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XML-RPC when used as a write protocol, creates security problems
[tantek] at 2025-06-30 17:42
[manton] I think XML-RPC will die off as services that support it and send user/pass via it die off (replaced by HTTP + OAuth
[tantek] at 2025-06-30 17:42
To trwnh's point, XML-RPC is a great example of "you could have just used HTTP
[tantek] at 2025-06-30 17:41
And similarly any format that has URLs (by way of having strings) is going to have user visible image URLs and thus needs to reinvent alt text m, or forgets to like 99% of JSON vocabs and thus you get an accessibility problem
[tantek] at 2025-06-30 17:38
serialization formats like protobuf, JSON etc and RPC frameworks like GraphQL, gRPC, etc are useful, and are often (and more honestly) not pitched as "universal APIs
[snarfed] at 2025-06-30 17:38
heh
[snarfed] at 2025-06-30 17:37
I'm so old I remember *IFF
[KevinMarks] at 2025-06-30 17:37
ProtoBuf
[KevinMarks] at 2025-06-30 17:37
[snarfed] I think the "designed to be machine readable" is a trap because format that has strings ends up with user visible strings in it (which is where JSON fails i18n
[tantek] at 2025-06-30 17:37
XML-RPC is going to be with us for a loooong time
[manton] at 2025-06-30 17:37

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