From chris@double.co.nz Fri Apr 13 21:02:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: chris@double.co.nz X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 14 Apr 2001 04:02:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 74166 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2001 04:02:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2001 04:02:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO demeter.host4u.net) (209.150.128.105) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Apr 2001 04:02:20 -0000 Received: from DOUBLE (210-55-118-104.adsl.xtra.co.nz [210.55.118.104]) by demeter.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA12281 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:57:11 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Group Document Editing? References: <20010413100434.Y13826@digitalkingdom.org> Date: 14 Apr 2001 16:01:10 +1200 In-Reply-To: Robin Lee Powell's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:04:34 -0700" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 19 From: Chris Double X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6529 Robin Lee Powell writes: > > Also useful would be some sort of programmatic inferface to it, like > > XML-RPC [1], so other programmers could interface to the dictionary > > from their programs (for word lookup, etc). > > > > [1] http://www.xmlrpc.com > > I will _not_ run RPC in my machine. I get enough hack attempts as it > is. XML-RPC is no more dangerous than a web server managing POST requests or CGI programs. In fact, that's pretty much exactly what XML-RPC is - a web server that serves information based upon the XML request inside the HTTP request. Chris. -- http://www.double.co.nz/lojban