[Mailman-Developers] Remote scripting with XML-RPC

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 02:00:12 -0400 
Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:59:43PM -0400, Eric Kidd wrote:

>> 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.

While setting up client key authentication under SSL is not hard,
its also something not well documented or familiar to (most)
SysAdms.  Its fiddly, easy to get wrong, and tends to be frustrating
before you reach the "Aha!" point, and that doesn't even count the
PKI problem.

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