[thelist] PHP XML-RPC issues

[Hans Zaunere]

I've never explicitly seen these problems, however I haven't used
XML-RPC that much either.  I took a look at it before writing some web
services, and concluded that is would be better to write my own, which
I've been happy with.

To resolve this problem, I would first run the query function locally
and as direct as possible.. run it a few times, make sure the DB isn't
getting flakey.  Then, try to step through the XML-RPC calls one by
one, and see if, for example, the DB doesn't return any results, things
get thrown off.

Firstly, though, I would upgrade to the latest PHP version, as XML
functionality has improved dramatically.  Compile/build/whatever with
the latest libs, and you may see this problem go away.

HTH,

Hans Z.
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org


--- Justin Klubnik <pseudonym at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've been experiencing issues of 'flakiness' when using the useful
> inc
> XML-RPC libraries for PHP. Here's the situation: I've created an
> XML-RPC
> function, which works, but not everytime. In fact, it only works
> maybe 5% of
> the time. The function itself is a query function, so it is passed a
> word or
> phrase, and then returns the results. I can pass it the same query
> several
> times and get "fault code 6: No data received from server", and then
> periodically, I get the actual results as one would expect. If I then
> perform the same query, I get nothing. The problem is that the same
> query
> both will and will not work, leading me to believe that it is not
> something
> wrong with the query function. (that is, the same query never always
> works)
>
> Has anyone else experienced similar oddities with the useful inc
> library?
> Any ideas as to what the problem is or how to fix it?
>
> Vitals:
> Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6
> DAV/1.0.2
> PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01 on Linux
>
> Thanks,
> Klubnik
>
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