[Zope] Turning off xmlrpc handling (Is it right to assume thattext/xml==xmlrpc?)

[Brian Lloyd]

> John Ziniti wrote:
> > ZPublisher seems to assume that if the Content-type
> > on an HTTP POST is "text/xml", then the request contains
> > an xmlrpc call.
> > 
> > I would like to POST an XML document and handle it myself
>  >
> > 1. I would prefer not to hack Zope.
> 
> The more I look at this problem and the Zope code set up to
> handle it, the more I think that hacking Zope is the only
> way to accomplish what I want.  The question I keep coming
> to, though, is "Is it right that Zope assumes that all POSTs
> with a text/xml payload are xmlrpc calls?" and I can't help
> but answering "no".

And you are correct ;) Unfortunately, though, this misfeature has 
been around for a long time and would break a lot of people if the 
default were changed. That doesn't mean it shouldn't necessarily 
be changed anyway, possibly with some sort of backward-compatibility 
mode that would make the transition reasonable.

Short of that though, its your lucky day, since I happen to have an 
add-on product laying around that does exactly what you want ;)

The attached XmlFix product disables xml-rpc handling w/o having 
to hack Zope (well, it hacks it from the outside, at least), which 
lets you handle xml sent via POST. 

This is based on a SoapFix product that does much the same thing, 
except that it is more discriminating and only lets SOAP requests 
bypass the xml-rpc handling (which otherwise works normally). I've 
attached that as well, in case it is useful to anybody.

Hope this helps!


Brian Lloyd        brian at zope.com
V.P. Engineering   540.361.1716              
Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com 

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