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by jalfresi 1442 days ago
Have to agree with this - context is everything and there are an awful lot of naive comments here who don’t understand that XML-RPC was a breath of fresh air compared to SOAP, especially if like me you were using the LAMP stack and PHP. SOAP was abysmal- I really don’t recal a single project where communication between two systems using SOAP wasn’t without serious issues, incompatibility issues and just plain broken.

Many developers here might not recall serious compatibility issues with Microsoft- the most obvious one I recall was WebDAV ; pretty much strangled at birth by MS terrible broken implementation.

I used to use the PHP XML-RPC implementation you worked on for so many projects, so thanks for that- helped me to integrate so many projects, so cheers!