[PHP] Re: [SOAP] web services

[Bill Kearney]

Unless, of course, you need real text encoding.

XML-RPC *only* supports USASCII.  No unicode, not even ISO-8859-1.  And it's
spec author actively fights /against/ improving this situation.

-Bill Kearney

"Tony Bibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> That seems network intensive to me.  Offering web services for some basic
> tasks makes sense but not making an entire application that does all
> functionality over the web will be slow and impractical.
>
> Also, consider XML-RPC.  Some people insist on hammering a nail with a
> sledgehammer (soap) when a XML-RPC implementation (the hammer) is better
> suited.
>
> That said, I use both raw XML, XML-RPC and SOAP for various tasks.
>
> It doesn't have to be all or the other (not that you implied that)...


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[PHP] sha1 hash in old php?

[Bill Kearney]

Anyone got a php script for generating sha1sum hashes from a short bit of text?

The target platform does not have any of the libraries, let alone the latest
php, installed.

So before I rewrite it in PHP I figured I'd ask....

-Bill Kearney


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