Friday, August 24 2001

Andreas Bolka : XML-RPC to POP3 API

"describes a relatively straight-forward approach to an XML-RPC to POP3 gateway. The goal is to enable POP3 access to all environments supporting XML-RPC. This API also introduces a (to the XML-RPC community) - as far as I know - new authentication system. An authentication call returns a session id (called SID) which is used to authenticate successive calls. Commonly this is done by providing a SID param with successive calls. The following API approaches this problem by providing the authenticated functions under a method namespace containing the SID and therefore only accessible to the authenticated client during one session."

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Matt Sergeant : " So I created an AxKit provider module, which sent accesses to URLs to our COM object.

The XML returned simply got returned via AxKit, and potentially styled by a stylesheet. We could even apply a "SOAPify" stylesheet to it to return the body as a SOAP response. Nice. And it performs damn well too. At least 3 times faster than the SOAP::Lite server (though that may be an unfair test, but who cares about fairness :-)"

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is vertiginous

| source : web1913 | Vertiginous \Ver*tig"i*nous\, a. [L. vertiginosus, fr. vertigo a whirling around, giddiness: cf. F. vertigineux. See {Vertig??}.] 1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. --De Quincey. 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. --Jer. Taylor. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Ver*tig"i*nous*ness}, n. | source : wn | vertiginous adj : having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: {dizzy}, {giddy}, {woozy}]

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