Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Tcl function call to remote AOLserver via xmlrpc ?

Hmmm - all a bit messier than I had been hoping! I just pumped a cvs version of ns_xmlrpc into my oacs dev server, and when I tried to validate the server with validator.xmlrpc.com all I got was a log full of:

no value for option "times1000 47000 times100 4700 times10 470"
    while executing
"xmlrpc_construct $value_id {} $data"

and similar garbage.

bin/nsd -V
AOLserver/3.4.2 (nsd_v3_r4_p2)
   CVS Tag:         $Name: nsd_v3_r4_p2 $
   Built:           Jun 30 2002 at 22:47:26
   Tcl version:     8.3
   Thread library:  pthread
   Platform:        linux

I'm using what appears to be the most current nsxml (1.4), and libxml2 2.4.10. Since I actually don't need the xml server it's not specifically a problem, but I haven't tried the client yet... Anyone got an easy idea to test the client? (ie. a public test server that works...)

I prefer the sount of TclSOAP, but at the moment recompiling aolserver with patches on the client server isn't particularly appropriate - and I'm in kind of a rush (as always).

Oh well - I'll let everyone know how I go. If things get real ugly I might even construct the XML by hand.. urgh...