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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:41:05 -0700
To: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Group Document Editing?
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In-Reply-To: <wk4rvsqge1.fsf@double.co.nz>; from chris@double.co.nz on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:01:10PM +1200
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:01:10PM +1200, Chris Double wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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.

Ah. So it's not actually RPC then. My bad. 8)

-Robin

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