application/xml+rpc

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mario Salzer wrote:

> I'd like to have the MIME type "application/xml+rpc" registered for use
> with the XML-RPC (XML-RemoteProcedureCalls) protocol as defined by UserLand
> [http://www.xmlrpc.com/].

This is an important protocol, and you want the transport type to be
registed in the IETF tree. So write an RFC.

> So the protocol uses "text/xml" currently. I think this is totally wrong and
> an abuse of that MIME type, because XML-RPC (despite its name) is not based
> upon XML as defined by the w3c.

The deviations are OK if described in human-readable form in an RFC. Isn't
it actually a subset of XML?

> - there is even no DTD,

But one could write one? Am I right?

> - there should be no charset= attribute to that MIME type, the XML-RPC
> spec is about keeping it simple, and letting such "minor" details be
> handled by the actual web service API specification and implementation

If you only knew the pains we've had talking back and forth about this
charset parameter. Browse mailing list archives and you'll see what I
mean.

Linus