I was just writing some XML-RPC code and wanted to post some simple examples of how to talk to an XML-RPC server with some simple client-side code. Here are examples in both Python and Perl.
The examples below show how to connect to an XML-RPC server and call the service's start() method.
a simple XML-RPC client in Python:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import xmlrpclib
host = 'http://localhost'
port = '8888'
server = xmlrpclib.Server('%s:%s' % (host, port))
response = server.start()
print response
a simple XML-RPC client in Perl (using the Frontier-RPC module):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Frontier::Client;
my $host = 'http://localhost';
my $port = '8888';
my $server = Frontier::Client->new('url' => "$host:$port");
my $response = $server->call('start');
print $response;
