[Mailman-Developers] Remote scripting with XML-RPC

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:59:43PM -0400, Eric Kidd wrote:
> > Um... "security"?  What's the current status, there?  SSL?
> 
> You get precisely the same security you would using the regular CGI
> interface. ;-)
> 
> If you've installed SSL, both approaches provide very nice security.  If
> you haven't installed SSL, you're not going to be a happy camper either
> way.

Ah.  

> An XML-RPC server is basically a glorified CGI script with a structured
> input/output format.  Handy, but not really anything new.

Oh, yeah.  On the server side, I guess that's true.  It's the client
side API that makes it cool.

Cheers,
-- jra
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