[Opensim-dev] (XML-RPC) HTTP/1.0 400 BadRequest: Invalid request line

[James Hughes]

On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 21:59 +0200, Melanie wrote:
> XMLRPC on Simulators is deprecated even in SL. The SL solution uses
> one central gateway that operates on object uuids. That gateway was
> already overloaded 6 years ago and hasn't improved since. XMLRPC in
> SL will not work 50% of the time and take forever on successful
> requests. LL recommend using HTTP-in.
> 
> XMLRPC service in OpenSim was provided to give some kind of
> compatibility for legacy scripts, but few people use it as far as I
> know.
> There is a way for gridwide tracking but I don't know if I ever made
> it work. I haven't touched that code in a long time.
> 
> Melanie
> 

It does work. I made a php router that works like the SL grid's. The
first version used the same library (claimed by the author) as LL for
the router, and it had random hangs just like LL. I tossed that xmlrpc
library and just made a single-function gateway and it works pretty well
in tests. 

https://github.com/BlueWall/XmlRpcRouter


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