS Validator sample done, I'm generating a valid request (the required DOM Serializer class weights in at 3 lines of VB), but the response uses chunked encoding which shouldn't be a problem, PocketSOAP can handle that, but the server doesn't appear to be following the HTTP spec, in particular i get
Transfer-Encoding: chunkedWhat you can't see is that the chunk length (dd in this case) is followed by a space character before the CRLF bytes. (the hex viewer in YATT is a wonderful thing!). Looking at the spec for chunked encoding and the relevant BNF, I see nothing that says that white space is valid in that position. Did I miss something, or is this broken ?
Content-Type: text/xml
dd
<?xml version ....
Rss Validator Sam Ruby asks if the WSDL wizard can handle the SOAP interface to the RSS validator. The short answer is no. The problem is this
<xsd:complexType name="Request">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
There's no built in support for xsd:any at this point, largely because there is no single COM based DOM implementation available for all the platforms PocketSOAP supports. Does that mean you can't use PocketSOAP with the RSS validator, no, it just means its slightly more work. I'll put together a sample for it.
MSNAmp Seems to be a day for shipping code, I updated MSNAmp so that you can configure how it builds your display name. Look at the MSNAmp preference panel in Winamp for details.
WSDL Finally wrapped up RC1 of the WSDL Wizard. It supports doc/lit and rpc/encoded, SOAP headers, enumerations, complex types and import [most of the stuff that auto-gen'd WSDL uses, but not everything in XSD]
TcpTrace As Tomas asked nicely, I just posted v0.7.3 of TcpTrace. Keep those suggestions rolling in!.
TcpTrace Just posted v0.7.2 which adds the option to fix up linefeeds from non-windows platforms so that they display properly. Thanks to Eric Promislow for the suggestion.
Friday, December 27, 2002
PocketSOAP I posted a message looking for feature requests. Let me know what you're looking for.
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Carbon Pop Quiz If I use LaunchApplication to start a new process, how do I wait til its exited ?
EspressoBlog anyone have this working with Radio ?, everytime I try and post it just says I need to select a blog, but I did already !
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Happy Holidays Happy whatever you celibrate at this time of year, see you on the other side!.
more CW Last one I promise !!, the amazing useful error message below was because (as far as i can tell) i was trying to link to a carbon based static library from a mach-o project. What are the "must read" dev books for Mac's ?, on Windows there's Programming Windows, Essential COM (for legacy programmer everywhere), and Essential .NET. I've read Learning Carbon but didn't find it a great help.
CW [again] more CW joy, got the last problem fixed, now I'm faced this this "useful" error
Error : 'tilsD. Perhaps Santa will bring me a decent OS X dev environment !
CW Ahhh, the joys of Code Warrior, this code compiles fine in one project, but fails to compile in a second project
for ( str::const_iterator i = text.begin() ; i != text.end(); i++ )with a Error : ';' expected.
A Jabber Binding for SOAP I've been doing a bit of research trying to come up with a reasonable Jabber binding for SOAP.... [snellspace] The whole issue with <iq> being request/response was gone around at the time, i was never happy with the outcome. James, do you have a pointer to the issue with <message> ? I seem to recall that most people were suggesting using a namespace qualified child of <message> for moving SOAP messages around. If i understand your proposal correctly, this is a new top level element [at the same level as <iq>], which would require getting support for it baked into jabberD ? Is the type attribute needed ? seems redundent to me.
wot no wires I just moved my server to a wireless connection, so i can put it in the closet out of the way. But i'm having problems now with other machines not being able to pick up DHCP leases. Anyone heard of problems running a DHCP server behind a Linksys WAP11 access point ?
Sunday, December 22, 2002
soma fm Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, its good to have Groove Salad back !
PocketXMLRPC There's a problem with the SSL support in the Win32 version of PocketXMLRPC. There should be a fixed version available by the end of today. Update : Fixed version posted.
Exchange 2000 Exchange Server 2000 rocks [DotNetCentric]. Exchange? groan. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of exchange and what it... [Commonality] Hey, someone who "likes" Exchange as much as I do!.
Saturday, December 21, 2002
PocketSOAP v1.4.0 now available!, includes support for HTTP compression, and HTTP timeouts on PocketPC as well as a few bug fixes.
Groovy Radio John Burkhardt is talking about Tim Knips Groove/Radio integration woes. Its true the SOAP Stack in Radio doesn't support SOAP Headers [it also doesn't support doc/literal SOAP messages, which Groove uses]. Its also true that the Radio SOAP stack supports the BDG, but the BDG is like a SOAP 1.1 profile (just like what the WS-I want to do), its compliant with the SOAP spec, but doesn't necessarily support all the features of SOAP [the bare minimum you need to do for headers to be compliant with the SOAP spec is to fault if you see a mustUnderstand that's all]. It represents what SOAP tools were aiming for back when it was written some 18 months ago, but since then SOAP has moved on, and many tools have moved on too, doc/literal style SOAP is much more prevailant, and there is an ever growing number of WS-* spec that [rightly so] use SOAP Headers. FWIW, I think Groove made the right choice.
