XML-RPC is simply a protocol used to make procedure calls on remote hosts over HTTP.<BR>Of course the procedure called has to exist on the host on which it is called.

XML-based Remote Procedure Call (XML-RPC) receives occasional attention as a simple protocol for remote procedure calls. It is straightforward to use, and easily available implementations such as ...

XML-RPC for PHP is a standard component that is installed with a large number of Web applications, so server administrators often didnt know whether their server was running the vulnerable component.

Google has announced it’s opened a ping server for bloggers to ping them directly when you create a new blog entry using the XML-RPC protocol. In order to ...

Tim Conner recently noted the release of a new AppleScript called BlogScript. The script takes advantage of the new XML-RPC feature in Apple’s recently released Mac OS X 10.1 update.

The authors call this wraper WSWrapper. The scope of WSWrapper is to provide an unique interface by wrapping some existing and widely used libraries for all XML-RPC, SOAP and REST web service.

To check, WordPress site owners can look through their logs for any POST requests to the XML-RPC file. “If you see a pingback to a random URL, you know your site is being misused,” said Cid.

Overloading: XML-RPC does not allow method overloading. In principle, it is possible to overload methods that have only primitive types in their signatures, but naturally this option is not enough.