XML-RPC over HTTP with SSL

From: Daniel Lieberman (daniel_at_bitpusher.com)
Date: 01/18/05

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    I'd like to run an XML-RPC HTTP server using SSL, without involving a
    separate web server.

    SOAP-Lite's XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP supports integration with
    HTTP::Daemon to create a free-standing HTTP server (just requiring the
    addition of forking or similar). But since
    XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::Daemon calls HTTP::Daemon->new directly, there
    doesn't appear to be a way to get it to use HTTP::Daemon::SSL.

    One relatively easy solution is to modify the existing SOAP-Lite
    modules to do what I need. This could be done relatively cleanly: I
    could create modified versions of XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP and
    SOAP::Transport::HTTP (from which most of XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP is
    inherited) and create the packages XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::Daemon::SSL
    and SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon::SSL.
    XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::Daemon::SSL would inherit from
    SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon::SSL (instead of from
    SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon) and SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon::SSL
    would call HTTP::Daemon::SSL->new instead of HTTP::Daemon (and the
    associated require would change as well).

    If this is the best way that's fine, but if there's a good way to do
    this using existing packages I'd rather do that. Is there?
    Thanks in advance,
    -Daniel

    Daniel Lieberman
    http://www.bitpusher.com/

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