Friday, December 20, 2002
tcpTrace I released a minor update to tcpTrace that gives you the option to treat NULLs as spaces in the display, so you can see past any NULL that might be in the data stream.
PocketSOAP I've been working on the 1.4 release, its almost ready to go. If you've been testing the beta and found a bug you haven't told me about, now would be a real good time to mention it!.
Steve Waring Cool, I just stumbled across Steve Waring's blog, Steve wrote a very cool Smalltalk SOAP toolkit called Spray.
Thursday, December 19, 2002
Mobile Printing Hey cool, HP's Mobile printing for PocketPC uses PocketSOAP :)
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
introduction to the creative commons At the creative commons launch party this week, 'they' unveiled this animation, which does an excellent job of describing the problems with copyright law, and how creative commons augments copyright law to make dervative works easier to clear. A must-view, everyone! [deeje.com]
xml.com From XML-RPC to SOAP: A Migration Guide more musing from Rich Salz
todo (i) write up some comments i have on Justin's post about caching (ii) wrap up the 1.4 release of PocketSOAP, (iii) wrap up the release of the 2.0 WSDL tools, (iv) read the new WS-* specs, (v) do some work on YATT. (vi) ditch this killer headache I have. (vii) read Don's .NET book. Ouch, way to much to do.
Sam Lots of interesting threads been going on over on Sam's blog.
Monday, December 16, 2002
Taken So i have a Tivo full of Taken episodes, the trailers looked promising, but i just can't get into it
Thursday, December 12, 2002
WSE Tips Keith is running tip of the day for WSE.
borg I wonder if Peter will ever find his way back to blog land .....
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
GWS & Radio ... Integration of Radio with Groove, using Groove Web Services, would further decentralize Radio in a way that would allow real-time blogging from machines not running Radio. I want it. [Matt Pope's Radio Weblog] It'd be cool to wire the 2 together, but as GWS does doc/literal SOAP with headers, you're not going to be able to do this from Radio. I hope [but don't know] that Radio's SOAP support is going to get updated (perhaps when SOAP 1.2 goes to rec.) to include headers and doc/literal.
ouch Macintosh Developer Pain. I'm in maze of twisty little library interfaces, all different. I'm dealing with three C libraries (MPW StdCLib, CarbonStdCLib.o and MSL), two MacOS platforms (PPC and Carbon), two build systems (MPW and CodeWarrior) and a growing sense of desperation. Of course, no piece of this cruft wants to talk to any other piece. [Random Hacks] been there, done that, still have the hole in my head to show for it! BTW, if anyone has any tips for getting a Mach-O / BSD sockets / Powerplant combo to compile on CW8.2, I'd love to hear it.
Monday, December 09, 2002
Scripting Groove Web Services Jon Udell has been working on some code that talks to the Groove Web Services. I got the Groove beta installed and up and running with very little fuss, and have been working on some PocketSOAP based samples. No real issues so far (other than the current PocketSOAP WSDL tools don't generate SOAP header code yet), I hope to post something soon.
.NET Passport Manager Source Licensing Program This seems to have slipped out under cover of all the WSE noise. Anyone looked at it ?
Friday, December 06, 2002
holiday season 'tis the season of shoplifting, hope you like your present 'cause you can't take it back. [Kelley]
it ships! The Mac ports (both OS9 & OSX) of the Mindstation software shipped last night, wooo hooo !!.
bundle this! A judge likens MS's removal of Java to clubbing a competitor in the knees. I've never understood why Sun has a right to bundle its language with Windows. Sheez, I'd love to bundle Radio with Windows. How about it? Why aren't they clubbing me in the knees? What makes Java so special? I think Radio is much better. [Scripting News] I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get this.
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
IIS Still having Python trouble. Narrowed the problem down to httplib parsing responses from IIS. For some screwy reason, IIS returns two HTTP status messages:... [Bryce's Weblog Experiments] I've seen this as well, but only ever with SOAP::Lite, I certainly haven't seen in doing ASP[.NET] or ISAPI based work. I don't know if its a SOAP::Lite issue, or a CGI on IIS issue.
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Ubehebe Crater
Monday, December 02, 2002
Road trip 1416 miles, 5 days, and countless radio stations and suspect coffee's later, the Death Valley road trip comes to an end. The place is spectacularly beautiful, I was amazed by the variety of vivid colors, I was expecting everything to be a drab sand color. The highlight has to be Devils Golf Course. Of course I now have an insane email backlog to work through, if you send me email, i'll get to eventually!.
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