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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>2.0 Release candidate 1</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="xmlrpc.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.3" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="XML-RPC for PHP" /><link rel="up" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. What's new" /><link rel="prev" href="ch02s08.html" title="2.0 Release candidate 2" /><link rel="next" href="ch03.html" title="Chapter 3. System Requirements" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2.0 Release candidate 1</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s08.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. What's new</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id931426"></a>2.0 Release candidate 1</h2></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Support for HTTP proxies (new method:
<code class="code">xmlrpc_client::setProxy()</code>)</p></li><li><p>Support HTTP compression of both requests and responses.
Clients can specify what kind of compression they accept for
responses between deflate/gzip/any, and whether to compress the
requests. Servers by default compress responses to clients that
explicitly declare support for compression (new methods:
<code class="code">xmlrpc_client::setAcceptedCompression()</code>,
<code class="code">xmlrpc_client::setRequestCompression()</code>). Note that the
ZLIB php extension needs to be enabled in PHP to support
compression.</p></li><li><p>Implement HTTP 1.1 connections, but only if CURL is enabled
(added an extra parameter to
<code class="code">xmlrpc_client::xmlrpc_client</code> to set the desired HTTP
protocol at creation time and a new supported value for the last
parameter of <code class="code">xmlrpc_client::send</code>, which now can be
safely omitted if it has been specified at creation time)</p><p>With PHP versions greater than 4.3.8 keep-alives are enabled
by default for HTTP 1.1 connections. This should yield faster
execution times when making multiple calls in sequence to the same
xml-rpc server from a single client.</p></li><li><p>Introduce support for cookies. Cookies to be sent to the
server with a request can be set using
<code class="code">xmlrpc_client::setCookie()</code>, while cookies received from
the server are found in <code class="code">xmlrpcresp::cookies()</code>. It is
left to the user to check for validity of received cookies and
decide whether they apply to successive calls or not.</p></li><li><p>Better support for detecting different character set encodings
of xml-rpc requests and responses: both client and server objects
will correctly detect the charset encoding of received xml, and use
an appropriate xml parser.</p><p>Supported encodings are US-ASCII, UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1.</p></li><li><p>Added one new xmlrpcmsg constructor syntax, allowing usage of
a single string with the complete URL of the target server</p></li><li><p>Convert xml-rpc boolean values into native php values instead
of 0 and 1</p></li><li><p>Force the <code class="code">php_xmlrpc_encode</code> function to properly
encode numerically indexed php arrays into xml-rpc arrays
(numerically indexed php arrays always start with a key of 0 and
increment keys by values of 1)</p></li><li><p>Prevent the <code class="code">php_xmlrpc_encode</code> function from
further re-encoding any objects of class <code class="code">xmlrpcval</code> that
are passed to it. This allows to call the function with arguments
consisting of mixed php values / xmlrpcval objects.</p></li><li><p>Allow a server to NOT respond to system.* method calls
(setting the <code class="code">$server-&gt;allow_system_funcs</code>
property).</p></li><li><p>Implement a new xmlrpcval method to determine if a value of
type struct has a member of a given name without having to loop
trough all members: <code class="code">xmlrpcval::structMemExists()</code></p></li><li><p>Expand methods <code class="code">xmlrpcval::addArray</code>,
<code class="code">addScalar</code> and <code class="code">addStruct</code> allowing extra php
values to be added to xmlrpcval objects already formed.</p></li><li><p>Let the <code class="code">xmlrpc_client::send</code> method accept an XML
string for sending instead of an xmlrpcmsg object, to facilitate
debugging and integration with the php native xmlrpc
extension</p></li><li><p>Extend the <code class="code">php_xmlrpc_encode</code> and
<code class="code">php_xmlrpc_decode</code> functions to allow serialization and
rebuilding of PHP objects. To successfully rebuild a serialized
object, the object class must be defined in the deserializing end of
the transfer. Note that object members of type resource will be
deserialized as NULL values.</p><p>Note that his has been implemented adding a "php_class"
attribute to xml representation of xmlrpcval of STRUCT type, which,
strictly speaking, breaks the xml-rpc spec. Other xmlrpc
implementations are supposed to ignore such an attribute (unless
they implement a brain-dead custom xml parser...), so it should be
safe enabling it in heterogeneous environments. The activation of
this feature is done by usage of an option passed as second
parameter to both <code class="code">php_xmlrpc_encode</code> and
<code class="code">php_xmlrpc_decode</code>.</p></li><li><p>Extend the <code class="code">php_xmlrpc_encode</code> function to allow
automatic serialization of iso8601-conforming php strings as
datetime.iso8601 xmlrpcvals, by usage of an optional
parameter</p></li><li><p>Added an automatic stub code generator for converting xmlrpc
methods to php functions and vice-versa.</p><p>This is done via two new functions:
<code class="code">wrap_php_function</code> and <code class="code">wrap_xmlrpc_method</code>,
and has many caveats, with php being a typeless language and
all...</p><p>With PHP versions lesser than 5.0.3 wrapping of php functions
into xmlrpc methods is not supported yet.</p></li><li><p>Allow object methods to be used in server dispatch map</p></li><li><p>Added a complete debugger solution, in the
<code class="filename">debugger</code> folder</p></li><li><p>Added configurable server-side debug messages, controlled by
the new method <code class="code">xmlrpc_server::SetDebug()</code>. At level 0,
no debug messages are sent to the client; level 1 is the same as the
old behaviour; at level 2 a lot more info is echoed back to the
client, regarding the received call; at level 3 all warnings raised
during server processing are trapped (this prevents breaking the xml
to be echoed back to the client) and added to the debug info sent
back to the client</p></li><li><p>New XML parsing code, yields smaller memory footprint and
faster execution times, not to mention complete elimination of the
dreaded <code class="filename">eval()</code> construct, so prone to code
injection exploits</p></li><li><p>Rewritten most of the error messages, making text more
explicative</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s08.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">2.0 Release candidate 2 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 3. System Requirements</td></tr></table></div></body></html>